I heard they are great for killing billionaires in experimental deep sea rigs

Fire up halo 1

Get in the gunner seat of warthog

Tape right trigger down

Profit

Some guys I used to know used them to make music, as some sort of midi controller.

On a very old computer of mine, the “y” key was completely missing and I couldn’t replace it because the contacts were broken so I just use JoytoKey and a USB SNES controller.

I’ve also used a similar setup for navigating some image boorus but, for obvious reasons, I wont specify anything further.

I do recall a gaming controller being used to pilot the titan submersible that is now on the ocean floor. May their souls rest in peace.

I don’t know if me talking about my Steam controller counts…

Some digital artists use Switch JoyCons for shortcuts in Clip Studio and other painting programs.

playstation and Xbox controllers make good Kodi/XBMC remotes for a laptop connected to a TV.

I think it was med students who use controllers to control flash card decks for studying.

Also as PowerPoint remotes.

In Ghostbusters 2 they rigged up a Nintendo joystick to drive the statue of liberty through the streets of NYC. Does that count?

Gave a presentation last year, using a joy con as a remote for switching slides.

Nice thing is you can have mouse with the joystick as well

Haven’t actually done it yet but I’m going to buy myself a Teensy for my birthday next month, set up headless M8 on it and control it through my Steamdeck.

They are the OG electric vibrators for people who can’t buy vibrators.

All a controller is is just some buttons on a wire in a portable form factor.

If you want to use it for Excel, you can.

I used one on a Raspberry Pi to drive a self build remote car wirelessly.

They use it to control a submarine