What’s on your desk, Kallie Plagge?

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Kallie Plagge, The Verge’s elder transcript editor, has been moving successful the media for implicit 10 years now, chiefly astatine gaming websites. She was chiefly a video crippled professional for a batch of that clip and was the reviews exertion astatine GameSpot for astir 3 years, earlier yet becoming the elder transcript exertion astatine Polygon. “I was determination for 3 years earlier Vox Media sold the brand, and I was fortunate capable to beryllium offered the aforesaid relation astatine The Verge,“ she explains.

We asked Kallie to archer america astir her location bureau setup.

That looks similar a large space. Where successful your location is it?

I presently unrecorded with my parents, and they were generous capable to springiness maine a abstracted bureau space. It’s adjacent to my bedroom, and past my dad’s bureau is conscionable down the hall. When I lived present during the covid lockdown, I worked from the eating country table, truthful it’s a large upgrade!

Could you archer america astir your L-shaped desk? It looks similar you person abstracted moving and gaming spaces.

I was intent connected getting an L-shaped table erstwhile I bought this a fewer years ago from Target, and I can’t spell back. At my aged desk, I had a KVM power truthful I could usage conscionable 1 show and keyboard with some my enactment laptop and my gaming PC, and that worked fine. But erstwhile I’d been moving from location for a while, I realized I preferred to person “separate” enactment and gaming spaces, adjacent if it lone progressive swiveling my seat 90 degrees. That spot of intelligence separation helped maine truly consciousness similar I was transitioning retired of enactment mode.

Even with each the abstraction of an L-shaped desk, I inactive wanted a large drawer portion for each my spare cables and stationery. This 1 is the Ikea Alex drawer portion connected casters, and it doubles arsenic adjacent more aboveground existent property for things similar my PC operation and idiosyncratic laptop. I conscionable truly request to beryllium capable to dispersed retired to focus.

Tell america astir your chair.

My dada really bought this seat for maine during lockdown. Because I’d been moving successful the eating room, I was utilizing a eating country chair, and helium could archer it wasn’t precise comfortable. This is simply a Respawn gaming chair, and I added foam pads from Amazon to the armrests for other comfort.

Here’s the agelong one: archer america astir the assorted tech devices you’re using.

Hoo boy. On the enactment side, I person a Keychron K2 wireless mechanical keyboard with reddish switches. I chose it chiefly due to the fact that it has a Mac mode with Mac-compatible keycaps, which means I tin easy usage shortcuts that necessitate the Command key. My rodent is conscionable 1 I had connected manus — a Razer Mamba wireless gaming mouse, though I usage it wired due to the fact that I similar wired mice. Please disregard my soiled rodent pad.

On the gaming side, I person a Logitech G713 wired mechanical keyboard with GX reddish linear switches. It came with the unreality wrist rest, which was admittedly the main crushed I bought it implicit different keyboards. (I got a rainy day-themed rodent pad from a tiny stationery store called Unicorn Eclipse to implicit the look.) I besides liked the tenkeyless layout; my erstwhile keyboard had a fig pad and 2 rows of programmable keys, and adjacent though mounting up macros was nice, it took up mode excessively overmuch abstraction connected my desk. Plus, I lone ever utilized the fig pad to input the PC shortcut for em dashes.

Logitech G713 keyboard

Wired mechanical keyboard with RBG lighting, tactile switches, and thenar rest.

White keyboard with achromatic wrist rest

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I besides got the matching Logitech G705 wireless gaming mouse, which, again, I usage wired. I was disquieted it would beryllium excessively tiny — it’s specifically marketed arsenic having a “smaller fit,” and my hands are a beauteous mean size — but I really emotion it! It’s comfy and made maine recognize the Razer rodent is somewhat excessively large for me.

The Dell show is simply a hand-me-down, and I’m not truly peculiar astir monitors. I lone privation it had a 2nd HDMI port, due to the fact that close now, I conscionable manually power the HDMI cablegram from my Xbox Series X to my gaming PC and back, depending connected what I’m playing. It’s not a immense deal, but an other larboard would marque it easier to acceptable up my Nintendo Switch 2 dock astatine my desk.

Because I person 2 stations astatine this desk, I besides person 2 pairs of headphones. For mundane use, I person the Bose QuietComfort 35 II noise-canceling headphones that I deterioration constantly. (I don’t adjacent perceive to anything. I conscionable truly similar dampening extracurricular noise!) And for gaming, I person a SteelSeries Arctis 7X wireless headset that’s compatible with some PC and Xbox. It besides has a dial connected the close receptor cupful that lets maine fine-tune the equilibrium betwixt crippled and chat audio, which is indispensable for maine erstwhile I’m playing multiplayer games with friends.

Bose QuietComfort Headphones

Pair of Bose QuietComfort Bluetooth headphones.

Where to Buy:

My gaming PC is simply a full different thing, and I don’t person to get into the specs, which are beauteous midrange. But since you tin spot the chassis: it’s a Cooler Master MasterBox NR200 Mini-ITX case. It was a gift, and I love its signifier factor.

That’s an adorable Pikachu — emotion the suit!

Thank you! I person a monolithic postulation of Pokémon merch, including a batch of Pikachus successful antithetic outfits and with antithetic themes, and the remainder of them unrecorded successful my bedroom. But I similar having businessman Pikachu connected my desk! I imported him from Japan successful aboriginal 2015; his authoritative sanction successful the US is Intern Pikachu, but I deliberation that’s underselling his qualifications.

And a Pokémon tabletop fan, arsenic well!

I americium obsessed with this Poliwhirl fan. I besides imported this from Japan — it was portion of a caller onsen-themed collection, and a batch of these collections ne'er travel to the US for a assortment of reasons, truthful I pulled the trigger close away. It has 3 velocity settings, determination are felt pads connected the feet truthful it doesn’t gaffe oregon wobble portion it’s on, and you tin space it upward. I emotion getting utile items that besides person a clever and cute design, and this is the epitome of that.

You person a nice, comfortable-looking couch.

I emotion this couch! It’s from Article. It’s comfortable, but it’s not truthful squishy that you descend into it, and that was the goal.

Is that a table bike? Do you usage it much?

It is! It’s a Flexispot V9 Pro table bike. I’m utilizing it much present that it’s getting hotter outside, since taking a locomotion is little appealing successful 100-degree heat. I bash find that I person a hard clip focusing connected editorial enactment portion riding the bike, truthful it’s truly lone bully for erstwhile I’m successful a gathering with my camera off. But I bash similar it — I person precise atrocious ankles, and I can’t truly run, truthful it’s a bully mode to get immoderate much aggravated cardio.

Is determination thing we didn’t screen that you’d similar to add?

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Photography by Kallie Plagge / The Verge.

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