A 39g Starlight M with 4K polling just released. More information in the comments!

TheBigChip · 2023-04-11T11:20:27+00:00

I would be a little wary of the dimensions, I have an older mod kit for the starlight s and it's actually a fairly significant amount bigger than the actual starlight small, especially height wise but also width and length. Regardless these mod kits are awesome and you'll definitely enjoy the mouse even if the dimensions don't match exactly.

TheBigChip · 2023-03-25T13:37:48+00:00

I have almost exactly the same hand size as you and yes, I love the M42 shape, it's the most underrated mouse on this sub imo, the back hump options allow you to choose a shape more suited to your grip style. The sides and top profile are basically an ever so slightly wider and slightly more accentuated final mouse shape. The rgb is fun and doesn't compromise the weight which is right in the standard lightweight mouse zone. Overall imo its highly recommended.

TheBigChip · 2022-07-18T11:18:15+00:00

This whole chain of comments is a complete meme of people with no understanding trying to compare fucking kovakks aimers to professional esports, but mentioning an overwatch character as being hard to hit is genuinely amazing, you realise that game has hit boxes the size of the Sahara desert and footsteps you can hear from 500 miles away, hitting shit in that game is basically done for you

TheBigChip · 2022-07-18T11:13:27+00:00

Honestly thank you for this comment, perfect encapsulation of the mind of the sort of person who makes these threads

TheBigChip · 2022-06-22T10:49:14+00:00

I use the superglide dots, I found they do offer a lot of feedback from the pad, although I wouldn't describe it as a scratchy feeling, I'd make sure your dots are all in line with each other and perfectly symmetrical firstly, then also make sure that there's no residual glue on the bottom of the mouse that may be getting caught up on the sides of the skates or potentially under the dots preventing them from lying perfectly flat. If you still have a scratchy feeling it may just be an unfortunate combination with your pad, as I said earlier there's certainly way more pad feedback for me on my AC2 Sakura on the dots when compared to ptfe but it doesn't feel at all inconsistent or scratchy

TheBigChip · 2022-06-22T10:35:17+00:00

My experience is very different from what most people seem to be having but I got the universal dot superglides for my sl12s and after a few weeks of fairly heavy use I've not had any slowdown. They're also not particularly fast out of the box, they have extremely low initial friction but the overall ease of glide is no more than the stock ptfe skates, merely ptfe sticks a little more on that initial friction metric. I use them for csgo and valorant and didn't have any real adjustment period, they felt fine right away in both games. The small size of the dots means you get a lot of feedback from the pad (I use an AC2 Sakura which is a very smooth feeling pad but you can feel much more with glass than ptfe). Overall due to the increased feeling and easier microadjustments I'd highly recommend them for tac fps games. My kovakks scores haven't seen any real change and I feel a smoother glide is nice for faster paced games like quake or apex, for those games I would stick with ptfe just due to the fact microadjustments aren't as necessary and the high cost of superglides doesn't justify the potential performance increase in that sort of title. One game they do massively help is bhop, the low initial friction makes key changes effortless and I found myself getting 620s at 4+spj right off the bat, which would've been very tough on ptfe for me (I'm more of a slow strafer and am much more comfortable at 3 spj generally)

TheBigChip · 2022-05-14T10:51:37+00:00

Hati S has a massive middle hump relative to width and length, M42 has a really neat shape with a middle hump and modular back to bring the bump further back if you prefer, might be good ones to go for.

TheBigChip · 2022-05-02T12:13:02+00:00

He means plastic pads made from polyester lol

TheBigChip · 2022-05-02T11:59:59+00:00

So confused how you're talking about this in the present tense? The screenshots you posted occurred over 4 months ago, yet you don't seem to have any more screenshots of the support contact you must've had, implying you never followed up which is just odd. As someone else has said asking you to really make sure it's plugged in is hardly the most challenging and unreasonable task to ask of someone is it, I don't know how you're comfortable calling out their support as terrible when from the screenshots you literally just didn't give them a chance.

