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 Red, Hero of Black Knight wrote:
Davor, #1: If you say you're not going to a store and you show up there anyways, you're lying to this forum. #2 Don't use your actual name as a forum name, because now a lot of people happen to know who you are #3 Neither the MTG or 40k communities smell as bad as yourself (I speak truth on behalf of the entire community) #4 If you have something bad to say about a store, SAY IT TO THE EMPLOYEES!!!! Not to a forum. Because forums can't fix your problems. So, I believe you owe Jay, Rob and the rest of the employees a sincere apology.

Sincerely,
Red, Hero to the people of Black Knight Games

Well, I think this was threadromancy...buuuut, I do believe OP just got told.

I'm not sure it was, I though the limit was three months. It's only been one so could be fine as long as it gets back on topic.

It's not threadromancy IMO...
He did get told though...

Since when can you change your username?
And to the OP : OH SNAP!

 Red, Hero of Black Knight wrote:
Davor, #1: If you say you're not going to a store and you show up there anyways, you're lying to this forum. #2 Don't use your actual name as a forum name, because now a lot of people happen to know who you are #3 Neither the MTG or 40k communities smell as bad as yourself (I speak truth on behalf of the entire community) #4 If you have something bad to say about a store, SAY IT TO THE EMPLOYEES!!!! Not to a forum. Because forums can't fix your problems. So, I believe you owe Jay, Rob and the rest of the employees a sincere apology.

Sincerely,
Red, Hero to the people of Black Knight Games

This is pretty epic.

 Red, Hero of Black Knight wrote:
Davor, #1: If you say you're not going to a store and you show up there anyways, you're lying to this forum. #2 Don't use your actual name as a forum name, because now a lot of people happen to know who you are #3 Neither the MTG or 40k communities smell as bad as yourself (I speak truth on behalf of the entire community) #4 If you have something bad to say about a store, SAY IT TO THE EMPLOYEES!!!! Not to a forum. Because forums can't fix your problems. So, I believe you owe Jay, Rob and the rest of the employees a sincere apology.

Sincerely,
Red, Hero to the people of Black Knight Games

Wow this is unprofessional as hell. It's one thing to defend your store, but you're being petulant and using the "no u" defense. Maybe next time think your response out?

But out of curiousity, what would employees do if someone said "hey, your store reeks?" I can't imagine they'd throw the offenders out because the fact is, I've been involved in the industry a long time, and most stores see it as a cost of doing business.

We have a store around here that addressed this issue by posting a warning of sorts on their door. Something to the tune of "you will be asked to leave if others find your hygiene offensive".

If you're not exalting the first post then you're the smelly guy at the store.

I think the more hilarious bit is that Red has only joined just to make that post

Pretend to roleplay and bring a mask to wear. Issue orders from beneath a helmet if you have to.

My game club has a rule that requires good hygiene, so it's not a problem at my venue. However, there are a few venues I've been in that smell like a combination of a karate studio and men's locker room.

How is this thread still alive, didn't it die like a month ago?

 Darth Bob wrote:
My game club has a rule that requires good hygiene, so it's not a problem at my venue. However, there are a few venues I've been in that smell like a combination of a karate studio and men's locker room.

I know the feeling. Some smells seem to just stick around no matter what you do.

O and welcome to dakka for the new guy

 Ovion wrote:
I tend to shower every other day (every day when it's hot, mmm cool showers on hot days.)

I also dress smart, always in business cut trousers and nice shirts.
When I've repaired my waistcoat and overcoat ( both sadly got a bit.. ripped up when I caught the coat on wire sticking out of a fence :( ) I'll be wearing those daily too.
With a pocket watch.
And I wear Old Spice Deoderant...
Nope, I'm not eccentric at all.

Furthermore, at our local store I've known it to happen where people too smelly or unkempt get asked to leave.

I know this is an old post (on an old-ish thread, so screw it) but I totally imagine a really high-class British guy playing 40k.

"Alright, I need you to take three armor saves."
"Exquisite!"

i know i havent had a shower today but i promise i will first thing when i wake up tommorow, soz lulz.

I live in the best rated (living standard) city in England and most people who come to the store are all lawyer and doctors or management of some kind.

BUT it doesn't stop homeless people coming into the store because in England homeless can also afford warhammer.

So yeah the only person who ever smells is him but even he showers every 3-4 days and even he knows he smells and tells us when he showers.

There is also my friend who showers less becaus of an on going joke that he doesn't shower but now the joke is gone and he is normal again lol.

I feel sorry for you guys I can't Stand smell

I'm new here, so I may as well post in a thread where new people are posting...

This "gamer stink" thing, I never believed in it. My own local game shop is a shining beacon, a veritable cathedral with twenty foot high ceilings and a cavernous back room. I never thought of it as anything special, if anything the odor there is just a hint musty.

Then I moved to a small town with a gaming store the size of your average living room, which regardless tried to host tournaments of various things. One fine Friday night I walked in to find a tournament of "collectible card game I don't know anything about" going on, and at last discovered gamer funk in person.

