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J.P.'s (non-musical) Gear Reviews - The Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller Saga

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I know, it's been a while. Work has been crazy busy in the last few months, and blogging and gear reviews were moved to the backlog until things calm down. I hope to be able to make at least one gear review during my vacations that will happen Soon™. In the meantime, please enjoy what I dubbed The Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller Saga™. - I'll be the first to admit it: I didn't do all the research I should have done before buying one. In my defence the one I gifted my father last year works perfectly, so my experience with them has been positive. Until May of this year... Ordering from Xbox Design Lab Towards the end of April, I decided to splurge and get myself a custom Xbox Elite Series 2 controller. I owned an Elite Series 1 in the past and I really liked the weight and design of the controller, and modularity of the components. Except this time, I wanted it purple . I hopped on the Xbox Design Lab  website (shortened to XDL in the rest of the post), picked the colours of