"Yeah, I know my shaft length." **spittake**

@ToxicKlay

14 күн бұрын

hearing clint slip one of those into a video is like watching a kid's cartoon and hearing one of those obviously meant for adult jokes lol

@outsdr

14 күн бұрын

@@ToxicKlay This video was just chock full of innuendo and double entendre!

@rommix0

14 күн бұрын

@@ToxicKlay Yeah like Animaniacs. "Give me the bird!" "We would but the censors won't allow it."

@artchic528

14 күн бұрын

Yakko: Good night, Everybody! *blows a kiss*

@slckb0y65

14 күн бұрын

i miss when youtube was mostly swearing and dick jokes ;) those were the days

I am screaming over the quick identification of the “ten-inch shaft” 😳😳😳😳😳

@maximilianmorse9697

14 күн бұрын

Clint is a size queen

@cannot-handle-handles

14 күн бұрын

I mean it's a plausible guess that it is a round number of inches, but still impressive.

@Eendeebo

14 күн бұрын

@@cannot-handle-handles it was definitely a successful perception check for sure

@mirkwoodlodge

14 күн бұрын

Clint knows his shaft length

@JohnnyBGoode9

14 күн бұрын

"I know my shaft length."

Not to be confused with the *Mouse YOLK*, the egg-themed mouse that has inevitably been covered in a previous 'weird mouse' video

@JaredConnell

14 күн бұрын

No, that would be the yolk mouse. This is the mouse yoke.

@Oculas2003

14 күн бұрын

Was that just for the "Dizzy" games?

@mythbustersfan3456

14 күн бұрын

Homer: Mmmmm egg yolk *starts drewling*

@TechGorilla1987

13 күн бұрын

I had one called "The Three Minute Mouse" Chefs will get that.

@kruleworld

13 күн бұрын

also not to be confused with the 'Mouse Joke"

Getting glimpse into the storage room is always a delight.

@StreetPreacherr

14 күн бұрын

Damn! First time I've seen it. I'll have to see if he's ever done a video tour, all I've seen are his Big Box game shelves.

@the_real_Kurt_Yarish

14 күн бұрын

​@@StreetPreacherrIt's occasionally popped up in quick snippets in his regular videos since moving into this house a few years ago, but he's never done a more in-depth tour of this setup as far as I'm aware. I seem to recall a video showcasing select examples of his collection back from around the time he was moving, though.

@michielbrus5632

14 күн бұрын

We need a tour!

@artchic528

14 күн бұрын

It’s like delving into a vintage computer wonderland!

@DerekLippold

14 күн бұрын

YES! I want to see the storage room. I love it and it so inspiring to get me to organize my computer room mess lol😅

"talk about driving the demons back to hell" i lost it at that comment

@SaifEddineTalbi

14 күн бұрын

I was eating at that exact moment, and I nearly shared my food with the monitor of my pc.

@lamptrent

11 күн бұрын

17:32 for others' convenience

LGR is one of those channels where you don't expect the innuendos, but when it does, it's executed perfectly 😂

@RT-qd8yl

13 күн бұрын

_This is not exactly centered down here_

@a1white

5 күн бұрын

8:04 😅

This has got to be some kind of yoke

@LuminalSpoon

14 күн бұрын

5 seconds is a yoke

@BenDeSwert666

14 күн бұрын

​@@LuminalSpoononly if you don't know how to handle your shaft.

@mp9264

14 күн бұрын

@@LuminalSpoonhey man, it’s not easy having a 10 Inch Shaft

@bash_maxwell

14 күн бұрын

It's a total yoke, if you ask me.

@plan7a

13 күн бұрын

Egg-cellent!

16:15: As Mentour Pilot would say, "This is where things started happening really quickly."

13 күн бұрын

Haha, I could hear it when I read it, hell, I can even see his face :D

6:04 lmao at the reverb

@thegeforce6625

14 күн бұрын

I lost it when that happened

@compmanio36

14 күн бұрын

I had to go back and play it again just to make sure I heard right...

@bestthangever117

14 күн бұрын

​@@thegeforce6625I hope you find it again.

