Not gonna lie. At first it looked like a bag of weed.

Actually on my fc660c with the stock controller, you can make escape tilde by default, then fn esc for escape. There's a toggle (fn q?)

I'm not the op but I'm pretty sure I've stumbled upon the super Mario set on AliExpress before. The top row is probably an extra pacman novelty kit from the same seller? Just a guess.

Ya but if you need your keypad you can get juuusttt a keypad in addition. Then you could punch in numbers overtop your head if you wanted.

I currently use a 65 percent plus a macropad that acts as a numpad on the default layer. I do however find myself reaching over to the regular numpad quite often by accident, because at work I use a full sized retro cherry ATK.

To me if you use a numpad then it's function over looks. It's a keyboard afterall and no one but you should care which looks better.

I've had ESD trigged by my dog rubbing against my leg. Happens more often in a dry environment. Some people say to use humidifiers to stop it.

Back in the day, KBD75 from kbdfans had an issue with ESD. Luckily mine would just shut off and would work if I plugged it back in. What I did eventually was take all the mouting screws off and isolate the PCB from the case with electrical tape. When its closed and sandwiched in, it doesn't really need the mounting screws at all.

Now they coat their PCBs in some sort of blackness to prevent this.

so what I'm saying is, maybe if you get a new pcb from them, maybe try isolating the pcb from all metal contact. Hopefully they fix their design. They obviously knew it was a thing if they included the ESD protection as stock.

I could be wrong but the imsto pbt group buy may have been the original. Simply subdyed gateron caps. They had different colorways and the green was called Irish. Not sure if it existed prior to that.