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Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

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Post by dreamcompiler »

exmadscientist wrote: post #204
martyvis wrote: post #184

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Except 100% ethanol would be considered a poison too. 100ml (4 ounces) could likely kill a 5 year old child. https://www.alcohol.org.nz/alcohol-its-effects/health-effect...

Absolute alcohol (200 proof ethanol) has a number of ways to kill you. It's slightly poisonous on its own. It's a massively powerful dessicator, so it can turn tissue into leather. And, if you've got industrial quantities of the stuff, it's probably not quite pure: turns out you can't just distill it past 190 proof due to water and ethanol forming an azeotrope. To push past that limit requires azeotropic distillation…

I started using Everclear as a kitchen disinfectant when Covid started. It's 190 proof, kills germs, and it's non-toxic (in small amounts) so you can use it on food surfaces like cutting boards. A big bottle is surprisingly affordable in the US and after 2 years I still have half a bottle left.

Downsides: It's flammable and you wouldn't want it accessible with kids around.

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Post by DonHopkins »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #126
chrisshroba wrote: post #116

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I'm sorry for my ignorance, but could someone give more context on this? I don't understand what "denatured alcohol" is, how it relates to tax avoidance, or what illegal use people are finding for it?

Alcohol is extremely useful for many things but some people will drink it if they find it. So they add denatonium to it to discourage that. Alcohols that are meant for people to drink are taxed more heavily, so adding denatonium puts it into a completely different category of product thereby avoiding all those taxes. Just like the way Sony avoided taxes by adding Linux support to the PS2 and PS3 which caused it to be…

A computer not running Linux is considered a sin, so it's taxed??!

Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

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Post by hnbad »

divbzero wrote: post #172
oddeyed wrote: post #98

When I had Covid in December, I briefly lost my sense of smell and taste (only for a few days, thankfully). I decided I would see if the Switch cartridges tasted as bad as I remembered - purely in the interests of science, of course. I couldn't taste it at first, but then the wave of toxic unpleasantness slowly built up, even after I had moved the cartridge away from my tongue. It was different than I remembered it b…

That is really interesting, especially because you could compare the taste with vs. without anosmia. Thank you for trying that for the sake of science and glad you recovered shortly thereafter.

There's a small YouTube channel by a person with anosmia who made a number of videos explaining what anosmia is like. I think the series is worth a listen if you're interested in that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG3_w7IOivw&list=PL32E3dB2pp...

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Post by boondaburrah »

kbelder wrote: post #190
jwineinger wrote: post #77

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I'm gonna avoid licking the cartridge I checked out from our library.

Uh, this is a tangent, but what? Libraries have Switch games? Is this common?

Yes. I've played many PS4 games for a week from my library. It's like the world's best free trial.

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Post by avianlyric »

jessriedel wrote: post #231
avianlyric wrote: post #191

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> You are arguing that the risk of accidental poisoning by methanol is in fact high. I’m arguing that no level of introduced “deterrent” fatality risk is an acceptable trade off for preventing a crime that itself isn’t punishable by death (and I believe that no crime should be punishable by death). The only situation I would consider deliberately introducing the risk of fatality as a deterrent, is when there’s extrem…

> I’m arguing that no level of introduced “deterrent” fatality risk is an acceptable trade off for preventing a crime that itself isn’t punishable by death All deterrents have a non-zero chance of causing death. People die in prisons, catch fatal viruses in court, etc. Indeed, even bitterants can cause allergic reactions, and so definitely have a non-zero probability of causing death. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc…

> People die in prisons, catch fatal viruses in court, etc.

Prisons and courts aren’t designed to kill. Methylated spirits are. This is very simple concept you seem to be struggling with, governments shouldn’t seek to kill their citizens, or introduce deterrents that operate entirely on the principle of making people fear for their lives if they fail to comply with the law.

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Post by disillusioned »

duderific wrote: post #169
KennyBlanken wrote: post #40

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Given my friend's dog licked up a bunch of antifreeze a couple months ago, I'd say it doesn't work very well.

I've seen dogs eat cat poop, so maybe they're not the target audience. Not sure what it would take to make a dog not eat something.

Ironically, while my dog is happy to eat his own shit, _citrus_ is a bridge too far, for him and most dogs, which is why citronella is used as an anti-bark collar component.

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Post by brandrick »

jmole wrote: post #13
RC_ITR wrote: post #4

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It's actually amazing how Nintendo's "Focus on 1P titles and make HW that is appealing to the masses" used to be its greatest disadvantage and is now probably the only reason for their existence. Kind of Japan's Apple in some ways (with SEGA unfortunately being Japan's NeXT).

Sony is Japan’s Apple if anyone is. A company like Nintendo doesn’t seem like it has an American equivalent, and I actually can’t imagine a company like that surviving the ups and downs of the 80s/90s/00s tech cycles in the US, especially with our tendency towards M&A.

..and Nintendo is Japan's Disney. (yes yes, Ghibli)

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Post by eloisant »

oddeyed wrote: post #98

When I had Covid in December, I briefly lost my sense of smell and taste (only for a few days, thankfully). I decided I would see if the Switch cartridges tasted as bad as I remembered - purely in the interests of science, of course. I couldn't taste it at first, but then the wave of toxic unpleasantness slowly built up, even after I had moved the cartridge away from my tongue. It was different than I remembered it b…

Anosmia is the sense of smell.

Most "flavour" are actually perceived with your sense of smell, which is why you felt like you lost the sense of taste. However things like bitter, sour, salty, sweet and umami are perceived with your tongue so you likely didn't lose those.

The cartridge is probably bitter which is why you could taste it.

If that happen again try it, you should still be able to taste salty and sweet typically.

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Post by benplumley »

selectodude wrote: post #227
spiderice wrote: post #168

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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…

My favorite new naming scheme they've decided on is the new Xperia phones. Apparently they're now on the Xperia 1 III.

I once replaced a Motorola Moto G5 with a Motorola Moto G 5G.
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