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holy shit those are expensive.
my $100 shure in ears have been good to me. theyve been abused and even worn in downpours. owned em for 6-8 years

Why do you want people like jay to be stuck with their kids without having the relief of government babysitting?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Why do you want people like jay to be stuck with their kids without having the relief of government babysitting?

Because I don't want to be stuck with their kids providing government babysitting.

i noticed those controllers were ridiculously expensive too when i purchased RDR2. i ended up just skipping it. the default xbox controller is like $100 and seems like a fairly basic piece of junk. and, of course, there's fucking elite-tier gam3r dude controllers that cost up to like $300. W T F.

almost every modern motherboard will have built-in Bluetooth btw. you don't have to spend a fortune for that. my 10-year-old computer had bluetooth.

Last edited by uziq (2020-12-20 14:22:23)

I wish some of those novelty consoles you see that are packed with 70 games or whatever had bluetooth rather than dodgy IR or 2 foot cords.

The only reason I needed Bluetooth on my PC was for VR controllers. I forgot I had it until I read this.

My new xbox controller is on the bottom. The steam controller is on the top. I left the steam controller dusty to annoy newbie but also demonstrate just how much I have ever used the thing.

What are those big circles for? I guess the one on the left might be a D-pad, but is there even anything on the right one?

I dunno, the haptic feedback and that touchpad worked extremely well for me. Maybe you have a bum controller or it's not configured properly. One of the major selling points is that you could use it to play an RTS with some level of precision while being laid back with a controller.

I don't know how much longer I'd bother though, soon enough the PS5 controller will probably have full functionality on Steam.

I could see it being unimpressive if you didn't use it to its full capability.

In other controller news, I've been looking at various stick and throttle options. The old Force Feedback 2 is still working like a champ, but I'll admit its sensitivity is a little obsolete and the thumb throttle, while surprisingly responsive, doesn't have very satisfying resistance. Good enough to quickly swap to for some jet or chopper play on Battlefield 2, maybe not so much for hyper-accurate flight sims. Still super-sad about those being discontinued. I'd probably have had a Sidewinder Force Feedback 10 by now.

e: that video does make valid criticisms. it does very much feel like a controller for a niche market. but if you're already heavy into modding and stuff (I also remap almost every game I play; love ones with "clear all" buttons on the remap menu, and especially primary/secondary settings), it probably wasn't a burden.

I've been looking at some of the ones described here:

https://www.hackint0sh.org/best-joystick

I'd be using it for things like mech games, FPSs with flight segments, and perhaps something like War Thunder (though not War Thunder, I've put too much time in games like WoT). For American Truck Sim until I get a wheel and pedals, and FS2020.

An X-56 without the lights might be cool, but it looks like it could have a better build for that price point.

Joint unit would be nice for placing in my lap, though not really a weighted factor at all. Prefer sub-$250 range, would go up to $500.

Blue screened a handful of times while playing Far Cry 5. BSOD while in class today which was a major bad situation. MS events or whatever said it was a graphics driver issue. Updated my graphics driver. My wallpapers disappeared but otherwise whatever. The GPU I have struggles with the setup I got. I need a fancy new GPU. The RTX 3080 is out of stock everywhere but will actually be in line with my set up. Issue is my 650w Platinum PSU isn't powerful enough. The RTX 3080 needs a PSU of 750w. So if I were to get a new RTX 3080, I would need to get a new PSU and at that point, I would have a PSU and GPU I don't need sitting around with the others I don't need. Crazy solution: let's build a new computer! Instead of getting a fancy T.V, we roll that budget into a fancy new computer. We put the current computer with the old monitor and let it live out it's glory days as a HTPC or whatever they are called.


I would actually need a full tower though to fit the big PSU, giant GPU, RAID array, and 2 SSDs. I saw this Corsair full tower on Amazon and was impressed by all of its drive ports.


Of course this is just spitballing because the fancy GPU I need isn't even in stock anywhere which hurts every other manufacturer I was willing to buy from to build this unholy machine.