Thread 719234186

>try to play 90s game
>have to clean out mouse every five minutes
damn, ya'll boomers really lived like this?

>every five minutes
every six months.

>>719234186 (OP)
drama queen having melty

>>719234548
The annoying part was cooking a hard boiled egg everytime

>>719234186 (OP)
>that kid who ate the balls out of the school computer mice

The dirt from the ball came from whatever dirt was on your mousemat. Stop living like a slob and keep your desk clean.

>>719234946
>that school which glued the ball hatch shut

>>719234946

>that kid who stuck all the mice balls up his ass because he was 'making whoppers'

>want to play some vidya on the pc as a kid
>family pc only has this abomination for a mouse

>>719234186 (OP)
Couldn't be me

>>719235123
yeah, have you EVER held someone else's controller without it feeling absolutely fucking disgusting? I don't know why this is ALWAYS the case.

>>719235689
>>719235694
Trackballs are fucking goated, I miss the shit out of my trackball mouse.

>>719235689
>>719235694
trackballs were so fucking shit

>>719234186 (OP)
>try to play 2025 game
>have to recharge mouse battery every two minutes
how do zoomers live like this

>>719235689
I love my trackball so much it's unreal. First mouse I ever bought for my own win 98 PC was a trackball, it was an awful piece of shit with rubber rollers, it's nice how far they've advanced.

>>719236079
I have four usb c cables
You just plug it in one a week

>>719236079
my logitech runs 4000+ hours on 2 AA batteries. I'm not fucking exaggerating. you get what you pay for.

Zoomers, the problem with these was not the cleaning, it was the absolutely horrendous pointer tracking and wild inconsistency, these things were rancid ass if you moved the mouse quickly, basically unusable and a big reason many people kept playing with arrows even after mouselook became a thing.
Once laser mouses started hitting the market, even with their own issues, I threw my trackball in the garbage and never looked back.

>>719234946
>that kid who stuck all the mice balls up his urethra and tell everyone that in the future everyone will do the same
He was kinda right

>>719234186 (OP)
every 5 mins? you're living in some dusty shithole.

>>719236079
if it uses regular batteries they'll last a LONG time and if it's rechargable one recharge per week is often enough thoughbeit? unless you buy low grade chinesium mice for $3, pocket lint and an ounce of smegma of course.

>>719234186 (OP)
>that guy who put the track ball in his butt and pooped it out and placed it back into the mice

>>719234186 (OP)
the real issue was the friction, not the dirt.
That rubber ball would drag, combine with the often snagging wire (was always rubber, before fibre thread cables)
Really annoying to use because of that, but honestly it was pretty smart tech for the time in the whole "how do we translate movement, easily into a 360 degree operation"

youd have to clean it every 6~8 months at best, which is the same as a laser mouse if you are dirty.

Wonder why we stopped trying to invent new tech, well, everyone but nintendo I guess.

>>719234186 (OP)
>have to clean out mouse every five minutes
It was once every six months at most. Clean your room you filthy pig

>>719234946
>that kid who put my balls in his ass and pretended to be chicken
And im not talking about the mice ones

>>719234186 (OP)
>loading times take ages
>learn juggling with mouse balls in the meantime
The 90s were alright.

>>719236373
Any gamer mouse could basically tie that if you dumpstered the poll rate down to 125hz

>>719235689
>tfw you ranked to 2000 in starcraft bw on one of these things

>>719236893
>everyone but nintendo I guess.
Even the big N dropped the ball, dude...

>>719234186 (OP)
>the perfect mouse was made
>never gets dirty and stops tracking, can work on any surface, even teflon covered in oil
>no one cared because mice were like 2 dollars to replace.

I used to eat those small computer mouse balls at my dad's office he would take me to. There were tons of empty rooms used for "training" new hires that were never used and he would basically let me have free reign in there. I would take a mouse ball out and suck on it like a gob stopper for hours. I don't know if you guys remember, but they had sort of like a "powdery" feel to them and I thought they tasted good. I probably sucked 500 mouse balls or more dry because I liked the powdery substance on them. I grew up with severe ADHD, behavioral problems, on the spectrum, and suffer from seizures. I never had those issues prior to eating those mouse balls. I asked a few doctors about it and most of them dismissed it but I saw a neurologist once and he was basically like, "yeah who knows what were on those things"

>>719234186 (OP)
>damn, ya'll boomers really lived like this?
I have a clean room.

>>719234186 (OP)
Keep your desk and mat clean you filthy swine

>>719240691
I know, I just meant they tried, sometimes succeeded.
no one else tries to change how you play, 'cept maybe vr

>>719241696
rubber, aka, plastic particles. Lots of bacteria. Some kind of chemical.
lot of the rubber they used back then used to 'rot' over time too, so, yeah who knows but id say theres a chance your young brain was flooded with plastic and fucked up its synapse formation.

>>719235123

I was about to post something like this but you said it better.

>>719234186 (OP)
>5 minutes
Are you really that much of a slob?

>>719234186 (OP)
>going to the school computer lab to use those giant apple monitors

>>719234186 (OP)
I guess kids these days don't know what a mousepad is... Also very few games actually required high amounts of precision that was hard to achieve with one of these.

>>719234186 (OP)
I don’t remember ever cleaning it

>>719235910
>>719235937
THE MUALITY OF DAN

>play 2008 game
>enjoy it and have a fun time

>>719246287
>no tranny garbage
>graphics can be modded to be good enough
>game isn’t locked behind $800 of day one dlc
>no stronk wahmen
>no open world slop

It was so satisfying taking out the lint on those rollers though.

>>719243646
I remember my elementary school having some apple II's up untill at least 2002 when I left. Never saw an imac in any school, seems like some rich school shit

>>719246985
I went to a private christcuck school for a couple years. They had money.

Those were the days….

>>719234186 (OP)
>cs_oilrig
>hear footsteps diagonally behind
>swipe mouse violently
>lift mouse
>inertial keeps the ball rolling
>click
>bodyshot but its a kill anyways because AWP
>FUCK YEAH

You will never know this feeling

>>719234186 (OP)
Most annoying shit ever, i still 'member the chore that was playing TES Arena with those.

>>719247543
I forgot you used to be able keep spinning with the ball momentum
Time really does fly eh

>>719235694
I kind of miss having a retarded high sensitivity and using one of these

>>719234186 (OP)
>he doesn't know

>>719241696
Did you swallow them too?

>>719234186 (OP)
Non-white detected

>>719241696
>I probably sucked 500 mouse balls or more dry
One of the phrases of all time

>>719248759
Shit, didn't know it was actually egg yolk. Thought it was just rubber or some shit that just looked like yolk.

>>719250445
Nah it's yolk. Egg day was celebrated in my household. We'd boil the egg, move the family PC into the kitchen and eat dinner while we watched newgrounds flash videos and browsed geocities

>>719235689
>>719235694
ive never used a trackball but heard people either loved them or hated them

>>719250880
Good for some things but useless for gayming imo

>>719234548
How disgusting was your mouse
i bet you take a bath every six months too