Next year: New Steam Deck rumored to have an essential oil compartment.
How did a jokey Reddit post of a screenshot of a support response turn into every site covering this like everyone is doing it and Valve is pleading everyone to stop?
Because “journalists” gotta get those clicks
…fumes? Does this handheld device run on a literal steam engine or something?
New electronics will have a smell mostly from adhesives outgassing. Those fumes.
This is the only board I ever smelled that was pleasant. Usually a circuit board smells faintly of burnt plastic and pee, even new.
Well, I guess we found who the warning was directed at lol
New electronics usually smells really good. I cannot be the only one.
It seemed like a disclaimer more than a warning.
Yeah I figured it had to be glue or plastic based fumes from heat.
Streisand Effect
100%
Jokes on them I didn’t hear about the vent fumes until they asked me not to huff them now I’ve been sniffing erryday.
Would smelling an Xbox 360 controller circa 2009 have a similar carcinogenic effect? Asking for a friend
That’s a good vintage. That one is fine. But it will make your baby smaller.
If the fumes are dangerous enough to warn people about, should the materials that emit them really be in a handheld that might be used by children?
Should LEGOs, which pose a swallowing risk, be used by children?
Legos have age ranges written clearly on the packaging. Can’t remember if the steam deck had similar labelling on its box.
Swallowing is also a much more obvious risk that parents are aware of. Valve is issuing an official statement to its adult customers not to smell the poison gas from its product, so apparently the danger is not so obvious.
That’s true. I’m reminded of how the “new car smell” (a smell adults actively seek out as it is considered pleasant) actually consists of toxic chemicals like formaldehyde, benzene, and volatile organic compounds.
Yeah there’s a big failure in education regarding dangerous smells. I have had multiple adults tell me that they love the smell of gasoline and like to breathe deep at the gas station…
It wasn’t an official statement from Valve, it was a reply to a support request. People are reading way too much into this.
Keep out of reach of small children
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/store/steamdeck/SteamDeckManual022022.pdf
No <3
Same energy as “Do not lick your Nintendo Switch cardridges”
Looks like I chose a bad week to stop sniffing deck
You’d better be over 60 lbs to use that steam deck. And don’t even think about putting rocks in your pockets to seem heavier because little girl, that’ll be like huffin 5 maccanudos.
My deck smells fishy
It’s sad times when the game you’re playing currently doesn’t crank up the fan/heat enough to get a good hit from the vent.
