Microsoft forced to release a statement about not blowing vape smoke into the Xbox Series X
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Whoops, here’s something we forgot to address in our review of the Xbox Series X: It looks cool as hell when you blow vape smoke into its giant fan, and you can use it to freak people out on social media by making them think the console is prone to overheating and catching on fire. That’s what happened earlier this week when a photo went viral that appeared to show the Xbox dumping out more smoke than a coal-rolling asshole in a pickup truck, with everyone apparently getting too caught up in the fun of saying “see, this is why you don’t buy new consoles on day one” to actually look into what was going on.
As it turns out, it’s just people blowing vape smoke into the bottom of the Xbox and then watching it all blow out the top. Unlike most traditional game consoles, the Series X is just a big column with holes in the top and bottom to allow air to pass through, which makes it easy to create an effect like this.
Really, if you don’t mind wasting hundreds of dollars and wrecking the device in the process, it would probably make a pretty good smoke machine. But we should stress that Microsoft does not seem to think this is very cool, tweeting out a statement yesterday with the tone of a parent who just watched their kid try to take their new bike off of a homemade ramp:
Now, if someone wants to blow vape smoke into a PlayStation 5 for the sake of getting a comprehensive account of what happens to these new consoles when you do something stupid like that, we… have to stress that it seems like a terrible idea. It might make for a funny video that the internet would love to see, but we certainly can’t support that.
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Hey now, if Microsoft wasn’t prepared for these hashtag phat cloudz, that’s on them.
Microsoft confirmed No Chill
It’s ridiculous the lengths trolls/fanboys will go in the name of console wars, but that’s what happens when you make jerking off a specific manufacturer a part of your identity I guess.
If idiots want to blow water vapor into their $500 investments, go ahead. Then feel free to walk into traffic
It’s worse than water residue. It’s glycerin residue, which leaves a sticky, wettish layer of glop on everything it touches.
i wonder if this water glycerin residue stuff does anything bad when you inhale it into your respiratory system, the things that help our lungs “breathe” properly?i’m sure its fine
It really is fine. It’s better than fine. It’s between 95-99% safer than smoking and has helped millions quit smoking and saved many lives. And I don’t even vape! (I just recently wrote a research paper and discovered how vapes work as effective tobacco harm reduction tools.)https://drugscience.org.uk/vaping-clive-bates/
We do not have any long term scientific studies to make such conclusions. Vaping hasn’t been around long enough. All we do know is that there is risk involved (like any activity that our bodies are not meant to do) given the outbreak of vaping-linked hospitalizations last year.
All of those hospitalizations involved people vaping illicit THC cartridges. Millions of people have been vaping nicotine for over a decade, and there is zero evidence that vaping has caused serious (or any, really) physiological harm, and lots and lots of evidence that it’s an effective smoking cessation tool. The science is very clear on this.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ecigarettes-britain/false-fears-about-vaping-stopping-smokers-using-e-cigs-uk-report-idUSKBN20R00I
there is zero evidence that vaping has caused serious (or any, really) physiological harm https://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/ecigs-and-mucociliary-dysfunction.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6651627/https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/tobacco-e-cigarettesYour claims that the science is definitive is premature given that other reputable sources disagree. The UK is an outlier rather the default authority on the subject. Many experts are far more cautious about making such recommendations if the treatment creates a new addiction.
Only long term studies can prove your assertions.
The WHO link provides no evidence only suspicions long disproven.The NCBI link speaks to dependence (importantly different from addiction), not physiologic harm.The link on mucociliary dysfunction involves sheep with zero evidence of harm to humans, after millions of vapers over a decade. There is an abundance of evidence that vaping immediately improves lung function for smokers and zero evidence of harm in humans, again after a decade and millions of vape users.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19ZoFbnWQhRwIU3IzUMLfQUXsZD92JXP6xpnZAauxMV4/edit#gid=0
All this said, if there were any evidence at all that humans (not sheep or mice) had been harmed by vaping (voluntarily, without being forced unnaturally excessive amounts by researchers), I would absolutely re-evaluate my confidence. But since all available evidence suggests vaping to be at least 95% safer than smoking, and without even a proposed mechanism for the harm that has yet to be observed, I find the recent actions to limit vaping availability, which demonstrably results in harm to nicotine users returning to smoking, misguided and reckless.This paper – by Amy Fairchild, dean of the Ohio State University’s College of Public Health; Cheryl Healton, dean of New York University’s College of Global Public Health; James Curran, dean of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health; David Abrams, a professor of social and behavioral sciences at New York University; and Ronald Bayer, a professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia – estimates that if most smokers switched to e-cigarettes in the next ten years, “1.6 million premature deaths would be avoided … in the United States alone.” “Restricting access and appeal among less harmful vaping products out of an abundance of caution while leaving deadly combustible products on the market does not protect public health. It threatens to derail a trend that could hasten the demise of cigarettes, poised to take a billion lives this century.”
it’s way better than tobacco.
kill yourself
Xbong?
While the XBoxen don’t actually overheat and smoke, apparently only some of the disc drives actually work, and in extreme cases you can’t even insert a disc. Whoops.