Post the ugliest keyboards you've seen!

codemonkeymike · 13 Apr 2018, 19:08

Are you trying to say you have the gaudiest ergodox on DT?

green-squid · 13 Apr 2018, 19:09

How did you afford those keys wow

codemonkeymike · 13 Apr 2018, 19:10

green-squid wrote: ↑How did you afford those keys wow

Sold my soul to the finance gods

Iggy · 13 Apr 2018, 19:16

Joker key-caps? Let's put a smile on that keyboard!

Blaise170 · 13 Apr 2018, 19:23

just_add_coffee wrote: ↑
Blaise170 wrote: ↑ Terrible choice of color scheme (orange, cyan, and red do not match) but otherwise not that bad.
You're right, though the top plate is more pinkish in real life than it photographs. Probably not much of an improvement to you however.

So how about red chrome?

Looks much better.

just_add_coffee · 13 Apr 2018, 20:05

codemonkeymike wrote: ↑Are you trying to say you have the gaudiest ergodox on DT?

I was trying like hell.

One more try?

digital_matthew · 13 Apr 2018, 20:13

just_add_coffee wrote: ↑
codemonkeymike wrote: ↑Are you trying to say you have the gaudiest ergodox on DT?
I was trying like hell.

One more try?

Nah. Keycaps are too nice.

just_add_coffee · 13 Apr 2018, 20:18

digital_matthew wrote: ↑ Nah. Keycaps are too nice.

Oh well. It's hard to top the purple and green of Troubled Minds. That's such a gorgeously tacky keyset. Whoever it's creator ... God bless 'em!

pansku · 13 Apr 2018, 20:45

Blaise170 wrote: ↑I wouldn't call it a generational conflict at all. I know plenty of people in this hobby younger than 30 who can't stand "keebs", artisans, etc. I'd describe it much more as a matter of taste, as I don't think a keyboard with 30 artisans on it is good taste. I like practicality and that's exactly what (most of) my keyboards are.

It most definetely isn't a generational thing. I'm 20 and I don't like that word and closest thing to an artisan I have is the DT-keycap on my Model F XT. Also the trend following isn't my cup of tea either, I may have blue Alps and a beamer but then again I have plate springs which are the opposite of "hip"

davkol · 13 Apr 2018, 22:29

As I often point out, it's similar to the "objectivism vs. subjectivism" conflict in consumer hi-end audio, even though many of the conservative keyboard collectors are hardline "subjectivists" with stances as irrational as the "keebtards", albeit in a different direction.

just_add_coffee · 13 Apr 2018, 23:55

davkol wrote: ↑As I often point out, it's similar to the "objectivism vs. subjectivism" conflict in consumer hi-end audio, even though many of the conservative keyboard collectors are hardline "subjectivists" with stances as irrational as the "keebtards", albeit in a different direction.

It's funny. Here, depart from grayscale or the IBM pebble/pearl/babyshit khaki or stick an LED on something and some folks will become apoplectic. On Reddit, state a doubt about 60% layouts being truly efficient or "ergonomic" and it's the same reaction.

I vote that we all let people enjoy stuff and lighten the hell up.

Elrick · 14 Apr 2018, 05:06

just_add_coffee wrote: ↑I vote that we all let people enjoy stuff and lighten the hell up.

Agreed but it's always good to rattle their cages once and a while

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digital_matthew · 18 Apr 2018, 18:35

This looks like how bile tastes...

seebart · 18 Apr 2018, 18:37

The classic pic I'm sure most of you have seen this:

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fohat · 18 Apr 2018, 19:03

seebart wrote: ↑
The classic pic I'm sure most of you have seen this:

I posted this photo years ago here and on GH, and it has taken on a life of its own ever since.

It is really kind of impressive that it still functions at all.

"I know that I am going to heaven, because I have already served my time in hell."

JP! · 18 Apr 2018, 19:06

digital_matthew wrote: ↑This looks like how bile tastes...

seebart · 18 Apr 2018, 19:14

Yeah its been posted many times before.

