Essentially, I need to write faster. Either that, or stop creeping Indi out by pinning down her landscape visions and musical preferences. One of the two.
So since I've got nothing else to do, and I can't do research because the library's closing in eight minutes, which is about the time it'll take me to walk over there (at the time I'm typing this paragraph), I'm making this thing.
Whatever it is.
And since I can think of nothing else at the moment, a random rant.
What is it with people not inverting the bloody Y-axis in FPS games? I seriously cannot fathom this concept. You push forward to look up? What?
See, I don't know about you people, but the way my body works is that I have to lean back to see the sky. Kinda hard to do it any other way...unless you put your head between your legs or something. And that's not a good way to shoot anybody.
So it feels only natural that the joystick would be on the character's head, and when you pull back, you pull their head back, and they look up. Right? I mean, I know I'm a little crazy, so I won't ask that question, but nothing weirds me out more than trying to lean my avatar back and ending up studying my shoelaces. Makes me sniper bait. No me gusta.
And think of the real-life context. You're out in whatever situation's happening in, say, Ghost Recon, and you've got the SAM launcher, and Intel picks up an enemy Apache heading your way, and you make to track it and lock on, and....
....and you look straight at the dirt.
Guess what? Ain't no Apache gonna stop and wait for you to get your Y-axis straightened out just 'cause someone else used a non-inverted axis before you. Yous dead, son.
I mean, aircraft in real life operate inverted, no? Make the darn option optionless, and get those guys who think pushing "up" means looking up trained better. I swear, if I get killed one more time in Halo because some dumkopf can't think in three dimensions, I'm gonna punch him in the face.
Except for my friend with MD. He's like that (Lord know why), but we're almost like brothers, so I can't even think about hitting him. Besides, his muscles are so far gone now that sudden movement to his limbs is incredibly painful.
But that's enough out of me for now.
–A
