We were given a PS4 about a year and a half ago. As far as game systems go it's been pretty good, with one major exception. The R2 trigger button has broken 5 times on different controllers. This never happened on the PS3. The PS4 hinge is all plastic where as the DS3 had a metal hinge pin. While searching for a metal replacement like the ones available for Xbox I found many many posts of folks with similar issues. Within those posts are the PS4 defenders telling the sorry saps with broken triggers they need to "take better care of their stuff" and theirs work flawlessly. Looking at how the five of us at home use our DS4 controllers I know how ours break. It's me, I have fairly good size mitts compared to the rest of the family, a full finger bone longer than the nearest teenage boy. No matter how I try to hold the controller my finger wraps around the inner part of the R2 button and pulls down and to the right when used. It's the pulling to the right that causes the button to break the left hinge pin. Sony needs to fix this or allow some third party to fix it. I keep hoping one of the Chinese machine shops that send me spam will decide to start making metal replacement R2 buttons but so far my searches haven't found anything. In that the systems are a rounding error difference in performance things like controller durability are a deciding factor. I'm very tempted to switch over to the Xbox One just because of this. Are you listening Sony?
49 pages of folks with the same problem on the playstation forums.
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Peripherals-Support/DS4-R2-Trigger-Issues/td-p/42633627/page/49
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.-Ecclesiastes 1:9"_________________ I've had some nicknames used around the net since the 90's, however htese days they are more often taken then not when I want to reuse them. One such nick was "Last Post" and by the time I started farting around with Blogger someone had used it already, so this will be the "Almost Last Post" blog spot. Missed it by that much.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Socially challenged and a few cool things.
My first post was about a picture and it was easy enough that I thought the second one should be as well. I'm not the most socially skilled of folks and when I'm in those group settings looking for something to chat about I often will try to find some sort of common ground in my limited repertoire even if it's a stretch. The following image fits that bill and is brought up on my phone for any musician I find myself talking too, being musically challenged in all but the listening part of music.
If they say "Oh a Strat" then I know they will appreciate the adjoining story. Not that anyone else wouldn't, whole television series have been built around these types of stories, they will just have a slightly deeper appreciation. The reason is that this is not just another Strat. This Strat will hopefully one day be played by some amazing musician. Those who know Strats will look at this like my Father(n-law) in a text and say "'I'll give you $11,000 for it right now!" You see this Strat sat idle in a closet for over 40 years and is worth more than any vehicle I've ever owned. This Start is a shinning example of 1958 Fender Startocaster or so Norms Rare Guitars said, and I got to pretend to play with it. Not long after this photo was taken it was sold to a collector. Someday I hope to hear it played the way it was always meant to be played in some video and say that was the guitar I played with. I'll likely be wrong of course but it will be fun anyway.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
What's in a cover photo?
Some people set out to start a blog as an outlet for their pent up thoughts and creativity, others to provide help on topics, maybe some do it strictly for potential revenue, but for me it's just exploring the benefits of my GMAIL account. If you stumbled on this page for wit or wisdom you will likely be disappointed. I'm anything but a word smith and not even sure there will be more posts but I enjoyed the distraction of setting it up in the moment. Speaking of setting it up, a Cover Photo seemed to me to be as important as the description so I plunged my image files and found this taxi photo. It was taken with an old Canon Rebel 35mm camera on my 1st or 2nd Anniversary in San Diego. The driver looks like he could be working a smart phone, but they didn't exist when the photo was taken. He is actually using that amazing technology of so long ago, a pager. To me the photo looks old and dated and yet somehow current.
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