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Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months ago

TIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.

www.theguardian.com

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TIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.

www.theguardian.com

Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months ago
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Nintendo admits it has made Switch cartridges taste unbearably bitter
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Same agent as used in anti-nail biting treatment coats Nintendo Switch game cartridges to help prevent children swallowing them
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  • Silverchase
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    135•7 months ago

    This post is a trick to make you lick game cards and find out

    • SanguinePar
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      92•7 months ago

      And it worked. I just licked one. It tasted horrible.

      • Nougat
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        25•7 months ago

        Just what one of them would say.

        • SanguinePar
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          4•7 months ago

          Cease your investigations.

          • ggppjj
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            3•7 months ago

            How very big money of you.

            • SanguinePar
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              3•7 months ago

              Blessings!

      • @Matty_r@programming.dev
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        18•7 months ago

        But, that might have been an outlier. You need to lick more just in case.

        • SanguinePar
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          5•7 months ago

          I’ll be sure and do that… :-)

          • Flying SquidOP
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            6•7 months ago

            You won’t really know until you put it in your mouth and chew it up.

            • SanguinePar
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              4•7 months ago

              I’m thinking a smoothie.

              • Flying SquidOP
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                3•7 months ago

                I wouldn’t. It might dilute the bitterness.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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      23•7 months ago

      Silverchase’s comment is a trick to prevent you from finding out how tasty switch cartridges are.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        7•7 months ago

        I think mine has LSD on it.

    • @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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      12•7 months ago

      Would you be disappointed if I told you I originally heard about this with the DS/3ds, tested it, then tested it again when the switch came out to see if they were still doing it?

      • clif
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        1•7 months ago

        A man of science

        • @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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          3•7 months ago

          Journalistic integrity

  • @VonCesaw@lemmy.world
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    64•7 months ago

    Jokes on them I can’t taste it anymore after COVID, there is no longer any deterrent from me eating their cartridges

    • @friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      29•7 months ago

      If you do end up eating one, tell us how many bytes it took.

      • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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        3•7 months ago

        Urghhh

    • Chemical Wonka
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      20•7 months ago

      The covid’s collateral effect in my case was in my heart, you’re a luck guy

      • Flying SquidOP
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        16•7 months ago

        I wouldn’t call either of you lucky. In fact, I feel really bad for both of you.

      • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7•7 months ago

        Sorry to hear that, friend. Have a good friend who is also dealing with long covid for years. He’s been on different drug trials but nothing had much of an effect. He’s very slowly getting some energy back, but still can’t work a full time job.

        • @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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          2•7 months ago

          I had a friend who got covid pretty early, he was a carpenter and can’t really work ever since. He’s winded after walking up a few steps. But he’s also an anti vaxxer covid denier, so i find it hard to feel bad, because i’m pretty sure he dragged some other people down with him.

      • @VonCesaw@lemmy.world
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        2•7 months ago

        Cant do stairs, activities, or “activities” without almost throwing up due to heart

        Its rough

  • @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    41•7 months ago

    Many battery manufacturers do this with CR disc shaped batteries as well.

    • @subtext@lemmy.world
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      20•7 months ago

      Interestingly, this coating can cause issues for some products like the Apple AirTags. I know this because I used one of these batteries with a bitterest in the AirTag on my keys and the AirTag didn’t work.

      • @Stache_@lemmy.ml
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        13•7 months ago

        And what’s funny is that the solution is to lick the coating off either sides of the battery to get them to work.

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          7•7 months ago

          I have to assume there’s a common non tongue applied solvent that works

          • GreatAlbatross
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            3•7 months ago

            People apparently rub them with IPA.

            I need to have a try of this, as I regularly burn through 2032s.

  • @PineRune@lemmy.world
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    33•7 months ago

    This could probably be used to check for authentic game cartridges. I’m not going to be licking used games to find out if they’re real, though.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      4•7 months ago

      Coward.

  • @JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    33•7 months ago

    I couldn’t resist.

    • @thomasloven@lemmy.world
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      9•7 months ago

      That’s good.

      • @happysplinter@lemmy.world
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        2•7 months ago

        Can I go now?

      • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        2•7 months ago

        It’s makes them taste disgusting.

