He didn’t dare deny it lmao

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

Ah yes! Grand Prix Richmond: CrackStyle!

Also, good on you for putting nerds in their place.

EDIT: Changed the link since the original R*ddit post (with pics!) is still up.

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.

Anyone entering the premises gets sprayed down with a hose. No exceptions.

just so thoroughly true and highly cross-cultural

Dudes smell bad. Young dudes who are just going through puberty typically don’t realize how bad they smell, because they didn’t smell this bad until they started growing hair and whatnot. Only children and other kids cut off from older mentors or other wiser peers often don’t realize how/why they’re so off-putting. And when you combine smell with a host of other physical/social/intellectual hang-ups common to teenagers, its easy to see how “You smell bad” gets lost amid the crowd of other generic insults that get flung around.

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.

Its a bigger thing for men (especially hairy men) entirely because of physiology. And when you spend a lot of time around other men who also smell bad, you go a bit nose-blind.

Depending on the culture of the group you’re in, this can be self-correcting or self-reinforcing. Teenagers with older brothers/sisters will often get the talk about why young dudes are gross much sooner. Kids with younger parents / younger aunts or uncles or cousins / big extended families often get clued in sooner, too.

But - historically speaking - these aren’t the kids that gravitate towards CCGs as a means of peer-bonding, because they’re chasing their older peers’ hobbies rather than clinging to games made for the

demographic

Events like this typically have refs and other staff in the room during games, so I think this might be solved if they were given the authority to eject people for stinking too much. Would take a while to be normalized and would probably see a lot of opposition initially. Would work well if official word on this came from Bandai/WotC but I can’t imagine they give a shit.

All entrees must enter a designated showering zone within the venue. Like one of those decontamination booths at highly sterile locations

You’re being sent to the (stinky) shadow realm.

this man never washes his hands

There’s a frighteningly large number of people like that, most of them are men, and their numbers have actually gone up since the pandemic began.

Local man says he keeps his immune system strong by eating his own poop. More at 11

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.

The problem with a lot of these things is that the venues are unsuitable for them.

If you put a lot of bodies in a room without ventilation and aircon for any length of time people heat up the space and smells start to get bad. Throw into that some of these people are stressed about their matches too.

Yes some people have bad hygiene but if you put 20 dudes in a card shop without aircon and ventilation it is ALWAYS going to smell.

Smash tournaments have essentially the same problem but it’s worse because playing is actually strenuous.

I was trying to look for one of the recent gamer branded colognes released during the games showcase, but I just learned that a legitimate fragrance company has a fragrance named Gamer lol

“gamer” colleges

Imagining the Harvard emblem but instead of “Veritas” it spells out the Gamer slur.

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.

Thanks for reminding me I had (have, but we are basically polar opposites and thus only really interact during the rare times when our entire mutual friend group specifically hangs out) a friend who was 24, in a top 10 law school, and shared a 2br/2ba apartment with another friend. This man was the most disgusting person I’ve ever met and I am self-aware enough to admit that I am a pretty messy person (in the ‘sometimes has piles of clothes on my floor’ sense). But this was post-college levels of filth I’ve still yet to see topped.

Our entire friend group would hang out at their apartment pretty often and would tell new people “hey, don’t use X’s bathroom its traumatizing” because it was quite literally also black with filth & mold. To make matters worse though, the dude would use the SAME ceramic coffee mug daily but also leave it out with coffee in it - never once cleaned it. He’d at best dump it out and run it under the tap for a second, but was adamant that the heat of the new coffee would sterilize any bacteria/mold. Was generally the same way with dishes - to the point where his roommate (whose girlfriend is one of my very close friends) literally bought an entire separate set of dishes/utensils/cookware because anytime his girlfriend was over and they wanted to cook, there’d be nothing remotely clean.

Well - one day I went over to hang out and he wasn’t at the apartment. “Go look in his bathroom, you’ll see something really funny” His roommate’s girlfriend tells me.

Behold.

That was the completed result after he’d spent like 2 hours cleaning the toilet with one of the brand new toilet brushes he’d bought a 2-pack of. Note how low the water level is in the toilet. Apparently he’d literally clogged it with accumulated filth in the bowl (it was historically never that clean as shown in the video and looked more like the entire inside of the toilet bowl had succumbed to rust as you can see by the dark upper crust around the bowl lmao) and when he called the apartment complex’s maintenance out to take a look - the maintenance guy was apparently so disgusted that he (rightfully) demanded that since it was still somewhat able to flush it be cleaned before he did any work on it, which prompted him to go out and purchase the first toilet brush he had ever presumably used.

Anyways he’s a lawyer now at a pretty notable firm in DC (with a girlfriend who presumably does all the housework…) and makes like 5x as much money I do in a single year

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I remember in college the programming floor of the dorm had a meeting about once a year. They’d bring in the most crass coding professors to tell everyone how to wash their balls (not just that they should, but like a tutorial). I think the shocking and embarrassing nature of the whole thing actually helped the young nerds stay cleaner, nobody wanted to be the person that made everyone go through that talk again

There literally is yes. They’re in the minority as far as I’m aware but it is a thing some people just don’t wash their assholes (men or women, definitely more common with men though). I try to give people the benefit of the doubt maybe they just never learned and have never been called out, maybe they suffer from depression, there can be all kinds of things, but definitely a subset know and don’t care

You’ve never seen the “washing your ass makes you gay” type of guy!

They ran out of Dude Wipes and couldn’t wipe for the month because it’s gay

i can’t remember the context but i once saw a reddit post with a picture of a guy with white jeans and white underwear (partly showing), and the top comment was something like ‘wow, imagine having this much confidence in your wiping skills’

Is there some like unspoken rule that some dudes don’t wash their ass

This is embarrassing but I didn’t wipe until I was in my twenties and saw a reddit post of girlfriends complaining about how none of their boyfriends wiped and how they all had underwear streaks and other hygiene issues. I’ve kept my butthole clean for over ten years now but I have no doubt that that’s still a thing, and that there’s some kind of machismo “being clean is for betas and females” thing that causes it.

LMAO 3 times a year? IDK, that kinda sounds like a lot.

Almost half of single men said they don’t wash their bed sheets for up to four months

Alright, seems so.

Sometimes i will go a month without washing my sheets. I have extra sets so i can immediately put on fresh sheets, but it’s such a shitty and time consuming chore and I hate it. Laundry is the worst chore, but you reach a point where you have to clean your clothes because you have no clean underwear. Bedding is easier to convince yourself you dont really need to do.

Roughly, I suppose. Between a somewhat dirty job and a hobby of running, I do a lot of laundry as it is. Factor in me being the cook of the house and as politically involved as I can, some stuff is neglected. I’d say 4-5 times a year in my case, though.

I think I once went over a year

Now I typically do it every week, sometimes I’ll put it off for 2 weeks.

Nobody else is gonna get into it

I’ll admit that’s me when I’m depressed. It’s one of the easiest things to let go, and I’m the only one who sees my room anyway.