The First Motion Controller Ever Can Poison You - Rerez 

It's likely just elemental mercury (Hg) as you said it was used as a liquid conductor

@@BRoyce69 that is what we assume however without being able to confirm it we still advocate caution while using Le Stick.

Well... I appreciate the safety precautions but your mask wouldn't have done anything. Good on the gloves and the sort tho. I mean, you probably didn't need it, since I really doubt it was some kind of organic mercury, but still, it's nice to see some safety.

Injested? What the f

Your gear is not protecting you against mercury fumes.

That was 1 decade ago damn

Damn that makes me feel old and I'm only 16

@@shuttlethefox6042 im 21 lol

a horny onr

1981: le stick 2009: le stick 2016/2019: le monke

Can you drop it off and pay me?

That’s what I was thinking

The fact that he doesn't address this makes it all the more irritating

Cool, 2 of my fave RU-vidrs here. Just need techmoan, LGR, nostalgia nerd, binkov and Doug de Muro. And geography now and.....

Lol that’s what I was thinking

James Grove somehow I can vividly imagine you saying that comment with that face

@@Windows98R Your comment with your profile picture is perfect.

my god you`re right!

I used to have a BMX with this type of bicycle handle. I had couple of blisters too

@@Windows98R Is your profile a Kancolle reference?

Well, technically everything can kill you if you creative enough. :|

@@DJL396 You're not wrong.

I remember that being the original title. Not sure why he had to change it.

@@keijijohnson9754 RU-vid most likely sent him a nice letter

@@keijijohnson9754 RU-vid flags words like that

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Lé is sophisticated sounding though.

le meme

le voices are getting louder

RockMongler good point!

Mercury vapour is also pretty bad too!

@@HiddenAsbestos Mercury vapor is generally the most dangerous part. It's a lot easier for you to absorb it via your lungs than skin when it vaporizes. Still not great to touch though.

​@@HiddenAsbestos Mercury vapor isn't cyanide gas, you just open a window in case you spill mercury and it wont be able to really harm you. People really overestimate the dangers of mercury, while yes it's deadly when ingested, it's not dangerous to come in contact with unless you have a cut where it touches, and mercury vapor takes some time to build up to hazardous levels.

And the micro amount that's in those switches couldn't kill anyone unless they drank it all maybe.. In the old days all thermometres were filled with mercury. Even the ones you'd stick in your mouth or arse to see if you had a fever.

lol

was gonna say you dont need so much protection for mercury, atleast the hand and eye protection, I think

It was just rubber gloves and face mask. In reality that kind of mask won't do well against mercury fumes .

To be fair, Cody knows his mercury is pure. Who knows what kind of old crusty mercury is in Le Stick.

@@donvoltonus8898 Of course he does. He distills it himself.

StEp BrO wHaT aRe YoU dOiNg?

HoNhOnHoN

It even looks like a prop for a porno

@@Eden-Valentine Kon kon kon

A French Porno that kills you with Mercupes.

Thanks Mr. Meeseeks, very cool!

Well, considering the Quality of le stick, It's probably got those. But better safe than dying of Mercury poisoning

@@Nad_0618 Even if you got some on his hands as long as there was no open wounds and he washed them the Mercury would have done nothing to him.

@@Nad_0618 Mercury is completely safe. you will have absolutely no issues dunking your hands in it. if you just wash your hands, you'll be fine. you only have issues with mercury vapor, and mercury compounds.

Liquid mercury is safe even to handle with bare hands (as long you properly wash your hands after). It's mercury compounds or vapor that causes harm. Mercury salts are terrible and organic mercury is stuff of nightmares. Just don't eat mercury or get less than a mile from organic mercury.

It FELT like a bike grip too, LOL! - But a good bike grip!

HAHA

Yes

as long as you have skin, it can leak and it will still not do you harm. only does harm if you ingest it or let it into your bloodstream.

I have a feeling the mercury container is just a glass tube like in thermostats. Pretty easy to shatter.

@@Overly_Hydrated That's true, but it has a protective plastic shell.

