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Y'know. There's a big, loud audience for people who customize keyboards. Tons of different switch types, hundreds of keycap color schemes and key profile shapes.

Why doesn't such a big, loud audience exist for mice? I'm so damn sick of buying a mouse every 2 years and having the buttons quit working or not feel right or whatever. Where are all the people who geek out about what kind of clicky switches they have and how their mouse wheel is an optical spinner from a Major Havoc arcade machine?

@wildweasel i think a lot of those keyboard people are just sticking trackballs on their keyboards now and using keyboard firmware that lets the keys act as mouse buttons

@GFD I wonder how many of those people play first-person shooters.

@wildweasel probably not many! i imagine the intersection between “frequent‐enough FPS players” and “people enthusiastic enough about hardware to not want to just buy a new too‐expensive RGB gamer mouse every year” is small.

FWIW, i would consider myself within this intersection, and my next mouse when this third G600 dies will be this monstrosity: store.azeron.eu/azeron-keypads

@GFD holy geez, i can imagine how a power-user would get a lot out of that but it looks like you're strapping a stealth bomber to your hand 😨

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