Billionaires don’t make things
Valve Engineering
Submitted 8 hours ago by gabmus@retrolemmy.com to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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wpb@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
phx@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
I mean, the choice to have the controller scream when dropped might have been something Gabe cooked up
Dangerhart@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I tested this out last night. It took a few tries and my wife thought I was crazy till it screamed out. 11/10 would buy again.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 hours ago
what ?
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
When you drop the Steam controller it plays the Wilheim scream noise. They were trying it out repeatedly agitating his wife in trying something so senseless until it worked to her astonishment.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Honestly, now I really want one
Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Valve is trapped in a time prism where tech is still fun.
lyrial@anarchist.nexus 2 hours ago
Time is more like a cube. You see, in 1884, meridian time personnel met in Washington to change Earth time. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Earth to not change the 1 day bible. So they applied the 1 day and ignored the other 3 days. The bible time was wrong then and it proved wrong today. This a major lie has so much evil feed from it’s wrong. No man on Earth has no belly-button, it proves every believer on Earth a liar.
Hoimo@ani.social 1 hour ago
Came here to say exactly this tbh. Apply analytical math to Earth sphere and discover 2 opposite hemispheres rotating in opposite directions - equal to a ZERO value existence. In other words, 4 Earth Quadrants simultaneously rotate inside 4 Time Cube Quarters to create 4 - 24 hour days within one Earth rotation.
zeroConnection@programming.dev 3 hours ago
“If we’re not gonna have planned obsolescence, let’s make so people drop their controllers on purpose!”
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 7 hours ago
Scream Controller
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Well, now I want a Scream Deck and Scream Machine!
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And to wrap a scream frame around my head!
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 7 hours ago
It’s beyond silly. And I love it.
But I also hate it because I don’t want to drop my controller, buy I love that it screams when I do.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 hours ago
This is funny
actualaccount@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Ok, now I’m sold.
Alandrus_Sun@ttrpg.network 6 hours ago
I love that it feels clear that Steam employees love their jobs.
Asetru@feddit.org 6 hours ago
I love that this is how I find out about this.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I want to buy one just so I can do custom sound effects:
Use the accelerometer to detect when in free fall and play the Goofy falling scream then, on impact, cut it off and play the GTA “Wasted” sound effect.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 45 minutes ago
for me, this but “you died” sound
ShadowRam@fedia.io 6 hours ago
Probably it logs the impact acceleration event, and denies your warranty claim.
Engineer needed to tune/test it, and this was the easiest way to find out when the event triggers.
Made it fun,
And someone said, "Lets keep it in there"
And so it be
Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 hours ago
Considering its using the habtic motors, probably more likely used to test the capabilities of the controller
lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Because Valve is one of the few tech companies that still wants to have fun and be silly like tech used to be. Before we entered the hell scape tech feudalism era.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
And like many classic bits of nerd silliness, it’s also low-key impressive at the technical level.
The controller doesn’t have a speaker in it. They managed to get this clear, recognizable sound from haptic feedback motors!
jlow@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
They did what now? 🤯
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
They did the same on the first model!
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There seems to be a significant quality gap between publicly traded and private gaming companies.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah because public companies are just investment scams now. The product they make is not their primary revenue. Once CEOs figured out you can just say shit on social media and juice the stock. Its market manipulation all the way down. At least with private companies its still about making a product or service and serving your customers and no private equity doesn’t count that is a different scam. Where you offload debit.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Not just gaming companies. I watch every prodct from a listed compny with suspicion by now.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I use Steam but Gabe was one of the original tech feudalists.
Valve ignores the First Sale Doctrine, a law for over a hundred years. So now instead of being able to resell your games for whatever amount you want, your games are forever under the control of Valve.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah I agree but that maybe more to the publishers not allowing that that to me would be achieved through regulation just like with the refunds. First sale was not something publishers wanted just a feature of having physical media. Also there is a myth that all steam games are DRMed. There are may games that run without steam being open but that is up to the publisher. Stuff like family sharing they added is them bring value to customers while walking a fine line with the publishers.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 hours ago
It’s called renting. A thing for over thousands of years.
gabmus@retrolemmy.com 7 hours ago
Sure, this comic edit is just for the fun of it