The Some Like It HOT TAKES thread

Probably not a HOT TAKE, but since the US election I've hopped on Twitter a few times to see what the latest is, and even checking the feeds of people whom I like I end up coming away from the experience realizing how much happier I've been since I deleted that trash from my phone along with my account at the beginning of the year. Same for Facebook, but I dropped that one almost a decade ago.

Inverted y-axis is the only correct way to play

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Inverted y-axis is the only correct way to play

More to the point, on PC playing FPS with mouse and keyboard, inverted mouse is SUPERIOR.

Why? Consider that most people's natural mouse position is pretty close to the edge of the desk, down by the keyboard. In other words, they likely have more mousepad (or desk surface) real estate above the mouse than below it.

Now fire a high recoil weapon. What do you have to do to compensate for the recoil? Aim "down". On non-inverted that means pulling the mouse towards you and quickly reaching the edge of your desk. On inverted, you extend your arm and take advantage of all that desk space.

Inverted is superior. QED.

*Legion* wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

So what you're saying is that in the cultural moment when the vinyl resurrection is at its peak and the vinyl evangelists are feeling the most vindicated, the actual difference between vinyl and digital is narrower than ever? That's funny.

Let's put it this way: my hot take is that vinyl is the Amiibo of music. Their main use is to be collectables put on display, and their supposed functionality is a silly and inconvenient novelty version of something done better the normal way.

Goddamn. That's inspired.

Maaaan, the anti-vinyl stuff here baffles me. *puts on vinyl of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas*

The best way to listen to music is when you're able to plug headphones directly into the case and hear the music as it is created by the microchip inside.

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The Big Gundown is the best western.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Inverted y-axis is the only correct way to play

Obviously this is correct and anyone who disagrees is communist, but at some point I poked around and it seemed that the hefty majority of pro FPS players play non-inverted. Dunno if that's just a reflection of it being more common, or if there's a meaningful correlation.

The D&D side of these forums has driven more valuable community members away from this site than have joined in recent years, and GWJ would be served by wholesale deleting it and letting the contentious stuff happen on other sites.

NSMike wrote:

The D&D side of these forums has driven more valuable community members away from this site than have joined in recent years, and GWJ would be served by wholesale deleting it and letting the contentious stuff happen on other sites.

That’s so true that it’s not even a hot take. It’s more like inspired wisdom.

That’s the room in the house I never open.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Inverted y-axis is the only correct way to play

Oddly for me when I play M&K in an FPS or 3rd person RPG type game I like "up is up". If I play an FPS on a console, I prefer Up is Up. If I play an aircraft type game (like Elite or similar) then of course it has to be inverted.

I simply can't play an FPS with an inverted x-axis but other games "it depends".

*Legion* wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

So what you're saying is that in the cultural moment when the vinyl resurrection is at its peak and the vinyl evangelists are feeling the most vindicated, the actual difference between vinyl and digital is narrower than ever? That's funny.

Let's put it this way: my hot take is that vinyl is the Amiibo of music. Their main use is to be collectables put on display, and their supposed functionality is a silly and inconvenient novelty version of something done better the normal way.

You're so close. Remember that some people colllect Amiibos to put them on shelves (collectors), some people want to hold one in each hand and bash them together (players).

HOT TAKE: Vinyl remains popular because deep down we're all stupid monkeys, and having a thing you can touch and move around with your monkey hands has more value than having ALL OF THE THINGS but them being entirely intangible.

NSMike wrote:

The D&D side of these forums has driven more valuable community members away from this site than have joined in recent years, and GWJ would be served by wholesale deleting it and letting the contentious stuff happen on other sites.

I still learn a lot from D&D as an outsider, even with all the repetitive semi-ad hominem posts by the same handful of posters. I would love a new way of moderating though: after your initial post on a topic, you get ONE AND ONLY ONE chance to clarify it further. After that, all follow-up gets deleted by default.

About 80% of posts in D&D right now is back-and-forth with 90% the same thing said in a slightly different way, and increasing snark with each repartee.

Carlbear95 wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Inverted y-axis is the only correct way to play

If I play an FPS on a console, I prefer Up is Up. If I play an aircraft type game (like Elite or similar) then of course it has to be inverted.

For me they’re all aircraft games. Down is up. You down?

RawkGWJ wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Inverted y-axis is the only correct way to play

If I play an FPS on a console, I prefer Up is Up. If I play an aircraft type game (like Elite or similar) then of course it has to be inverted.

