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Modding Game Controllers For Greater Grip
japala writes "Fast-paced videogames require a steady hand and great reflexes, it's generally agreed. But some game controllers and pads just don't seem to fit in your hand, and sometimes they slip and slide, making you miss the action. So Metku.net has tried coating videogame controllers with chemical rubber - it seems to improve grip, and possibly even your score."
I find that by wiping off the baby oil, and putting on a layer of baby powder, I get a really great grip on it.
because my game is nethack!
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So Mektu.net has tried coating videogame controllers with chemical rubber - it seems to improve grip, and possibly even your score.
My girl improved her grip without the rubber so I don't know wha.. wait.
This is a game controller? Eh *tries to recover* who said love wasn't a game?
--zo
Video game controllers aren't the only thing we should coat in rubber... Remember kids, always keep it safe.
They should have coated it in rich creamery butter. If nothing else, it would have been more delicious.
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I think a LOT of things could improve with the firmer grip imparted by a chemical rubber coating :)
I'd wager that most net-aware geeks with broadband access have already developed an extraordinary grip thanks in large part to non-gaming computer entertainment. Hell, I've seen geeks who have forearm imbalances like a tennis player! Trust me, geeks are finding ways to develop impressive gripping endurance.
But some game controllers and pads just don't seem to fit in your hand, and sometimes they slip and slide, making you miss the action.
Damn, coffee all over my keyboard. I curse my British upbringing...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
You mean your score for volatile hydrocarbons circulating through your bloodstream?
You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize my joystick, post haste.
It seems that overclocking the chips are all the rage these days, but I was excellent at Wolfenstein 3D when it first came out, because my computer ran at 20 Mhz and the minimum recommended speed was 25 Mhz. Slowing down the processor turns a real time game into a turn based game.
Now having said that, since overclocking requires massive cooling effects, would underclocking require that there be an external heat source? Or by underclocking, will an endothermic reaction occur, giving you a free air conditioner. Hmmm. I'll have to do some investigating here...
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Stop pounding off to DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball, and you will find the controller doesn't slip out of your hands as much.
As opposed to spiritual rubber, perhaps.
My gf once threw her cordless mouse at the wall when she died in a videogame. Seriously, it damaged the wall.
What is it with women and gaming tempers? My wife threw a playstation controller at our brand new TV when she couldn't figure out how to control her Tekken fighter. Fortunately, she throws about as well as she plays videogames.
I know rubber coating my grip usually improves my chances of a score!
My subtext is just a figment of your imagination.
So in other words, "The more you tighten your grip...the more game controllers will slip through your fingers"?
Palmela Handerson
Shhhhhh...
The rubber coating is actually meant for those bastards that insist on throwing the controllers when they've had their ass kicked in multiplayer game. You know the kind,
"What the hell? Fuck that, I pressed pass...I PRESSED PASS!!!!"
*controller zings by plasma screen as I cringe*
"OH, COME ON!!!! I was JUMPING!!!!"
*controller sends cat screeching into the other room*
With enough coating it will be more like,
"Bullshit, I COUNTERED!!!"
*controller is thrown to the floor, bounces up and hits the guy in the face*
And I imagine a few saved TV screens, scratched pieces of wood furniature, etc.
"When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
Why would you spend $1,000 for a fast computer and then underclock it to make it slower? Just pay $800 instead for the slower one.
When Doom 4 comes out, I can just reset my machine to its factory settings, and not have to spend another 800 bucks.
And there are times when I need or want the speed (when compiling my companies app suite takes 45 minutes, every mhz counts), but most times I dont. I want to be able to switch on demand from "quiet and practical" to "loud and obnoxious".
Because the slower components run just as hot as the faster ones, and I want them to run cooler (and quieter). The HSF on the older northwood P4s was just as loud as the prescotts. I wanna slow a prescott down.
Because the reduced power usage means that my desktop machine will last longer on a UPS. Batteries aren't just for notebooks. I'd love for it to auto-clock itself down about 50% when it switches to battery power.
Because the 3.06ghz P4 is the slowest proc with hyperthreading, which I've found enormously useful. It doesnt make your computer magically faster, but it's much more responsive when some app runs away with the CPU.
Because I don't want to spend 60 bucks on an aftermarket cooler that weighs a pound and a half and will likely destroy my machine if I try to move it because it's 4 times the weight specced.
Because if my machine wasn't so hot under load, and sucking so much power, maybe I'd run folding@home and cure cancer.
Noise? I have a 3.2 ghz machine that I can barely hear. My 1ghz was louder.
So what? I have a 1ghz fileserver with no active cooling whatsoever, and I have a 3.06ghz desktop that sounds like an electric razor.
Hell every laptop nowadays does CPU frequency scaling, they all underclock by default to save power. Next generation intel desktop procs will probably do it to, from what I've heard freq scaling that's another feature that they're taking from the Pentium M core. Less power, less heat, less noise.
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"Fast-paced first posting require a steady hand and great reflexes (or a script), it's generally agreed. But some keyboards and mice just don't seem to fit into your diabolical plan, and sometimes they stick up, making you miss the thrill of pissing everyone off. So AnonymousCoward.net has tried coating keyboards and mice with a layer of human feces - it seems to decrease the likelyhood of first posting (or posting at all), and possibly even increase your karma."