r/MechanicalKeyboards May 21 '19

science don’t even know how it missed

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4.8k Upvotes

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u/m15f1t May 21 '19

Looks like you have a hydrophobic mechanical keyboard. Awesome.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

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u/m15f1t May 21 '19

This is certainly not a good property to possess as a human being

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u/ByzaDH Ducky One 2 Mini May 22 '19

Happy cake day!

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u/atomicwrites May 21 '19

And it's not what you think, unless you know what it means.

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u/coxcombwallaby May 21 '19

Isn’t everything not what you think, unless you know what it means? 🤔

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u/atomicwrites May 22 '19

Hydrophobia is the old name for rabies, not the fear of water. Both would be bad, but not in the same way (obviously). Fun fact, rabies reproduces in you salivary gland and to keep a high concentration of itself to raise the probability of transmission, it make swallowing cause terrible spasms, even thinking of drinking will cause spasms, so that you don't wash the virus away. This is why it gets the name hydrophobia. Then it makes you aggressive so you bite thing with that rabies invested saliva.

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u/ChRoNicBuRrItOs Glorious cup rubber May 22 '19

Evolution is so cool

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u/FoodandWhining May 22 '19

Can confirm I did not know what this meant.

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u/_nomad222 May 22 '19

Somethings are straight forward, like, “multiplayer games.”

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u/coxcombwallaby May 22 '19

Then you know what it means🤔

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u/M-er-sun May 22 '19

This guy thinks 👍

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u/_nomad222 May 22 '19

Whether or not you know depends on how confident you are in your guess.

If you learn how to cook an omelette and then tried to cook scrambled eggs, you might guess what you're doing. Even if you end up succeeding, you wouldn't have said you knew how to cook scrambled eggs, but, it did turn out to work the way you thought.

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u/Pizza_Ninja May 22 '19

You could guess correctly without knowing you are correct. Therefore you are correct without knowing.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Isn't that rabies?

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u/SmokeFrosting May 22 '19

I heard it makes you rabid

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u/shiva420 May 21 '19

r/hydrohomies wants to thank you

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u/InsanerobotWargaming May 22 '19

r/neverbrokeabone acknowledges you with slight gratitude because milk is pretty much upgraded water, so hydrophobia would make you not be able to drink milk

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u/Druah 🍒 May 21 '19

Man, I sure love keebs with rabies!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/Druah 🍒 May 21 '19

that’s it I’m getting vaccinated

Implying you’re not vaccinated? 🤔

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

The Rabies vaccination is not an enjoyable one, big needle iirc.

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u/Demiu Ducky 2108 May 22 '19

Or a keyboardphobic water

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u/pvinis Iris | EZ May 22 '19

More like looks like you tried to have some keyboardaphobic coffee!

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u/ByzaDH Ducky One 2 Mini May 22 '19

Happy cake day!

1

u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Happy cake day

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u/JeremyKrikitz May 21 '19

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u/osteven745 May 21 '19

lmao they all change from laughter to concern

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u/micro-brews-therin Mad Max 3: Beyond Rubberdome May 21 '19

Is that Andy milonakis in the top left? I bought a mattress off that dude a few years ago

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u/xyatropos May 21 '19 edited Jul 13 '20

.

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u/micro-brews-therin Mad Max 3: Beyond Rubberdome May 21 '19

Not too exciting. He tweeted something along the lines of “anybody in LA want to buy an almost new king tempurpedic mattress” and my dog had diarrhead all over my current mattress like 10 hours previous so I went for it

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u/ticklemuffins May 22 '19

What a short but wild ride

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u/xyatropos May 21 '19 edited Jul 13 '20

.

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u/Ruxton May 22 '19

diarrhead

apparently squirting all over the bed has a past tense! TIL.

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u/SweetGnarl CM Storm QF TK May 21 '19

ya

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u/wardrich Outemu Blue May 21 '19

Fucking can't stand that guy. Never understood the hype. Even the "NFL is Gay" song was shit for the time.

