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Also, are malware-free cursor applications still a thing? Or does it make me an old man to want to do it in 2023?

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Who uses a mouse? I function all applications with just a keyboard, my custom arch based distribution doesn’t even support mice because I removed all drivers from the kernel. /s

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You use a keyboard? Cringe. I just pull up a virtual keyboard on screen and click every button that I need to type.

It's 2023, gramps.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahhh, the steam deck experience, I relate.

[–] jarredpickles87 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh, excuse me, but the steam controller was actually the first Valve hardware to do this.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You mean double touchpad typing superiority?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, look at Ms Fancy over here. I use a morse code telegraph to make all my inputs. Ones and zeros, that's all a computer needs. Everything above that is pointlessly overcomplicated

But yes, it has RGB LEDs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm imagining you slaving away for the past few hours to get this reply out.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

signature look of superiority

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 16 points 1 year ago

neck beard intensifies

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Do you use a keyboard? All the cool kids use punch cards

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Who uses a keyboard all I need is a saxaphone

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[–] HRDS_654 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You feel a tingle in the back of your mind. You want to change your mouse cursor. Authority.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Without any prompting, I read it in the narrators voice. Praise the Absolute.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Anything for a True Soul! Changing it now, boss.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Change the OS cursor, i don't know about mac but you can do that on windows and linux

[–] Wootz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I misremembering, but did Baldur's Gate, Warcraft 2, or something ship with a cursor package for windows?

I didn't have Internet back then, but I recall finding out that you could change the cursor to a gauntlet from one of those games, much to the chagrin of my parents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It is possible, some games like to have some extras like wallpapers, custom icons, etc, specially back them. I would love to see more of that, the last time i've seem was with yakuza kiwami with some avatars, wallpapers and animated arts to use on steam.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I might actually do this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On windows it's Settings > Themes, then click the "Mouse pointers" item. That should bring up the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties window. Then it's just a matter of getting .ani or .cur versions of the pointers you want.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You would've loved black and white 2 then. The basic concept of the game was you are a god and you can choose to be evil or benevolent. Like if roller-coaster tycoon and Age of empire had a baby. The pointer was a hand that moved depending on what you were doing in your world. AND it changed the more evil or good you were.

[–] isthingoneventhis 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Of all the games I wish got a proper remake, it's B&W and Dungeon Keeper.

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[–] 0ddysseus 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going a long way back but I'm pretty sure you could use it to just slap the shit out of your giant monster guy. That might be a different "play as god" game though...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You're thinking of the right game. You had a pet that was pretty much a massive bipedal animal monster that you could train. Depending on what you do with them, when you reward them with food and petting and when you punish them by slapping them, they'd change their behaviour. You could teach them to either farm food off of fields or eat villagers when they were hungry, whatever you wanted. It was a really fun feature, at least for six year old me.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Whoa, I didn't know deviant art also had useful stuff like this on it. Thanks!

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[–] Spudwart 14 points 1 year ago

Don’t install cursor applications, just add cursor packs for your respective operating system.

[–] scally 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Linux you can install whatever cursor pack you want and then select it… all in the terminal!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And also out of the terminal if you'd prefer graphical settings on desktops like Plasma and XFCE, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm not very sure about Windows aside from DeviantArt, RealWorld and similar galleries, but for KDE you can get a catalogue built into the cursor settings

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No problems in Windows, you can download and use a ton of cursors from Deviantart and a lot of other sitees, there are even some Cursor Manager, with which you can change the cursor set with one clic, also some editors to make your own sets. The cursor image format is the same for Linux and Windows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's next when you click and the printer finger moves. Serotonin please

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

theres malware on cursor applications? isnt it possible to just change the cursor with the .cur files if youre on windows?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You know a game is good when it does this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the platform i guess? Windows cursors vs. Linux cursors.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It takes a lot of willpower for me not to make my ubuntu desktop look like a virus riddled win7/xp desktop

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What’s the bottom left one from? It’s killing me …

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I have dreams of the RuneScape dragon scimitar cursor

[–] poopsmith 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ooh, the top left ones are from Ultima Online. Haven't seen those cursors in a long while.

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[–] Rustmilian 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Switch to Linux and you can change your mouse cursor to always be a gauntlet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I might not switch on my current daily driver, but I'm seriously thinking of converting an extra PC I have lying around and seeing what all the fuss (foss) is about.

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[–] SimplyATable 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you do that with windows too?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hand of a lil guy :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful

[–] Klear 6 points 1 year ago

I have been chosen by the big metal hand in the sky!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Brings me back to the MapleStory days. That little white glove brings back such happy memories.

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