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Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:55 am
by Graciemae
Quick trivia time... 10% of the world's population are left-handed!

Unfortunately for that poor 10% of people WASD is just about the worst set of movement keys possible...PLEASE, someone enable movement using the arrow keys..pretty please, beg, whine, whimper!

P.S. Contrary to popular beliefs, we're not weird, sinister or criminals (well, some of us might be :P)

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:10 am
by jwhitehorn
Accomodate a bunch of losers who couldn't even figure out how to use the right hand?

No Thanks.

Chief PeePooKaKa
MM Tribe

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:16 am
by DarkNacht
If the left handed people have so much problem with this they should fix it them selfs.
Just get a program to remap the keys. The devs should really make it so that all the keys are remappable within the game but I doubt this will happen anytime soon.

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:54 am
by TeckXKnight
A good idea to keep in mind. Hopefully there'll be some kind of support for leftys in the future. =)

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:06 am
by Graciemae
jwhitehorn wrote:Accomodate a bunch of losers who couldn't even figure out how to use the right hand?

No Thanks.

Chief PeePooKaKa
MM Tribe


You meanie! I bet you would have been one of those people who used to flog children and tie their left hand behind their back! :(

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 5:12 am
by Grevalu
Graciemae wrote:
jwhitehorn wrote:Accomodate a bunch of losers who couldn't even figure out how to use the right hand?

No Thanks.

Chief PeePooKaKa
MM Tribe


You meanie! I bet you would have been one of those people who used to flog children and tie their left hand behind their back! :(


I'm one of those people who flog children, left handed or not. The left handed ones just get flogged a little harder. Just throwin' that out there. :evil:

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:31 am
by Snowpig
Graciemae wrote:...

You meanie! I bet you would have been one of those people who used to flog children and tie their left hand behind their back! :(


I am one of those children - originally left-handed, but my left hand was tied and i had to learn to write with right hand. Therefore I'd say: learn to adapt - use mouse-clicks for movement.

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:55 am
by Darwoth
cant believe people use the arrow keys to move in this game :lol:

use a mouse, if cant use a normal one use a lefthanded one.

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:03 pm
by alloin
I'm 90% lefthanded (i play the guitar righthanded & mouse & keyboard righthanded)
but never had problems with WASD (probably because i use my mouse with my right hand?)

@Chief, Left-handers are far from losers (most leaders, astronauts, musicians, artists & writers are lefthanded) In contrary to what most right-handers think, left-handers adapt much faster then right-handers.

Left-handers’ brains are structured differently from right-handers’ in ways that can allow them to process language, spatial relations and emotions in more diverse and potentially creative ways. Also, a slightly larger number of left-handers than right-handers are especially gifted in music and math.

I also prefer shaking hands with a lefty, for you to figure out why ! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Re: Spare a thought for the poor southpaws!

PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:47 pm
by Kandarim
I'm righthanded myself, but I know a couple of southpaws that simply ... adapted. Of course, they are all near my age so they grew up in the early days of computering, and thus learned the use of "normal" righthanded peripherals. I can imagine it is a lot harder for older more established southpaws to adapt.

alloin wrote:I also prefer shaking hands with a lefty, for you to figure out why ! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

:lol: