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copypastejunkpile · 7 months

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The Microsoft Sidewinder Game Pad Pro

I've always had an affinity for game controllers, and despite my financial state I have an okay amount of them laying around. Today, I got to add to my collection a weird one that I've had my eye on for a little bit. The Microsoft Sidewinder Game Pad Pro.

I don't know much about this thing. I knew it was a little big looking, I knew it had a weird d-pad that an ad showed as having two operating modes, and I knew it had dropped triggers in the back. I recently found a listing on ebay for pretty cheap without any bids, so I placed a starting bid and waited to see what would happen. No one else bid, so now I have it.

After fighting with the cord, which has grown finicky in its ability to stay connected, I tried out a 2d game. The best way I could describe the d-pad was as if a 360 controller's d-pad had to be pressed down a couple centimeters before it registered input. For fun, I booted up Dark Souls 2, and it also "worked." I couldn't pause or do certain actions, but I could walk, run and sprint around, and do r1 attacks with the z button.

Wait, I could walk? I moved the d-pad to odd angles and watched as my character moved mostly smoothly to match. It was as if it was analog movement.

So, driven in my curiosity, I opened the thing up.

Well, there sure is a lot happening there. But that's just contact pads for the membrane. What's the underside of that disc thingy look like?

Those are springs. Five of them. The center one seems to be for stabilization, but the other four? It's gotta have something to do with the added complexity to the PCB and its seeming ability to emulate analog movement.

I have no idea how exactly it's doing it, if its reading the pressure with which I'm pressing in a direction or if it's something else, but this is genuinely fascinating. It's hard to find any mention of this thing given its part of a series mostly talked about for its force feedback flight sticks, but man I wish I knew more. That's not the only interesting thing about this though.

There's a terminal for the cord! theoretically it'd be pretty easy to replace the cord for this thing, which is great news for me. I took pictures of the jack for the terminal as well, since that's probably more important to the process. I have to imagine if I bought another one of these controllers I could just swap the cord if I needed.

All in all I'm fascinated by this thing. I want to know how exactly this thing's making up analog movement but I don't have the know-how and can't find anyone talking about this thing. Hell, any information about this would be fantastic. If anyone wandering across this post knows anything, feel free to say something! would love to learn more about this weird microsoft product from before the turn of the century.

#microsoft #weird game controllers #how the hell do i tag this?#old tech

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velvetjune · 2 months

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I want control 2 to have even more documents and more reading

#nothing beats the sheer joy of finding a document hidden somewhere in the first game #I’m trying to 100% the game currently and i love collecting all the weird records and correspondence #it makes the world incredibly rich and immersive #control 2019 #control remedy #something i really love about all the records is starting to recognize the characters who wrote them #learning more about dr darling or pope or kiran by seeing their voice in the docs #unbelievably excited for control 2 bc they can build off of established characters #control 1 barely explored their cast (fair enough with such a great original world)#but now they can build on that AND have a great enviornment

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navree · 2 months

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jon seems to be the only one who has some degree of sentience if he is trapped in the computer/office in general, given that he's not only able to send an email but clearly picked a magnus institute statement to read out once sam and celia started demonstrating a waning interest in any investigation into the institute

#personal #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #also i'm not sure what's going on with that statement #it's got some thematic similarities to the two statements we got about the end #the soldier who played faro with death and then the mummy with the dice #but there's clearly differences in how the game was played and what it affected #the statement giver didn't turn into an undead reaper himself he just started dressing weird like a freak #but anyway interesting that we know that all the info we're getting is coming from surveillance based on phones #(that clearly colin was aware of and isn't dissimilar to the spying via the tapes)#and jon seems to be the one in the most control of everything and who does magnus related things #while martin's just kinda There #i'm guessing cuz martin isn't of The Eye

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the-alternate-realities · 2 months

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#virtual photography #control remedy #control game #jesse faden #weird #twisted

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sketchupnfries · 2 years

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I recently finished binge watching “Severance” and man was that show INCREDIBLY up my alley. Gosh dang I can’t wait for season 2 because seriously I need more of it.

#fanart #severance #severance apple tv plus #mark #mark s #apple tv+#sketches #it has liminal spaces and vibes of the game Control as well as just all the weird scifi stuff i like #please go watch it y'all #also i need more scifi stories set in the middle of winter on the east coast countryside

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spectrearia · 2 months

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HAPPY MIKU DAY!!! <33

had to record an appropriate song (39 Music) for the occasion!! this is one of my faves tbh... would've been cool to have gotten a Perfect score as icing on the cake, but I'm still pretty happy with the score I did get! :'D

always love to have a reason to celebrate our fave virtual pop star, though! 39 Miku!!!

