Please give it a read and share it *widely* as I'm pretty sure the Guardian Culture desk thinks I've lost it with this one
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Why do so many video game players invert their controls and what does it have to do with that famous blue/black white/gold dress controversy? I spoke to Dr Ross Goutcher at @StirUni and Dr Jennifer Corbett at @Bruneluni to find out!https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/feb/28/why-do-video-game-players-invert-the-controls …
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Thank you so much to everyone who has read and discussed the article – it's been so interesting to discover how people describe their perception of game worlds. A few comments under the piece are like, 'why is this even an article?', but your responses on Twitter are why
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It's not broken, Eric, it's just different
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A lot of this is bang on for me. Lots of flight sims, Goldeneye and Timesplitters as a kid. But I never invert my mouse on the odd occasion I do play with one.
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I just emulate the mouse directions
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I literally cannot play standard. I’ll think I’ve have cracked it when trying this way, but then quick reflexes will be needed and I’ll forget again in the moment.
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Habitual is definitely the case for me - the first 3d games I played that had vertical camera motion were flight sims, so I guess that was locked into my brain from an early age
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yes burn them all! err .. .... which ones are getting torched again? the non-inverters right?!
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