#Controllers

[astrawitch]

Controlled Decay

[turbo-outrun-1986]

NINTENDO 64 CONTROLLER | BLUE GREEN PURPLE | GIF

[cyber-corp]

they gave her boobs and she revolutionised gaming forever

[atariforce]

Famicom Poster by Adam Rufino

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I wonder if yeerks could have natural inclinations for being right or left "handed" for lack of a better term for a slug creature? Like a yeerk lefty in a right-handed host making their host seem suddenly ambidextrous (as a possible tell for an animorph paying enough attention).

So I tried to search for info on whether invertebrates show any evidence of bilateral symmetry variations (i.e. a preference for one side or the other) and my rabbit hole mostly contained lots of stuff on how invertebrate bilateral symmetry can be used to explain human bilateral symmetry. Which, sure, I get it, scientific articles are written by humans and we have a preference for our own.

But it seems like someone has got to have checked whether at least some kind of invertebrate has a preference for one set of feelers/antennae/legs over the other. Without all the studies that train ants or roaches to veer left or veer right, but let them go one of two ways and see if they prefer one over the other.

Anyone know if this question has been investigated, and if so how to find it? I know yeerks are imaginary and not real sea slugs, but asking whether sea slugs show asymmetrical dominance seems like the right first step.

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USA 1993

[posthumanwanderings]

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[kiwi-koala]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone on tumblr whose been reblogging and liking my first switch dog and mice. It means a lot and has been really cool to see. As a kind of thanks I drew a new switch dog with mice this one has my joycons from my splatoon edition switch. 💕🐶🐭💕

[vile-violence]

Clear plastic controllers, originally dated back to the 1990's-early 2000's was an aesthetic phenomenon that can be seen as early as with some gameboys, while many people found the transparency alluring allowing you to see what was going on behind the scenes of your controller, they did eventually "die out " over taken by opaque plastics typically coming in a more subtle white or black rather than the lurid colouring you would typically find in the clear controllers, recently however they have made a comeback and you can find many retailers selling those fun funky clear plastic controllers that really let you get a good look at their guts.

[superpotionlabs]

Xbox 360 Halo 3 Spartan Edition controllers (released 2007) Designed by Todd McFarlane (Image Comics, Spawn, Venom, etc) 🎮

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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I'm reading Ghost in the Shell right now and Tom just mentioned the lengths the yeerks had to go to in order to keep morph-capable controllers in line during feedings. I know you went into this in more detail during the last fic in the series as well, but I wanted to ask: is there a canon reason the yeerks couldn't just have fewer hosts than yeerks, and stick a 'temp' yeerk in the host's brain while the usual one is feeding?

I can think of some plausible reasons (host's brain needs time off to recover, yeerks can't switch hosts very often without difficulty, cultural objections to sharing bodies with their fellow slugs) and also meta reasons (more angst potential, more interesting this way). But I'm curious what your take on this is. I can't remember if they ever addressed it in-series

Oooooohh. I like this idea, and I would love to see it explored. If Yeerk One inches sloooowly out of the left ear as Yeerk Two inches into the right, then you're right that there could be almost no lag time at all between yeerks. For the morpher hosts especially, that would be dead useful.

Doylist (out-of-universe) speaking, I think we don't see this in canon because we need to see the horror of what the yeerks are doing to their hosts. And if hosts have 0m0s of ability to express what's going on with them, then it runs the risk of seeming like no big deal. Or like there's no meaningful difference between the voluntary hosts and the involuntary ones.

Watsonian (in-universe) speaking, I assume it's not used because of issues of privacy and — let's be honest — corruption. If Eeek 1234 is inside Alloran for a few minutes every time Visser Three needs to feed, then suddenly some random yeerk knows every one of Visser Three's secrets that Alloran knows. Eva knowing about Edriss's human kids gives her tremendous power over Visser One, and Eva's knowledge of the Empire later proves instrumental in the Animorphs winning the war. If some other yeerk is inside of Eva, then that yeerk has that level of intel and power over Visser One too.

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UK 1998