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Offline absyrd

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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #50 on: Thu, 29 November 2012, 09:04:36 »
My wife has 3 mechanical keyboards, all equally or more expensive than mine. She thinks Click Clack skulls are "cute" so she stole my only one to use on one of her boards. Fine with me.

My brother is a by-night metal scrapper so he brings be home old pc stuff when he gets it to check it out before it goes to the recycling/ecycling place. He also has hooked me up with people who work at the e-cycler who hold old stacks of keyboards for me to look at once a month or so.

None of my friends are true computer nerds. One is a mechanical engineer and and does video editing as a hobby, so I am trying to get him involved in mech keyboards as he is in front of a computer most of his waking hours.

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My wife I a also push her button . But now she have her button push by a different men. So I buy a keyboard a mechanicale, she a reliable like a Fiat.

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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #51 on: Thu, 29 November 2012, 09:09:44 »
I tried to explain to my apartment mate why I find mechanical keyboards interesting. The conversation derailed to switches, keycaps, and Cherry Corp...I think it might've been too much for him to find interesting @.@

Would be more fun if I had someone IRL to share this hobby with hah
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #52 on: Thu, 29 November 2012, 09:15:16 »
Quote from: Glod on Wed, 28 November 2012, 18:06:24
this happens after my wife finds out i just bought another keyboard, she doesn't know yet about the keycaps and o-rings coming as well LOL

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Better not piss her off =)
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #53 on: Sun, 02 December 2012, 16:44:54 »
They are jealous of course.
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Re: Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #54 on: Sun, 02 December 2012, 16:50:39 »
Quote from: TheShining on Sun, 02 December 2012, 16:44:54
They are jealous of course.
wow someones a thread bumping...
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #55 on: Sun, 02 December 2012, 17:16:54 »
He's got his 60 posts now.  At least it was not a bunch of 6+ month old posts in a single topic.
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #56 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 16:27:52 »
I don't give a damn about my keyboard hobby and neither do my friends or family.
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #57 on: Sat, 08 December 2012, 03:37:19 »
mother: look, what a nice keyboard! nyaaaa!
colleagues: you spent WHAT on this keyboard?!
friends: you left $200 keyboards in a train! hahaha!
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« Reply #58 on: Sat, 08 December 2012, 04:36:39 »
Halverson introduced me to mechanical keyboards. I was the friend who said "why does anyone need 7 keyboards" or "these people are so crazy you should make caps and sell them for money". Well after him bugging me about 12,584 times to buy a mechanical board, I decided to buy a race and join GH. I now have multiple boards and more keycaps then I need and now I'm the "crazy guy" to my family and friends.
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #59 on: Sat, 08 December 2012, 06:12:13 »
Only 12584 times, eh?  Are you sure it was not 12585?
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« Reply #60 on: Sat, 08 December 2012, 06:25:59 »
^ well I did say "about" but now that I think of it, no it was precisely 12,584 times. But it was all at once!
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #61 on: Sun, 09 December 2012, 14:31:17 »
They totally laugh at the expense
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« Reply #62 on: Sun, 09 December 2012, 15:02:36 »
Quote from: dutmai on Sun, 09 December 2012, 14:31:17
They totally laugh at the expense
I've convinced my family that my keyboards and caps are not expensive..... They think the boards are like $40 and the caps are like 50 cents a piece. Hahaha. They still think I'm nuts!! I can only imagine if they uncovered the truth!!
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #63 on: Sun, 09 December 2012, 15:19:56 »
Although records will show that a mechanical keyboard was available for $40 (Thanksgiving CM QFR) and keycaps are about $0.50 each (so a 100 set = $50, which is about right).
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"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

NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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« Reply #64 on: Sun, 09 December 2012, 15:26:26 »
^ haha well there ya go! I'm not even lying. Sort of.
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« Reply #65 on: Sun, 09 December 2012, 16:36:55 »
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 09 December 2012, 15:19:56
Although records will show that a mechanical keyboard was available for $40 (Thanksgiving CM QFR) and keycaps are about $0.50 each (so a 100 set = $50, which is about right).

Except YM bought a race and poker. And zinc caps, and novelty caps, etc. so although some boards are cheap. His are definitely not :D
But in the end, he looks to me and feels good he isn't nearly as crazy.
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Re: What does your friends/family/pets/neighbours think about your keyboard hobby?
« Reply #66 on: Tue, 18 December 2012, 22:00:04 »
friends get fed up with it haha, family dont know.
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