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i was 15 when i listened to the first episode of the hotspot. that was over half my life ago. that's. wild. love you, jeff

Nearly every single game I like enough to play to a reasonable degree of completion has provoked very strong emotional reactions. I suppose since I was a small child games have been my primary emotional outlet in general. I'm trying to remember the last game I finished that I didn't experience some unique and powerful feelings during and I'm drawing a blank. maybe... xcom 2012? haha. Needless to say I spent my whole life thinking that the concept of having a favorite video game was absolutely ludicrous until a little something called NieR happened.

i've been really enjoying this but need to find some other people to really get into it

dm me for my uplay

i'd be down for casual or full on roleplay

@belegorm said:

how accurately can you tap out a 180bpm 16th note drumroll between your right pinky and index finger on small rectangles, what about the left side of your palm and the right side of your palm against big domes. i love arcade music games

@belegorm said:

is this code for maximum or bust because hell yeah full on 130 life

i'm curious where you are on the palm grip to claw grip spectrum, based on the fact that you've only mentioned arms and wrist but not fingers i'm guessing you're leaning more towards palm grip? i'd suggest trying a more clawlike grip, I haven't used a mamba but it looks like it should be reasonably comfortable. (hard to guess how well you can squeeze inward with your pinky and ring from a photo especially since handsize matters) hopefully it doesn't track on your pad even after you've lifted it half a centimeter, only a few mm hopefully

when i played osu! in 2008 i actually planted my wrist to the pad (though i still used it a little) my thumb, ring, and pinky were doing nearly all of the work. (despite that, i'm a ludicrously low sensitivity player when it comes to fps, usually i'll have to tank the in-game setting despite running 400dpi default)

i got into ut2k3 around the same time i got into halo, the more time passed the more i moved to mouse exclusively. At my peak i had a gigantic mousepad and had to move 24" to do a 360 degree turn while playing ut3, which necessitated my entire arm being above the table (i've since calmed down notably, closer to half of that, which allows for lazy elbow on table :P) (but throughout all of it i still maintain a very tight claw grip with finger movements for precision)it took a lot of practice to drop my sensitivity like that, but it's my preference. There isn't really any correct combination of sensitivity preference and grip preference, but there is a combination that works best for you. there are great players with razer copperheads and sensitivities so high I pretty much never see their forearm move significantly. dunno how they do it. presumably the same practice it took me to do the exact opposite. with the tremors i have i don't think i could ever be good with a high sens

@doctordonkey said:

I highly endorse this answer. Still on an old 1080p 120hz acer hn274hbmiiid myself and that'd probably be my upgrade if i had to revamp my setup right now. After spending half a decade with 120hz i'm not going back. Sooo 4k is more than a couple years away for me, but if you're completely happy with 60hz i'd say maybe hold off. (Although if this is also a computer that you do like, real work on and really want the real estate for doing fancy productivity stuff on that'd definitely shake the whole situation up)

(as an aside: I genuinely still use the old dim 1.0 nvidia 3d a fair amount lol (helixmod shoutouts) but primarly just love what high framerates do for mouse controlled cameras. it's real good. plus i play arena shooters and run SVP frame interpolation on nearly everything I watch hah)

i am still absolutely amazed by how many people think that it is impossible to run games purchased on steam outside of steam. steam does have DRM available, but it is not mandatory and plenty of games do not use it

although the game was kind of bad and i never got very into it, i thought aika online's political system was really cool in practice.
your realm leader would be able to send messages to everybody interested in order to coordinate attacks on artifacts that grant realm-wide passive bonuses but are currently owned and being defended by another realm, and such.
if this system has a similar level of power, and ends up being as involved as it appears to be, it could be really cool. TERA is definitely shaping up to be the mmo i play between aion and gw2

personally I only really play games online if I can do it w/ a community that I enjoy.  about 95% of the TF2 I have played has been on the same server. 
the traditional server structure is much better for establishing communities and tailoring the server to that community, it makes a huge difference for me