I also didn’t mind the two extra buttons, and was a little sad when they went away, because they were largely replaced by the joystick buttons, which I think are hard to use properly.

Weren’t the black and white buttons replaced by triggers? The joystick buttons already existed in the first XBox.

The original PS1 controller didn’t have joysticks, and when it did, the position sucked for larger hands. I have always preferred the XBox layout.

Right. I meant the second PS1 controller, not the original one. The design changed over the years, but the general specs stayed as the baseline of controllers.

The XBox layout with its six face buttons did not stick, and the XBox 360 conformed with Sony’s design of four face buttons and two triggers. Which makes more sense for shooters (since you have more buttons while keeping your thumb on the right thumbstick)

The entire industry has agreed on a de-facto standard for controllers, which is pretty much the PS1 controller:

• Two clickable thumbsticks
• Four face buttons
• D-pad
• Four triggers
• Two menu buttons
• The only thing the PS1 didn’t have (but games can’t use it, so maybe it doesn’t count?) - a button for showing the platform’s menu

You can add things on top of that (trackpads, gyros, making some of these digital buttons analog), but if you don’t have that - your controller won’t work for games that expect these inputs to be available.

If I had to put a date on when this became the established standard, I’d say 2005 or 2006 - the years when the XBox 360 and the PS3 were released, since both consoles had these capabilities (Nintendo kept doing its own thing, and only supported this standard starting with the Wii U). So when the Steam controller was released in 2015 - this standard was already established, controllers for PC made sure to support it - and even PC games stuck to it.

This is why I think the Steam Controller failed - you had to map it. You couldn’t use it like you would a standard controller even if the game was made for standard controllers.

You can’t get a good view of the bombing of Tel Aviv all the way from Iran.

Monkey is for MoonScript

N is for Node.js

O is for Objective-C

P is for Pascal

Q is for QBasic

R is for R

S is for Swift

T is for TypeScript

U is for …

Fix it now, or you go to jail

This can’t be not satire

My condolences

Certainly not for running an LLM on all your files to figure out which ads to show you in the start menu. Why would you even imply something like that?

Why are you asking? Are you trying to prematurely optimize these apps?

I want to forget SVN

Hard drive was made by Tesla

“North America” is the name of the continent. It can stay.

Ah, yes. A private method for working on a public field.

In Hebrew, the word for “stone” is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for “rock” is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.

I guess the entirety of America is in dark corners?

1. Certainly looks like it’s going in that direction…
2. I assume you mean “the entirety of the USA”?

Doesn’t MS Access still use SQL?

All government data is processed using sed.

He won’t die before releasing Half Life 3, which means he’s immortal.