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I'm a married man and father of young children so it's difficult for me to get time to myself. So when I go to my local store to purchase paint or models I generally have girls in tow. What makes it difficult is the weirdos. For the record when was the last matrix movie out. Like 10 years ago. And what's with the smell. It's strange, I've been to a couple stores and theres this stench in all of them. They do make glade plugins don't they, yesh. My girls don't even want to go inside anymore.

Any other fathers/husbands having this issue. Any way around it.

Fairly weak attempt, but I'll give you a 'cool story bro' as it is the holidays and I've downed most of a bottle of port.




Pip pip, cheerio!

Um ok. No idea what ur saying but merry Christmas to you too.

What you speak of is "Gamer Funk." It is a disturbingly common trend in wargamers, Magic players, and general roleplayers.

Quite simply, many of them lack social graces of any kind outside of gaming, and that includes hygiene. If you encounter one of these people on the street, you might not notice. But shove several into one room, and you begin to see the problem.

What's weird is when you get gamers that smell like particular types of cheese or fish.

It's the reason I don't go into my local GW.

It's bad enough in winter, when the aircon can barely cope with it.

Given a hot summer's day - the aircon is outclassed and it stinks worse than the public convenience that used to be across the road from it (now removed).

In Japan, the gamers don't smell. It's a blessing.

However, the weirdness does manifest in other, more innocuous ways. Also, I haven't seen too many, ummm, gentlemen gamers of an overly girthy disposition here either. I firmly believe that a mammal's size and its smell are linked.

MeanGreen Stompa believes you are posting an inflammatory message on our message board in an attempt to provoke an emotional response by others who would disagree. Normally a "troll", as it was so eloquently described, would be ignored as no response is the proper response to discourage such distasteful behavior.

Though because of the holiday season and because of Mr. Stompa's partially inebriated state; he will patronize you by responding, albiet with a meme sarcastically stating his interest in the topic. In closing he will excuse himself from the conversation with a Brittanic expression meaning farewell.

Clearer?

As much fun as its been, I think your trolling as well. By your posts you've clearly played before at your LGS so this can't be a new issue, and from your time on Dakka or from others at the LGS, I'm sure you've seen/heard complaints like this.

So, yeah...

Will not stop it from rolling on though.

I've been lucky enough to avoid the stereotypical stench so far, then again I likely help it by avoiding the places on hot days unless the air conditioner is really strong.

What does the Matrix comment have to do with anything?

Maybe they know they're in it so they're able to make their stench that much stronger? Maybe they all wear black trench coats?

It's the gamer-nerd and black trenchcoat combination.

It's been over 10 years, give it up.

...you know you're probably right, I've seen some weird-dressed characters at the store before, too. (Not counting myself or my brother, obviously.)

If I didn't need glasses though (don't want to feth with contacts) I'd totally wear those sunglasses Morpheus wears. All the time. Even at night.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

For the record, gamers have been trenchcoating it since long long before the Matrix movies..

The Cyberpunk era might be a little before some gamer's time though

Not for the Dark Eldar.

I refuse to go anyone in public if I don't shower, wash, brush my teeth, and put some after shave/cologne. I don't want to embarrass my family or friends and make people think their hanging out or are related to some stinky piece of crap.

I don't know... I never encountered this problem and I've been in the wargaming hobby for a number of years now. I guess my local GW attracts clean people!

What's your local GW?

A battle bunker? They are larger spaces with better aircon (and not located within Westfield complexes - the only smart move GW Oz did with them.

A 'number of years' you say.

I can remember both when the city store opened originally, and when it moved to its current location (I.E. more than a few years). It used to have issues with stench, but an aircon refurb took control of it.

It's called the DCM Moshpit. Be grateful your PC doesn't have 'smellovision"...

My local GW is at a shopping centre like Westfield, it's a size that meets my tastes and the aircon is on pretty much all the time.

My local GW is ok, but the FLGS is so bad on magic/yu gi oh days that you need some kind of environment suit.
It's that bad.

Put enough teenagers in a badly ventilated area and this is what will happen. Its a common occurrence in clubs these days, since they banned smoking indoors. Now you can smell all the delightful odours that were previously masked. I suggest that GW staff be allowed to deploy cigars. Works a treat.

Though the stereotype for these people seem to be in the mid 20s to early 30s...

"Teenager" is a state of mind as well as body. Hormonal fluctuations and whatnot play havoc with teens. Not so much of an excuse as they get older though.

Honestly, this problem can really never be fixed. Shopkeepers try their best but their main source of income is these hygiene-bereft fools. So I would suggest you wear a turtle neck and pull it over your nose. Or buy some stock in a deodorant company.

wowsmash wrote:I'm a married man and father of young children so it's difficult for me to get time to myself. So when I go to my local store to purchase paint or models I generally have girls in tow. What makes it difficult is the weirdos. For the record when was the last matrix movie out. Like 10 years ago. And what's with the smell. It's strange, I've been to a couple stores and theres this stench in all of them. They do make glade plugins don't they, yesh. My girls don't even want to go inside anymore.

Any other fathers/husbands having this issue. Any way around it.

I see the responses you got here, and I can relate. Sometimes, its just better to not entertain it and leave the girls out of the equasion once in a while.

I stopped going to the compnay stores years ago because of the douche crew I met in one.

If thats how they want to run thier stores, let them.

Another thing is maybe it might be you. You are walking into thier environment, you want to play, so to speak, your going to pay.

Finecost doesn't always mean in money.

Remember, your playing with the "Finest minis in the world...."

The funk of 40,000 years is extra. Reminds me of that New Dr Who with Egglston ( the First season of the new show)

goes into that ship and "Gives them a gift of the breath from his lungs..."

Be thankful that GW doesn't bottle that stench up and put a pricetag on it.


A whole new meaning of Finecast....

ArbeitsSchu wrote:Put enough teenagers in a badly ventilated area and this is what will happen. Its a common occurrence in clubs these days, since they banned smoking indoors. Now you can smell all the delightful odours that were previously masked. I suggest that GW staff be allowed to deploy cigars. Works a treat.

Im all for cigars, at any time. However, they must be hand made premiums, not some machine made garbage like Black N Milds.

I think that about covers it lol...