If solely there was a neater approach to cease taking part in your favorite games. The infuriating multiplayer ones, I imply – mid-session whilst you’re on the peak of being piqued. I’m responsible of a ragequit or three, and I’m thrilled on the prospect of future anger absconsions being facilitated by the literal manifestation of my salt. The dream is actual due to Eric Heckman, a YouTuber and builder of novelty controllers. Leaving Overwatch and League Of Legends mid-game won’t ever be the identical once more.
I built a controller that allows you to literally pour salt to ragequit a match. (More in comments) from r/Overwatch
I’ve simply described this as a novelty controller, however that’s doing it a disservice. It’s extra like efficiency artwork. Social commentary by means of jury-rigged nonsense, literal electrical resistance powering folks’s objections to a game not going their approach. Well performed, Mr Internet Man.
This isn’t Heckman’s first home-brewed mechanical rodeo. You can see extra ohm-foolery over on his YouTube channel, “Insert Controller Here”, together with a longer version of the video above. Look, right here he’s building the cup. And right here’s him playing Guitar Hero with mayonnaise. And Super Meat Boy with… properly, take a wild guess.
While we’re right here, do you know all of our brains are damaged and you may by no means belief that your judgement of something ever hasn’t been compromised by bullshit metaphors? Science tells us you’re extra more likely to choose somebody as having a chilly persona for those who’re holding a relaxing can of coke, whereas hot-chocolate encourages emotional warmth. If it’s a bit nippy, you’re extra likely to ascribe premeditated acts to criminals. Relatedly, if much more tangentially, being in the identical room as a fart spray makes folks choose other people’s moral transgressions more harshly.
I’m fascinated by the chance that tasting literal salt may affect some folks’s judgement of metaphorical saltiness. Get to it, science bods.
