Re: Too much time on their hands!

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:13:18 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 3/20/2025 12:53 PM, Lasse Langwadt wrote:

On 3/20/25 03:18, Don Y wrote:

On 3/19/2025 2:49 PM, Lasse Langwadt wrote:

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it is games played with a mouse.

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It is a game played with a POINTING DEVICE.  Why use a technology
that doesn't do what you want, *well*?
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why play baseball with a bat?

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Baseball *is* played with a bat -- because there are RULES
governing its play.
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There are no "PC Game police" that verify you are
using a mouse instead of any other pointing device,
motion controller, etc.
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The fact that folks think they need to adjust the *weight*
of their mouse in 1.7g increments is ludicrous (they
can't alter the center of *mass* so what about folks who
want the mouse "tail heavy").
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[A modern penny is 2.5g... why not TAPE those to the mouse
wherever they want -- instead of being constrained to
load the weight in the special "weight tray" which resides
in a fixed location and orientation in the mouse]
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The computer mouse is like a real mouse. It has been optimized by
mutation and natural selection.

I was talking to some neighbors that we met hiking on a stairway (we
have lots of stairways around here) about how bad it is for ones body
to sit in front of a computer most of the day. We decided that we need
a Peloton Mouse, really heavy with buttons that are very hard to push.