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If you can't stand the smell of people, get the hell off the planet.

SilverMK2 wrote:Sometimes it is not people that smell, but their clothes. When clothes are not dried and aired properly they can really smell - when someone lives with that they tend not to be able to tell that their freshly washed clothes don't smell of washing powder, but of damp horribleness.

There is a massive difference between the tang of bad body odour & accumulated grime and damp/poorly aired clothing.

Our local group is clean. Its the MTG and Yu-gi-o players that stink, and leave tons of trash.

It can get stinky on a hot day, but its not because people came dirty.

I've been thinking about jury rigging some kind of personal anti stench device but I doubt it will work. They have those personal mosquito repeler things with fans on them. Thought about taken the bug repellent piece off and attaching a glad plug in refill to the fan and clip it to my bag or pants pocket. The only thing wrong with the idea that I can think of is finding a smell that everyone would like. Which is extremely hard. Plus you'd have to think about wether it would nutrilize the Oder or mix with it. Other wise you would just be adding to the stench.

Just put on a scented dust mask.

Honestly if I ran an FLGS I would probably use some air fresheners, it would do a world of wonders both during just long hot days and GUO's

Sparks_Havelock wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:Sometimes it is not people that smell, but their clothes. When clothes are not dried and aired properly they can really smell - when someone lives with that they tend not to be able to tell that their freshly washed clothes don't smell of washing powder, but of damp horribleness.

There is a massive difference between the tang of bad body odour & accumulated grime and damp/poorly aired clothing.

I'm not suggesting there isn't.

I played a guy with some overwhelming BO at a recent, small tournament. Every time he came around, I'd catch a whiff and was horrified to see him sit down across from me. Ugh.

It was so bad that it was in my clothes. I kept having to check myself to make sure my deodorant had not somehow failed.

I have a Woot! shirt that addresses this issue that I'm going to start wearing to tourneys.

Well, I played competitive ice hockey for years and years, so I can put up with most anything in terms of foul odours! For example, one of the goalies who I unfortunately had to endure for 3 seasons, never even so much as aired-out her equipment in over three years! (let alone wash it...) Seriously, she didn't save shots due to any kind of skill, but rather the thick foulness in the air around her would slow the puck down if it cam near her... She was so bad it got to the point we'd put her in her own change room!

As for gamer-funk. When I worked at the local GW store, we had a rule. If I found your smell to be even slightly offensive, you had to leave and not come back until you'd learned what water+soap+deoderant was.


Davor: If you don't mind coming into Burlington, I'm not far from The Hobby Kingdom if you're ever looking for a game!

I've seen it before, especially at my old FLGS. Oddly enough, I've never seen a 40k player that was the problem only magic players.

Wardragoon wrote:Honestly if I ran an FLGS I would probably use some air fresheners, it would do a world of wonders both during just long hot days and GUO's

I found customers hate being attacked with Frabreez...did anyway.

Well I dont mean bomb the area, but like those ones that spray every 15 minutes, or the plugin ones.

Kal-El wrote:This is not an exageration in my area. There are some stank people that show up at the store. I carry AXE BODY SPRAY in my army bag and will spray myself, but accidently have the can facing the wrong way to get the smell on the culprit. Also after a long day of gaming at a tournament I will even hit myself up with it just in case...don't wanna be that guy..

Lol. The first thing I thought when I read the OP's message was "just carry a bottle of Febreeze around and spray the smelly people".

In any case, as was mentioned, it's mostly an issue of ventilation. Packing a bunch of people in a small room and then getting their adrenaline going is going to make for some stink. The only way to fix this is to have a proper place to play in.

Of course...

RegalPhantom wrote:As a personal note, I've been to Black Night games in Hamilton before, not for 40k but for Magic the Gathering, and I found that it probably had the most unpleasant player base in the area. I know that the players in the area also tend to be somewhat aggressive and don't have the best conduct (people caught cheating multiple times have not been banned).

... there is a tiny exception of people who don't practice hygiene in the first place. It's likely that one type of sociopathy is in a larger pool with others. It makes perfect sense that the same person who isn't aware of rules regarding social behavior (like proper washing), are also the same people who consider other rules as optional (and so cheat in the games themselves).

In any case, this is a moment for pity, not scorn. If a person is really that broken that they behave in such a fashion, it's likely because there's something actually wrong with them. I may be able to achieve a semblance of normalcy despite my own thankless autism problems swimming around in my genes, but that's only because I've had a lot of time to work hard to act normal, and I very likely didn't have as bad of a starting position as others certainly have.

So take pity on the lonely, stinky people who have to cheat to win at a game. It might be the closest thing they have to personal contact or general success in their entire week...

Wardragoon wrote:Honestly if I ran an FLGS I would probably use some air fresheners, it would do a world of wonders both during just long hot days and GUO's

The store I work in used these. Have you ever seen one cry? it's rather disconcerting.


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fishy bob wrote:If you can't stand the smell of people, get the hell off the planet.

While the move to plastics has made this more viable, it's still damned expensive to put my figures in LEO. And who am I going to play with?

Ailaros wrote:

Kal-El wrote:This is not an exageration in my area. There are some stank people that show up at the store. I carry AXE BODY SPRAY in my army bag and will spray myself, but accidently have the can facing the wrong way to get the smell on the culprit. Also after a long day of gaming at a tournament I will even hit myself up with it just in case...don't wanna be that guy..

