I don't know why I love it so much, but I do.

Who uses a mouse? I function all applications with just a keyboard, my custom arch based distribution doesn’t even support mice because I removed all drivers from the kernel. /s

You use a keyboard? Cringe. I just pull up a virtual keyboard on screen and click every button that I need to type.

It's 2023, gramps.
- Ahhh, the steam deck experience, I relate.
- Oh, look at Ms Fancy over here. I use a morse code telegraph to make all my inputs. Ones and zeros, that's all a computer needs. Everything above that is pointlessly overcomplicated
  
  But yes, it has RGB LEDs
signature look of superiority
Do you use a keyboard? All the cool kids use punch cards
neck beard intensifies
Who uses a keyboard all I need is a saxaphone
i mapped a ps5 controller for mouse-heavy games 😅
I have removed all except U,D,L,R,A,B and perform all input using variations of the Konami code
- Me too thanks

You feel a tingle in the back of your mind. You want to change your mouse cursor. Authority.

Without any prompting, I read it in the narrators voice. Praise the Absolute.
Anything for a True Soul! Changing it now, boss.

Change the OS cursor, i don't know about mac but you can do that on windows and linux

Am I misremembering, but did Baldur's Gate, Warcraft 2, or something ship with a cursor package for windows?

I didn't have Internet back then, but I recall finding out that you could change the cursor to a gauntlet from one of those games, much to the chagrin of my parents.
- It is possible, some games like to have some extras like wallpapers, custom icons, etc, specially back them. I would love to see more of that, the last time i've seem was with yakuza kiwami with some avatars, wallpapers and animated arts to use on steam.
I think I might actually do this
- On windows it's Settings > Themes, then click the "Mouse pointers" item. That should bring up the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties window. Then it's just a matter of getting .ani or .cur versions of the pointers you want.
- I'm using the Wow cursors at work
Yeah you could save a picture of whatever you want in the right size and format for a custom pointer. Idk what those are off the top of my head though.
I’ve been using MouseCape on macOS for years and it’s worked flawlessly

You would've loved black and white 2 then. The basic concept of the game was you are a god and you can choose to be evil or benevolent. Like if roller-coaster tycoon and Age of empire had a baby. The pointer was a hand that moved depending on what you were doing in your world. AND it changed the more evil or good you were.

Of all the games I wish got a proper remake, it's B&W and Dungeon Keeper.
- There was a game reminiscent of Dungeon Keeper, except you were a Sauron-like figure that went around commanding the minions to kill the heroes and raze towns to the ground. It was on Xbox and I wish I remember what it was called. It was freaking great. It was like Dungeon Keeper meets Pikmin.
- Like War for the Overworld? That's very close to Dungeon Keeper.
  
  And yeah, B&W with real ML and proper physics? Yessss, I wantssssss it.
This is going a long way back but I'm pretty sure you could use it to just slap the shit out of your giant monster guy. That might be a different "play as god" game though...
- You're thinking of the right game. You had a pet that was pretty much a massive bipedal animal monster that you could train. Depending on what you do with them, when you reward them with food and petting and when you punish them by slapping them, they'd change their behaviour. You could teach them to either farm food off of fields or eat villagers when they were hungry, whatever you wanted. It was a really fun feature, at least for six year old me.
That sounds familiar! I think I watched a video on it years ago.
- B&W 1&2 were legendary games! Definitely worth downloading and playing even today.
I think I spent most of my time with that game on the intro screen :D

You can find some on deviant art, that's where I got mine. https://www.deviantart.com/tag/cursors

https://www.deviantart.com/topic/customization

I think this is the one I settled on? It just looks better than default windows lol https://www.deviantart.com/spysees/art/Mac-Os-X-El-Capitan-Cursor-Pack-For-Win-By-SeeS-573756719

This seems legit? I haven't tried it but the firefox extension for it has a lot of users https://custom-cursor.com/products/custom-cursor-for-windows

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/custom-cursor/XPFF8Q4ZP7Q321

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-custom-cursor/

Whoa, I didn't know deviant art also had useful stuff like this on it. Thanks!
- I didn't either until I went looking for mouse cursors 😅 You learn something new every day!
- I also remembered this video! https://youtu.be/YThelfB2fvg

i'm not very sure about Windows aside from DeviantArt, RealWorld and similar galleries, but for KDE you can get a catalogue built into the cursor settings

No problems in Windows, you can download and use a ton of cursors from Deviantart and a lot of other sitees, there are even some Cursor Manager, with which you can change the cursor set with one clic, also some editors to make your own sets. The cursor image format is the same for Linux and Windows.

Don’t install cursor applications, just add cursor packs for your respective operating system.

It's next when you click and the printer finger moves. Serotonin please

On Linux you can install whatever cursor pack you want and then select it… all in the terminal!

And also out of the terminal if you'd prefer graphical settings on desktops like Plasma and XFCE, for example.
- How to anger Linux users 101: “graphical”
- Terminal makes things easy. I used to prefer gui, but now I just use terminal and ChatGPT because doing anything can simply be a matter of copy paste commands into the terminal from AI instead of having to research and/or navigate through settings menus to find the right setting.

theres malware on cursor applications? isnt it possible to just change the cursor with the .cur files if youre on windows?

I'd always heard it was one of those common ways that people get malware on their PCs. That and toolbars.
- I don't know how common it is anymore, but it definitely was a few years back. You knew a computer was infected with everything when you saw a stupid cartoon dinosaur or something as the mouse cursor as soon as the pc booted to windows... I think it was more about what was bundled in the download from scummy websites doing the damage though, not the actual cursor files. I still cringe though if I see a non-standard cursor in windows, like PTSD-esque flashbacks...
- Listen is I want Banzai Buddy to mess with nuclear launch codes on my government laptop then that's his right.

You know a game is good when it does this.

I have dreams of the RuneScape dragon scimitar cursor

I was so happy when I found out RuneLite has this as a plug-in

Depends on the platform i guess? Windows cursors vs. Linux cursors.

It takes a lot of willpower for me not to make my ubuntu desktop look like a virus riddled win7/xp desktop
- Oh shit. I wanna do this now.

What’s the bottom left one from? It’s killing me …

Switch to Linux and you can change your mouse cursor to always be a gauntlet.

I might not switch on my current daily driver, but I'm seriously thinking of converting an extra PC I have lying around and seeing what all the fuss (foss) is about.
- I've installed Lubuntu on my ancient laptop and it's amazing how much faster and more stable it is! It's almost like a new machine that is also crap for gaming 😄
Can't you do that with windows too?
- Ofc, it's just not nearly as straightforward as many Linux DE's.
Or switch to windows and you can make it always be an animated gauntlet
- Or switch to linux and you can make it always be an animated, sentient gauntlet

Ooh, the top left ones are from Ultima Online. Haven't seen those cursors in a long while.

This song immediately popped into my head after seeing them
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I came here to see if someone mentioned this fact and was going to do so if I didn't see anyone beat me to it lol.

Lol talk about nostalgia straight into the veins...

Hand of a lil guy :)

I have been chosen by the big metal hand in the sky!

It's beautiful

Brings me back to the MapleStory days. That little white glove brings back such happy memories.

I believe fate (wild tangent) does