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  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•The Steam controller was ahead of its timeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The original PS1 controller didn’t have joysticks, and when it did, the position sucked for larger hands. I have always preferred the XBox layout.

    Right. I meant the second PS1 controller, not the original one. The design changed over the years, but the general specs stayed as the baseline of controllers.

    The XBox layout with its six face buttons did not stick, and the XBox 360 conformed with Sony’s design of four face buttons and two triggers. Which makes more sense for shooters (since you have more buttons while keeping your thumb on the right thumbstick)

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•The Steam controller was ahead of its timeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The entire industry has agreed on a de-facto standard for controllers, which is pretty much the PS1 controller:

    • Two clickable thumbsticks
    • Four face buttons
    • D-pad
    • Four triggers
    • Two menu buttons
    • The only thing the PS1 didn’t have (but games can’t use it, so maybe it doesn’t count?) - a button for showing the platform’s menu

    You can add things on top of that (trackpads, gyros, making some of these digital buttons analog), but if you don’t have that - your controller won’t work for games that expect these inputs to be available.

    If I had to put a date on when this became the established standard, I’d say 2005 or 2006 - the years when the XBox 360 and the PS3 were released, since both consoles had these capabilities (Nintendo kept doing its own thing, and only supported this standard starting with the Wii U). So when the Steam controller was released in 2015 - this standard was already established, controllers for PC made sure to support it - and even PC games stuck to it.

    This is why I think the Steam Controller failed - you had to map it. You couldn’t use it like you would a standard controller even if the game was made for standard controllers.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭
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    2 months ago

    I like Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor’s interpretation. It’s far from being accepted in Judaism - probably because it makes so much sense.

    The interpretation is based on the fact that the passage originally appears in Exodus twice - but not in a section about Kosher laws. It appears in sections about Bikurim - bringing offerings to the temple:

    The very same verse that contains that law also contains a law about Bikkurim:

    Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.

    You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Because these two laws seem so unrelated, Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor suggests a different way to read the second part.

    In Hebrew, the root of the word “cook”/“boil” is B-SH-L - and this is also the root of the word “ripe”/“mature”. Because of that, it’s possible to read “you must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk” as “you must not let a young goat mature while drinking its mother’s milk”.

    This makes the second part of the verse a repetition of the first part - a pattern very common in the Old Testament as a (vain) attempt to prevent misinterpretations. Reading it like so, both parts mean “the offerings should be as young and as fresh as possible”.

    That reading is a little bit odd - but not too odd in biblical language standards, and it makes so much more sense in the context where the passage appears.