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Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Thu, 12 November 2026, 07:23:56 »
Liquid metal crystallization, happens even if you plug it with nitrogen.

Why the heck do we use this stuff, it's only "Fast" for 6 month, then it's all trouble from there.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] RHINO60 Custom Keyboard - JACKY DESIGN
« Last post by tacahiroy on Thu, 12 November 2026, 04:08:50 »
I really love the thick bezel and unique HHKB-ish layout. I'm curious about its weight since the case is massive. How heavy is it?
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Group Buys and Preorders / [GB] SWG Retroguardia | 5 to 23 November 2026
« Last post by raz on Thu, 12 November 2026, 03:52:23 »

Hey everyone! The group buy for SWG Retroguardia is live, from 9 to 23 November 2026.

A few years after GMK Avanguardia, I'm back with something that feels like its rebellious little sibling.
Retroguardia keeps Avanguardia's geometric vibe and minimalist layout, but swaps the muted palette for something with more bite: a vivid green accent that feels both retro and electric. It's still clean, but this time it's louder and a little more fun.

The name Retroguardia (Italian for "rearguard") plays on Avanguardia ("avant-garde"): same design lineage, flipped energy.
Think old-school synths and analogue oscilloscopes, with a Lissajous figure on the Esc and a scope screen on the Enter.

Group buy

Dates: 9 to 23 November 2026
Estimated delivery: Q3 2027
Manufacturer: SWG (Swagkeys)
Profile: Cherry
Material: doubleshot ABS
Compatibility: Cherry MX and MX-style switches
Kits: Base and Numpad, sold separately

Vendors

US: Divinikey, Base $70, Numpad $13
EU: Delta Key Co., Base €75, Numpad €15
UK: Prototypist, Base £53.33, Numpad £10
CA: KeyBay.tech, Base CA$99, Numpad CA$19
SEA: Qwertyqop, Base S$92, Numpad S$17
AU: Switchkeys, Base A$104.99, Numpad A$25
CN and KR: Swagkeys, Base $70, Numpad $13

Prices are the ones on each vendor's page; taxes and shipping depend on the vendor.

Kitting

Base


Numpad


The row labels on the sheets follow SWG's numbering: R1 is the bottom row, R4 the number and F rows.
Mods have top-left legends, with icons on Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Backspace and Enter.

Colours

Base: Pantone 4280 C, the same deep blurpleish grey as GMK Avanguardia. It reads more grey than black in real life
Legends and green accents: Pantone 7479 C
Purple accents: Pantone 2725 C, Avanguardia's indigo
Legends on the accents: white

Novelties

Two novelties, both in the base kit and both doubleshot, green on purple.


The Esc gets a Lissajous figure, the shape an oscilloscope draws in X-Y mode.


The 2.25u Enter gets the scope screen itself, with a sine and a square wave over the graticule.

Renders

Everything here is a render, not a photo. Click an image for the full size.
The kit sheets and the studio shots are the colour reference; in the lifestyle shots the colours follow the light of the scene.

Studio


Lifestyle


The dark-only look and UK ISO, side by side:


And the board playing the rack, with sound: the key reel on Instagram.

Packaging

The boxes are an oscilloscope screen, and the designer card is metal.


There is no deskpad in this group buy. The artwork is picked (it's the one under the boxes above), so tell me if you'd want one.

Links


Thanks to SWG, to the vendors, and to everyone who followed the IC since the GMK days and pushed on the kitting.

Changelog

- 12-11-2026 Thread opened
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Group Buys and Preorders / Re: [GB] GMK MTNU Dasher
« Last post by nilslorand on Thu, 12 November 2026, 00:52:44 »
Quick update: there was a miscommunication regarding the Intl. Kit that only came up on the day of the launch of the pre-order, has since been resolved.

Intl. Kit is available from both protoTypist and Oblotzky
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Group Buys and Preorders / Re: [GB] MW Datenshi | 26 Oct - 16 Nov
« Last post by Minisofu on Thu, 12 November 2026, 00:28:56 »
REMINDER! Group buy ends soon! make sure not to miss it!
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] SA Paperwork - 40% Monokit
« Last post by MikeTheTiger on Wed, 11 November 2026, 21:01:13 »
We discovered an error in the blue and gray color codes. They have been updated on the website and also in the kit renders.

318704-0

318706-1

318708-2
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Off Topic / Re: Ncrapia, Jensn honeypot
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 11 November 2026, 19:18:57 »
2 affairs discovered so far.

Tp4 has personally witnessed bosses with 12 mistresses.

So ,  you know,  this is still entry lvl.
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Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Wed, 11 November 2026, 17:52:17 »
U know whus sporked ?

