Isn’t “artisan” supposed to mean “made by an artisan” and not “mass produced trash”?
this is for richer middle and high school kids to get to show status, and I guess any adult who is still attached to marketing aimed at teenagers
Considering the majority of Americans can barely read at the 4th grade level
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I dont particularly like Razer, but if there’s anything they do well, its marketing. They’re right… if they’re able to sell a key cap for 90 bucks, their marketing must have been so good in the past they created a literal materialistic cult.
This obviously isn’t for me, its for their cult members. I hope one day, they can exit the public peripheral market and sell exclusively to their cult members at 1000% markup.
Their marketing dept. - if they have one - has to be insane
The CEO was doing the heavy lifting through his socials, when I was still following them. It really is kind of a cult
I wouldn’t pay it, but that is the price you’d normally pay for custom keycaps on Etsy as well. Quite often for lower quality too
Imagine having a cult-like devotion to a brand. It’s pretty fucking pathetic.
Apple, anyone?
And then imagine that brand is fucking razor…
Hey you were 14 once. I was a sucker for their aesthetics at that age. Still think some of their stuff looks cool but it’s usually too expensive. But their more affordable mice haven’t really let me down yet so I might buy the next one from them again, if the current one doesn’t let me down too fast
The marketing term is “Brand Loyal”. But in layman’s terms “Fucking Idiots”.
Brands usually make products of varying quality.
Nowadays most brands are just making garbage and riding on their name selling it to morons that don’t think critically about their purchases or people who buy their shit out of desperation because all the other brands are also making garbage and theirs seems like the least bad option.
Most of those artsy keycaps that I’ve seen go do their blingy design and then encase the whole thing in clear plastic shaped like a regular key so that it doesn’t have a weird shape.
Example:
https://www.keychron.com/collections/artisan-keycaps/products/magic-animal-resin-artisan-keycap
The green poop emoji?
I’ve owned two razor mice, they both had the scrollwheel break within a year. I left the cult of razer then.
Same, although more than just the scroll wheel broke. And I think I was on three in a row breaking within a year before I gave up. It’s a shame because feature-wise I like some of their stuff, but it’s just impossible to buy products with this level of QC.
I’ve used logitech g502s for about 10 years now and the only time I’ve had issues was when I accidentally knocked it off my desk. I’m not a fanboy but logitech makes some good quality stuff for relatively decent prices
I also switched to Logitech, to a G604 though. Six thumb buttons is perfect for me.
MMO?
No, not in a long time. I just find it’s very nice to have, you can do actions without lifting your fingers off WASD. Or use the PC one handed in some cases and have a coffee.
Yeah, people really sleep on the programmable keys. Even just for web browsing it’s nice to be able to do extra stuff with one button press.
$90, which makes it one of the most expensive keycaps I think I’ve ever covered on this site.
Gold Greenman - 14K Solid Gold with Genuine Emerald Gemstone Eyes / Keycap Worthy of Royalty 585 Golden / Artefact for Mechanical Keyboard
$4,837.37
For that price, it has a really, really bad surface. You can see the marks of the rotating tools.
Wealth inequality makes me so sad sometimes.
Like I don’t have any objection to people wanting to have good experiences in life, or sometimes buy some quality item that they might really like. But then I see shit like this $5000 keycap or a $15000 action figure or some other ridiculously overpriced dumb thing and I think whoever is buying this is probably just bored. They probably just have more money than they know what to do with, and maybe they think that automatically more expensive means better, and so they just throw their money away on these hollow objects.
And obviously $5000 isn’t going to solve homelessness or end world hunger, but if you are in the position to throw $5000 away on some dumb decoration that literally not even one other person will ever look at or care about, then you probably do have the resources that you could be doing something else with that money if you wanted to.
But instead, it seems that basically all of us are caught in an endless cycle of vapid consumerism, and while most of us are trying to survive, a bunch of other people just don’t really care, and meanwhile the world is literally burning down around us.
It doesn’t even look good. I understand throwing 5 grands at a really nice piece of craftsmanship made with expensive materials but at this price it better look amazing
Yeah, when you look at it, it’s not very good craftsmanship. You can see the traces of the rotating tools. Since it doesn’t look bad overall, that’s a sign of someone not really putting a lot of effort in it. The creator could, but didn’t really want to.