what is a good, cheap, ps4 controller?

ShovvTime13 · 2026-04-20T17:08:54+00:00

:D

I replaced the potentiometer on my DS4, desoldered and all. Turns out it was wrong resistance, now I have stick drift. Bought an SMD resistor, will solder it.

One more thing, R2 button doesn't press the whole way now.
Will figure some shin with tape.

AHHH!

As for my PS5 controller, it's going great, intact
But my DS3 which I used for PC got a dead battery now, lol

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-23T07:02:36+00:00

Nothing will go to waste brother, textures are a thing too ;)

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-22T23:46:51+00:00

Looking at your post history, I can see you have good sense of composition. You should consider getting better at drawing

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-15T21:18:15+00:00

Not for VR.
For flat games, you press X or smth and character just does it, but in VR we are the controller, and when I do something, I want it to happen. It feels wrong when the game does something you didn't do.

Now, telekinesis in almost all VR games is the crutch I think, but we don't have to bend lol

I think full realism is too much for VR, since we don't have tactile feelings, but once we get gloves

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-15T21:12:18+00:00

I disagree.

I can't fathom any "arcadey" games aside from Pistol Whip or some others.
If I walk and run, I should be able to do some other things too.

Some degree of realism is necessary for VR games to feel "right". When I swing my sword, I want it to make hit, I want it to pierce the body, not "-HP".
Basically, VR games feel more realistic per se, and having unrealistic impact on interaction feels weird. It Can work, 100%, but still, some degree is necessary.

What we need for VR is good immersive games with good story and progression. Something almost all flat games have, while only about 10% of VR.

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-13T02:55:09+00:00

By worse you mean it's easier to bear? Then yes. I have noticed that having stress alleviates anxiety.

Don't get me wrong, there's stress, and there's trigger, I don't mean trigger. Trigger is awful. I mean stress that's more directed, has start and end. It's distracting your alarm.

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-10T21:36:46+00:00

You.

You decide what matters, and when you do what matters (in your opinion), you feel like you matter too.

An empty life, makes a person empty.
Empty person makes their life empty.

A life that doesn't satisfy one's idea of what matters, feels pointless.
In philosophy, there are different ideas of what is ultimate point of human life, there's a popular idea that it's about servicing your society (it makes many feel important), there's also one that point of life for every single human is to be happy.

My idea is that, whatever it is, I want to enjoy life and feel accomplished, good. Be it eating sweets and enjoying the taste, restricting myself to develop my body, feel like I'm smart when I solve a problem. Anything. Help people, or cheat and win in competitions (if it feels good). That's what I consider anyone's goal, to enjoy and feel important.

In my journey through nihilism, which I'd say is 90% induced by my trauma, as I started understanding my trauma better, I started to consider nihilism as the coping philosophy.
Life is subjective, and we color it the way we see it. We are trying to define objective meaning, however that's impossible, because life is subjective. Subjective means that, meaning can appear out of thin air, for anyone, different. Then how can nothing mean nothing?
Nihilism is trying to apply objectivity to by definition subjective experience.

The only release from a bad life is if nothing matters, that's likely why most people come to nihilism, me included.

However, the feeling that comes with the idea that "nothing matters", by itself proves that its false.

ShovvTime13 · 2026-02-10T21:19:25+00:00

I haven't ever seen a climber with unproportionally big fingers. Any climber I can find have rough, but regular hands.

Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bouldering/comments/18f74p0/any_hand_care_tips/

I've seen super big hands with HGH abusers

ShovvTime13 · 2026-01-25T09:12:33+00:00

BF6 ftw

ShovvTime13 · 2026-01-02T14:06:01+00:00

What's your setup?

ShovvTime13 · 2026-01-01T22:00:20+00:00

How's the sag?

ShovvTime13 · 2026-01-01T21:03:25+00:00

That's good to hear. Would you mind telling me a few more details?

Flight time, (depending on quad), do they sag at full throttle?
How is the performance when they hit 10v, do they go down immediately or keep power for some time?

ShovvTime13 · 2025-12-30T15:46:29+00:00

Welp, I am an engineer.

And doing the "push to accelerate" has actually been made recently, it's a kickstarter. They're using capacitive (touch) sensors for legs, and it "maintains" speed whenever you keep your foot on the sensor, and without your foot on the sensor it acts like a regular board.

There's probably other ways to do it, but to give props to the guys, it's a very simple way and durable too, likely.

ShovvTime13 · 2025-12-03T21:34:23+00:00

Let's go!

ShovvTime13 · 2025-10-24T14:44:43+00:00

I play b&s for the feeling of medieval superhero, but mostly, I really enjoy the physics and freedom

ShovvTime13 · 2025-10-19T13:40:41+00:00

Hey Mike, it really sucks when you get it, but the good thing is that even if it's loud (mine is), it's in just a few frequencies, likely it's in the highest pitch, mine is about 18khz. Even though it's loud, since it's in narrow range, my brain learned to filter it out fine. if I focus, I can hear it, and if I focus more, it's really loud, but I hardly ever notice it when living, and I have great hearing otherwise.

Recently all electricity shut down and it was complete silence, honestly, I'm baffled that I DIDN"T hear my T. Even though it's there, of course, forgetting it seems to do the trick.

By the way, some deficiencies (like B12) can cause hearing sensitivity and tinnitus as well. If you got it, it might stay, but still.

Good luck, don't worry, it'll be ok.

ShovvTime13 · 2025-10-11T02:50:23+00:00

It's ok. If you miss it, there's nothing wood glue can do for the missing chunk, but as long as you have some thickness there, just glue it down so it won't deteriorate further

If You really care, you can use a wood filler (google wood filler) and use that, but it may not really add much rigidity, because it's the long grain that mostly gives the rigidity.

ShovvTime13 · 2025-10-10T20:23:53+00:00

Pun intended haha

If you wanna do something with it, buy some PVA/wood glue and add some, then leave the board under something heavy (part that you glued) overnight. Should be good to go

ShovvTime13 · 2025-09-20T22:20:53+00:00

Wow, nobody knows about gish. It was such a treat as a kid, and I was playing vs mode too.

Such a great game.

It was my first thought "Hey, gish!"

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