Well this is beyond absurd.
Last mechanical razer keyboard I bought didn’t even save the color configuration after a reboot/shutdown. Like you HAD to use openrgb or the like. I very much regret that purchase.
Razer, you could’ve just released the keycap and been like “Hey look, fancy handmade snake keycap :)”
there was no need to release a PR statement where you verbally suck yourself off. Calling your brand a “cult” is not the good look you think it is.
“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.
Still, you’d need a pretty good 3D printer to get that much detail in such a small object, right?
Doesn’t seem that outlandish for a resin printer.
Yes, but you’d have to start with wanting to print something as dumb and ugly as this.
The cheapest resin printer can do this easily.
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
No.
You can do it with a $200 printer using a smaller nozzle.
Not even if it was free would I want this.
That quote turns a neat little thing into a joke.
The price makes it an insult
I’ve seen some crazily priced keycaps for what was basically someone dropping some 3d prints into epoxy. There’s a market for it.
We already reached perfection.
I have these and they’re every bit as wonderful as they seem.
Perfection? I want the real perfection.
I’ll take one with the “Toilet Golf” added, thank you.
Right? I’m a fan of Razer products, I’ve been using them for almost 20years, but I’d never pay that for a silly keyboard cap lol
All Razer does is make overpriced trash so this fits right in with the rest of the lineup.
Hey now. I found they also have horrible customer service and try to weasel their way out of warranty cases.
Outside of razer making garbage quality accessories: who the fuck would put that on F12?
When does anyone even press F12? Obviously this thing should go on the escape key.
Imagine not using caps lock as escape, this is obviously meant for the ‘_’ snake key.
For when you want to “hack” websites.
You helped me figure it out, if you actually press it it will just break in 6 months so this makes it seem higher quality as you constantly cycle it between keyboards
I press f12 and break a weirdly large amount… They make fantastic macro buttons. Nothing else uses them and you never hit them by accident.
(ctrl-)f12 and f9 are my first picks for macro assignments too
It is the default screenshot key for Steam, so many use it often for that.
When I think of razer what comes to mind is overpriced peripherals that break and have annoying software to set them up.
I prefer qmk supported keyboards so I can use via or vial to setup my keyboard.
The first thing I think of, and the only tangental history I have with the brand was Nerdcubed’s main computer dying, opening a brand new backup Razer laptop he’d bought for such an occasion, taking it out of the box for the first time that day, and running into a “Your computer’s fucked, mate” screen after hitting the power button
That is awesome. Do they sell on Temu?
Was curious so I checked Ali Express. They have, imo, something similar but cooler.
That tail looks prickly haha
Looks mid tbh.
If I could make these, I’d try to make the snake eyes glow via backlight.
Dont worry. It’s Razer, so you’ll only have to deal with it for 3 months until it breaks.
Coming soon to a Goodwill near you!
“Only real gamers have this keycap”
Real gamers can keep it.
‘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.
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.
It is odd when companies behave like monopolies when they aren’t. Cisco is another one but they just have those weird niche audiences that buy into it
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
Snake oil salesman
