"or magically become right-handed"
I had a nose picker cast on my right arm for 11 months and successfully completed Diablo I left handed with a right handed mouse. Where there's a will ... There's a lot of things that you can pick up with the opposite hand -- but this was Diablo1 -- that's like 500 years ago computer technology time. I thought programs were supposed to save time, not cost time. Repetitive calculations, etc. I think I will write a program that won't work. Spend 50 times the cost of programming for marketing, and then give it to a marketing company, like Steam, for another 50x. Aw *?*&%, now, I don't have the money or integrity to pay to fix the program, haha. Of course the reason we have the time to play these games is because of the time technology has saved for us to waste -- makes you think doesn't it?
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If you taught yourself to write with your left hand, I suggest you switch writing hands regularly to preserve the skill. A very long time ago, I could write with either hand and, on the advice of a teacher, I gave up writing with one of my hands. Consequently, I lost the ability to write with both hands. Although, right now, you could say that I am writing this with both hands at once given that I have most of my fingers walking all over the keyboard.
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On a statistical level, which affects entire groups of people, not everyone can get comfortable with a right-handed mouse and a qwerty keyboard. That's why we have w3c standards for websites (so folks using braille pads can read websites too) and not all of us do things the same way - which is why there are sticky-key options and you get to configure your mouse buttons in the Windows settings, and why there are other pointing devices as alternatives to the mouse such as touch-pads, toggles, touch screens and trackballs.
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I was led to believe that the reason we have time to play these games is because the union movement stopped us working 18 hour days sometime in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Having said this, I would point out that games are not a waste of time because they relieve stress as a form of recreation - which is a necessary part of life for all human beings. Of course, if the game creates stress instead of relieving it, then it becomes a waste of time - which is why not all people can comprehend the usefulness of all games. It's why we also play Go (Wei Chi), Chess, Backgammon, Trisetta, Bridge, Gin, Poker, football, soccer, cricket, baseball or why we, watch. And, I'm definitely not monkeying around when I say that this very human need for recreation is not something to "get over" or repress. Perhaps I am meagerly squinting through one eye, butI think that people who fail to engage in recreational activities inevitably do themselves great harm.