I genuienly appreciate the explanation, that makes sense.

2 reasons unc here sees them similarly:

A ) I barely ever use emojis

Many millennials grew up using

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=D

:<

0.0

>=[

… style constructions to represent emotions / facial expressions in text.

I’m used to those, I’m not used to emojis.

B ) I’m just actually slowly losing visual acuity.

I’m getting oooollldddd.

I’ve got an astigmatism now, and I tend to only wear my glasses when I absolutely need to.

So I have to squint or put on my glasses to make out variations in emojis, sometimes.

At the very least, this man needs a gofundme or something, to get him a more badass eye patch.

sigh

Ok, I’ll get Afroman on the phone.

Also, I hate you.

I genuinely do not know, but I keep running into that, where they just use the crying emoji and they tell me it means they’re laughing so hard they cried (not literally of course but w/e)… even though there actually is a laughing-crying emoji.

I’m going to yell at clouds tiktok, its probably cloud’s tiktok’s fault, somehow.

EDIT:

like, I tell a joke, they respond with a crying emoji, I am confused and apologetic because I think I hurt their feelings and they are just sad crying… nope.

Nope they actually liked the joke.

This has happened to me a number of times in the last 6-9 months, with different people.

I keep seeing zoomers use this and it keeps confusing the shit out of me, because half the time, it just looks like crying, not laughing-crying.

Maybe they’re just bad at it and using the wrong emoji half the time? idfk

Am millenial, I’ve used both lol and haha, since… I dunno, 1996?

I distinctly remember the first time I accidentally said ‘lol’ outloud, as a single syllable, at the end of a sentence.

Its ok to just laugh in someone’s face and call them an uneducated idiot, who has no idea what they’re talking about.

You know how just can ban/block morons on social media, so you don’t have to hear from them any more?

You do can that in real life too.

… Has anyone attempted to turn an old android smart phone into a router?

Yeah, ding ding ding, this answer.

I know you’re joking, but I’m not.

No no no.

Not her.

Not Margot Robie.

… Her.

Olivia Thrilby.

It’s only fitting for her to get a movie where she’s the one behind a helmet this time.

Tell me she would not be a perfect fit as Samus.

You can’t.

Uh, given the recent spate of … Nintendo movies… and fantasy shows… and the fact that Link is a silent protagonist (aside of basically grunts and exclamations of various emotional tones)…

I really don’t see any possible way this could be good.

Brought to you by the director of ‘Maze Runner’, which currently has ~66% critic and user review score on Rotten Tomatoes.

I am trying to come up with a reason to mic a seat… none of them are good.

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus – and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it – that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

Mario Savio

Might I suggest a nation wide Mario Party?

Luigi already set up the board!

[Raises Hand]

… but you don’t have any lips.

I think they actually use a setup of basically … something like minature subwoofers, but I’m not 100% sure of that.

… Wow, you’re serious.

Uh, because it engenders a whole bunch of deep emotions / massive and unique neurochemical responses in people, particularly it plays a massive role in regulating oxytocin, and plays a considerable role in creating stable pair bonding between two people.

https://mindlabneuroscience.com/brain-chemicals-during-sex/

I’m genuienly baffled that you need this explained to you.

Apologies for using shorthand to refer to a whole bunch of complex neurochemistry, I’ll be sure to spell out the details next time.

Ah, you’re correct!

It quite literally fooled me, but you are right.

I guess worth noting for Steam newbies:

The trackpads can be configured to act as basically any possible kind of input.

You can break them down into 4 way buttons, 8 way buttons, 2 buttons, one button… make them work as a joystick, or as a mouse… they click in a bit at multiple points…

So, if you prefer a different kind of thumbstick orientation, you can basically emulate it.

Literally all of the buttons on one of these things can be reconfigured to do a whole bunch of crazy shit, you can make macros, you can make it so that a little hud popup with scrollable selectable options pop up, you can make combos of key presses do different specific inputs, you can make a turbo function… etc.

Hell, you can make the gyros act as a mouse/joystick input, in several different modes, maybe only when you hold the aim button down, if you want that.

Anything you run through Steam can be made to work this way with the Steam Input system they invented for with the Steam Deck, the Steam Controller 2.0 is basically a shrunk down Steam Deck without the PC and screen.

EDIT:

There is also an onscreen keyboard functionality, which pops up a keyboard overlay, and then you use both trackpads as basically two thumbs on a smart phone, sort of.

So, if you’re playing a game that is 99% controller input, but has a few UIs popups where you get prompted to type in your name or something like that, or I guess even a chat box in an mmo, you can handle it with this.

Also also: Most/Many games come with preset default Steam Input layouts made by the developers. Also, Everyone who uses Steam is capable of basically uploading their control schema for any game to the cloud, and then you are capable of grabbing it and using it.

So, with some games, the developer provided inputs are good, sometimes users develop alternate schemes that are actually better/quite popular, or, maybe you could be the one to make a better config that people like!

I mean, arguably… it isn’t a D Pad if its actually seperate buttons.

But anyway, with the Steam Deck, which the Steam Controller 2.0 is basically a scaled down version of, that doesn’t have the whole computer and screen… you can at least get after market uh… contact boards?

I’m not sure of the term, but like the internal platter board thing, that the dpad/abxy buttons actually physically connect to, with the trigger/switch mechanisms.

For my deck, I got a kit that replaces the original ones with ones that are much ‘clickier’, like a mechanical keyboard as compared to a membrane keyboard.

It has more tactile and also audio feedback, beyond just being more responsive… that was like $30 bucks or something?

For a while, it was the case that to do this kind of mod, you’d have to do your own solder, but I waited and eventually somebody in China somewhere started making ones that are pre-soldered, and just require an appropriate screw driver and some dexterity to install.

So… if the Steam Controller takes off, I’d say give it 6 months, and by then something similar will probably exist for it.

Such are the consequences of unsheathing one’s sword!

Now, have at ye!