SSBB Disc issues caused by........cigarette?

[ChichiriMuyo]

naznatips said:

famousringo said:

Mint said:
Nope, sorry, mines not working, and their has never been a smoker in my house.

Make no mistake, the real problem is dust. Smoking simply generates a great deal of dust, along with a bunch of aerosol tar which makes they problem even stickier.

It's entirely possible to have this issue without being a smoker. Smoking just makes it more probable.

This is true.  Keep your room where you game clean and it won't be an issue either.  

Also, for all of you smokers taking offense to this:  It's been the case for years that cigarette smoke causes issues with any electronic device that reads with an optical sensor.  Your habbit does actually cause errors in electronics.   

No Naz, it's a problem with electronics period.  Optical sensors be damned, any sort of dust at all (and smoke is really just light dust, when you think about it, just that it's made of ash rather than the more typical skin) is just plain bad for electronics.

And that's really what the people who think smoking has nothing to do with this need to understand.  Small particles of any kind + electronics = bad.  Smoking puts extra small particles, stickier ones to boot, into the air.  I smoke (weed) near my computer though, because the fact of the matter is that you can't stop dust so a little extra isn't going to make a large enough difference to matter.  If dust is going to get the best of the machine, then not smoking by it may only extend its life by a few weeks (or in my case, since weed isn't as heavy of a smoke and I don't use it as much, days) at most anyway.

So smoke around your electronics all you want, just don't get snappy when someone points out that you are damaging them ever so slightly by doing so.