That’s just mean. But really funny.
How is that mean? She’s playing a Switch game and that is the Switch controller layout.
You just believe in humanity more than I do. It’s gotta be mean somehow. If she’s on the Switch and that’s the Switch layout, it’s because the husband just wants to distract her or make fun of how she looks down at the controller. The meme also suggests that the husband made the meme, so just publishing the meme and turning his wife into a meme is pretty cruel and harsh. I mean, is this what humanity is? Now we turn our loved ones into memes making fun of them on the Internet? So glad you don’t love me. I mean, if you loved me, maybe you’d make fun of me in a fucking meme.
Dude, this is a funny story about his wife learning to play games. It’s not making fun of her. It’s having fun with the situation. Couples frequently have fun stories about each other that are about mistakes that showed how much they cared. This one is about a wife who cared about learning to play video games enough that they continued even while struggling with controls, and their spouse who noticed their frustration and created a tool to help them. There’s no mocking happening.
You were a boring child with no imagination.
I like how “not malicious” is boring in your mind. You’ve got something wrong with you.
It’s boring because it’s a falsehood. You’re malicious, thinking your wives are idiots. I’m another man, telling you men, that you’re a bunch of idiots. I’m actually smarter than you, and you hate it. I already know my IQ and can beat yours because mine is way beyond posting “the wife” memes. As a matter of fact, I’m only here because I’m studying you computer nerd people and entering your responses into a database. I suppose I could be nice and thank you for your response, but you’re such a boring idiot that had no imagination as a child that I really have nothing else to say. When you were a child you had no imagination and you were boring. Now, here you are!
How is her not knowing something thinking that she’s an idiot? Helping her learn is the opposite of that. It’s recognizing she’s capable of learning it and helping her. Have you ever learned a new skill and not had muscle memory for it yet? It takes effort and time.
Also, you aren’t smarter than me. You may believe that, but if you’re incapable of recognizing that she is learning and this is helpful, then you aren’t very smart.
No escalation. Just that, think about it, memes these days are getting awfully personal. And anti-wife. Love the wife. You married her. Stop shitting on her. Or divorce her so she can be who she was meant to be, namely not referred to as your wife in a meme. You computer nerds from the future sure are eager to get wives and don’t know how to keep them.
I think you’re reading a lot of malice into a light-hearted image macro. Hell, I’ve been playing video games for over 40 years and I still have trouble remembering the buttons when playing a game with an Xbox controller layout - this would be really useful for me, and I certainly wouldn’t be upset if someone posted a picture of me using it.
EDIT: I didn’t even notice this was literally in Wholesome Memes.
Me, as the wife, would be distracted with this huge piece of paper under the screen. I’d be looking at the piece of paper instead of the screen. It looks a lot like cruelty. I mean, this meme is just all kinds of wrong. It doesn’t deserve to be a meme. It’s a “my wife” meme, which shouldn’t be in the year 2024. In the year 2024, wives should be posting “my husband” memes and making fun of husbands. You don’t get that. Because as a child you were boring, because you had no imagination. I tell this starkly dooming fact to a lot of people on lemmy. But it seems like this is what I must face now as a lemmy user. I need to communicate with adults who were boring children with no imagination.
that is unfortunately the Switch controller layout.
Ftfy
That layout beats Xbox’s by over 10 years.
I could use something like this - I use a ps3 controller on PC and lots of games show the Xbox buttons by default.
Lmao after a few weeks let her play something on an xinput controller, just for the reaction
This is genius. I’m going to copy it
Was thinking the same thing. Suck it, stupid quick time events!
But switch highlights the button needed instead of showing a letter
Yeah, first party Nintendo games show the 4-button diagram with the button highlighted instead of a letter. This post really feels like karma farming.
Which is odd, because Lemmy doesn’t even have karma.
It’s funny how the knee-jerk reaction is always “clickbait! karma whoring!” when there’s no benefit whatsoever to that on Lemmy. No, the person just wants you to look at the thing they posted and gets nothing out of it other than maybe satisfaction. What a concept!
First off, genius and I don’t know why I never thought of this! So smart. So obvious.
Second, what game is she playing?
Looks like Mario Odyssey
It’s definitely Mario Odyssey. Also, I recommend it, it’s fantastic.
when I was learning to play poker we had the various hand rankings printed up on each wall so you could just look up to see the order.
