Oh so now it’s the forbidden fumes. That’s even more tempting
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing Steam”
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!
My forefathers used canaries. Make a bird smell your Steam Deck vent.
Who would have thought that maybe sniffing fumes out of anywhere could be a bad idea
…even the drier vent? 😭
Licking is still encouraged
Never
There shouldn’t be any fumes unless something is burning. 🤨
Didn’t know new cars were on fire
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!
Bro is that why they named the candy warheads?
everything that smells good but isn’t food ends up being toxic as fuck
Wondering if this applies to the edges of laser-cut plywood…
Probably, since wood dust and wood smoke are both carcinogenic.
I still like smelling wood smoke though.
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
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.
Aww, okay. I’ll just have to go back to licking Switch cartridges then…
Weak, try a 9v. Little sour.
Those are coated in bitterant and taste terrible
I had no idea this was a thing until one day I was swapping games or something and temporarily held it between my lips. I didn’t taste it right away so I didn’t immediately link it back to the cartridge, but I mentioned it to the SO and she enlightened me.
I fell for a trap set for children and pets.
Huh. I wonder if it smells similar to the heat that comes off the back of a PS4.
Maybe, I haven’t smelled a PS4 but I have a Steam Deck and it just has that sort of hot electronics smell
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
So it isn’t dangerous but they just don’t want you to do it.
I’m wondering if in a few years we find out that hot plastic emits stuff that isn’t good for you.
Well now I’m gonna do it lol
Gotta see what all the fuss is about.
New electronics smell so good though. I’m OK to lose a couple hours of my life expectancy to enjoy that, in moderation.
They really wrote a whole ass article about a single screenshot.
