Well this is beyond absurd.
Marketing: “oooooh smoke and mirrors! Cloak and dagger! More smoke, very mysterious you’ll feel muhahahaaaa!” throwing things into a boiling kettle
Target audience: “mfr the planet is on fire and big brother is watching, wtf are you talking about?”
Marketing being stupid again. But it’s just an artisan keycap, they usually do cozt around this price, I find them neat 😅
Dont worry. It’s Razer, so you’ll only have to deal with it for 3 months until it breaks.
The Death Adder was objectively a damn fine mouse. So why do I not recommend it? Because of the software that requires an online account to change settings.
Also, if I wanted “artisanal keycaps” I’d go on etsy and buy from actual artists.
There’s a FOSS reimplementation of the Razer configuration software on Linux. Openrazer is the driver package and polychromatic is the GUI to configure it
90 usd? For a keycap?
Grift. Con. Bullshit. Shenanigans.
Cult.
‘a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer’
For anyone interested in this, they sell red flags at Home Depot for a lot cheaper.
I will never understand keyboard hobbyists and the obsession over keycaps.
All you need is a good keyboard that does its job well, and is repairable.
No I do not want to spend that much money to display allegiance to this shit company.
“Artisan”
Nothing says artisan like a mass produced piece of plastic stamped out of a mold by the thousand.
Everyone with a 3d printer is pissing themselves rn
I’d never buy one, but I see this as harmless as someone getting rims for their car.
I have owned several razer products, mostly mice and they have all been utter overpriced hype garbage.
Only thing good was that they had a good selection of large ambidextrous mice. No idea if that is still the case
mine has the scroll wheel just jumping all over the place whenever I try to scroll. Only two months old
There is really only one product from razer that I would recommend. And that’s the Kitsune.
It is their high end leverless fight stick. But even that is a tough recommendation, as you can get cheaper, 99% as good options for half the price. Or something equally expensive from vitrix or or companies.
It is a mark of belonging to a cult, alright…
“To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the cult of Razer,”
or the mark of someone with a 3D printer and 9 cents of plastic.
Not even if it was free would I want this.
Still, you’d need a pretty good 3D printer to get that much detail in such a small object, right?
No.
You can do it with a $200 printer using a smaller nozzle.
Even the cheapest Resin printers could do this. FDM printers definitely not.
Resin printers are a big health hazard though, I developed epoxy contact allergy from exposure to the rosin, even though I was careful with always wearing PPE
PPE for those resins isn’t a pair of gloves and a paper mask, it is a full cover splash apron and a full face respirator that is rated for organic chemical gas. The fumes getting on your skin or trapped in mucous membranes like the lungs and eyes that causes it, direct spills just accelerate the process.
I wore an appropriate respirator and gloves, but not an apron
They would need to be gloves that are resistant to plastic solvents and plasticizers, I’m not personally convinced the usual nitrile ones would do anything at all against some of them as they are also used in nitrile production.
Still though, having skin exposed to the fumes in any capacity can do it from what I can tell, I know a few people in college at a makerspace that never directly worked with the SLA printers but still developed the allergy from being in the same enclosed space.
You are wrong about this.
Look into the centauri carbon. It can print minis with insane detail if you get a smaller nozzle.
Yes, but you’d have to start with wanting to print something as dumb and ugly as this.
Doesn’t seem that outlandish for a resin printer.
Coming soon to a Goodwill near you!
