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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by danbruc on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:52AM (#36415671)
They decided to further mod the controller for no reason with longer sticks, maybe to make it look less like the toy it is which actually reduces the dead spot response of an analog joystick. Why? What the fuck.

I would assume to allow more precise control - longer sticks will give you a smaller input for the same amount of travel and require more travel to achieve the same input.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by truemotive on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:29PM (#36556856)
No, otherwise every controller since N64 would have had Atari 2600-sized 3” joysticks.
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