Also, are malware-free cursor applications still a thing? Or does it make me an old man to want to do it in 2023?

    • wootz@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
        6·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • jandar_fett@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Demonen@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve no idea. I know there was a spiritual remake of DK but I didn’t care for the art style or just what it was doing in general :( I do remember it being quite popular though?

    • 0ddysseus@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      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…

      • KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • gothicdecadence@lemm.ee
    14·
    1 year ago

    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/

  • Spudwart@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

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

  • DrPop@lemmy.one
    10·
    1 year ago

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

  • tubaruco@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

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

      • Crozekiel@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        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…

      • DrPop@lemmy.one
        4·
        1 year ago

        Listen is I want Banzai Buddy to mess with nuclear launch codes on my government laptop then that’s his right.

  • scally@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 year ago

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

  • Kevin@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

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

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        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 😄

          • gxgx55@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Mileage will vary depending on the type of games you enjoy. In particular, the worst group of games are multiplayer competitive with invasive anti-cheats - those tend just not work at all.

            Otherwise, gaming in general has gotten very viable(especially easy on Steam), they run anywhere from okay to great from my experience.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Same tbh. The laptop I mostly use for browsing and streaming while out and about, but my main is a gaming computer meant for gaming games lol, which is why I’m still running Windows on that one.

            The veterans keep telling me that it’s easy to get Windows games to work in Linux, but unless the problem is either Lubuntu specifically or I’m genetically more of an idiot about getting games to work on it thananythingelse, including getting everything elsetowork, “easy” is not the word I’d use…

            • Kazevic@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              Dude, Lubuntu is not made for gaming. For gaming, you would want either KDE (preferred over GNOME due to, among others, VRR/FreeSync/G-Sync, HDR and tearing support) or GNOME.

              Regarding the distro:

              Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed are great options if you don’t usually play for hours, as they are more aimed at general use.

              Nobara and Bazzite (both Fedora-based) are the best of the best, for ease of use, performance, etc., with the biggest difference between both being that Nobara is mutable, while Bazzite is immutable.

              If you want an Arch-based gaming distro, there is CachyOS, but I don’t like it very much.

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                Yeah I know Lubuntu isn’t much of a gaming distro. I chose it because it’s so lightweight and stable that my ancient and unreliable laptop actually became useful for a sort of dress rehearsal for taking the plunge on my main.

                I was trying to make it install and run really old games as proof that, with the right tools and advice from people who’d made them work, I would be able to run the games I usually play on the main in Pop OS or something. After several days of collecting and following advice, I got as far as knowing to use bottles for the install and “add non-steam game” in Steam (with Proton) but couldn’t get bottles to install in a way so that the directory would actually be findable for Steam or even myself outside of the bottles sandbox afterwards.

                After a couple days of a bunch of trial and error following all advice on that to the letter failed miserably, I finally reached “fuck this” and decided to save myself the frustration of continuing to do what everyone said works without having it work.

                • Kazevic@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  At least on my end, changing Bottles’ permission settings using Flatseal or KDE Plasma’s integrated Flatpak settings to make it have access to all users’ files makes it work correctly.

                  Remember to always use the Flatpak version of Bottles, because the native versions are usually very outdated and broken (the RPM version, for example, is totally broken and in a version from mid to late 2022).