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I kind of don't understand joy clicks as inputs.
Hey kids, wanna fuck up your sticks and cause drift?
Try clicking them! A lot! All the time!
Along side motions that also require a precise but variable angle on the stick, that's even better for your controller!
Now, I like the idea of configurable button sets based on which joycon is being touched, i make control configs for my Deck that do shit with that all the time.
But clicking them?
Just no.
At least over with a Deck, we have track pads for that, you can do basically anything with em, use em as a mouse or joy input, map them 4 way or 8 way as more buttons, turn them into a custom menu, just make each one into one big button...
But also, when it comes to running... its an analog stick.
The whole point of an analog stick is... it gets a variable/range strength of 2d inputs.
Its not a dpad with something glued on top of it anymore.
Just make full stick run, semi stick walk, barely any stick just lazily slow creep, or amble.
Or, make a quick double up tap stick transfer you into run mode, which eases off when you pass some threshold near 0.
... there are so many better ways to do 'make character run' than 'jam the stick into itself.'
... like you are an idiot child?
Either you are, or you have a very bad and disrespectful therapist.
Guys wouldn't it be funny if Luigi had a brother named Mario?
cough
Punching a jaw doesn't break your hand if you know how to throw a proper punch.
Learn some Karate, Muay Thai, Boxing/Kick Boxing, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, etc, just make sure you go to a real dojo/training center, led by someone with actual pedigree, not a McDojo that's just an overpriced daycare.
Yes, a well executed quick jab to the nose can easily break it and cause bleeding, but a successful solid hit to the jaw will get them tasting their own blood, not just seeing it.
Moreover, the goal is to incapacitate the threat, the threat being propogation of the bully's bullshit.
Noses heal quickly, a deviated septum is annoying but manageable.
A seriously broken jaw is disabling, seriously damaged tendons and muscles there cause constant pain and nuisance while speaking, eating, drinking, and more effectively disable the ability to publically propogate bullshit.
If punching a nose is not painful for you, but punching a jaw is?
You need to do more training. You need to be capable of handling more pain, you need to have proper form, you need to have proper strength and control in your hand, wrist, arm and shoulder.
Throw a bit of a hook, or do a more straight punch from an off center axis or angle, learn how to do both a real nose jab, and a fake out nose jab that then ducks or shifts to throw the real strike afterward.
Any dumbass can throw all their weight into a full on haymaker or straight punch just generally aimed at the face.
A person with excellent control and technique can alter the amount of force, angle of attack, kinematic total flow of an attack... in the split second between starting the attack, and it connecting.
Core strength and flexibility is key.
For most people who aren't seriously jacked, all strikes that can do serious damage originate from the torso, the hips, the abdomen. Jabs from a seriously fit person can do serious damage, but presuming a training regimen starts from already being jacked in all the right muscle groups... is unrealistic, and ineffective training for just most people who aren't already some kind of gym addict.
Oh right, final note:
Never, EVER, intentionally aim a frontal strike at the throat, the trachea, the windpipe.
Not unless you want to go from the goal of incapacitating an attacker, to manslaughter/murder.
There is way too high of a chance of literally killing someone, intentionally or not, with a frontal strike aimed at the windpipe.
Do that in basically any officially sanctioned fight of any kind, and you're going to be penalized or disqualified.
Do that in real life and yeah, you may kill somebody.
Oh, I know.
I grew up being raised on Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, lots and lots of Christian extremeism.
I just try to step back and rationally comprehend the level of their hypocrisy, from time to time.
"They've become crazed lunatics."
Does anyone remember when McConnel broke the Congress and drove it into as much of a dead standstill as possible, during basically all of Obama"s first term?
The Dems grow an iota of a backbone at the actual last possible fucking moment, to attempt to run the clock on an actual fascist takeover, by a convicted felon con artist rapist pedophile treasonous demented fat fuck...
And now the Republicans call this 'lunacy.'
Its maybe 5% of what the Reps did during Obama's first term, in terms of actual political obstructionism.
These racist idiot fucks truly cannot fathom anything other than lying, and naked force and oppression, and they appear to be actually baffled by even the idea that anyone could use a very, very mild version of their own tactics against them.
They truly have no conception of nor capacity to actually negotiate anything.
