I found it through a Facebook ad so that totally checks if it’s a stunt.
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oh no I mean it! it’s a fun stunt
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I do appreciate a braided cable.
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the scary thing is the wavedash notches on that pad aren’t the shitpost part of it
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WHYH IS THERE AN EXTRA BUTTON
what is it even mounted to on the front
why bare cables
so many questions
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They relocated the Z button in the most baffling way possible.
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controller mods are always so so busted like that. like hardware outsider art
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the Z button sucks actually
mushy ass bullshit
literally ripping it out and implying it now has a mouse microswitch is several steps up
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Gotta have that grab button handy
wasn’t there like a specific batch of gamecube controllers that had a manufacturing defect in the analogue sticks imperceptible to normal humans, but which made them desirable for smash bros players?
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yeah, there’s a variety of tech in melee that you want very specific slight angles for (wavedashing and shield dropping, for two)
there’s also some correlation between the analog outputs a stick gives and how reliable certain moves are (dashback is the most prominent in this category, which is turning around in one frame)
if you look at what the “universal controller fix” mod does (which is standard in every tournament but in a hush hush way if it’s nintendo sponsored) you can start to get an idea why certain analog inputs are so important. there are a lot of thresholds that, if not met, can give you very different results.
on top of this, input polling in melee runs independent of the display, so inputs can randomly drift up to half a frame from where they “should” be.
a lot of pros are actually sort of superstitious about controllers and there was a long-standing rumor that the UCF patch caused more “phantom hits”*, and that still persists even with statistical evidence to the contrary (though maybe somewhat as a meme).
* a phantom hit is a situation where a hitbox overlaps a hurtbox only on the very edge, which will cause damage but not knockback
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The deep smash lore is insane for a game Nintendo wants so badly to be accessible and not hardcore in the slightest.
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I promise you it’s really just Melee that’s fucked up
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I sort of feel like Smash Bros is like guitar and if you’re all hard to do technique all the time, you’re also super uncool.
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Both should also only be played by drunk people
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at a certain point the tech melts away and it becomes playful again – deep systems enable a lot of expression; it’s not different from any other competitive game in that regard.
for your guitar analogy, i think it only works if there’s a perceived captive audience. if mr. guitar is making music intended for an audience and but it’s focused on technique rather than some sort of expression, yeah, that’s uncool. that’s not what most people want out of music. if mr. smash is grabbing a controller at a party and subjecting the masses to his techniques, yeah, that’s uncool too! but humans practicing for competition with like-minded individuals is like uh every sport or competitive game ever? even if it’s being broadcast, the audience is self-selecting.
my friend and i played smash for about 4 years every tuesday and thursday and it’s probably the gaming experience i look back on the most fondly. the depth of the mechanics meant there were always more things to learn and more ways to improve. we learned each other’s habits and weak spots to an insane degree. we took it seriously, but there was still enough room to goof around too. the game has a massively high ceiling for novelty – we’d get into unexpected or new situations every time we played. it was an intimate experience with another human being and it was the activity i’d look forward to the most every week.
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I think all professional sports teams should be the Washington Generals too.
The de-party gamification of Smash where people turn off the wackiness and focus on strenuous stuff was always just a big no thanks for me. I’m all for enjoying sucking at stuff.
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yeah i mean folks vibe differently but i don’t think the existence of one invalidates the other unless they’re trying to coexist literally in the same venue at the same time.
people can enjoy things in different ways its ok!!
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