Sniff sniff

Pyongyang

Seems like the sniffing craze has caught on. On a whim at the airport on Friday I bought the latest copy of Edge and had to laugh when I read this on the letters page.

See the attached scan I made from the magazine. Oh and for the record, no I didn't write the letter!

pdbhp

Proof at last that you're not crazy.....................Or are you???:D

Pyongyang

pdbhp wrote: »

Proof at last that you're not crazy.....................Or are you???:D

Who knows?!




.........................................................*sniff sniff*

o1s1n

Hahahaha! That's hilarious

The only proof here is that there are more smell fetish nutters out there than we originally thought.

I worry for humanity.

/sniff sniff

wait....that was tears! I swear!

pdbhp

Chopping onions !!

Pyongyang

....the tears..........................of investment!





































*sniff sniff*

Atavan-Halen

I do love that new game smell. Damn! They should make car air fresheners with that smell!

Dr Bob

The new plastic smell you'd get from a new console was always great.
tbh though the downside of retro collecting is that things can be a bit whiffy
I've a box of Atari disks that smells distinctly musty
I've a copy of 'buster douglas KO boxing 'on the meg that, on opening smells of deodorants, dust and old spice , basically what my room would have smelled of when I was a teenager;) I only picked the game up a few months back though.

CiDeRmAn

Just because there are others that get "anxious" when cracking open a new video game case for the olfactory buzz they get doesn't preclude them from being a couple of toffees short of a packet.
In fact it just reinforces the opinion that what we are dealing with is the first signs of an identifiable condition.
Time to think of treatment I reckon.


If we go down the negative reinforcement route we attach thin electrodes to the inside of a box-fresh Jap copy of Sonic, when the sufferer attempts to take a sniff, ZAP!, and the person, over 50 or 60 treatments actually ceases to find the prospect pleasurable any more.

If we go down the desensitisation route we leave the individual no games and instruction manuals except those found in charity shops, imbued with the essence of dead old ladies, lavender and wee.
After a week or two the person should, once again, find the prospect of inhaling the fragrances contained within a game box less enticing a prospect than before.

There are other treatments but they invariably consist of the following items,
Crocodile clips,
Heavy duty cable,
A Car Battery,
Conductive Gel,
An Anatomical Diagram of the Male Genitalia.

K.O.Kiki

Did EDGE change?

I stopped reading them once I realised that retroGAMER is the only fun magazine around.

Pyongyang

I only bought it on a whim, haven't read EDGE in years before that. Not likely to start reading it regularly now either.

CiDeRmAn

Yup, Edge did a massive redesign.
So, depending on your point of view it is either,
a- The most mature and informed magazine concerning videogames

or

b- The most pretentious, up it's own bung-hole mag in the universe


I fall into category "a" in this case, and I think I might be alone...

Retr0gamer

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Did EDGE change?

I stopped reading them once I realised that retroGAMER is the only fun magazine around.

Retrogamer magazine is still the only one worth buying. Edge definitely haven't changed.

Pyongyang

Retro Gamer is still far cheaper on the iPad than in store too. EDGE is just as pricey in either format.

Atavan-Halen

Pyongyang wrote: »

Retro Gamer is still far cheaper on the iPad than in store too. EDGE is just as pricey in either format.

Yeah but you don't get that new magazine smell

pdbhp

atavan-halen wrote: »

Yeah but you don't get that new magazine smell

Haven't smelled an iPad yet?:P

Atavan-Halen

If it smells anything like other iProducts then they smell very nice indeed! But only when new.

Pyongyang

True but it's only €17.99 for 6 issues on the iPad and the entire national debt of Zimbabwe for a print copy at Easons.

Pyongyang

...oh and here's a cheeky tip for you all.

If anyone reads 2600 quarterly and doesn't like paying €970,000 per copy for what looks like a pamphlet for help with colitis you'd find dumped under the vinegar bottles at your local chipper, subscribe to the digital Kindle edition at Amazon UK.

Only 99p a copy!

Pyongyang

Umm, just click this link...

http://www.rdearnley.supanet.com/