this is simultaneously the only kind of overwatch fan i respect and also the one im most likely to toss into a washing machine alongside a singular bowling ball
Imagine playing seraphine in league of legends enjoying the smell of her perfume and then you hear "I WAS HIDING!!!!" as twitch pops out from invisibility and you inhale a waft of rat piss and shit and shimmer infused vomit.
You think it can't get worse but then the enemy singed appears and flips you into his gas. The scent box starts producing a greenish yellow gas but to your surprise it doesn't smell that bad. It kind of smells like... swimming pools? As the scent gets stronger you find it harder and harder to breath. It actually smells like bleach. Like a really really strong bleach. It feels like your lungs are filling up with fluid. Your throat burns as you hyperventilate and your skin turns blue. You try to cough out the gas put at this stage you can't inhale enough to produce a full cough. All you can do is wheeze as you start to lose consciousness. As your life flashes before your eyes you remember you were laning against a twisted fate.
YOU TOOK CLEANSE! With your final breath you press F on your keyboard and suddenly the gas in the room disappears.
As you recuperate, you glance at the chat.
"x9 sera for inting"
"she stood still and burnt her summs for no reason"
"?"
"should've dodged as soon as she locked in seraphine mid"
"40% wr"
"troll pick"
"ff"
"get me out of this game"
"wtf who voted no?"
"probably sera"
"I hope she get malphite ulted irl"
It won't, we're used to being in environments that have different smells coming from hundreds to thousands of sources at once combined with things like air movement and there is no way a box with some sprays could come close to replicating that.
have you ever been to a theme park that uses artificial smells for their theming? It's actually quite imersive. That being said I think they use large single-scent machines so no idea if that Alexa-esque cube can reach that quality
I haven't, nothing like that where I am but even then trying to recreate a single static environment is one thing but an ever changing one like you would find in a game is another thing entirely.
that's true, having smells change would be a huge issue bc once the particles are in the air the machine can't remove them, and mixing seems gross. But I know little about chemistry maybe there are scents that naturally don't last in the air that long.
how could it possibly work? you need to have physical chemicals to create smell and nobody will be able to stock up the raw ingredient alone to make the smell, let alone actually thinking about how it could synthesize it. At best they have some stock smells that you can buy packages of
it would be more feasible to create some mind control device that fools you into thinking you're smelling something
>When I'm playing Halo: Combat Evolved and get to the beach in "The Silent Cartographer" and my TV starts releasing the smell of the sea into my room... ah that's nice.
This is the shit we should use ai for. Stop trying to replace writers and artists, use it for cool bullshit that’s too impractical and unimportant for people to do
I think this would be pretty cool. You'd need to properly ventilate the space though and it could make the room smell strange, so maybe it'd be better off as a gamer gas mask :P
(don't like the AI bit though, just hard code it)
Genuinly who wants that? Also, why would you need AI for that instead of just a data-base?
Also, what if I'm fast-traveling between a bunch of different areas? How does it get rid of smell?
Me playing weed shop in my dorm room to prank campus security into thinking I'm smoking weed (they suck worse than normal cops and barge into rooms without regard for the rules)
Putting aside whether or not we have the technology to customize scents from a single device.
Putting aside the idea that somehow the software needed to handle this would be technology has to be AI, for some fucking reason
Which is already putting aside a LOT
why would you even want that ?
Do people really think "man, you know what I'd need to get more immersed in this game ? The scent"
This is 100% something target to trick investors with the mental capacity of a regex. They have no intention of making more than 3 sells.
Immersion comes from interaction. You know what makes me feel as a part of the universe of my games, instead of watching them like in a movie ? Being part of the fucking universe of my games. Virtual reality, sense of touch, all that are secondary to that. I mean VR could really be cool. IF it doesn't come at the cost of interaction.
I can't wait for the AI to misinterpret someone saying "starscourge" as "shart lorge" and be nose flashbanged by the computer doing its best to imitate someone's intestinal gas while I'm halfway through the Radahn boss fight
Literally every game I play would be… rendered completely unplayable.
Ultrakill? Time for the smell of copper.
Half Life? Oh man, ohoho no.