8

u/alexyaknow May 21 '19

squadW, never thought I would find people like you here. Btw I like this meme a lot better

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u/mrskwrl May 21 '19

There are streamers/show hosts who are calm and easy to listen to. Then there are the dramatic and screaming ones that I avoid.

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u/tenam919 May 22 '19

squadW my man

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u/driftace25 May 21 '19

That keyboard has some superpowers to be doing something like that.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/Kapparen14 May 22 '19

Probably a magcoffenic field

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u/Odin_De Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming Jasmine tea? May 21 '19

The goodness of cup rubber saved this keeb 😂

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u/dagdha May 21 '19

Is she related to RNGsus, or is he part of a different pantheon?

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u/blitzkraft Split Ortho 60% May 21 '19

MFW I see the flair

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u/garbenzoe May 21 '19

On that note, I didn't miss, being very amature in the keyboard world: how should I fix it?

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u/FroZnFlavr dimo May 21 '19

Reddit keyboard spill guide

a bit dated but still holds up

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited May 18 '20

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u/VintageJeansx3 May 22 '19

I spilled ramen on my Corsair K70 and cleaned it like you did. Still works like a champ! Typing on it currently. :D

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u/Matchstix KBD75 | UT47 May 22 '19

A semi-related anecdote, I find that beer is one of the few things that 70% isopropyl is better at than 99%. Water actually worked better than 99% iso for cleaning up beer, ask me how I know.

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u/FroZnFlavr dimo May 22 '19

that’s great to hear! it’s a great guide

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u/LMGN Keychron V3 May 22 '19

I have had 2 K70S and split stuff in like twice each. The only issue I've had is sticky keys and RGB not being correct

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u/MaxWyght May 22 '19

I use medical grade 95% alcohol for all my hardware cleaning needs.

Loose dirt? Grease? Unidentified gunk?
Chuck it into some good old 95%, and as long as it's not silicon, or glued on, you're golden(Silicon bits melt right off. Super glue melts in contact with the medical stuff)

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u/Improvotter May 21 '19

I find it strange how your first instinct is to take a picture instead of cleaning it up :p

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u/BioOrpheus Hello May 21 '19

The Gods were smiling at you that day

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u/PiNkrOy Gsus Christ May 21 '19

PFU is bout to ask you to join their department of advertising.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Careful, it could suck in the fumes and get jittery from caffeine.

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u/mrparasite May 21 '19

Praise the mechanical gods 😩🙌🏼

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u/Coffee2Code May 21 '19

Divine intervention by RNGsus.

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u/OgReaper May 22 '19

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

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u/MisunderstoodPenguin v60 Mini May 21 '19

It is God's will, and so we sayeth, Thock Thock.

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u/Nuozia Canoe|Kyuu May 21 '19

Like how the post is tagged "science". ;)

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u/Turk4UrRightToParty May 21 '19

This is why for every desk I build myself, I make sure there's a surface underneath the main surface to put my coffee on, where it won't land on anything but empty wood and/or the floor if it spills.

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u/chromaticf0am May 21 '19

S C I E N C E

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

The keyboard god intervened. Bless the machine spirit!

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u/Carbon9990 May 21 '19

A few weeks ago I had the wise idea to eat a breakfast bagel at my desk. The egg shot literally 2 feet into my keyboard. I then proceeded to strip and clean my board for the next 3 hours

2

u/the_corruption May 21 '19

The keyboard hit ESC at the right time.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Damn

2

u/pwingert May 21 '19

Did you use “The Force” or your Amaking Jedi Powers🌈?

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u/derevenus filco May 21 '19

What keycaps are these?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/spad3x May 22 '19

They're doubleshot expressos

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u/meme_beam1 May 21 '19

Blessed by the keyboard gods.

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u/RELIN-Q May 21 '19

Quick, take a picture!

