Anyone remember CrackGate from that one mtg event a few years back?

Also I used to work at a homeless shelter that was located very near a card shop. It's owners would go to the community meetings where we would have to justify to these NIMBYs that we deserve to be there - awful stuff. One meeting, the owners of the card shop made a shitty comment about how smelly the shelter must be, and clearly didn't want us there.

My boss wasn't having it. We ran the cleanest shelter in the whole damn city. I had practically dragged people to the showers when they couldn't keep their hygiene up, and that place was scrubbed floor to roof daily. So boss man gets out of his chair like "I run the cleanest shelter in this city. I have been to your Friday Night Magic events. We are not the ones with a hygiene problem here!"

Don't think it endeared us to the community, but it did shut them up.

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.

Since the current Yugioh meta is winning on your first turn, I have to respect the new meta of being so stinky your opponent forfeits before the game even starts

The few times I went to a card shop for magic events, the venue started smelling half-way through. Some of these were even casual af events.

Hell my roommate works at one of these shops and despite being pretty clean in almost every other aspect, this man never washes his hands. I've been living with him for over a year and not once have I ever seen him wash his hands in the kitchen sink, and I have never once heard his sink run after he uses the bathroom. I dread having to touch anything he frequently uses like the TV remote or his ps5 controller. I don't get why this needs to be the one stereotype people keep up.

no men in this godforsaken imperialism exporter country have any personal hygiene, i have friends that work at a gas station and they say none of the cis-het-male customers or employees even mention when the soap dispenser is broken in the mens room. no one washes their ass either, because its too gay or something. even as someone who does try to wash their ass with every usage, you can't really do it in public venues in america because nowhere has bidets and the sinks are in open view outside the stalls.

add to that the greasy snacks and caffeinated sodas at these kinds of events, with no one of course washing their face or hands, and its not a hygienic environment. and this is all just when alcohol isn't involved.

Pfft, couldn't even withstand authentic Gamer Musk©???

I remember back when I lived in the dorms for college and some of the horrific shit I saw and smelled is ungodly. I went to one of those "gamer" colleges and I had a pair of friends that I hated going into their room because it stank of feet, cum, and BO and it only got worse over the year. Then when I moved room the toilet was black with filth and I ended up spending >3 hours scrubbing it until me and my new roommate were comfortable even going near it, he was stuck cleaning other parts of the room in trade for me doing the toilet. I have no issue living cluttered and not living in an immaculate space, but I mean, have standards.

Hah! You have activated my trap card!

slams down [Wash Your Penis]

Smegma Male is a new Guy Type that just dropped. They are vastly more powerful than Ligma Males.

I still remember in the bus I was next to a guy that literally smelled like he didn't wipe or wash his asscrack as it reeked of feces and I had to get off the bus much earlier than my usual stop. Is there some like unspoken rule that some dudes don't wash their ass? Because that is not what I was taught as a kid with respect to basic hygiene.

I went to see a premier of an episode of pure pwnage many many years ago in London. That room also fucking stank.

I went to an anime con a while back. Most people were basically clean and normal. But I sat next to a guy at a panel who just really fuckin stank. Like full on cheesy funky loud smell. I had to leave the entire panel room, it wasn't worth it.

One nasty mfer really can ruin it for dozens of normal people

Is it true that many guys only wash their bedding a 3 times a year?

Many years ago I was a YuGiOh player, a mix of someone who likes to collect cards + play a few matches against friends and all, never a sweaty (no pun inteded) tryhard who plays only meta decks, I'm a romantic who plays Red-Eyes B. Dragon decks as if it was 2006.

So I went to a card shop with two friends that I've never been in to trade some cards and maybe get a game in. The shop was small, it had no windows apart from the main entrance. Only a fan was there to move air around. Then it began to fill with people, and the odor was insufferable. I just couldn't stand it, the air was dense, the odor was intense, it all smelled like fart and people who did NOT clean themselves. It was suffocating for real, I had to leave. Me and my two friends were probably the only people in that place who took a bath, christ. Never again I set foot inside a card shop.

Every time I look at my folder filled with cards I remember that foul stench.

Mfs out here using biological warfare

Why can't I get a girlfriend

is literally covered in shit and refuses to shower

You gotta wash your ass

I feel like yugioh players would be marginally more stinky than MTG players.

I don't know who created Yugioh, but I want to figure out how to get them to Yugioh to the polls