this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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[–] fuckstick 113 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just Huff my Stream Deck recreationally or socially, I’m not addicted to it I can stop anytime I want

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Listen here fuckstick, you’re a junkie and your deck sucking is tearing this family apart

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Fucksticks, decksuckers, this thread has it all

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Steam Deck

Steam Deck with OLED screen

Steam Deck with aromatherapy cartridge slot

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 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!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago

you can't make me, gaben

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago

Stop making it smell so damn good and maybe i'd think about it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 8 points 11 months ago

I'm imagining this in the ProZD hydro homies voice about before and after you discover an online community for a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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!

[–] Donjuanme 24 points 11 months ago

You're not the boss of me steam. Just keep the supply moving, I need my good good

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

It made me laugh when I saw it pop up in my news feed

[–] Ltcpanic 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This "article" lacks any attempt at explanation for that sweet sweet Valve plastic smell. I feel like the index has the same flavor. Maybe their component suppliers?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's honestly not really an article, more like a summarised and paraphrased version of the Reddit post it came from. But I thought the headline was pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

stop making it smell so good and i will

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Even this makes me want one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I had no idea that people other than me were doing this.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess I’ll have to add this to my upcoming Steam Deck Owner Simulator game.

[–] Feathercrown 2 points 11 months ago

Release it on steam deck but just make it a blank screen since they're already experiencing owning a steam deck

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 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!

[–] Macaroni_ninja 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just a few drops of essential oils into the vents while playing some demanding game and all your worries will fly away!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Who needs essential oils with those vents?! Bout to make a Bane mask outta Deck vents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Me to Valve: make me

[–] Dexx1s 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't own a Steam Deck nor have access to one...but now I want to sniff one. I must know what it smells like!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It’s got that ‘new-tech’ smell blowing out of the cooling vents in spades.. it’s legitimately pleasant!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 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.

[–] XbSuper 2 points 11 months ago

WTF is wrong with people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dear Valve, stop telling me what to do. And no, I won’t wear a hat on a windy day either

[–] ekZepp 1 points 11 months ago