Somewhere, the Dye-Sub operator for SLK Desau is feeling vindicated and smug 
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Seriously, thatās awful, and is it just some shadows or is color consistency also off? Certainly looks lighter overall than the shots on their site as well.
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SLK Dessau set looks better than GMK quality control in comparison! In all fairness, vendor and manu. for Dessau tried to make it right and swapped out all of the caps that I requested.
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Yeah, I tried to be very specific, even with my joke.
They seem to have tried to be good citizens. I still have a set of FKcaps custom SLK on my āsomedayā list.
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hah, yeah, I took it as such. Iām probably less worried about legend precision (texture, shape, and sound are more important to me) but even so, I ended up requesting like 20 replacement caps and let probably another slide as āeh, good enough.ā 
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Probably just let it go, as itās over a year and so I donāt have a lot of leverage for anything like charge-backs.
Probably the lighting, as I donāt remember the colors being inconsistent. But yes, they are super-light and lower contrast vs. the renders.
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That is worse than SLK Dessau turned out. Man. Iām sorry.
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Wow. I meanā¦ itās super cool, but looks super complex to me. Iām gonna stay away from this and pick up one if it turns out good. I still would much rather someone do this right and make it out of plastic.
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Huh, thatās real interesting to see an āofficialā version come to life.
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I hope they can pull this off successfully, but a first board and of this complexity makes me nervous for them. Iām going to pass with the additional factors of my lack of desk space and no interest in dropping $600+ on a keyboard right now.
Considering how bloody the MDR Rebellion is depicted in the paintings, itās possible the keyboards were in fact 7kg chunks of metal and steelā¦
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In my headcanon they are definitely all metal. A crude weapon for a less civilized age.
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This godforsaken weather weāve been having this summer. Always hot & humid, then way more rain than we ever got here in SW PA during the summer. The heat too, like 10 yrs, back weād consider more than 10 days over 90F across the whole summer a hot one. Now every day is 90F if not hotter. I swear I lost like 10lbs over the last few days at work from sweating since itās been so obnoxiously hot! 
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My truck showed me 104 degrees yesterday. It felt hotterā¦
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Where you at in Texas right iirc? Yeah you guys are getting hammered down there. Definitely worse than we got it.
Iām actually out in NC, about 20 miles southwest of Raleigh. People in Texas probably laughing about me complaining about 104.
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Oh yeah youāre NC, not sure why I was thinking Texas 
Yeah 104 be the norm in most of Texas still brutal though. You guys get at least some breaks in NC, but Iād imagine itās fairly hot throughout the summer there. Especially by the coast. 104 still is just nope territory to me unless I gotta work NGL! 
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Anything above 80 is a personal nope for me. If I had a year round snow button, Iād click it immediately. Summers in NC have been feeling extra brutal lately. Not a fan.
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104 in the shade is still fairly rare here in north Texas, but not by much. This summer is only really getting brutal now, but the big thing is itās feeling like the last few years are getting more humid and miserably sticky (like those swamp people in Houston), and our winter days either seem to be way too warm or else the jet stream goes crazy and lets that arctic air kill all our plants. Then there are the unpredictable rain events like happened outside Austin. Weāre almost certainly, on average, a bit warmer than we used to be, but I think the term āGlobal Weirdingā applies pretty well and serves as a good reminder that climate and weather are not quite the same thing.
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I received an email notice for Wuque Studioās livestream and it made me go hmmm for sure. Hereās the announcement:
Weāve launched a 96-hour livestream challenge in China to observe the magnetic flux changes of our WS Hall Effect switches in real time. This continuous streaming allows you to see how the magnetic flux value varies over an extended period.
Weāre sharing as much of this livestream as possible on YouTube; however, due to network limitations, the stream may experience occasional pauses.
While the stream may not be live 24/7 due to technical challenges, you can still watch the replay of the initial segments.
Watch the livestream recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5hHixtwPaU
What actually happened was a spectacular livestream fail, in the realm of so bad itās fascinating: there was no sound for most of the 50 minute recordingābut sound came back when the video cut out and it seemed like the phone was recording in someoneās pocket. At several points, the video froze for minutes on end only to start playing again silently or go straight to the audio-included pocket darkness.
Hope they can get this sorted out because the idea of testing the switches for 96 hours sounded pretty interesting!
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