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you want to add some balls to your gaming have you ever gamed and thought

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man i need more balls do you need some balls in your gaming

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i'm excited because today we are going to unbox another weird gaming product

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this is the game ball what they tell to be the world's first gaming trackball

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what does that mean does that just mean it's a bad trackball because gaming

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products kind of suck maybe let's start with just the unboxing i actually kind

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of like the simplicity of this box you gotta know when a roll

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okay game your way this is not my way but uh i'll game your way today oh wow

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they really recommend watching the quick start guide because they highlighted it

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i'm actually a big fan of products that come like this no bs

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just cardboard cardboard paper one plastic bag which is fair do

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you want this to arrive like looking pretty pristine you might wonder why

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would you use a trackball not a mouse there's a lot of reasons there's actually a lot of people out there that

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use trackballs in their daily life not mice it's usually for like video editing

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or cad it's way better for reducing like

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rsi because like you think about a mouse you have to like really swing here

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you're just like swinging this little ball around and if you get good you can have like a little dpi switch so you can

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change your sensitivity so you really don't have to work much and for precision stuff once you get used to it

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it can actually be pretty amazing it's actually great if you don't have a big

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desk do you think about a mouse you really need a lot of inches

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i need a lot of inches the dorm room students sure yeah who has a good tiny

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little desk or you're someone who has not a lot of room in their place uh this

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is actually a great way because it's stationary you just move this first

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thing that i do not like although it's kind of fair is the build quality

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of this cable it's a kind of a cheap feeling plastic cable and because it's a

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trackball it's not really moving around so it doesn't have to be as durable as a

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mouse but i think when you're paying for a gaming product you're paying for

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aesthetics this is kind of a bit of a bummer before we actually go too much

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further this is actually the special edition one the black and red color it

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seems to be sold out on their website so let's also compare it to

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the regular one the gray wow this really doesn't

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look gaming in any way shape or form

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i love the the way that the finish is on these you can see like there's like a

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glitter layer but it's just below the kind of coating so it has almost

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that car finish which i think is a really attractive look i think i like

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the red better but i think the blue would probably hold up a little bit

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better to like fading and scratches on the rest of the build of the mouse

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i'm a little less impressed this product

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is coming in at 148 usd

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i almost think that it's unfortunate that it's gaming branded although it

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doesn't strike me as particularly

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gamey except the like lobster tail shape

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it's just a lobster it says game ball yeah and i'm guessing there's a little

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bit of RGB going on you know for that gamer the wheel has ceramic bearings it

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doesn't feel like it's as smooth as i want it to be it's not bad you rarely

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with the trackball are like outside of that there's these little

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touch bars ambidextrous shape and ambidextrous buttons which is going to

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be interesting uh it's all customizable which is great it's got a pixar optical

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sensor it doesn't say which one that it is so pixar makes good sensors so i'm

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not too too worried it's got omron switches for the buttons again they

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don't specify which ones they come in high end and low end ones i'm guessing

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it's somewhere uh in the middle it's fairly large which i find interesting

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it's not a shape that i think will work for everyone it actually doesn't feel

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great for me this big palm rest is nice

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but it also kind of forces your hand into one way and i don't have like

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medium sized hands it'd be better fit for big hands if you had little hands

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this would not work it's about uh 0.75 of a banana in length the lobster

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tail is like 70 of the radius of the inner radius of the banana the balls are

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about the size of i don't know a small

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jawbreaker you could get for what used to be 25 cents i don't even know what

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jawbreakers go for anymore uh yeah

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oh it just comes out okay great so we get a look inside little trackball or

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the little ceramic bearings which is nice but then there's the optical sensor

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at the bottom but at least it comes out really easily it's easier than even an

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old ball mouse we had to like unscrew a thing and then pull it out and it's also

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not touching the ground so it's gonna get a little bit less dust than those

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would have tracked in the plastic it's kind of like that rubbery plastic feel

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it's not bad um it's not like top end quality

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the buttons feel pretty good i like the shapes quite a bit because it's very

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clear which one i'm about to press there's good distinction and like even

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on the different parts of the button it's very clear where my thumb is where

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my fourth or like pinky finger would be i think that's actually a very good

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design for six buttons all within reach it has a thousand hertz polling rate

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which is good any less i'd imagine is is

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garbage it's the same as a mouse they advertise

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that it's also fully capable as a daily trackball mouse this probably

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wouldn't be your preferred choice just because i think that it's unless you like the shape there's other options out

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there i have a weird thing i don't think things branded as gaming

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are uh generally better like there's some stuff yes like

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you want a gaming monitor if you're playing like competitive games you want the high

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refresh rate you want the low pixel response times you want like the clarity

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the ulmb or the black insertion you want

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the gaming features same with the mouse you want thousand hertz polling rate you

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want a great sensor you want reliability you want a good shape light so like

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there is stuff where gaming matters but i feel like a trackball i don't really

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know what it offers over another regular

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trackball other than like the shape underneath we have these anti-glide pads

