What are the good smells of PC gaming?
Which would you eagerly accept as a boxed toiletry set from your aunt this Christmas?
I’ll go first.
I’ve always enjoyed the sharp and pungent smell of ozone which heralds a catastrophic hardware failure.
An old power supply about to go.
A new graphics card which will cause immediate disappointment.
An alarming scent which has no place in a normal environment.
A scent which makes you go, “What is that?
I’d quite like that.
Trust me, I’ve tried so many and they usually come up wanting.
A base of earth and moss and wet and fungus and rotting stumps and decay.
An intoxicating note of douglas fir, that pine cut through by zesty grapefruit.
“Not the fluff itself, which I assume would smell catastrophic.”
I do not know if that is good or bad.
Let’s bottle that scent either way.
This proved controversial when vidbud Liam noticed.
What else do you fancy sniffing, reader dear?
A few potential thoughts to get you started.
The smell of a new graphics card?
The rich smell of a chunky paper manual?
The strange factory smell inside a freshly unwrapped DVD case?
The scratch-and-sniff card included with Leather Goddesses Of Phobos?
The many metallic scents of blood spilled on sharp motherboard pins?
I don’t know, the pleather of a new uncomfortable racerback gamer chair?
