Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC

> It doesn’t hit you at first. It tastes just as plain and feels just as slippery as the other three cartridges. In just a few milliseconds, though, a very sour taste invades your taste buds.

What chemical is causing that? Because I don’t think you can explain that with denatnonium. Or maybe extreme stimulation can cause some kind of intra-gustatory synesthesia in some people. Or it’s a cultural thing, like we had to import the concept of umami from Japanese, where they in turn often use the same word for green and blue.

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

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Post by RC_ITR » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 5:33 PM UTC

lkois wrote: post #200

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony is older than Apple... Unrelated to your point, but Nintendo is older than Sony and Apple combined. Apple 45 years Sony 75 years Nintendo 132 years

Yea it's crazy. My dad has a classic Gameboy that his great grandfather purchased during the first world war. That Gameboy saw a couple more wars after that too, including 5 years up my grandads ass in a POW camp, and 2 more inside another soldier who brought it back for us. Can confirm it tastes bad.

I know you're trying to make the point that Nintendo revolutionized itself and is a foundationally different company than it was in the 1910's, but not really.

Trading cards (cutting edge color printing) -> Mechanical toys (cutting edge machining) -> Basic games like Game and Watch -> Video Games.

Nintendo just makes complex toys using cutting edge tech and always has.

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

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Post by jwineinger » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 9:28 PM UTC

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?

Ours has a couple of copies of 20-30 games. The waitlist can be a while since you get 3 weeks / checkout. They have some recent titles such as Bowser's Fury and Metroid Dread, as well as older things like Breath of the Wild.

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

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Post by BenjiWiebe » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 11:48 PM UTC

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…

A bitterent that can cause allergic reactions (and most substances can!) is on a completely different scale to something that is an actual poison and consuming a small amount can cause permanent damage/kill you, regardless of your immune system's sensitivity.