Woaah, your final pics are awesome brader
My amateur casted caps look good on yours, thanks a lot
These look like they took a strong design/concept cue from KK's topre GID mods:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDjVKnGQOiW/
While imitation is the highest form of flattery, I hope you and kudos & koala talked it out!
I don't give a ****. Why the hell would they need to talk to kudos about making mods? That is trash. Did kudos get permission from the people who made those tacky GID posters in the 70s and 80s? Did they get permission from the people who created keyboards to make modifiers? Did they get permission from Topre for stem use? GTFO with that bull****. All my questions are as dumb as your suggestion that they should have "talked it out" even if the guy doing the new ones gave a nod to KK.
We've been over this a million times. Colorways are NOT intellectual property whether it be SP or artisans. GID is a colorway. Did you ***** when bro made a GID after cc? Or was it the other way around? Wait! Who gives a **** who did it first?
A detailed sculpt is something completely different. Literally casting a bbv2 and selling it as your own is different.
Making your own molds of a STANDARD keycap profile and just making them colorful is NOT EVEN CLOSE to a questionable offense.
You're absolutely right. I want to emphasize that I was *****ing to Retro about this prior to her posting. If anything, I take full responsibility for the post.
Before going any further, I want to say that I absolutely agree that no one owns the right to a colorway. There is no legal precedence (that I know of) so I don't have a leg to stand on in that argument. Furthermore, it's not an argument I'm making.
If I wanted to release a new GMK keyset with Hyperfuse colors, I'm sure people would be up in arms about it. If I were to release blanks with Candy-corn colorways, it wouldn't be defined as "stealing" but I'm sure it would rub some people the wrong way.
For me, the timing and prior acknowledgement is a bit unsettling. That's it. If, at any point, he decides to sell them, I sincerely wish him the best of luck. It's, by no means, a fun endeavor.