Pushing the limits...

When you possibly have the fastest gaming mouse on earth, what's more can you do to make it even faster? Things like these came into the head like crazy murmurings from outer space. Gamers like us are obsessed with speed: the faster, the better. It's a fetish. No sane being would understand why maniacs like us, like me would spend huge cash just to get faster in games. It is the gaming bloodline, the core that drives us through this. Play it to believe it. We are not only buying speed, but also deadlier accuracy, to ruin others' life in the virtual world. Gaming, just as real life, ain't fun, at least not until you are good at it. You will have to out-Skill and out-Equip your opponents by all means necessary except cheating (farkin' hate cheaters, they have no life).

Okay, back to the spotlight of today. The G9 gaming mouse by Logitech, albeit super fast with 3200DPI sensor, has a wee bit of problem. Notice the mouse feet. They are large, which translates to higher friction when moving on top of mousing surfaces (mouse pad). Though the Razer Mantis mouse mat fibertrek technology played a huge role reducing the friction to minimal, it ain't enough. I want my mouse to god damn FLY!

Original mouse feet.

Hyperglide heard me and soon they announced the Hyperglide G9 mouse skates. They called it mouse skates instead of mouse feet to imply that your mouse skates through the surface, not walking a.k.a. feet. These mouse skates are made out of smooth teflons to provide smoother movements and accuracy in games, by reducing friction between the mouse and the mouse pad. The package comes with 2 pairs of mouse skates, an alcohol swab and a simple instruction sheet.

Hyperglide mouse skates package.

First, remove the original skates/feet from the mouse. The original ones weren't bad, but I wanted more. Loved the G9 design whereby the original feet can be easily peeled off through the groove of the mouse feet frame. Then, clean the sticky glue off the surface with the alcohol swab until there's no residue left.

Feet-less G9 after having its original feet peeled.

Carefully position the Hyperglide mouse skates and stick'em into place. Apply pressure on top of the the mouse skates for at least 5 seconds to create a lasting bond. Just like love. You're done! It's that easy.

Tadaa...armed with Hyperglide mouse skates.

Performance wise, the gliding is a lot smoother compared to original mouse feet. It feels like the mouse would actually glide out of my hands! It is like flying through the mouse pad! However, care must be taken as these teflons are soft and can be easily scratched by hard particles underneath, thus destroying the smoothness, if you aren't careful. Read the maintenance tips here.

It only took me a while to adapt to this new speed and start fragging people online. It's good, it feels good, it controls good. Money paid justified. Thumbs up. Speed freak? Get this.

Engrish... ROFLMAO...

Some engrish humour!
Ken leeeeeeee...... and people actually can get famous like this. wtf...

FPS Games Sharpen Vision

Now...who said gaming is all bad? Recent research found out that gaming actually improves what they called, our eyes' contrast sensitivity. Quoted from the technical website, it is the ability to notice tiny changes in shades of grey against a uniform background, which degrades with age.

Crysis: Warhead

However, the only games that bring improvements are fast action games like first person shooters (FPSs) or the like. Not real time strategy (RTS), not role playing games (RPG)!

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

FPS games rely on your hand-eye coordination and ultra-fast reflexes to mow down enemies. This type of games usually involve rapid changing graphics and environments which our eyes have to adapt. Games to try would be Call of Duty 4, TF2, Crysis, Unreal Tournament, Quake IV, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War (not that rapid tho, its built for console noobs) and not forgetting Counter Strike series (Source preferred, personally).

Team Fortress 2

Man, those are my favorite games. FPS freak! Now I know why there's people getting slower (response) towards graphical changes around them. This could be the cause. Your sensitivity has degraded! LMAO. Fear not, there's cure! Play more FPS games will not only boost your hand-eye coordination, your reflexes and now, also your eyesight! That's another +1 benefit of FPS gaming.

Game on!

Quote:

... "What we found is that even without this correction you can help your brain make better use of whatever information is received from your retina,” she said.

For the study, Bavelier and three colleagues conducted two sets of experiments. In the first, they compared the contrast sensitivity of hard-core action game players with video game aficionados of the same age who preferred less rapid-fire fare.

In action games, players typically target and shoot figures that pop up suddenly on a computer screen.

The researchers found that the action buffs were 50 percent more efficient at detecting contrast.

But there remained a chicken-or-egg question: had their vision been improved by playing, or did they become action game players because they had better than average contrast sensitivity to start with?

To find out, Bavelier asked two groups of non-action video game players to undergo 50 hours of training. One played a popular point-and-shoot game called Call of Duty, and the other played a game that offered a rich visual experience, but one bereft of action.

”We found that the people in the first group improved by 43 percent, and the other group not at all,” she said.

More info can be found here: link



-ps: Pictures posted are mine without watermarks. Lazzz...hey, I need to keep up with my eyesight trainings!

Off the $treets...

With mah cash runnin' low these days, heavy cost savings are on. Thanks to the worst crisis of the century...thank you idiots for spending too much "future" money! Fags.

Cost saving plans you asked? Get my feet off the streets! Camp inside, and cut down unnecessary expenses. Heck, these critical moments made you think twice bout what'ya gonna spend the cold hard cash on. Plus how ridiculously underpaid we are in this freakin' industry. WTF...M@#$%s...

Anyways, I've these to keep myself busy for now. At least these could restore some portion of my happiness. Just like morale boost of some sort. Highly recommended when you have nothing better to do!

GTA IV let's you do all sorts of crimes, dirty works on the streets, where you play as Niko and work your ass up to pursue the American Dream in Liberty City. Be warned tho, this PC version is full of damn bugs, memory leak problems and you'll need the freakin' XP service pack 3 to run it. There's a hack without needing SP3 but I have not tested it out. Might revert to SP2 after completing the game. Damn Rockstar, this is a bad port ya rude boyz! seen! Gonna stick a gun up their arses.

Burnout Paradise is arcadish racing game. The damage effect is beautiful. Race online and take down others. Fun stuff. Very smooth and high quality graphics. To my surprise, it doesn't even need a killing machine to run. Cool. Fun + Cool means you must play this.

Dawn of War II, a stunning RTS with a different approach. Haven't been playing this much as the previous two occupies most of my time. This game focus more on strategically placing your units without the need of building structures like the typical RTSs.

Welp, when I'm not busy gamin' I might update the page again. It's time to jet.
Till then. Ciao.