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[injurai]

To be clear, are you guys claiming this works, or just that it's a common BS story that we should've heard before?

And for me to be clear: there's no way in hell it does anything better than cleaning it by hand...unless maybe the person cleaning it is less clean than a toilet.

It works, but no better than carefully washing it.

and yes you should have heard of it, it was practically viral 10 years ago.

 

[Corto]

I sell my toilet water as mouthwash and bleaching teeth agent. PM me if interested.

 

[Version 3.0]

"Put some toilet water on it!"

 

[antitrop]

Is that Michael Bolton?

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Your girlfriend is cool with you putting her discs in the toilet?

Super Mario Sunshine works now, so yes.

 

[Midnight Bliss]

So this is why people play handhelds in the loo, my entire life has been a lie.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Who in the fucking fuck would do this? How about wiping it with a soft cloth before having to resort to throwing it in the shitter? So fucking stupid.

 

[whitehawk]

I can confirm this works.

I shit you not I used to charge kids $ in grade school to fix their discs and all I did was flush them down the toilet. I set up shop under the jungle gym. Final Fantasy 8 was probably my most popular repair.

 

[Vitet]

 

[inner-G]

Thanks a lot OP, I just lost a copy of Pokémon Black.

 

[Calcaneus]

I can confirm this works.

I shit you not I used to charge kids $ in grade school to fix their discs and all I did was flush them down the toilet. I set up shop under the jungle gym. Final Fantasy 8 was probably my most popular repair.

I just tried my copy a few days ago and it freezes right after the first cutscene.

Are you still in business?

 

[creamfarts]

I've boiled dozens of discs, and it really does work. The worst offender was the Official Playstation Magazine demos, because the disc envelopes had printed artwork on the inside, so ink would gunk up the surface of the disc.

 

[FaintDeftone]

Oh my god, people actually do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wy9CvN-kw

I like how they give you instructions on how to flush something down the toilet.

 

[Freaky Fred]

editing posts is fun

 

[DidntKnowJack]

I like how they give you instructions on how to flush something down the toilet.

I like how slowly they talk. It takes half a minute for this person to say a very simple sentence.

This.......is...........




how...........you.................





clean............



a disc.

 

[Beaulieu]

I know that boiling a game works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SqmkNNcrk

 

[harrypmgaga]

Someone needs to make a gif of that Sims disc getting flushed down the toilet.

 

[Mr.Green]

While one scientist finds a clever new way to store more data on an optical disk, some other genius flushes one down the toilet to repair it.

It's safe to say all men were not created equal.

 

[fates]

Sounds like a bunch of

Spoiler

shit.

 

[Tagg9]

Such an obvious joke thread. Why do people even bother replying?...

 

[Little Old Man]

God dammit OP, I just lost two Gamecube discs doing this....luckily I managed to grab the other few I had in there to wash before they got sucked away

 

[Aquamarine]

Such an obvious joke thread. Why do people even bother replying?...

Because toilet water is nature's cure to all the world's problems.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Such an obvious joke thread. Why do people even bother replying?...

Don't mean to point out the obvious, but you just replied yourself.

Anyway, I thought it had to be a joke too until people started saying this was an actual thing.

 

[Forsaken82]

Because some games should simply be treated like shit.

you pick your shits out of the toilet?

 

[Oersted]

Mythbusters, here is a noble cause.

 

[Corto]

From blowing cartridges to flushing discs down the toilet. I'm scared to think what we'll need to do next generation to make our games work.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

you pick your shits out of the toilet?

Is Gamestop the toilet in this scenario?

What am I saying? Gamestop is the toilet in every scenario.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

you pick your shits out of the toilet?

Made me laugh way more then it should have.

 

[antitrop]

Such an obvious joke thread. Why do people even bother replying?...

It's not a joke thread, at all.

It's not like the OP just made this shit up.

 

[Danthrax]

There's gotta be a more reasonable solution that achieves the same effect without putting valuable discs into a germy-ass toilet.

 

[Haunted]

Australians beware, due to the changed rotation of the water discs scatually get dirtier instead of cleaner if you try this trick down under.

Thanks a lot OP, I just lost a copy of Pokémon Black.

:lol

 

[nny]

What the hell...I pictured one of the sewer mutants from Futurama making a thread like this to get some new games.

So Mario Party 5 didn't work, as I anticipated :/

FlushingDoesntHelp
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[Mr. RHC]

OP, do you even flush?

This is why we can't have nice things, only digital downloads in the future.

Spoiler

I have heard of toothpaste, but this is news to me

 

[jet1911]

Never heard about that. But I remember pouring boiling water on my old Xbox demo discs when they wouldn't work.

 

[Mr.Green]

Such an obvious joke thread. Why do people even bother replying?...

It's a nice break from the Durango vs. Orbis pissing contests.

 

[Anticitizen One]

man there are some real sick people out there

 

[nny]

It's a nice break from the Durango vs. Orbis pissing contests.

It's always good to flush after pissing.

 

[Synth_floyd]

I did the toothpaste trick on a disc once and it worked.

 

[Corto]

It's a nice break from the Durango vs. Orbis pissing contests.

I think we just found out what the hell is the secret sauce that people are crazy about in those threads.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

If you flush a DS cartridge you're asking for it.

 

[Haunted]

THANKS OP

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Hit Alt-F4 to reveal the true meaning of the OP.

 

[Mr.Green]

It's always good to flush after pissing.

Well played!

 

[Gaz Pwnage]

THANKS OP

What am i seeing here??????????

 

[Gamerwillz]

 

[PorygonVandal]

If you flush a DS cartridge you're asking for it.

Well, DS cartidges survive a whole laundry cycle... ask my Pokemon Black and Mario Kart....

 

[Andrefpvs]

What am i seeing here??????????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRmPsDuAP34

 

[Aguirre]

Toothpaste. That shit works.

Method in the OP sounds like a way to trick someone into flushing their game down the toilet.

Toothpaste worls because its an abrasive and buffs down scratches

 

[sono]

Medic!

Spoiler

Getting it out from after the u-bend is the real trick though.

 

[Version 3.0]

Toothpaste worls because its an abrasive and buffs down scratches

Yes. You can also use Brasso, a metal polish, to buff out scratches. It leaves the disc looking pretty bad, but as long as you go center to edge, it'll level out scratches and the disc will work again.