Blaise170 · 18 Apr 2018, 19:16

seebart wrote: ↑Yeah its been posted many times before.

In fact, it was one of the first posts of the thread.

Menuhin wrote: ↑ I cannot tell when a keyboard is molested... or when a keyboard is willing to be caressed.
Definitely the keyboards may have some trauma when molested.

Here's the keyboard that I remember as the dirtiest, perhaps not the ugliest. And I have to do more research to confirm its mechanical identity. The user is probably from Europe.

Spoiler:

depletedvespene · 18 Apr 2018, 19:37

fohat wrote: ↑
seebart wrote: ↑
The classic pic I'm sure most of you have seen this:

I posted this photo years ago here and on GH, and it has taken on a life of its own ever since.

Please don't tell me that's YOU in the picture.

Iggy · 18 Apr 2018, 19:39

depletedvespene wrote: ↑Please don't tell me that's YOU in the picture.

More importantly, what keyboard is that?

Blaise170 · 18 Apr 2018, 19:43

Iggy wrote: ↑
depletedvespene wrote: ↑Please don't tell me that's YOU in the picture.
More importantly, what keyboard is that?

That's a keyboard?

Iggy · 18 Apr 2018, 19:43

Blaise170 wrote: ↑That's a keyboard?

Correction = What keyboard was that?

seebart · 18 Apr 2018, 19:52

depletedvespene wrote: ↑
fohat wrote: ↑
seebart wrote: ↑
The classic pic I'm sure most of you have seen this:

I posted this photo years ago here and on GH, and it has taken on a life of its own ever since.

Please don't tell me that's YOU in the picture.

No. And I dont smoke.

elecplus · 18 Apr 2018, 19:57

Pepcid, Lucky Strikes, and beer. What a combo!

digital_matthew · 18 Apr 2018, 21:00

JP! wrote: ↑
digital_matthew wrote: ↑This looks like how bile tastes...

Yes. Click here if you want to purchase this...item...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Topre-Realforc ... 0033.m2042

Elrick · 19 Apr 2018, 07:20

digital_matthew wrote: ↑
JP! wrote: ↑
digital_matthew wrote: ↑This looks like how bile tastes...

Yes. Click here if you want to purchase this...item...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Topre-Realforc ... 0033.m2042

I recon I can tolerate it's colour with my sunnies, hence I would look cool typing on this keyboard with my Ray-Ban's

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__red__ · 19 Apr 2018, 15:26

just_add_coffee wrote: ↑
davkol wrote: ↑As I often point out, it's similar to the "objectivism vs. subjectivism" conflict in consumer hi-end audio, even though many of the conservative keyboard collectors are hardline "subjectivists" with stances as irrational as the "keebtards", albeit in a different direction.
It's funny. Here, depart from grayscale or the IBM pebble/pearl/babyshit khaki or stick an LED on something and some folks will become apoplectic. On Reddit, state a doubt about 60% layouts being truly efficient or "ergonomic" and it's the same reaction.

I vote that we all let people enjoy stuff and lighten the hell up.

You know what grinds my gears...

The assumption that I *don't* want bling on my keyboard or that I want all of my keyboards to be 'pristine' or 'original' in every way just because I exclusively[α] collect keyboards manufactured by three letter companies with switchtypes abbreviated as BS.

Au contraire mes amis! I would freaking LOVE to collect keycap sets for my Fs.

TheInverseKey · 24 Apr 2018, 19:18

I think that this is the most amount of cancer I have seen in a while.

Blaise170 · 24 Apr 2018, 19:58

Can you adjust the antenna? I think the TV is going out! All I see are colored splotches.

jihadu · 24 Apr 2018, 20:04

TheInverseKey wrote: ↑I think that this is the most amount of cancer I have seen in a while.

While vomit can look ok (not good ) on macropads and smaller keyboards(40%s), there is such a thing as overdoing it and this is, well, over****ing doing by a million.
Also: stop paying for SP's trash. 67$ is money