Things (average) People Say About Your Keyboard(s)

[Tym]

There was supposed to be something here. But it didn't work...
¿que?

[Pacifist]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

You guys are the ones nitpicking at me.....instead of bashing the other people who are off topic you all gang up on me and nitpick the smallest detail that makes it not 100% on topic.

[iri]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

You guys are the ones nitpicking at me.....instead of bashing the other people who are off topic you all gang up on me and nitpick the smallest detail that makes it not 100% on topic.

could you please do me a favor and run head first into a wall?
your head won't hurt, trust me.

[Pacifist]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

You guys are the ones nitpicking at me.....instead of bashing the other people who are off topic you all gang up on me and nitpick the smallest detail that makes it not 100% on topic.

could you please do me a favor and run head first into a wall?
your head won't hurt, trust me.

This thread:

People talking on topic, then not on topic:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg971459#msg971459
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg970029#msg970029
or
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg965285#msg965285

Then me: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167085#msg1167085

Then demilk http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167296#msg1167296

then spam bashing me http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167311#msg1167311

then from photo http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167504#msg1167504

Someone walking by a keyboard and seeing a plastic skull on it could well comment in a similar manner after finding out how much said plastic skull goes for.

[eth0s]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

You guys are the ones nitpicking at me.....instead of bashing the other people who are off topic you all gang up on me and nitpick the smallest detail that makes it not 100% on topic.

could you please do me a favor and run head first into a wall?
your head won't hurt, trust me.

This thread:

People talking on topic, then not on topic:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg971459#msg971459
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg970029#msg970029
or
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg965285#msg965285

Then me: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167085#msg1167085

Then demilk http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167296#msg1167296

then spam bashing me http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167311#msg1167311

then from photo http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167504#msg1167504

Someone walking by a keyboard and seeing a plastic skull on it could well comment in a similar manner after finding out how much said plastic skull goes for.

[Photoelectric]

Pacifist, as I'd already mentioned, there's a good time to pursue your battle and then there's a good time to throw in a towel and get a nice cold drink, and do something else.  This is one of the latter times. 

[Pacifist]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

You guys are the ones nitpicking at me.....instead of bashing the other people who are off topic you all gang up on me and nitpick the smallest detail that makes it not 100% on topic.

could you please do me a favor and run head first into a wall?
your head won't hurt, trust me.

This thread:

People talking on topic, then not on topic:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg971459#msg971459
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg970029#msg970029
or
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg965285#msg965285

Then me: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167085#msg1167085

Then demilk http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167296#msg1167296

then spam bashing me http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167311#msg1167311

then from photo http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45893.msg1167504#msg1167504

Someone walking by a keyboard and seeing a plastic skull on it could well comment in a similar manner after finding out how much said plastic skull goes for.

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I don't know. If you're such a genius why don't you tell me? I don't see anything wrong. I was on topic, others were not, but I was called out for not being on topic. If the community is so good and fine before I was here, then how come the people who were here before me nitpick on my post that is on topic rather than on other people's posts who were blatantly off topic?

[Pacifist]

Pacifist, as I'd already mentioned, there's a good time to pursue your battle and then there's a good time to throw in a towel and get a nice cold drink, and do something else.  This is one of the latter times.

I will pursue this battle because I was on topic and did not violate any rules but was nitpicked while others weren't and weren't criticized at all. I will also pursue this battle because other people have called me out on nothing wrong and insulted me. This has gone beyond personal.

Quitting and throwing in the towel now only justifies nitpicking on something that shouldn't be nitpicked. If I don't show that these nitpickers are wrong, they will only continue to nitpick and nitpick perpetually. This just leads to the community becoming more disintegrated, which as a member of the community I have a responsibility to stop.

[eth0s]

zomg. 

[SpAmRaY]

You rang?

[Photoelectric]

[Pacifist]

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if this is directed towards me, I was getting along at first. Then demilk and spam nitpicked my posts saying they were off topic when they weren't.

I will "impale my enemies" because they are wrong  and will only stop when they apologize and tell everybody that they were wrong for accusing me of a crime I did not commit.

[demik]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

Along with the other 16 year olds.

And once again pacifist. It's demik. We aren't buddies.

[aj-kun]

"why would you spend $500 on a keyboard"

I respond with why did you spend $800 on light blue Tiffnay & Co. glasses.

[rowdy]

Something I get from one of the guys when I mention my old PC hardware won't run modern games is "If you hadn't spent all your money on keyboard stuff you could buy a reasonable gaming machine".

[SpAmRaY]

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if this is directed towards me, I was getting along at first. Then demilk and spam nitpicked my posts saying they were off topic when they weren't.

I will "impale my enemies" because they are wrong  and will only stop when they apologize and tell everybody that they were wrong for accusing me of a crime I did not commit.

Apologize?

But there was nothing wrong with my post. It's true.

[kenmai9]

This random person I work with was like "Poker?" And I was like "YEAHHHHH" and that's how I found out he wasnt "average".

