https://kotaku.com/valve-steam-deck-fumes-vent-smell-good-safe-exhaust-1851094071
The company behind Portal, Half-Life, and Steam isn’t amused by all the vent smellin’
I'm sorry son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
I honestly never even wanted a steam deck....but now I kinda do just to huff the fucker.
Mine lost the smell after a month or so and I’ve been thinking of cracking open a fresh one ever since.
I had no idea this was a thing until one day I was swapping games or something and temporarily held it between my lips. I didn't taste it right away so I didn't immediately link it back to the cartridge, but I mentioned it to the SO and she enlightened me.
I fell for a trap set for children and pets.
It just means you need to find the right combination of other flavours to add to balance it out.
Steam Deck owners to Valve: No.
As a Steam Deck owner, I find the whole exhaust air thing hilarious because it smells like nothing but warm air to me. But others seem to have drastically different descriptions of it.
Mine didn't have a smell, but don't know how long that lasts, so maybe i was too late for the new deck smell.
I don’t like the idea of a company telling me what I can and cannot smell. My father smelled potentially hazardous fumes, and his father ‘fore him! We will not submit!
I'll steal/adapt a weird argument about eating animals:
If Valve didn't want people sniffing Steam Deck fumes, they wouldn't have made them smell so good.
Gaben spoke, and people listened.
Don't tell me what to do!
For real though, it smells nice so it's probably pretty toxic. For some reason everything that smells or tastes good but isn't food ends up being toxic as fuck. Like lead and plutonium. I've heard lead is sweet (I was smart enough not to eat the wall candy growing up), and plutonium apparently tastes like sour candy. The deck is probably shitting out super fenta-cancaids fumes that're gonna shrivel our sex bits but it doesn't matter because it smells divine.
Damn you Gaben with your super fenta-cancaids!
It's probably off gassing aromatics from the molded plastics parts. Anything aromatic (in an organic chem context) is possibly carcinogenic. Past that its semi-volatile phthalates and other possible additives and light volatiles that may be off gassing especially from the unit's heat generation/dissipation.
Offgassing testing is common (think new car smell...Yeah unfortunately that's carcinogenic too, but we're testing for stuff now). I'm pretty surprised they didn't either invest in the right types of plastics that wouldn't have potentially toxic emissions...unless they did and didn't care until someone noticed and spread the word.
no it's not toxic, they have regulation for that, even valve said the the fumes aren't toxic, put they aren't going to say that people can smell it because some dumbass gonna burn their nose lol
everything that smells good but isn’t food ends up being toxic as fuck
Wondering if this applies to the edges of laser-cut plywood... (like, momths after cutting)
Probably, since wood dust and wood smoke are both carcinogenic.
I still like smelling wood smoke though.
i dont understand why but the smell of fresh electronics and cars is soo good. I read somewhere that its the glue off gassing and could cause a mild high and at high enough concentrations or time lenght brain damage. yay
Bro smell a freshly opened pack of cards from MTG or any card game. If they use the right stuff it's like crack. Shit smells so good.
Videogame cases used to do it too
These people are why Nintendo have to coat their Switch games with a foul tasting substance.
People huff freon. This doesn't surprise me a bit. Nothing like a little ozone and chlorine I guess.
I have an old early 2000s mp3 player that still to this day has an inexplicable sweet orange/citrus scent that emanates from the audio jacks, even when not in use.
This reminds me of the bingo markers with scents. Loving the almond one. Still long after the markers have dried out, they still smell like that.
Probably really chemical since the new ones seem to smell less strong.
If they didn’t want me to sniff the vent fumes, they shouldn’t have pointed the vent nearly at my face.
Look. The warm air feels excellent on my frozen nose. Let my dumb stoner ass enjoy it okay?
Okay, this is a pretty funny article.
Valve’s response had the same vibes of a school teacher telling kids kindly (but firmly) to stop eating paste.
lmao
New electronics smell so good though. I'm OK to lose a couple hours of my life expectancy to enjoy that, in moderation.
I highly doubt he even has a steam deck. He just wanted to put in his funny joke comment and leave the post