Their idea of negotiation is dictation from a position of overwhelming superiority, and then every underhanded lie, dirty trick and obfuscation possible to ensure they have that overwhelming superiority.
Beat the shit out of your bullies, kids, otherwise they grow up to be Republican politicians.
Aim for the jaw, pretty hard to be a public speaking figure if they physically can't speak.
The generations since them will prepare for this in some way.
Ahah, yeah, by legalizing suicide booths / EoL euthanasia, and then just actually doing soylent green.
Maybe not directly as food itself, but, decaying biomatter is good for compost, and we are gonna need a lot more composted topsoil in the next decades, as the climate collapses further.
Latest news is that Xbox Games Division had been required to aim for a 30% profit margin for the last several years.
Thats why everything sucks and blew up.
Thats a fucking insane baseline target.
Line for next quarter profit must go up, therefore, cut costs.
This is obvious self destructive in the long run, but that doesn't matter, what matters is C Suite's golden parachutes.
... Basically nobody in software development has done QA in about 15 years, aside of basically the last ol timer server admin types, who are now being replaced with ... whatever Microsoft is calling Tay or Cortana now.
There's always a few who try, and then corporate beats that out of them because it slows down 'productivity', you can basically only resist this for more than a year, two tops, if you are literally the only person on the planet who knows how to do what you do.
... which is also why those same old timers tend to ... seemingly intentionally not document anything usefully: job security.
What?
Has this person never tried to optimize volumetric fog on low end hardware?
No no no no no.
That is a succesful render., assuming your uh... perception of time hasn't massively slowed.
If you start getting z fighting and notice a few windows and cars with flipped normals, lod pop-in... now thats a rendering error.
Just maybe might have something to do with the hitherto unseen mass phenomenon of adult children going no contact with, ghosting their parents.
Whole lot of narcissistic abuse on one side, whole lotta CPTSD on the other.
https://theweek.com/culture-life/no-contact-family-estrangement
https://justinthenickofcrime.substack.com/p/no-contact-why-millennials-gen-z
https://slate.com/life/2024/08/no-contact-parents-meaning-family-estrangement.html
Whole lotta Boomers can't figure out that they aren't entitled to their children's attention, love, or respect, that their kids are... conscious, sentient, independent human beings... after they spent their whole narcissistic lives negging their kids and inventing new problems for them, new standards to meet, more messes to clean up, whenever they feel 'unappreciated'.
Oh well, they can enjoy the housing crash they caused by fancying themselves as prudent investors, and then they can enjoy their golden years in an underfunded and understaffed elder care home.
It didn't have to be this way, but too many of 'em never listened to a damn thing anyone else said that made them feel insecure or unclever for even a moment.
(Most of the housing market run up, most of the purchased properties, both 08 era and now... actually were done by 'small landlords', self styled real estate investors. Yep, corpos did a lot too, but not the majority. Also, now the median homebuyer age is 61, the median first time homebuyer has gone up from 28 in 1980, to 38 now in 2025... the boomers literally, objectively are the primary responsible party for making housing unaffordable for everyone else. But hey, fuck them kids, eh?)
(... and thats all before going into generational voting patterns, and how by continuing to try to ride along with a system rigged in their favor, they have also literally doomed the planet and biosphere. Just a real bang up job.)
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In the same vein:
"Practical illustration of deformation caused by gravitational tidal forces between two nearby, massive bodies. (scale greatly exaggerated)"
I agree, which is why I only use the term in a kind of negative reference: this knowledge is evidently not common place.
Err... well ok, unless it is the proper noun form, directly referring to Tom Paine's revolutionary war era pamphlet... which... I think is the sort of proximal etymylogical / cultural origin of the phrase as we use it today?
Either way, yes, its a bastardized term now, like how 'literally' now also means roughly 'figuratively + extremely' in certain contexts, from certain speakers.
I think that back in 1770's English, 'common' was also often used to mean something ... simple, unremarkable, basic.
Not just uh... plentiful, easily found in many places.
So then, 'common sense' would roughly translate to modern English as something like 'basic logic'.
And to loop that all around, I would say that people who ... do not treat driving a car like they are operating a ton or two of mass that can move up to 80 or 120 mph or whatever... you know, as that, well they actually are not excercising what I would call basic logic.
