I'm against this set since it jeopardizes a future GMK Troubled Minds run that is already in the works as thesiscamper's past instagram posts have indicated.
How does this small different set jeopardize a massive MD group buy? Did you happen to read my posts, or did you just jump in at the end?
I love thesiscamper's work, and I will totally buy GMK Troubled Minds if it ever comes to pass (though I'm not a huge fan of the SP colors) and my kira60 is one of my favorite boards, but unless I'm missing something, the only time he ever really posted anything serious was almost 2 years ago. And then like yesterday AFTER we started this IC. And his only mention was that he MIGHT do it and then only after SA TM runs again which itself is likely a few months out. Its totally possible I missed something, but I did try and find any mention of it being a real and/or confirmed thing, but I was never able to find it.
It's also not like anyone of us invented the 4 major tertiary color schemes (the biggest two that most people know are RGB and CMY, the other 2 are Violet, Orange and Spring Green and then Azure, Chartreuse and Rose. Unfortunately because of the particular versions of orange green and purple that are available in GMKs standard color palette, I feel like this is the only green purple orange combination that can really work. I'd love to have the popularity and pull to run a more balanced set with custom color in one of the inversions, but I'm realistic to know the best chance to get a set like this made is standard colors.
This entire set started cause I was talking to donut about some of the green sets I wanted, and the first one wouldnt work now, then I said, what about green and purple, and he wasn't keen, so I sent him a render of the first row of keys and he was into it.I was actually literally considering waiting until my bonus the end of this year and running the entire set out of pocket just so I could have it, so when donut said he would try it, that seemed preferable.
I've been making a LOT of effort to not step on anyones toes. I don't even really want a novelty kit, but people asked, so I have been trying, but anything I come up with is too close to thesis' work and so I scrap it. TBH if he wanted to do novelties and get all the credit and whatnot, I'm fine with that, I of course can't speak for donut, but I don't give 2 ****s about credit. My only goal is to get purple keys with green japanese legends without waiting years to get it. I also want standard colors so it's compatible with my other sets.
Either way though, lets be real here, there is no way this is gonna do even close to the sales a GMK TM would do on MD if it ever ran. And because of that, there is very little chance that it would EVER "jeapardize" TM.
Anyway, I'm really not trying to be inflammatory, so I hope that's not how it seems. I just really like bright keycaps and this is probably my favorite of the 4 major tertiary color schemes (though cmy is also up there).