I fell for the glass mouse pad meme. I admit.after a few months I just cant do it anymore, the scratch feel makes me so mad I want to puke, maybe autism idk and the annoying stickiness if its slightly humid. tr00n sleves dont fix the problem, it seems like the fiber from the sleve wears and comes off and I can literally feel the scratches.so im going back to cloth that will eventually wear. so should I just buy the cheapest biggest pad and just use a section till it gets bad and cut it off and throw it out bit by bit ?
>>724756674I went unpainted metal and have NEVER gone back.
>>724756752do you lube it ?or did you sand it down with finer and finer grit till a mirror finish ? glass chews up skates like crazy
>>724756674>glass mouse pad memi use a piece of paperkys
glass? metal? goddamn zoomers will fall for any dumb shit they see on tiktok
>>724756862It's just a smooth, unpainted aluminum. I don't have to do anything to it.>>724757024Got tired of my pads peeling and grinding apart after less than one year. Have had this pad for three years and it shows no signs of wear so it could last a decade or more. Sounds like you are the one who fell for it if you are still buying a mousepad every year. It was $8 btw.
>>724757203>buying a mousepadmiss me with that shit. i use the free pad that comes with the $30 mouse i buy that lasts a year.does that $8 account for the skates you have to replace every 2 or 3 weeks? or do you just replace whatever shitty gayman mouse you have monthly?
>>724757525I don't replace anything. I have a Rival 3. I think I've had it for a year or two.
>>724757672>I have a Rival 3perfect, thats the same one i buy. ive had my current one about 9 months and the skates are visibly worn just from the cloth steelseries pad that it comes with. i cant imagine they wear out less on a metal mousepad.
>>724756674they dont wear just wash them in the shower when you do and let them dry overnight
>>724756674>I fell for the glass mouse pad meme. I admit.We used those 20 years ago, why are they making comeback?
>>724757203>my pads peeling and grinding apart after less than one year.How does one even do this when all mice have teflon feet??
>>724758001erm some gayman elitists e-celeb said cloth pads can wear some uneven slow spots which negatively affect your performance
>>724758312>slow spotsi dont think thats how that works
>>724756752>unpainted metalimagine the smell
>>724756674just buy better skateshttps://shop.x-raypad.com/shop/x-raypad-titanium-u9-universal-dot-mouse-skates-9x-durability/
>>724756674There's audiofools for everything, huh?
>using a mouse pad after optical mice became a thing?
>>724758964what are you confused about? the glide of a mouse is an important preference for many people
I genuinely prefer using my mouse on polished wood than a mousepad. Way less friction.
>>724759206this. mouse is best on the desk. mouse pad was only for friction that was required to make the balls grip.i wonder if i can sell retards wooden mousepads
>>724758312The biggest difference imo is that glass is hard and you can't push your mouse into it like cloth, but who knows if this is relevant based on how you aim
>>724759489more stopping power and more natural resistance of initial movement if you are heavy handed
>>724756674Glass has the exact same problems as cloth regarding wear. It WILL get sanded down by mouse movement or scratching and eventually produce areas that have uneven reflectivity and cause the laser to read poorly, resulting in random mouse movement. Additionally, over time the mouse pads will polish the surface resulting in portions that are too smooth and end up causing significant friction differences.If you get a chip in the surface it's going to be a skin irritant for-fucking-ever.Plastic has the same problem.You can get good, low profile cloth mousepads for around $10. If you're super autistic and worried about wear, buy a bunch and replace them every couple of months.
>>724759984stop spreading misinformation
>>724759984or you are an unlucky son of a bitch like me that is allergic to neoprene which is the core ingredient in the cloth and plastic mouse pads. I'm stuck with glass or straight metal.
>>724759984>you will "sand down" glass (or any material) with ptfelmfao
>>724756674I've been using this steelseries hardtop mousepad for around 15 years now. The mouse I bought with it was shit but the mousepad is great.
>>724756674i bought a cheap Artisan fx zero from aliexpress, says made in japan but im 90% sure its not. Anyway, best mousepad i had in years. quite big for my taste even if it is the smallest size they had. Check it out yourself anon
>>724760128Boo fucking hoo marketer.We went down this path in the early 00s and there's a reason they went out of style. Glass's wear durability was superior, but you'd get maybe eight months of heavy use before the texturing started wearing in high traffic spots. You could get around this for a while by rotating it so you use a different area, but the harder surface ended up degrading the glide pads on the mouse faster, so when flat spots did appear you'd get patches of insanely high friction.Look it up if you think this sounds stupid, but if you take two ultra-smooth surfaces of similar hardness and rub them together, their friction coefficent is actually higher than moderately high smoothness surface. That's a big part why woven, springy cloth mats came back. You want a dissimilar material hardness for your mouse and pad so you don't get that ultra-smooth friction problem.
