@HalBailman
Bless em, Nintendolife does not employ the most stringent journalism. You won't see Damo referencing "sprite models" in the new Starship Troopers game, or "digital" N64 sticks, over on Time Extension.
Worse, I used to get a "Thanks, corrected!" message in response, whereas now I generally get defensiveness or even moderated away in response to legitimate critique. The feel of the whole site has changed along with the staffing. The tone of the commentariat has shifted in tandem, becoming more tribal and belligerently defensive of Nintendo.
Anyhoo! Yeah the N64 stick was something special! As was the Saturn 3D stick, for different reasons. Something tells me that the Dual Shock type stick design won the day by showing how low cost/low tech that a company could get away with (not that I don't absolutely love that controller design as well,) whereas Sega and Nintendo didnt realize they were dunking so hard they broke the backboard.
I wonder how much of it comes down to the deep recess of the stick, with the pivot point sunk relatively deep inside the body of the controller. People have finally caught onto this, with companies producing stacked stick toppers that extend the length of the stick, but these have the side effect of also extending the lateral movement of the stick, without increasing the "resolution." I replaced one of my OG 64 sticks with a modern 8bd gamecube type replacement, and the pivot is almost "outside" the controller! it feels very different. Functional for most games, but when you play a game like fzero x which actually requires smooth, subtle use of the inner 50% of the sticks travel, you are definitely at a disadvantage, and having less fun.
OTOH, Fzero GX feels absolutely fantastic with a gamecube controller, so it is once again down to what hardware the game was originally designed for. interestingly, GX on emulation feels incredible with the Steamdeck's (very excellent) conventional potentiometer based sticks, but not particularly well at all with the 8bitdo 64 controller which (obv) has a gamecube style stick.
As a side note, a lot of this can be satisfactorily tweaked in settings, if available. Steam input has multiple response curves, from "aggressive" to "relaxed," or similar, and inner and outer deadzones et al. This kind of thing should be standard, imo, but as it stands it is a testament to the extent which Valve almost uniquely insists that its users play the way they want to play. 👍
I get what you are saying, but the idea is that it was off topic there, and it isnt off topic here. Hence, I've specifically requested that comments moderated for any other reason be excluded from posting.
part of it is that im always very curious to know what the person had said, whenever I see the "off topic" flag. it cant be offensive or else it wouldve gotten a more severe flag, right?
anyway, we shall see. I dont see what the problem would be though considering the nature of the "offense" doesnt really apply here. ✌️
If you discuss the subject of the off-topic comment,
does the thread become on topic?
Must every comment be replied with another moderated comment,
in a constant stream of non-sequiturs?
How wonderfully chaotic.
This thread sounds like a great idea, my friend. I definitely struggle to resist the urge to go off topic in certain threads so this thread will certainly come in handy in the future. Nice to see you with more cool ideas. ✌️
Playing Xenoblade, feel free to add me on switch. ✌️
Party in XB1:
Shulk - lvl6
Reyn - lvl3
Fiora - lvl5
I find the "off topic" moderation particularly jarring when the comment was in direct response to another comment in the thread, so its also a way for people to still make the connections and continue conversations that get truncated in comments 😊 I'm glad you like it, feel free to make use of this space! ✌️
Anti, I feel like you are almost uniformly on topic with your comments, but do you ever get a comment moderated simply for being "off topic?" this is a place for those comments 😊✌️
btw this thread has already attracted some of my favorite Lifers so I'm gonna call this one a success regardless of what happens from here 🥳 It's always fun to get you all in the same "place," thanks for commenting on my weird thread!!
@-wc-
I think I have ever get moderated for my "off topics" comments, but I didn't really remember what did I say and I rarely got moderated for off topics comment since I tried to be careful in typing the comments.
If I remembered, I posted off topics comment when I had issue with certain things and I brought it into the article that still have connection with my issue but apparently it considered as off topics comment.
i think i know what you mean. sometimes I feel like my comment was on topic with the conversation as it flows, but might be seen by the moderators as having strated too far from the article itself. which, fair enough.
on the other hand, i feel like comments are for the commenters, not the moderators, if you get my meaning. sometimes slight non sequiturs are more interesting or thoughtful than just everyone saying "can't wait for this!" or "Nintendo is awesome" or what have you.
for what it's worth, i think the most off topic thing i ever see you post is "still no Bluey in the top 40 😢" which isnt technically off topic but it does amuse me every time 😊✌️
I can only game when i drink Coffee with whey isolate protein(40g) & healthy fats(Coconut oil for ex). Or, when i mix Caco powder/nibs(a super food that elevates the mood and then some), again with healthy fats(Think 100% Extra virgin olive oil) and carbs(Berries, mangos etc ala > Protein smoothie).
