$100? You could buy a keyboard...
This just shows that monitors lack calibration and some will game with very high gamma and brightness just to see the dark areas of a map.
Either the game isn't properly made to show these areas or it's the monitors fault.
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I'm astounded half of you actually know the details of these, or even have used them. I need to start selling mouse bungees, Bawls, and gaming gloves in the Classifieds.
I tried Bawls when it was a big sponsor for the CPL. No thanks.
Do you know any place in the US to buy a mouse bungee? I'm using a Razer Armadillo for cord management atm and while it gets the job done, with a stiff braided cord the cord can still hit/move things around on the desk, would rather use a bungee.
As laughable as all these products are, yes, the new braided cables on mice are so stupid.
Even still, I've found that adequate slack on the line gives me next to no trouble.
Yeah the Razer bungee deal went through months ago but there's been no word since.
With the older mice that were rubber coated cables they were extremely flexible... didn't need them then. But with more mice using braided cords now, the ****ing things are too stiff and offer almost no extra durability(I've never had a mouse cable get damaged through normal use or otherwise.) It depends on how cluttered your desk is which admittedly mine isn't the cleanest desk at the moment.
They don't help really, but if you use a mouse with a stiff cord especially you don't have to worry about for example pushing a paper off your desk... or more likely the annoying as hell feeling that when the cord hits something and your movement is restricted momentarily, it's aggravating.
Takes your wired mouse and makes it feel like it's wireless I guess is the best way of explaining it.
Yeah the Razer bungee deal went through months ago but there's been no word since.
Takes your wired mouse and makes it feel like it's wireless I guess is the best way of explaining it.
Most monitors have their brightness set up at 50-100% by default. I found that my monitors produce the best colors at 10-15% brightness.
I've been hanging around the OCN Mechanical Keyboard Guide too long. At 1000000 posts you're bound to see EVERYTHING come up.
Today I've go' the Rocca'...T
Is tha' no' the coolest thing you ever seen!
Bloody hell!
Most monitors have their brightness set up at 50-100% by default. I found that my monitors produce the best colors at 10-15% brightness.
http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/
uhhh, yeah it just set my display to 3500k...while I admit it is pleasant on the eyes colors go out the window :(((
cool concept though, i think it would be a lot better if it worked in conjunction with hardware to measure the ambient light in the room...
I set my computer monitors to 6500k.
I set my computer monitors to 6500k.
Anything that is advertised for the gaming community is going to sell.
as long as it is backed up by a mainstream corp like Logitech, Razer or Roccat and as long as they back up the product with bogus stats and a whole bunch of marketing bull****...
I sometimes feel ashamed to call myself a gamer these days.
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as long as it is backed up by a mainstream corp like Logitech, Razer or Roccat and as long as they back up the product with bogus stats and a whole bunch of marketing bull****...
I sometimes feel ashamed to call myself a gamer these days.
But the entrepreneur in me wants to massively abuse this idiocracy and sell folks gamer-chairs and **** like thatShow Image(http://www.moonbattery.com/toilet-computer.jpg)
I have a three monitor setup (2x24" Apple Cinema and 1x27" Apple Cinema) and all the monitors are calibrated to a standard luminescence of 120. This is much dimmer than what Apple defaults to, probably because consumers react to big, bright displays. I also am a lifelong eyeglasses user.
Separately I've got a pair of 10% grey tint glasses in my prescription from Zenni optical. Normally my glasses are quite expensive but these are so cheap I got the tint as a fashion experiment. I was very surprised to find out that they worked wonderfully as computer glasses.
I'm on the computer about 16 hours a day. I write software by day and by night, at work under fluorescents and in my wonderful home office. I'm not interested in games except to write them. I can't explain the mechanism as to why the tinted glasses work so well, other than I find them calmer, and I indeed can focus better on my work.
I'm curious to try the other tints, amber or green perhaps (our eyes resonse peaks in the blue green due to having evolved in the foliage.)
I disagree with responding to blue/green specifically (everyone's different). I would probably say red or yellow is responded to the best due to it being brighter: and as you just said, apple has their monitors bright for more reaction...
Generally I find colour tint to be annoying (green would probably be the best colour as our eyes can see more of it than any other: supposedly why night goggles are green), it's best to just tint glasses with something like black since it's a shade.
Also, if you're not interested in games but except to write them, well, that's silly! That's the same as saying you enjoy painting pictures, but despise looking at paintings by others. It's always good to get other ideas and try different game concepts.
You don't need crazy gamma or brightness to see dark areas well. All you need is a CRT.
I had a 24" inch CRT before this monitor, that thing weighed 100lbs, it was nice but not as nice as this 26" IPS LCD.
I have an FW900 and it is as good as everyone says it is.
The other day I was lamenting the fact that it was 16:10 and that the games I was playing were all 16:9. On a hunch I delved into the menus, and upon selecting the Image Restore feature I noticed an unusual glint in the corner of the screen that I hadn't seen before. My intuition told me to play a tune on my flute (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2770417283_ab59b882db.jpg), and when I did, the earth shook, and right before my eyes my FW900 reformed itself into a 16:9 display.
Best monitor ever.
The other day I was lamenting the fact that it was 16:10 and that the games I was playing were all 16:9.
It's not fixed to 16:10 only (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9Tf1MLme8).
Haha, the picture made it.
What year was it made? How long have you had it, and where did you get it from?
i had a trinitron TV, i loved it ;).
Anyways, try polarized lenses on LCDs, you might see nothing or some rainbowy colors.
Ok, besides the fun, i ged eyestrain, if my monitor's brightness, contrast, sharpness and colortemperature is to high. Maybe try a tad warmer color temperature and a bit lower brightness first to reduce the eyestrain?