this was okay and then I got to the left wall
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the dropped ceiling is manās greatest mistake
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Nice to run cables in though
absorbs sound, regulates temperature
aesthetically fairly unfortunate and supports the crime of flourescents, though
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I donāt know how you can say this when the Switchās ād-padā is prominently displayed in these photos
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Speaking of the d-pad, Iām getting a switch and want to buy a hori joycon day 1.
Now, the western Hori joycons all look bad, while the original japanese blue one looks great. But I remember the japanese one had issues. Are they fixed now? And would a japanese joycon even work with an european switch?
AFAIK all the Hori dpads are the same and the battery drain issues were fixed in a Switch firmware release late last year
Iāve got a blue Japanese one and can attest that mine doesnāt binge on power anymore
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why are they only compatible with portable mode
are there any remotely decent d-pad joycons that work in detached mode?
Iām not aware of any pre-made third-party joycons with wireless d-pads, but Iāve seen people mod the official Nintendo ones.
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Probably because bluetooth is a flaky pain in the ass and Hori didnāt want to triple their cost to promise a feature that might still not work properly 100% of the time
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Nintendo is also notorious for using weird quasi-bluetooth instead of justā¦ fucking standard bluetooth
Sony also does this, though at least you can use standard bluetooth peripherals with a ps4
MS is the only one who seems to bother at all, and even then they didnāt bother until the second revision of the xbone controller
Lol which one
Seems to me bluetooth variants where both ends are controlled by the same manufacturer is the only model thatās reliable at all, and bluetooth āstandardizationā has been a fiasco. I wouldnāt blame any individual vendor for this state of affairs (although it might be worth blaming vendors as a whole)
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I dunno, my xbone controller works fine as a bluetooth gamepad using my no-name bt dongle
every bluetooth product Iāve ever used has been essentially expensive garbage that I had to buy to earn the right to throw it away.
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Isnāt that pretty late? I believe my Xbox One controller doesnāt have it and the newer model added it around 2016, 2017
I had to get an official Microsoft Xbox One PC Wireless Dongle (not the Xbox 360 Wireless Dongle I already owned). Then another because the first was flaky from the get-go and broke entirely after a year
there is actually good generic bluetooth hardware (Iāve been doing 90% of my computer audio that way since 2013, and Iāve been using a bluetooth xbone pad on PC since they started making them, with generic hardware and zero complaints), the main problem is that you get what you pay for, and in the stupidest possible way: the difference between a āgoodā bluetooth radio and a flaky bluetooth radio has to be like, 50 cents of manufacturing cost, but it makes a massive difference to the usability of a product, and you often see corners cut on what would otherwise instinctively seem like decent-value hardware. and it matters for both the āhostā and the client.
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and the very sorry state of generic bluetooth hardware is also why e.g. airpods can get away with seeming like a good value purely on the basis of actually working despite being so exorbitantly expensive
(no I donāt have airpods Iām not in the tank for apple that badly)
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if 8bitdo can create an in-house cottage industry over taking old controllers and shoving analog sticks in them and having those work on the Switch over BT, I have my doubts that Nintendo is doing anything too crazy with their interpretation
also itās portable only because the assumption is if you want a dpad while not in portable mode, thereās a hojillion controllers for that, where as no one is making officially licensed third party joycons
me playing Cactus in portable mode: this is so beautiful, I love it
me after playing Cactus in portable mode for 15 minutes of cramping: Truly, the true nature of man is that of a beast of hubris, as if every one of us were Icarus flying to the sun
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