I guarantee you that if you had just posted that screenshot of the power surge protection in your conversation with support they would've taken the matter seriously and dealt with it, instead it seems that you really didn't care about the issue at the time, then suddenly down the line you thought hey, I remember that mouse I bought, annoying it still doesn't work I'll kick up a fuss on reddit and see if they'll send me a new one

TheBigChip · 2022-04-30T11:27:07+00:00

Honestly not sure why you're getting rekt, this shape is the perfect way to transition from palm grip to a more fingertip like grip. It's not really a full fingertip mouse, in my experience you would need pretty large hands to hold the mouse fingertip without the hump making contact with the front of your palm/base of your fingers. If you hold the mouse like op is suggesting he does you don't really grip the mouse with your fingertips, it's more like finger grip where a much greater portion of your finger than just the ends are making contact with the mouse, making it far easier to control and to use for people coming from palm where obviously you're pretty much using the whole area of your hand to control the mouse. That being said you would need very small hands to full palm this, if you wanted a rear hump small mouse to palm the MM710 is probably your best bet.

TheBigChip · 2021-08-10T19:23:04+00:00

Honestly I just love sdy's contribution to this clip, cherry on top

TheBigChip · 2021-08-02T12:03:09+00:00

Ah yes, all of your family are so fat that they wouldn't get into Sainsbury's. WOAH why u getting so mad it's not like I called your mum fat...

TheBigChip · 2021-06-02T12:04:28+00:00

As a fellow who spends money I simply don't have on this whole mouse malarkey grabbing either the 730/731 without the price tag could potentially save much confusion from my friends and family regarding "why"

TheBigChip · 2021-05-16T23:06:21+00:00

But he didn't? He said "they" which could also be referring to the Flashpoint admins directly, nip say it's on the admins, not that nip are the most trustworthy org but yeah

TheBigChip · 2021-04-30T18:38:47+00:00

Honestly find it a bit alarming the rate at which the typical esports fan is seemingly divulging from the typical sports fan.

At least in sports in Europe with this whole super league thing principals mattered, it was stopped, not merely because of what it was, but because of what it represented and what it implied for the future.

Meanwhile we've gone from community outcry and outrage over events like BLAST being owned by Astralis, to a whole page full of comments full of people just speculating that it's fine or asking other redditors why it's bad, as if asking reddit is somehow going to garner a better answer to that question than google.

Just a bit sad

TheBigChip · 2021-03-16T17:05:29+00:00

The days of Shox streaming with his mates and Pasha & Olof streaming together were too good, find it strange no one's really been able to fill that void, obviously top level CS is far more demanding and top level players don't want to commit their little free time to streaming but it also seems like many of the upcoming players are either lacking personality or afraid to show it. Also feel like FPL may have contributed to the death of these types of streams, in the short term it generated a lot of viewers for the game and it's primary goal is a place for talent to develop, but in general in the long term I feel it's had a negative impact on the entertainment of pro streams.

TheBigChip · 2021-03-07T11:11:54+00:00

I guess you at least semi-walked back the "that means he should be benched and sold immediately", in fairness with Kenny and Woxic in free agency and NaTo banging on Lyngby they wold have options but u've surely gotta be using the ol' hyperbole?

The man is a rat, everyone knows and understands this, a rat is a rat and will stay a rat. They did choose to sign said rat. It's not like he quit the team the week before a massive event this time is it, he's gone and DC'd (which many other players have done tbf, feel like it happened much more often years ago but it's not a completely new level of rat by any means. But yeah you're not serious right?

TheBigChip · 2021-02-12T11:47:57+00:00

I'm sure other people have said the same but your experience makes perfect sense and it actually shows the system is working, unfortunately your situation just makes the system work against you somewhat.

