LGR - Three (more) Weird Mice

James Cameron

I actually unboxed that Star Trek mouse a little while ago, too! It's been a daily driver ever since. I'm too much of a Trekkie to put it away.

Myles MAN

Set Phasers to FUN!

Lukas Holldorf

Speaking of Star Trek, did you know this exists, Clint? https://www.ebay.com/itm/203776003578?hash=item2f71ff0dfa:g:2hoAAOSwFk1gRlgc

LGR

I did, and I hope you did too, Evan! I'm really wondering if I can somehow get rid of the spring inside and make the buttons sturdier... it's just such an odd design decision on the part of Roland

LGR

I use a Ducky Secret, stuck with it for three or four years now. It's great!

LGR

Thank you, Darren!

LGR

Ya never know, some of those kids keyboards are surprisingly decent. I'd wager it's quite sturdy, if nothing else!

SuperTekBoy

I wonder if the little tikes keyboard is any good.

SuperTekBoy

"If it's raining on my fingers." love this quote.

Monitor mirrors are 100% a thing Used so you can alt-tab when the boss/parents/spouse try to sneak up on you

Darren Watson

Great video as always. Always look forward to your videos

Shiela Dixon

This isn't the first time I've heard of a monitor mirror recently. I would have said that I heard it from you, but clearly not. I guess the idea was for the office paranoid or NSFW viewer. An enjoyable video as always, thanks.

Luke warm

The discussion about possible uses for a monitor mirror reminds me of chatting with friends on ICQ back in the day over dialup; our favorite abbreviation was PAW (Parents Are Watching). Clint, as a peripheral connoiseur I'm curious what kind of mouse you use for your daily driver on modern PC for non-gaming work?

Evan B

Hope you had a nice Christmas, Clint! That Roland mouse was pretty neat looking.. too bad the buttons were lame

LGR

You got it. There’s a similar thing going on with the serial device I’m covering on Oddware next, except instead of relying on batteries it has a 5-pin passthrough to siphon 5V from the keyboard port!

Chad Armstrong

I’m assuming that the Star Trek mouse needs the extra battery to provide enough power for the additional effects, since the serial port doesn’t offer enough power. The Logitech CyberMan requires two AA to provide tactile feedback, but otherwise works fine without the supplementary batteries.

LGR

I would not be surprised! She’s voiced all kinds of random characters in kids games. Haven’t found any credits mentioning this though.

LGR

I hope that’s actually what you see when you die. Like, in-game *and* for real.

LGR

I always just relied on the reflection in the CRT, but that works too 😄

Dukefazon

I couldn't help but smile all the way when you played UT at the end :D Isn't that cat is voiced by the voice of Bart Simpson?

Kris Asick

When Toby Fox tweeted a picture of a dog in one of those Little Tykes cars, saying it would be the last thing you saw before you died in Deltarune, I'm FAIRLY CERTAIN this wasn't what he had in mind! XD

LGR

There are a couple going right now: Discovery and Picard. And maybe an animated show, I forget. They're all on Paramount's streaming thingie.

Pablo Rodriguez

Man, how do they have a middle dial in the Super Overdrive mouse and not use it as a middle button? What a tease.

Kevin Tangney

I used a spare CD taped to the upper corner of my monitor as a "rear view" mirror in college in the 90's. It prevented people from sneaking up on me while in the lab I worked at. I could actually surprise the person walking up on me by saying hi by name before they reached my station. The look of confusion of the black magic I was using to know how I could possibly know who they were without turning around was great. They just saw the CD on the monitor as some weird decoration and not something functional. I wonder what kids use these days to prevent sneak attacks!?

Novel

Wait... Is Star Trek dead? Like, it hasn't got a current series or anything has it? I feel like through my entire life at least one series has been going but is that still the case?

LGR

What did he use it for?? I looked up photos and it doesn't actually show a proper reflection, it's like a bulbous shiny bit of silvery plastic. I guess it might prove useful if you were worried about people coming up behind you while using the computer, heh. I am highly confused by this mirror.

Aaron Lea

My dad. My dad had that mirror on his monitor, that’s who.

Sabrina

This was thrice as nice!

LGR

Nope, no middle clicking at all unfortunately. Pressing both buttons just inputs the left and right clicks.

Pietro Gagliardi

A serial mouse in 1997? I have to wonder: how anachronistic was that back then? I wonder if the Boss mouse expected you to use both buttons to middle-click.

LGR

Thank you, you too!

LGR

What I'm covering isn't related to stenography exactly, but it does feature similar ideas :)

Joon Choi

Merry Christmas and happy new year Clint - looking forward to another awesome year of LGR videos, although of course no pressure! :)

Looking forward to the video on chorded keyboards! Are you going to cover stenography? Here's the TinyMod I use for Plover steno. http://plover.stenoknight.com/2020/07/who-mods-tinymod.html