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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

By the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

glad that changed

[-] ChapolinColoradoNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.

[-] lorez@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?

[-] axtualdave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Disco stick, as in

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick."

[-] f1g4@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Liking disco sticks don't make me gay

[-] Icarus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] FightMilk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BS

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

He means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it.

I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick.

We still laugh about it sometimes.

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