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I loved the first steam controller…but it wasn’t robust.
My paddle buttons broke within a few hundred hours, I 3d printed a new one and good to go. Then the shoulder buttons stopped working quite quickly, which I fixed. Then the thumbsticks stopped. Then it was something else. Then something else. After about 500 hours of gaming I had given up.

I thought it was me being too harsh. Bought another one but that -relatively- quickly stopped working. Same issues, paddles, buttons etc etc.

Got myself a second hand DS4 for £10 and carried on. 1200ish hours of Rocket League later and one shoulder button started to play up. I opened it up, put a mechanical keyboard o ring over the silicone membrane thing under the buttons and carried on playing for thousands more hours. Every now and again I would open it up to clean it etc but that’s all that happened.
All in all I put nearly 4000 hours in to RL, but only about 900 of them with the steam controller. And they constantly broke. The rest of those hours were with a second hand DS4, with a few O rings to help along the way.

But I did love those steam controllers. They just felt right in the hand. I just hope the second one is a bit more robust than the first.

Edit:
I just remembered the LHS thumbstick started to drift at some point.
I opened it up and WD-40’d it and it worked for a loooong time, then started drifting again. Bought a new one and popped that in and it was like new.

Whoa, there. Calm down. We need to find out their view of Kermit and Miss Piggy relationship before anyone hands out some free passes!!

Pfft, easy. I always have a full roasted chicken hidden about my person. ALWAYS!

Kiddie fiddling rapist.

It’s such a green flag that the girl he was talking to got pregnant on the spot. It was an immaculate birdception.

They have very strong necks from carrying around tonnes of bullshit in their heads.

According to another person that was kidnapped with her off the flotilla and ‘detained’ they…
Weren’t giving them all proper amount of water or food.

They dragged Greta by her hair.
Beat her.
Make her kiss the Israeli flag.

You know, mild torture and mental abuse.

Ok I thought this was a good one, then I saw the colour palette on the card and it went up a few notches. Well done.

Perfection!!

“LOOK AT MY GUMS. LOOK AT THEM. WOULD A SMALL FACE HAVE SUCH MASSIVE MAGNIFICENT GUMS!??”

Don’t be ridiculous, couch lover hasn’t the brains to do this all by himself. This is most probably a conspiracy with more than a few top people involved.
The question is, who else is part of it?

You can’t say fucking on the internet!! Edit your comment!!

You can’t say fuck on the internet.

Just look at the meme, even that daren’t say fucking!!
Censor your comment at once or I’ll cunting cry tears of blood!

Crikey, jk rowling must have a serious gas leak going on to explain her not so recent ‘escapades’.

That’s Lego hair.

Every time we got a new inverter provider I was on the admin section of the router options to tinker with the settings so the kids wouldn’t and couldn’t get to (at least the most obvious) of dodgy websites.
They also had a strict schedule of when they could use the internet AND I set up a logger so I could go through the websites that they visited. And it would flag up anything untoward.

Ok, I’m tech savvy and not everyone could do this straight away. However, if you really want to parent your child you would either learn to do it or ask someone to help.

Betting on things is legal in the UK, and we have something called an accumulator. Basically you pick a number of horses/dogs/etc and then choose X number of races.
If what you pick wins the first race then it’s automatically put on the second and so on. If one of your picks loses then you lose the lot.

Anyways in the early 90s a mate of mine won a 15 horse accumulator. He put £1 in and won something like £270000. Astonishingly, astonishingly lucky. Especially as he knew nothing about horses and basically picked them all because of their names!!

He talked about expensive holidays or to go to las Vegas to “carry on his winning streak” and buying expensive cars etc. At that time our friend group consisted of about 8 lads and we all sat him down in a pub and all basically said “stop talking like a twat”.
It took a bit of time, negotiation, and compromise but in the end he decided to buy a modest house outright, take about £10k for stupid shit, and invest the rest. Which he did.

Within a few years he was basically set for life. House paid for and money from good investments. He gave up his stressful job and got a job working as a school caretaker.
Life took us all in different directions and countries but he is still set up and enjoying life. Never went to las Vegas though, which is probably definitely a good thing!!

I get that you see that phone as a ‘status symbol’ because it’s expensive and all of the marketing, and how other kids look at you etc etc. The thing is if you didn’t buy it and can’t afford it then it’s a false status.
Also the whole ‘status symbol’ etc thing is just a money trap designed to keep everyone poor/in debt, but that’s something you’ll -hopefully- realise as you age.

And that isn’t just about that phone, it’d be the same if you won a Ferrari to drive, or a castle to live in. If you can’t afford the things to begin with then you can’t afford the upkeep of them. When you’ve been lucky then the clever thing is to sell it on and do something worthwhile with the money.
In a few years time the phone will be basically worthless. Hell, in a few months time it’ll be worth a lot less. And you’ll be looking back and thinking “Shit, I should’ve sold it when I had the chance to make some proper money on it instead of trying to be flashy in front of my mates”
Another thing to remember is that in a few years time few -if any at all- of these schoolmates will remember you and your phone. They’ll be off living their own lives. And there’s the chance that if they do remember it’ll be more like “Hey, remember that kid who won the iPhone and would ponce around school with it pretending to be rich? What was their name again?”

I know this advice is going to fall on deaf ears but the smart move here is to sell it, buy another phone, and do something special with the money.

It is akin to the car that Homer Simpson designed.

Yep, and precede it with something like “I enjoy our friendship but I have to ask…”
Put the emphasis on the friendship and how both can learn from it.