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Violent Pacifist
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Trackballls suck. I tried using one that one of my friends had a long time ago. It was simply horrible. No control at all. Though I find that mouse pads are even worse.
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my frist tfc experience was about 4 hours of trying to learn a trackball at my friends hosue a few summers ago. it wasn't all that bad with it. he is wicked crazy with it though and i'm sure he gets as good of control out of that as i do my otical mouse.
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For me it's much easier to control. I'm not moving my hand all around. It's just sitting there on the trackball with my thumg and fingers going crazy on it. I guess it's a personal preference, for me it's harder to control with a mouse.
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| gindapoo wrote: | | Thewz wrote: | | Thanks for the replies guys. If it stops snowing tomorrow, I'll go out and buy my mouse. Maybe I'll stop sucking at tfc... |
Don't bet on it. 
Definitely go with optical. I also use a M$ mouse with 4 buttons. I have the wireless one, but it is soley USB and I have problems with it (too many USB peripherals I think--they all seem to want to be plugged in directly, not through an extention hub.) |
you can buy a thingy that will let you use your optical USB mousse on your PS2 input and it almost costs nothing.
it looks like this:
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| cobra wrote: | | gindapoo wrote: | | Thewz wrote: | | Thanks for the replies guys. If it stops snowing tomorrow, I'll go out and buy my mouse. Maybe I'll stop sucking at tfc... |
Don't bet on it.
Definitely go with optical. I also use a M$ mouse with 4 buttons. I have the wireless one, but it is soley USB and I have problems with it (too many USB peripherals I think--they all seem to want to be plugged in directly, not through an extention hub.) |
you can buy a thingy that will let you use your optical USB mousse on your PS2 input and it almost costs nothing.
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Those came with the ones that I got. And about the trackball, I think it is just what you get used to. I use the mouse pad thing better than I can use any other type of mouse. It's just because I got used to using it.
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| Violent Pacifist wrote: | | Trackballls suck. I tried using one that one of my friends had a long time ago. It was simply horrible. No control at all. Though I find that mouse pads are even worse. |
i'm not a big fan of mouse pads either but the anytime theres something sticky or ashes on the damn desktop the mouse sticks so I still use a mouse pad 
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| Bada Bing wrote: | | Violent Pacifist wrote: | | Trackballls suck. I tried using one that one of my friends had a long time ago. It was simply horrible. No control at all. Though I find that mouse pads are even worse. |
i'm not a big fan of mouse pads either but the anytime theres something sticky or ashes on the damn desktop the mouse sticks so I still use a mouse pad |
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Violent Pacifist
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| DK wrote: | | Bada Bing wrote: | | Violent Pacifist wrote: | | Trackballls suck. I tried using one that one of my friends had a long time ago. It was simply horrible. No control at all. Though I find that mouse pads are even worse. |
i'm not a big fan of mouse pads either but the anytime theres something sticky or ashes on the damn desktop the mouse sticks so I still use a mouse pad |
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Or you could just buy a mouse pad 
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| cobra wrote: |
you can buy a thingy that will let you use your optical USB mousse on your PS2 input and it almost costs nothing.
it looks like this:
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Yeah, I have one of those on my "wired" USB mouse right now, but it will not work with the "wireless" USB one  . It apparently has to be connected to the USB port to work.
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twisted that logitech wireless MX800 or whatever is sooooooo nice, my frined has it... superaccurate, it charges itself in the cradle so no batterays, wonderfulwonderful mouse... only thing is its kinda expensive so id jsut get a MS optical 5-button ...thats what i have and not problems (except when a cat hair gets in the eye and the mouse goes crazy by itself heh)
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I use the Logitech Cordless Elite Duo, mainly because I am on a laptop with a fried keyboard and I hate the touch pad. Excpet for the batteries in the mouse always running out in the middle of a game, it is great
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That is why I have not been gaming in the last two weeks or so my mouse died. I cannot deal with any old critter either, it's got to be a Duel Optical. So, I am S.O.L until I can get another one in at circuit city. 
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And then the best mouse pad you can get is the 3M precise mousing surface. They roxor
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I have heard about this pad DK allot. What makes it so unique ?
| DK wrote: | | And then the best mouse pad you can get is the 3M precise mousing surface. They roxor |
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