“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing Steam”
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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"it's a big company with lots of games in its store. But that's not important right now."
What’s Steam?
~~Joey~~ Jessica, you like movies about gladiators?
thisbenzingring, you ever been to a Turkish bathhouse?
Wait a minute, I know you! You're Kareem Anonymouse Jabbar! You post comments on lemmy!
I'm sorry son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
It’s an online storefront that sells video games, but that’s not important right now.
Oh so now it's the forbidden fumes. That's even more tempting
I honestly never even wanted a steam deck....but now I kinda do just to huff the fucker.
Yo, I got a deal on Switch cartridges. Hit me up.
Literally tasted one within minutes of getting my hands on it.
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Is this your tide pod moment?
Aww, okay. I'll just have to go back to licking Switch cartridges then...
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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.
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.
Bet you checked that spilling twice huh
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!
My forefathers used canaries. Make a bird smell your Steam Deck vent.
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WTF is wrong with people?
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
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Smell good
🦍
These people are why Nintendo have to coat their Switch games with a foul tasting substance.
Well, that was specifically for the young kids of these people, but yeah.
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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.
Who would have thought that maybe sniffing fumes out of anywhere could be a bad idea
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.
That's the Funk
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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!
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.
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)
Probably, since wood dust and wood smoke are both carcinogenic.
I still like smelling wood smoke though.
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If they didn’t want me to sniff the vent fumes, they shouldn’t have pointed the vent nearly at my face.
They really wrote a whole ass article about a single screenshot.
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
I tried too hard not to take this headline literally
What does it smell like?
I bet it smells like burnt plastic and carcinogens
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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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SteamDeck Sativa edition
Why do they think I got one in the first place?
Is it possible it could be producing ozone and that it is reacting with the plastic? Ozone is not good to smell.
Electronics release all sorts of non-cool chemicals... plastic related, and flame retardants.
flame removedants
That’s actually really funny.
This is not a helpful feature.
But where were the ants removed to?
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