"The best career advice is to just not get fired or laid off, idiot, duh."
Wow, why didn't I think of that.
I am not even yet 40, and basically, 80% of the people I've ever known in my life have at least once, driven drunk or high or while on prescription drugs that make them considerably uh, dulled, or as with your scenario, overly exhausted and fatigued.
I don't drive any more, barely at all.
America's roads suck shit, and the drivers are fucking astoundingly unsafe.
But, because our mass transit generally sucks as well, we are stuck in a destructive feedback loop, we are running our cars and our minds and bodies untill they just totally give out.
Anyway, completely agree with your perspective on driving, you would think that would be common sense, but evidently not.
Oh, I've straight up been the victim of medical malpractice/fraud/misrepresentation multiple times in my life.
Not like I can afford a lawyer though.
Being temporarily rendered legally blind with no forewarning, thats one of the more mild ones.
But uh yeah, unlike seemingly just most people, I have and will always treat driving as if I am operating a potentially lethal device.
Because... I ... am, when driving a car.
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Prove your humanity.
Construction of the torment nexus will intensify until 'morale' is no longer within the human ability to conceptualize.
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Prove your humanity.
... and the kicker is that atlas here was just instructed to listen to 'What Is Love'.
I mean... what are basically any states paying Federal taxes for, at this point?
Nearly everything the Federal government throws that money at... well they've pretty much stopped.
Oh but we need it to fund disaster response like- oh, right, that's all been repurposed into building concentration camps for ICE.
Oh but we need it to maintain critical infrastru- oh, right, that's all been falling apart for decades, unless its for a data center/bitcoin farm.
Oh but what about funding for the poor and homeless and Section 8 and - ... oh would you look at that, basically all cut down to the bone as well.
Meanwhile, the top of the income brackets for social security income taxes is ~180k. Which basically denotes the threshold between probably living paycheck to paycheck, and almost certainly not.
The fundamental system of funding would work fine if you just added another 2 or 3 or 4 brackets above that, but no, this is apparently an unthinkable concept, and we are all told social security just will go bankrupt and there is nothing that can be done.
Fuck that. Stop paying for it federally, do it at the state level.
Trump is currently busy invading Venezuela, and ICE vs just a couple state's nation guard units ... that doesn't end well for ICE, they are horrendously poorly trained and there are not that many of them, maybe 30k max for actual 'field agents'.
Like, one way of emulating this on a mouse and keyboard is what ... at least the older Splinter Cell games did, on PC.
WASD for move, but the mouse wheel scroll moves you gradually up or down a speed gradient, your UI has a little bar, I think, that goes either up or down or left or right, to indicate what speed you're dialed in to.
I have always been confused as to why basically no other PC games do this, especially sneaky games and tactical shooters, nope, they're all a bunch of state transitions.
Just make it so you can also have button binds that jump between sprint and walk or w/e, 20 and 80 out of 100...
I think... Intruder is like one other PC game that does something like this?
And also adds in a kind of funny 'balance' mechanic, where it calcs the width of the surface you are standing/moving on, if the width is too small and your movement or rotational velocity is too high, you have a greater chance of ... basically, you make a basketball court sneaker screech sound, and then insta ragdoll, and either trip or fall off what you're standing on.
Its pretty fucking funny, especially in a small team v team shooter, but it is also designed to basically solve a problem with a lot of brush based shooter maps, which is that there will be some absurd, 5 cm wide ledge that a player can use to obtain a ludicrous postion.
So... this just embraces that and says sure buddy, you can try lol.
It is extremely funny to watch someone try to sprint along a railing and try to then jump to a chandelier or somethjng, only to cause a large squeek sound when they hit they jump button, do half a jump and then ragdoll collapse down the balcony.
Anyway, double tap WASD to either start a sprint or do an evasive dodge or something like that, that I've seen in PC games as well, though again, its fairly uncommon...
It really sucks imo, that basically the most fundamental components of most video games, how does the player move through the world... its just like an afterthought these days, no, what we need is either a very basic, simplified standard, or some half busted third person schema that mainly exists to show off all our very fancy graphics stretched over extremely simplistic gameplay.
Blargh.