• RunjamboJenkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    This just unlocked a memory of running a PS2 controller extension cable to use on the toilet 🤦🏻‍♂️😆

  • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    Man. I remember both using the controller and seeing that add. One of those GameInformer magazines way back when it was still around.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        6 days ago

        Any carpet in the bathroom ends up smelling like urine, especially with little boys in the house. Heck big boys too. At least with a rug you can through it in the washing machine. Carpet not so much. My grandmother had carpet in her bathroom. And those weird soft toilet seats that eventually cracked and would pinch your backside when you sat down. Wouldn’t recommend at all.

        • johnthebeboptist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          And I’m talking about a bath mat/rug. As clearly shown in the picture. I’m not a 100%, but I don’t think they use the kind of glued on whole floor carpet anywhere outside the US because it’s just crazy. Carpet elsewhere is just normal carpets/rugs, like sane people use.

        • dandu3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 days ago

          The house I’m in right now has 3 bathrooms and they all have carpet. It’s carpet everywhere actually.

      • sag@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        Worldwide? Never seen in my life even in media.

        • johnthebeboptist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          Yes? And how prominently do bathroom floors feature in the media you consume? It’s not like this is some outlandish concept lmao

  • OR3X@lemm.eeEnglish
    76·
    7 days ago

    Ok but playing a game through a mirror would be hard af

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      You swap the left/right controls on the controller. Or game settings.

      I have no idea if that would work but it sounds good and dammit now I wanna try it.

      • OR3X@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, there wouldn’t be any options to swap left/right movement on a Gamecube. Back then you were lucky if a game had more than a handful of settings at all. It would be interesting to try on a system that allows it. I also wonder if you just practiced it enough if your brain would adjust. Sort of like that deal with the reversed controls on a bicycle that Tom Scott(?) did a video about a while back.

        • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          I think that was Destin Sandlin from “Smarter Every Day” but yes I bet that would work. Although it might have some deleterious side effects like the inverted glasses experiment (see George Stratton and Dr. Alyssa Brewer)… nothing permanent since they were glasses that could be removed. This would be a very interesting experiment though if it hasn’t been done.

          Or being the tinkerer I am I’d probably just figure out how to rewire the control to do it. Not that that would be super easy mind you.

      • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        Not on the GameCube tho, where button remapping involves a soldering iron or a custom PCB.

        • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          There are quite a lot of GameCube games that let you invert the camera controls. But I’m not aware of any that would let you invert the left analog stick

  • Anissem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    205·
    7 days ago

    As someone who’s currently rolling a nut log, this has come full circle. If only Nintendo could see me stream their games to my phone while I churn some fresh colon sausage.