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 kronk wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:


On the second day, your body decides to punish you for this behaviour by producing enough gas to float the shield helicarrier. If the room is not well ventilated, people may well die before the days gaming is over.

That's when you go crop dusting around the con...

Is that why I smelled Mexican during GenCon? Were you crop dusting nearby?

Wasn't me.

On an unrelated note, tell me where your booth is and what hours you're working this year...

 kronk wrote:
Wasn't me.

On an unrelated note, tell me where your booth is and what hours you're working this year...

Idk where our booth is, but I'll pretty much be chained to the booth

 Alfndrate wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Wasn't me.

On an unrelated note, tell me where your booth is and what hours you're working this year...

Idk where our booth is, but I'll pretty much be chained to the booth

Kinky.

 Lansirill wrote:
Kinky.

50 Shades of Grey (plastic soldiers)

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Serious question for the group: has anybody had the idea that smelly gamers are being smelly on purpose?

We all know how uber competitive wargamers are at tournaments. Maybe some people are deliberately not washing in order to put their opponents off

Back in the old days of English Rugby Union, players in the scrum would eat garlic before a match so they could breath it into the faces of their opposite number in the scrum. This was known as the black arts!

But yeah, it's about time somebody took a stand!

I'm sure there's a few odd balls out there who do indeed make sure they smell rather offensive to give them that perceived competitive edge...

For example, both years of playing Midgit age, (so 15-16 year old girls), competitive hockey, our team had a goalie who hadn't even aired her equipment out for over 3 years!!!
Her equipment had latterly turned completely yellow at best, half of it was brown going on black.
The stench was so awful, even the on-ice officials would comment about how our goal area just plain reeked! (and they weren't talking about the quality of our goaltending either...)

Gamer funk may be bad at times, but old, unwashed hockey equipment, (especially goalie equipment), will get infinitely worse!
Even our old GW store's most offensive customer we'd simply reffered to as 'Grossie' was less offensive (well, at least their smell - their highly inappropriate antics on the other hand...*shudders*), than those two hellish years of having to put up with ancient, wet, stale ass-stink hockey equipment.

My girls used to be into figure skating and whenever the boys from hockey walked by it stunk to high heaven. They'd be chased out of the party rooms too while trying to change in there because of the funk.

Some gamers do it perpose. There is a guy in our local area that shows up whenever there's magic releas or tournament. He stinks like he's wearing a diaper with a full load. If that's not bad enough he eats strong smelling food and will proceed to burp and casually blow it at you from across the table. I dot bother playing him. It's not worth it.

 wowsmash wrote:
If that's not bad enough he eats strong smelling food and will proceed to burp and casually blow it at you from across the table.

I can't see why anyone would tolerate that.

 wowsmash wrote:
Some gamers do it perpose. There is a guy in our local area that shows up whenever there's magic releas or tournament. He stinks like he's wearing a diaper with a full load. If that's not bad enough he eats strong smelling food and will proceed to burp and casually blow it at you from across the table. I dot bother playing him. It's not worth it.

Maybe get your local IG player to play a recording of Ride of the Valkyries while your local Tau player throws bars of soap at him while screaming "for the Greater Good"?!

I would pay into a KS to fund a good recording of that. Substantially, too.
And hey, if even flying assault butts can get funded nowadays

Experiment 626 wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Serious question for the group: has anybody had the idea that smelly gamers are being smelly on purpose?

We all know how uber competitive wargamers are at tournaments. Maybe some people are deliberately not washing in order to put their opponents off

Back in the old days of English Rugby Union, players in the scrum would eat garlic before a match so they could breath it into the faces of their opposite number in the scrum. This was known as the black arts!

But yeah, it's about time somebody took a stand!

I'm sure there's a few odd balls out there who do indeed make sure they smell rather offensive to give them that perceived competitive edge...

For example, both years of playing Midgit age, (so 15-16 year old girls), competitive hockey, our team had a goalie who hadn't even aired her equipment out for over 3 years!!!
Her equipment had latterly turned completely yellow at best, half of it was brown going on black.
The stench was so awful, even the on-ice officials would comment about how our goal area just plain reeked! (and they weren't talking about the quality of our goaltending either...)

Gamer funk may be bad at times, but old, unwashed hockey equipment, (especially goalie equipment), will get infinitely worse!
Even our old GW store's most offensive customer we'd simply reffered to as 'Grossie' was less offensive (well, at least their smell - their highly inappropriate antics on the other hand...*shudders*), than those two hellish years of having to put up with ancient, wet, stale ass-stink hockey equipment.

One of these days, somebody in a gaming store is going to get hosed down!

GW LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCT

Bathhammer

GW now allows fanboys to wash up with their favorite heros. If fact they make it maditory to use bathhammer soaps before entering their stores.

Each finely sculpted soap has been injected into old finecast molds, for unprecedented soap detail, these are truly the finest cast soap bars ever released!

Let Kharn the betrayer wife out pit smells!

Farseers, mystically wash you of your sins and stink.

Extra strength available in the Inquisitorial set.

Bad boys can wash themselves clean with the sisters of battle.

Get yours today. Each set of six soap bars is only $30.

Redshirts will be checking to se if you smell appropriately of fanboy before you enter

 Andrew1975 wrote:
GW LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCT

Bathhammer

GW now allows fanboys to wash up with their favorite heros. If fact they make it maditory to use bathhammer soaps before entering their stores.

Each finely sculpted soap has been injected into old finecast molds, for unprecedented soap detail, these are truly the finest cast soap bars ever released!

Let Kharn the betrayer wife out pit smells!

Farseers, mystically wash you of your sins and stink.

Extra strength available in the Inquisitorial set.

Bad boys can wash themselves clean with the sisters of battle.

