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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 225 points 11 months ago

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing Steam”

[-] SayJess 21 points 11 months ago
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 11 months ago

~~Joey~~ Jessica, you like movies about gladiators?

[-] anonymouse@lemmings.world 20 points 11 months ago

thisbenzingring, you ever been to a Turkish bathhouse?

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

It’s an online storefront that sells video games, but that’s not important right now.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 151 points 11 months ago

Oh so now it's the forbidden fumes. That's even more tempting

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago

I honestly never even wanted a steam deck....but now I kinda do just to huff the fucker.

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[-] frizop@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Is this your tide pod moment?

[-] chameleon@kbin.social 100 points 11 months ago

Aww, okay. I'll just have to go back to licking Switch cartridges then...

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 11 months ago

Those are coated in bitterant and taste terrible

[-] xpinchx@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

I had no idea this was a thing until one day I was swapping games or something and temporarily held it between my lips. I didn't taste it right away so I didn't immediately link it back to the cartridge, but I mentioned it to the SO and she enlightened me.

I fell for a trap set for children and pets.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 95 points 11 months ago

Steam Deck owners to Valve: No.

As a Steam Deck owner, I find the whole exhaust air thing hilarious because it smells like nothing but warm air to me. But others seem to have drastically different descriptions of it.

[-] FreeBooteR69@kbin.social 30 points 11 months ago

Mine didn't have a smell, but don't know how long that lasts, so maybe i was too late for the new deck smell.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago

Don’t sniff your deck hole

[-] SayJess 70 points 11 months ago

I don’t like the idea of a company telling me what I can and cannot smell. My father smelled potentially hazardous fumes, and his father ‘fore him! We will not submit!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 11 months ago

My forefathers used canaries. Make a bird smell your Steam Deck vent.

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 11 months ago

I'll steal/adapt a weird argument about eating animals:

If Valve didn't want people sniffing Steam Deck fumes, they wouldn't have made them smell so good.

Gaben spoke, and people listened.

[-] XbSuper@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago
[-] Acters@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

i dont understand why but the smell of fresh electronics and cars is soo good. I read somewhere that its the glue off gassing and could cause a mild high and at high enough concentrations or time lenght brain damage. yay

[-] XbSuper@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

he just told you.

too much glue make brain go bad

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 11 months ago

These people are why Nintendo have to coat their Switch games with a foul tasting substance.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 12 points 11 months ago

Well, that was specifically for the young kids of these people, but yeah.

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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 37 points 11 months ago

Don't tell me what to do!

For real though, it smells nice so it's probably pretty toxic. For some reason everything that smells or tastes good but isn't food ends up being toxic as fuck. Like lead and plutonium. I've heard lead is sweet (I was smart enough not to eat the wall candy growing up), and plutonium apparently tastes like sour candy. The deck is probably shitting out super fenta-cancaids fumes that're gonna shrivel our sex bits but it doesn't matter because it smells divine.

Damn you Gaben with your super fenta-cancaids!

[-] Soap10116@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

It's probably off gassing aromatics from the molded plastics parts. Anything aromatic (in an organic chem context) is possibly carcinogenic. Past that its semi-volatile phthalates and other possible additives and light volatiles that may be off gassing especially from the unit's heat generation/dissipation.

Offgassing testing is common (think new car smell...Yeah unfortunately that's carcinogenic too, but we're testing for stuff now). I'm pretty surprised they didn't either invest in the right types of plastics that wouldn't have potentially toxic emissions...unless they did and didn't care until someone noticed and spread the word.

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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

no it's not toxic, they have regulation for that, even valve said the the fumes aren't toxic, put they aren't going to say that people can smell it because some dumbass gonna burn their nose lol

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

everything that smells good but isn’t food ends up being toxic as fuck

Wondering if this applies to the edges of laser-cut plywood... (like, momths after cutting)

[-] Catoblepas 11 points 11 months ago

Probably, since wood dust and wood smoke are both carcinogenic.

I still like smelling wood smoke though.

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[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago

Who would have thought that maybe sniffing fumes out of anywhere could be a bad idea

[-] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

I have an old early 2000s mp3 player that still to this day has an inexplicable sweet orange/citrus scent that emanates from the audio jacks, even when not in use.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

That's the Funk

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago
[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago
[-] objectionist@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Thank you, SatansMaggotyCumFart, for the hilariously accurate description

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

Well I'm convinced l, I'm buying a steamdeck!

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[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

If they didn’t want me to sniff the vent fumes, they shouldn’t have pointed the vent nearly at my face.

[-] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

I tried too hard not to take this headline literally

[-] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 months ago

They really wrote a whole ass article about a single screenshot.

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[-] jadedwench@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Look. The warm air feels excellent on my frozen nose. Let my dumb stoner ass enjoy it okay?

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[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay, this is a pretty funny article.

Valve’s response had the same vibes of a school teacher telling kids kindly (but firmly) to stop eating paste.

lmao

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

New electronics smell so good though. I'm OK to lose a couple hours of my life expectancy to enjoy that, in moderation.

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[-] walrusintraining@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Why do they think I got one in the first place?

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Is it possible it could be producing ozone and that it is reacting with the plastic? Ozone is not good to smell.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Electronics release all sorts of non-cool chemicals... plastic related, and flame retardants.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

flame removedants

That’s actually really funny.

This is not a helpful feature.

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