@iSuRocAfella

14 күн бұрын

😂 laughed way too much at this bit! 😂😂

@soldiersvejk2053

14 күн бұрын

Naughty

This is horribly good. They could have gone even further giving you foot pedals that mashed a keyboard under your desk. And MARVELOUS job on the basement , amazing.

@RJ-wx3fh

10 күн бұрын

In a similar vein, have a plate on sprung feet with an adjustable limit, set it over the keyboard, maybe have a pattern of holes through which you can add a screw directly over the desired keys

"I know my shaft length"

@cannot-handle-handles

14 күн бұрын

And a bit later: "Dirty shafts and balls." 8:00

7:15 ‘offer good from June, 1 1993 to November 30, 1992’ Nice, using this device you could also get the time flowing backwards!

@davidesums

14 күн бұрын

I had to replay that part a few times, haha

@Gappasaurus

12 күн бұрын

It’s backwards compatible 😜

You guys know in the Matrix, when neo is like "I need guns" and a vast armory appears filled with shelves of guns? Yea thats what LGR just did when he went to his basement but instead it was filled with old PC equipment.

I love how the crab ended up becoming the LGR mascot

@basshead.

10 күн бұрын

LTT too.

@volvo09

9 күн бұрын

​@@basshead. When did they start using that crab? I don't really watch them

@basshead.

9 күн бұрын

@@volvo09 When they test speakers.

Gotta love a dude who knows his shaft length.

2:41 My jaw is on the floor. I grew up in Fort Collins. I lived there for 30 years. Around 1995, I got my braces literally next door to that address on Whalers Way, and my dad lived for years on Sandy Cove Ln, literally 100s of feet away!!! ...I kinda fancy myself a flight sim enthusiast, but haven't heard of Colorado Spectrum until today...feels surreal.

@asoftoday101

14 күн бұрын

Looked up the address and was shocked to see it was the same building I got teeth pulled at a few years ago. What a small world

@nafion112

14 күн бұрын

@@asoftoday101 Small world indeed! I get back to foco once or twice a year...still have family and friends there.

@chigginheadD

12 күн бұрын

I've lived in FC since 2002, even work very near there

Sure you can put a yoke on a mouse, but it's not going to be able to pull very much.

@philstephes

14 күн бұрын

A few cheese wedges at most

Clint just jamming that shaft into the base of the unit...

@world_still_spins

14 күн бұрын

When the airplane needs extra thrust.

@azraelle6232

12 күн бұрын

...repeatedly

I'm gonna preface this by saying that is most definitely a compliment. I often go to sleep watching your videos because it feels like I'm spending the weekend at my uncle's house and he's showing me what he's interested in because I'm also a little into it, and while I wanna learn as much as I can, I can't help but be so comforted by the passion for the interest that I get sleepy.

When I was a 14, 15 in 1991 I had a scout master who was a engineer at HP in Fort Collins and he used to bring us over to his office were they had developed a 3D racing game just to put their workstation processors to the test. We were allowed play this game on their top of the line, for the time, workstations the engineers used. Also unbeknownst to us we were also the beta testers for this product developed by former HP engineers who were getting ready to go to market.

Thank you for respecting those with food allergies and using egg-free jazz for the intro.

@ScooterinAB

14 күн бұрын

Vegan jazz is best for inclusiveness.

@CptJistuce

12 күн бұрын

​@@ScooterinABWhat about people that don't eat vegetables?

Some spacers (and a stop on the far end of the shaft) and some wireless buttons and this seems like a potentially pretty cool solution

@joshuahadams

14 күн бұрын

Something like a bike brake cable connecting the yolk to something that can press your mouse buttons would probably work.

@tuxrug

14 күн бұрын

Maybe foot pedals on string to press the mouse button, and a mousepad-like fabric sleeve on the rod to improve tracking...?

@mechadeka

14 күн бұрын

While we're at it, we could remove the mouse and replace it with some potentiometers.

@MattTester

14 күн бұрын

The end spacer could also limit the rotation, not that it would do anything for the centering.

@benjaminmiddaugh2729

13 күн бұрын

@@mechadeka Now, now, let's not be hasty with the practical suggestions.

Those 3D printed Duke busts in the background look awesome.

