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On 2017-06-21, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:38:13 -0700, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On 6/20/2017 6:36 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:46:30 -0700, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 6/19/2017 8:17 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I seem to be mostly using a controller these days too.  I guess I don't
>>>> play a lot of fp games anymore.  Even GTA V, and the Saints row games
>>>> I'd switch between controller and keyboard when driving/walking as it's
>>>> far easier to drive with the controller and far easier to aim guns with
>>>> the mouse.  Of course that takes even more time than switching from WASD
>>>> to ESDF
>>> 
>>> I'm still not anywhere near a comfortable with a controller as I am
>>> with a keyboard. I think this has to do with brain wiring; I was a
>>> keyboard gamer since the days of my youth; I didn't even TOUCH a
>>> gamepad until I was an adult (and even then it was only for
>>> occassional and brief experimentation with the Sega Genesis). I didn't
>>> own a gamepad until maybe 2010, and really didn't start using one
>>> semi-regularly until I bought an XBox360/PS3 in 2014. My brain and
>>> thumbs just aren't wired up to optimally use a controller, unlike a
>>> kid who grew up playing Nintendo.  So it's always keyboard for me, if
>>> it is an option,
>>> 
>>
>>I didn't have a console until I was in my late teens and that was a 
>>intellivision, which has a completely different type of controller (and 
>>pretty awkward for at least half the games.), and I didn't play it that 
>>much.  I never owned a nintendo until we got a used gamecube maybe 10 
>>years ago.  I did get a playstation 2 about 15ish years ago, but I was 
>>well into my 30's by then.  I did play a lot of video games at the 
>>arcade as a young whippersnapper, so maybe that had something to do with it.
>
> At times I think my tolerance for different controllers or control
> schemes on a per-game basis stems from the variety of early
> controllers I used for various games.

Any list of bad joysticks has to include the cheetah characteristick
alien edition.

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