Have any of you ever played this game before? Last weekend I downloaded Balatro, a “poker rogue-like” game that has insanely positive ratings on Steam, and I simply haven’t been able to stop playing it when I get home from work every day. Something about the simple game design, complex, puzzle-like interactions that are needed to be balanced between cards and ‘buffs’, and endless variations of games that you’ll encounter on account of its randomized design really does just suck you in if you even remotely enjoy card games. In fact, I think I’ve logged something like 20 hours in just 5 days of ..read more

Your new favorite irresistible linear treat! If you’ve ever shared a Discord server space with me before, you’ve probably seen me share at least a handful of different foods that I’ve made for lunch or treats over the past handful of years. Outside of switches and writing way too long, totally serious review article, one of the things that I take the most pride in and dedicate the most effort to is cooking food at home. Whether it’s making my own bread from scratch for breakfast or throwing together a multi-sauce, nearly entirely from scratch lasagna for the work week’s lunches, I’m always wo ..read more

It still amazes me that even after well over a hundred years of time has elapsed and countless societal, technological, and cultural changes have taken place, that we here in the United States are still somehow willing to engage in the barbaric practice of “Daylight Savings” time changes. That’s right – after a few weeks of struggling to adjust my sleep schedule and general concept of time – I am sick of the idea of clocks changing forwards, backwards, sideways, or really any direction that messes with my sleep schedule. I, as a self-centered American, have even less sympathy for the farmers t ..read more

And just like that we are back here again after another entire year of writing switch reviews and working on all manner of content for this website. That’s right, the website is officially four years old as of today, making it more tenured than a sizable chunk of the keyboard community that joined during the peak of and in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. In parallel to the website’s continued growth and expansion, I too have had quite a year establishing my life as a full time working adult. In spite of the fact that I’ve moved around and changed employment less over the last year t ..read more

While I would really like to just open this article with a cold opener, I know that that would probably just fly over some people’s heads as they scroll past it. So, ignore the previous sentence and behold the actual start of this article: Cherry MX ‘New Nixie’ - For how different these two switches are in terms of their construction and marketing points, they have fairly similar overall sound profiles and feelings as each other. Whereas the Tecsee Honey Peaches have a bit more inconsistency and some more pointy metallic bottom outs and the Cherry MX ‘New Nixies’ have a bit more scratch to the ..read more

Note: In order to save myself from catching the same sort of backlash that I received after publishing my Everglide V3 ‘Water King’ Switch Review, I suspect that my experience may be a bit tainted by good or bad luck when it comes to the quality of the switches that I received in this review. Please take this into consideration when reading.   While work does seem to eat up a lot of my free time anymore, and especially on really shitty weeks like how this last one was, I do actually manage to find time to get out and about and do other things with my life. Yes, there are “other things” th ..read more

At least once or twice throughout my many years in the mechanical keyboard hobby, I may have been accused of taking things a bit too seriously. I know that it’s a bit of a shocking thought that I, the single guy who has been writing books about switches every other week for over four years now, could be someone who could have even jokingly received criticism as such. However, I’m telling you that I’m (mostly) reformed. And from that questionably reformed moral high horse, I would like to remind all of you here today to go outside and touch some grass. Mechanical keyboards, as a whole, is a hob ..read more

For those of you based in the midwestern portion of the US like me, we’ve now officially entered what can only be described as our true annual “White Christmas.” See, ever since global climate change really started to kick in, the 5-6 inches of snow we used to get in the week leading up to Christmas has been pushed back further and further. This year it arrived almost an entire month late and of course had to dump on us on the last workday of the week. While this obviously delayed my transit to and back from work since I am not one of those lucky individuals that have a work from home option f ..read more

Am I supposed to announce some sort of New Year’s Resolution since this is the first review of 2024? Completely ignore the fact that I most certainly had no intention of making any sort of formal resolution in 2024 and thus the introduction to this review is purely character building fluff. After not having felt compelled to do any year-starting resolution for nearly a decade now, or at least not since we all collectively slipped into the monkey death induced time warp in 2016, I certainly can’t start now since I’m already 2% behind on the time to carry out my resolution. How can you expect me ..read more

This is the first switch review with a rhyming title in it in 406 days. Let’s go ahead and completely disregard the fact that I’ve just now realized that any “V2” switch will always have a rhyming title scheme whenever I review it. The idea felt incredibly profound when it hit me earlier this week, okay? Or perhaps this is worth mentioning just to make very evident how monotonous and all-consuming the past few weeks of work have felt like. In addition to trying to cram seemingly every kind of project and production trial through the sparsely populated weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas ..read more