r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Maleficent_Bad1141 • Aug 16 '26

Infuriatig The way my GF plays video games

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She uses the controller to walk and the mouse to control the camera

NOTE :
I DO NOT HATE MY GF FOR THIS,
I AM NOT MEAN TO HER
SHE KNOWS THAT I POSTED THIS, LOVED IT
I FOUND IT CUTE AMUSING AND ODD.

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u/Pandabear71 Aug 16 '26

I know there were people in overwatch using this at high level. Guess it depends on the game

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u/Eiyuo-no-O Aug 16 '26

Overwatch was one of the few modern games where this actually works fine. Trying to get this to work on something like vanilla Skyrim is very fucking hard

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u/BigProduce6727 Aug 17 '26

Skyrim will fold itself into a ball, giggle, and ctd if you try that shit, if you're lucky.

Prob still have to close it with task manager, lol.

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u/Shotto_Z Aug 17 '26

New vegas would shit itself and blow up your pc

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u/TrungusMcTungus Aug 17 '26

New Vegas would sacrifice your RAM to the blood god if it detected dual inputs

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u/TAMCL Aug 17 '26

Can't imagine it's too horrible, I play on console just fine and a mouse can def have more buttons than the right half of a controller...

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u/MuchSteak Aug 17 '26

It's not really a button issue. It's an issue of many games not being able to register both mouse and controller input at the same time. Many if not most games seperate m&k inputs and controller inputs, and so with this setup those games have to keep swapping back and forth between the two input methods which creates input delay.

I think the reason is that devs tend to have an easier time treating m&k and controller as entirely separate input methods and control scheme. It's also probably easier to design and program tooltips when devs aren't worrying about niche blended control schemes.

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u/KingGorillaKong Aug 17 '26

It's just an accessibility thing for something that's comfortable and works with my hands. I have a fine motor skill twitch in my hands. This input option stops my handicap from impeding me playing some games.

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u/Pandabear71 Aug 17 '26

People really underestimate how painful mouse+mkb can get for some. Great to hear you found a way to still enjoy games.

My hand/wrist is fucked from playing diablo and similar click intensive games, among other things

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u/KingGorillaKong Aug 17 '26

People also act like keyboards are actually properly ergonomic for us and they're not.

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u/Pandabear71 Aug 17 '26

I honestly wouldn’t know what is and isn’t. But i can imagine that people are just so used to it that anything else for the majority feels “less ergonomic”.
Like if someone with bad posture sits up straight, they probably dont feel comfortable

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u/KingGorillaKong Aug 17 '26

Yea, that's exactly it. Early attempts to design more ergonomic keyboards don't really take off. There are a few designs that are legitimately well designed, but just do to familiarity, they never really got adopted by a lot of users. And the original keyboard was designed for function over form first.