Looks like the lesson is be extra gentle with mechanical keyboards or else go for PBT.

Ah yeah, good call

Yeah, obviously I'm gonna be extra careful with caps in future just in case, but I suspect it's a QC issue.

Preaching to the choir here. Forked out quite a bit for pmk keycaps after this experience. I've learned my lesson about quality.

Yeah, normal keycap puller. Maybe I could have been more gentle I suppose, but everything points to it being an issue with the keycaps. Two broke during keypress, one during keycap removal, and one just happened to be broken when I next looked at the board.

It's not odd imo that they're broken on one side. Objects break at their weakest point first, that's just physics.

Honestly I'd love this to be my fault so that I can guarantee it never happens again, but it's hard to scientifically test how much difference it would make to more carefully add and remove keycaps when 94% are fine regardless and they feel and sound like the cheapest softest ABS there is.

Yeah, the real deal. Cost more than 3x the keycaps lol.

I'd never buy clones during an open GB or advertise or promote them.

I have to admit to purchasing some in the past few months, purely because it's next to impossible to find good caps with korean legends and GB wasn't an option since I wanted to make a build for someone in time for Christmas. I didn't feel good about it though.

I'm not likely to go for clones in the future, especially not for myself.

I think I'm just more skeptical than you are that minds can be changed. But you're probably right about new people in the hobby being open to new information.

Got asked this on the last post I made, nope. Zealio V2s.

My comment never stated an option either way. In fact the post itself is anti-clone if anything. And before you crucify me for buying the clones I bought them a while ago before I even heard of GMK.

I'm just tired of hearing the same angry argument over and over and over again.

One of them is the f8 key which I never even use. It just randomly fell in half.

Ah, of course.

caps are too weak

Agreed?

Edit: I post a comment consisting of 2 objectively correct statements: -9 votes. Someone replies to my comment, saying the exact same thing: +9 votes.

Sometimes I just don't understand reddit.

Yeah, the kind that GMK uses lol. I'll stick to PBT for cheap keycaps from now on.

That said I'm thinking of replacing the set with DROP DCX keycaps which are also high quality ABS.

This debate has been done to death, and people will continue to do what they want.

Edit: Even if you're right, you're just opening a can of worms that has been opened many times before. You're not likely to change many minds, especially those of people on a budget.

I'm pretty sure it's ABS