Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad
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Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad, trust us (update)
Don’t do what we did. Please.
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Wasn't this in the Other News thread?
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"Eating this computer part that is a computer part and not food does not feel the same as eating food that is not a computer part. More at 10."
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This is really turning into a "don't think about pink elephants" thing, isn't it?
Place your bets on how long it's gonna take before someone gets a cartridge stuck in his windpipe.
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On the other hand, DS cartridges didn't really have any taste to them ...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Wasn't this in the Other News thread?
Yes: IIRC, I posted it
@aliceif said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
On the other hand, DS cartridges didn't really have any taste to them ...
DS cartridges are harder to swallow.
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@RaceProUK said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Yes: IIRC, I posted it
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1104574
*cough*
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@JBert said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Place your bets on how long it's gonna take before someone gets a cartridge stuck in his windpipe.
Which is exactly what this is supposed to prevent.
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@CarrieVS At least this way, instead of killing children and making everyone sad, it'll kill adults who'll then be nominated for a Darwin Award.
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@El_Heffe Talentless hacks are paid to act like idiots in front of a camera in a desperate attempt to make people care about a product nobody with a brain asked for which solves a problem nobody with a brain has ever had. Film at 11. Oh, and shame on you for direct linking to Polygon.
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@ben_lubar said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Eating this computer part that is a computer part and not food does not feel the same as eating food that is not a computer part
It's not that, it's actually got that bitter stuff you put on your nails to break a nail-biting habit on it. It doesn't just taste like plastic, it's actively offensive to stop kids from swallowing it.
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@Yamikuronue Except it doesn't always work. My cousin used that stuff to try and break her daughter's thumb-sucking habit. The daughter quickly figured out that the tastes goes away if you just keep sucking.
Of course, she's also the kind of kid who had to go to the ER for swallowing penny, not once, not twice, but three times.
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@abarker said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
The daughter quickly figured out that the tastes goes away if you just keep sucking.
huh. well some kids don't learn too fast.
@abarker said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Of course, she's also the kind of kid who had to go to the ER for swallowing penny, not once, not twice, but three times.
huh. unless there's a copper allergy, and assuming the GI tract big enough, and if she's old enough that stopping finger sucking's an issue so i'm going to assume that it is..... I'd have let the penny pass. maybe it would prove a more.... presonal lesson. :-)
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@accalia
Learning... sounds like work.Seems @abarker's cousin once removed inherited some traits from @abarker's side of the family.
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@abarker said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
My cousin used that stuff to try and break her daughter's thumb-sucking habit. The daughter quickly figured out that the tastes goes away if you just keep sucking.
I didn't deliberately do that but I'd forget not to suck my thumb and after a few times it didn't taste bad any more.
They finally got me to stop (the first time) by cleaning my hands with white spirit after I was painting with something non-water based, and telling me I'd die if I sucked my thumb now even though they'd supervised me washing my hands thoroughly.
I started again after a couple of years. Gave up twice more - last time aged 11-12 - through them shaming me for it. Decided to start again a few years ago and I'm too old for them to force me to stop. I like sucking my thumb.
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@abarker Surely there are stronger substances... mix it with capsaicin?
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@anonymous234 said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
mix it with capsaicin?
Yum! Get 'em started on spicy stuff early.
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@anonymous234 said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Surely there are stronger substances... mix it with
capsaicinliquor?Embrace it!
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@accalia said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
@abarker said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
Of course, she's also the kind of kid who had to go to the ER for swallowing penny, not once, not twice, but three times.
huh. unless there's a copper allergy, and assuming the GI tract big enough, and if she's old enough that stopping finger sucking's an issue so i'm going to assume that it is..... I'd have let the penny pass. maybe it would prove a more.... presonal lesson. :-)
If you're looking at one of the older, pure copper pennies, you're probably fine. The problem is with pennies made since 1983 with the zinc core and thin copper plating. The newer pennies end up losing some or all of the copper plating, allowing the stomach acid to react with the zinc, possibly leading to stomach ulcers. Depending on how the penny is eaten away, it can develop sharp edges as well, which means that the intestine may get sliced as the penny passes.
So the question at this point becomes: do you feel lucky?
ETA: Current recommendations are to watch the kid for stomach distress and check their stool to see if the coin passes. If it hasn't passed within a couple days, take them to the doctor. If stomach distress (stomach pain or vomiting) occurs, take them to the ER.
Children, Pets Who Swallow Post-1982 Pennies At Risk For Stomach Upset, Even Ulcers
When a child swallows a penny, it can react with stomach acid to create a toxic mixture as corrosive as car battery acid, leading to severe stomach inflammation and even ulcers, physicians at Duke University Medical Center have discovered.
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@abarker said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
do you feel lucky?
no, but i also don't eat coinage.
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@accalia said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
no, but i also don't eat coinage.
Haha! Sucker!
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@boomzilla said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
@accalia said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
no, but i also don't eat coinage.
Haha! Sucker!
The chocolate that makes decades-old Easter bunnies seem good. Don't eat that coinage, either.
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@boomzilla Dollars might be the currency used in oil trade, but I see euros control the international chocolate coin market.
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@anonymous234 said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
euros control the international chocolate coin market.
The real reason 48% of British voters voted remain.
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@loopback0 said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
The real reason 48% of British voters voted remain.
It's more valuable than our own currency now!
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@coderpatsy I like how that diagram implies there's dogs and babies that do videogame journalism
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@RaceProUK They'd probably do a better job than some of the current journalists.
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@RaceProUK said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
@coderpatsy I like how that diagram implies there's dogs and babies that do videogame journalism
Plenty of videogame journalists call week well within each category...
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@RaceProUK Or that the vast majority of babies don't try to eat small objects.
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@CarrieVS Only those babies that are also dogs and video game journalists do.
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@anonymous234 I have an idea that maybe someone was a little confused about what venn diagrams signify.
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Fixed:
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@Yamikuronue
You are giving video game journalists a lot of credit
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@Luhmann said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
You are giving video game journalists a lot of credit
I think there are some that don't eat small non-food items.
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@Yamikuronue I'd say the intersection of babies and dogs is non-empty.
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@CarrieVS It depends on your definition of babies. A newborn dog is, to me, a puppy, not a baby.
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TIL Justin sings out his love for puppies
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@Yamikuronue said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
A newborn dog is, to me, a puppy, not a baby.
*shrugs*
To me puppy is a word for a baby dog.
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@Yamikuronue said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
It depends on your definition of babies.
Can't talk, walk on all fours, don't know how to poop in designated places.
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@CarrieVS said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
@Yamikuronue said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
A newborn dog is, to me, a puppy, not a baby.
*shrugs*
To me puppy is a word for a baby dog.If Dwarf Fortress is to be believed, a puppy is a child dog and there is no such thing as a baby dog.
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@ben_lubar said in Breaking News: Nintendo Game Cartridges Taste Bad:
If Dwarf Fortress is to be believed
Do you see the fundamental logical error here?
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@antiquarian The Emergency Cute THings Thread is
