Well this is beyond absurd.
“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?
Yes, but you’d have to start with wanting to print something as dumb and ugly as this.
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.
Well obviously you were not wearing PPE and let your skin touch the uncured resin, but I agree the toxicity of resins is vastly understated by the industry.
You are wrong about this.
Look into the centauri carbon. It can print minis with insane detail if you get a smaller nozzle.
Doesn’t seem that outlandish for a resin printer.
The cheapest resin printer can do this easily.
No.
You can do it with a $200 printer using a smaller nozzle.
This, my (former) 3d printer ($200) can print whatever with a smaller nozzle, the .2 rather than the stock .4.
Not even if it was free would I want this.
But what if it was a clitoris?
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.
Why would you want to declare your allegiance to some of the most shitty and overpriced gaming hardware on the market?
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
Dont worry. It’s Razer, so you’ll only have to deal with it for 3 months until it breaks.
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.
Perfection? I want the real perfection.
I’ll take one with the “Toilet Golf” added, thank you.
I have these and they’re every bit as wonderful as they seem.
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.
‘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.
Worst quality headsets ever with massive bloatware for a software package to install drivers and RGB controls. They used to have decent gaming mice, but now so many other companies make equal or better there’s no reason at all to buy a Razer.
Most hardware I’ve checked out from this company was actually a piece by piece replica of something a competitor was selling with less flashy nonsense and much less bloatware (or none). So pardon me if I’ve always thought of Razer as a counterfeiting company with a huge branding and marketing budget.
How’s Linux support? As far as I know, most other companies don’t get the save level of support that Logitech and Razer do.
Maybe that’ll change when Keychron finish their zgm firmware project and some mice with it hit the market.
There’s unofficial FOSS reimplementations. Use the openrazer kernel module and polychromatic as tbe configuration gui.
I know. My point is that Razer and Logitech are known to be well-supported. I don’t know if that is true for other manufacturers.
I have two questions:
- Where can I find the .stl?
- Who wants one in which colors?
Bahahaha that’s was my first thought. Fuck this I’ll print it in resin and it’ll be damn near identical.
Could you elaborate for us not in the know?
Just gen AI it. Probably what they did
“Artisan”
Nothing says artisan like a mass produced piece of plastic stamped out of a mold by the thousand.
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.
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
It is the default screenshot key for Steam, so many use it often for that.
For when you want to “hack” websites.
Imagine not using caps lock as escape, this is obviously meant for the ‘_’ snake key.
Everyone with a 3d printer is pissing themselves rn
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
No I do not want to spend that much money to display allegiance to this shit company.
