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What does your fandom say about you when you are stereotyped as a smelly, antisocial, and incapable of preforming simple life skills?

All gamers are like this:

There are so many people that attend fan conventions and do not bathe/shower. If you know any friends that attend any of those conventions (SF/Fantasy, Anime, Gaming, etc...), ask them about it and then prepare yourself for some jacked up stories.

I used to do gaming reviews and the company I wrote for released "Hygiene: The Game" at one year's GenCon (biggest gaming convention in the US). It was literally a bag filled with no-name/generic hygiene items (bar soap, toothpaste, deodorant, mouthwash, and body spray) and point sheets where you checked off boxes for each day of the convention that you used the included items. Every day of the con, you stopped by the booth and got your sheet for the day stamped by someone that worked at the booth. And the booth had "volunteers" that checked to make sure that you used the items (and yes, you could substitute other items for the ones in the packet).

On the last day of the con, if you brought in all four sheets that were stamped, you got a box filled with gaming products contributed by various publishers/manufacturers.

Now...here's the most jank thing about this. We had a significant number of people that would show up to the booth trying to get their sheet stamped while not having used any sort of hygiene products. And then they would argue about it. Okay, yes there are people that sweat profusely and the like...but if you bathe regularly, you can tell the difference.

Sorry that I dragged this answer out, but yes; hygiene is a serious problem at many fan conventions.

I've known more coherent downies.

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I've attended a handful of g*ming events (LANs) in frogland, mostly to play, and never met anybody too unclean, even though some people pretty much sleep on the ground below their computers

with no due respect whatsoever, I'd say it's an american/MTG/weeb thing, mostly a savant combination of those 3 in various amounts

What is frogland? France?

Yes. Frogs = Frenchies.

euw

You're french you're all smelly you're just too retarded to know it.

You know that paris is literally such a smelly shithole it gives japs fits and they have to go to the hospital

Frogs are so smelly people invented a word for finding out how smelly you are.

I don't deny Paris is hellish which is why I go there the least possible

There aren't a lot of gaming events there in spite of the local money, though, Paris Games Week is mostly teenagers coming to fortnite dance and the entry cost is enough to keep out people who can't shower

"that other race smells" isn't just japs in paris though, after ww2 they claimed women who laid with gaijins smelled of butter, I think a notorious muslim medieval scientist wrote we smell of corpses, and pre-ww1 France made propaganda that claimed Germans peed through their skin pores

we're a joyous bunch really

pre-ww1 France made propaganda that claimed Germans peed through their skin pores

Imagine being so brainwashed by EU propaganda that you reject scientific truth about the Hun menace.

They hated him because he told the truth.

Germans embody the worst traits of m*yos

The Eternal Kraut, fucking up civilization since the time of the Romans

Went backpacking for a couple of weeks and made a quick stop in Paris (and Nice and Monaco). Can confirm, Paris smells weird.

Imagine thinking pee is stored anywhere but the balls

Hmmm, I wonder why?

🙌🏾

I went to Lille to study abroad the past 4 months, and tbh I never met the hyper gaming autist that's common in burgerland. You guys have them over there too?

Depends. I once saw a litteral cliché fedora-wearing overweight neckbeard in Rouen, but that's one out of thousands of people I didn't notice.

MTG nerds and the likes tend to blend a bit. Messy hair and unkept beard but not straight up filthiness

You don’t just “meet” one. That assumes that they will be out and about, not gaming at home.

Jesus fucking christ lmao

holy hell, and I thought all those tendies stories were exaggerated for comedic purposes

All large “nerd” events are like that I live in Southern California and go to SD Comic-Con each year and it always smells like ASS. It’s so sad to me that this is such a difficult task for some people.

I dont know, but ive been on nofap for 30 days and my skin feels fantastic. Its so soft and supple. Basically a serial killers dream.

For sale: skin suit, barely used.

Must be a hell of a game.

Back in college, our Electrical Engineering and Computer Science buildings had similar signs in a few of its labs, reminding the students to shower and wear deodorant regularly. I’m sure there’s a huge overlap between us and Magic players.

Our electrical engineering program was overrun by pajeets, so it was definitely advisable to avoid that area

Fucking larpers. Jesus christ they smell so goddamn bad

All fandoms have a pretty bad reputation.

FNM? TCG? What?

Ugh

Uggghhhh

Gross. That's a yikes for sure.

FNM = Friday night magic. Instead of going to a club or a party on Friday night, you hang out with your fellow autists.

Fair. I browse /r/drams every Friday.

Luckily we don't have to smell you until they introduce Reddit Scents.

Can't wait to smell your's. ;)

Thats fucking worse.

Instead of going to a club or a party on Friday night, you hang out with your fellow autists.

I feel like everything before the comma is redundant. Like there ever was a chance of them going out to a club or a party to begin with.

MTG, because Pokemon Cards, Yugioh and Duel Masters aren’t autistic enough.

Wouldn't it be the opposite since pokemon and yugioh are card games based on Japanese children's cartoons? Maybe duel masters too, but even I'm not autistic enough to know what duel masters is.

MTG came long before any of those, thus the latter 3 are spawned from MTG's autism

I was gonna say that yugioh must be the most autistic one by far, but then I started thinking about the people who actually play pokemon the card game.

We are here to play magic and they’re free not to shower and smell like cum and shit

The state of cardcels

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/ad9sj5/before_going_to_fnm_please_please_take_a_bath_and/edf29ei

Can we stop calling everything a fucking community

the drama community

im so proud of this community

Fuck yeah.

Who's "we" stranger?

we live in a community

Bottom text.

I got downvoted in some other sub for calling out some who stated they were part of the “childfree community.”

These posts pop up on /r/squaredcircle too from time to time.

2 min, baby!

