Ahhh, ok. Never seen it, I’m afraid.

Because oil money, and it’s tied to environmentalism.

Nope, it’s a real thing. Granted, I mostly see it used when a meeting ends 30-40 minutes early.

Don’t drink “soda” and shoot guns, you should damn well know better.

While that may be a valid observation, at the end of the day magnetic actuators don’t heat up like motors do, so it’s actually a pretty relevant difference.

It’s true- it’s well known that hall effect sensors are magnetically sensitive and do poorly in handhelds (like the steam deck, ROG ally, or joycons on a docked switch) for that exact reason- they can basically only be used in standalone controllers. More to the point, since the HD rumble is magnetically actuated, there’s even more interference than just the main system itself + the connector system. You CAN try to account for that interference, but why would you do that when…

Hall effect sensors actually have some major downsides- they have poorer centering, increased power draw, the aforementioned magnetic interference issues, the fact they don’t actually solve stick drift, and finally and most concerningly- they have a REALLY low poll rate. I was able to notice the difference when playing celeste with a buddy’s hall effect controllers, for example.

More to the point, gulikit is definitely engaging in some corporate double-speak here- the switch 2 joy cons use the same analog stick design… that basically every game company has used for decades. NOT the same sticks as the switch 1 joycons. They’re completely different, Nintendo went back to the ‘standard’ design instead of the ‘short’ design that caused the problem in the switch 1.

Probably entirely the former. Nintendo’s got a history of being overzealous with user health (cough constant game interuptions to tell you to take a break cough), and prolonged vibrations ARE bad for your hands (though I imagine no amount of game controller rumble could actually cause health issues), but the ‘motors overheating’ thing is entirely silly…

Because the rumble in the joycon2s don’t have a motor. There’s nothing to overheat, it’s a magnetically actuated disk weight. Like, it’s a whole thing they’re super proud about and have advertised, they can move the weight so precisely using the magnetic actuation that they don’t even have a speaker in the joycons, they literally just run the rumble faster so it acts like a speaker cone to make sounds/music with it. There’s actually a pretty cool demo for it in the switch 2 welcome tour.

Yeah.

There’s actual things Nnintendo could do better, but this weird smear campaign I’ve been seeing is just… weird.

People are inventing issues with nonexistent hardware components, claiming the gamechat button noise when pressed says a slur, claiming the joycon2s have the same stick drift issue solely because they aren’t hall effect sensors (despite nintendo outright stating they rebuilt the stick from the ground up for the joycon2, and the design nintendo is using for the new sticks being the same design literally every gaming company has been using for decades with no issues), claiming that switch 2 ports are going to be switch 1 carts with an upgrade code in them, etc etc.

Like… guys, focus on real problems to get attention to them in hopes of them getting fixed, not just made up bs.

I like how people are very sure Nintendo’s shipped a flawed product just based off some random article speculating that the rumble motor MAY overheat… Despite there not even being a motor in the rumble!

Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that’s magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.

Every single one of those fuckers calling it a riot had either pictures of ice assaulting people with clubs, rubber jacketed metal bullets and tear gas, or the exact same picture of one singular car on fire. I have to wonder if it was ice that set the car on fire for the photo op.

My understanding is that if they’ve lasted at least a month and haven’t died on you, you probably got a “good” batch and what you have now will be what it stays as for the most part, but a fair number of gulikits just sort of crap out at the 1-2 mo mark.

So heads up on that.

Buddy says they were gulikit, yes (wasn’t my joycons). Tried them out on chapter 2 golden and some c sides. He liked them (didn’t play anything like Celeste) but had noticed the reduced battery, I could feel the reduced polling rates sometimes causing latency and throwing off timings.

Probably depends entirely on what games you play, and how sensitive you are, but hall effects feel like trash and destroy the joycon battery life. I tried playing Celeste with hall effects and wooooow was it bad. Basically unplayable past the early chapters.

It’s a known and proven shit solution. Have any of you ever actually used hall effect sensor joysticks? The centering is worse, the polling rate is far worse, they use a ton more power (already a limited resource in the individual joycons) and most of all they get absolutely screwed by electromagnetic interference… Interference like, say, magnets holding the joycons on.

Ifixit is kind of full of shit here- the joysticks are the “same” only in that it’s using the same general design as every other non-hall effect sensor joystick that’s ever been used and most of those didn’t have problems with drift.

It’s not the same part as the original joycons, so the issue could be fixed- from what the switch welcome tour was saying, it seems pretty likely in fact.

It doesn’t really matter how good of a web dev you are, you really shouldn’t be changing any part of someone else’s website… They tend to do things like call the police on you for “hacking” and other such frivolities /s

Can we get an exception to any rules about matching the website headline? This wasn’t a shooting, this was a hate-crime motivated murder.

iirc, they did add an escape clause, which is that the president is protected when doing official acts… with ‘official acts’ being a definition the supreme court sets.

He has a fucking allergy to onions, which he made clear.

Stop acting like he’s sueing because his order was wrong- the lawsuit because they nearly killed him.

Unfortunately, that’s just how they’ve set up our legal system to handle cases of negligence causing healthcare fees.

The point is that you DIDN’T make a choice, because you were colluded against. Why so much focus on honoring your agreement, when they aren’t honoring their agreements?