For me they’re all aircraft games. Down is up. You down?

Yeah, I got out of bed hours ago.

NSMike wrote:

The D&D side of these forums has driven more valuable community members away from this site than have joined in recent years, and GWJ would be served by wholesale deleting it and letting the contentious stuff happen on other sites.

It's not the section. It's the same small handful of toxic-but-never-quite-violating-the-letter-of-the-law posters who have been allowed to dominate the conversation there for years.

D&D needs to implement rate limiting on posting. Allow people only so many D&D posts per day, or restrict the rate at which they can reply to a single thread. Prevent people from just saturating conversations.

Wait, this is the hot takes thread, I need a hot take. Uhmm...

HOT TAKE: D&D should be renamed Hot Takes because it's the only part of the site that's as dumb as this thread.

We're doing D&D Hot Takes?

The PHB Pact of the Blade Warlock is worse than Beastmaster Ranger.

High level casters are not more powerful than high level martial characters.

Drunken Master is the best Monk subclass.

Intelligence is understanding that the D&D section is a dumpster fire that needs to be avoided at all costs.

Reading and posting in D&D is when you fail your wisdom check.

*Legion* wrote:

Wait, this is the hot takes thread, I need a hot take. Uhmm...

HOT TAKE: D&D should be renamed Hot Takes because it's the only part of the site that's as dumb as this thread.

it should be renamed Hot Takes because all anyone is interested in is delivering Sick Burns

edit: /sarcasm

Some of the people who complain the loudest about D&D are the people who would miss it the most if it was gone.

I should have put a /sarcasm tag so that doesn't get misinterpreted, shouldn't I?

It's the last place I talk about politics, so, I'm glad it's there for that.

is it useful?

Stengah wrote:

Some of the people who complain the loudest about D&D are the people who would miss it the most if it was gone.

I dunno, much like bailing on Twitter and Facebook, I used the redesign a few years ago where you had a to accept the Code of Conduct to get into D&D to basically lock myself out of it and I feel like that was a fantastic decision.

cheeze_pavilion wrote:

It's the last place I talk about politics, so, I'm glad it's there for that.

Reason enough to nuke the f*cking place.

billt721 wrote:
Stengah wrote:

Some of the people who complain the loudest about D&D are the people who would miss it the most if it was gone.

I dunno, much like bailing on Twitter and Facebook, I used the redesign a few years ago where you had a to accept the Code of Conduct to get into D&D to basically lock myself out of it and I feel like that was a fantastic decision.

I did this for a while. Something tempted me over there. I haven't posted in many threads, but I'm usually frustrated by it when I have. I'm done there for a while.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

is it useful?

it is. I mean, there's not much for me to talk about *but* politics anymore, so yeah.

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iaintgotnopants wrote:
cheeze_pavilion wrote:

It's the last place I talk about politics, so, I'm glad it's there for that.

Reason enough to nuke the f*cking place.

lol.

of course the phrase "it's the only way to be sure" comes to mind, and if we're going that route, it got me thinking I'd go straight past Alien and right to Terminator--prevent it from even coming online!

heck, I'd prefer at this point to not have spent any time learning about politics. Most of it seems like a waste now. Anything beyond the bare minimum for being on the right side of history is useless. Maybe less than useless because you wind up asking questions and that gets in the way.

but, without that Skynet time travel technology, that's not possible, so.

Where should I go for intelligent progressive discussions?

Most of the time, D&D is a pretty good resource, particularly in issue-discussion threads like Brexit and European politics. It gets unpleasant sometimes when American politics get involved, as the schism there is very deep, and it's hard to communicate past it without becoming exasperated or worse. And, lately, the liberals have been doing the usual circular firing line about the progressive wing of the party.

I think present modding is better than it was in the Certis era, though. The rules are being applied more consistently, and I do think things have improved a fair bit, overall.

Oh, and so I don't actually get banned from the HOT TAKES thread: you folks that don't like it are just wusses!

(no, I don't believe that, but I have to say it. Them's the rules.)

Mixolyde wrote:

Where should I go for intelligent progressive discussions?

Metafilter is one of the better strongly left sites out there. I stopped using them because the mods are prone to just remove posts they think are inflammatory without telling the person that anything has changed, and tend to be ... a little odd in their decision making. But if you can work around them, the community there is smart and engaging.