It seems to fade with age/handling. Brand new cartridges taste really bad. My several year old ones taste fine.
Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
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Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#102Synthesis of the substance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOw_I42eUpM
NileRed is a national treasure !
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
We use isopropyl alcohol, which is not denatured, whenever high purity is required.
Or in a pinch, 99% grain alcohol. Source: some friends make drinks with grain alcohol, and then don't want it any more after they make those drinks (gee, I wonder why?). Provides an essentially endless supply of alcohol for cleaning purposes for me.
If you're using alcohol for cleaning 70% concentrations are better as they actually kill and lyse pathogens at that concentration, while 99% will just desiccate them, allowing for reactivation when in a moist environment.
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#104Yes. In the EU product "denatured alcohol" for most purposes is likewise treated with the same agent. This replaces the widespread use of methanol and similar products which are poisonous (yes even if you call the product "meths" it probably isn't methanol in the EU today). The rationale is that poisoning people is not an appropriate reaction to attempted tax avoidance. Alcohol is only "denatured" because booze is ta…
Drinking this medical disinfectant denaturated alcohol has become a meme in Romania, where very poor people drink it because it's so cheap - $1.5 for 1L of 70% ABV (almost twice Vodka strength which is about 40% ABV).
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#105Yes. In the EU product "denatured alcohol" for most purposes is likewise treated with the same agent. This replaces the widespread use of methanol and similar products which are poisonous (yes even if you call the product "meths" it probably isn't methanol in the EU today). The rationale is that poisoning people is not an appropriate reaction to attempted tax avoidance. Alcohol is only "denatured" because booze is ta…
Drinking this medical disinfectant denaturated alcohol has become a meme in Romania, where very poor people drink it because it's so cheap - $1.5 for 1L of 70% ABV (almost twice Vodka strength which is about 40% ABV). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZuHPjJtgs&t=1825s
mitilicu' :-))
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#106Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#107> People have speculated that the manufacturing process for Switch cartridges involves coating them in a layer of foul-tasting film, so as to discourage people from, well, putting the cartridges in their mouths. (Why do you think Play-Doh is so bitter and salty?) IIRC, Play-Doh is basically flour and the salt is there as a preservative.
I think it's more than that, it has something to do with its consistency. You can find recipes to make your own and they all use a seemingly ridiculous amount of salt.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get the Sony:Apple comparison at all. If anything, Sony is Japan's Microsoft: Do a gazillion things, many of them poorly, to such a unfocused extent that some of your divisions actually end up competition with each other. Like in Sony's case, how they've had internal battles for decades between the device side (that wants to make devices that are useful) and the content side (that wants DRM out the ass on eve…
> Do a gazillion things, many of them poorly What does Sony do poorly? Sony has the same dysfunction Apple has - everything has to be invented in house. If you told me that a company invented an high end camera that 20% more than the competitors and used proprietary connectors and memory cards, I wouldn't be surprised if that was Apple. > decades between the device side (that wants to make devices that are useful) an…
> Remember FairPlay?
Was FairPlay the name of the rootkit they'd install if you tried to play one of their audio CDs in a Windows PC?
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#109You know what happens when you tell kids/teens not to do something, right?
Well, they aren't just telling them not to do it, they are physically dissuading them from doing so. This is probably a lot more effective than a warning sticker to not put the cartridge in their mouth.
The irony, of course, is that everyone's reaction to hearing about the bittering agent is to immediately lick a cartridge to taste it for themselves.
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#110You know what happens when you tell kids/teens not to do something, right?
Well, they aren't just telling them not to do it, they are physically dissuading them from doing so. This is probably a lot more effective than a warning sticker to not put the cartridge in their mouth.
Have you seriously never tasted something after someone told you, "this thing tastes awful"?