[Photoelectric]

Objectively speaking, his post was not out of line with other posts here.  It's a different manner entirely that what he posts seems to elicit a lot of negative response, justifiably or not.  In this particular thread, I believe there was no good reason why he should have gotten so much flame for some pretty innocent posts.  If everyone could drop insulting each other (specifically, if everyone would please stop insulting Pacifist here), it'd be very much appreciated.  This was meant to be a lighthearted thread about our silly keyboard addiction.

[CatNip :3]

"You'd rather get a DUCKY over a BLACKWIDOW? *Laughs*"
I tried to stay calm.

[bazh]

every time there are mechanical keyboards reviews on my local technology forum, there are bunch of people like this:

- look nothing special than my Mitsumi membrane, you must be idiot or crazy to buy that
- look fugly compared to my Razer/Logitech/STRIKE7/...
- this must be for truly gamer...
- ...

[adhoc]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

Ouch, that's harsh. That's quite a terrible name Pacifist made for himself around these parts in just a few months...

[Belfong]

Something I get from one of the guys when I mention my old PC hardware won't run modern games is "If you hadn't spent all your money on keyboard stuff you could buy a reasonable gaming machine".

Oh man!! I get that too!
I get roughed up for still using a Core 2 Quad! Ha ha!

[Input Nirvana]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

Along with the other 16 year olds.

And once again pacifist. It's demik. We aren't buddies.

DAAAAAAAAMMMN   lol

For the record:
 Topic: Things (average) People Say About Your Keyboard(s)

Pretty simple really.

Anyhoo, I've found the entire spectrum from "Whaaaaa?" to "Oh, that's interesting/different, I didn't know." to "That's neat, what else can it do?" to a pretty flat "Whatever."

The surprising thing is the responses from people that I would have expected the exact OPPOSITE response from, in both directions, over enthusiasm/under enthusiasm. That's been worth the price of admission alone.

[C5Allroad]

geekhack's community is slowly disintegrating

umm, you are the problem, not the solution.

We were fine before you got here.

Along with the other 16 year olds.

And once again pacifist. It's demik. We aren't buddies.

Whats wrong with 16 year olds?

[dustinhxc]

Amazing, beautiful, cool, wow, i want one.

[oTurtlez]

Glad to see this thread was brought back from the dead. I always get comments on my clack on my HHKB, people asking, "What does this key do?" and such. All my friends think my EDox is sick, and it's gotten to the point that whenever I talk to my old boss, he asks what keyboard I'm using. I was that guy at the office that would have a different keyboard every week lol.

[Photoelectric]

I've brought up an ErgoDox in my household and showed some particularly nice photos and was called "crazy"   Still, I'm used to that, and my friends already thought I was crazy to have a super heavy keyboard made of metal.  "Why would anyone even make that?!!!..."

[Reomero]

"I hate your keyboard because I can't use it" -- a friend who couldn't touch type. (I had blanks on that particular 'board at the time )

And another just told me it looked weird.

[bazh]

I have the rainbow blank POM set on my Poker and I use that very much at school, and all the girls walk by are like "look, so cuuuutttteeee"   

[snoopy]

-ugly as ****
-did you pull it out of the trash?
-did you travel back in the 90s?
-it's so loud, is it broken?
-why are there no letters on it? did you wear them off? You should buy a new one. I have that xy keyboard, it has media keys and is really quiet... blabla... you should get that one too!
-that skull is creepy. are you gothic?
-why do you use an ibm keyboard on a mac? are you nuts?
-my keyboard has backlight which is much cooler
-why don't you use a mouse from the 90s?
-please stop typing, you're driving me crazy
-... (too lazy to continue)

[iri]

-ugly as ****
-did you pull it out of the trash?
-did you travel back in the 90s?
-it's so loud, is it broken?
-why are there no letters on it? did you wear them off? You should buy a new one. I have that xy keyboard, it has media keys and is really quiet... blabla... you should get that one too!
-that skull is creepy. are you gothic?
-why do you use an ibm keyboard on a mac? are you nuts?
-my keyboard has backlight which is much cooler
-why don't you use a mouse from the 90s?
-please stop typing, you're driving me crazy
-... (too lazy to continue)

it seems you have nice colleagues!

[osi]

Something I get from one of the guys when I mention my old PC hardware won't run modern games is "If you hadn't spent all your money on keyboard stuff you could buy a reasonable gaming machine".

Oh man!! I get that too!
I get roughed up for still using a Core 2 Quad! Ha ha!

I just upgraded my PC at home to Core 2 DUO ~3 months ago. Coming from a Pentium 4

[Belfong]

Something I get from one of the guys when I mention my old PC hardware won't run modern games is "If you hadn't spent all your money on keyboard stuff you could buy a reasonable gaming machine".

Oh man!! I get that too!
I get roughed up for still using a Core 2 Quad! Ha ha!

I just upgraded my PC at home to Core 2 DUO ~3 months ago. Coming from a Pentium 4

Lol! This is classic. I bet you own an expensive mech!

