Author Topic: I'm becoming.. addicted? (Read 3512 times)

PixelVandalism · « **on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 09:41:28 »

I love my leopold, it's my first mech keyboard and it is by far the best thing I've ever typed on.
It's almost sad how much I want to type.
I think I may have become addicted to mech keyboards, my friend wants a new keyboard, and I am forcing him into getting something with red switches just so I can try them.
I bought a 37 keycap set 3 days after I got my board.
What is wrong with me?
I want a new keyboard and I've only had this one for a week.

o2dazone · « **Reply #1 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 10:00:47 »

Get a keyboard with some commitment. Perhaps something with a different layout or blank caps. It helped me from going bananas and buying every keyboard

lightsout714 · « **Reply #2 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 10:31:14 »

I'm the same way. I've been through 5 in the last couple months.

PixelVandalism · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 10:33:06 »

It's terrible though, the way I justified a $109 keyboard to myself was that I wasn't going to need a new one for long enough to have saved on the amount of $20 I would have had to buy.
Why do mechanical keyboards have to be so good?

jellowiggler · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 11:50:12 »

Heh. I know what you mean.

I tried 3 boards that I returned. Then ended up with an rk-9000 red for work, an rk-9000 brown for home, and a cmstorm rapid blue for home as well. Then I got started with some keys.

What is wrong with us indeed!?

nhwhaup · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 12:16:16 »

It's a tough addiction - can become very expensive. Hopefully once you've tried many a keyboard, you will find the best options for you and settle down with just a few favorites. That's what happened to me. I literally probably bought over 15 boards before happily landing on my personal favorites - Red switches and silent topres. I have two keyboards with the reds and two of the same 87U Silent keyboards. I seriously don't have any desire to try anything further as these are just so perfect for me.

This forum is an awesome site to sell keyboards that don't quite do it for you and don't come with a return policy. All the ones that I decided weren't for me, I either returned or sold.

Good luck...

PixelVandalism · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:12:57 »

I love my board to much to give it up.
I think I'll have to go into rehab until I've gotten a new computer.

reaper · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:18:23 »

What addiction?

^ These are just some. lol

Oh and Bruce, where are my freaking free coasters? ;(

Elrick · « **Reply #8 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 19:05:56 »

Quote from: PixelVandalism;485321

I think I may have become addicted to mech keyboards, my friend wants a new keyboard, and I am forcing him into getting something with red switches just so I can try them.
I bought a 37 keycap set 3 days after I got my board.
What is wrong with me?
I want a new keyboard and I've only had this one for a week.

I know, it has grabbed me so severely that I've hidden all my credit cards throughout the house. That's it for me.

I just laid out a huge amount for Double shot replacements ROUND FOUR!.........now I feel like a true desperate waiting for them to announce when it'll be made and released. I just feel so dirty inside. Imagine getting more excited over this than over my girlfirend..... She's pissed off to her friend's place while I waste away at my keyboard worrying about when I'll get my keycaps.

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It's come down to this. I'm just so pathetic.........really.......

PixelVandalism · « **Reply #9 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 19:15:40 »

I need to hold back on my urges, hopefully I can control myself, and just be happy with the small amount that I have.

Tony · « **Reply #10 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 21:34:02 »

It is natural tendency to collect junks. Some members here have several hundred keyboards.

PixelVandalism · « **Reply #11 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 21:38:02 »

How dare you call them junk D:<
That is pretty ridiculous

lightsout714 · « **Reply #12 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 21:56:15 »

Quote from: PixelVandalism;485696

How dare you call them junk D:<
That is pretty ridiculous

Its all junk in the end.

Tony · « **Reply #13 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 23:22:48 »

Keyboard God is now commanding your life. You are chosen to worship him and ready to give him all your soul and money.

By the way may I introduce some great missionaries which you probably already know and love: Filco, Ducky, WASD, Topre, Noppoo, HHKB, Xamor, Deck, Rosewill, Das, Cherry, Razer...

1uckyNumb3r7 · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 07 January 2012, 23:46:10 »

Looking at my 3rd in 6 months or so... I am justifying my 3rd because I am giving this RK9000 w/ blues to my son

Going to get me a Filco MJ2 w/ Browns this round

BigBrother · « **Reply #15 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 00:41:04 »

I keep trying to tell myself that it's justified to buy a really good graphics card but I've bought some dozen over the last 3 years alone.

In related topic: I only bought maybe 4 keyboards in total. :|

hoggy · « **Reply #16 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 01:10:19 »

I managed to go a few months without buying anything, but I've just bought 5 keyboards in as many days... Clearly fallen off the wagon.

For me, getting the right keyboard helped to save me from giving up my career, I think the importance I attach to keyboards is justified.

