I woke up 2day and my whole left arm is numb

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:44 am

Thanks guys. Appreciated. So how many shmups can I play with one hand? lol

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:45 am

Most of them, when you're using an arcade stick.

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:49 am

do arcade sticks come for a computer? i still have a lot of holiday money left. that sounds pretty good.

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:52 am

Save up some money for the HRAP2 (a PS2-Stick) and buy the corresponding adapters to hook it up to your PC, Cube, Wii, Xbox, NEOGEO, Dreamcast, microwave, pen and paper RPG, mother, toilet, crackpipe, sextoys etc

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:11 am

haha. sounds like a plan.

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Holy shit that thing looks cool. Is that what pros use? I've seen people use sticks like that at Marvel vs Capcom 2 tournaments.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:52 am

NO NO NO NO NO. The only stick you'll be playing with with a disabled left hand is the one in your crotch. As we all know, arcade sticks have the stick on the LEFT.

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:05 am

I might still get one when I get better though...they look so.....AMESOME.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:07 am

I have an HRAP they're pretty nice. Perfect for MAME.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:47 am

I'm sure you all remember the one-hand RPG control pads, I think they were from Ascii. Time to switch your favorite genre, Phil

dtdg · Post by **dtdg** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:43 am

GOOD JOB GUYS!

Nice to see that people still care about other people.

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:13 am

Turrican wrote:I'm sure you all remember the one-hand RPG control pads, I think they were from Ascii. Time to switch your favorite genre, Phil

Haha. I'm sure a lot of rpgs could already be played with one hand, but I guess this pad must do wonders for the crippled.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:10 am

so yeah about that numb cock?!

I find that becuase mines so huge if i sleep on it funny it can be numb in the morning. I feel that if i treat it like a sexy Hentai long pillow its all good

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:31 am

Phil12 wrote:The guys at the hospital said it was pinched nerves

So my telediagnosis was right! You may call me Ceph, M.D.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:36 pm

Phil12 wrote:
Turrican wrote:I'm sure you all remember the one-hand RPG control pads, I think they were from Ascii. Time to switch your favorite genre, Phil
Haha. I'm sure a lot of rpgs could already be played with one hand, but I guess this pad must do wonders for the crippled.

found the linky:

http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/1/asciigrip.htm

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:06 pm

Phil12 wrote:The guys at the hospital said it was pinched nerves

ouch.

a friend of mine lost the use of his arm for months after trapping a nerve

one-armed bandit, that nickname will never die!

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:21 pm

Turrican wrote: found the linky:

http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/1/asciigrip.htm

Hmm... Dumb question, but why are there two Triangle & Square buttons and no X & O ?

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:23 pm

good thing to hear you recovered and it actually wasnt serious matter

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:58 pm

Lordstar wrote:so yeah about that numb cock?!

I find that becuase mines so huge if i sleep on it funny it can be numb in the morning. I feel that if i treat it like a sexy Hentai long pillow its all good

Mine is so huge that I find it usually goes numb if it got snagged on something or had a misadventure on the way home. I just have to walk back along the length of it and I'll usually find out a satellite hit it or it got stuck inside some hot chick. Just the last week, I found it getting high on opium with some delta force guys it single handedly saved from Al Queda in Afghanistan!

update: still coughing blood guys, could use some help over here.

neist · Post by **neist** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:18 pm

This one handed controller always looked neat too, though I'm not dishing up the money to try it.

http://edimensional.com/product_info.ph ... cts_id=143

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:23 pm

neist wrote:This one handed controller always looked neat too, though I'm not dishing up the money to try it.

http://edimensional.com/product_info.ph ... cts_id=143

I guess you could use that with 1 hand, if you played games that didn't require any skill or precise timing

Post by **Ghegs** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:43 pm

You can easily play shmups with just one working hand...provided it's your left hand, which wasn't the case here. But anyway. Take, say, a PS2 controller, map the shot and bomb buttons to L1 and L2 and you're good to go.

neist · Post by **neist** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:35 pm

indstr wrote:
neist wrote:This one handed controller always looked neat too, though I'm not dishing up the money to try it.

http://edimensional.com/product_info.ph ... cts_id=143
I guess you could use that with 1 hand, if you played games that didn't require any skill or precise timing

Did you watch the video on that page?

Hes playing the PC version of Halo 2 with it. Hes a professional one-armed gamer.

I'm sure it has a fairly steep learning curve, but he was doing just as well as any decent console FPS player.

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:43 pm

ZOM wrote: Hmm... Dumb question, but why are there two Triangle & Square buttons and no X & O ?

I think because they are primary action buttons in most games, so the controller places them on the back, like shoulder buttons or N64 z-trigger style, that way you can keep a thumb on the d-pad and still fire pretty rapidly.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:31 am

^ Ah Yes, that makes sense. Thanks.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:29 am

that's actually a pretty cool controller. I could tell me cousins I can beat them at videogames with a hand tied to my back without actually doing any tying.

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:10 pm

Look! They release Wii nunchuks now in black! ;P

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:58 pm

neist wrote: Hes playing the PC version of Halo 2 with it. Hes a professional one-armed gamer. I'm sure it has a fairly steep learning curve, but he was doing just as well as any decent console FPS player.

And if you could somehow connect the console servers to the PC servers in any cross-platform FPS game, the best console players would die by the hands of only mediocre PC players. They would flop around like dead fish with their little toy controllers, not the correct way to play a FPS

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:58 pm

Vokatse wrote:
Maybe in some games, but in games like Halo 2 and 3 average PC players would still be average because of the magnetism integrated in those games. But in games without magnetism, yeah.

Magnetism? Is that some kind of faggoty console term for auto-aim?

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:06 pm

indstr wrote:
neist wrote: Hes playing the PC version of Halo 2 with it. Hes a professional one-armed gamer. I'm sure it has a fairly steep learning curve, but he was doing just as well as any decent console FPS player.
And if you could somehow connect the console servers to the PC servers in any cross-platform FPS game, the best console players would die by the hands of only mediocre PC players. They would flop around like dead fish with their little toy controllers, not the correct way to play a FPS

If he was one-armed wouldn't he be at a disadvantage anyway?

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:16 pm

yesrtday i fell asleep in the train and when i woke up 2 fingers on my left hand were numb for a whole hour for sleeping on them.
i wouldnt have bothered if it was the right hand