This led to an amusing meta where you would see your opponent look at their hand, squint up at the wall and then raise and you knew you were hosed. This then led to bluff glancing at the walls before betting.
This then led to bluff glancing at the walls before betting.
God, I love it when things like this start to develop when playing games with friends. Especially when it’s a newer player, or maybe even the quiet person that starts doing it - the first time you catch on to someone pulling a trick like this is the best possible feeling of, “you son of a bitch!”
Leans over to neighbor, “hey I don’t think Tommy is very bright, he keeps looking up at the cheat sheet for a pair every time”
“You think that’s bad? We’re not playing poker!”
I mean “Go fish”.
The printed card is just an eye test as well
I’ll never get over Nintendo’s decision to not have the button letters alphabetical like Xbox controllers do (or even just use shapes like Sony). Whenever I play on my Switch, the Y X buttons almost always throws me off, heh. I know Nintendo is Japanese and they tend to write from right to left, so I’m guessing that’s how it ended up like that initially.
How are they alphabetical?
to be fair, nintendo set that standard before both microsoft and sony were even in the console gaming space.
Tbf hasn’t the ABXY layout of nintendo consoles been consistent since the snes days, predating xbox? Unless your argument is that you wish they flipped it for american consoles a long time ago or something.
Also that interpretation behind the ab/xy difference kinda blows my mind lol
Yeah, I don’t fault them for sticking to their original layouts. Maybe Xbox et all should have used numbers instead of letters. Or symbols, I really like the PlayStation’s symbols.
Even the NES was B to the left of A.
Nintendo set the standard in 1990 with the SNES. Microsoft broke it in 2001 with the Xbox.
They set the standard with the NES in the 80’s. SNES was the second generation.
NES only has two buttons, but it did establish the “A on the right” norm. The SNES established the four-button diamond labeled A, B, X, and Y.
Ah that’s right. I forgot it was only a two button controller. I was just thinking about the A button.
Maybe you’re right on the Japan thing, I always thought it was about distance from your thumb. Like A is closest and most common, then B, and some games mostly only use those, and then X, Y, and Z are for menus or less common actions, and of them, x is closest to your thumb. Makes more sense on an N64 controller or GameCube controller, and then the switch controller is just keeping the letters as consistent as possible.
When going counter clockwise starting from the bottom, the Xbox controller reads: A, B, Y, X.
It’s not alphabetical unless you’re reading it like a lightning bolt for some reason. If alphabetical is what you want, a mixture of both would be ideal, making it: A, B, X, Y.
Besides, Microsoft are the ones that changed the layout, not Nintendo. The confusion when switching controllers is likely by design.
Besides, Microsoft are the ones that changed the layout, not Nintendo. The confusion when switching controllers is likely by design.
Sony also made their bottom button the default “confirm/execute” button and the side right button the “cancel/backout” button. It just feels more intuitive to me.
I’ve been gaming since the late 80s, so I understand Nintendo was the “first” of the current 3 hardware sellers. Doesn’t change the fact that they’re the outlier now. And it’s not like their controllers have even had the same layout more than once, the SNES and Switch being the only two to share a relatively similar button layout.
the SNES and Switch being the only two to share a relatively similar button layout.
And the Wii/U pro controllers. And Wii U tablet. And the DS and 3DS.
Holy fuck I’m not the only one. My partner and I watched The Last of Us and I wanted to play the game. He had it on his ps4, which I have never played. I made myself the same thing with the dumb ass square, circle, triangle, dodecahedron layout on the PS controller. He laughed at me too :C
As a guy who has been gaming for decades, don’t feel bad, I still look at the controller every time it says “Press X to do thing!” even thought I know by muscle memory what every button does, as soon as it references a button or keyboard key by name it’s like my brain just flows straight out my ears and I am suddenly an old grandma using technology for the first time, hunting and pecking for each lettered button.
Which X are we talking about? PS? Xbox? Nintendo? Where am I?
This is why, if I ever develop a game, I won’t use the letters or symbols on the buttons. I’ll show a set of four buttons, with the one that needs pressed highlighted.
You know, the button.
Ho do you confuse an X for a dodecahedron?