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in fact called rubber pads where i just want to test it you know i just want to

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plug it in you know like talk about what it's like when it's powered on you know

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out which buttons are which okay that's right click or left click this is

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definitely going to be a bit of a struggle as i re-learn the muscle memory

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this is a it's a good trackball it's smooth people who use trackballs this

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section might be boring to you because you're like yeah i was a trackball i

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don't know what i'm doing this is for you other people like me who use mice

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okay this that is really telling of what

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i think where i'm on a laptop like oh i'm gonna go control and get to my tab

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then my first instinct was to get off of the game ball and go to the

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trackpad which i hate so that tells you a little bit of my per my immediate

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reaction that being said that's not fair because with things like this that are

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such a departure from what you're used to you just have to get used to it

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there's going to be an awkward learning period oh it's it's so important you've

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used trackballs before right like cad and stuff a game bowl it's a game ball

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yeah it's specifically targeted as the world's first gaming trackball which i

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think is a mistake yeah look at this spin out oh yeah

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it goes everywhere when you go fast yeah i could see why you'd want this on like

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a plane yeah i think you're kind of we're coming to the issue is it's hard

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to see why you would want it for gaming i want to

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see let me see

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we're gonna figure this out together you actually can't see it unless i turn it

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sideways but there's actually RGB kind of shining through the cracks in the

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button that's what they're just gonna say on my on my tombstone had RGB

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shining through his crack you know what i threw this away but as

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this is a product that i'm not super familiar with let's uh

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rtfm yeah i generally must okay these are my

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scrolls oh okay okay okay i could see

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this being a problem so these little like capacitive pads or whatever that's your scroll one

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is horizontal one is vertical i don't love dpi clutches on mice where you just

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hit the button and it switches between like one mode and another like a sniper

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mode you go from regular sensitivity to really low sensitivity for those fine

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fine things but i actually could see a use on

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this trackball let's watch this video david reacts baby

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oh my god it's 40 minutes

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quick start needs to be at most 10 minutes but it should be like four

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minutes and 30 seconds okay so it's showing me

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all this stuff showing me how to clean it oh you can change like the acceleration

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that's cool we ain't gonna do that today we go on default baby we going raw i've

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been a little bit hard on this as a gaming product i think there is games

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that could could use it strategy games uh real time strategy games so you know

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anything that's a little more casual that doesn't require quick reflexes and

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precision but i want to find out for myself let's go buddy i think it's

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interesting john that you got me a cheap mouse to compare with 150 dollar product

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with the cheap mouse versus this we'll see it's gonna be a little bit closer this mouse isn't

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particularly great but it's doing what i want you know my brain and my hand are

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communicating they're working well together all right that's just like a

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little warm up i probably could do better if i if i played it again but i'm very curious as to how this

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mother lover feels let's go

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game ball are you turning on oh yeah there we go

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okay

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come on hit up for sake oh my god

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okay okay okay okay but the problem i'm feeling and it might

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just be because i'm getting used to it my hand is so

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tense right now i'm like hard as a freaking board and i'm like trying to

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get like these tiny little my new changes yeah i feel like maybe low dpi

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is the way the high dpi is definitely not the way oh

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okay i definitely can see that it's mostly my inexperience i've got to get

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used to it i don't even think if i use this for a thousand hours i would be better than i

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am with a mouse one thing that i'm finding having used it the joint that you're

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using with the trackball which is kind of this knuckle side to side that's not

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something humans generally have a lot of precision or articulation with i think

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in general my wrist hand and kind of ARM

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i'm more used to having it be an expression a natural connection for my

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brain to my hand that is definitely uh i'm used to this thing but i don't think

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that this is the best joint for

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like gaming i'd be interested to see you trackball users if you think that you

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could get really good at gaming i think your thumb's probably better

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be kind of curious i can i can immediately feel my tension

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in my shoulder like i like as soon as i'm using my thumb i can feel

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the muscle just like all the way up the more i'm using it the more

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i like it this is immediately a better experience it's like yeah i'm

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selecting these things i this is fine to play with a mouse but i could absolutely

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see wanting to play this entire game with a trackball

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the experience with a game like xcom immediately sells me more on this

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product an interesting question is is this a good supplementary accessory

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to your current setup is it something that if you do a lot of productivity

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work you could have an addition to a mouse i think it actually would be a

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great thing it's not cheap 150 us dollars like that's a lot of money for

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an additional accessory i do think this has a place in a lot of people's gaming

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setups a lot of people's setups some people's

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gaming setups maybe if you're a big rts person and again you're feeling that rsi

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and it's cool to support smaller companies upstarts i think that's neat

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can i give it an unbridled recommendation no is it worth checking

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out yeah for sure check it out at the link in the description below i think it's it's not a bad time thank you so

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much for watching this ShortCircuit if you want to watch more mouse and other

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gaming products you can click anywhere you want on your screen don't do that

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click on the ball here it is go get the ball go get the

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ball no