Reacting to Your Insane Gaming Setups!

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[broz]

I liked you showing some love for those "3rd world setups". Not every one can afford high end stuff but still be a proud gamer and streamer.

[novapreem]

Hey there! Thank you for featuring my setup! And yes the plant you zoomed in was real haha. Also they keyboards I have in my setup are:
Iqunix A80 Explorer - the one on the smaller pegboard
GMMK Pro with GMK WoB
IKBC MF87 with GMK Red Samurai
Akko Mod 005 65% keyboard

[nik]

21:28 that was halarious, I would react in the same way

[faisal-eohc]

I’ve never thought that i would laugh so hard on one of Ali’s videos, thanks man for making my day

[tomppeli.]

21:29 was a surprise, but a welcome one

Made me spill my drink

[lewisrobinson]

The keyboard position at 6:20 you're talking about started to become popular back in the CRT monitor era, though back then that was with the keyboard sitting on your lap. Done mostly to have more room for your big monitor and to have room to move your mouse.

[calenray]

These are my favorite of your videos, your fans really enjoy your input and advice on setups! The more often you’re willing to do these the better! Love the content lately!

[rivsxyz]

Optimum I'm telling you you don't know how much I waited for this bro we need a lot more of these maybe once every 2 months or sumn like that. Your vids are actually so enjoyable to watch keep up the good work man

[thespeedyeagle]

His reaction to the overcrowded dextop icons was hilarious. I personally highly prefer a minimalist dextop so I get it, but couldn't help laughing at his reactions.

[jr.bobdobbs]

I love your OCD going overdrive with the desktop shortcuts 😄. Great video!

[Aquamaui.mp]

Thanks for having me in the Video! <3
My lighting is indeed overkill but i loooove it! Not only for Streaming but also when studying a huge & bright light source is SO good!

[Bawrabawla]

you know what mate, I generally dont care about people being nice to those of us who grew up in southern parts of asia but you handled it very well, just acceptance of limitations and decent use of available resources. No pity or insult, generally reactions seem to be from one of those lol. I remember having lived in houses like that.
When I first came to the US I once spent like 3 weeks without lunch just so I could buy a tablet and test some stuff (I was by no means strapped for cash but that was outside my budget), far cry from me having a 3090 right now lol. Cheers to you my man.

[jojosaunders]

I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT REVIEWED

Can't wait for you to join the sim racing community! And for the Mode 65 I love it, I'm using lubed reflex linears switches and PBT Notion from Biip and it's been the best typing experience I've ever had. Unfortuantely they stopped production but they do have a new 75% coming out!

[Narfinatr]

I used a 40% keyboard for a while at my desk job. For most everyday stuff it was fine, but you will have to learn how to use layers and it will take a few days to find a good layer setup that works for you. In an office environment, the biggest struggle for me was trying to remember which symbols where on the which number key.


There are several drawbacks that make gaming extremely difficult on a 40%. No number row kills most FPS games. Even if you rebind weapons to cycle using the mouse wheel, many games have important items bound on numbers 1-5 that aren’t cycled with your weapons. Losing the number row also means losing (or relocating) the two modifiers from that row. Since Caps Lock is pretty useless despite sitting on the home row, most people move it to a function layer. Tab, Control, and Shift are pretty important for most games so relocating any of them from their normal position really messes with your muscle memory. That probably means putting Escape on the home row modifier, which take some getting used to. Layers and special tap/hold key function become important on tiny keyboards, but those are not really compatible with gaming. For ortho 40s like the one in the video, The 2u spacebar in the center is also a bit of a problem is when you play games with WASD, as your hand is shifted over one column. The little 2u spacebar is not too much of a problem when typing normally, but becomes an uncomfortable stretch when gaming. There are some 40s that have double 2u spacebar support, which alleviates this problem. You also lose dedicated F keys, which can be a problem for some games. 1u modifiers are certainly useable for gaming, but it can be slightly disorientating when finding the modifiers vs the alpha keys. It is possible to use a 40% keyboard for gaming, especially if you change your keybinds in game to work around the limitations of the layout, but it is going to be too much of a hassle for most people and most games.


All that being said, I highly, highly recommend trying ortholinear for gaming (and typing). If you want to try a smaller otholinear board for gaming, I would recommend a 50% like the Preonic with 2x2u spacebar support, or RGBKB’s Pan keyboard. If you want to bump it up to 60%, the Boardwalk pcb offers several excellent layout options.

[gamerscore]

The sim-racing set up was my favorite. Such a creative layout

[alwacesasmas]

5:39 it's not the microphone that sounds bad, its the room. In a well treated room being a bit further away can also sound good especially in a studio environment when recording vocals for music. But that also depends on the kind of microphone you use and also what you use the mic for. In most cases being close is better.

[worldofjoseup]

21:29 I relate to Ali here. I didn't think that would happen.

[yijuntey]

I'm planning on building my first pc setup and i find these setup videos very entertaining to watch but also good for inspirations of how i should set mine up

[bbfabcbbecfec]

Your opinions on upgrading, as well as low-budget or setups working with limited opportunity are extremely refreshing in this tech world where you always seem to start to feel behind everyone else because your spec is 2 gen's old. Anyway, new sub, good work man!

[NaveW]

I love your setup reviews - Ed from Tech Source has cool setups featured, but only reviews like 4-5 setups and has unhelpful or superficial criticisms on the setups- yours are always very respectful and also truly helpful when needed. This is appreciated, and I hope you make this a consistent set of episodes😎