Gaming

I don't understand there are still games out there that do not offer inverted Y as an option. I couldn't finish the Lego Marvel Superheroes game because of that.

I do the same thing everyone always tells me it’s weird to set it inverted.

I played inverted for years. I took a long break from games, started a new one at some point and didn’t think about it. I no longer play inverted.

I didn’t even know it was possible to reprogram something so ingrained in me and I did it entirely by accident.

Same, I've always played inverted. Pretty sure it's from N64 flying games, pilot wings and such.

Yeah but if you think about looking at things you have to move your head up to look up hehe

Except that also applies to the x-axis. Unless you invert everything, this is just a preference that is likely a holdover from some old flight game.

Do you play inverted x too then?

I play inverted because that's what the default settings were on Goldeneye.

Elder millennials and cooler gen x's grew up on Goldeneye 64, y axis inverted

Grew up dreaming of being a pilot. Pull back to yaw up.

First games that were flight sims did so. So now it’s just what I’m used to.

At some point it was inverted by default.

First 3D (or pseudo-3d) games I played were flying games. So stick back to look up/climb became ingrained in my motor skills.

Throw in some Golden Eye and Time Splitters and there is no going back.

Think of the stock on the controller as a head with your hand on top. If you pull the hand back, in what direction does the eyes move?

Duke3D. That's where it started.

Played a bunch of flight simulators and similar games back in the day. If it's universally considered the best way to steer a goddamn aircraft safely and accurately, who am I to argue.

I know someone who had both X and Y inverted, on his computer mouse.

The original Star Fox made me inverted for life. I don’t think you could switch it.

Inverted make sense if you think of it as controlling your neck and not your eyes.

You pull left to look right?

If you're playing first person you aren't moving a camera. You're moving the player's head.

If I had to ballpark it, I remember there being a bunch of inverted controls around the late 90s, so maybe around 2000?

The movie is At Eternity’s Gate. Actor is Willem Dafoe, who’s portraying Vincent Van Gogh.

(I have not seen the movie, just looked it up)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/willem-dafoe-looking-up

That confused the shit out of me the first time I got a new Mac for work and the scrolling was all wrong. Best I can figure is that it relates more to touch screens so it may be more "natural" to people who grew up with a tablet or a phone as their first computer experience. As opposed to people like me who grew up learning how to use a mouse and keyboard as our first computer experience. Weirdly, I don't have the same issue when switching to a touch screen. I seem to be able to switch just fine. But on the computer, I have to switch to "inverted" even tho that's how it's been as long as I can remember. Well that's not true, I also remember having to click and drag the scrollbar before scroll wheels were added to mice 😂