Lol. The first thing I thought when I read the OP's message was "just carry a bottle of Febreeze around and spray the smelly people".

In any case, as was mentioned, it's mostly an issue of ventilation. Packing a bunch of people in a small room and then getting their adrenaline going is going to make for some stink. The only way to fix this is to have a proper place to play in.

I disagree with this. If people bathe and deodorize, or at the very least deodorize well enough, you're going to get some "boy" smell, as my wife describes it, but you won't get the stink. At the last tournament, my friends and I were definitely not the dryest of individuals, but we didn't stink. This guy, and the people referred to by the OP's title, stink.

Sweat doesn't necessarily = odor. It can definitely add to it, but it's not going to be overwhelming on its own.

But adrenaline causes you to stink, regardless of how you deodorize. Bathing and deodorant stops regular odors, not pheromone excretions.

And some people are more smelly then others.

I know a few people that sweat easily, and vigorously, but they don't smell all that horrible. And others I know will barely start to sweat and suddenly you're standing in a locker room.

Why should I waste time taking a shower if I am headed to nerd-o-rama? It isn't like there are any women there to impress, and my stink might throw the other guy off his game.

I'd hate to see you nancy boys after a month long deployment to a nice tropical locale.

sorry i dont shower.








i take baths.

Please show, please please shower. I cannot state this enough, some groups are much better then others but I have been at the receiving end of some Orky like smells.

The absolute worst experience I've ever had with 'smellyhammer' commically enough wasn't caused by other gamers themselves...

The 2001 Toronto GT was taking place in the same venue as a hockey camp for roughly 80'ish boys between the ages of 8-12.
All their equipment was being stored in the dorms we were also using. None of it aired out, just open bags of wet, smelly hockey gear that was being worn by boys who were mostly just hitting puberty.
And none of the kids smelled like they'd showered in days, despite all their on & off-ice activities.

And we had to walk through their hallway to get to our section of the dorms!
Even those of us who played high-level competitive hockey were dizzy from the odour. The poor sods who'd never smelled hockey-stink before nearly chocked to death!

You think gamer-funk can be awful, that year even the smelly nerds were tame by comparison!

Only the back of the store? Lucky...

Goddess this is the worst stereotype of our hobby and the nerd/geek community at large and it's so freaking true. Went to a con the other day and some dude was cosplaying the Old Spice guy, running around with the spray cans of old spice deoderant. "Look at me, now look at you, you smell like a wet dog when you could smell like me" *sprays* back to me, now you again, don't you feel better now that you aren't assaulting the nostrils of others?"

That guy was a freaking HERO.

I hate it when games take no pride in their experiance, I take a shower everymoening i go somewhere and wear shirts and pants with no blemishes. I have met some of that and its disgusting, on one tourney i saw a guy eat an entire pizza for lunch by himself, and you could see the crust in his whiskers.

hotsauceman1 wrote:on one tourney i saw a guy eat an entire pizza for lunch by himself, and you could see the crust in his whiskers.

This isn't that uncommon outside of the geek community. I work with people who are rake thin, clean shaven and well dressed and put a large pizza away at lunch sometimes 3 times a week.

-Loki- wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:on one tourney i saw a guy eat an entire pizza for lunch by himself, and you could see the crust in his whiskers.

This isn't that uncommon outside of the geek community. I work with people who are rake thin, clean shaven and well dressed and put a large pizza away at lunch sometimes 3 times a week.

Besides, I know enough people with facial hair, when they get food in it they just say "I am saving it for later", this is from all whisker growing age groups and types.

Don't group us facial hair enabled like that, some of us maintain a neat and groomed appearence (except when I don't feel like shaving) and don't keep food in our chin fuzz.

Gotta admit I used to be able to pack a pizza away back in the day, haven't been able to do that in a looooooooong time.

Wardragoon wrote:

-Loki- wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:on one tourney i saw a guy eat an entire pizza for lunch by himself, and you could see the crust in his whiskers.

This isn't that uncommon outside of the geek community. I work with people who are rake thin, clean shaven and well dressed and put a large pizza away at lunch sometimes 3 times a week.

Besides, I know enough people with facial hair, when they get food in it they just say "I am saving it for later", this is from all whisker growing age groups and types.

Maybe I should also add they generally wipe it off, unless its beer then they let it stay

Kevlar wrote:Why should I waste time taking a shower if I am headed to nerd-o-rama? It isn't like there are any women there to impress, and my stink might throw the other guy off his game.

I'd hate to see you nancy boys after a month long deployment to a nice tropical locale.

I'm pretty sure there is a difference from being deployed and a hobby. In fact I know their is a difference, unless your hobby is being deployed. With that said. Obvious Troll is Obvious.

Kevlar wrote:Why should I waste time taking a shower if I am headed to nerd-o-rama? It isn't like there are any women there to impress, and my stink might throw the other guy off his game.

I'd hate to see you nancy boys after a month long deployment to a nice tropical locale.

I hope your joking. I've been in the military and even being deployed your still expected to maintain standard personal hygiene. And if your not bathing specifically to win a game then I think it's safe to say your taking your desire to win to unhealthy levels.