bruh
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Dorp is taking their own shot at the 75%-with-knob segment. Pretty standard looking layout in the teaser image, and the design itself strikes me as minimal and clean. Sounds like theyāre aiming for a more premium feel experience than their current self-branded flagships.
Hey, why not, itāll probably be pretty good at least. Spitballing: At worst a GMMK Pro alternative, at best a highly competitive and desirable gasket 75. IDK, worst thing I can say about it is that itās safe - which Iād honestly consider wise, in context. This seems like a great opportunity to level-up their keeb game, and Iām honestly interested to see what theyāve learned since the ALT and SHIFT.
Iād be shocked if it wasnāt a real step up from those - what Iām interested to see is just how much of one it is.
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Weird! It is safe, youāre right but it is also still so late. GMMK could easily release a R2 of GMMK Pro or just make a slightly higher tier version. Oops there goes Dropās lunch.
Keychron and some of those other similar guys are even eating GMMKās lunchā¦ doesnāt make sense to me.
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Are the going to call it the DROP Pro? 
I would concur that the field for this kind of board, in the range Iād expect them to aim for, seems really crowded. That said, I do like this layout in general. Having experienced one of their boards first hand, I think theyāre capable of making something on the level of the GMMK Pro, but maybe not much better.
I dunno, guess weāll see.
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Iāve touched on this before on the āwhat are you waiting forā thread, but yeahhhhhh some GMK sets are really stuck in color matching hell.
GMK Zooted was in color matching for over 2 years. Monokai Material (an Oblotzky set!) is a few months away from that 2 year mark. Itās bad. And the production time after color matching is done is somewhere between 14 months (GMKās latest official PR estimate) and 24 months (actual time for recent sets).
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Does make me wonder how long Mictlan is going to take, with its many legend colors.
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Isnāt this set pad printed?
Maybe color matching could be faster if it is the case.
Just the complicated novelties; the letters and such are traditional double shot.
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So I was bored and was looking through KeebMonkeyās site and apparently they sell this? IBM Model M Refurbished Keyboard
Although I was talking to a friend last night about it and I kinda doubt its the actual model m?
There have been a few times where Iāve wanted to reference as a meme a specific clip from Trigun, and I thought, surely this clip exists in isolation somewhere because of its memorable ridiculousness.
Not that I could findā¦ 
So, when I stumbled on a longer video that contained it, I did my part for posterity:
Alrightā¦ (heheh) alright alright alright alright alright alright!
For context, this guy is in the process of impersonating the protag (who has a reputation) in an attempt to extort the locals. Heās an idiot to comedic effect, but in this moment heās like letās goooooo
I might have to make an edit that replaces his guns (and lighters) with keebs and his cigar with a brush or something.
They are rebooting Trigun and it looks terrible.
Haha oh nooo
Itās so rare that reboots arenāt at least a little painful to watch.
I recently found out that the original anime is pretty different from the manga? I remember being interested in the show, but it was pretty difficult to watch around that time. It was on Toonami, but I arrived late. I donāt think it was on DVDsā¦ I picked up the manga cause it was actually pretty short.
I feel like I might have to check out the old show again now.
There are GMK sets on Ebay for $100 or more markup that are in stock from vendorsā¦ 
@Manofinterests maybe itās time to revisit the numbers to see if itās viable to invest by purchasing extra GMK sets and reselling.
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Return of MAD KEEBS?
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Perhaps a historical first - cheap Chinese keyboard that does NOT include a keycap puller!
Iāve been saving mine for a future art installation, or something.
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Honestly, good. I realize I say that with a fair amount of (acknowledged) hypocrisy but those ring pullers are wasteful and terrible.
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I may have well over 20 of those crappy plastic ring pullers from all the switches Iāve bought and I only keep them around because I donāt want to throw and waste them. I wish they had other use cases.
Itās a good thing Iām seeing less and less of them being included though, so thatās at least a sign of progress!
I havenāt tried this yet, but I had this idea to sell some of my cheaper keycaps on something like OfferUp. My thought is that my Akko kits might not really sell in our community, but maybe some one local would appreciate it. At the very least, I would get something rather than it burning a whole in my cabinet.
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If I ever have a humble little keeb shop as an old man, Iāll have a bunch of those on a string along the doorframe instead of a bell.
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