Re: Good gaming equipment.
I'm going to tell y'all a story. Two stories, actually; about the greatest keyboard and mouse combo that I've ever known.
Logitech G15 (Discontinued)
Logitech G7 (Discontinued)
Together, I could do anything with these. They were perfection incarnate, the peripherals of gods.
I can't emphasise that enough; I loved these.
I truly loved them, thinking about them is almost bringing a tear to my eye.
The mouse first, as it was the first to go.
The mouse was wireless; probably the first wireless gaming mouse. People were skeptical, and rightly so.
But I could see past what turned out not to be an weakness, but a strength, and I saw the perfect mouse design beneath.
It had one additional side button. Just one. No confusion, nothing superfluous.
Below the side button was an enormous space for your thumb- this mouse felt right in your hand god damnit. Not just right, perfect- ergonomic bliss.
It was heavy, too. No, not heavy, weighty. Either way, this wasn't an issue because of how smoothly it glided. Despite being the heaviest mouse I'd know for around seven years, you could slide it around a mouse pad. Literally, I could have made it glide from one side of my desk to the other.
The mouse-wheel was, like the rest of the mouse, perfection. It stuck out, a lot, which made it really easy to scroll sideways. Scrolling was loud, with this mouse, loud and angry. When you span that wheel, everyone in the room would know.
I can't describe in detail all the nuances of this mouse, but I can tell you that I would take it over any other mouse, ever.
As time passed, I still loved this mouse, even as the battery life became shorter and shorter.
One day, I realised I was just switching the batteries, rather than using the mouse.
And so, I thought I'd buy some new batteries. Of course, I can't find any.
So, I figured I'd just buy a whole new mouse, and use the batteries from that.
And I would have, except the line was discontinued. No more seemed to exist.
The mouse was still perfect, but the batteries had let it down.
Would it have been the same with a cord attached? I don't think so.
I think that the lack of restraint was like a metaphor for freedom. This wasn't a mouse that would limit you.
Quite the opposite.
I still have that mouse. One of the batteries is missing, but I can still use it for short periods at a time.
I don't, though. For the same reason I stopped in the first place.
Episode 2 of 'Stuff I ♥♥♥♥ love' coming soon.