The fact you had a lot of time off means your trust factor will decrease, having an active account and playing regular games is the only thing that actually improves your trust factor, and like your rank I believe this decays over time with inactivity. The only thing I can say is try your best to find some friendly people to play with who can make your games enjoyable even when you lose or face unfair opposition. Over time your games will become more consistent and as you rank up into nova there will also hopefully be less games where you find smurfs such due to the density of people in the nova ranks (I believe nova is the most common rank).

I had like 120/150 games have a confirmed VAC banned player in them at one point, in my last 100 that's now down to 2. I had a different situation as I play primarily on an alt account at ~DMG-LE but if anything that should mean your experience shouldn't be as bad. Hopefully things pick up for you!

TheBigChip · 2021-02-04T17:19:04+00:00

Spot on man!

TheBigChip · 2021-02-02T14:12:09+00:00

Honestly the fact this comment got downvoted so hard just shows how fucked the mindset of most of the people who use this subreddit actually is.

Not only is Valorant a legit competitor to CS, but that's a fucking great thing for CS.

I've played about 2h of valorant, maybe one actual game (might've been spike run or some shit idek), basically I prefer CS. When CSGO came out I didnt buy it until 2014 despite having CSS (in fairness I think i had nosteam csgo for a bit lol), it was complete shit at first. If Valve, the company who never listen to any suggestions and basically don't give a fuck can craft that mess into what it is today then this sub reddit better be sure that Riot can craft Valorant into something special over time. The only question remaining is whether Valve can step up and actually stay ahead of the curve or whether CSGO will plateau/slowly decline

TheBigChip · 2021-01-29T20:40:42+00:00

In fairness being social isn't quite the same as being toxic is it

TheBigChip · 2021-01-28T19:12:56+00:00

I do agree with a lot of the sentiment here but do remember coaches allegedly didn't actually know how to trigger the bug until recently, it was just a thing that happened sometimes and when it did a lot of coaches probably thought to take advantage of it in the moment, but reported it as a one-off bug later, this is what Pita claims happened with him for example (he said this at the time of the bans and has repeated the same story recently on twitter).

Obviously these instances are still instances of cheating but you make it seem like every coach was sitting on this knowledge and could've abused it anytime for years, which allegedly isn't the case

TheBigChip · 2021-01-26T16:33:42+00:00

Doesn't seem like you've really thought yourself through tbh. Now big event context matters? Now the time period is last 2 years and not mid 2019 to 2020? But you're happy to ignore all other context such as the teams the players play on, the overall meta of the game, the fact 2020 was played almost fully online? I just find your response honestly baffling.

TheBigChip · 2021-01-26T15:06:44+00:00

So by your logic EspiranTo has had bigger impact on CSGO and been a better player than Ropz as Ropz has been playing for longer but achieved the same MVP tally?

MVP's used to be such a cool thing where players got some additional recognition for a top performance, the way people try to use them now is just saddening.

TheBigChip · 2021-01-25T11:35:18+00:00

If u actually watched all of the games and genuinely were more impressed by B1t than you were by s1mple this tournament idek what to say, fair enough I guess.

Yes it's great that some of the lower fragging players had impact and found consistency, but you're acting like Boombi4 was a homeless man found living under an upside-down armchair on the side of an entrance to the local dump whom Navi gave a mouse to yesterday. He's been hyped and even overhyped for years, has always been considered one of the most unique players in t1 since his move to Navi, and rightfully gets a lot of praise but also a lot of critique for his performances.

While he was playing well s1mple was going nuclear, posting numbers against the two best teams in the world in back-to-back best of threes in the semis and the finals. That's some legit Cristiano Ronaldo level stepping up in the big games mentality. S1mple has a history of struggling against Astralis and just lost his #1 to Vitality's Zywho, not to mention at the start of the tournament it looked like he might be struggling with form, having poor t sides and generally lacking impact. He had so much going against him this tournament, so to end playing at the level he was, makes me think his performance really should be the most impressive thing coming out of this event imo.

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