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I did it for you! I did it because I like watching smarter people than me talk about stuff, and also I pretty much firmly fall on the pro-legalization side of the debate, but admit I don't actually know that much about it. So that's my contribution to the thread! Now Zeus HAS to make a post about it!

Tiny!

https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/9177-idlethumbs-%E2%80%93-join-the-idle-thumbs-irc-channel/

I have a Lupin figure and I think a Luffy and Goku figure. In a box somewhere. Bought cheaply while I was in Japan. I uh do have Vengeful Spirit and Crystal Maiden on my shelf at work, though. Also the damsel from Spelunky.

Some people do that!

I make no promises.

Anyway this is a dumb argument and controls aside - which, yes, I do think I can learn to tolerate, even if in my head there will always be that little voice - I like the game. I think I'm probably going to get it! You better all play with me. ):

I've known a couple people like that, too, and some of them were better than me at the games we played and, well, it didn't end well. For them. Purely anecdotal of course. Trackballs are definitely better for your wrist, though!

i'm a programmer ;_;

I don't agree with that at all. Trackballs are cumbersome and loose. Mice are incredibly precise and deliberate. And that's not even taking into account the fancy gaming mice, which have tons of weird-ass features to make everything feel right for different situations, but I've intentionally not brought them up until now for a reason. That's an extreme example.

If you take two players of equal knowledge level and equal skill level on their respective control scheme, I don't think it's at all deniable that a m+kb player would win every time. In my provided example, the TF2 player had the advantage, as you said. But the second I play against that person, I'll win, because I have all their knowledge AND I have the control scheme that allows for more accuracy and precision. And actually, now that I think about it, I have a strict mechanical advantage in things like rocket jumping, too, because in order to efficiently rocket jump, you have to be able to change your vertical aim very, very, very quickly. Either the controller player has extremely sensitive vertical movement, which will make it harder to aim in general, or they'll have normal vertical movement sensitivity, which will make it harder to rocket jump. They might be on the same playing field as a heavy, though. Or medic. (All that said, this is an ages old argument, and my intent was never to bring this up, it just sort of naturally happened by responding to inquiries regarding my frustrations! Feel free to let it die. I have no bone to pick.)

I think that's because when you jump back and forth, you're being matched up against other players who are the same. The playing field is the same for everyone in the game. Everyone has to suffer the same inadequacies when playing with a controller, and everyone has the potential to overcome those inadequacies. KDR isn't really a valid measurement. You'd have to build, I dunno, a shooting range/obstacle course kind of thing and then compare your best times with a kb+m to your best times with a controller. Even then, the auto-aim/aim-assist/whatever-you-want-to-call-it will help in compensating. But none of that really matters to me. What matters to me is feel, and controllers just feel fucking awful to me in comparison to actually being able to aim on my own without the game helping me out. Also, just for fun, I've seen examples of, for example, people playing TF2 with a controller on PC and dominating, but watching the way they play, I can guarantee I would have absolutely destroyed them. It's not because I'm amazing at FPS, far from it, it's just because they were playing on servers full of newbies to the game in general and they'd had lots of practice with a controller and were already familiar with the game. I was having this problem with a PS3 controller while playing Ratchet & Clank (triggers are used for strafing, which is really important in those games!). It's really uncomfortable. I don't know why controllers are designed with the triggers placed there. Put it much lower on the back, please!

Maybe for some people, but that's definitely true for me!

I don't know about CS, but this is completely untrue for TF2. Once you zoom in you move at a snail's pace. Also TF2 is about movement just as much, if not more, as it's about shooting, which is why you always move fast. Moving slow in that game is a bad idea. There's a crouch button to slow you down but you never use it unless you see a sniper aiming at you and you're trying to mindgame (or unless you're rocket/sticky jumping). But lots of other games have walk or crouch buttons or even prone modes.

2 is defo the best in terms of story and dialogue and characters! The choices affect lots of things, but nothing in the Big Story.

That's why you never log out! Just idle in there like a pro. Also there are just as many Euros in there as there are Americans.

If anything, auto aim feels like it makes it harder to be good. I don't always want to aim at the first enemy my reticle passes over, which means I then have to fight it to get past that enemy. Well I don't know if Destiny feels that way and I never will, since the idea of doing pvp with this set up sounds laughable uncomfortable to me. Wish I could just plug on a mouse and keyboard. I'd basically never take damage, though, so they'd have to rebalance the game...

No they don't on PC, sorry. Well, some console ports do. I somehow completely misread and thought you were just saying "this helps in general", not explicitly pointing out the stickiness. I personally don't mind stickiness, I've left it on out of sheer laziness in some ports. I immediately turn it off if I play anything competitive multiplayer, though, because it just throws you off completely at that point.

Nah, console FPS controls are just legitimately inferior! There's no getting used to it. I played Halo 3 for, ugh, I don't even know, a full year with friends, and it was just ugh. The saving grace of that game was the sand pirate mode. There is, however, learning to live with, which I think I can do. But yes Zeus I use the iron sights fairly frequently. I have utilized them for years, in fact! Iron sights are great. That's a thing that has existed in PC games forever, and I did notice it's a bit stickier. And yeah Jon I noticed that some guns feel different in that regard. It is unfortunate, though. If Destiny was on PC I'd be playing it non-stop, probably.

I played a couple hours tonight (a few of the story missions and then a patrol which is apparently "run around doing bullshit until you realize you made a mistake"), and it wasn't bad. I overshoot and undershoot way more than should be allowed by design of a first-person shooter, like it's really bad I don't know how these games have been allowed to exist for so long, but at least it has nice sticky auto-aim I guess.

I lived in Burlingame, so not strictly in SF proper, but the cabs went between there and many various points in the city. It's definitely possible that "Burlingame" threw them off. (Although I did take a decent number of cabs within Burlingame only, usually from the last BART stop because Caltrain was already closed, and similar things happened.)

That's what IRC is for!

FWIW, when I lived in San Francisco for a year, most of the taxi drivers absolutely used GPS. And they'd also ask me how to get to where I live after I'd already provided the address (and not so much in the "which path do you want me to take" kind of way). All of them missed the turn to get to the road I lived on even with the GPS, so that I got into the habit of saying "right there, now, go right". It was rough, especially because most of the time I was taking a cab, it's because I was drunk and didn't want to deal with thinking for myself!

I will say that a taxi from my workplace to my homeplace is about 18 on average (with tip) across three different trips, whereas an Uber is 7 bucks TOPS without tip, which they discourage. Which is an insane difference! I think 7 bucks feels too cheap, and it's usually 5-6. I pay 5 bucks for a daily pass on public transportation (actually I pay 80 for a monthly pass, but let's assume I just need one trip). Uber wins in terms of convenience and comfort by a long shot, so add this nice price on top and it's no surprise people like to take Uber. This isn't me defending Uber, just making observations since everyone's talking about price right now.

This inspires me! http://imgur.com/gallery/3dOfh