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Current setup: I use a GameSir Tegenaria Lite, a DS4-like gamepad for PC. I wanted something compatible with both PC and PS5.

Background: I also have my regular DualSense, but I strayed away from it because I remembered the D-pad not being great. I recently got a PS5, and it turns out the one I got is a newer revision model (CFI-ZCT2W). I'm not sure if they changed anything with the D-pad, but when I tried it, I was actually pretty surprised — it felt better than I remembered.

The Tegenaria Lite is a nice controller for only $20, but it doesn't feel premium, and the ergonomics don't match up to the DualSense. That said, I think its D-pad is slightly better.

This has me considering the following options for the future:

• DualSense Edge
• Custom DualSense from Killscreen
• DIY shell swap + split D-pad upgrade for my current DualSense — I'm unsure about this one since mine is a newer revision model. The reason for the shell swap being that I don't like the default white coloring.
• Just use the regular Dualsense

I'd like a PS-compatible pad in case I ever go to an event, so I can avoid needing a converter. The DualSense Edge seems nice, but overpriced, and the battery life seems bad — though I'd mostly be playing wired anyway.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

It's interesting to me that for companies like Gamesir, they can make controllers that are nearly 1:1 with the Xbox style controllers. However, there seems to be no exact copies of the Dualshock 4. I liked the d-pad and ergonomics of that controller but no x-input or USB-C holds it back. I know that there's the 8-bitdo pro 3 and Gamesir Tarantula/Tegenaria, but these are not nearly as close to the DS4 design as some of the Xbox ones. Is the design/style patented or something?

So everything I'm about to say has probably already been said ad nauseam, but I just want to get my own thoughts out there into the ether and see what people think.

After today's news, we need this more than ever. The Batman Part II was just delayed another four months, now pushed to February 2028. The Brave and the Bold was announced back in January 2023. It's already 2026, three years after that announcement, and there has been zero progress on Brave and the Bold. We have nothing cast, and no plot details beyond the fact that it's about Batman, the Batfamily, and Damian Wayne. Honestly, I think jumping straight to Damian Wayne and a complete Batfam is a mistake, since watching the Batfamily grow on film is a unique angle that no Batman movie has really explored before.

I love The Batman (2022), but it's taking too long to get the sequel. We were supposed to get it in October 2025, then it got delayed a year to October 2026, then delayed again to October 2027, and now delayed another four months to February 2028. Keep in mind Christopher Nolan dropped Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises all within seven years. I understand Matt Reeves' output is slower than most filmmakers, and that would be fine on its own, but we already accepted that there's going to be a DCU and there's going to be Elseworlds stories. So now we're stagnating the DCU, and one of the cornerstones of the DC Trinity, because of this Elseworlds project. That doesn't make sense to me.

I get that people worry audiences would be confused by having two Batmen, but if you pair a grounded take like Reeves' version with a more fantastical one that's still serious but has Batman fighting monsters and supervillains, I don't think anyone would actually be confused. I think we vastly underestimate the audience's capacity to understand that a character can have two different versions. The biggest Spider Man movie ever made had three Spider Men in it. There was just a Deadpool movie with a mass of Deadpool variants in the finale. There were five different Wolverines in that same movie. People understand that actors play different versions of the same character, whether it's the same actor or a different one. It happens all the time, and audiences get it.

So when I say we need some Batman crumbs, here's what I mean: if Brave and the Bold is making no progress, we at least need to see the DCU's Batman cast, and we need to see him appear in some significant capacity, whether that's in Man of Tomorrow or Clayface, in a meaningful role or scene, to reassure fans that the DCU actually has its foundation in place.

Now, someone might say, wouldn't this just be like WB rushing from Batman v Superman straight into Justice League? I'd push back on that. Batman v Superman was the movie that introduced this version of Batman as well as Wonder Woman, and on top of that gave us a glorified slideshow of Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman to close it out. Then we went straight into Justice League, a two hour film that had to rush the recruiting of the entire team to fight an incoming threat. If Man of Tomorrow turns out to be a Brainiac invasion, there's a natural way to weave other heroes into that story without it being a rushed slideshow, and Batman could be one of them.

