There's an uncomfortable comfort in shitposting through the coolzone again after all these years. And yeah, I do kinda want to see some kid micro-ing a few hundred drones through an air-defense network.

  • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    AFAIR the US military decided to control their drones with an Xbox controller partly because most kids would be already familiar with it

    • Enjoyer_of_Games [he/him]
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      14 days ago

      Just as they designed their grenades (in ww2) to be roughly the same size as a baseball so most kids would be familiar.

      • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
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        14 days ago

        I mean, it's a good decision. Even from my own experience, when getting invited to play FIFA on a friend's Xbox (360), never having played anything on an Xbox before, the controller wasn't the reason I've lost badly, it being somewhat intuitive and handling reasonably smoothly

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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      14 days ago

      Not an expert but heard this only really applies to light quadcopters. A large part of modern drone warfare are fpvs which are a lot harder to fly and require specialized controls (and training for them).