15th October 2003, 10:53 PM
No it won't, and you must be blowing all weird and messy because many people can blow without blowing spit. Do you wear gloves all the time and try not to touch anything you haven't washed by any chance? (Well, come to think of it, if you did one you wouldn't need to do the other, but that would assume clean freaks have any sense of logic anyway :D.) Yeah, I know spit occasionally sputters out on accident (and woe to those who are unfortunate enough as to see someone spit on their birthday cake by accident, knowing you WANTED some of that cake), but generally I avoid doing that to my stuff, and so long as you wipe it off if it even happens and dry it (which I did whenever I did that) before exposing it to electricity, no harm no foul AT ALL. In fact, the only reason Nintendo even put that warning there is for legal reasons, knowing someone somewhere would eventually spit on it while blowing and then immediatly power the system up.
Um, OB1, your stuff hasn't lasted this long BECAUSE you did all that. It lasted that long AND you did all that. No connection.
And no, the magical saliva you IMAGINE, because it's just a metaphor, for Sharky, didn't short out so very many systems. The reason so many NES systems got all broked was because the stupid "ZIF" system broke itself. The pins got too loose from the pressure of the carts (you'll see how easy that is to happen if you crack open your NES, which I know horrifies you to no end :D (don't bother telling me you've done it before silly, that was FUNNY)), and the carts would just slide right in without making proper contact. A little tweaking with those pins and some cleaning with something better than wind gets those working just fine. Read that last sentance. It proves beyond a doubt that saliva didn't do anything so terrible. The one thing saliva CAN do, short out the cart or system, would prevent something as simple as pin alignment or cleaning from possibly being able to fix it. The mere fact such actions DO fix it proves it's not the case. What other damage could it do? Slow decomposing? Never noticed a bit of rust or any other sort of rot in the stuff I've fixed, plus if that was the case, then again, cleaning and alignment wouldn't fix it!
Remember Full House? You're like that dad from it, you know... Oh what was his name... Oh yeah... DAN! AHAHHAHAHAHA! *points and laughs* You've been brainwashed!
OB1: Everything should be washed *daze*
DJ: ....Right... anyway... one other thing.... The point about most of the dust that even gets into the systems being sucked in when it's on is indeed absolutely correct. Silly OB1, convincing himself that his actions have somehow had a direct impact on protecting his system. The amount of dust entering and leaving when it's off and no wind is moving through it at all (unless you set it next to a fan) is very low indeed. The idea of thinking preventing that minimal amount of dust protects your system when so much more is constantly moving about in there is just crazy. If you REALLY want to protect it from dust, open them up now and again and blow some compressed air around. I do that all the time with the systems I can actually get into. I know I'm actually HELPING it too, as opposed to your systems which are likely filled with dust (except for the 1% you prevented thanks to your oh-so-careful putting away at night actions :D). However, I do acknowledge that even if I didn't it wouldn't really lower the life span of my system by very much, if any. It's not like I leave my systems with the cases OFF lying around all the time.
There's a diff between things that WILL protect it, like putting your games in safe containers and such, and stuff that WON'T, like your neurotic stuff. I'm not surprised that rather than admit it, you claim everyone else is filthy. Self defense really. Eventually, you'll realize you're acting in utter futility. That won't be enough though. You'll keep doing it even though you know it's worthless just because you need the mental satisfaction, that "click" where your brain finally says "it's alright, feel complete now". Now OB1, rather than attempt the futile act of getting us all to become neat freaks (and OB1, it's not laziness, your acts do NOTHING to really protect your system at all, that's why we avoid it, much like how we are "too lazy" to dance the dance of safety around our systems before bed each night), turn the camera around and try lightening up. To think, with your own VERY obvious neatitude disorder, you once accused me of being too paranoid :D.
Oh c'mon LAUGH, that was funny!
Um, OB1, your stuff hasn't lasted this long BECAUSE you did all that. It lasted that long AND you did all that. No connection.
And no, the magical saliva you IMAGINE, because it's just a metaphor, for Sharky, didn't short out so very many systems. The reason so many NES systems got all broked was because the stupid "ZIF" system broke itself. The pins got too loose from the pressure of the carts (you'll see how easy that is to happen if you crack open your NES, which I know horrifies you to no end :D (don't bother telling me you've done it before silly, that was FUNNY)), and the carts would just slide right in without making proper contact. A little tweaking with those pins and some cleaning with something better than wind gets those working just fine. Read that last sentance. It proves beyond a doubt that saliva didn't do anything so terrible. The one thing saliva CAN do, short out the cart or system, would prevent something as simple as pin alignment or cleaning from possibly being able to fix it. The mere fact such actions DO fix it proves it's not the case. What other damage could it do? Slow decomposing? Never noticed a bit of rust or any other sort of rot in the stuff I've fixed, plus if that was the case, then again, cleaning and alignment wouldn't fix it!
Remember Full House? You're like that dad from it, you know... Oh what was his name... Oh yeah... DAN! AHAHHAHAHAHA! *points and laughs* You've been brainwashed!
OB1: Everything should be washed *daze*
DJ: ....Right... anyway... one other thing.... The point about most of the dust that even gets into the systems being sucked in when it's on is indeed absolutely correct. Silly OB1, convincing himself that his actions have somehow had a direct impact on protecting his system. The amount of dust entering and leaving when it's off and no wind is moving through it at all (unless you set it next to a fan) is very low indeed. The idea of thinking preventing that minimal amount of dust protects your system when so much more is constantly moving about in there is just crazy. If you REALLY want to protect it from dust, open them up now and again and blow some compressed air around. I do that all the time with the systems I can actually get into. I know I'm actually HELPING it too, as opposed to your systems which are likely filled with dust (except for the 1% you prevented thanks to your oh-so-careful putting away at night actions :D). However, I do acknowledge that even if I didn't it wouldn't really lower the life span of my system by very much, if any. It's not like I leave my systems with the cases OFF lying around all the time.
There's a diff between things that WILL protect it, like putting your games in safe containers and such, and stuff that WON'T, like your neurotic stuff. I'm not surprised that rather than admit it, you claim everyone else is filthy. Self defense really. Eventually, you'll realize you're acting in utter futility. That won't be enough though. You'll keep doing it even though you know it's worthless just because you need the mental satisfaction, that "click" where your brain finally says "it's alright, feel complete now". Now OB1, rather than attempt the futile act of getting us all to become neat freaks (and OB1, it's not laziness, your acts do NOTHING to really protect your system at all, that's why we avoid it, much like how we are "too lazy" to dance the dance of safety around our systems before bed each night), turn the camera around and try lightening up. To think, with your own VERY obvious neatitude disorder, you once accused me of being too paranoid :D.
Oh c'mon LAUGH, that was funny!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)