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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 228 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago

"it's a big company with lots of games in its store. But that's not important right now."

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

"And Leon's getting larger!"

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[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] anonymouse@lemmings.world 21 points 1 year ago

thisbenzingring, you ever been to a Turkish bathhouse?

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

Wait a minute, I know you! You're Kareem Anonymouse Jabbar! You post comments on lemmy!

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 152 points 1 year ago

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

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Yo, I got a deal on Switch cartridges. Hit me up.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Literally tasted one within minutes of getting my hands on it.

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[-] frizop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Is this your tide pod moment?

[-] chameleon@kbin.social 100 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Bet you checked that spilling twice huh

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Overflowing with spilling checks?

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Don’t sniff your deck hole

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 1 year 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.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 37 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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

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[-] XbSuper@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago
[-] Acters@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

That's the Funk

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago
[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago
[-] objectionist@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Thank you, SatansMaggotyCumFart, for the hilariously accurate description

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[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Destraight@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I bet it smells like burnt plastic and carcinogens

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[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

I tried too hard not to take this headline literally

[-] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] jadedwench@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 11 points 1 year 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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