Episode 50: 50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2012
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the world of console controllers, addressing the flood of listener feedback by expanding the discussion to include aftermarket and third-party controllers, and attempting to address the objections of PlayStation fans. A few comments about CES and how to deliver a truly Apple-like keynote presentation round out the episode.
Links for this episode:
- Mad Catz's Major League Gaming Pro Circuit Controller For Xbox 360
- Mad Catz's MLG Pro Circuit game controller hands-on pictures - The Verge
- Look Around You Module 1: Maths - YouTube
- And I Had Such High Hopes for the Naxa NID-7001 - Daring Fireball
- Sega Genesis controller - Wikipedia
- Sega Genesis controller (6-button) - Wikipedia
- PlayStation Dual Analog controller - Wikipedia
- PlayStation Analog Joystick - Wikipedia
- NES Max controller - Wikipedia
- NES Advantage controller - Wikipedia
- Video game consoles - Wikipedia
- It's as Simple as One, Two, Three… (PDF) - Feynman and brain usage
- N-Control Video Game Controller
- N-Control Avenger Xbox 360 Controller Mount - YouTube
- Penny Arcade vs. Ocean Marketing
- Arcade controller restrictor gates - Wikipedia
- NES-CD and prototype PlayStation controllers
- GameCube controller prototype 2
- GameCube controller prototype 1
- Super Monkey Ball - Wikipedia
- Super Mario Sunshine - Wikipedia
- Super Monkey Ball - 9999 Play Points (Part 1) - YouTube
- Super Monkey Ball - 9999 Play Points (Part 2) - YouTube
- Wii Classic Controller Pro - Wikipedia
- Wii Classic Controller - Wikipedia
- Why You Can Ignore CES: The Great Tablet Hype - The Atlantic
- Mad Catz releases the MLG console controller: for $100 you can have it your way
- List of Nintendo Toys and Games - beforemario.com
- Hypercritical #1: Dream Crusher
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Amazon.com
- Next Generation - FatBits post featuring the GameCube motherboard
- San Antonio User Experience Designer IV (.com) Job - TX, 78201
- HUEG LIKE XBOX/XBOX HUEG - Know Your Meme
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to hypercritical, weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.0 | Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about by my co-host John Syracuse. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, January 13th, Friday the 13th, John. |
| 0:22.0 | It's episode number 50. 50 is like a big episode so maybe it'll |
| 0:26.4 | counteract the fact that it is the 13th I'm sure you're not superstitious. |
| 0:31.2 | Harvest though. |
| 0:33.4 | One of our first sponsors and Rack Space. |
| 0:38.3 | Another sponsor will tell you about more of those |
| 0:42.4 | as we continue with our program today. |
| 0:45.0 | We also should mention that bandwidth for this episode is provided by |
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| 0:58.0 | how are you John Syracusea |
| 1:00.0 | do you know what what occasion this anniversary is or this episode is? |
| 1:06.0 | Now that I've just told you. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, my understanding from people on Twitter is that this is a, apparently it's been a year it's been one year almost |
| 1:14.3 | the very first show we recorded was was released to iTunes anyway the date in iTunes |
| 1:18.9 | is the 14th of January last year it's pretty pretty cool. Today is the 13th. So this is our one year |
| 1:25.6 | anniversary. I did a little dance select all in iTunes dance or select all |
| 1:32.1 | on iTunes. They're very similar to figure out what the total |
| 1:35.0 | amount of audio that had been released to the show on iTunes said 2.8 days. |
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