Supergirl flopped because it was an average film, and because Supergirl just isn't that popular of a character. You have to genuinely excite people to get them into theaters. People will happily wait a month for a film to hit streaming if it's not worth a twenty dollar ticket. Tickets aren't cheap anymore, so you have to put butts in seats, and the way you do that is by leading with your heavy hitters, characters like Batman.

Looking back at the original DC slate, I honestly wonder what we were thinking. There was so much clutter, so much happening at once. The Authority was a pipe dream, and honestly, I'm glad it's not happening right now. Maybe if the DCU had already gotten off the ground, it would've been a good idea, but not as a starting point.

It's looking like Man of Tomorrow is going to be a huge movie for the DCU, a pretty big event that will hopefully inspire confidence in the universe going forward. But we really cannot ignore this Batman issue any longer, and I think James Gunn needs to address it as soon as possible. Brave and the Bold at this point doesn't even feel like a real film that will ever happen, especially considering the director attached is Andy Muschietti, who made The Flash. Whether or not The Flash was already cooked before he got his hands on it, I'm not sure, but it definitely doesn't inspire confidence in this film for me.

I just wanted to put my thoughts out there, because it feels like every DCU release gets placed under a microscope, amplifying issues and arguing financials. All I ever see are arguments about when it will reboot and when James Gunn will be fired. The content we've received so far is far from terrible, and I don't think it warrants this much doom & gloom.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying MCU movies don't get criticized or that Marvel is immune to doom posting. The difference is in how far it escalates. A bad MCU movie gets called bad and the conversation moves on. A mid DCU movie triggers wall to wall talk of reboots, firings, and the universe being dead on arrival. Nobody seriously thinks we'll never see an MCU X-Men film because The Marvels underperformed. People genuinely believe The Brave and the Bold will never happen because of one disappointing opening weekend. That escalation is what I find exhausting.

I do agree that the DCU needs to focus on its heavy hitter characters sooner rather than later. I genuinely don't understand the strategy of leading with less popular characters first. Personally, I would not have followed up Superman with a Supergirl movie, and I won't be surprised if Supergirl underperforms financially. She simply isn't as popular as Superman or any of the JL right now, and there are other characters fans are more eager to see on the big screen.

That said, I'm looking forward to Lanterns and Man of Tomorrow. I'm not particularly interested in Clayface, since I've never been a fan of making movies solely about villains in the style of the Sony movies or Joker, but I'll give it a chance. I'm not interested in Swamp Thing at all. Despite all of that, I'm still excited about the future of the DCU and I want to see my favorite characters adapted on the big screen.

What bothers me is the level of doom directed at this universe. When Marvel puts out a mid film, people call it mid and move on. Nobody argues the financials, nobody speculates about when Kevin Feige will be fired, and nobody talks about the MCU getting rebooted due to financial losses and critical failure. Everyone just assumes the MCU will keep going. The DCU, having just been born, feels like it could get cut off at any moment, and that narrative is exhausting.

If the DCU were to fail, I genuinely believe we would not see another DC cinematic universe. This is already the second attempt in the last 13 years. It's not getting a third chance, so I truly don't understand why it feels like so many people are actively rooting for it to fail.

I thought Supergirl was decent and nowhere near bad enough to warrant the dooming it's received. I do have some concerns about James Gunn's decision-making, like putting Andy Muschietti on The Brave and the Bold after the Flash, and using the same Supergirl screenwriter on future projects, but I still believe Lanterns is going to be great. I'm hoping Supergirl turns out to be just growing pains for the DCU, and that they find their stride after Man of Tomorrow and Clayface. I cannot wait to see characters like The Flash and Batman brought to life in a universe that actually feels like the comics.

So if you're like me and wanted to Dock your Thor, or any android device for that matter, there can be some friction. Particularly with exiting apps. It seems there is no way to actually do this and you have to go to the device to exit apps, but I kinda found a workaround.

I had one of these laying around.

It's a small bluetooth keyboard. I had it for docking my steam deck to type and navigate the desktop mode. I plugged it into my thor while docked and a cursor appears on the screen. You can use this cursor to do all of the gestures to exit apps as well as type easily while docked. I heard that PS5 trackpad might be able to do the same, but I'm not sure. I wanted to share this info in case anyone else had a similar struggle while docking.