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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As a former GameStop employee, please clean your consoles

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Clean yo consoles out of your house and get a gaming PC! Boom roasted.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago
[–] BigLime@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

And Xbox power supplies

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I used to work in an electronics repair shop and yes, yes it does. And for some reason it seemed (and this is purely from my anecdotal experience) to happen most often to the PS4 specifically. It's housing makes for a perfect warm, dry, dark place with vent holes just large enough for roaches. I wish I was kidding you, but before we would even agree to repair a PS4 you had to agree to let me open the console inside a garbage bag at the front desk, and if we found any roaches, even dead ones, we had to turn down the repair.

Edit : And I should mention a lot of these were clean, newer looking consoles. The outside and the inside are different creatures.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Haven't seen cases as extreme, but depending on your living situation, all kinds of gunk gathers under the hood of many a console