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Why can't you just be normal? (aussie.zone)
submitted 19 hours ago by NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 hours ago

Far as I'm concerned it's the new normal. (Loving it! and expect to be able to repair it for a loong time.)

[–] xylol@leminal.space 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Reminds me how people into drones used to make their quads play entire songs with the motors and then would burn them out from overheating

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 8 minutes ago

someone made an actual synth with drone motors!

https://gamechangeraudio.com/motor-synth/

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Or how people played "The Death I Deservioli" on step motors.

[–] Emi@ani.social 49 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop. What did the steam controller do.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Despite not having a speaker the steam controller screams when you drop or throw it.

[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 64 points 17 hours ago

I have no speaker, and I still scream.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Uses similar vibration-based haptic audio output as the Joycons or the Dualsense.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 13 hours ago

Doesn’t the Dualsense have a dedicated speaker in the bottom middle of the face, independent from the haptic vibrators?

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 15 hours ago

Or the original Steam Controller.

[–] null@lemmy.org 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is this post a joke or are you alluding to functionality that exists on a software level in case a controller were to be released that did include a speaker?

[–] MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It uses the haptic motors to make a Wilhelm scream sound effect. Not a joke.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You think they licensed that from...it would be Disney now?

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like it is licensed under Creative Commons CC0, so anyone should be able to use it for free

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Well that's nice of them.

[–] Syndication@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

Wtf I want one just for that alone. Well, I was going to buy it anyways since I have a SD, but now I have even more justification for it!

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 40 points 18 hours ago

Wilhelm scream.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

screams

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If I end up buying one, this would be the reason

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 59 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This is an absolutely brilliant move by Valve. Get more buyers purely for the quirky behavior of the controller, then sell even more when people accidentally break them from throwing them on the ground. They're just printing money at this point.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

YEP!

think about what game devs are going to be able to use this for - it's going to attract a very strange, and very fucking cool new type of gameplay interaction. Horror games alone throbbing a bump-bump pulse, cutesy interactions with purring virtual animals, like, shit man, this is gonna be fun!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 8 hours ago

Wouldn't surprise me if it weren't intended but something they had in the dev build to test vibration based haptic audio.