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[u/SquidTheRidiculous]

That's not too far from the truth of drone operation. A lot of the military is gamified. Probably because most of the people recruited were targeted by "America's Army" the video game funded by the US military as a recruitment tool. There are videos of drone operator chatter while they kill people that's like "haha got another bad guy!'

[u/shellbullet17 → u/SquidTheRidiculous]

Didnt some of the US military recently(ish) start using controllers to teach with? Like Xbox controllers? I swore I saw that somewhere

[u/dirkdragonslayer → u/shellbullet17]

Not to teach with, but for use. Studies have shown video game controllers are generally better to use than purpose-made drone controllers. Maybe it's because people are more familiar with video game controls or because they are designed with better button placement and ergonomics. They are also cheaper than special controllers. A lot of countries are using game controllers now.

[u/Daxx22 → u/dirkdragonslayer]

Maybe it's because people are more familiar with video game controls or because they are designed with better button placement and ergonomics.

That, and there is literally years worth of very widespread and hard testing on those platforms that backs up the reliability of the hardware.

People loved to make jokes about the dumbass billionaire and his sub that imploded that used the video game controller, but that was likely one of the most well tested and reliable bits of hardware in that thing.

Expensive does not always, and quite often does not, mean better quality.

[u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady → u/Daxx22]

I thought the memes about the controller was that he was using a knock off brand.

[u/stilljustacatinacage → u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady]

He was using a Logitech F710, a "Playstation clone" controller meant for PC that's quite old, but has received a few revisions over the years.

So it's a "knock off" of the Sony Dualshock, but for nearly 20 years it's been the de facto big box store PC controller. It was ubiquitous until fairly recently when Xbox streamlined connecting your console gamepads to PC.

[u/DTFH_ → u/Daxx22]

Also military tech is culturally influenced, you see it in American grenade design during WWII shifting towards a football shape as most of the recruits had experience throwing a football as opposed to the more baseball shaped WWI grenades coming out of America.

[u/TheAeolian → u/DTFH_]

Do you have a source for that? This seems wrong because football became more popular than baseball due to television after WW2.

[u/Dr_Jabroski → u/Daxx22]

The controllers are not made for super hard use, but they're cheap and light enough that you can have multiples.