Can confirm.
Also called Bitrex, that stuff does leave an awful taste. Gets used as a denaturant in ethanol to keep people from drinking it. Company I worked at long ago had a stock of it, and our lab had to requalify it for use every 2 years. As careful as we were keeping it contained, it had a way of spreading everywhere. For the next two days everyone who worked in the area would randomly get that awful taste I their mouth.
But how do I remove the coating so I can chew on my switch cartridges?
Sulfuric acid.
I remember this being a whole challenge. I remember licking one and being unimpressed. Pretty sure most people were exaggerating how bad it was.
It’s not like “oh dear God” levels of bitter but it’s enough to just be like “pteh ew” and spit it out.
Either mine don’t have the coating, or I’m immune to it somehow.
I finally tried licking one recently, and it didn’t taste like anything
Did you buy it used?
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.
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.
This is peak gamer. I am in awe.
I learned that a ways back, told a streamer and gave him a buck to confirm it. Dollar well spent lol.
No clip?
Was a bit of a hunt but I found it, https://www.twitch.tv/anderoc/clip/ThankfulTriumphantPotYee
I couldn’t resist.
That’s good.
It’s makes them taste disgusting.
Can I go now?
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.
Stick your tongue in the ethernet port?
Help it’s stuck
Help step bro im stuck in the ethernet port
Can a human tongue discern the taste of a TCP packet compared to an UDP packet?
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.
There’s only one way for you to find out for sure.
Rj45job
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.
Coward.
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.”
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.)
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
I have another appointment unlicked, I accept $750.000.
Jokes on them I can’t taste it anymore after COVID, there is no longer any deterrent from me eating their cartridges
If you do end up eating one, tell us how many bytes it took.
Urghhh
The covid’s collateral effect in my case was in my heart, you’re a luck guy
Cant do stairs, activities, or “activities” without almost throwing up due to heart
Its rough
I wouldn’t call either of you lucky. In fact, I feel really bad for both of you.
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.
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.
