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Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

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Post by fomine3 »

eternityforest wrote: post #87
njovin wrote: post #20

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I have a fond memory of camping outside a Target from ~10:00p to 6:00a when the Wii was launched. We hung out with a group of strangers in camping chairs, talked about our favorite games, and tried to keep warm. When the Starbucks bakery delivery came a few hours before the store opened the driver gave us all free pastries. The Wii ended up being a very disappointing launch experience IMO but we had a fun time waitin…

The early 2000s were like the peak of tech. Video games are kinda just OK now. The actual experience was always like 70% set and setting. The game companies put a lot of effort into the games themselves but where are the LAN parties and release events? Where is.... any other aspect of gaming except the games? Esports youtubers don't really replace split screen multiplayer.

Gaming console computer technology was very different to PC. The last unique one was PS3 Cell (but also RSX by Nvidia). Now they are just PC or smartphone based.

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Post by G4E »

badlucklottery wrote: post #27
MBCook wrote: post #3

I know this isn’t new but I still love that Nintendo did this. It’s such a Nintendo thing. They’re a toy company and think like one. Did Sony do this with the Vita cartridges? I don’t remember hearing so (and never thought to taste them?). Heh.

>Did Sony do this with the Vita cartridges? Well, wonder no longer. I just licked a PS Vita copy of World of Final Fantasy and it only tastes faintly of plastic.

While I salute your dedication, reading the article was enough to know actually :

>Intrepid reporter Julia Alexander tried tasting cartridges from the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. None of them had any particular taste.

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Post by thematrixturtle »

Ekaros wrote: post #156
svachalek wrote: post #107

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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.

Probably something to do with absorbing or that is storing moisture. Want to keep it relatively moist.

It also helps keep bacteria and mold at bay.

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Post by fragmede »

spiderice wrote: post #168
toast0 wrote: post #79

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That's easy, UUIDs are unique, so it's easy to tell them apart, although it's hard to group them. Much better than deciding what the heck 'new iPad' means or if you want a new old 3ds or a used new 3ds, or if updating iOS means your phone or your router.

Just because Apple has had some bad names doesn't make Sony's names better. Don't compare Sony's naming conventions with iPad, compare them with iPhone, which is significantly easier. Q: Which iPhone do you have A: iPhone 12 Pro Max (I choose this one because it's one of the longer iPhone names) vs Q: Which Sony headphones do you have A: MX 4 or something like that. Let me check my Amazon order history. Oh yeah, here…

Naming things is still one of the harder problems in computer science. The iPhone 12 Pro Max is descriptive, but doesn't say everything. How much storage it has, how many sim slots (there are dual-nano-sim iPhones in special regions) it has, the modem and antenna configuration, the color. From Apple's POV, the plebs don't need to know the difference between A2342, A2410, A2411, and A2412 versions of the iPhone 12 Pro Max and it's not clear that they're wrong.

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Post by smoldesu »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #92
Alex3917 wrote: post #33

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Note that non-toxic does not mean edible, as the FDA recently clarified due to many people being severely poisoned from eating cakes decorated with luster dust meant for crafting. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043a2.htm You would think that if something says non-toxic, licking it shouldn't kill you, but apparently not.

Dose makes the poison. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8351798/ > The toxicity of denatonium benzoate is low with acute po LD50's in rats of 485-740 mg/kg. https://www.chemsrc.com/en/cas/3734-33-6_1028011.html TYPE OF TEST: LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill ROUTE OF EXPOSURE: Oral SPECIES OBSERVED: Rodent - rat DOSE/DURATION: 584 mg/kg DOSE/DURATION: 508 mg/kg Non-toxic definitely means that common exposure to the…

Kinda makes you wonder what the relative toxicity of a Switch cartridge is. Some labcoat at Nintendo probably ran the number for this one on the weekend.

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Post by JetAlone »

ctf1er wrote: post #179

If covid happened 30 years ago, I can imagine public safety ads about kids sharing and blowing on NES catridges to make them work, quite a vector.

If it were to happen 30 years ago, I can imagine:

A) Satellaview/Sega Meganet/Telegenesis taking off worldwide to reduce trips outside to buy games for systems one already owns.

2) Early implementation of online multiplayer console games in the 5th generation, possibly even delaying or stunting developments in console 3D graphics.

III) Parents just straight up don't let kids go outside/mingle (there was already the satanic panic and then the fear of kidnappers after all), single player games become superbly dominant.

Four) Couch multiplayer becomes so unthinkable that no console is ever built to support more than 2 controllers ever again.

ɛ) The entire games industry crashes/crunches hard because of supply chain problems.

六) Going outside is considered dangerous enough that portable consoles don't do as well as they did.

0111) An AI developed in a top secret soviet lab to manage airdrop supply chains goes rogue and attempts to crush human civilization starting in Moscow, with giant falling containers full of explosive payloads. A global crack team of scientists, pilots and demolitions experts get together and realize they can just barely defuse all the bombs in time, but only if they intercept the connected crate packages mid-air and guide them into orderly straight lines.

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Post by Shared404 »

exmadscientist wrote: post #155
AlotOfReading wrote: post #153

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Labs aren't buying their stuff at Walmart, so I don't know why they'd by affected by any remotely reasonable law. The supply houses can keep selling methylated alcohol, but let's get the unnecessary poisons off store shelves and out of consumer cabinets.

No disagreement from me. I'm just saying there is a technical reason to use methanol denaturants sometimes.

> exmadscientist

Username checks out, any fun stories to share? I find most people who've worked in lab's have at least one.

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Post by pvpatel1001 »

morganvachon wrote: post #138
kunai wrote: post #127

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Of course alcohol is a powerful solvent at any concentration, but there are definitely studies[1] that demonstrate 70% being a bit more effective at disinfecting. [1]: https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/rubbing-alcohol-uses

That's always been the rule of thumb that I learned growing up too. My dad kept 90% or stronger concentrations for cleaning electrical contacts and other industrial uses, and 70% for first aid and sanitizing, because that's what each was made for.

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Post by pvpatel1001 »

pvpatel1001 wrote: post #218
morganvachon wrote: post #138

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That's always been the rule of thumb that I learned growing up too. My dad kept 90% or stronger concentrations for cleaning electrical contacts and other industrial uses, and 70% for first aid and sanitizing, because that's what each was made for.

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