Please do a video tour of your basement, it looks real interesting from what you showed in this vid.

hitting pause a few seconds in because i just wanted to say thank you so much for adding captions when you upload--it makes the experience so much better than autocraptions. your effort is appreciated! okay, back to the video!

@user-po9pv7rw1g

14 күн бұрын

"newwww yaaahk cityyy..." are you a jackie daytona fan, clint? 😂

6:42 "that's a pretty lenghty shaft ... what is that, 10 inches ??" - LGR 2024

15:37 Holy shit, it's Laszlo! I never knew you were a What We Do in the Shadows enjoyer HAHAH

Those LHX sounds bring back some memories of 486dx greatness

What a coincidence! I was just reminiscing about his very thing! It worked like a champ when it worked. Our time with it ended when the turn wheel on the desk clamp broke off. No amount of super glue withstood the torque needed to fix it. I still have the plastic yoke bars. Thanks so much for covering this one, Clint!

As for the centering problem, I noticed the "recommended setup" tables prominently mentioning setting "Mouse Center". I think they chose Numpad 5 for that. So they definitely were aware of centering problems themselves. But yeah, with this yoke, you'd be slapping that button all the time. Great review as always. Keep it up.

11:05 - "That up and down sensitivity is nuts" To be fair, lots of games had separate mouse sensitivity values for X and Y.

"Secure, Strap, Press, Slide" - I'm getting an oddly specific association. 🤔

when you talked about going to see how the mouse infestation in your basement, I was really hoping the one you'd pick would be in a mouse trap, haha.

I love the Matt Berry reference at about 16 minutes

I keep reading the title as "Mouse Yokai" and I like that product more

@LonelySpaceDetective

9 күн бұрын

I don't think any computer mouses are old enough to become tsukumogami, unfortunately.

The reverb after the mouse strap FLAP. 6:04. This is the masterful kind of post-production that separates the men from the boys in KZread-land (jokes about crowbars are NOT appreciated).

I loved the little double-sided-tape-on-the-numpad-joystick thing, I always wanted one but never had one when it would've been relevant. This thing? I would've lost my shit for if I'd known about it back in the day.

I love you Clint my man. U made my life so much better the past like 8 years

Getting some matte texture on the shaft (har~) might make it work pretty well with an optical mouse, but you'd likely still run into centering issues. Mice in general aren't very good at that, after all.

I love this channel. There is no limit to the odd-ness of 90's PC accessories, so thank you, Clint! So realistic. 😂

@ScooterinAB

14 күн бұрын

I'd love to see some ridiculous PC accessory Tower of Power-type setup. How many weird gimmick accessories can you have on one setup?

@superstarichiban

14 күн бұрын

@ScooterinAB agreed! The true answer is never enough lol

"Mouse infestation in the basement" indeed! Nice collection:)

Oh the innuendo and jokes here are killing me, thank you for the laughs!

@vcprado

12 күн бұрын

don't you mean the yokes?

Your storage space looks amazing! The distinction between a hoarder and a collector must be organization!

This reminds me of those “mouse for console” devices that people used for the ps3 to try and play the pc ports like it was on pc.

@bigbeast103

14 күн бұрын

The Cronus. They never worked right.

@joshuahadams

14 күн бұрын

Now a lot of newer games just come with support for regular mouse & keyboard over USB. Call of Duty & Halo come to mind immediately, and games where you _need_ a good cursor like Cities: Skylines and Jurassic World: Evolution 2 support it, too.

4:38 Holy WordArt, Batman!

Me: "Seems like a good idea" Gets to the part about the centering. "ooooooh.... nvm"

If you're worried about a clamp hurting a surface, just put a piece of wood between the twisty part and the surface you want to protect. The force will be spread across the piece of wood.

You should try sliding rubber O-rings over the back and front end of the shaft to stop it from pulling totally out of the holder and that would help keep it centered. Also get some adhesive glue dots that are strong and stick the mouse in place, centered as well, to stop it from sliding around in the cradle.

Dang that's actually pretty innovative, if only track ball mice worked better this would have been genius back then!