Back when i was in my 20's i never needed coffee or cacao to give me the energy or just to act as a 'pick me up', in order to game. But at 41, ya. I need it. Even with my super healty diet(I do cheat meals like 2x a week) and exersise, I'm not as exciteable and amped up as I was at lets say 26 or 27. Without the following above, I'm a moody bugger. I can't live with cacao haha.
Oh, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : Dream Warriors is the greatest horror movie sequel of all time. But the real Freddy Krueger Gold mine is with Freddy's Nightmares haha. Aka, the late 80's Anthology ANOES series where Freddy takes on the role of the Crypt Keeper!
coffee + whey is my daily driver 😂 and, I can't live without some dark, bitter chocolate, honestly. yessir, these are the good things in life 😁
btw Freddie's Nightmares is so good! That's an all timer that many don't know about. 😃👍 even big time Fredheads.
We are working through the prom night sequels currently, but 3 was so bad I'm having a hard time working myself up enough to watch 4. there was even a 5th that got a name change at the last minute to distance itself from the series 🤣 Still, I love to work through the many sequels of the once-great horror movie series'
I took your advice about living in the past, or not as the case may be, and I got into Cyberpunk 2077. for me, thats a spankin new game and holy moses is it good!! It has been a long time since a "modern" game has grabbed me like this and I don't want to put it down!
so, thanks for the pep talk 🥳 and thanks for visiting my weird thread, the party can really get started, now.
@NeonPizza im not 40, but if it helps, I started feeling what you feel as early as 25. Though i Think that probably spells much worse stuff for me, or maybe I’m overreacting.
btw this thread has already attracted some of my favorite Lifers so I'm gonna call this one a success regardless of what happens from here 🥳 It's always fun to get you all in the same "place," thanks for commenting on my weird thread!!
I’m touched. ✌️
I do indeed think it is a success if you manage to make connections regardless of context. 👍
Speaking of context… let’s break off context! Shall we?
We sure love ragging on Nintendo, don’t we? Well I do! And yesterday was my first time opening my switch for the first time in two years after my buddy convinced me to start getting xenoblade (which I already owned so it didn’t require that much convincing) and you BET I was in for a double whammy when I had to find out first hand what the FUDGE a virtual game cart. I was happy to see that it did not affect my offline gaming experience but I was not happy with other stuff.
Among them is the charging port… is Nintendo daft??? (Don’t answer that). Why is the port at the bottom of the console!! This isn’t a smart phone!! Lol 😆!!!
Ironically, that comparison is an insult to smartphones because theyre at least more powerful.
But yeah, since switch 1 is last gen, I considered merely just jailbreaking it. But I already have a jailbroken psp, vita and NDS so I wasn’t gonna benefit much from hacking mu switch 1 (besides making it not dogwater)
Incoherent rambling aside, I’m actually really enjoying xenoblade! I can’t tell anymore if I’m still an rpg gal or not, but I can still enjoy a good grind! Peace-out, fellow lifers.✌️
Playing Xenoblade, feel free to add me on switch. ✌️
Party in XB1:
Shulk - lvl6
Reyn - lvl3
Fiora - lvl5
haha yes I also was a bit 🙄 at the entire "virtual game card" thing. cant we just call it a "game?" 😆 it really seems like a psi-op perpetrated on their users to blur the lines between the concept of digital vs physical. "theyre all just game cards, maaan."
also the red eshop is just ugly, and the red icon in place of orange really makes the home screen look even more dull than it already was. Nintendo seems to have ONE visual branding idea these days, and it's "red."
I've been struggling with RPGs since i first fell in love with Earthbound in the mid 90s and decided to see what this whole genre was all about... and i still didn't know! i tend to fall in love fast and then drop them before it really gets anywhere. my "midlog" of 16 and 32 bit rpgs is as long as my arm, and some of them I've started and stopped a half dozen times. to this day, I've beaten earthbound, ff6, Chrono trigger, golden sun.... and maybe that's it? 😬 i got to the final boss of xenogears but never beat it.
anyway glad to hear you are liking xenoblade! as a long time Xenogears fan I've wanted to check out more of the xeno-verse, but... well, you know 😅✌️
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