#vocaloid #hatsune miku #miku day #project diva #hatsune miku: project diva mega mix #videos #spectre says #for anyone who doesn't know btw :0 39 can be read as 'san kyuu' in japanese #and 'sankyu' is like saying 'thank you'#but the number is also attributed to miku as a character too so it goes hand in hand haha #anyway i love this game so much fkjgsdf #i might have to adjust my lag input or something tho because like. it's felt kind of weird as of late #not sure if it's lag or if there's something wrong with my controller #but it feels bad when i miss inputs that i definitely know i pressed at the right time #ESPECIALLY that one double slide that ruined my combo;;#but aside from that i'm happy with this run!#also background is dimmed because I have a mod for that kfjsghf #in case anyone noticed and was wondering why it looked that way lol

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dykedvonte · 29 days

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@gecko-in-a-can THIS ABSOLUTELY

Resentment is such a big part of Benny’s motives towards House, feeling he’s underserving to rule and shouldn’t have the right to keep the title of Vegas just because he claimed it first long ago. Say what you will, Benny puts the effort in, through honest and dishonest work albeit, but he puts in the effort. Not saying House didn’t but House had the luxury of having a lot of that effort done before the war and subordinates to do so after. House is untouchable, something everyone wants in the Mojave, if not for the power, but because of the security. House takes that for granted seeing how easy he thinks it is to buy people. Benny, a Mojave native, has to be irate about that seeing how he has seen the heights and slums of both lives.

Also with the AIs it’s so telling because in a lot of ways, Yes Man has more autonomy than House’s major personality securitrons. Yeah, Yes Man has to be helpful but he’s aware and able to be snarky and coy. Benny has an issue with not being listened to but that’s the only perimeter Yes Man needs to act on. He can’t condescend but lord you can tell when he wants to. House’s AIs serves specific and highly detailed functions but are confined to act in accordance. They are subservient to a T and are extensions of House while Yes Man really is a creation that adapts further, hence his desire for the assertive upgrade. Benny made something, or at least was okay with a helper, that can progress for itself. House made things that replicate or facilitate an era of the past and don’t hold the power to contest it.

#for all the focus on Vegas Vegas itself in the game is not discussed enough #like I want to know more about the families relationships with each other #how Tommy and swank really feel #a meeting with all the heads of the casinos must be a major cat fight let’s talk about how like fiends are just right outside????#but let’s talk about the favoritism house has to the tops and how the other families must resent that only for the chairmen to be like #these high strung former warrior nomads cause they got big brother right on their asses cause boss man is his special boy #like no one but swank and the chairmen really complain about house in the strip so the chairmen have to have a unique perspective #but back to Benny and house it’s like a weird you owe me thing where house 100 believe Benny and the chairmen are beyond grateful and are #down to do whatever he says cause it’s like he controls your basic needs now and the culture of the boot riders is one of pride and honor #and by extension helping your own and houses capitalist ideology is alien and isolating to them socially #that it would be an insult because their relationship is already mutually beneficial and now your taking so much more that they are now #getting less than what house is giving #enough tag talking I should focus on another post but first i need to brainstorm #fallout new vegas #fallout #benny gecko #robert edwin house #mr house fnv #Benny fnv #rebloggin #gecko-in-a-can

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lesbianalanwake · 5 months

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Can a place know the future? Can it change its skin? Can it wander?

#woke up from my weird dream thinking abt the foundation....#video game location of all time. brain chemistry altered. never wanted to live anywhere so bad in all my life. etc #control game #f: control #remedy posting #*edits #*posts

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ganondoodle · 10 months

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back on my zelda thoughts

idk about you but i got sick of zelda running after people with big sorrowful puppy eyes begging them to listen to her(they wont) or to help link in totk pretty fast

#ganondoodles talks #totk spoilers #i just can stop thinking about how dirty she got done #she can be a tragic character without being constantly sad and scared #dare i say she contributed more positive to the game when she was a dragon #the only scenes she didnt look super sad was pretty much when talking about link at the teacup memory bc .. you know she actually knows him #and where shes essentially forced to decide to half kill herself in order to do literally anything for her own time #now that im thinking about it how the heck did anything on the tutorial even work with her giving her powers to you #and you sending the master sword to her #just feels like they scrambled to somehow get you her pwoers and the mastersword to her #some random bubbles of time magic idk lol #if the game went different #wouldnt it have been cool if those had been caused by zelda learning how to reastablish a connection to her own time #creating those weird time bubbles #and through the course of the game you find more and they let you interact with her more and more as shes learning how to use her powers #until at some point she finds a way to return herself #maybe even her spirit as a companion for a time before she gains control of it further #you know so she can actually at least TALK to you #giving her time powers out of nowehre and then not doing anything with it exept send her back in time somehow and time reverse a dagger #like what #wouldnt it just have made more sense when at first she did it unknowningly and then learned how to use it herself #and then .... well travel back again #ham fisted way to introduce a neat lil game gimmick i guess #and nothing more bc how dare she do anything on her own except .. sacrifice herself lol #i guess its meant ot be uwu tragic bc sonia got fridged too quickly for zelda to learn from her or whatever #which is why i said she learns on her own #idk man this game is driving me nuts

