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.
I have a hard time believing that. Maybe one guy did that at a tournament once, but I can’t believe it’s being done at scale
Yeah this is not a legitimate strategy.
It’s a rule by Konami. You need to have basic hygiene. Nothing unusual here.
Literally any large gathering of people for any reason is going to have you dealing with smells you don’t like. This is an unavoidable part of the human condition.
It’s one thing to have other smells than what you are used to, but just because you don’t smell your own body odour doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t. If you struggle to shower more than once pr week, or just sweat a lot, you need to realize and implement a shower when meeting other people rule.
I’m not saying you have to shower every day. I’m just saying if you struggle to shower for yourself, make it a rule to shower for others.
If you say fuck others, they can swim in my stink, then you can fuck off from these events or accept people making comments about it.
yes, but it is can be a larger than usual problem in some groups.
I know anime conventions in Minnesota struggled with that a lot in the 2000s. It took about half a decade of posters, campaigns, and a small group of people who were willing to be blunt and tell people “this sign is directed at you my dude”
It all did lead to improvements though! It is vastly better than it was back then.
Alternatively there was the MTG asscrack meme which did increase belt sales.
What’s this?
This is Madison Reyes who plays for Indiana. In 2019 she was picked up as a point guard due to her natural pointing ability and her sensitive nose. Madison has a habit of pointing out players who wear excessive perfume and she says it interferes with her ability to play.
Really?
Maybe
Masterful 🤣
I think so, “smells you don’t like” can include overpowering laundry products or aftershave/cologne/perfumes. Dear lord some people at work I actively steer clear from because otherwise I go into fifteen minute sneezing fits.
I used to avoid the laundry soap aisle in the grocery store back in the old days, when most laundry soap was powdered. That aisle was just too strong, it gave me a headache every time.
Today, it’s mostly liquid, and it’s not nearly as bad.
It’s always the one you expect.
I respect their bluntness
Some people aren’t good at taking hints, you have to whack them over the head to get their attention first.
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.
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?
Ever heard of rag on a stick? Its a meme for a reason
Hey! I use the rag on a stick to clean myself.
Being overweight exacerbates many health issues, so you’re more likely and prone to experience things that can lead to bad odors. Sweating being just one of many. You would need to clean more often as a result. It’s also harder to clean (more surface area, harder to reach spots). So, indirectly, it matters.
Being overweight itself isn’t an issue, but it does tend to cause more sweating.
And there are lots of folds and nooks where the funk can hide.
Um it’s a ferret not a cat.
So does Rugby
Somehow I don’t imagine the two sports are comparable.
I’d love to see a crossover event though.
I don’t know what direction would be funnier, the friendly local game store tournament field getting thrown onto a rugby pitch, or the All-Blacks throwing down a Blue Eyes White Dragon (don’t @ me, this is the extent of my Yu Gi Oh knowledge) during a haka.
Why not both? Before each rugby play, each team has to nominate a player to battle a Yu Gi Oh game. The players that doing the Yu Gi Oh game have to take the field for the rugby play.
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.
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.
With the construction site, It could just be the corpses in the concrete that are starting to smell a bit.
Definitely not the leading cause of TCG-smell. But that is a complicating factor for that age group
You hit puberty anywhere between 11 and 14… I dont think thats the main crowd.
You continue through puberty until you’re around 17. And you don’t stop smelling bad once it’s over. 20 year olds who spent a few hours out in the sun will smell even worse.
(mostly facetious) irrelevant! The last time a TCG tournament player spent a few hours in the sun, we were building decks out of clay tablets!
Is this what activating a trap card is? Everything I’ve ever learned about TCGs has been done unwillingly through shitposts.
Why can’t they be… taught? To clean themselves?
What about the middle aged stinkers? What’s their excuse?
“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.”
This is classiest. Some people don’t have access to showers.
Same smell at anarchist book fairs. There’s a lot of homeless kids there that don’t have the luxury of accessing a shower every day.
The only way an event can morally make a rule like this is if they put one of those free shower busses out front.
Homeless kids? Where is this, the wonderful united states?
If you can afford to be playing CCGs and taking part in tournaments, you can afford basic hygiene.
Jog on mate.
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.
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