AVP, Scorn, shit even something simple like Borderlands. Nothing is sacred
Me when I'm playing Dying Light 1 and enter a quarantine zone with piles of rotting corpses that have been festering in the heat for weeks 🥰 sure would love to smell that!
why the heck would you need AI to do that? Just make it a gimmick that game devs can support if they want to (explicitly coding what small each area should have), like motion control, rumble packs etc.
Me when I play Overwatch and crouch behind D.Va and Mercy
ok hear me out
I'm listening
Ass
Holy shit
You can only get that from Mercy
Take my upvote before I piss on the moon.
Brööt! 🌬️
No
I suddenly have an interest in playing Overwatch for no particular reason
Smelling D.Va's dorito x mtn dew gamer flavored gamer sweat is crazy
And mercy's a nurse so her ass prolly smells like IVs and bedpans
16 hour shift is just sweat, toilet wipes, and baby powder
Alright. That's enough internet for today.
she is a DOCTOR put some respect on her name
crazy HOT maybe......
I FUCKING KNEW IT. AS SOON AS I SAW THE POST I KNEW THIS WOULD BE THE TOP COMMENT.
Nerf this
Doodoodoo doodoo
SNIFFA
Femcel D.Va got that LoL player girlsmell
this is simultaneously the only kind of overwatch fan i respect and also the one im most likely to toss into a washing machine alongside a singular bowling ball
they don’t understand what you’re cooking
I get you But also, respectfully, please get slapped on the face with a dead fish
It was only a joke I'm sowwy
Ramattra
I want Ramattra to pummel my buttcheeks so hard
no i think i would genuinely be violently sick
It releases neurotoxin while playing portal
you don't need to play portal for it to release neurotoxin
Me when my smart house locks all the doors and windows and my room gets flooded with neurotoxin (I insulted our lord and savior Elon Musk)
me when i smash windows for fun and to save lives (people are making fun of elon musk and i want to spite him)
Odorless neurotoxins, mind you! As faithful to the source as possible
Im afraid you're about to become the immediate past president of the "being alive" club, ha ha
Reject augmented reality, return to fucking smell-o-vision.
John Waters was ahead of his time with smell-o-vision
Oh man can't wait to reignite the hunter's instinct in the next generation by raising them to yearn for the scent of blood
Here I go playing Binding of Isaac
Never going to the corpse again
Speak for yourself
Oh boy it’s Dingle! *retches*
Dross 🤢🤢🤢
Tainted ??? 💀💀💀
75% of the rooms in the game just reek of shit
What rooms are in the 25%
Rotten meat
Decaying flesh, fire, or blood
Conker’s bad fur day is going to kill somebody
I AM THE #GRRREAT MIGHTY POO
AND I'M GOING TO THROW MY SHIT AT YOU
A huge supply of tish comes from my chocolate starfish
How about some scat you little twat?
Smelling the Great Mighty Poo is worth it if I get to smell that flower's underboob sweat.
Playing any gory game would be awful. I do NOT want to be able to smell central yharnam.
if i wanted to smell yharnam i'd just go to london
It should be illegal to have a thing that can make those kinds of smells.
Yeah that’s a point, how would you even recreate those awful smells?
Ohhhh y'know... those war profiteers lookin like mighty fine blood packs right about now...
titan arum blooms once every ten years and smells like a rotting corpse for the next day or so
Mmmmh gotta sniff me some of that fresh Caelid fragrance 👃🏼
Today I will ULTRATHROW UP in the gluttony layer (Also die to mustard gas in violence)
ULTRAKILLME
if you go to 1-2, you can also get carcinogens
Walking through Night City and smelling the piles of trash and corpses
Meeting Panam when she's working on that engine...
I'd get a heart attack and die
dont forget the smog! and the scent of your enemies bowels emptying!
Me playing Papa's Burgeria: 😋 Me playing Papa's Diarrhea: 😨
I wonder what morkite smells like
I DONT want to know what a praetorian death fart smells like
Watch the moving turd!
Looks like poop Smells like poop
it smells like rock and stone.
DID I HEARD A…?
