• acido
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    3 months ago

    for people like me who have never heard of it:

    The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.[1]

    It is made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 3.0 build sports 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives, and 4 flatbed scanners. The net effect is of a robot orchestra.[2]

    no, I definitely do not hate such a cool thing.

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      3 months ago

      So why are you against the steam controller making sounds? It doesn’t have a speaker, the noises it makes are from the haptic feedback. It’s the same principle

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        3 months ago

        lol

        because it’s a fucking controller maybe?

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            3 months ago

            because, you know, it’s a controller.

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              3 months ago

              The cool thing that you don’t hate, up above, is a bunch of floppy drives and flatbed scanners. They also aren’t supposed to make tunes, but they do, and it’s cool.

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                3 months ago

                the floppotron is a musical instrument, not a controller.

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                    3 months ago

                    at best it is a speaker, like the DualSense, but in reality they are just controllers with a useless feature.