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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So it’s really just that the battery adds a bit of weight, and someday the thing will fail and maybe cause electrical failure of the gamepad.

Emphasis added, yeah this is among the reasons I'm asking. The other reasons I've noted, but this underlies a lot of it. I don't know how long the dual-use ones' batteries may last if I'm primarily using them wired, so instead of having that in the back of mind, I'd like to get a wired controller for when gaming on devices I'm already close to (which is mostly PC, hence asking for it specifically).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a good list, but y'know a niche ya missed? Pressure sensitive buttons, only really useful for those emulating old games that used them, but still a fun feature to remember.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah in hindsight I'm kicking myself for not having gotten one like that, but I had trouble finding wired ones at the time (and didn't think I'd get tired of the battery maintenance), which surprised me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The cheap part of PowerA controllers is a little of why I asked, as I've not had an opportunity to ask anyone that's used them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about one nice comment across posts as well?

 

I'm often close enough to my PC while playing games that wireless seems a little unneeded, but more than that, I just want fewer batteries to manage.

Adjusted title to mention preference for no batteries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You're getting sandwiches for commenting?? ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What if it was the cops' boss, moonlighting as a pizza shop boss and ultimately as an inept robber?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Would taking notes from some dogs and rolling in foul stuff count?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why limit your imagining to products alone? Even in that reply I'm not specifying person or thing (despite the use of "it"), and with the original question I'm asking either marketing oneself or something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The internet has been carefully curated [...]

You mean the fuckin' corporate internet? 😜

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yes but also markets in general, because why not?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

No no, if they could hire you for that you'd be marketable, but if you actively liked the product and kept talking them up only to make them uncool and refused being paid to or paid to stop, maybe? 🤔

 

Thinking about the fun "become ungovernable" memes, and how "become unmarketable" would potentially be even more fitting in corporate dominated societies.

 

Platform: PlayStation 1
Genre: Arcade shooter?
Estimated years of release: 1997-1999
Graphics/art style: I think it was 3D, third-person? Not sure as I don't recall seeing many screenshots/images from the game.
Notable characters: n/a
Notable gameplay mechanics: something to do with a timebomb/time pressure to get through levels/stages.

Other details: I don't remember all the details, as I found it when looking through a video game shop site's lists, but I remember it wasn't Descent Maximum as I had that at the time.

It seemed almost like the idea was similar to the escape sequences from that but a whole game built around that time pressure.

 

Context:
Thinking about in some stories/shows where they deliver messages attached to arrows and wondering what a non-threatening method might look like.

 

E.g. freelancers, contractors, small businesses, etc.

 

It seems a little odd that other crops have been cultivated to literally suit people's tastes and interests, yet many trees...Seemingly not as much?

I recognize the growth cycles are much longer, in some(many?) cases far exceeding individual human lives, but whole civilizations have been relying on trees for ages. Have none, not even isolated parts of them, been stable enough to take on this experiment?

 

Adjusted question to specify desktop.

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