The Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick is still a very well regarded device to this day, as LGR demonstrates in his recent video.
It's a device I would have loved to have owned and experienced back in the day, but at the time I didn't have an income that would have made that possible. So it's a real delight being able to pick up such a item now.
I picked mine up on eBay without any of software or the power adapter. However such things can easily be purchased separately or in the case of the software replicated on a classy looking CD-R.
My Packard Bell with it's 200MHz Pentium processor seemed like a good place to start so I went ahead and installed the software.
Unfortunately although the joystick was detected, when I tested it in the control panel it didn't seem to detect movements smoothly. Worse still the various force feedback demonstrations didn't work! Was my joystick broken?
I decided to double down and ordered a Force Feedback 2 joystick, which is slightly smaller whilst also using a USB interface over the originals gameport connector.
However this newer joystick didn't want to play ball with my Athlon XP based system. What is going on? Have I just bought two broken joysticks?
I also decided to try the original joystick on my slightly more powerful Pentium III 600MHz machine. Perhaps the slower CPU just didn't have enough grunt, even though it met the minimum specs for using the device.
Finally I was rewarded with the behaviour I'd expect from the device. The demos worked and when I tried it in games it also worked perfectly.
Freespace 2 with force feedback? Wow, I'd waited a long time to experience that.
Recommended!
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Discover the Best Racing Wheels for the PlayStation 5 in 2023: Elevate Your Racing Game Experience
Discover the Best Racing Wheels for the PlayStation 5 in 2023: Elevate Your Racing Game Experience
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'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.
I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.
About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'
-Casey Plett, Consciousness
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Feedback.
I don't watch Ben 10 but I liked his design.
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Ben 1k familiar aliens line up!
Been finally digitalizing a lot of his designs, and I wanted to post some! Upgrade and Goop are drawn by my friend @insane-mane, so go follow him right now!!
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So I was thinking about the running joke that, where it for Ben, he wouldn't transform in any alien that wasn't for humongoussaur so it's a good thing the Omnitrix malfunctions and gives him other aliens. But, like, what if, considering the Feedback situation (in which basically Ben was transforming into Feedback so much that everyone was worried about how it would affect him in the long run and then he lost Feedback), Azimuth programmed the Omnitrix so Ben couldn't constantly transform into aliens he has preference for.
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aliens reflect the user (happy pride month!!!!)
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