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Offline Chroma

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Hey guys, I am new here, and kinda new to the keyboard game.
« on: Fri, 12 June 2015, 16:54:57 »
Hey everyone, this is my first post on geekhack. I found the keyboard community through r/mechanicalkeyboards, and I found r/mk through r/battlestations. I have been researching for the perfect computer for about 2 years now, and have only obtained 3 of the many parts for the build, the case, the OS, and the keyboard. After about a year of research, I had found the perfect build. I had grown bored after a few days, because I had accomplished my goal of finding the best possible parts for my budget. I was browsing every single submission on the hot page on r/battlestations for the second time until I saw related subreddits, one of them being r/mk. I opened the page, and was amazed by how many ****ing people dropped $150 on a single keycap. I instantly latched onto the keyboard hobby, and it is what I have been doing ever since.

I got my first mech about a week ago, the POK3R with mx blues. I also snagged myself a cherry switch tester from wasd keyboards and 4 aluminum keycaps from geekkeys, for $98, prior to getting my first mech.

I joined this website because it was a requirement for signing up for the brocap auction on ctrlalt, so I was  like why not, lmao.

So that is how I arrived to this very website on this day. it was a long and tiresome journey, but I think I found my home in the keyboard community  :)

Thanks to anyone that read my story about how I got into mechanical keyboards! :D

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Re: Hey guys, I am new here, and kinda new to the keyboard game.
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 14 June 2015, 03:05:24 »
Welcome home to geekhack!

I see you've already discovered WalletHack as well! :))

Happy Keyboarding!

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Re: Hey guys, I am new here, and kinda new to the keyboard game.
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 14 June 2015, 03:07:25 »
Hey everyone, this is my first post on geekhack. I found the keyboard community through r/mechanicalkeyboards, and I found r/mk through r/battlestations. I have been researching for the perfect computer for about 2 years now, and have only obtained 3 of the many parts for the build, the case, the OS, and the keyboard. After about a year of research, I had found the perfect build. I had grown bored after a few days, because I had accomplished my goal of finding the best possible parts for my budget. I was browsing every single submission on the hot page on r/battlestations for the second time until I saw related subreddits, one of them being r/mk. I opened the page, and was amazed by how many ****ing people dropped $150 on a single keycap. I instantly latched onto the keyboard hobby, and it is what I have been doing ever since.

I got my first mech about a week ago, the POK3R with mx blues. I also snagged myself a cherry switch tester from wasd keyboards and 4 aluminum keycaps from geekkeys, for $98, prior to getting my first mech.

I joined this website because it was a requirement for signing up for the brocap auction on ctrlalt, so I was  like why not, lmao.

So that is how I arrived to this very website on this day. it was a long and tiresome journey, but I think I found my home in the keyboard community  :)

Thanks to anyone that read my story about how I got into mechanical keyboards! :D



Welcome! :)
Hi there!


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Re: Hey guys, I am new here, and kinda new to the keyboard game.
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 17 June 2015, 05:56:55 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

$150 for a single keycap is pretty tame these days.  Some go for $800 or more :eek:

The thing with making a perfect build is that a couple of months later most of it is out of date ... except the keyboard :D  A good keyboard will last you for years, and you can take it from workstation to workstation.
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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