Some observations: the participants were invariably of a certain awkward age and look. The sort of men who clearly are boys, but seem to have sprouted to six and half feet tall and 30% overweight overnight. All had splotchy, uneven mustaches, sarcastic sneers as they addressed one another, and clothes that seemed always to be two sizes too small. The tight clothes were especially unsettling, as it allowed pudgy bellies and pale back side to expose itself constantly in that hellish place between shirt and waistband. Massive, grungy backpacks and fanny packs were in profusion. Bicycles were piled up outside, hinting that every boy present had exercised strenuously to get here, each carrying a heavy, now sweat-soaked, backpack.

My final impression: these were boys who just hit full puberty, unaware that hormonal changes in their bodies require newer, more stringent hygiene. They had peddled across town on a summer afternoon, then packed their bodies into a room barely twenty by twenty feet with no windows. I fully understand their mistake, and how this could happen. I could imagine I must have done the same when I was their age.

That said, that smell hit like a solid wall as you entered the store. It was the kind of smell that gets into the products sold there, and clings to your clothes after you've left.

I feel lucky, at our store..no one stinks. Which is good due to the fact i am the loud point blank type that would inform them to return home..wash..then come back. That said.. i will stray slightly..and say there is one who when eats..always..ALWAYS is right in someones ear..literally within a foot of them..and eats like a cow chewing cud. time and time again i have said..gtfa from me but..his reply is. "i chew loudly" haha.

I was at a FLGS near one of the old GW stores, and one of the people who showed up smelled so bad that I started losing just to get out.

If the smell is really bad, you should come out and say that they smell too bad to play against. You are not doing anything wrong by doing that.

If you leave because of the smell, tell the manager, and tell them who it is if possible; they will take action if you leave.

Never noticed any problems with B.O, except at big conventions and things, where odds are, one of the hundreds of people around you forgot to wash their bullocks.

FOOLS. FOOLS ALL OF YOU, WHY WOULD YOU FIGHT THE BLESSINGS OF THE GREAT AND LOVING GOD NURGLE? TO WASH AWAY HIS ODOR AND FILTH IS PURE BLASPHEMY!

There is one person considered the "stinky guy" at our store. I've never really noticed an issue with him, but others swear on it. I can think of a couple occasions where folks have come in and the whole store started smelling like swamp butt... and this is a big open store. But largely, we've got a good crowd here.

im awake and i havent showered yet, oh noes lulz.

 Byte wrote:
The card players are the worst!

This

 Red, Hero of Black Knight wrote:
Davor, #1: If you say you're not going to a store and you show up there anyways, you're lying to this forum.

Coming back to see if I was mistaken and see if I was wrong? I am not lying to the forum. Don't we give people second chances if they make a mistake? We are all not perfect. Sorry if I was wrong. Sorry to be supporting my closet gaming store now.

#2 Don't use your actual name as a forum name, because now a lot of people happen to know who you are

I don't have to hide from anything or anyone. So what if they know who I am. That is good, I am upfront of who I am and what I say.

#3 Neither the MTG or 40k communities smell bad, and i play them all the time

Did I really say they did? Maybe I did. Didn't ment to make it that All people smell. Not all people but some people do. But that one day, someone sure did.

#4 If you have something bad to say about a store, SAY IT TO THE EMPLOYEES!!!! Not to a forum.

Oh but I did. Right away I said something to the cahsier. The person was appologetic but embarressed as well. Nothing he could really do. What could he have said? I told him when I walked in the back, I couldn't stay, it was really bad B.O. He said it wasn't an all the time thing, and I understood that. Also, did I say something bad about the store? I am sure I said it was the people or the person, not the store.

Because forums can't fix your problems. So, I believe you owe Jay, Rob and the rest of the employees a sincere apology.

Sincerely,
Red, Hero to the people of Black Knight Games

I know the forum can't fix my problems. It wasn't the point. The point was to show, some people do smell and everyone should check themselves to make sure it's not them. Maybe what I should have done was go into the back room, and say "Excuse me Please! There is really bad B.O. and some people need to shower." Is that what I should have done?

Do I owe an apology? No I don't think so? Why? What did I do was so wrong? I will say Sorry, if I made it out that BKG store smells. I thought I didn't, but I know I am not good with my words, so if I said that and made the store look bad, then yes I am sorry. So if that is the case, then yes, I am sorry, you guys have an excellent store. But to say that one day, I came in and one or more people stunk really badly and made me sick where I had to leave? No I can't say sorry for that. I don't think I did anything wrong.

*edit* I just reread my post, and yes, I have nothing to be sorry for. I didn't say anything bad about the store. I said something about the people who were at that store that day. That has nothing to do with the store, but the person who attended.

A great deal of Great Unwashed Ones at my LGS with the magic crowd....All of the 40k players there, including warmachine, KoW, FoW, ext. Are all decent bathing folks.

Why must so many magic players smell like a gym bag I shall never know.

Some serious GUOs at the Con I just went to in Denver this weekend. I'm bringing cans of axe and air freshener next time and cosplaying as the hygiene fairy.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I'm bringing cans of axe and air freshener next time and cosplaying as the hygiene fairy.

Exhalted

This is why our FLGS and Convention staff team all carry febreeze cans and are not afraid to use them. Almost 30 years on the gaming scene and the GUO has been there every step of the way.

Are you allowed to just spray people though. I thought that could be considered a form of assualt?