yeah it does sound like treating axis controls as buttons is the easy solution and while it breaks one paradigm, it solves for the large clean code _input one.
These things have a habit of blowing up our flow when you are in the weeds of software development. But sometimes we should remember that the final game is more important than patterns and individual lines of code.
Sasha
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