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What keycaps are these?

What's the exact timeframe when they went downhill? Before or after the HP acquisition?

That’s some wise words, I’m a Chinese myself, and we do have a 4-words idiom/phrase that refers exactly to this stage of mind, 返璞归真, which literally translated into return to the unpolished/unaltered nature and get back to the “true self”

You better have MX Browns in there.

I have both the husky and salmon switches and use them stock. But as I’m not a big fan of UHMWEP I lubed my one hippo switch. It’s always interesting to hear other people’s opinions. Am definitely considering using these for my lilac Zoom65 which I’ll get next year.

So how do they differ, aside from lube and spring wight?

I hate GMK (bleh!), regardless of group-buy-time, if that helps. Don’t get me started on that monstrosity that was the attempt at Space Cadet. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

No thanks

I swear on Gawd one day I'll have a retro style board with Box Jades and a Solenoid.

They mean that alps linears have a small tactile bump due to the switchplate design. How noticeable it is varies from batch to batch in my experience.

You're doing it wrong

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Thank you thank you 😊

Look, I don't get why when everyone complains about GB deadlines, no one proposes an efficient and optimized solution to it. Everyone already is dealing with the same issues as you. Complaining about a problem doesn't help fix the issue. At this point, quit complaining about it on the internet and do something to fix it. Propose a solution that would hold manufacturers and GB runners accountable or something. I would love to have someone prove me wrong and fix this group buy deadline issue because at this point it doesn't seem likely that people will. Literally complaining about them doesn't do anything.

Pricey little buggers, but man they look amazing. Too bad I popped for a new board last night (mega65) and some oil kings or I'd be all over these. We'll see if there are any left in a few weeks. I'd need a board where these would match then too - what a black hole this hobby is.

Give up... We never get nice stuff. An ISO Odin would have been an instant buy for me

nope, gat milky yellows. im sure the pros are better, i just dont have em :(

As a new person to the mech keeb scene, how are people elitist abt keebs? Like I’d get flamed for having the tiger 80 lite and not the aluminum version?

https://kbdfans.com/products/pbtfans-pyga Link to the keycap set, goes live for all at 6pm PST

Yeeeeeeeeah that's a yikes, chief.

Got to admire that you made it work so well. The beige really works well with the cream too!

Nice artisan collection btw! It's exciting to see Spooky's stuff out in the wild.

Yeah, this is the only one I've found with both, and it's... yeah.

To be fair, there are probably hundreds of youtube video reviews/sound tests the might immediately fill in a lot of information. Im willing to bet that if you just searched "kailh box red versus white" on youtube you would learn that reds are linears and box whites are tactlie clickies in les than 5 minutes, and you would have an impresion of their sound. I agree somewhat with others - the feel of switches is super subjective, so most advice other than the very basic "this is clicky/linear/tactile/silent" is almost entirely opinionated (and has likely a massive variance between users - 5 people will call some switches trash and the next 5 will say they are personal favorites). Its almost the same issue of going to a grocery store produce section and asking some clerk "which tastes better apples or grapes? Btw I like cantaloupe as a reference." - it would make much more sense to buy a few peices of fruit - try them on your own time and then decide what you like best. Indeed, you can also buy relative cheap switch testers before committing to a specific switch. For more artisanal switches you pretty much just have to try them for yourself. You can also search for local keyboard meetups to see if you can try certain boards in person if people are willing to let you (just ask nicely and have clean hands lol).

People should definitely not get mad at you (and Im sorry of they did) - thats not cool. But, even at best, its really hard to answer subjective questions like this.

Kat Atlantis has a Greek keycaps set, but I've yet to find a decent looking cap set that has both.