- cross-posted to:
- Steamdeck@kbin.social
- steamdeck@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- Steamdeck@kbin.social
- steamdeck@lemmy.ml
- potoo22 ( @potoo22@programming.dev ) 36•10 months ago
Headline 3 years from now: “Huffing Steam Deck vent fumes linked to increased risk of cancer” (Only when done habitually)
Ads: “Have you or a loved one huffed Steam Deck fumes? You may be entitled to compensation.”
Valve: Goddamnit. You fucking addicts couldn’t stop huffing the vents. WE FUCKING TOLD YOU! It’s safe for normal usage. NORMAL usage. Not heroine addict levels of usage!
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 35•10 months ago
Steam Deck
Steam Deck with OLED screen
Steam Deck with aromatherapy cartridge slot
- vexikron ( @vexikron@lemmy.zip ) 8•10 months ago
Finally, FINALLY we can have… not the smellovision nickelodeon promised us… but something SUPERIOR!
Aromatic Gaming!
swift cut to gamer playing HL2 on his Steam Arom-OLED Deck, actually wretching and vomiting when Gordon gets to Ravenholm
Hrm… I wonder what GMANs time stasis pocket dimension… smells like.
Hrm.
Ozone, maybe?
- BobVersionFour ( @BobVersionFour@kbin.social ) 24•10 months ago
Stop making it smell so damn good and maybe i’d think about it
- habanhero ( @habanhero@lemmy.ca ) 21•10 months ago
How do you guys cook your fumes?
I crank up all the performance settings and keep Ling’s website on 24x7. Nothing makes a more decadent fume than running state-of-the-art portable gaming hardware on shitty web code. Can’t beat the high off of Steam Deck engineers’ imaginary tears.
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English4•10 months ago
Don’t besmirch the good name of Ling’s Cars like that, it’s like a lighthouse in a sea of corporate blandness!
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) 16•10 months ago
That’s hilarious
It made me laugh when I saw it pop up in my news feed
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 12•10 months ago
Asking steam users not to huff valve’s fumes, that’s a tall order.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 11•10 months ago
stop making it smell so good and i will
- tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) 11•10 months ago
I had no idea that people other than me were doing this.
- SrTobi ( @SrTobi@feddit.de ) 8•10 months ago
I thought I’m doing this to check how hot the steam deck runs. It’s just so convinient to tilt it and check with the nose… But now, after reading the article, I’m not sure I’m not addicted to the fumes!
- modifier ( @modifier@lemmy.ca ) 7•10 months ago
Even this makes me want one.
- kryllic ( @kryllic@programming.dev ) 4•10 months ago
Me to Valve: make me
- Kongar ( @Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•10 months ago
If they didn’t want me sniffing it, then they shouldn’t have made it smell EXACTLY like my first PC. Until then I’m huffing it like ashy larry hits the pipe.
- Fubarberry ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) English1•10 months ago
For better or worse, I never quite understood the Steam deck smell. My sense of smell lacks the ability to smell a lot of things, so I’m guessing I’m just unable to pick up on whatever makes it so appealing to people.
- MXX53 ( @MXX53@programming.dev ) 3•10 months ago
I am pretty sure it is a nostalgia thing for me. It smells like electronics from my childhood, moreso than other newer electronics I have. When I smell the vent it brings me back to my childhood and all of my friends and siblings gathered around a console in a small room with no AC in the middle of summer. A simpler time when I wasn’t a dad, didn’t have a mortgage, a job, taxes and bills to pay etc. I was just a kid sitting on the floor shirtless in shorts surrounded by my friends trying to finish games.
- neocamel ( @neocamel@lemmy.studio ) 1•10 months ago
What does it smell like?
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
It’s a bit sweet. Not to the full extent of 3D printing PLA but it’s in the area.
Interestingly, the Valve Index scent is almost exactly the same as the Steam Deck vent scent, just the Deck’s air is heated. I remember the Steam Controller box also smelling like this.
- neocamel ( @neocamel@lemmy.studio ) 2•10 months ago
Ahh ok I know the smell of pla quite well, thanks!