Comment on Using a webcam, the Steam Controller can now seek out it's charger by vibrating across the desk

• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why not? because if fucking stupid. It would take you longer to set this bullshit up than it would to just set it on the puck.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This was clearly a project someone did for fun, it’s not meant to be practical or actually useful. Everyone else understands this and is making jokes about it, and you’re lashing out at people acting like the joke responses were people being serious.

    It should be obvious that it’s not actually very helpful to have a controller that can charge itself, if placed within a few feet of a charger, on a perfectly flat surface, under a webcam, with a running computer and webapp managing the whole thing. It also wasn’t useful to make a program to “drive” the controller with wasd. It also wasn’t useful to make a program to sing chiptunes with the vibration motors. It wasn’t even useful for valve to make the controller scream when dropped. It’s just funny, and people are enjoying it.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I understand it was for fun too, doesn’t make it any less pointless.

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      • doctorflynt@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        is it pointless if fun was the point?

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      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Some people find fun to be the point

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Same as your comment

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  • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whoosh

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