My dad mentioned somebody at some point way back that was working with a particular kind of Mercury.. and she put the wrong gloves on, and pretty much died very badly because of it.. a particular kind of mercury I don't know the details but, like just the idea that it goes right through a glove is saying something right there, even if it's the wrong glove.. obviously, any gold miner in Columbia kind of test that normally this is not the case as they're playing around with it in their hands trying to get the gold out, and I'm just sitting there like why oh oh don't know don't do that don't no don't don't do that.. I don't know I suppose it's better to go insane and die decades maybe even longer you know or shorter depending.. then you know not eating.. like that that actually does compute but.. you know Mercury's one of those things, it's just like the more you play with it the more fun it is and the less you think about anything really, or perhaps the more? Of everything? Most heavy metals are incredibly toxic but Mercury really is that special something.. and it just had to be like the most damn fun looking thing to ever want to go touch and licking and you know just just slide across the carpet and just slide across the table and just you know slide it back and it's like a little metal friend! It's alive, it's got feelings it's got you know it's got all the things.. we just we just can't be friends and we can't hang out.. it's just not not how it's supposed to be apparently and I feel bad cuz it'd be helping us out finding that gold and telling us what temperature it is and desperately trying to get people to actually play video games and rather than programming them to play for you like we've been stuck in for 20 years.. seems like we're pretty good at making our own selves dumb but, maybe with our friend Mercury could do it together it's going to happen anyways right? I mean I mean you know like it's happening we're doing it.. winner of the dystopian predictions is brave New world 100%.. the vapid one.

@@jakedill1304 tf is this

@@thisisdeathhec I deleted the comment. Are you happy now?!?

@@thisisdeathhec ok 👍

lol

+Steve Martino Mercury is extremely poisonous, though... It can actually kill you.

@@RetroBerner Who would be sticking mercury up their arse?

You can flick that controller so hard while screaming and some mercury might go into your mouth turning you into godzilla, never underestimate the gamer.

@@DCGMatthew1 It was a joke, but those old school rectal thermometers had some in them.

Prolonged skin exposure or if you have a wound can kill too

@Ivan Parra no im playing with another stick

Yee

Same

No regret

EPIC

Literary.

Le nostalgia

Le stupid

Le ghhhhh

Le bruh

Le cope Le seethe

True. You shouldn't use CFL bulbs or tubes anyways these days, they're outdated. Fun fact: the reason why these bulbs break and make a loud POP isn't because the bulb itself breaks. They break because an electrolytic capacitor inside ruptures from the generated heat. If you replace that failed capacitor, the bulb will work again.

@@PunakiviAddiktiCFL bulbs were great for the time but nowadays LED is the way to go unless you're lighting an office or something, then you'd use CFL bars or whatever they're called

@@lucian1311_ While CFL tubes are still used in offices and factories, LEDs are also quickly displacing them. LED fixtures are significantly more expensive than CFL tubes, but they last much longer and don't need replacing.

@@PunakiviAddikti huh TIL, thanks for the info

Boss: Get tf out of my office!

KingDuken No, Mercury is a car dealership

Mercury's a car company.

Mercury's a music artist, idiots. (satire)

You silly gooses! Mercury is clearly a god!

You unintelligent pickles, Mercury is actually a club located in the lower east side of New York City. Get your facts straight!

One star didn't, elemental mercury is a shitty poison, unless you vaporize it. Mercury switches are also commonly encased in resin. The type of mercury that makes you dead and gives you dementia is methylmercury, which can even penetrate gloves. Pure elemental mercury, like the silver liquid? You could drink a gallon of it, and you'd just poop it out without much harm. It's just not soluble in your body like other compounds of mercury.

Looks like a bomb detonator

@@kauske "You could drink a gallon of it" *cough* Shi Huangdi *cough*

@MinigunGaming Cause of death is actually unknown, blaming mercury pills is just speculation. Also, the exact composition of those pills is unknown too. Modern chemistry can tell you that pure elemental mercury isn't particularly dangerous, unless you vaporize it.

12 dozen eggs sacrificed to how to basic

Same

@OhYeahYeah Either a) RU-vid reasons or b) mercury isn't that poisonous. You don't need that much to enter your body, but to get that amount, you need a lot mercury laying about which a hand held length of switches doesn't have. For example, a normal mercury thermometer contains more then 10 times the fatal amount, but if you break one, the advice isn't 'run for the hills and call the professionals'. So unless you are breaking it open and drinking the fluids, at most its give some health issues.

Can’t say kill or die or other bad, bad words in your video titles anymore! RU-vid is Orwell’s 1984!!!

