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Re: <News> - Tron Joystick Handles!
Namco:
Here I go eating the troll bait, but I'd like to point out that strings on a guitar and a tennis racquet are consumable items like brakes on a car, stickies on a 3M lint roller, or caps in a monitor.
Microswitches obviously have to be cleaned/replaced all the time as a part of regular maintenance. How many games have you played with non-working directions or buttons over the years? Anyway, since an arcade proprietor most likely goes through a crapton of switches, wires, and buttons during the course of operation, they are in fact consumables in the coin operated industry. Therefore a broken microswitch does not a broken joystick make, it just needs a new microswitch. Now bust the shaft in half or rip the threads out of the balltop, then it's broken.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: brandon on November 15, 2007, 07:18:06 pm ---
but there again.. broken guitar strings are a very common occurance.. even if they dont break they get "crusty" from gunk, dead skin, corrosion... within a week or two. on the other hand I've NEVER had to change a microswitch on a joystick.. now, I'm sure that in an arcade they wear out all the time but not with the frequency of once a week. you can buy a Happs stick for what $7.95 ? That's practically disposible.
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What does this have to do with anything?
--- Quote ---Here it is in a nutshell... I joystick with broken switches or springs is in need of repair aka BROKEN
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Like a lamp with a blown lightbulb is a "broken lamp"? LOL. Where do you come from that they talk that way?
--- Quote ---BTW, Did a search for broken Tennis racket and this is the first thing that came up...
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Followed by how many pictures of broken rackets?
--- Quote ---and again.. rethreading a Tennis racquet isn't as simple as changing strings on a guitar. In fact, it costs about half the cost of a brand new racquet at Walmart... SO..
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Again, what does that have to do with anything? BTW, it costs me about $2 to string a racket with basic "tournament nylon". In all the years I've been playing tennis and stringing rackets, I've never once heard someone refer to a broken string as a "broken racket".
CheffoJeffo:
Mmmmm ...
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: Namco on November 15, 2007, 08:53:07 pm ---Here I go eating the troll bait, but I'd like to point out that strings on a guitar and a tennis racquet are consumable items like brakes on a car, stickies on a 3M lint roller, or caps in a monitor.
Microswitches obviously have to be cleaned/replaced all the time as a part of regular maintenance. How many games have you played with non-working directions or buttons over the years? Anyway, since an arcade proprietor most likely goes through a crapton of switches, wires, and buttons during the course of operation, they are in fact consumables in the coin operated industry. Therefore a broken microswitch does not a broken joystick make, it just needs a new microswitch. Now bust the shaft in half or rip the threads out of the balltop, then it's broken.
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That's exactly right, and it is what I have been saying all along. I have already used the "brakes on a car" analogy in the past.
To sum up how the word "broken" is actually used by native English speakers who are not being deliberately obtuse:
- When something doesn't work and the person describing it as "broken" has no idea what is wrong with it. Auto mechanics like to take these types for a ride.
- When a solid object is stressed to the point that it fractures into multiple smaller objects. For example, snap a stick in two and it is broken. Drop a glass on the floor so that it shatters; it is broken.
- When a major, fundamental component of a structure or assembly fails. For example, blow your motor and your car is broken, or more commonly known as "broken down" when referring to cars.
People do not generally refer items with consumables that need to be replaced (and are user-replaceable) as "broken", unless they haven't got a clue (see above). Typical consumables include light bulbs, batteries, filters, springs & shocks, tires, etc.
CheffoJeffo:
Every. Single. Time.
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