• Silverchase
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    13518 days ago

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

    • SanguinePar
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      9218 days ago

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

        • SanguinePar
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          418 days ago

          Cease your investigations.

          • ggppjj
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            318 days ago

            How very big money of you.

        • SanguinePar
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          418 days ago

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

          • Flying SquidOP
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            618 days ago

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

            • SanguinePar
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              418 days ago

              I’m thinking a smoothie.

              • Flying SquidOP
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                318 days ago

                I wouldn’t. It might dilute the bitterness.

    • @JusticeForPorygon
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      1218 days 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?

  • @VonCesaw
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    6418 days 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
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      2918 days ago

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

    • Chemical Wonka
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      2018 days ago

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

      • Flying SquidOP
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        1618 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        718 days 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          218 days 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
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        217 days ago

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

        Its rough

  • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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    4118 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        1318 days 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
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          718 days ago

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

          • GreatAlbatross
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            318 days ago

            People apparently rub them with IPA.

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

  • @PineRune
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    3318 days 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.

  • @AgentGrimstone
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    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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    2518 days 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
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    2218 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    2018 days 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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      618 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        318 days 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            318 days 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

      • @[email protected]
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        118 days 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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    1818 days ago

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

  • @JimVanDeventer
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    1618 days 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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      618 days ago

      Stick your tongue in the ethernet port?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          418 days ago

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

        • @conartistpanda
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          318 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1318 days 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
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      318 days 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
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        I have another one unlicked, I accept $750.000.