@@scapheap If it were organic mercury, then it’s EXTREMELY dangerous!

@@chosentonessournotes so like, mercury carbide or something?

So the first meme before the Internet

@@gracekim25 memes are ancient. A older but modern one is killroy was here

I honestly can't decide whether it's a bike handle or a sex toy. The overall appearance says 'bike handle'. But the packaging and name says 'sex toy'. XD

I literally had the same handles on my BMX bike when I was a kid, just a different color.

Yep. BMX

@@KuraIthys why not both?

Sure

Any motion controls Pre-Wii were a terrible idea not just because of questionable performance, but because the games weren't being made for them. If games are designed around the motion controllers, they can be great. But if the motion controller is just attempting to recreate the same inputs as a joystick, what's the point? Even with the Wii, you can see examples of games that should have been normal control pad input, but they jammed in motion controls much to the game's detriment. Castlevania Judgement is probably the best example.

The activator does not even come cloooooooose to being motion controls. It was just a Sega controller spread into a hexagon with IR beams using TV remote control technology to detect button presses. It just changed pushing your thumb on the button to your arm OVER the button... except you could not tell which was which. If they labeled them and you practiced it might work but they billed it as full on virtual reality. Fuck that thing. Came with Eternal Champions though which I did not return when my parents sent it back 7/10.

@@ressljs the ps3 has good motion controls too i played gta 4 and gta 5 with them on

@@nathanmead140 I never had much experience with the PS3. Not counting the PS Move titles, how did they implement the motion controls in normal games?

As a kid, I remember doing the hokey pokey with the Activator once in MKII and it accidentally trigger Liu Kang's fatality (not the dragon one).

I'm Le Dad

did you know that there is more than one type of mercury? basic mercury is just a stable liquid metal but there is isotopes, oxides and worst of all organo's also what is a joke?

@@---tw1kt a joke is something that is supposed to be funny,maybe

@@DiscountMiku A joke should be humorous to be considered one.

AceTenYT - I think all of that crap was complete overkill. Give me a break.

Ha ha

Yeah, just wash your hands if you come into contact, don't eat it, and avoid the vapors.

If you had actually opened up the controller you would have seen that it would have taken someone to smash the controller with a sledgehammer or drive over it to break the capsules, and then because how they are encapsulated it still probably wouldn't leak.

On his Discord he said he wasn't sure of the procedures that should be taken, so he worked with what he knew. He didn't mean to over-dramatise it

@@QuintinPlays why didnt he google it?

And if the mercury capsules where broken the controller wouldn't work at all.

Just to fix your comments for a reason why, it's a liquid mercury, which are safe to grab with bare hands and only poison if you eat it.

Don't use as a dildo either. I'm sure that should be mentioned also for those having funny ideas with it...

but money

*licks*

.....I needed this advice on my prom night......

Nah it's not, mercury is used in very little these days. The GBA carts presumably either use a weight on a spring, some some other sort of mechanism, or MEMS sensors. If one ever contained mercury it'd be a knockoff Chinese one, but I even doubt that.

AAAANNNNDDDD I’m using emulators!!!

@Vice TOLUCT Why would a GB cartridge, or any computer game cartridge, have paint at all? They're made of unpainted plastic and a printed paper label!

First thing I thought, too!

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Dildo?

@@voidyt9939 Le diugh

@@5roundsrapid263 same

XD

Gave you a dislike

Both of you

I love mercury up my ass.

@@---ng7ke i loled so hard at this, how.

That's exactly why. As a Kid I had what I had and if it broke then usually it was gone forever. I've never cracked a cell phone screen because I treat them like priceless artifacts. My wife however had a different upbringing. If her phone broke her father would run out and pick her up a new one. Now she's an adult who goes through multiple phones a year. Whereas I try to use my cellphones to the point where they die of age.

I had to buy all my own electronics and I've thrown my controllers my whole life

The one time in my life that I was intentionally rough with a controller, it ended badly. It was a GameCube WaveBird, and I kept getting frustrated at the signal going all screwy. My logic was what's known on TVTropes as "Percussive Maintenance". Needless to say, it made the problem worse and became totally unusable. I regretted doing it right away.

I used to just yell at them

I slammed my joy-cons when they had the drifting issue. I eventually just bought new joy-cons.

