i know SOMEONE has that photo of a cassidy(overwatch) player who taped a magnifying glass to their monitor
bleach fan here for life send help
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
I mean you say it's "now" but that's been a thing for most of a decade.
cheerio is inspired, i just had a corner cut off a post it note on my screen
My buddy put scotch tape with a magic marker red dot on the center of his TV and put his living room's surround sound speakers right next to his head so he could be "better" at MW2 back in the day
I'm kinda confused. Did the game they were playing not have a crosshair? I used a dry-erase marker the one time I tried playing Killing Floor, but that's because it was the only game I had ever played with shooting and didn't give you a crosshair.
It's a common thing for games with sniper rifles to remove the crosshair when you have the rifle armed so you have to zoom in and use the scope.
Oh! Gotcha. That makes sense because I've never really liked sniping in video games. But I think the Halo games already give you a Cheerio-sized mini crosshair when not scoped in? I haven't really tried sniping in Halo PvP in a long time. I don't know if it's different from campaign.
Yeah, they should have hipfire reticles for all guns except snipers, unless the non-Bungie halos changed it. Destiny has the same reticle exception, everything except snipers gets a unique hipfire reticle per weapon type
people do this SO MUCH for escape from tarkov and apparently people get big mad about it lmao
it was pretty common in Goldeneye speedrunning to measure out the center of the screen and put a piece of blu-tack there, or just draw a dot with a sharpie. the cheerio is absolutely brilliant, though
knew a guy who'd drawn a dot with marker on his laptop display for similar purposes. not on a piece of tape attached to the display, the actual display plastic itself
Yeah, sounds plausible.
The option i used to go with was a clear plastic ruler precisely in the center of the screen. That was in the Counterstrike 1.x beta series, after they removed the crosshair from sniping weapons when not zoomed in.
It worked for that, but i found out it also worked nicely for calculating the angle needed for thrown things like grenades, and would also make navigation easier with some space sims, since it was a good reference for being perfectly lined up with a target.
At least one guy from my class in, like, 2003 or 2004, just made a dot in the middle of his screen with non-permanent marker. For no-scoping in Counter-Strike if i remember correctly.
And yeah, it was directly on screen, but it was 21" CRT so it would come off easily anyway.
in reply to @kyn's post:
I remember stuff like this being a really big deal in the Rust (the game not the programming language) community back when it was in beta, producing many a heated argument about whether it was or wasn't cheating.
in reply to @Sir's post:
Back in the old days we aimed the laser in the MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer by marking the CRT monitor that showed the TV camera display of the target plate with a sharpie where the laser hit. (We just installed a imaging MS system, they've...uh...they've come a long way since the late 90s!)