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[IceDoesntHelp]

Serious question.
I don't understand it, what is so special about flushing a game disc down a toilet to get it to work.
I try to clean it with something else, it doesn't work, but NOPE TOILET WORKS!

 

[Impeccable]

What in the hell? I've never heard this before.

 

[fluffydelusions]

What in the hell? I've never heard this before.

this

 

[pirata]

WAT


EDIT: I guess it isn't as gross for most people as it would be for me, since I live in a house with fourteen other people, so I wouldn't dream of touching anything that's been in the toilet. But I guess all that rushing water would be effective at cleaning...?

 

[BibiMaghoo]

What have you been smoking?

That is crazy shit.

 

[Wes]

Because some games should simply be treated like shit.

 

[GhostWriter24]

 

[Vol5]

Serious question.
I don't understand it, what is so special about flushing a game disc down a toilet to get it to work.
I try to clean it with something else, it doesn't work, but NOPE TOILET WORKS!

Sure, sure.

 

[MrDaravon]

The fuck?

 

[GFEric]

Ice doesn't help?

 

[MormaPope]

Toothpaste. That shit works.

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

 

[Stulaw]

Is this some new bizarre phenomenon that kids do these days or something?

 

[JazzmanZ]

So which game was it OP?

Was it Metroid other M?

 

[PedroPanache]

Shitting on it also works. I don't know why, but it just does.

 

[iammeiam]

Is this a weird boiling Xbox discs reference?

 

[Tmdean]

Note to self: never borrow games from IceDoesntHelp.

 

[DarkLegion]

Where did you get the idea for this?

 

[bernardobri]

... Mi no entiende.

 

[jooey]

Is this some new bizarre phenomenon that kids do these days or something?

lol so randum

 

[JBuccCP]

Don't do this with a GameCube disc

 

[Cbajd5]

Will this work with GameCube games?

If not, what will?

EDIT: DANG IT

 

[Tenck]

I....I don't know what to say.

 

[Indyana]

Amazing!!

 

[bone_and_sinew]

Well, that's one way to get rid of a sealed Spiderman 3 blu-ray no one wants.

 

[Soulflarz]

lol what?? Ive NEVER heard this

Cant tell is this a legit topic? If it is...

 

[GulAtiCa]

what?

 

[nonnocere]

Glad I got in early on this trend.

 

[jaypah]

The fuck dude?

 

[Seda]

huh

 

[Imbarkus]

I call shenanigans.

DON"T FALL FOR IT EVERYBODY!

 

[Stitch]

Wat?

I've used warm water and dish soap on some of my DVDs but toilet...uhh nope!

 

[GDGF]

I've heard that dropping a disc in boiling water helps too.

I wouldn't try it.

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

I used toothpaste and boiling it. Snes' were so much easier to clean than cd's.

 

[Amagon]

What, what, WHAT?!?!

 

[Kujo]

Tried this with Sonic 06, didn't help

 

[Clydefrog]

The shit particles, man. It also helps clean dishes and your pores. Splash it on your face every morning and you'll have the skin of a baby.

 

[Card Boy]

This is what part of the court order when Dennis Dyack had to destroy all copies of Too Human.

 

[The Faceless Master]

boiling disks i've heard of... flushing? WAT?


boiling did wonders for those dreamcast and xbox magazine demo disks

 

[Jarmel]

I thought Hotline Miami was downloadable.

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

Someone needs to go all science on this.

 

[lethial]

What would your friends in real life say if you asked them this?

 

[BlastProcessing]

Serious question.
I don't understand it, what is so special about flushing a game disc down a toilet to get it to work.
I try to clean it with something else, it doesn't work, but NOPE TOILET WORKS!

The answer is simple.

The latent poop particles of the toilet water form complex poly-peptide chains as they spin down the drain. These chains attach themselves to impurities and irregularities in the surface of the disc, smoothing it back to a factory finish.

Science.

 

[Puppet Shadow]

Don't forget to dry it in the microwave.

 

[Ghazi]

What the fuck are they putting in our toilet water these days?

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I feel like the OP's older brother has played some mean tricks on him.

 

[antitrop]

I haven't heard this brought up in 10 years.

I never met anyone who had successfully fixed a CD in the toilet, I always just took it as an old wive's tale.

 

[NMFried]

If you can find a place around that does disc resurfacing, that does the trick. I work at a mom & pop retro shop and we offer it, discs come out spotless.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Amir0xed!

 

[Chance Hale]

 

[Tobor]

This is why I will never again buy a used game. You just don't know what the clown before you did with it.