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“Sorry, Ted, I was concentrating too hard on looking holy.”

Wait, birds that are quick, nimble, agile and through evolution are designed to feel the tiny differences in air flow aren’t actually being cut in half by the huge and relatively very slow wind turbines?
IMPOSSIBLE. LIES!!

I loved the first steam controller…but it wasn’t robust.
My paddle buttons broke within a few hundred hours, I 3d printed a new one and good to go. Then the shoulder buttons stopped working quite quickly, which I fixed. Then the thumbsticks stopped. Then it was something else. Then something else. After about 500 hours of gaming I had given up.

I thought it was me being too harsh. Bought another one but that -relatively- quickly stopped working. Same issues, paddles, buttons etc etc.

Got myself a second hand DS4 for £10 and carried on. 1200ish hours of Rocket League later and one shoulder button started to play up. I opened it up, put a mechanical keyboard o ring over the silicone membrane thing under the buttons and carried on playing for thousands more hours. Every now and again I would open it up to clean it etc but that’s all that happened.
All in all I put nearly 4000 hours in to RL, but only about 900 of them with the steam controller. And they constantly broke. The rest of those hours were with a second hand DS4, with a few O rings to help along the way.

But I did love those steam controllers. They just felt right in the hand. I just hope the second one is a bit more robust than the first.

Edit:
I just remembered the LHS thumbstick started to drift at some point.
I opened it up and WD-40’d it and it worked for a loooong time, then started drifting again. Bought a new one and popped that in and it was like new.

Opposite here. Though I am not diagnosed.

I hear everything, aaaand it goes in and I can fathom most of the things going in even at the most inappropriate times…
During sexy times with the wife I hear a floorboard creak and it can put me off entirely. Was it the house settling. A burglar!??!! Maybe the dog, it’s the dog. No, the dogs are in the living room. BURGLAR. No, it’s just a creak. What was I doing again.

During my mother’s funeral after her doing of a horrible bout of cancer and I’m devastated about it…but I hear a bird tweet outside and I am now thinking about which bird it was and why it was tweeting.

At the cinema and the guy 5 rows back opens up a packet of m&m’s and I’m more totally taken out of the movie that I was engrossed in.

Middle of a conversation with the wife in a pub and that table over there are taking about their upcoming holiday, whilst that table over there can’t work out how to use the salt and pepper mills…no, sorry, they’ve worked it out. No, he’s got it upside down. Now the lids feel off. What was you saying, dear?

No idea if it’s ADHD or I’m just (un?)lucky to have an overhearing superpower.