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3mo ago

TIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.

www.theguardian.com Nintendo admits it has made Switch cartridges taste unbearably bitter

Same agent as used in anti-nail biting treatment coats Nintendo Switch game cartridges to help prevent children swallowing them

Nintendo admits it has made Switch cartridges taste unbearably bitter

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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?
  
  Can a human tongue discern the taste of a TCP packet compared to an UDP packet?
  
  There's only one way for you to find out for sure.
  
  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.
  
  Rj45job
  
  Help it's stuck
  
  Help step bro im stuck in the ethernet port
  
  Why does the Internet go to incest unnecessarily

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