Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes
The company behind Portal, Half-Life, and Steam isn’t amused by all the vent smellin’
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing Steam”
Oh so now it's the forbidden fumes. That's even more tempting
Aww, okay. I'll just have to go back to licking Switch cartridges then...
Those are coated in bitterant and taste terrible
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.
Weak, try a 9v. Little sour.
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.
Don’t sniff your deck hole
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!
My forefathers used canaries. Make a bird smell your Steam Deck vent.
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.
WTF is wrong with people?
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
Smell good
🦍
These people are why Nintendo have to coat their Switch games with a foul tasting substance.
Well, that was specifically for the young kids of these people, but yeah.
People huff freon. This doesn't surprise me a bit. Nothing like a little ozone and chlorine I guess.
People huff freon.
Okay, but the freezer smells good
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.
Mmmmm benzene
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.
Bro is that why they named the candy warheads?
Who would have thought that maybe sniffing fumes out of anywhere could be a bad idea
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.
That's the Funk
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.
...even the drier vent? 😭
If they didn’t want me to sniff the vent fumes, they shouldn’t have pointed the vent nearly at my face.
I tried too hard not to take this headline literally
They really wrote a whole ass article about a single screenshot.
This is journalism in 2023.
Look. The warm air feels excellent on my frozen nose. Let my dumb stoner ass enjoy it okay?
Dude weed lmao
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.
Right? Skip the kidney failure and go right to the front of the line
Why do they think I got one in the first place?
Licking is still encouraged
I DO WHAT I WANT!
Well now I'm gonna do it lol
Gotta see what all the fuss is about.
It's been four hours. Steam deck fumes killed him. Everyone spread the news.
I highly doubt he even has a steam deck. He just wanted to put in his funny joke comment and leave the post
Is it similar to the switch's?
Is it possible it could be producing ozone and that it is reacting with the plastic? Ozone is not good to smell.
Probably not, that would require fairly high voltages. It's probably plastics off-gassing.
I will be using that word now what my body needs to gas off.
SteamDeck Sativa edition
So it isn't dangerous but they just don't want you to do it.
I'm wondering if in a few years we find out that hot plastic emits stuff that isn't good for you.
Huh. I wonder if it smells similar to the heat that comes off the back of a PS4.
Maybe, I haven't smelled a PS4 but I have a Steam Deck and it just has that sort of hot electronics smell
I was literally just doing that lmao
Surely this question has been answered long ago by science, and could have been included in this remarkable piece of journalism.
Never
1984
There shouldn't be any fumes unless something is burning. 🤨
Didn’t know new cars were on fire
Probs lots of things around us passuvely disperse particles under room temperature, but in amounts not noticeable to us. With heating applied, this process intensifies, more so if it's closer to 50-100 C°, normal working temps for an actively cooled PC. Think the indoors pool, that keeps the room's air humid even though the water is just warm.
