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Just as a fun fact, it’s actually quite common for industrial machinery and the like to be controlled with a gaming controller. Like, a hundred things wrong with the submarine trip - but the PlayStation controller is genuinely one of the more legitimate aspects.
They’re simply made well, easy to use, and typically extremely durable and long lasting.
It is also sort of like the WWII US grenade being modeled on a baseball because every young American knew how to throw a ball.
Everyone has used gaming controllers, so it is a familiar control system.
It wasn’t actually a playstation controller though. It was a Logitech.
Yeah I know, it’s actually the same one I use on my CNC machine. The OP just said PlayStation as kind of a general purpose term
The Navy has some periscopes on subs that are controlled by an Xbox 360 controller. They cited familiarity with soldiers making training easier, and cost reduction vs the old hardware. It was an easy decision.
And with batteries and wired it has power redundancy
Yeah, they are good controllers.
But it shouldn’t have been the wireless one.
And it shouldn’t have been the only controls on board.
I bet all those industrial machines with controllers also have a physical emergency button build in.
I mean… most industrial machines have a stop button present on them (though not on the controller). I’m not sure that the sub having a “stop imploding” button on the inside of the hull would have done much good though
If you didnt consent to being imploded 13000 feet below sea level, you are legally allowed to leave.
that controller was the jankiest shit on clearance at kmart.
Yes they’re used, but they’re not THE ONLY method of control as it was in this disaster of a sub.
pushes up glasses
ackshually, it was a Logitech F710 controller
yes this is actually a pivotally important detail
the idiots who made this sub were so fucking cheap, useless, and incompetent that they even opted for what amounts to the ‘great value brand’ of FUCKING INPUT DEVICES.
The reviews on Amazon are a hoot
Some good customer Q&As too
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Don’t forget, it’s built out of materials which are more suitable for making airplanes than submarines, and is bound by no safety regulations
and the carbon fiber hull was cheap because it’s shelf life had expired.
Phew, at least it’s not a Logitech controller
I, for one, welcome the bourgeoisie crushing machine.
Aww, I was really excited because I thought it was gonna turn into the intro text from Iron Lung.
No, just memeing about Oceangate again
I gotcha
Perfect.
In December 2023, Szymanski faced criticism online for increasing the price of the game by two dollars
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Yeah? And? If a dev wants to increase the cost of their game, they can do that. It’s a single dev, not a AAA studio. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it. Iirc he also released an update that added a bunch of lore stuff.
The game is an hour long, one time thrill and is excellent at it. However, there is no variation nor surprises after the first run, so it was reasonably priced for like a dollar or two. The criticism is the game became a meme game that caused the dev to double the price to capitalize on the fame. It’s one of those situations which leaves no one happy.
The game was $6, increased to $8. Not sure what universe you’re from.
Tbh I don’t blame him for wanting to cash in on the success of it. He’s a single dev, and while he’s had some successful games (like Iron Lung, Dusk and Chop Goblins) I totally get that bills have to be paid and if raising the cost of a “meme game” by a couple bucks helps pay the bills, then the choice seems like a no-brainer. Besides, at that point most of the people who were going to buy it had probably already done so.
Note: I call it a “meme game” not because its bad or a joke, but because it’s literally become a meme in the traditional sense.
It was a logitech controller, either an f310 or f710. The f310 is one of the best budget controllers ever, and I keep 4 at all times to play modded smash bros. There were a million things wrong with oceangate, but the controller wasn’t one of them.
Logitech is the king of the budget device. I’ve had the same wireless mouse for almost 10 years give or take. Best 10 bucks I ever spent.
Counterpoint - I’ve had two Logitech mice, both dired with the same issue (dying RMB switch), and a Logitech keyboard which lost a key and you can’t buy replacements.
It was the F710 wireless one. I only remember because I thought they should at least used the wired 310 to eliminate interference and/or lag since you’re using the damn thing to steer a vehicle. I barely trust wireless controllers to save my life in Elden Ring; I sure as shit wouldn’t put my actual life on the line with one.
It still befuddles me, especially since it’s a specific format for a horror story: A bunch of rich people pay through the nose for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and of course it kills them (though the final girl might escape). The Menu was a recent example. Maybe to get Stockton Rushed should now mean to buy a super expensive experience or trip or thing that kills you.
A drug named Stockton Rush would be super expensive, and the most amazing trip ever, and fatally toxic.
So if you’re hiring someone to chart out your trip to Everest or the Titanic or the moon or something, it’s good to get your legal team to do some due diligence and make sure the company knows what its doing. (For a deeper dive, check out Behind the Bastards’ two-parter on Stockton Rush. All the warning signs were there he was doing mad science and not listening to his deep-sea experts.
Also, the door that only can be opened from the outside was total early foreshadowing.
The restaurant for The Menu would have checked out unless you had an inside man there for the previous few months before the events of the movie. They operated for years, right up until the final night, as one of the best restaurants in the world.
True. It was also intentional whereas an IRL stockton-rush is more likely to kill you through incompetence or underestimating the challenges. (A lot of people die on Mt. Everest just from the elements and preparation miscalculations.) Though if you die because you hired the Joker, that might be incompetence on your own behalf.
My take on The Menu is that the Hawthorne exploded due to compound stress of its staff. While this is accurate representation of the restaurant industry as a whole (in the US at least), their austere lifestyle may have accelerated the process.
Logitech
I thought it was XBox?
The problem wasn’t the game controller.
The problem was using a composite construction for the pressure vessel that wasn’t pressure tested before diving.
irrc it was pressure tested, just not stress tested.
a.k.a the first dive is almost guaranteed to go fine, but the next ones cause the material to gradually failAccording to Behind The Bastards they could hear the carbon fiber hull deteriorating below 4000’ and Rush dismissed it as settling.
and the underrated acrylic dome used for the window
I would trust a PlayStation controller with my life. Not Logitech.
okay but how are you gonna fit an entire generation of humans into one tiny submersible?
I think deep underwater there is enough pressure to push them all it.
Woah there sir, this is factually incorrect. It was an Xbox controller. Even more frightening.
logitech*, even worse
I wouldn’t really call that a Xbox controller
Based on the colors of A,B,X,Y I would say it was made with the intention of being used on an Xbox.
That’s because back then the Xbox controller was the only controller with good support on Windows. It was designed with the intention of being used with a Windows PC. Back then when you played a game with a different controller, it would still show you Xbox buttons. Even games like Dark Souls which are ported from the PlayStation.
Writing symbols/characters on the button or coloring them doesn’t really change the controller in its foundation because you can map the buttons in any way you like anyway. What separates gamepads from each other is the layout and amount and type of buttons you have. The type here is an input-type meaning analog/digital, trackpad whatever. I also wouldn’t call the Steam Controller a Xbox or PlayStation controller, it’s a unique gamepad … a Steam Controller.