Most people buying laptop coolers, have overheating laptops due to lack of re-paste/ dust clean.

So.... it's kinda like people who go in for Viagra, The doctor always tells you, oh btw, in 3-5 years, you're going to have a Cardiac-Event.  Heart disease, may or may not insta-Kill.

If it can clog smaller arteries, down there, the big one's also clogged.


The laptop cooler doesn't fix the problem, it just reduces catastrophe for maybe a year or 2.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK CYL Mayan blue
« Last post by nadhole69 on Wed, 11 November 2026, 12:02:42 »
Love the color, love the Icon Mods, love the windowed keys, even if they're in another kit, not base.

Don't care about the theme stuff, but unfortunately, no symbols on the numrow are difficult for me, otherwise, all in.

hi, the standard numrow can be added; I just need to see how the prices change first ;D
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK CYL Mayan blue
« Last post by nadhole69 on Wed, 11 November 2026, 10:28:09 »
To be honest, I have a lot of criticism of the Maya side of this set. The colorway looks nice, but I don’t see any real connection between it and Maya culture at all.

1. Why is the colorway a mono blue set? Most of the mayan murals use red, green, yellow and the brown from the clay for most of the art, why choose blue as the main color?
2. Continuing with the colorway, in Maya murals, ceramics and sculpture, blue shows up mostly as an accent for sky, water and background made with a mix from the añol pigment and mineral clay, the shade changes with the recipe and how it was heated, most of the time the color is not as teal as you are showing but much more of a muted sky blue.
3. Which Maya calendar are the glyphs on the novelties from? They don’t look to be from the Haab or the Tzolk’in, so they just look like generic “Maya-style” glyphs found on google to me. You also say numerals like 7 and 13 differ between sources and that you took inspiration from “various references and articles” Which ones references? Head-variant numerals change a lot between site and periods
4. You say you’re bringing Maya culture to the set, but all you show is the numeral system and the calendar. There’s nothing from the architecture, the mythology or the folklore.

Honestly, it feels like you found a color called “Maya blue”, grabbed the first thing a quick search gave you about the culture, and built the novelties from that. I see no research and no respect.

The set doesn’t reflect Maya culture in any way. Maya culture has a huge amount to offer as a theme, so seeing it reduced to a color name and a few numerals with zero real research behind it appalls me to be honest, I respect the fact that you might want to make a set using this color but randomly relating it to a culture without doing due research is not the way to do it.
Thank you for your feedback, but honestly, I don't quite understand your comment.
1) Why was blue chosen?
Quite simply, because the set is inspired by that particular shade of blue. What do brown, red, or other colors have to do with it? I'm perfectly aware that these colors were also used in Maya art and culture, but that doesn't mean every design inspired by Maya culture has to incorporate all of them.
A quick search is enough to understand that Maya blue is itself a culturally significant pigment, not just an arbitrary color choice. It also has unique chemical properties that continue to be studied by scientists to this day. That is precisely what makes it an interesting subject for a set.
2) "The shade of blue is not accurate".
Once again, a little research shows that the appearance of Maya blue could vary depending on the materials used, their proportions, and the preparation process. It is therefore reasonable to acknowledge that there was no single, universally identical shade throughout Maya history. but yes it has a shade of teal, is not pure blue, and Do I really have to explain to another designer that  render of a RAL plastic color and a color found on an archaeological artifact can not be identical? :eek:
In my case, I chose the exact RAL color reference provided by RAL. This was a deliberate design choice, rather than an attempt to reproduce one specific archaeological sample.
3)Just to clarify, the symbols are not intended to represent either the Haab' or the Tzolk'in calendar. They are Maya Head-Variant Numerals(like a wrote in post), a documented form of numerical representation used in Maya inscriptions. My intention was to showcase the Maya numerical system, not a specific calendar. These are two different things
https://planetarchaeology.co.uk/maya-number-system/
https://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/MayaGlyphsBook2Sect1.pdf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Introduction_to_the_Study_of_the_Maya_Hieroglyphs/Chapter_4
The differences I mentioned regarding certain numbers are due to a scarcity of archaeological proof and are still being studied today; honestly, I cannot explain every single detail in a post about keycaps.
4) I also find this criticism rather unnecessary.
I cannot possibly incorporate every aspect of Maya culture into a single keyboard set. The intention was to bring a particular color and some of the main numerical symbols used by the Maya into the design.
Nowhere in my original post did I claim that these were the only important aspects of Maya culture, nor that the set was intended to be an exhaustive representation of their civilization.
A design inspired by a culture does not necessarily have to encompass its entire history, architecture, mythology, and artistic heritage to be a valid concept
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