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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't think mice were a mistake, but they're worse for most of the tasks I do. I'm a software engineer and I suck at art, so I just need to write, compile, and test code.

There are some things a mouse is way better for:

  • drawing (well, a drawing tablet is better)
  • 3d modeling
  • editing photos
  • first person shooters (KB works fine for OG Doom though)
  • bulk file operations (a decent KB interface could work though)

But for almost everything else, I prefer a keyboard.

And while we're on a tangent, I hate WASD, why shift my fingers over from the normal home row position? It should be ESDF, which feels way more natural...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Thanks, I got you beat on ESDF though because i'm a RDFG man, since playing counter strike 1.6. With WASD they usually put crouch or something on ctrl but my pinky has a hard time stretching down there, but on RDFG my pinky has easy access to QW AS ZX, and tab caps and shift with a little stretch. It's come in handy when playing games with a lot of keybinds.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What pisses me off even more is many games bind to the letter instead of physical key position (e.g. key code), so alternative layouts get a big middle finger. I use Dvorak, and I've quit fighting and just switch to QWERTY for games.

    I don't have a problem with hitting control (I guess I have big hands), but I totally agree that default key binds largely suck. I wish games came with a handful of popular ones, and bound to key codes so hs Dvorak users (or international users) didn't have to keep switching to QWERTY.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The problem is they generally use E and F for something, which results in a cascade of rebinding.

    And yeah, tablets are better, but they're also more expensive and don't do other mice things. For how rarely I do 3D modeling and whatnot (pretty rare), making sure my mouse has a middle button is plenty.

    And yeah, I much prefer controller, even for FPS since I don't play competitively (even then, I've seen awesome videos about gyro aiming).

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    I generally don't play the same game consistently and rarely spend more than 40 hours (usually 10-15) in a given game. For most of the games I spend more time in, it's either mouse driven (most strategy games) or I use a controller (most third person/top down games). And for the few I play that use WASD, my kids also play on my computer (e.g. Minecraft).

    So I just don't edit keybindings very often. I actually sometimes avoid playing WASD games because fixing the keys is a pain, especially when some games don't update the in-game hints or don't warm when there's a collision (silently unbinds the key). It's annoying and I don't understand why it was ever a thing.

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    Lol, I used to be that way. But now I have kids and don't have hours to git gud anymore, so I go for variety of experience instead of depth, except for a handful of strategy games I really like (Paradox games mostly).

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