Vermintide wouldn’t be playable
It would just smell like blood (and dwarf if he came along)
Elden Ring players on their way to "visit" Rennala to "check on her" (she has her grippers on display for free)
Ok but what about the Goddess of Rot Malenia🤤🤤🤤🤤
Let Me Smello Her
Imagine playing seraphine in league of legends enjoying the smell of her perfume and then you hear "I WAS HIDING!!!!" as twitch pops out from invisibility and you inhale a waft of rat piss and shit and shimmer infused vomit. You think it can't get worse but then the enemy singed appears and flips you into his gas. The scent box starts producing a greenish yellow gas but to your surprise it doesn't smell that bad. It kind of smells like... swimming pools? As the scent gets stronger you find it harder and harder to breath. It actually smells like bleach. Like a really really strong bleach. It feels like your lungs are filling up with fluid. Your throat burns as you hyperventilate and your skin turns blue. You try to cough out the gas put at this stage you can't inhale enough to produce a full cough. All you can do is wheeze as you start to lose consciousness. As your life flashes before your eyes you remember you were laning against a twisted fate. YOU TOOK CLEANSE! With your final breath you press F on your keyboard and suddenly the gas in the room disappears. As you recuperate, you glance at the chat. "x9 sera for inting" "she stood still and burnt her summs for no reason" "?" "should've dodged as soon as she locked in seraphine mid" "40% wr" "troll pick" "ff" "get me out of this game" "wtf who voted no?" "probably sera" "I hope she get malphite ulted irl"
I'd rather not imagine playing league
Same, nothing to do with the smell thing, just ever
>Imagine playing league of legends I'm already vomitting.
No thanks
no i will not imagine this I'd rather get punched in the gut
poison swamp
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I love how ever advertisment needs to include ai in some way
i dont love that
Me fighting Dung Defender with a gas mask on
If the knight had to endure that so do you (that however brings up the question on whether vessels can smell)
No problem not
Would this make me smell Samus when I play any Metroid?
One can only hope
Playing No Russian with this thing on
Hmm I’m sure “nowhere” in signalis smells lovely
going into the elevator shaft would probably smell awful
Does elster smell? I don't think it would be lore accurate to add the sense of smell when the main character is a robot.
I know kolibris have all senses so maybe all the replikas can smell?
kolibri :)
sick, I really wanna smell Lethal Company
Dank. And blood Though if you know what a beetroot smells like you'll know a brakken is near
Rearranging the odor cartridges on my wife's stinkbox so that *Lemmings* smells like chocolate and *Candy Crush* smells like gunpowder and rodent piss
sounds like candy crush is about to be Vermintide
Playing silent hill and running directly towards pyramid heads armpit.
what’s it need ai for
AI is just a trendy tech buzzword at the time, just like "smart" used to be
yep
leaving eggs to rot in a box for a month and then unleashing the smell through my GameScent VR Enhancer Plus to physiologically assault my opposition
Bro, this was made like 20 years ago. It’s called the ismell I’m not joking btw
I remember this concept from stampylonghead’s play through of skylanders
I love how AI has no definition, so companies can just call anything AI
Hasn’t there been stuff coming out about scent mists being like hazardous to your health
Scorn…
Ok but this is actually pretty cool, if it actually works
It won't, we're used to being in environments that have different smells coming from hundreds to thousands of sources at once combined with things like air movement and there is no way a box with some sprays could come close to replicating that.
I figured it would be more than a box with some sprays but I guess not
have you ever been to a theme park that uses artificial smells for their theming? It's actually quite imersive. That being said I think they use large single-scent machines so no idea if that Alexa-esque cube can reach that quality
I haven't, nothing like that where I am but even then trying to recreate a single static environment is one thing but an ever changing one like you would find in a game is another thing entirely.
that's true, having smells change would be a huge issue bc once the particles are in the air the machine can't remove them, and mixing seems gross. But I know little about chemistry maybe there are scents that naturally don't last in the air that long.
how could it possibly work? you need to have physical chemicals to create smell and nobody will be able to stock up the raw ingredient alone to make the smell, let alone actually thinking about how it could synthesize it. At best they have some stock smells that you can buy packages of it would be more feasible to create some mind control device that fools you into thinking you're smelling something
FNAF style illusion discs
I want to study your brain in a jar.
what about mine?