Better safe than sorry, since mercury CAN be toxic. To clarify, apparently Rerez doesn't know what type of mercury is used here, whether it be the safer Ethylmercury or the more dangerous Methylmercury. Unknown chemicals are better not messed with.

@@blinkachu05 It can, but amounts of mercury in these switches are not going to hurt you that much...

@@Psevdonim123 mercury doesn't absorb through skin either.

Even drinking the mercury of a thermometer is not too dangerous but it is not recommended

@@Psevdonim123 long exposure to mercury causes: paranoia, schizophrenia, depression, loss of vision and hearing, loss of IQ, loss of memories, paralyzed limbs, lost contact with world, and finally complete shutdown of nervous system, resulting in death.

"You wanna be a true games player?"

I love the risk of death when I play my games

I may look fly with le stick but I want to die

@@edwinr.3588 I got the highest score in Russian Roulette. 😩👌

No I would rather not die early 😅

Your power level: ITS OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!!

while sitting inside the activator

Lol my teacher showed us a video and made us do a worksheet

@Pinkamena Pie mercury is dangerous if you are exposed to it for long periods of time

@Pinkamena Pie you dont have to touch it all you have to do is inhale it. It messes with your nerves and everything.

That is... not good.

I can't find any reference to mercury being used in pinball tilt switches. The typical pinball tilt switch to this day is a plumb bob with a ring around it. When the bob touches the ring, it completes a circuit registering a tilt. There is also often a lift switch, in which a ball rolls down a track and touches a contact when the front of the game is lifted.

Was present in AC control thermostats, that old as dinosaurs dial to control the room temperature in a office.

If you cheat, you die. The machine ll throw mercury on ya.

Very early Gottleib machines used a combination of mercury and plumb bob switches to sense slamming and lifting the machine. The mercury switch was mounted on an adjustable bracket that was originally designed so it could be adjusted if the floor wasn't level front to back. However, some unscrupulous arcade owners would adjust them so that the slightest nudge would cause the machine to register a tilt.

I have 8 pinball machines from various eras. None use mercury tilt switches. They use lead plumb bobs :)

me too same thing it was like magic ..i learned what it does when i took one big bottle at schools chemistry class and everyone started shouting at me like i was holding a bomb..

@Vice TOLUCT Bahrain damage???

@Pinkamena Pie afaik it depends on the mercury.

I was literally just about to comment that

It even looks like one!

Amalgam used in dental fillings is fairly safe, while you're alive at least. It's deadly as hell if you die and get cremated though. Several workers in crematoriums have suffered mercury poisoning due to all the dental fillings that are now being incinerated with the dead.

Dental amalgam is banned in many countries now, but there are still tons of people out there with existing amalgam fillings. Some also choose to go to the dentist and have amalgam fillings replaced with newer polymer and ceramic ones. Some countries do still use amalgam for fillings though, since it's super cheap.

John Smith uranium is perfectly safe and all over the place lmao its only when it's super refined

@@LiEnby You stole mah replay!

@@LiEnby www.ripleys.com/weird-news/gilbert-atomic-energy-lab/

URANIUM FEVER HAS GONE AND GOT ME DOWN

@@LiEnbyIt's still toxic, though. But yeah, as long as the kit is handled properly, there's no actual danger from it.

It's like when people say ATM machine effectively (automated teller machine machine)

It's poetry, I'm offended

or the dreaded LCD displays and PIN numbers, which areoften found in tech magacines and almost every webdesigner has heard of "CSS stylesheets"...xD

Ever heard of Chai Tea Or Naan Bread? Yeah I love eating bread bread while drinking tea tea.

And taco tacos lol I really laugh out loud when I hear that one.

Le cringe

Le button*

Badum tsss

yeah,that is a good example!!people believe in everything these days!!

@@mork6668 well it can't kill you but it can harm you.

@@gator743 If you're injured, if you ingest it, or if you're really stupid and lock yourself in an unvenhilated room with mercury vapor. Mercury's harm is over exaggerated like the effects of black mold.

The twist is that Cody has actually been dead the entire time.

Yeah, it's one of those things that's not that bad but since no one really has any contact with it anymore, mercury is now assumed to be on the same level as plutonium.

"Dain bramage" That was golden.

My friend smoked mercury once, and he almost jumped out the window convinced that my dirty clothes were coming to life on my floor and trying to kill him. Apparently, mercury is an ingredient in hand warmers. I had a hand warmer that broke open in my pocket, and I dumped it out on my table. My friend thought the stuff on the table was tobacco, and proceeded to roll himself a cigarette which made him trip the fuck out.

