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Strange New Social Media Trend: Licking Nintendo Switch Cartridges (macon.com)
Now that the Nintendo Switch has launched, "lots of people are just licking their video games," reports McClatchy.
According to IGN, the tech company coated the cartridges, which are roughly the size of a SIM card, in a bittering agent called denatonium benzoate, which is also used in rat poison and antifreeze to deter human consumption. The chemical is also used to deter nail-biting, per the Telegraph. Nintendo used the chemical as a safety measure to stop small children and pets from eating the cartridges. While there is no adverse health effects from consuming denatonium benzoate, it does leave a sour, bitter taste that lasts for hours, according to taste testers from BBC News, Quartz and IGN. But even as more and more people take to social media to let others know how bad the cartridges taste, more and more people seem determined to try it in what some are calling the Nintendo cartridge challenge...
"Humanity deserves no faith," opines Slashdot reader RavenLrD20k. But meanwhile on Twitter, one gamer was already complaining that their morning coffee tasted like a Nintendo Switch cartridge.
"Humanity deserves no faith," opines Slashdot reader RavenLrD20k. But meanwhile on Twitter, one gamer was already complaining that their morning coffee tasted like a Nintendo Switch cartridge.
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they do this to screwdriver handles too so ppl don't use it has a dildo
Guess it's slightly better then their usual licking of nintendos ass
If I want to taste something really bad, I just start cooking. Much cheaper than buying a Nintendo!
Can we see any nice girls licking the Nintendo cartridges on social media?
If so, maybe I could get one of them into licking and sucking something else.
Paid over $300 for this new console, and all it's done is leave me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
"You know, I never thought of that before. Maybe you got something there. Let a few people go out with a smile, satisfaction guaranteed. Christ, Will, we could tell them exactly what it was and still sell some of the stuff."
"That's not funny, man," Goldberg said, handing the vial to Richardson, who carefully snugged it away with the others in the excelsior-packed box. "It's not funny because it's true."
- Norman Spinrad, "No Direction Home"
Speaking on a behalf of most white folks, we wonder, what happened to all the good colored people?
We all loved to chuckle at the antics of Sytmie, Farina, Sunshine, and Buckwheat. And who couldn't help but feel good
after partaking of the amusing entertainments put forth by the likes of Snowflake and Step 'n' Fetchit?
Where are all the jolly colored folk? Where have all the loveable characters gone? Unfortunately we are left with
the horrible likes of halfrican Whoopie Goldberg and Jay-Z.
Please, nigga, get your act together! Bring back the laughs!
A n1gger lady gets on a bus with her baby and puts the bus fare in the slot. The bus driver looks at the lady and says "that is the ugliest baby I have ever seen!" The n1igger gets mad and storms to the back of the bus and sits down. She then tells the man beside her "the bus driver just insulted me and I am very offended!" The man replies, "you shouldnt take that, go give him a piece of your mind!" The n1igger says, "you know, i think i will." Then the man says, "you go give him a piece of your mind, i'll hold your monkey."
Q : Why do police dogs lick their asses so much?
A : To get the taste of NlGGER out of their mouths!
I do love to blow and lick.
My cartridges.
i.e. the constant trend of increased number of people with lower intelligence, due to successful procreation in spite of cognitive inadequacies.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
That's another one.
And it tastes awful!
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
As if you wouldn't touch it.
Personally I now have this urge to find out what a switch cartridge tastes like.
this is just a ploy to stop people from being able to dump their disappointment inducing next-gen nintendo junk on ebay.
In all fairness to the, uh, interesting people doing this, they're not completely off their rockers. Licking consoles was a thing before social media even existed.
A then-unknown Jessica Chobot (who these days hosts shows for Nerdist) basically started the whole thing by licking a PSP as a gag photo in 2005. Since then, someone, somewhere (usually Chobot, it feels like) licks a launch console.
The only novel change here is people licking the cartridge instead of the console, and that's due to the aforementioned use of a bittering agent. Maybe Nintendo got it wrong here and needs to go into licking controls instead of motion controls...
efforts to try to get people to not do something often have the opposite effect. In the early mid 1970's there was some bad heroin killing people in some East Coast US City. The word was sent out by various agencies: danger, bad Heroin in Gotham. Don't use it!
Instead, junkies from up and down the East Coast rushed there, with the attitude, "if it's killing people it must be a great high," or, "It may kill wimps, but I'm a real man and I can take it." Do they give out mass Darwinian awards?
(IIRC it may have been Baltimore? Total dead 50? about 40 more than the usual for the same time period).
So that is a specific example, but there is a general 'rule,' if you try to stop people, some will do it simply because you are trying to stop them. If you make it difficult, unpleasant or punitive to try, it will only harden their resolve.
See Streisand effect for a similar backfire.
I suspect manipulative forces use this on purposes to entice people to do stupid things for their benefit.
When I was a kid my parents tried that anti nail-biting paint. I used to lick it off and ask for some more.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Q : Why do police dogs lick their asses so much?
A : To get the taste of CRACKERS out of their mouths!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
fuck u looking at?
UK NHS:
We use denatonium benzoate at work to test the fit of masks designed to prevent the inhalation of biological agents. We have to don our PPE(mask) of choice and then a large hood. An examiner sprays an aerosol of denatonium benzoate into the hood to see whether the PPE fits.
I can personally claim to be immune/insensitive to the effects/taste of denatonium benzoate. Testers have sprayed the agent directly onto my tongue and eyeballs and I have not been able to tell. Apparently it's a genetic thing/bug similar to being able to smell asparagus in your pee.
I have previously wondered whether I would be able to happily consume rat poison. I will now wonder whether I can eat Nintendo Switch cartridges.
People are so stupid, I have no faith in humanity anymore.
This is what happens when you have a society that can no longer make things that are productive and all become journalists and bloggers with nothing of use to write about. Nintendo did this to try to curb an issue they saw. Someone with no real news to report decided to try to make this news. Now it's an issue for no real reason. I'm not against reporting whatever you want, just noting how pathetic society is in its need to consume 'news' that really isn't.
Millennials.
What's next? They will actually taste antifreeze?
My cats wouldn't do that, and neither should you.
so the anti nail biting stuff has no effect on them. The taboo against nail biting is just as silly and unfounded as the taboo against masturbation in the Victorian age.
Thank God you told us what RavenLrD20k thinks of this! I would never have known otherwise! Such an esteemed and relevant commentator!
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Bobby is sent to his room, but finds a way to make his own entertainment: "The clock radio smells like my Game Boy, but it tastes like my library card. I wonder if it smells different when it's on?"