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doctorbeans · 1 month

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girls dont want an hd portrayal of cute dates with tifa of aerith, girls want the weirdest fucked up physcological horror remake of a 25 year old game

#ff7 #girls is me mostly but. i want it with the power of at least twelve #tumblr posting abt rebirth is making me realize i care about very different aspects of this game. you want cloud and tifa to kiss.#i want outlast levels of weird and trippy genetic manipulation and mind control and also avalanche being friends. we are not the same #talks

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svampira · 5 months

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ELIAS IN 🔞 and ❌ PLEASE. 🥹🥹🥹

ELIAS TAKING OVER YOUR WHOLE DASH👹👹 (sorry formatting issues)

🔞 something sexy > he goes to work (camarilla hitman) dressed like that. The flipflops are because i forgored to draw him shoes and then i thought it was funny

❌️ something he'd never wear > i can see him in anything but NEVER in formal wear. Free him...

ask game

#elias does have an onl*fans for weird. kind of cultish purposes but i dont think hed wear something like that on stream #he doesnt wash shit theres still blood and grime on there #for the smoking i think diamila mind controlled him to wear one for a camarilla event but he didnt even make it out the door #also the idea of elias and diamila forcing each other to do anything is so fun. maxed out presence vs maxed out dominate who wins (dominate #vtm #vampire the masquerade #/elias #scarabocchi #the bag was mainly because i cant draw arms. but hes also very tall #i forgot to say thank yewww for asking the PLEASE took me out #<rb the ask game so i can force you to draw your elias. i miss him

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moonsidesong · 11 months

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had a dream there was a new touhou game where wearing some kind of rainbow cord over your clothes made you stronger in danmaku fights and distinctly gave the wearer a sense of "pride" in their strength (something like this)

and also at least one of the stage backgrounds had a sunset palette that was basically just the lesbian flag.

happy pride month i guess?,?????

#it might have been another phantasmagoria game idk i woke up thinking that was the plot of udoalg for a second #bri talks #moonsidedoodles #somehow the second weird touhou game my brain came up with #... i guess it's still more realistic than danmaku motion controls for the wii

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howdydopillar · 2 months

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YOU BEST BET THAT YA GIRL FREAKED THE FUCK OUT WHEN THE 1997 VERSION OF WALTER’S MINIGAME HAD THOSE DAMNED OVENS FROM GIOVANNI’S MINIGAME!!!!!

ITS PROBS BECAUSE I DID HIS MINIGAME LAST COMPARED TO EVERYBODY ELSE… 😭😭😭 THAT OR IDK. I’VE NEVER SEEN THIS HAPPEN BEFORE.

(note: PLEASE. before saying anything. look at my reblog.)

#I wonder if something similar like this could happen to Olive’s minigame too if you do her minigame last.#☆ (it’s time to make history!)#shipwrecked 64 #also. fyi. I do not recommend using the steam deck to play the game. Worst mistake of my life. Especially with Walter’s minigame.#I don’t know what was going on with the steam deck and that minigame but like. it kept reversing my controls around.#I was having one hell of a time with it… maybe it’s just some sort of weird bug I’m going through personally but I’m still putting this out #shipwrecked 64 spoilers #broadside beach

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coupleofdays · 10 months

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One "plot hole" in Tron that I've wondered about for a while is: Why the hell did they put a computer terminal in "the laser target area"? Isn't that an incredibly dangerous place to sit, right in the path of a laser capable of pulling objects apart into their molecules? Of course the real life reason is to have an excuse for Kevin to get shot and enter the digital world, but it feels like a pretty weak excuse.

So I came up with a slightly sinister headcanon: When the Master Control Program became aware of the laser digitization research that ENCOM was planning to do, it realized the potential of this, and began wondering if it could be used to capture a User to experiment on. So the MCP subtly altered the digital blueprints of the new research facility, moving a planned computer terminal to a new spot, to make sure that there was a reason for someone to occasionally sit still in front of the laser. Then it waited, biding its time, for an opportunity where it could try out the laser on an unsuspecting User, perhaps excusing it as an unfortunate accident if anyone else noticed, or perhaps planning to mindwipe the User and putting them back before anyone noticed.

Of course, when the MCP's old chess opponent Kevin Flynn broke in, it couldn't resist the temptation to try the laser out on him. And it got far more than it had bargained for. I would like to think that after Kevin came back and became boss of the company, he made sure to remove the terminal from the laser target area.

#tron #tron 1982 #Master Control Program #Kevin Flynn #headcanon #if anyone protested that the blueprints looked weird #Dillinger would shut them down #“The MCP is infallible!”#“Just start building!”#I'm gonna have to put you on the Game Grid

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the-alternate-realities · 1 month

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