@Chromer Pimpson This sounds made up.

@@officialclownbusiness7788 What?! Seriously, WTF?! You're friend doesn't seem to be very good at, well, living. I'm having trouble seeing how anyone could mistake the contents of a hand warmer for tobacco. And I doubt there's mercury in that, but god knows what other chemicals.

I actually think he used the mask only for comedy

Liquid mercury is safe even to handle with bare hands (as long you properly wash your hands after). It's mercury compounds or vapor that causes harm. Mercury salts are terrible and organic mercury is stuff of nightmares. Just don't eat mercury or get less than a mile from organic mercury.

A air tank would be better

The controller was dusty hahahahaha

Shut up Scott

Just $60

@@larrychilders6599 and you say that like it can't afford a meal for a whole damn village in some countries

Stfu normie

Course he loves the tip! The tip is the best part! Its all i need or care about😂

Matthew Lane that’s what she said

@Frumpysnorfls he is obviously referencing French Canadian baguette. They make them about the size of the Le Stick. Also his name is more French, so he probably knows.

I was thinking "Le Bâton" myself. Or even "Bite Noir de Vader". ;)

They should have called it "Le Gode"

La baguette*

assumably for comedic purposes. Le Stick isn't the most intuitive name.

tru

also wtf i see you here? i rember i saw you channel and spamed hate comments :P

@@czarnakoza9697 Uh, excuse me..? When did I spam hate comments?

@@lqu i spammed the comments XDDD

hullstar242 xd

xD

Reference to the tea bobber with the bird?

A "stool pigeon" was mob slang for what we now call a snitch; they would sit on a stool and sing to the cops, who would then bust your protection racket or whatever. The first tilt device consisted of a ball bearing sitting on top of a little post (sort of like a stool, which lent itself well to the name); too much jostling would cause the bearing to fall off the post and onto a piece of metal, causing a THWACK sound that would alert the bartender to come over and beat the crap out of you. Interestingly, this was the same punishment doled out by the mob for being a stool pigeon (if you were lucky; unlucky squealers would be murdered.)

@@alaeriia01 And the tilt mechanism snitches on cheaters, ok, I get it now.

potatosalmon 64 Looks like a flashbang grenade to be.

Yeah I don't know where you're going with this.

It would fit

@@SamuraiMotoko probably only if it's for a blk g

he will after the video hes a real safe gamer

Nintendo did with the WiiMote glove.

Lol

shush

woa

Who are you

Joe? Dave?... Jave?

Stupid Game Sack

you did it! you broke comedy down to it's bare essentials!

I had these on my bmx!

ssshhhh It's a joke

Mercury can be absorbed through the skin especially with repeated exposure, but is more likely that an individual will be poisoned in the long term via vapor (lungs or eyes) or having the mercury enter the bloodstream via an abrasion or cut. It still requires toxicity build up similar to lead poisoning for actual fatality. Most likely an individual will begin to notice symptoms first such as memory problems and tremors and would seek medical treatment. This video is creating an unnecessary red alarm.

@@The_Black_Knight Yeah, that's true, but what I say is that he won't have a problem because even if he is exposed to mercury, I don't really think he'll be touching it constantly and even if he did he would first have the problems from mercury's vapors.

Don’t you get poisoned if you inhale mercury?

@@nikopierrot If you "snort" it, it will be absorbed into the bloodstream through your nose capillaries. If you "huff" it, the vapors will be absorbed through your lung alveoli. A major influx of either is much worse that even an open wound absorption, and over the long term will cause poisoning. It is dependent on the amount entering the body. Keep in mind, there are various types of mercury compounds, other than the most common heavy metal.

Technically, even if you swallow elemental mercury, you're not going to get that messed up, same with cuts. IT's not good, but it's not like being exposed to methylmercury. Methylmercury is the kind that gets readily absorbed, even through gloves, and makes you go insane and gives you tremors and death.

I have no idea why I didn't expect that

And i mean BAD.

okay...

The the? Its ME ME BIG BOY

*The* the stick

Oh look, 4chan

The Chef Boo (Andrew) oh look, gay boi

@@Bootystank99659 no u.

Yikes

Bold of you to assume Rerez would make clickbait