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[methylatedspirit]

Who needs a 360 controller when you have a touch pad on a laptop.

Now that's just cursed. I could see a touchpad being a stand-in for a touchscreen (minus the screen, obviously), actually, but as an analog stick stand-in? Awful. I remember sliding my greasy fingers across my phone's screen to play Pokemon Crystal; that has to be what it feels like. Eeugh. I suppose the older version of that would be the Turbo Touch 360.

[wierd]

mouselook with a touchpad is cursed alright.

But mouselook with a trackpoint?  (AKA, the infamous "clit mouse" ) DOUBLE CURSED.

[King Zultan]

It's not that hard to do mouse look with a touchpad, because I've played Fallout 3/NV, Skyrim, and all the Stalker games with one as I have no where for a mouse.

[methylatedspirit]

My condolences. That sounds like absolute pain. I'd compare it to playing FPSes with a trackball, but I've heard of old-timers doing just that in Quake Arena and other similar games. And they were winning.

I suppose it's easier for FO3 and NV, since you've got that nifty VATS thing, but Skyrim and Stalker just sound like frustration all the way through. How many times did you die in those specific playthroughs? How far did you get?

[King Zultan]

I'd compare it to playing FPSes with a trackball, but I've heard of old-timers doing just that in Quake Arena and other similar games. And they were winning.

I don't see how that's possible I can't even get a trackball to work for regular computer stuff.

I suppose it's easier for FO3 and NV, since you've got that nifty VATS thing, but Skyrim and Stalker just sound like frustration all the way through. How many times did you die in those specific playthroughs? How far did you get?

I don't really use VATS in Fallout as it feels like cheating, but as for number of deaths I don't think I died any more times than someone with a mouse, and I never beat any of those games as I always got distracted by side stuff, then my motherboard died and I haven't played them since.

[Bumber]

I'm asking because I play almost all games on keyboard + mouse. I'm playing Breath of the Wild (emulated Wii U) with an Xbox 360 controller, and I'm constantly noticing that I tend to just slam the sticks fully in the direction I want to go. No smoothing, no intermediate positions, just *slam*. Very keyboard-esque, where you simply don't have any more control over the movement keys than "on" and "off".

There are shrines and stuff where you want to adjust your position just slightly to throw an object from a different spot. Not wanting to fall off a thin plank is another time to use more precision.

[Vector]

I'm asking because I play almost all games on keyboard + mouse. I'm playing Breath of the Wild (emulated Wii U) with an Xbox 360 controller, and I'm constantly noticing that I tend to just slam the sticks fully in the direction I want to go. No smoothing, no intermediate positions, just *slam*. Very keyboard-esque, where you simply don't have any more control over the movement keys than "on" and "off".

There are shrines and stuff where you want to adjust your position just slightly to throw an object from a different spot. Not wanting to fall off a thin plank is another time to use more precision.

Yeah, I played Zelda (Ocarina of Time) on an emulator as a kid and it was ... difficult. I don't fully remember what my workaround was but it was something like switching the emulator's internal sensitivity every time I had to aim the hookshot.

[methylatedspirit]

Have hard drives gotten worse in access time performance over time? I know that software bloat makes running Windows 10 on a hard drive an intolerable experience, but I wonder if hard drives simply got worse as they stopped being used as boot drives. I've been reading through the Red Hill Hardware Guide's hard drive section, and the author keeps talking about "fast" (e.g. Seagate Cheetah) and "slow" (Quantum Bigfoot) hard drives. I didn't even know there was a distinction.

[MrRoboto75]

Hard drives have gotten soft over the years.

[Frumple]

Have hard drives gotten worse in access time performance over time? I know that software bloat makes running Windows 10 on a hard drive an intolerable experience, but I wonder if hard drives simply got worse as they stopped being used as boot drives.

Running Win 10 on a hard drive is no less tolerable than... any other windows has been, over the course of there being windows. Probably more so than the earlier ones often were, for that matter. It's a bit slower than a solid state or whatever, but it still doesn't exactly take long on most hardware in use nowadays.

Folks have odd expectations for computer performance, sometimes...

[bloop_bleep]

Yeah like Linus Tech Tips ripping on budget phones because he's used to seeing and using flagship products all the time. Take the monetary price into account!

[methylatedspirit]

Have hard drives gotten worse in access time performance over time? I know that software bloat makes running Windows 10 on a hard drive an intolerable experience, but I wonder if hard drives simply got worse as they stopped being used as boot drives.

Running Win 10 on a hard drive is no less tolerable than... any other windows has been, over the course of there being windows. Probably more so than the earlier ones often were, for that matter. It's a bit slower than a solid state or whatever, but it still doesn't exactly take long on most hardware in use nowadays.

Add anything disk-intensive, like virus scanners, and you'll see why I wouldn't recommend hard drives as boot drives nowadays. Scanning files tends to hog the drive like nobody's business, and that kills performance. I don't use (external) virus scanners myself, but some people swear by those things, and I'm not about to try and convince them to not use them. God knows they probably need them.

[methylatedspirit]

I've caught some horses in BoTW, and after only getting 2, I've run out of name ideas. I named the first one "Scringus" (I wanted "Dingus McScringus", but it's too long), and the second one "U+1F40E".

I need new names. Joke names, preferably. There's a 9-character limit, but I think most ASCII characters should work. Even "\" works, which sounds risky as hell.

[King Zultan]

You could use this as a name.

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Brunte
Russ
Horsey McHorseface
My Little Pony
My Little Punny
Hippocrates
Belisaurus Rex
Harald Trotiger
Peggysues
Johnny Trotten
David Hasselhoof
Grassroots Bowel Movement
Pal Frey

And of course  the best name of all, Roach