• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    2 hours 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.

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    8 hours 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.

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    10 hours ago

    Jokes on them I can’t taste it anymore after COVID, there is no longer any deterrent from me eating their cartridges

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.”

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    10 hours 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.)

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    11 hours 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

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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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.

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            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

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    11 hours ago

    And it apparently has the opposite effect, I’m guessing someone on Youtube or something licked one to show it off, because one of my nephews kept saying he wanted to lick one.

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      My friend and her husband got a switch back when it first launched, I had heard about this and so the next time I was over I asked if they’d licked one yet.

      He said they hadn’t, and he also denied my request to lick one.

      When he left the room, his wife got a mischievous look in her eye and asked if I wanted to lick one.

      I of course took her up on her offer and tasted a cartridge while he wasn’t looking.

      I asked if she had tried one, and of course she had.

      They’re both cool people, but of the two of them she’s definitely my partner in crime.