- So today I've had this entire gaming bundle that I bought
on Amazon for a really cheap price.
I'm pretty sure it was under $50.
And for that price, you get a keyboard
a mouse and a gaming headset.
This
is what I'm talking about.
The gaming essentials bundle
from the almighty legendary, Red Dragon.
It was cheap, and it's beautiful.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
Of course it has RGB, 104 standard keys,
25-key rollover, 10 shortcut keys,
12 multimedia keys,
five modes of RGB, okay.
Pretty good stuff!
Oh my gosh, look at this cable.
It's not even braided.
It's just straight, thin plastic.
I could cut these with my pair of
kitty scissors.
Let the RGB begin.
It's pretty good!
You know, instead of the red here
you've got RGB and I think we've even got a peel.
Keyboards got whatever these are.
I never click on these ever.
And on this side, you've got multimedia keys.
The buttons don't feel amazing, but they're not
terrible either.
Ooh, you can change the lighting speeds,
brightness.
That's zero brightness, that's ultra bright,
ultra bright for what the keyboard offers.
It's very flashy looking.
Is this one just blue?
(ominous yell)
Ooh, windows lock
that's when you know it's gamer.
You can't be banging
on your windows key when you're going, I'm gaming
like a boss.
It looks really scuffed already.
Like there's some marks up here.
There's some,
what is that?
And what is that?
Ooh, gross!
And why does every letter have a nice swoop underneath?
Oh, it's not every letter.
None of these have it.
What are these for?
Gaming?
It's ultra flexible.
When you know it's a membrane.
(keyboard clicking)
That's what you call speed!
The thing I hate most about membrane keyboards is
that you have to slam on every key, or else
it just doesn't respond as well.
This is a step up.
There's membrane.
That's like your run of the mill, Dell keyboard that you got
for free.
And then there's a step up,
and I think that's what this is.
Gaming keyboard,
where it has more of those gaming features.
And then there's another step up
and that's when you're paying
like $70 for a membrane keyboard by Corsair.
(keyboard buttons clicking)
Space bar sounds pretty dang good.
There's still some terrible shaky noises on the stabilizers.
I would say the worst keys are left shift and right enter.
I've got several different materials that I wanna play with.
I've got a big bag of poly-fil makes keyboards go thawk.
Maybe?
Acoustic foam that I put on the walls.
A thick piece of foam.
A thin piece.
You can see through it.
And then who knows where I got these pieces?
The first step involves taking
off key caps.
Regular old membrane sliders.
This is reassuring.
That means I could stick things into it
no problem.
At least taking off membrane key caps is extremely easy.
Now we get to find out what kind of stabilizers it has.
All they give you is a stabilizer bar.
This one's a long one.
This one's got like nasty grease in it.
Space bar has two springs underneath.
I might put them back,
maybe I'll even lube them.
Oh,
- What is that?
- What is this?
The plus and the enter actually
don't even have the stabilizer wire
and they have these little two circle things instead.
And I think it sounded better.
What is this?
Oh, the screw does nothing.
Just sitting there.
Okay if I take these off, I hope they don't fall.
They're glued to the PCB.
That's sort of helpful.
You've got your membrane layer and then you have
I'm assuming this is the RGB layer.
Let me unplug that first
and then flip it over and then unscrew these.
All right that's not bad.
What I can do,
is tape.
If I flip this over, put a bunch of tape
on the back and then poke out these holes,
I'll be good.
For some reason I think I'm like destroying
whatever this is.
These holes are a little scary.
Okay, mod complete.
Every keyboard mod needs a singular item.
And that is lube, lube of every kind.
Where does this go?
Oh, that was not supposed to happen.
Look, oh no that wasn't supposed to happen either!
Okay this is fine.
This is fine, everything's fine.
There we go I think that's right.
And then this goes right here.
That's not, that's not right.
The screw's not even going in.
At least this isn't a speed run.
