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#21 Summer Update 2023 in TF2 General Discussion

FEED THE SEAL

posted 8 months ago
#328 The Mouse/Mousepad Thread v2 in Hardware

i've had some free time for the last few months, so i got a bunch of mousepads.

and of all of them, this is the best one i've ever owned:
https://lamzu.com/collections/lamzu-energon/products/lamzu-energon-mouse-pad

my only wish is for it to be in deskmat size, but this is worth the tradeoff. it's comparable in size to any XL artisan pad anyway, which is fine for most setups.

this is the only cloth pad i've tried that does not benefit in any way from an arm sleeve. most cloth pads require a careful consideration of their stitching angles in order to find a compatible cloth sleeve that doesn't add additional friction to the X and/or Y axes. unlike every other mouse pad i own, you don't even need to worry about a sleeve. with about 3 weeks of heavy usage, this has not degraded out of the box with sweaty palm + arm contact; it does not get muddier as intense play sessions continue. with that said, if you do need to use an arm sleeve for some other reason, i haven't found any that works well with it (including turning them all inside-out).

the lamzu energon is, in every way, a better artisan raiden (mid; didn't try the softs).

compared to the raiden:
it has better XY symmetry (raiden has slightly more Y friction than X; this has slightly less than the raiden -- i usually play with my mouse pad vertically rather than horizontally for any vertical aim scenarios, like tf2 or tile frenzy/gridshot stuff, and while both do well vertically, this manages to be just a bit more comfortable);

the raiden has some sort of powdered coating that wears off & adds a muddied feeling during a play session, which causes my arm to stick to it slightly & the initial friction of my mouse skates, glass & ptfe, to stick a bit more. i haven't replicated that feeling on the energon mousepad yet.

it has slightly more discreet edge stitching than the raiden, which means there's no real bump on the edge of your arm that lightly irritates me. this is namely true when using the mousepad horizontally, but it is slightly better vertically than the raiden too.

very low static & dynamic friction with any skates. it works great with ptfe, glass, and sapphire.

this basically does everything i wanted glass pads to do; it provides a fast glide without feeling like my arm sticks to the surface. the only pads i've used that are "faster" are the artisan shidenkai & the fnatic jet, but they both have some significant downsides.

the shidenkai has a glass coating which wears out pretty quickly, and then it basically degrades to a soft hien with all of its XY/friction tradeoffs.

the fnatic jet is really cool, but it muddies very badly if you sweat, and its glass skate support is poor. it also barely works with a few mouse sleeves, with specific cloth stitching & material structure; all the mouse sleeves i have add friction. the only way you could really justify it is if you don't sweat, or if you use a deltahub carpio g2.0 or a flashe gaming glove/sleeve to ensure purely ptfe contact on the pad.

some other mousepads i do not recommend:
xraypad's thor (a worse version of the fnatic jet)
xraypad's aqua speed (poor XY symmetry, better arm feel than the artisan hien but very poor arm sleeve support so it is hard to manage the added friction)
skypad 2.0/3.0 (if you live in a clean room &/or neurotically keep your glass pad clean at all times, it has slightly less static friction than the energon/raiden/jet with more dynamic friction -- otherwise, the scratchy feeling of ptfe skates hitting against any dust/debris/skin oils/hair makes it virtually unusable)

some other mousepads that i like/have justifiable tradeoffs:
artisan hayate otsu (my previous favorite mousepad; more static & much more dynamic friction, amazing XY symmetry & skin feel, and manageable arm sleeve support)
artisan raiden (more expensive & worse version of the lamzu, but great pad all around -- similarly very poor support for arm sleeves as the energon)
odin infinity v2 2xl mousepad (basically a deskpad artisan hien with a slightly better arm feel, but still a bit scratchy/"pokey" out of the box)
artisan hien (poor XY symmetry, but good control & good arm sleeve support by virtue of easily identifiable XY stitching -- irritates my arm otherwise, so very very weakly recommend)

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even though my glass pad experience has been very poor, i'm still interested in the following if anyone's adventurous enough or, by coincidence, has tried them & could share their experiences:
https://www.machinaultima.com/
they supposedly can texture their glass with varying degrees of friction, to mimic an equivalent cloth experience.

posted 8 months ago
#8 gear thread in Hardware

the xenics titan ge air is so comfortable that it makes me regret the last years of mice i've bought/tried.

an important caveat is that its mouse feet (+ the replacements that ebay buyers tend to bundle with it) are very low quality & will likely be dented, bulged, and/or peeling off the mouse. also, if you fingertip grip by holding the back end of the mouse, you will be holding onto the holes of the honeycomb. thankfully, there are corepad skates for the mouse & the coolermaster mm720 grips and/or truegrip's mm720 grips resolve any comfort issues trivially.

i have to change my hand grip depending on what i'm doing -- fingertip when vertical aiming is equally important to horizontal, and relaxed finger/claw/palm for endurance aiming or horizontal-only aiming -- and this is the only mouse i've ever had that lets me switch between them on the fly without cramping up my ring and pinky fingers.

