So same story since the fucking 90s? Some ccg players are fucking stanky.
This is what happens when you add Mai Valentine to the supporting cast of the manga/anime.
Get your head out of the gutter, I meant because she used to scent mark her cards to give herself a strategic advantage.
Scent mark with perfume, Geez.
no one mentioned some of them are doing this on purpose to force the opposite player to make mistakes during a match because of the distracting smell, or make them concede because they cant stand the smell.
It’s a rule by Konami. You need to have basic hygiene. Nothing unusual here.
I respect their bluntness
It’s always the one you expect.
TCG games just attract people that are 150 pounds overweight and smell like cat piss.
thier own sweat and mildew, cat piss will actually burn your eyes.
Um it’s a ferret not a cat.
And them being overweight affects others’ enjoyment of the game how exactly? Showering and deodorant are basic courtesy but why exactly is the player’s body shape an issue?
Being overweight itself isn’t an issue, but it does tend to cause more sweating.
So does Rugby
Somehow I don’t imagine the two sports are comparable.
I’d love to see a crossover event though.
At least the rugby boys play slap-ass in the changeroom showers after the game
Hey that’s not cool! Being smelly is a strategy for winning! It throws your opponent’s off! If I want to stink, I should be allowed to! /s (Joking)
There was a (fake) strategy to get people in yu-gi-oh to concede the game, using 2 cards, and covering your hand in your own actual shit.
…well I’m off to stab my own eyes out and drown myself in a pool of bleach.
Part of the meta-game strategy
I stopped attending local MtG events many years ago because of this one cadre of assholes who not only had obnoxious personalities but also smelled like they carried old onions and dog shit in their back pockets.
probably stink on purpose so card players make mistakes and the smelly person wins.
…do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
What’s with TCG players and hygiene? I remember my MtG days when you couldn’t attend a single tournament without at least two of your opponent smelling like spicy corpses.
What’s with TCG players and hygiene?
It’s mostly just men hitting puberty and developing glands and pores they didn’t have before.
You’re going to find all the same smells in the locker room and the band van and the construction site. Anywhere you’ve got adolescent men congregating. Especially if there’s bad ventilation and poor AC.
You hit puberty anywhere between 11 and 14… I dont think thats the main crowd.
Definitely not the leading cause of TCG-smell. But that is a complicating factor for that age group
What about the middle aged stinkers? What’s their excuse?
Why can’t they be… taught? To clean themselves?
A tale as old as time or at least a couple decades.
is it that they dont’ shower, or is it that they just sweat so much they smell no matter what?
Oh you’ve never played a tcg.
Just poor bodily hygiene in general. You can shower all you want but if you don’t wash your clothes or don’t know how to do it properly, it won’t matter.
Same as aversion to deodorant for whatever reason. Even here on Lemmy there’s lots of people that are against it for some reason.
And FFS, people need to clean their asses.
Sensitive skin issues. I haven’t fully figured out which ones are good or not, but my armpits seem to tolerate only roll-on format deodorants. Aerosol ones will give a burning sensation and rash within 1-2 uses and stick seem to just give rash within 3-4 uses. That actually did got worse after accutane treatment, but helped to figure out that only roll-ons are suitable.
But during current heatwave, theres nothing i can do. I sweat a lot as soon as temperature starts to get above 24c.
When working out, I’m literally the sweatiest person in the gym and start to smell of ammonia within 45-60 minutes. Up until now no one hasn’t mentioned anything, but i am paranoid about it and whatever i should deal with it or not or even if i can.
Try 70 % IPA once a day.
Can you elaborate a little more on that? I doubt you’re recommending it for drinking?
Soaking my gym clothes in it? Of course i do wash those daily and after each workout.
Spray it in your arm pit. Of course not a liter, just enough to get it wetted, like 1 or 2 pumps. It is a desinfectant and as such kills the bacteria that generate the smell. It also evaporates within a minute or so and thus should be less likely to irritate skin.
I’ll give it a try. Thank you.
I have a mild allergy to most deodorant so I need to pick my battles, because if I wear the stuff that actually works daily, I’ll end up with a pretty sensitive rash and unable to wear anything at all. So most days I’m either wearing nothing or the crystal stuff which last like 45 minutes. If I’m getting on a plane or in a crowd I throw on the good stuff. Also I’m not paying $20 for Native BS I’d rather just smell bad.
The crystal salt stuff is often an aluminum salt if I’m not mistaken, and its the same stuff in some commercial antiperspirants.
Have you tried Zero Sweat? I don’t know about your specific skin but I’ve gotten pretty inflamed armpits a number of times from various causes including deodorants (specifically the white powdery kind that actually somewhat stops you from sweating), but this stuff never bothers me and works better.
Seems like it has the same problem as Native in that it’s outrageously expensive.
I have sensitive pits, but the Degree Extreme 72 hour stuff has been a welcome relief. It’s also not prohibitively expensive (I think I pay USD $9 for the two-pack) and smells really nice.
Idk who needs to hear this, but some people have body oils that react to the ingredients within various deodorants that makes the smell worse rather than masking it (which might be why some people are adverse to it). Some people who have had poor hygiene in the past have difficult bacteria cultures that won’t go away just by soap and water.
Try changing deodorant to antiperspirant. Minimize any perfume or scented products. And if soap isn’t working, acne face wash works great (just don’t use it every time or it dries you out).
