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@icedquinn Squars are superior for games IMO.
With hexagons you cant go left and right, you have to zig zag, and give you only 6 directions you can go in per move.
With squares you **can** go left and right and it has 2 additional directions you can go in, a total of 8 for every move.
> hex have six directions with uniform distance, square has four. diagnals are an eternal meme.
Not true, hexagons distort diagnal moves as well. AND have 2 less directions you cant move in. Loose loose.
> also was reading some signal papers that hex gates generally work better than square for similar reasons bees use them; they just have a mathematically better fit with space.
I suppose it depends exactly what you mean by that. Space packing is the same of course... so not sure what "better fit" means exactly but id be curious to find out.
@icedquinn@blob.cat @freemo@qoto.org Didn't read the OP at first and thought you two were musing about joystick gates for a good bit. Then i started wondering about how the fuck a hex gate would work.
@icedquinn@blob.cat @freemo@qoto.org I think you made the same mistake I did, before my brain reset. The gates you're thinking of are probably octo gates.
@icedquinn@blob.cat @freemo@qoto.org FWIW- I'm a fan of octo gates. But i grew up with US arcade sticks which are circle gates or gateless depending on your point of view.
I have a baggy full of springs and plastic doo-hickeys for trying to get my JP stick to feel "right"
the only fg i will entertain the idea of playing is YOMI Hustle, which the FG nerds i know refuse to play because they write it off immediately as stick fighting.
@icedquinn@blob.cat @freemo@qoto.org Oh man, stick fighter. That was an amusing, but terrible clone of sf2. DOS era fighting games were all terrible tho.
@icedquinn @freemo it's not that hexagons fit the space better, it's just that they have a more physically stable structure. Which is pretty useful when the comb hangs its significant weight off its wax structure.
Yea beaing structually stronger than cubes or squares makes perfect intuitive sense, especially for shear forces.
also was reading some signal papers that hex gates generally work better than square for similar reasons bees use them; they just have a mathematically better fit with space.
but i think for me they are associated with wargaming which is associated with minmaxing tedium