there are merits to going with a mouse that purely maximizes fingertip grip, like the gwolves hsk plus and pro (still reserving judgment for the m2k that i'll receive at some point before the heat death of the universe), but i believe it's difficult to maintain good performance, or maximize horizontal precision when necessary, with just fingertip. and while they "helped" me in some aim training scenarios & could be used for precision aim, they were never comfortable to play with for any period of time, especially if you're actively moving/using a keyboard + flick aim + lift up the tiny mouse frequently to readjust. if it isn't comfortable for your pinky and ring to be tightly pressing together, if your pinky needs relative elevation to your ring finger, and/or if you're not used to a "1-3-1" grip to circumvent the aforementioned ergonomic problem, stay far away from small box mice.

to note, the gwolves hsk pro 4k does come with a variety of grips, including these dot-shaped grips meant to be stacked on top of one another to serve as a makeshift pinky rest & alleviate some of the ring-pinky strain, but the adhesive sucks & by the time you've adjusted them to figure out something that "works", it'll likely be peeling off already. i never really felt confident using my pinky as an anchor point on the makeshift rest either, due to its give/flexibility vs the firm side of the mouse.

also the wooting 60he is the current GOAT of gaming keyboards.

posted about a year ago
#4 My new video! in Videos

IT IS FRIDAY
HAVE A FRIDAY SONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjDdTM1dkMM

posted about 2 years ago
#4 anyone have info on spider? in TF2 General Discussion

been a long time since we last talked, but i hope you're doing OK too n3. if you're reading this & need someone to talk to, please DM me so we can catch up.

posted about 2 years ago
#6 hypothetical: would you type explod in console irl in Off Topic

jihadism isn't a catch-all term

posted about 2 years ago
#3 hypothetical: would you type explod in console irl in Off Topic

jihadists HATE this one EASY tip to get to heaven

posted about 2 years ago
#8 What if you are guaranteed to be a bad person? in Off Topic

i always believed that you upheld the pinnacle of falsifiable scientific theories, well-cited arguments and reasoning, aimisadick. i can't believe you would shill such a fantastical notion as the multiverse theory. shame on you. this is not the aimisadick i knew and respected on teamfortress.tv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dSua_PUyfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF6USB2I1iU

please elevate your standards before you post next time. i need confidence that your nav mesh superbots come from an authority of scientific wisdom and intellect. thank you.

posted about 2 years ago
#7 Deteriorating quality of TFTV twitch experience in The Dumpster

I'm seeing many bigoted comments up there so I just want to make this clear : any hate towards moderators will result in a permanent ban from this forum with no warning. This includes, but is not limited to, calling moderation a "fake job" or saying that we "do it for free". Moderation is one of the most useful jobs to society.

Behave. Or get banned.

posted about 2 years ago
#20 crypto in Off Topic

gm

posted about 2 years ago
#3 Laptop won't sleep or shut down in Q/A Help

what's the model of the laptop?

posted about 2 years ago
#7 (!!!Christians Only!!!) atheism in tf2 in The Dumpster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn7QvnhJgeA

posted about 2 years ago
#104 Is consistency always a good thing? in The Dumpster

WE ARE NOT BEING WATCHED
WE ARE NOT BEING WATCHED
WE ARE BEING WATCHED
WATCH
THE EYE
WATCH
THE EYE
WATCH
THE EYE
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THE EYE
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THE EYE

posted about 2 years ago
#103 Is consistency always a good thing? in The Dumpster

this thread is now about our solar system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCUsOfgjvs

posted about 2 years ago
#66 Is consistency always a good thing? in The Dumpster
bearodactyli love how the counterargument to 'conflate already carries a negative connotation' was for AimIsADick, PhD, to say 'well, what if someone used it in the other sense of the word, to mix! then i would HAVE to specify' as if citing the fact that there are in fact Two Senses of a word means you have to bastardize the word with some awful prefix instead of just writing like a normal human and letting the reader decide which you mean based on a thing called Context

hello it is me, highschool philosopher mcgee, i shall resolve Every Single Possible Ambiguity in my War Against Context

i studied philosophy and am in grad school doing research in natural language processing but i hope my pedigree wont mis-disqualify me from discussion with sir AimIsADick (please do keep replying though i cant wait to make a chatbot version of u trained on your awful posts)

sorry bear, we're looking for an unnatural language processor. we'll call you if we have an opening.

flatlinejoshuawnhello everyone i will help settle this epic debate
conflate is best understood in modern day use as a portmanteau of confuse & inflate (a definition or a concept). "inadvertent" mixing of concepts tends to be followed in its modern definition.
the etymology points to it as just a mix of concepts, not necessarily one that is confused: https://archives.cjr.org/language_corner/language_corner_020915.php
sometimes language usage just develops ironically like that lol, usually from a need to express a complex sentiment in a way that wasn't previously prolific. sometimes it's just the works of a really popular writer that bring an ironic nuance to a previously neutral word. shakespeare did this with many words. euphemisms, as a concept, are another great example of this.
i hope that helps

sincerely
forum poster
dolphin rider!!!!!

hey flatline, hope you've been doing well :)

posted about 2 years ago
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