Clint you are having way too much fun with the innuendos and suggestive sound effects, lol

@gustiwidyanta5492

14 күн бұрын

"SSPS" Dont take that out of context lol

"I know my shaft length" LMAO i love you LGR

"I know my shaft length" -LGR

As a flight sim developer I find videos like this fascinating, really interesting to see how things were, compared to now with honeycomb yokes and custom MCPs! ❤ amazing Video Clint!

When you rummaged through your mice drawer, the IBM mouse gave me serious nostalgia. That was my first ever PC mouse

I love the fact you have draws full of old mice. On the hitting your hand on the desk issue. I guess you could add a couple of rubber washer to make a bump stop

Your basement shelf / drawer / shelf game is the utopian dream of horder's the world over.

@batterybuilding

10 күн бұрын

The difference between a hoarder and a collector is organization. 😅

This reminds me of an attachment for the ps1 controller that turned the d-pad to a stick. It was held on by rubber bands. Worked surprisingly well.

This was delightfully chaotic. Thanks Clint, i needed this today :D

15:40 is this a what we do in the shadows quote?! My man

Stunts will probably always be my favourite driving game. Wish they'd remake it, simply with up to date graphics and sound but nothing more.

Professional driver in a closed circuit indeed

@dinitroacetylen

13 күн бұрын

Behold professionalism in crashing!

Superbly edited! 🖱

Got to love the old flight simulators where 60% of the screen is dials.

The epic snapping of the elastic 😂

I played MS Flight Simulator 4.0 on a Power Macintosh 6100 using this thing and I really liked it, but using the centering key (I think it was num pad 5) was essential.

@jothain

14 күн бұрын

Oh FS had centering button, I didn't even know. Actually just commented that this solution definitely needs somekind of centering button solution and if there were actual visual reference to how far you're on in ie. X-axis this kind of solution could work quite well tbh.

@mingohagen

14 күн бұрын

@@jothain it has visual indicators on the dashboard as well yeah. I think the centering was only for the roll, but that worked well enough for this device. So well in fact that I landed my cessna on the first try :)

@jothain

14 күн бұрын

@@mingohagen Cool, then I'd assume learning curve and feel to be good enough for the era. Plus to be honest most joysticks back then weren't great either. Well at least ones I could get my hands.

@stevebollinger3463

13 күн бұрын

Num pad 5 is mentioned prominently in the manual when he is leafing through it. I guess Clint ignored it. It gives the mouse recenter key for each compatible game. Seemed like a big tip off keeping center was going to be iffy.

This video is 90% shaft and ball jokes, 10% LGR flexing his old mouse collection. Well played.

This is gotta be one of my favorite episodes so far! All the jokes about balls, rods, and sizes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Clint doing the lazlow impression of "NEW YORK CITY" is fun

@pacothelama887

14 күн бұрын

Love that someone else caught that

@georgeoldsterd8994

4 күн бұрын

He also did a 9/11 reenactment, but that didn't make the cut.

The issue is that with a mouse you're expected to be able to recenter it by lifting it up and placing it back down, and with the yoke you can't do that effectively.

@EvanAdnams

12 күн бұрын

That would be why the manual had a list of “re-centering” hotkeys for various games.

I remember having this back in the 90s as a kid! Not perfect, but worked surprisingly well for what it was. This was fun to revisit, thanks Clint

6:40 onwards is why I love this channel lol Also the thounk of the shaft coming out was so satisfying

Happy Fri yayyyyyyyyy, Clint!!

I could imagine playing FS with this on the Atari, as it didnt have analogue joystick support (iirc). Far from optimal, but more immersive than pushing the mouse around.

Very funny episode, and you're looking good. Thanks, Clint.

The shaft length bit made me lol. Fun video as always Clint!

Maybe you could add some sort of ring to the base of the shaft, to restrict the possible travel.

@LGR

14 күн бұрын

Some kind of… shaft ring, yes. I think I know a store that sells such accessories 🍎

6:50 glad to hear clint

I'm impressed the optical mouse worked. Neat video.

It never ceases to amaze me at the ingenuity in the things that Clint manages to find for Oddware. It's definitely odd, but a lot of the time it's also pretty damn clever, too.

Isn't that what they use in a Tesla?

