Well…

Microcomputers had joysticks before they had Microsoft. On the PC platform with the 15 pin game port, a 4 axis (XYZ + throttle) and 8 button plus hat switch form factor arose by the late 90’s such as the Microsoft Sidewinder and Logitech Wingman series. Later models made the transition to USB, there were a couple attempts at force feedback about the time the game industry shifted.

In the early 2000s, flight sims like the Janes series, Microsoft Flight Simulator etc. and other vehicle sim games like Descent and Mechwarrior faded away in favor of first person shooters like Half Life 2 and MMORPGs like World of Warcraft which are best controlled by mouse and keybaord. Interestingly enough, PC games designed for joysticks like Mechwarrior and Crimson Skies moved to consoles to be played with controllers; both saw their final entries on Xbox 360.

Microsoft discontinued the Sidewinder series in 2003. In late 2005 they released a Windows driver for the Xbox 360 controller along with Xinput, making the Xbox 360 controller the de facto standard for a PC game pad. This arrangement has remained more or less intact to the present day, with Microsoft adding support for the Xbox One controller to Windows 10 in 2015, though 360 controller support remains.

tl;dr: The standard issue Xbox controller has been the first party supported gamepad on PC for 20 years.

Logitech produces the cheap Player Two ones you use to pilot billionaire crushing submarines. Valve tried with their original Steam Controller, which was kinda weird and had niche appeal. More recently the likes of Gravis have tried? But the average unwashed mass is going to walk into Best Buy and pick up an Xbox controller, or use the one that he already owns for his Xbox.

Toxic shitheadedness is insisting on that victim blaming phraseology.

Apparently it’s not a job I would trust to the 1950’s.

Wow he darkened right up. Almost didn’t recognize him for a colorpoint.

Why would CP/M have a dog in the fight? They were a competitor and, if I understand my history right, the wrong horse.

And By the PC-DOS guys, you mean IBM?

They’re a pain in the ass if you actually…store your flour in them. Like if you don’t pour your flour into a flour jar when you open a new bag.

soon

“Why does everything have to come in plastic? Something something petrochemicals, something something microplastics. Bring back the paper bags.”

They do get crusty though.

I never like trademarking sounds. Harley-Davidson tried to trademark their exhaust note once, as if anyone else wants to make engines as bad as theirs. But you shouldn’t get to trademark “generic white chick voice.”

Pilot here: in a weird way, a thousand feet is a unit. “Five thousand, Five hundred feet” is processed kind of like 5.5 altitudes. Bonus: traffic patterns are typically flown at 1000 feet AGL, so 1.0 altitudes, so pilots see that distance a lot.

Are you sure? Aren’t they Bri’ish, so they’d be gallons, but weird slightly small gallons?

No you see, everyone else in the world exclusively describes the world in accurate SI units, only Americans are dumbfuck enough to measure things in bullets per cheeseburger. Nobody else in the entire world will casually say “it’s the size of a medium dog” because America bad.

GTK fully expands to GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Tool Kit.

A maGical briDge of hoPe, and wonDer…

ChaaaaaaRlieeeeeee…ChaaaaaaaaRlieeeee…We’re on a bridge, Chaaaaaarlieeee…

It’s not open source unless the package name is a scabby dumpster fire.

It’s been so long that I’ve gamed on Windows that I’ll have to take your word for it.

“Us” and “we” exist in the language already.

y’all or you’ns or yinz or whatever evolved to fill a niche. English has an official second person singular, thee/thou/thy and the funny thing is thou canst still perfectly understand it, it makes perfect sense to thy ears, even my spell checker isn’t flagging any of this. But we don’t use it anymore because it sounds pompous and biblical, plus for some reason it comes with a bunch of fucky conjugations. Like “canst.”

French does still use theirs, tu vs vous, tu is singular but also informal, you speak that way to individual friends and loved ones, vous is used for plural as well as in formal speak, even if singular you say vous to your boss. English deprecatedest thou entirely and went entirely “you” which leaves too big of a gap. So Americans took “you” to be the new singular and invented “you all” and “you ones” in parallel for plural, slanged to y’all and you’ns the latter has no consistent spelling.

I have a money market account at a credit union…?

So it’s Stadia, again?