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Nice! The world of mechanical keyboards has a lot of interesting subcultures and niches for different varieties and styles. There are so many more switch types now it’s hard to keep up.
I love me some good subcultures.
My favorite subculture (although it's becoming increasingly less niche) is anything revolving around the world of analog.
Analog objects are my favorite.
Did you know there was an attempt to make a keyboard with ‘analog’ switches? Like each switch has the ability to measure how far it was pushed or something like that, it was a gamer thing iirc. Don’t think it sold well though.
I’ve become pretty partial to Topre keyboards or other electro-capacitive boards. They have a unique tech and feel that also has a quieter ‘thock’ sound.
Analog keyboards are a whole thing. They caused a controversy in the Trackmania community because the game is balanced for controllers and keyboard to be fairly equal, but analog keyboards gain the best of both worlds so they were far better than any other option for certain races, meaning competitive players were forced to switch to very expensive hardware. The devs had to come up with some complicated rules to deal with that kind of input device.
I used to play Trackmania on keyboard, it worked pretty well. Now I play Rocket League using only keyboard. Those analog keyboards are still around? I thought it was for sure a fad, but I guess online anything can have a niche long tail eventually.
They definitely are still around. I'm sure there are other games where they're relevant, racing is probably the clearest usecase but I wouldn't be surprised if they also could be used for shooters or platformers that have controller support.