It's not speed modding competition.
I get to take my time.
So this side goes in here and I think this is it.
I hope that doesn't need to be touching anything.
That seems important.
I'm going to plug it in.
Okay, okay.
It's got RGB.
It does not press, all it has is RGB.
Nope, definitely something wrong.
It's not smoking.
No nothing is smoking.
I think it's because this piece fell out.
But I think I could just like slide it back in like that.
Why don't you work?
Check the back plate.
There is no back plate.
Maybe it's like this instead.
Why don't you work?
Well, I think I bricked it.
At least the RGB looks nice.
How do you brick a membrane keyboard?
It's still mod able, it could still sound beautiful.
Even if it doesn't type.
Now I need lube, sketchy alli express lube.
It's good stuff.
I'll do one that's very light, that one's the light one.
This one's a heavily lubed one.
Guess it doesn't make a huge difference, but more is more.
I haven't used a membrane keyboard personally
in a really, really, long time.
I think, I think my first computer was
like an E machines or a compact.
One of the two I don't exactly remember.
You never heard of those computers?
Those are like the OG's.
Instead of you just having internet,
you would get these CD's that give you 30 minutes
of free internet.
The days were weird back then.
Things were strange.
All right Poly-fil, let's go.
If I had a manscaped ad
this would be what it would be.
Just a keyboard and it's got a bunch of
poly-fil spilling out
over all the ends and that's when the ad comes
in and it's like, manscaped!
Something like that.
Poly-fil not a good decision.
Number nine.
Number nine gets acoustic foam.
Should be the easiest to work with.
So much easier than poly-fil.
Honestly, I don't care, poly-fil sounds better.
The time that it takes to put in one key cap
of poly-fil is an insanely large time investment.
Not worth
Number nine sounded better ways.
Okay the cats are being like crazy cute.
They're both at the top.
Monday was so tiring.
We have our improv class and it's really late at night.
It's really fun the first week was sort of nerve wracking.
We played a game, it was like, you do a motion,
but then you try
and think of all the different other things that
that motion could be.
Cut these like how I cut onions.
You cut onions with scissors?
No I cut it with a knife.
I will show you what I mean.
You do this and don't get to the end.
And then while they're all stuck together,
then you can cut it the other way.
I've got a dog story
but it's sort of a weird dog story.
Just a normal day.
For some reason, I had to take age on a walk by myself.
I got on the road and I realized
(beep)
I don't have dog poop bags.
What do I do?
Should I turn around?
Should I keep going?
Part of me was like, okay
there's the off chance that I could have something
in the trunk that could potentially pick up dog poop.
So I had hope.
Maybe today he wouldn't poop.
So I opened my trunk and I saw no bags.
There was just really thick pieces of paper.
So I grabbed a few pieces of paper
folded them up and put it in my pocket.
You know, just hoping that he wouldn't go poo today.
So we proceeded on our merry walk.
Everything was fine.
Went around the block, went
around another block and then he did it.
He crouched down, you know
doing the little dog rounded back thingy
and started proceeding to do his business.
And right at the moment that I reached
in my pocket to grab out my piece of paper.
Like I had it in my hand, just like this
and it unfolded itself.
The police officer comes by, looks me in the eye,
waves,
and I wave back, thinking
I really hope this isn't how he
thinks Asian people are.
Cause it was really weird, you know?
And I feel like that's the kind
of thing you think,
that some Asian people would do.
Maybe, you know?
I proceeded to pick
up the poo with the pieces of paper and I folded it up.
So, none of the crevices
could possibly leak out.
CVS receipts are clutch.
CVS receipts are worse than pieces of paper.
All right, turn it around, screw it up.
Oh this is what it was missing.
I'm just going to
nope, I can't, I'm closing it.
All right perfect.
(keyboard clicking)
It's not bad, it's quiet.
Just needs a little bit of cleaning and they're fighting.
So I am off.
Goodnight!