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Is no one gonna ask? Just me? Alright.

Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can’t handle being this confounded

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Yo, dawg. I heard you liked scrolling so we put a wheel behind your wheel so you can scroll while you scroll.

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Scroll wheel 2

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Bhopping in csgo

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I’ve got one of these for Photoshop. I’ve got the front wheel set up as normal, but the second wheel is set to change the brush size. It makes working much smoother, as I don’t have to use the keyboard.

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Sounds nice, but I get by fine with alt+right click drag to resize the brush.

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I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.

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Why wouldn’t there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn’t that be more practical?

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Because you’d be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.

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For navigating a great big thing that benefits from two axis scrolling? Yes. For literally anything else a scroll wheel might be used for, like swapping weapons in games? No. The clickyness of the average scroll wheel is actually pretty useful and can’t really be applied to a trackball.

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This mouse model was made decades ago for the time when would come the chosen one. The scroll master. He’s here to equilibrate the world with his scroll powers. Zoom in, zoom out. Volume up, volume down. Everything is possible, with, THE. DOUBLE. SCROLL. WHEEL.

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One is deteriorated by years of palm grease, the other is unadorned by grabber sweat.

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Are you colorblind? Serious question, the mouse on the right is the unopenened one bought at the same time as the left one, which OP used daily for 11 years. The left one has all the red color rubbed off.

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I don’t even get the difference between the two… What is this post about?

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What’s the second mouse wheel for?

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Good choice buying the second for backup. As a console game pr I know nothing about mouses, but I would assume they don’t make this anymore after a decade.

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Meanwhile a good Xbox controller will only last 100 hours

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I’ve used my xbox 360 controller pretty much daily since 2008, mostly on my pc. Looks as good as new, but with some tiny stick drift since a couple of months back

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Somewhere around here I have the HP optical mouse that used to come with their desktops. It finally quit working and I had to replace it, and I had to do the math for how long I had been using it.

Twenty years.

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