Now you can smell the chemicals that Imagine Dragons guy was singing about.
I can already picture a challenge run akin to blind speedruns
Horse manure simulator with red dead redemption 2
hasnt this thing been tried like 80 different times and all failed
something something history repeats something something tragedy farce
>When I'm playing Halo: Combat Evolved and get to the beach in "The Silent Cartographer" and my TV starts releasing the smell of the sea into my room... ah that's nice.
This is the shit we should use ai for. Stop trying to replace writers and artists, use it for cool bullshit that’s too impractical and unimportant for people to do
Imagine playing literally any zombie game
oh no
gameclam real?
No one wants this.
Brb gotta find a Medic with the Burly Beast on Dustbowl
Me playing pokemon and dying from Trubish five miles away
I assume game developers would have to add the smell inputs into the game's program, so older tames wouldn't have it.
can't wait to smell Gluttony in Ultrakill
STALKER just gives you literal cancer and smells like outhouse and rot
I hope they call it Smellovision
Imagine how expensive the "smell cartridges" will cost or whatever it's gonna use.
Me playing Left 4 Dead 2 and getting infected with ai generated green flu
imagine how fucking rancid resident evil would smell with this.
I think this would be pretty cool. You'd need to properly ventilate the space though and it could make the room smell strange, so maybe it'd be better off as a gamer gas mask :P (don't like the AI bit though, just hard code it)
Helldivers 2, I can smell bug guts and DEMOCRACY!!!"
The nether will smell fantastic
Genuinly who wants that? Also, why would you need AI for that instead of just a data-base? Also, what if I'm fast-traveling between a bunch of different areas? How does it get rid of smell?
asbestos :3
me when i play ultrakill and i get to 3-1 and the smell of stomach acid is released into the air
This opens so many new opportunities for trolling
Me playing weed shop in my dorm room to prank campus security into thinking I'm smoking weed (they suck worse than normal cops and barge into rooms without regard for the rules)
ksp with this thing smells like rp-1 and burning kerbals or rimworld meth cooking
Time to play any sewer level.
me playing portal
every day, I find a new reason I wish I had a working olfactory nerve
Loading up my copy of Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Everybody gangster till they turn on No Man’s Sky and the oxygen disappears.
Putting aside whether or not we have the technology to customize scents from a single device. Putting aside the idea that somehow the software needed to handle this would be technology has to be AI, for some fucking reason Which is already putting aside a LOT why would you even want that ? Do people really think "man, you know what I'd need to get more immersed in this game ? The scent" This is 100% something target to trick investors with the mental capacity of a regex. They have no intention of making more than 3 sells. Immersion comes from interaction. You know what makes me feel as a part of the universe of my games, instead of watching them like in a movie ? Being part of the fucking universe of my games. Virtual reality, sense of touch, all that are secondary to that. I mean VR could really be cool. IF it doesn't come at the cost of interaction.
Bloodborne would smell like London mixed with a butcher's shop
Me getting hit with mustard gas in Battlefield 1 and I don’t equip my gas mask in time
Me standing next to one of the many barefoot soulsborne characters 🥵
There are very few games that have smells I'd like to experience
bloodborne would surely smell delightful
Are companies abusing the term "AI"?
I can't wait for the AI to misinterpret someone saying "starscourge" as "shart lorge" and be nose flashbanged by the computer doing its best to imitate someone's intestinal gas while I'm halfway through the Radahn boss fight
ah yeah finally i can smell otacon pissing himself
Literally every game I play would be… rendered completely unplayable. Ultrakill? Time for the smell of copper. Half Life? Oh man, ohoho no. AVP, Scorn, shit even something simple like Borderlands. Nothing is sacred
I can already smell Factorio. Ahhh, Industrialization.
Darktide would be a nightmare
Additional layer of difficulty for Melania
Me when I'm playing Dying Light 1 and enter a quarantine zone with piles of rotting corpses that have been festering in the heat for weeks 🥰 sure would love to smell that!
Games should come with a scratch-n-sniff packet as well
why the heck would you need AI to do that? Just make it a gimmick that game devs can support if they want to (explicitly coding what small each area should have), like motion control, rumble packs etc.
In multiplayer games you must be able to smell other players