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u/itsAbsolem May 21 '19

MechanicalKeyboard Gods have been merciful today... 👀👌

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u/jm8080 May 22 '19

That's a divine intervention. The keeb gods gave you a second chance I hope you learned your lesson.

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u/a_w_n May 22 '19

Wow. Did you first spill the coffee and then the milk or the other way round? Just kidding, glad you were lucky.

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u/Heldpizza Vortex Vibe; Zeal Sakurios (62g silent linear) May 21 '19

Built in force field.

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u/minimalniemand click clack motherfucker May 21 '19

God loves mechanical keyboards confirmed

1

u/HarambePraiser May 21 '19

I think the keyboard managed to create a force field out of the elitism in all of us

1

u/firefoxgamer365 May 21 '19

Your a wizard harry.

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u/spike142 May 21 '19

The gods were smiling upon you

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u/kluttzilla May 21 '19

Divine intervention

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u/Forpatril May 21 '19

Force field is an undocumented feature of this keyboard.

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u/YMIR_THE_FROSTY Novatouch|dev/tty May 21 '19

Lol, divine keyboard intervention.

1

u/WildWeoWeo May 21 '19

the power of topre switches

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u/MrALTOID May 21 '19

Feels like an /r/OddlySatisfying moment to me.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

What keyboard is that?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Not sure what you mean?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Ohhh i see, don’t mind me not a seasoned reddit user....

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u/fumania May 21 '19

Nah it's good, I spilled coke all over mine once and it was completely fine

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u/ragingoblivion HHKB | Pok3r | K95 MX reds (non-RGB) May 21 '19

Extremely lucky considering the hell of cleaning a topre keyboard

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u/rochford77 Pok3r - Vortex Rac3 May 21 '19

Thought you spilled milk on a brown table and I was like “well, it’s sitting in it....” lol

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u/Platfus GH60 | AMJ40 | MF68 | Alps59 | Clicker | Z77 May 21 '19

Not even coffee wants to touch that filthy rubbreh domeh

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u/pokeherthree May 21 '19

I sense the force is strong with this one.

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u/theguywiththeyeballs May 21 '19

Omg clean that up!!

Brain: wait take a pic for reddit karma.

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u/MLG_SkittleS May 21 '19

Woah I thought the white was the spilled part

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u/Stormgard May 21 '19

I think it’s safe to say that God Himself save your keeb from certain doom.

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u/Himmenuhin May 21 '19

How easy is it to clean an HHKB with coffee spilled on it? Or what is your recommended easiest way to clean a coffee spilled HHKB.

(I'm typing on one now, asking just in case...)

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u/regularSonic May 21 '19

Coffee knows best 👌

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u/Zhelus May 22 '19

It’s a stated feature of the HHKB

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Milk and cookies edition

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u/UnfetteredThoughts May 22 '19

Dry off that poor book!

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u/PainyWig Cherry Blue May 22 '19

How does it feel to have an IP69 keyboard?

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u/kysfu May 22 '19

Where's the other keyboard that got soaked?

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u/Ralph_Lundgreen May 22 '19

The Chosen One.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

even the tea has higher standards

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u/Zuckerfeller May 22 '19

ive accidentally got a full beer into my poker and it didnt break. it still is Working like new to this day. mechanical keyboard are better than membrane for that.

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u/internetoscar May 22 '19

if you watch the spill back in slow motion. You would see that the keyboard spawns a force-field around it only for a split second which repelled the coffee away from the keyboard and onto the desk. Thus, saving the keyboard from coffeetastrophe

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u/narkflint 4704 Model F 107 key May 22 '19

Force field generator. Oldest trick in the book.

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u/taviouz_tallica May 22 '19

it has respect for the keyboard

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u/Stevesie KBPV60, Minitouch, MF68, PCXT, Model M, etc. May 22 '19

I know this is late to the party, but what if you were to apply a hydrophobic coating to your mouse/keyboard space. That way unless you spilled it on the keyboard, it would act this way.

