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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Look it's totally normal for it to curve a little bit okay

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

If it curves too much you may have a disorder that can be treated with medicine.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Posy is the shit. Even Lazy Posy is better than most other channels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Read "Posy is shit" at first. Anyways yeah he's awesome!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This dude's entire channel is phenomenal. Love his video on segmented displays.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I thought the narrator sounded familiar. Their videos on displays of different kinds are utterly mesmerizing. What an unreasonably high quality channel.

[–] MashedTech 7 points 5 months ago

This really is so good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Boy do I have a video for you

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yo, I came here to post this, I'm using his cursors right now (with the optional middle-finger addon)

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheDoozer 19 points 5 months ago

I think my favorite part of that is the pair of tiny hands passing that double deuce right back.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Destroy all technology

It's time to start over

If you need me, I'll be hunting and gathering

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

That we can keep

[–] shadearg 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This was glaring when individual pixels were distinguishable.

The offset design is certainly on purpose.

[–] AlfredEinstein 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just like Tom Cruise's middle tooth

[–] shadearg 7 points 5 months ago

Just like Megan Fox's toe thumbs

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Breeze (KDE) cursor forever!

[–] germtm_ 5 points 5 months ago

good choice, but i'm a Bibata enjoyer myself.

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[–] Risus_Nex 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a design choice! Engelbert & English probably thought real hard about this little "offset". To bring in more dynamic or something!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I like it because it points up, not straight.

Everyone loves a good upcurve.

[–] gunslingerfry 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I switched to a circular cursor and I love it so much. https://github.com/ful1e5/Google_Cursor

[–] Alk 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I might try that. Did it take much getting used to? What do you like about it more? Is it hard to "aim" sometimes?

[–] gunslingerfry 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've had literally no problem with aiming in fact aiming is easier. It took no getting used to whatsoever. I changed it because I was doing a video demonstrating a feature on a touch screen but using a mouse and it seemed closest to the touch tracking while doing a screen recording on a phone. I found I liked it and had no desire to go back.

I like the symmetry quite a bit as well as how easy it is to identify things I can interact with (black dot inside) vs things that I cannot (black border). I also really dig the thick text cursor. My only complaint is the resize handle is not super obvious. It's kind of a lemon shape.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

years ago i read that the reason for the lopsidedness of the cursor was because of the old crt monitors. it just looked better having two edges being 'straight'; one exactly vertical up and down, one exactly horizontal, left to right; as those edges would have no 'jaggies'

rotating the pointer straight-up makes it look even more off-kilter.
https://files.catbox.moe/1dhu8r.png

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kase 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller. The two strokes in an X aren't the same thickness, nor are their parallel edges actually parallel; the vertical stems of a lowercase alphabet are thinner than those of its capitals; the ascender on a d isn't the same length as the descender on a p, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

What the fuck, I will never look at things the same way again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

God damn it

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[–] Reddfugee42 7 points 5 months ago

It's perspective, to look like it's pointing into the screen.

[–] Sanctus 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah if you use mcrosft 🤮

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
[–] LazaroFilm 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The name always made me think of a penis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Why'd you name your company after your dick?"

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[–] WhereGrapesMayRule 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's only gay if you receive the click, not send it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

i believe it's just pointing out the misalignment of the graphic. people may be under the impression that something like a cursor has mathematically precise proportions, but it does not.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And it’s by design. Because if it was absolutely precise the edge wouldn’t have been straight

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-default-cursor-why-asymmetrical-tilted/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

yeah it has kind of an optical balance to it. i don't mind that it's not mathematically perfect because it appears proportional. optics are all that matters, especially in pixel art.

(edit: i guess 'pixel art' isn't correct anymore because it's a vector graphic, but it used to be pixels!)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

LAMBS TO THE COSMIC SLAUGHTER!

[–] PunnyName 6 points 5 months ago

I'm okay with this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

At least back when it was pixelated you could still pretend it was centered

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