I try to justify the collection by calling it 'stock' - I swap between keyboards at work daily (I keep 7 or 8 at work), and every now and again I'll swap one of them from home.

...But to be fair - I have 50+.

I have a problem.

hoggy · « **Reply #17 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 01:15:51 »

You know you're addicted when -

Someone you know has bought a cheap keyboard - you're more interested in the box.
You know you shouldn't mention it to your friends and co workers
You have the patience to search for 'keyboard' on ebay and browse through all of the pages.

PixelVandalism · « **Reply #18 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 02:06:00 »

Well i'm hoping that because I enjoy my keyboard so much, I might actually want to do my assignments when I get them, just so that I have a reason to type something.

jellowiggler · « **Reply #19 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 02:24:14 »

That's a sign that you need to be in a program for sure.

PixelVandalism · « **Reply #20 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 02:30:30 »

It's actually quite depressing, because I have nothing to type that is longer than 30 words.
I would love to sit down and type for an hour, just to wear it in.

Tony · « **Reply #21 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 03:27:09 »

This Typeracer website may make you type a bit and justify your need to have so much keyboards

http://play.typeracer.com

or this website, with 4 racing roads for 30s, 1min, 2 mins and 5mins

http://hi-games.net/typing

nhwhaup · « **Reply #22 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 05:05:59 »

I won't call myself addicted cause I think I've been able to pare way down and have truly no desire to purchase any additional keyboards. But there was a time this year when my fetish went from keyboards to monitors and that was even worse - the IPS monitors were much more expensive than keyboards (well except for the topres) but fortunately I purchased all of them with a return policy. I almost felt I should invite my UPS guy to Christmas dinner.

So did anyone make a new year's resolution not to purchase keyboards in 2012?

Tony · « **Reply #23 on:** Sun, 08 January 2012, 21:01:04 »

Be it stamps, coins, keyboards, monitors, or girls, people like to collect things that they would not or never use, just to feel secure, to fill up the void in our lives.

For a change, we frequently move from collecting one kind of junks to another.

Deverica Wolf · « **Reply #24 on:** Thu, 12 January 2012, 11:20:08 »

I think there is a general interest to find the best keyboard for us. We may like what we are typing on, but the thoughts of something feeling better can drive you nuts.

I have so far tried out Blacks, Blues, Browns, and Buckling Springs. I have Clear and Red Stems and Brown/Blue Springs for modding. I've tried out Flat and Sloped Profiles as well as Full-size and Tenkeyless. I am also buying three sets of Colemak keys from WASD.

I don't have a problem. :eyebrows:

Of course, I use/will use all this.

dimoniy · « **Reply #25 on:** Thu, 12 January 2012, 13:59:54 »

Keyboholics Anonymous Association welcomes you.

Encryptor · « **Reply #26 on:** Thu, 12 January 2012, 15:52:02 »

I've been reading this forum for a while but finally wanted to chime in on this thread - there is something about the different types of switches, for me, that makes me want to try them all. I also have a bit of an obsession with LEDs and translucent / clear things, which is why I purchased a Deck in the first place, after having a lot of really flimsy backlit keyboards.

Yesterday I received my second Deck (Legend with Clears) that I plan on bringing in to work. I hooked it up to my husband's computer and am trying to see if I get any reaction from him. Like, maybe if he types on a mechanical keyboard and falls in love with it, it will somehow justify the previous 2 mechanical keyboards I purchased in the past 3 months...

mmmty · « **Reply #27 on:** Thu, 12 January 2012, 16:15:12 »

I would start him off with blues or browns. I returned my Deck Frost because clears were too hard on my wimpy fingers.

GeorgeStorm · « **Reply #28 on:** Thu, 12 January 2012, 16:20:35 »

I know the feeling.
Got my 3rd and 4th on their respective ways to me now (sold first to brother, and 2nd elsewhere)
Getting blues (again) since I like them and am trying out reds (2nd board was browns and wasn't overly impressed)

Got 3 sets of keycaps already, am looking at a 4th

Encryptor · « **Reply #29 on:** Thu, 12 January 2012, 16:36:34 »

Quote from: mmmty;488976

I would start him off with blues or browns. I returned my Deck Frost because clears were to hard on my wimpy fingers.

I was thinking that.. I'll see how he likes it. I bought a Goldtouch keypad with brown switches, and had him try it, and he claimed to like the black switches on my other Deck more than the browns.. Then again, he just kind of poked at the keys for a bit and didn't actually type. It might get on his nerves once he's actually typing.

Personally, I love the clears. I don't mind typing on black switches either, but I like the feedback and not bottoming out on the clears.

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Author Topic: I'm becoming.. addicted? (Read 3512 times)