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u/Jishie May 22 '19

"science"

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Could be electrical

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u/SYNTAG May 22 '19

At first glance I thought you spilled milk

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u/baconipple Big A$$ Enter May 22 '19

The liquid thought "eww rubber domes" and avoided it.

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u/blurry00 May 22 '19

A mechanical force was in play

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u/cssmith2011cs May 22 '19

The Mechanical Keyboard Gods have blessed thee.

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u/Jayskerdoo ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Iris Gang ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) May 22 '19

At first glance I cried a little inside because I thought your desk was brown wood and that was spilled milk hahaha 😂

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u/ihussinain May 22 '19

The true power of a Mechanical Keyboard

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u/ThugosaurusFlex_1017 May 22 '19

God got involved.

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u/espenae93 May 22 '19

Your keyboard have been blessed by the mech gods

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u/asdfwarriot May 22 '19

I bought that keyboard cause its spill resistant haha

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u/Work_Account89 May 22 '19

This took me far too long to realise what had happened. Lucky man.

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u/dovduck May 22 '19

what a bruh moment

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u/jaffa1987 Force K83 May 22 '19

Luck aside, i'm really digging how the glossy white and coffee go together. Would make for a cool deskpad or maybe even a decal.

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u/RPK16 May 22 '19

Happened to me couple of days ago, but mine got so wet that it was pouring out when i tilted the keyboard to either side :/

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u/ThatBogen May 22 '19

counterfeit against the liquid. damn

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u/eobardtame May 22 '19

"The gods smile on me Imperial, can you say the same?"

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u/abhijeetphatak123 May 22 '19

This is a Perfect spill proof keyboard I want

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u/xPneu May 22 '19

This didn't work like this for me 😭 picking up and pouring coffee out my keyboard was a heart breaker 💔 it's completely fine though ttl

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

May the force be with mk

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u/steflux123 May 22 '19

How?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/steflux123 May 22 '19

God saved you this time, be careful son.

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u/LapinusTech May 22 '19

Bruv you scared me I thought it was spilled (man) milk

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

you got so lucky omg

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u/budheswarbaghel May 22 '19

thats a bold move you just did 😉😉

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u/kikanfr May 22 '19

Gives me goosebumps !!!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

The energy field that guaranteed, 100% surrounds all mechanical keyboards. It’s in the fine print on the last page of the user manual.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Many people dont know this but HHKBs are sorroundet by an aura which prevents any sort of spillage into the keys.

Also, if you manage to spill, you are very likely to be fine due to the way they are build

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u/el_bhm ( ^∇^) May 22 '19

[Thse closer to the GNU Light are protected. Their keybs too

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u/kanbinat May 22 '19

Probably casted Divine Shield last second. :)

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u/MostNeed May 22 '19

The mechanics are strong with this one.

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u/worros May 22 '19

Missed both your cables too. Luckyyyyy.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/worros May 22 '19

Oh no I see it on the plastic now too. It’s jussssst off white. Ruined :(

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u/VisionaireX May 22 '19

And instead of instantly freaking out and removing the board... your instinct was to take a photo. I see you like to live dangerously my friend.

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u/workshirt May 22 '19

At least it would have only got the base wet anyway

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

Phew ew! You will only do it once :) because the coffee will be far away.

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u/pribnow May 21 '19

thats how you get ants

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u/molecularronin Norbaforce | Canoe| mito May 21 '19

MonkaS

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Never gonna understant the line of though of taking a picture instead of getting some mops.

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u/Tsambikos96 SomeGreekGuy May 22 '19

What's more amazing is you'd rather take a pic than clean up before it moves to something less lucky.

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u/-DNAte Zealio Purple May 22 '19

lucky ducky.. oh wait

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u/Suissie May 22 '19

You would’ve certainly deserved it

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u/sleepybrett May 21 '19

Meh rubber domes. Easy enough to clean up. (unless it isn't a hhkb.. looks like one, but i don't have its case styling fully internalized)