🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2017-06-22, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

That's the one!

> 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
>


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-Toby
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