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[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Scroll wheel 2

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Bhopping in csgo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.