Good day to you...or night...wherever you live,
I didn't write here for long time so I decided to share story of what happened to me today. I was playing Bastion (wonderful game btw), and I was clicking...furiously clicking...and suddenly I heard weird noise from my mouse. As you could guess, my mouse broke. The left mouse button stopped responding. I couldn't click with it no matter how hard I tried.

So I tried to fix it...of course I broke it even more. Now normal person would go to store and buy new one...but not me. I found new untapped source of laziness within me and decided I will somehow bypass the silly requirement of each computer to have mouse. I grabbed my old gamepad (Saitek PS2700 Rumble Pad) and through XPadder I bound to left stick mouse movements, to left stick I bound mouse wheel movements and to buttons I bound left click/mouse click.

It is clumsy...it isn't perfect...it isn't even good...but I am proud of myself. And then I decided to play Borderlands...of course Borderlands doesn't support my gamepad. Or at least I think so, because it wasn't responding, maybe if I tried harder Borderlands would start to respond to gamepad, but that is something normal person would do right? So I opened XPadder again and bound the buttons that were free to as many keyboard buttons as possible...so basically my gamepad was simulating BOTH mouse and keyboard. I managed to play Borderlandswith this setting, it was pretty hard with this....unique controller, but it was fun :D .

Anyway this is just something I wanted to share...my story of laziness. *walks away from the stage*

I wanna use my laziness in such intracate and inexplicably ingenious ways as weli... but the only thing I"ve managed so far is to stop siting at my computer and moved on the floor.

When my monitor broke I played via remote desktop from my netbook. It was horrible.

If there was such a thing as an achievement in laziness I think you've just earned it.

Just curious here, what is the model of your late mouse?

Not sure but it was mouse for 15 bucks

EDIT : Rapier V1 Gaming Mouse. Model 49051 Woot if there will be that achievement...some day, I want it! :D

That's not laziness. Laziness is what I have because I'm a student.

We have it similiar...I am student too :D

Borderlands has perfect Xbox controller support. Not sure about other controllers, but it's pretty common now for the Xbox controller to be the only one that works.

Mind you, I keep a small-ish box in a closet in case of emergencies. Inside the box is a spare mouse and cellphone. My spare mouse is a Razer Copperhead with a few broken buttons but it'll do if my primary mouse breaks down when I'm in the middle of writing a long essay through the night and all the stores are closed. The cellphone is the first phone I owned, a Nokia that took the battery of six years of my life, including the time I spent in the military in cold, wet, humid, dirty and generally unpleasant conditions. I'll be buggered if it lets me down when I need it.

It turns out that I can introduce a little bit of laziness even to breakdowns.

Well I resolved my problem and I have mouse now. I got for free old Logitech mouse that has PS/2 connector and what do you know, Windows 7 cant recognize it. So I did what anybody would do...I downloaded Logitech utility for this kind of trouble, forced the drivers from XP (Because Windows 7 doesn't have them) and now I am, again, mouse user.

Yeah, I am not sure I could make my Saitek gamepad work anyway, I mean direct gamepad support :(

I'm not sure if this counts as laziness unless one was looking for the least lazy way to be lazy. :)

Sorry, I'm just not lazy enough to post, but way too lazy to solve the problem.

What I don't get is, why did you play Bastion with a mouse when you had a gamepad available?!

Apart from that I can relate to you, I once had to use my pc for a weekend without a mouse, only using the keyboard. Worked suprisingly good (well, it was around 98).