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TCG games just attract people that are 150 pounds overweight and smell like cat piss.
So does Rugby
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)
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.
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.
I read that as "drug free" at first but now it makes more sense.
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."
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