Get yours today. Each set of six soap bars is only $30.

Redshirts will be checking to se if you smell appropriately of fanboy before you enter

Warning: Ork Soap is actually facial mud.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
I've never really encountered this smelly gamer that people talk about. If there was one at the store I assume people would be pretty bummed out.

One thing though I don't understand is people bitching over peoples beards? Excluding people over their smell is fine in my opinion. Excluding people over their looks is pushing it.

A gaming store not allowing ugly dudes in is an empty gaming store.

It's the neckbeard aspect, not the beard aspect. A neckbeard goes back to the whole thing about taking personal care of oneself. If you can't take the time to shave your facial hair, and you can't take the time to shape and shave the beard to keep it looking nice, then you also probably don't shower as well... It's hygiene.

I have a neckbeard for two reasons - I dislike grooming my facial hair (the reason I grew a beard in the first place), and my fiancee loves it. Any time I trim it, she gets gakky with me. So yeah, I'm going to turn up to my FLGS with a neckbeard. I do shower, and make a lot of effort to reduce the amount I sweat. But the neckbeard stays most of the time.

If someone won't give me a game because of my beard, it's not someone I want to have a game with.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
I've never really encountered this smelly gamer that people talk about. If there was one at the store I assume people would be pretty bummed out.

One thing though I don't understand is people bitching over peoples beards? Excluding people over their smell is fine in my opinion. Excluding people over their looks is pushing it.

A gaming store not allowing ugly dudes in is an empty gaming store.

It's the neckbeard aspect, not the beard aspect. A neckbeard goes back to the whole thing about taking personal care of oneself. If you can't take the time to shave your facial hair, and you can't take the time to shape and shave the beard to keep it looking nice, then you also probably don't shower as well... It's hygiene.

I have a neckbeard for two reasons - I dislike grooming my facial hair (the reason I grew a beard in the first place), and my fiancee loves it. Any time I trim it, she gets gakky with me. So yeah, I'm going to turn up to my FLGS with a neckbeard. I do shower, and make a lot of effort to reduce the amount I sweat. But the neckbeard stays most of the time.

If someone won't give me a game because of my beard, it's not someone I want to have a game with.

I think you misunderstand what exactly a neckbeard is. It is, quite literally a beard that just covers the neck.

This is not a Neckbeard, this is Daniel Bryan's face of manliness.


This is a neckbeard

I'd like to point out, as someone on disability at the moment, that I have to have assistance showering and shaving. That being said, I STILL find the time and a way to get that done before going out in public, let alone to a game store.

There's zero excuse.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
I've never really encountered this smelly gamer that people talk about. If there was one at the store I assume people would be pretty bummed out.

One thing though I don't understand is people bitching over peoples beards? Excluding people over their smell is fine in my opinion. Excluding people over their looks is pushing it.

A gaming store not allowing ugly dudes in is an empty gaming store.

It's the neckbeard aspect, not the beard aspect. A neckbeard goes back to the whole thing about taking personal care of oneself. If you can't take the time to shave your facial hair, and you can't take the time to shape and shave the beard to keep it looking nice, then you also probably don't shower as well... It's hygiene.

I have a neckbeard for two reasons - I dislike grooming my facial hair (the reason I grew a beard in the first place), and my fiancee loves it. Any time I trim it, she gets gakky with me. So yeah, I'm going to turn up to my FLGS with a neckbeard. I do shower, and make a lot of effort to reduce the amount I sweat. But the neckbeard stays most of the time.

If someone won't give me a game because of my beard, it's not someone I want to have a game with.

I think you misunderstand what exactly a neckbeard is. It is, quite literally a beard that just covers the neck.

This is not a Neckbeard, this is Daniel Bryan's face of manliness.

Spoiler:

This is a neckbeard

Spoiler:

My FLGS has a "No shirt, No shoes, No soap, No service" sign in the door. But judging by a few of the times I've been there they don't enforce it.

The worst I know about is the Magic player at my FLGS that couldn't be bothered to get up from the table for a bathroom break and peed himself. He just sat in it, continuing his game.

Relapse wrote:
The worst I know about is the Magic player at my FLGS that couldn't be bothered to get up from the table for a bathroom break and peed himself. He just sat in it, continuing his game.

Why do I never meet these cool dudes?

This happens to be from my FLGS in Garden City, MI.

What the hell? Some guy pissed himself in the game shop? That is completely outrageous!

 Da Boss wrote:
What the hell? Some guy pissed himself in the game shop? That is completely outrageous!

Yup, IIRC there's a more detailed retelling of this story somewhere on this site, complete with the gem of a line of "We finally realised what was happening when we heard the distinctive sound of a pressurised liquid hitting an empty plastic bottle".

Or that could've been a guy at a painting table in a GW. I might be misremembering.


I've already posted the stinky guys I've come across. The smelly gamer that went to live in Bath still cracks me up though.

good to know i have a face of manliness, and not a neckbeard...
of course, i also have an AK-47, so nobody has complained about the beard...

i have a surf every morning before i open the shop, and have to rinse afterwards, or i look like a salt-encrusted Captain Ahab...
not a good look for running a business...
unless, of course, you are selling harpoons...

cheers
jah

This thread is getting uncomfortable Jah

Anyone who's ever been to an Anime Convention will know all about the poor hygiene, poor diet and even worse manners.

And that's just the gals!

Of course, it comes to something that going to a video gaming store (privately owned), which was small and packed out one saturday and I could smell something awful. I left and went to go to a few other stores to wait out the mid day rush. Upon re-entering, the store was a lot less busy, but the smell had gotten worse. Having managed not to chunk, I found what I was looking for and went to the counter to pay and realised that the smell wasn't the multitude of gamers.

It was the store owner!