[osi]

Something I get from one of the guys when I mention my old PC hardware won't run modern games is "If you hadn't spent all your money on keyboard stuff you could buy a reasonable gaming machine".

Oh man!! I get that too!
I get roughed up for still using a Core 2 Quad! Ha ha!

I just upgraded my PC at home to Core 2 DUO ~3 months ago. Coming from a Pentium 4

Lol! This is classic. I bet you own an expensive mech!

Yes. I have no shame :x

[tgujay]

This random person I work with was like "Poker?" And I was like "YEAHHHHH" and that's how I found out he wasnt "average".

Man that's nice, I'm 99% sure I'm the only person in my 1500 employee office that has a mechanical keyboard.

[domoaligato]

This random person I work with was like "Poker?" And I was like "YEAHHHHH" and that's how I found out he wasnt "average".

Man that's nice, I'm 99% sure I'm the only person in my 1500 employee office that has a mechanical keyboard.

I am the only one out of 4200.

[dustinhxc]

-ugly as ****
-did you pull it out of the trash?
-did you travel back in the 90s?
-it's so loud, is it broken?
-why are there no letters on it? did you wear them off? You should buy a new one. I have that xy keyboard, it has media keys and is really quiet... blabla... you should get that one too!
-that skull is creepy. are you gothic?
-why do you use an ibm keyboard on a mac? are you nuts?
-my keyboard has backlight which is much cooler
-why don't you use a mouse from the 90s?
-please stop typing, you're driving me crazy
-... (too lazy to continue)

Wow the people around you are rude as all hell..

[keymaster]

-ugly as ****
-did you pull it out of the trash?
-did you travel back in the 90s?
-it's so loud, is it broken?
-why are there no letters on it? did you wear them off? You should buy a new one. I have that xy keyboard, it has media keys and is really quiet... blabla... you should get that one too!
-that skull is creepy. are you gothic?
-why do you use an ibm keyboard on a mac? are you nuts?
-my keyboard has backlight which is much cooler
-why don't you use a mouse from the 90s?
-please stop typing, you're driving me crazy
-... (too lazy to continue)

Wow, these people are either cool enough with you to tell you these things or they really hate their lives.  )

[Pacifist]

Upon telling people I just spent $650 on a keyboard, most were suprised, some were not, and one said that he could build a computer for that price. Another is now highly interested in mechs

[hwood34]

"Dude, why do you spend so much time on keyboards? It's so dumb"
This coming from a kid who has 3 pairs of soccer cleats

[lightsout714]

Upon telling people I just spent $650 on a keyboard, most were suprised, some were not, and one said that he could build a computer for that price. Another is now highly interested in mechs

Is that including a bunch of clacks?

[Pacifist]

Upon telling people I just spent $650 on a keyboard, most were suprised, some were not, and one said that he could build a computer for that price. Another is now highly interested in mechs

Is that including a bunch of clacks?

Capless

[lightsout714]

Upon telling people I just spent $650 on a keyboard, most were suprised, some were not, and one said that he could build a computer for that price. Another is now highly interested in mechs

Is that including a bunch of clacks?

Capless

What board cost $650?

[Pacifist]

Upon telling people I just spent $650 on a keyboard, most were suprised, some were not, and one said that he could build a computer for that price. Another is now highly interested in mechs

Is that including a bunch of clacks?

Capless

What board cost $650?

lz mx mini se

[lightsout714]

Upon telling people I just spent $650 on a keyboard, most were suprised, some were not, and one said that he could build a computer for that price. Another is now highly interested in mechs

Is that including a bunch of clacks?

Capless

What board cost $650?

lz mx mini se

That's too dang much for any keyboard imo.

[Oobly]

"Where are the arrow keys?"
"I don't like that type of keyboard, you have to press the keys too far."
"How much was it? Oh..... that much, really? Well, it's nice...."
"Which switches does it have? Browns? Great, I have a G710+" <-- from a guy temporarily assigned to the same project 

At least in my office the Dell Quietkey is very common (these are surprisingly good for rubber domes and have some nice design features such as the curved bottom edge on the thumb keys which I find really helps comfort when typing), so people don't have to suffer with really bad rubber dome boards, but it would be nice to see a little more enthusiasm for mechanicals. At least some of them who aren't interested in my Pure are interested in my ergo board.

[Frenir]

"But you cannot use more than one keyboard"
"That thing looks way too old"
"Where are the letters"

[Puddsy]

"But you cannot use more than one keyboard"

I get that ALL THE TIME

I usually say "You can't wear more than one pair of shoes, but you still own more than one" or something to that effect.

[vinzlr]

"But you cannot use more than one keyboard"

A friend with 8 guns said that to me. . .as if he could use more than one of those at the same time

[tgujay]

"But you cannot use more than one keyboard"

A friend with 8 guns said that to me. . .as if he could use more than one of those at the same time

Could technically use 2 handguns at the same time...