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Too stinky
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Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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This is one stereotype about gamers & tabletop/card gamers especially that is just so thoroughly true and highly cross-cultural. Any in-person events within the "nerd culture" halo exhibit this phenomenon as well. You'd think "oh just do a smell test on people entering the venue and bar smelly people from entering" but it doesn't work like that. Their smell develops over time as they sweat and the bacterial colonies on their bodies & clothing activate. Hygiene can't be a one-day thing, you have to keep those clothes from getting smelly for as long as you own them. Barring actually forcing people to take a supervised shower to ensure they soap their ass, put on deodorant & issuing them a clean set of clothing on entry this will always be a problem.
I just don't get it. I've been playing games my entire life and I've never had this problem. Why is this such a prevalent issue?
You don't even need to shower every single day (it's not good for your skin) unless you're a naturally sweaty person or do stuff that makes you sweat or get dirty, so it's not even a matter of needing to shower daily, this is just lacking basic hygiene. But damn man if I'm going out to a con I'mma make sure I'm fresh every day.
Yep
A lot of these guys don't even know how to do laundry because it's woman's work
And you better believe a lot of these guys refuse to wash themselves properly because it's gay
idc of it's bad for my skin a warm shower is my one respite at the start of every monotonous shitty day
I have to take a hot shower every day or I feel greasy
And not in a fun way
that too. and my hair always starts smelling really bad at the end of the day, not that anybody is sniffing my hair or anything but the smell of hair is gross to me
Same. Unless I'm camping, I have to shower every night before bed or I feel gross and greasy. I don't get how people go weeks without it.