  • @salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    26•7 months ago

    Because of this, I christen my cartridges by licking them.

  • @AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I can’t believe I’m going to get up, find a cartridge, and lick it after posting this. Damn you.

    Edit: It’s true.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    25•7 months ago

    I’ve known about this for years, and I’m still convinced that in a few years time you’re going to see collectors and/or used game store clerks going “Ah see this one is valuable because it’s got the bittering agent still intact. It hasn’t all been licked off.”

  • @CatZoomies@lemmy.world
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    22•7 months ago

    The ultimate gamer high is to take a deep breath from the Steam Deck exhaust, lick a Switch cartridge, hold your breath, and then chug down a G Fuel.

    • @vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
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      2•7 months ago

      This is peak gamer. I am in awe.

  • moving to lemme.zip.
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    20•7 months ago

    I got my unsuspecting 10 year old to lick one of those just to see if the Internet was lying to me. It was as easy as “hey Nintendo made those cartridges bitter…you should lick it to see.” Lol

    • Flying SquidOP
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      6•7 months ago

      You are a terrible parent and also I hope you took a video and put it up on YouTube… because my kid is 14 and I won’t be able to convince her.

      • moving to lemme.zip.
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        3•7 months ago

        Lmao. Nope they did it too fast and without hesitation. I didn’t have a chance and once the jig was up it was too late to try again.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          Okay then. I need to plant a seed… “I read on the internet that they put this really bitter chemical on Switch cartridges to stop kids from putting them in their mouths, but you know how it is on the internet. You can’t believe everything you read.” But first I need to install a camera system in the room where her switch is.

          Edit: She saw through my clever ruse and went to look it up for herself.

          • moving to lemme.zip.
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            3•7 months ago

            Clever… Next time just tell her to try some thing on a spoon and right before you let her have it just shove the switch game in her mouth

    • olav
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      5•7 months ago

      deleted by creator

      • moving to lemme.zip.
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        1•7 months ago

        Don’t tempt me with a good time. I think that’s a teenage party trick. I might need to wait a couple years. He’s still kinda a wuss.

  • Stern
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    18•7 months ago

    I learned that a ways back, told a streamer and gave him a buck to confirm it. Dollar well spent lol.

    • @Konstant@lemmy.world
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      4•7 months ago

      No clip?

      • Stern
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        10•7 months ago

        Was a bit of a hunt but I found it, https://www.twitch.tv/anderoc/clip/ThankfulTriumphantPotYee

  • MushuChupacabra
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    17•7 months ago

    I’ve acquired a taste for them.

    • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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      15•7 months ago

      I eat five a night.

      • massive_bereavement
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        8•7 months ago

        That sounds like an expensive hobby. Have you thought of trying cocaine instead?

        • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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          3•7 months ago

          I sell cocaine to fund my switch cartridge habit.

  • @_lilith@lemmy.world
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    16•7 months ago

  • @JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    16•7 months ago

    Part of the ritual of buying a new Switch game for me is licking it. More difficult for digital downloads, but I was determined and found a way.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      6•7 months ago

      Stick your tongue in the ethernet port?

      • @Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee
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        17•7 months ago

        Can a human tongue discern the taste of a TCP packet compared to an UDP packet?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          4•7 months ago

          There’s only one way for you to find out for sure.

        • @conartistpanda@lemmy.world
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          3•7 months ago

          Put the cable in your mouth so you can feel the electric impulses. If TCP is being used you can feel the packets going back and forward, but if youre using UDP you can only feel them going forward.

      • JackbyDev
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        5•7 months ago

        Rj45job

      • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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        2•7 months ago

        Help it’s stuck

        • @frigidaphelion@lemmy.world
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          2•7 months ago

          Help step bro im stuck in the ethernet port

          • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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            1•7 months ago

            Why does the Internet go to incest unnecessarily

  • @flameguy21@lemm.ee
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    13•7 months ago

    All launch copies of Breath of the Wild have been licked. It’s a rite of passage. (They taste worse than you’d think they would.)

    • @Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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      3•7 months ago

      Hah ! That means I own the only unlicked launch copy of BotW in the world ! DM me your offers, starting at $1 million, serious people only, I know what I have /s

      • @ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
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        I have another one unlicked, I accept $750.000.

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