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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Don't agree, takes away nothing to keep it.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Steam hasn't advertised this easter egg at all, but have advertised all the "proper" features. The only people mentioning this are fans and journalists, many of which have already gone over a normal review of the controller, and just like to call out a fun easter egg when they see one.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Sure, I don't doubt that steam pays for reviews and news coverage. But I'm going off of statements put out by the company, because if I don't, I'd just be speculating.

    it's pretty telling of the userbase that all news you read are about this though. Explains why you all got butthurt

    Again with your pointless rage bait. That's not an actual argument, you are just telling a lie as though it's a fact. That's what ragebaiters do, that's what bots do. I don't actually consume game journalism at all, the only place I will see it is when I read a headline on Lemmy. I haven't even read the article this post links to.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    The Wilhelm scream playing on the Steam Big Picture mode home screen a small percentage of the times you drop the controller seems like a harmless feature, especially since it didn't take adding any parts that weren't already being used for things players actually want

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    First, it's not that you dislike something that makes you a bot, it's that you are so unreasonably angry about an easter egg.

    Second, it's not that you dislike something that makes you a rage baiter, it's that your arguments don't make sense. You are less entertained by a scream than using the controller as a controller? So is everyone. No one is saying this is the most fun or best feature of the controller, so you aren't actually saying anything that goes against the people that like the scream.

    "They got mad because I think it's a ridiculous feature" Actually, I'm not mad about that. I also think it's a ridiculous feature. There's no argument there either.

    If you don't like the scream, that's okay. I know it's not for everyone, and many people won't even hear it. But to say that steam is pushing this as an advertisement for the controller is misleading. To say that they should have just focused on making the controller a good controller is misleading. I have the controller. It's a great controller. It has more features than other controllers, and those features were executed well. I bought it before anyone posted anything about the scream.

    You say you use a dual shock controller. That has a speaker on it. If unnecessary features make you this irrationally angry, I'm shocked that you would prefer a controller that they had to add in a whole extra physical component to the controller just to give it a pointless feature, over a controller with an easter egg using the hardware that already contributes to the actual experience of using the controller.

    Except you don't care. About either of these things. At least not to the extent that you are putting on. You are just trying to make people upset as a ragebaiter, or trying to spread unnecessary discourse about a product as a bot.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    The dual sense speaker is really nice. I take you don't have it.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Weird your opinion is based on what others think and not your experience.

    You don't seem at all unhinged, so I guess I'll trust your word art face value.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago* (17 children)

    They're done with haptics, apparently. Do you think haptics don't belong to a controller? It costs you nothing for these to be in the controller and you'll personally also never actually see them.

    This is a "QUIT HAVING FUN" moment

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    The reason none of your haptic controllers played tunes is because the programmers never got to have fun with it, not from a lack of ability.

    Go look at 3D printers, most of them use their motors to make little beeps and jingles as feedback to the user. I even have custom gcode that gets added to every print so a tune is played when the print is done. That's actually useful because I don't need to wonder whether it's done and check on it like a pot that's about to boil

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm curious what your stance on RGB keyboards, mice, and other peripherals are. What is the utility there? Do you have different colored clothing? If so why? What is the utility there?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Wiimote played sounds, and from what I saw online, that shitty little speaker gave a lot of memories to kids (especially the Smash Bros Brawl sounds)

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    For context, the screaming part is an Easter egg that plays a Wilhelm Scream if you drop the controller.

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    for people like me who have never heard of it:

    The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.[1]

    It is made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 3.0 build sports 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives, and 4 flatbed scanners. The net effect is of a robot orchestra.[2]

    no, I definitely do not hate such a cool thing.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (19 children)

    So why are you against the steam controller making sounds? It doesn't have a speaker, the noises it makes are from the haptic feedback. It's the same principle

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    The cool thing that you don't hate, up above, is a bunch of floppy drives and flatbed scanners. They also aren't supposed to make tunes, but they do, and it's cool.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    The Steam Controller is a musical instrument, not a controller.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    The Steam Controller doesn’t have any speakers.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    The Floppotron is not a musical instrument, it’s a Steam Controller.

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    The Cringe isn’t a Steam instrument, it’s a musical Controller.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Sound is just vibrations. If your vibration controls are good enough, they can reproduce sounds too. Sure, they "wasted" time writing software to do it, but it's insignificant. The hardware is there anyway. They might as well include it as a feature.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Definitely more useful, but it requires adding something. This feature doesn't. It's already there.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think it isn't significant. I assume you made a mistake in your comment.

    But yeah, it probably took very little time. The software already exists. I'm not sure if they used an existing library or wrote their own, but it isn't complicated. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the original Steam Controller did this too, so it was written then, not now, if they wrote it themselves.

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    Yeah, everyone else is crashing out, it's not you. You're acting totally sane.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    After reading through a lot of the comments:

    Because he's coming off oh so very condescending and espousing the SAME 'level' of opinion as everyone else but getting combative/rude sith his responses being called out for having the same objective merit.

    You can have an opinion. BUT:

    "Why don't you like this?" "Because it's a controller, duh" "But things can have extra little things in them" "It's useless, it's a controller. Lame of you to like it"

    People here in Lemmy often seem to have this problem where they communicate EXACTLY over text how they might in real life, but not realize that 0% of their non-verbals are coming through and so if they don't change the writing style it just comes off prick-ish and argumentative

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    If it were used to play game sounds, yeah, that's stupid. It's just the vibration motors with software controls that can replay the same vibrations of a sound file. They are not high enough quality to be used for game audio. They are good enough to play a wakeup/shutdown sound (optional), or other things that just add bonuses to the controller. It's free, assuming your haptics were good enough.

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