I love the 80's and 90's. That's a piece of history right there.☺️

@the_kombinator

14 күн бұрын

It's a piece of garbage lol - just because something was sold at that time doesn't make it good. There's a reason there's not a lot of early 90s GM cars running around today - they,like this thing, were crap.

@fus132

14 күн бұрын

@@the_kombinator Bro it works better that some joysticks sold _today_

@the_kombinator

14 күн бұрын

@@fus132 Which ones? Seriously, I'm not up to snuff, I have retro gear all over my house, and I think the newest controller I have is a Gravis Gamepad from 1997.

@alikos4528

14 күн бұрын

no need to be oversentimental about something that was a cheap and unreliable junk even when it came out, if it coundn't achieve at least getting centered after a maneuver then it was destined to fail

@volvo09

14 күн бұрын

​@@alikos4528 yeah this is junk, like one of those late 80's "driving simulator" toys you'd get as a present that just rolled a 4" tube around with a light bulb inside to project a road on a "screen"... the fun lasted for 2 minutes because it took 30 seconds to realize it was the 10 seconds loop of road. There was so much worthless trash then, and this is one of them... The problems Clint had today are no different than how bad it would have been back in the day, just unusably bad.

2:04 - OMG, NOSTALGIA! That grey virtual pilot pro is the yoke I had as a kid! Loved that thing. Had the pedals too

Somehow I'd completely forgotten about Stunts but even just the very first scene of you playing it brought back all sorts of memories of playing that game for way too much and designing all sorts of crazy tracks.

7:13 "Offer good from June 1, 1993 to November 30, 1992"... wait what?

@ladyjaye27

14 күн бұрын

I noticed that too! Time works backwards in Colorado?

@philstephes

14 күн бұрын

​@@ladyjaye27Gotta be lingering effects from the Stargate.

10 points to Gryffindor for the Shaft reference.

@benn454

14 күн бұрын

Ya damn right

This definitely fulfils the criteria of "oddware"

This is quite possibly my favourite LGR video. So much ridiculous fun, innuendos AND a venture into the basement. What's not to love?

I once had a dream where i was hanging out with LGR, but for some reason we were both twelve years old. Pretty sure i'm going to have at least one dream that happens in that glorious retro-pc paradise down the stairs.

Little did I know how much I needed LGR to talk about rods, shaft, and balls. And now I know how long LGR’s shaft is. Tape measure proven.

Not gonna lie, when I realized how this yoke worked (obviously turning and pulling/pushing the yoke rolls it against the mouse's rollerball), I thought, 'That is clever!" Of course, I immediately considered that this is cheap aluminum and plastic we're dealing with here, so the yoke likely won't feel anything like a solidly built joystick or other kinds of controllers.

RC equipment and controllers so cool brings back memories of using my cousins Futaba and trying out the RC sim he had for RC Helicopter practice , thanks lgr another cool episode. 🙂

New Yawk Citeee? I sense a "What We Do in the Shadows" fan.

@Audiobungalow

14 күн бұрын

Also could be a Pace Picante fan

Clint, KZread is doing it again, I didn't get notified of your video :| I can't be the only one either.

@Swisshost

3 күн бұрын

I started to make browser tabs for my fav YT channels.

LGR, your #1 source of shaft length estimates.

Thanks for showing your basement, it has given me some inspiration for my storage. As for the yoke, maybe you could use a piece of slightly larger pipe as a spacer for the shaft. Or a bunch of washers. And maybe one of those black with metal paper stack keeper together things at the end to stop it from coming out?

'It's a pretty lengthy shaft' - Clint, 2024

Loved the Benn Jordan level of sustain/decay on that Mouse band slap

I saw these advertised heavily in Mac magazines of the early 90s. There weren't a whole lot of Apple Desktop Bus yokes, if any. And if there were any, I'm sure they'd be eye-wateringly expensive cuz that's how things went in the 68k days. I had a Mouse Yoke. It sucked.

I bet the wheel version of this was actually kinda great. It would eliminate the vertical awkwardness and you don't care nearly as much about returning to center with a wheel in your hands.

You're the best Duke Nukem voice impersonator I have ever seen.