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To be fair, the commenter to whom you’re responding might have been engaging in hyperbole.
Maybe not. Just a theory. (But I was similarly confused)
Just to make controller layouts more confusing:
The PlayStation buttons were designed as:
⭕ = YES ❌ = NO
But Notth American gamers were used to these options being in the other position so the function the buttons were designed for is backwards on a lot of games.
Where did they get used to them being in the opposite position? Nintendo was using down button for no and right button for yes on the SNES, and Xbox wasn’t around yet.
They learned on the MadCatz
As someone who mostly uses an xbox controller and occasionally uses a switch, I could use this too.
Happens to me too.
On steam, I have every controller that I might use mapped to the Xbox layout, just so that I don’t have to change my muscle memory.
I got so sick of getting confused switching layouts that I went and got GameCube layout joycons for my switch. I really liked the wavebird controllers.
There needs to be Mavis Beacon for consoles.
Mavis Beacon doesn’t even type 90
That’s because she was never a real person.
A name I haven’t heard in a long time
Between PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Nintendo again with the Gamecube, the X has been in all 4 cardinal positions.
Man, why did they not keep the Gamecube layout? That would help with memorizing, too, if the buttons actually felt different…
Fr. That switch one pisses me off. I always press the button from Xbox instinctually.
Other way around for me. I was trained to use the Nintendo layout in 1991 and the Xbox one still annoys me since it’s what PC games usually use.
Yeah I never had Super Nintendo, had NES, 64, then switch, so by the time that button layout hit me, I was already used to Xbox. I also hate PlayStation as well. Shapes? What are we toddlers?
First thing I did on my steam deck was to change it to Nintendo layout haha
anytime I switch systems it takes too long to remember the 4 right thumb buttons
I stopped playing totk partially because I kept hitting the wrong buttons. But the Switch has a way to remap them so I used that and it was still confusing somehow lmao
Is it just me or has someone gone through and down voted every single comment in here?
Edit: actually every Lemmy world post is showing all comments as having 0 points. Interesting.
There’s either a core contingent of professional haters, or there’s a single simple smarter-than-the-average Lemmy admin bot doing the downvoting, because I swear to god every post that’s on this site for more than a few hours gets at least one downvote.
Yeah everyone is just set to zero, no matter how innocuous the comment. So a bot makes sense
Chrono Trigger’s ZABIE was what solidified it for me
Love.
As someone who switches between Xbox and switch pro controllers, the struggle is real. And I’ve been playing video games my whole life.
Yeah I really don’t understand why the hell they have to make it so different. Why do they need to distinguish themselves in this way? All it does is fuck up our gaming experience.
I think one of the early game systems got a trademark or patent or something for the button configuration. Iirc it was the SNES, but that could also just have been some adolescent bullshit kids told each other on the playground.
I used to call it the Zelda machine, but now that factorio is on Switch, I guess that isnt quite true any more.
I go between PS4 and a switch pro control often, and it’s not that they all use the letters / symbols for different buttons, it’s that Xbox and Sony agree what button position is used for what as default, enter, back, etc.
Nintendo breaks that symmetry, and put the enter button on A, so when I go to watch a movie on playstation I’m constantly exiting the menu because that position is O, the back button for Playstation.
Factorio is crazy optimized, but how well does it run on the Switch? It’s such an underpowered machine. I’m sure it’s fine early on, but massive factories can get slow even on the best PCs.
Factorio runs great on my 2009 Windows 7 machine on a Phenom II. I’d think the switch can handle. But then Mario Cart 8 also runs fine in Dolphin on that old clunker.
I’ve never played it on anything else so it’s hard to judge.
Only got it a month ago, and have only beaten the basic game once so far, though I’ve made what feel to me giant bases.
Haven’t noticed any slow down aside from when autosave is happening. Haven’t made the kind of monstrosities I’ve seen on youtube so I don’t know where the limits are.
As someone who has wanted to play it for ages I’m having a great time with it.
Reminds me of Kerbal Space Program on PS4, the controls are very complex for a controller, but they did a great job using multiple button shift functions to map a hell of a lot to the inputs available.
Switch and PS3 here. It’s just as difficult. Especially since the buttons for “proceed” and “return” in menu functions are reversed.
I need one of these when I’m playing switch too.
