🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:00:10 +0100, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
wrote:

>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.

Is it this abomination?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b8/dd/98/b8dd983faf62db8d223fd68c504b24cb.jpg

or maybe this:   https://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/l/2014/05/Alien.jpg
(looks like a sex toy for Dennis Rodman or something)

I wasn't able to locate it using "characteristick" as a search term.

Here's a candidate for most innovative dedicated simulator controller:
http://hgutl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/75228_452608764804690_2078876843_n.jpg