Chlorahexadine to the rescue
Yes Its a real pandemic. This particular bacteria strain has infected my local Comic Books Stores, every CGC Anything, and of course the Anime conventions - they are super-spreader events.
It’s truly an enigma.
Yes there are a few I found that make it way way worse. I find the gel stuff to be the worst culprit
We survived a few thousand years or so without deodorant.
If you shower daily and wear clean clothes, you shouldn’t need it.
And there they are.
You stink.
Depends on climate. If its hot, you need deoderant.
If you’re gonna freeze off fits you don’t even have the moment one of your ten layers unzips, you may not.
Modern deoderant is modern. There’s a long history of scent coverings, especially in indoor public spaces like temples. Why the bucket of hydrogenated whale piss do you think incense started being a thing?
I definitely don’t live in a hot climate, I’ll be lucky if the temperature hits double digits today.
We had more space back then LOL. And some middle east area they wore scented deoderants on their head that would waft down and mask body odor.
I can shower, put on fresh clothes and if the temperature is above 20C I’ll be stinky as heck just after lunch. I always need deoderant or antiperspirant if I need to interact with anybody (including myself)
Well, I shower daily and wear a fresh set of clean clothes every day. Guess what, my armpits still stink. Should I just subject everyone around me to that every time I raise my arms, or should I wear deodorant like a normal person?
Exfoliate that shit.
Maybe clean your pits properly?
Is scrubbing them with soap proper enough, or should I be using some kind of industrial solvent?
If your pits still smell when exiting the shower, you just gotta get back in and rewash. I had this issue back when I used scented products and strong antiperspirants, it was difficult to get rid off the old gunk because it was properly matted. Unscented and gentle products are easier to wash away and to notice what is sweat and what is old product.
Yeah. Survived. We can still survive. Doesn’t mean you don’t smell bad.
So you’ve acclimated to your own stench, got it
We survived a few thousand years without showering daily and clean clothes. We had different lifestyles and different expectations.
Most people would have washed daily by some method, we’ve had soap and water for a very long time.
We also lacked indoor plumbing, sanitation, sewage management, and typically had livestock near people as there were no highways or 18-wheelers to deliver meat from a farm in another region.
Life was stanky for thousands of years.
Our lives are filled with things we don’t “need” that we are not going to do away with any time soon.
Just have a shower, dude.
I find modern deodorants to be a bit overkill on most days. They are slimy, they irritate my skin, cause acne and take forever to wash off later. Antiperspirants are even worse. I really only use those types of products if I’m outside in humid heat after not showering for a day or two, once the stank has had a chance to build to noticeable levels. And yes I’ve checked with other people who have no problem providing critical feedback.
For me, those products are a solution looking for a problem, but for others, they might be essential. Some have need for even stronger versions that might need a prescription. Everyone produces different levels of stank. It also depends on the social expectations where you live, your climate, activity level, and diet.
After weighing the various factors, your decision to use any product that goes in or on your body is a personal one. People don’t have to use products that don’t actually help. It’s also good to listen to feedback of those around you, but the products available at your average store might not be the universal solution you think they are.
Eta: I say, essentially, “everyone has different needs in this area” and the hygiene gestapo show up lmao
Bro you stank
There he is
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That guy got banned for harassment.
But all he did was highlight the lack of hygiene and care that players who came to these events had.
Safe space is one thing, but I’m glad butt crack guy exists and we need more public (or private) shaming about basic hygiene.
I think he got unbanned recently
What a thing to be remembered for lol.
Go to a comic and game store every saturday for tabletop or board games. Sometimes as a big guy it’s hard to find shirts that cover everything up when leaning over. I still try but man some people have no shame.
Tank-style undershirt. Tuck them and its practically guaranteed to prevent plumber’s crack or that thing where the bottom of your gut hangs out that a lot of fat dudes seem oblivious to.
I wear tank undershirts. No butt crackin’ here!
If only there were some device to keep your pants at your waist… (Although really your pants should just fit - a belt is an accessory, not a utility).
Being an odd shaped person I’m to the point in my weight loss I need just a light belt to keep them from going down a little. Though most of the reason for back and butt showing is typically shirts that don’t fit right.
Try to find Big Tall shirts. Highly recommend them.
That’s what my lanky AF partner wears because the sleeves on standard fit shirts are never long enough. The extra length in the torso is a nice bonus.
Aye it’s what I generally look for. The problem is that there’s issues with some are loose and thus good while others fit more to form which I do not like while also leading to the riding up issue.
As a bigger guy, I started to get that “fat person” smell even after showering. I realized that the smell was coming from not being able to get all the soap off using just a regular showerhead. I got a handheld shower and haven’t had that issue since then. So, that could be part of the problem.
Does the residual soap get a bad smell or something?
What kind of soap are you using? Irish Spring 56-in-one?
Lol
During the very early years of a local fandom convention, there was a similar problem.
Then, one year, gift bags with toiletries were handed out.
The hint was taken, and the convention has smelled better ever since.
“You are expected to be clean when you enter a tournament,” the official Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament Guide says.
At the time, this policy was welcomed among players,…
wait, so, it’s not now? are they against showers now??
…and Chronos Games & Gifts is similarly receiving praise from local attendees for keeping its venue stench-free.
what a weird way to put a sentence.
“Yeah I used to be for people showering before tournaments… I still am, but I used to be too.”