I like going to hobby shops that sell these cards and warhammer/D&D stuff and they aren't as bad as when the WWE comes to town.

oh god, there's a hobby shop near me, on some days it's fine...on others, especially when they're doing tournaments or exhibits....it's bad

My favorite memory from the main hobby shop I went to was this dude who was probably a crack head wanting to trade heroclix. He was jittery, itchy, pale, etc. It was the weirdest thing.

You can always just tell with this kind of post that it sets off an alarm that brings every neckbeard into the fray to show how so so much they really aren't that guy.

That neck beard bashing sub

As someone that used to work in a card shop, they absolutely are. All of them.

I lose all of my power if I use soap in the shower.

I think these posts people do before conventions are just karma grabs at this point. The people who refuse to shower and take care of their hygiene know what their doing, they just don't get give a fuck. Its not like they're gonna see a post like this and change their habits.

I think we need to start making Jordan Peterson part of the early curriculum.

I am not happy to say this because all the Jungian bullshit is nonsense, but I agree.

JP's teachings would do a lot of good for a lot of "lost" males.

Why do you think menslib etc constantly shits on him?

I don't know what menslib is tbh.

a selfhelp group for men whose libido needs arent met. they have a forum on reddit, you should check it out.

I honestly got bored before I could form an opinion

understandable

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This, but completely unironically.

While the dude is a bit of nutcase when he talks outside his field, and not to mention his rabid fans that treat him like some sort of intellectual God, he's spot fucking on when it comes to clinical psychology and the basic principles of behaving like a remotely well adjusted man.

Furries are gigantic pussies nowadays, they'd probably call you a Nazi.

yeah hes a fun dude to make fun of but thats because his shit is basic af and people act like it makes them an intellectual

but if youre a fucked up mess it could probably help i guess

His whole "cleam your room" angle is just to introduce daoist philosophies to his students. It's only basic as fuck because you're focusing on five minutes of introductory material. So yeah, it's not just any old basic shit, it's carefully crafted basic shit to help guide noobs to the deep shit.

I'm covered with my secret santa gift of industrial strength Lynx Africa.

Watch out ladies.

Tuck your sweatpants into your socks, turn the collar up on your fred Perry polo and prepare to be drowning in pussay

I'm wearing my best rayon shirt, the one without egg stains.

The people who play with Magic cards are by far some of the most disgusting people I've ever met on this dear planet Earth. I knew this one morbidly obese manchild who would do it everyday, would play one of those portable nintendo things wherever he fucking went (His fingers were so pudgy I'd always wonder how he was able to even hit any of the buttons individually). Also a furry and a weeb unsurprisingly. OP makes me wonder what happened to that guy. probably dead cause he was such a fatass but oh well

its truly over for cardboardcels

amen

nigga you really pretending to not know what a gameboy is?

it was something else

Probably an x-box

At college we had a guy in our class that this is almost an exact description of. He often unironically came in wearing an anime trench coat and regularly wore these steampunk ski goggles. His hair always looked wet with grease, he drank multiple of those 2L bottles of coke a day, and would play on his DS every chance he got.

Disgusting

I was gonna ask if he was a pasty white ginger or not but I realize there's probably enough people in the world like this that the chances they're the same person are lower than I think. Where do all these weirdos come from?

Nah his hair was literally black with grease, his neckbeard was brownish so I imagine it's not naturally black 🤢

I imagine they're more common in STEM than anywhere else, they seem to all pick up the same autistic hobbies like nintendo games, furry, mlp, anime, TCGs, etc.

I remember them in highschool, the library would smell worse the closer you got to their table in the corner.

gaymers

🤢🤢🤮🤮

r/Gaymers

These aren't regular gamers, these are cardcels.

Otherwise known as dumpster-Americans

So they are using the same tactics the 9/11 hijackers used.

If I had to make a decision about which group I would rather see my daughter date a member of, I would have to sit down and have a good long think. I suppose it would probably come down to their deodorant choice.

One just needs to go to the r/relationships and r/relationship_advice to see how many women complain about their partner's hygiene standards.

I mean jeez you are the one who is dating these dumpster fucks.

They're the type of foid autistic enough to post in r/relationship_advice. Of course they're messing with beta trash.

Is there any exception? For instance when it's 70 degrees below zero, or when I showered last night before bed.

70 degrees below zero?! Do you live in neptune or something?

Hahaha I was just making an exaggeration to come up with an exception. Lol

I literally can't believe this is an actual problem.

Really? You really can't believe that a bunch of fat nerds smell like a slaughterhouse dumpster during summer?

I thought it was mostly a meme...

You've obviously never been around the type. It's 100% true and it's disgusting.

I'm shocked this wasn't a link to an AGDQ or r/speedrun thread

This Asian moved into the house I'm renting a room at, he never cleaned anything and was a litteral man child. Blasting comicbook readings over his speakers and avoiding eye contact with me. Fucking smelled like burned garlic and headcheese toe funk downstairs the entire time he lived there. Guess he destroyed the bathroom too. He played magic constantly went to events but the fucjer is a graduate engineering student. How the fuck are you so disgusting and lacking in any care but that intelligent. My God fucking Chinese are the worst

Imagine having to be told to bathe and use deodorant. Really.

I could see this in middleschool...

But fucks sake past 13? Its a concious decision really

This was like before All In where r/squaredcircle had posts about bathing and it was decreed that 2 min was the minimum for a proper shower time.

I don't understand people who don't bathe regularly. A nice hot shower feels so good in the morning and after a long day of work.

I feel like I can't even properly start my day without showering. It's like I'm not really waking up.

Yes I know, supposedly two showers a day dries out my skin. Don't care, still gonna do it.

just tell them to wash properly and regularly, you tell smelly people to use deodorant and theyll forgo washing to spray half a can of that shit and choke everyone