Look folks, i took the advice of the above posters, and I have to say, it’s pretty solid. 5 minutes well spent

Millennials aren’t lazy, they’re taking their kids apartment shopping

So the throttle control is mapped correctly, and i didn’t have any other throttle related controls mapped to the joystick.

Granted it’s a cheap Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, but it works fine in Squadrons. When I check the mapping in the controller configuration it shows a nice gradual 0-100% throttle increase with no sudden changes as the throttle is increased. In-game the throttle jumps all over the place and arbitrarily lands on (usually) 0 or 100% throttle, seemingly at random.

In the words of Danny Glover

So i decided, since work finished early today, to see if an update fixes the controller.

First i get an Xbox games login requirement using my email, so i do that and get an error, and have to force the program closed via steam.

I try again and am greeted with the (expected) required update message

I’m now waiting for the fifteen GB update to download.

I’ll report back to let you know if my joystick works after this

E: yeah that took 20 minutes to download and another ten to install. Joystick throttle still doesn’t function correctly in flight, even though it maps correctly

I’ll check out Xplane. As i commented elsewhere, i just want to be able to sit down and fly for a bit. MSFS is amazing when it works, and is vexing the rest of the time

Dude I’m happy for you. I don’t play often, and when i do there’s always some giant update to slog through. As is typical for Microsoft, the updates are forced and at the most inconvenient time. My free time is rare and precious.

The last time i tried to play my joystick was borked in MSFS, but worked fine in Squadrons. I haven’t tried to play since

Yes the updates have a point, but the forced nature and size of them isn’t convenient and feels arbitrary. Likely others feel the same way I do

What I want is a game I can sit down and play on the rare occasions where I have a couple free hours. MSFS isn’t that game. I wish it was, because when i can play it, it’s amazing

Oh wow, I can’t wait to spend a shitload of money on it, only to wait two hours for it to update every time I want to play it. The best part is when one of those pointless updates breaks my joystick and makes the have game (goddammit gboard) unplayable.

I love that

Same. I have had particularly poor results on image searches from duckduckgo. It’s on par or superior to Google for general web searches, but man, Google image search is still better

This is a fascinating analysis of culture and religion of origin and it’s influence on scientific views. I also admire your rigorous skepticism, but I have a question:

Why, for the love of Om, did you used emojis like you did?

I see this as an excellent strategy to use with inexperienced players.

Let the gamify the tactics a little, give them a false sense of security and then BOOM give them a genuinely intelligent opponent that makes them pee their pants

Oooh, or you could bring in another player to play the enemy similar to this greentext (tl;dr: FelixLaVulpe tells the story of playing a minotaur against an min/max adventuring party at the DM’s request. Spoiler, it goes very poorly for the overconfident party)

One of Penny Arcade’s abandoned projects was a strip called The Trenches, which was essentially based on the experiences of QA working during the crunch. Not saying this should happen, just that it’s been happening for a long time

South Korea has never had a good track record when it comes to conscientious objectors. A year in jail might seem preferable, but in the past employers could see if a person had been convicted and imprisoned and this greatly reduced employment options. I don’t know if that’s true today, but the social stigma can be great.

In fact it’s only been recently (2018) that the SK Supreme Court ruled that being a conscientious objectors wasn’t a crime, and is justifiable grounds to refrain from military service. Prior to that the only recourse for objectors remaining in Korea was jail time, often with punitive sentences double the length of required military service, or even longer. (I’m familiar anecdotally with one instance where an objector was sentenced, imprisoned, and upon release was drafted again, sentenced and re-imprisoned, and subjected to this treatment for over ten years.) When it comes to human rights SK is slowly improving, but it is not anywhere near Western European levels yet.

I’m sorry you have to deal with this as well. Remain true to your convictions, yours may be the case that changes your countries laws, and if not, you will keep your personal integrity