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What's up with the angling?
paigeoliver:
There was a 4 player 1970s Snake game that also had angled sticks, but that was back before they knew better (arcade games with joysticks instead of paddles were pretty new at the time). There are maybe a half dozen others.
I agree with Howard. People say your angled sticks and innovative button layouts are wrong because they are trying to keep you from making a newbie mistake, one that can potentially be very expensive if you work up a custom panel with artwork only to have it work horribly because of angled sticks and special button layouts.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 16, 2012, 12:38:23 pm ---When QWERTY was created it was far from the industry standard. The jamming problem was solved on type writers very early and it was many years before QWERTY took over, and it was done in the face of a lot of competitors. Point being, it's the standard because people preferred it and not because some nefarious designer was attempting to slow typists down.
Anyway, now that you know, it's one of those things that'll drive you nuts like "NASA spent millions on a pen, the Soviets used a pencil" and "the creator of Fahrenheit made 100 degrees equal to the hottest day of the year" and other nonsense stories people like to repeat.
Angled control panels mean you don't have to touch the guy standing next to you. Works for me.
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The Fahrenheit scale is a tad inexplicable though, you must admit...
Green Giant:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on February 21, 2012, 01:43:51 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 16, 2012, 12:38:23 pm ---When QWERTY was created it was far from the industry standard. The jamming problem was solved on type writers very early and it was many years before QWERTY took over, and it was done in the face of a lot of competitors. Point being, it's the standard because people preferred it and not because some nefarious designer was attempting to slow typists down.
Anyway, now that you know, it's one of those things that'll drive you nuts like "NASA spent millions on a pen, the Soviets used a pencil" and "the creator of Fahrenheit made 100 degrees equal to the hottest day of the year" and other nonsense stories people like to repeat.
Angled control panels mean you don't have to touch the guy standing next to you. Works for me.
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The Fahrenheit scale is a tad inexplicable though, you must admit...
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In terms of every day practicality, Fahrenheit is a better measurement system. Mr. Fahrenheit intentionally adjusted his system to incorporate the human body temperature and freezing point of water on a smooth scale avoiding fractions to ensure the actual scale would work cleanly. 64 degrees separation between freezing water and avg human temp or 6 bisecting lines on a scale.
Celsius is a much better scientific scale.
CheffoJeffo:
How long before this thread gets sent to PnRnMetric ?
paigeoliver:
Here is an example from a control panel I personally own. I didn't make this panel myself, I got it in a trade. Someone else made it, although I upgraded some of the controls on it (to perfect 360s with heavy springs and robotron handles).
This panel has around $500 sunk into it and the innovative button layout makes it tedious and difficult to play on and there is literally no way to fix it.
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