Lol I thought the Amazon picture thing was common. They also have GPS tracking you can follow the delivery driver. That’s been here for a while, but I forget that I live near Amazon HQ.
I’ll live and die by a trackball. It’s too convenient for use with a laptop so I can lounge anywhere while using a computer.
I have a Microsoft Surface and I’m not a huge fan of using it as a computer replacement (mostly use it for digital drawing or ultra portable gaming, since been replaced by the Switch). All the swiping on the screen, even with a stylus is even more work than a normal mouse, and without the aid of a wrist wrest.
WTF do you use all those fucking buttons for? Why not just put your left hand on the keyboard and use that? How do you even know which button you are pressing in that tiny grid?
You’ve never seriously played an MMO. I play Astrologian in FFXIV and my entire number row and entire numpad are taken up with abilities and I still need to click on abilities unbound to keys. Admittedly I’m not a fan of the billion button mouse but the 8 button mouse is super useful.
I’ve played games where there are a lot of abilities before. Descent, Torchlight/Diablo, Mechwarrior, FPSes that have a row of items on the bottom like Hexen, etc. I have a hard time believing that many buttons on the mouse is necessary or beneficial.
Getting to them quickly. This isn’t like weapon switching in a shooter, its needing the ability to go off the hell right now or the tank dies and we wipe. If its right at your thumb it’s that half second faster.
When I play WOW as a druid, I use all of those buttons AND they have shift and control binds.
Control 1-6 on it are for shifting forms.
1 and shift 1 are two different kinds of charge (one interrupts) and they’re onmouseover macros. Also one of those spells is actually 4 different spells depending on form.
2 and shift 2 are my main heal and decurse
3 and shift 3 are ranged damage dot and root
4 and shift 4 are stun and aoe stun
5 is something generic I rarely cast because shift-5 since it’s mapped to numpad isn’t a key
6 and shift 6 are defensive cooldowns
7 and shift 7 are another type of stun/gouge
not remembering some of the next ones
10 and shift-10 are “interface actions” where you’re doing a quest or in a zone with a special action
11 shift 11 and 12 and shift 12 are consumables/potions, gliders? But not the combat potion, that’s G.
None of those are my main line actions where I only use my left hand and for the most part just 1-6 and shift 1-6, and everything is keyed/macro’d out depending on spec and talents.
Some other keys around wasd have some kind of uses as well… trinkets… things that I don’t need to aim or target and need to hand-hold.
Edit: Oh and I have a foot-pedal for coms. Used to use five footpedals when the game was more complicated.
Oh my Satan I thought I had a lot to keep on top of on XIV. Now I know why every expansion they go hard on simplification and streamlining, they’re sideyeing WoW and trying not to do THAT.