Can confirm isn't just a meme..Smash players always seem to stink real bad. I attended a couple of fighting game events in the UK and the smell of BO from the smash room is so strong you can usually smell it outside the room and down the corridor.
Attending the UK's biggest lan around 20 times in the last 6-7 years I have also seen/smelled my fair share of greasy smelly gamers but on the whole people seem a bit more conscious of it now after widespread push to sort it out. That being said you still get the occasional person that has a smell like cheesy liquid ass which sticks around for minutes after they have passed by and smells so bad you want to gag. It's always overweight people that get to that stage, I'm not sure if it's partially being bigger = more sweat but also not washing = more surface area to be covered in grub and nice warm sweaty folds for bacteria to grow.
Love the Xavier Renegade Angel voice when Mang0 is shown.
I went to a legit smash tournament once (my first and only match was against ESAM lol...) and thankfully literally the only smell I smelt was that of Cheetos. Someone somewhere was eating them and it vastly overpowered everything else in that very cramped building.
ty cheetos
Last MAGfest the Smash group was relegated to one corner of the game area far away from the entrance, cause the MAG before that they were pretty close to it and boy was that a fucking barrier to entry every time.
Now that I think about it, the only regular Smash player that I knew was that kid in primary school who had skid marks every other week in PE
All the tournaments I've been too have all smelled fine. Worst it's been has been my own doubles partner who woke up late on a hot summers day without the time to shower and a very apparant case of swamp ass.
Magic events though... I cannot imagine owning and playing with cardboard worth over £1000 and yet still exist as a walking oil slick. Actually conceded against a person who smelled like they shat themselves. I stood up as soon as I saw they were playing turbofog since it was gonna be a long one.
Oh shit...maybe that's their strategy all along.
I've been running Smash tournaments on and off for a few years, and one of the first ones I ran we had a complaint from people nearby that the smell was too bad to be in the room with (It was a public venue).
After that I vowed no more, and I carry a deodorant can to give to people at my events as free use. These days most people are fine, but the odd person doesn't follow any hygiene rules.
If its as bad as some people make it out to be i'd be bringing a portable shower too
I just don't understand why "don't smell bad" is such a difficult concept for so many people to grasp.
How could you be so ignorant? Don't you understand?
These people that play a 18 year old party game competitively, travelling for conventions and tournaments as well buying every little bit of nintendo tat, clearly cannot afford the exorbitant decadence of a daily shower.
Most deodorant is just armpit perfume that masks BO.
If you practice proper hygiene you won't need deodorant until you do something body intensive or unless you are like a fifteen year old hormone explosion.
Maybe in the netherlands, But in the south, swamp ass and constant sweating is expected when its often +80% humidity with 90 degree weather for 50% of the year. It doesn't matter if you are sitting still, just being in the climate makes you sweat your tits off.
Anyone else been to Super Smash Con. in DC? The smash 4 area was HORRIBLE last year. For some reason they decided pack all the tables so close together that you could barely squeeze by. When it was the most busy you could smell the sweat from across the venue. I feel bad for the vendors and artists that were set up in the same building
I'm kinda happy I don't know what the hell you people mean by swamp ass.
In MD where the weather varies like a mood swinger in spring/ summer when conventions hit, you either get hot days with low humidity, or lukewarm days with 90% humidity so con-goers are prepared for hot days but not for high humid. We had several people get sent away on stretchers for not hydrating and people being kicked out for not prepared for the high amounts of sweat from the day. Doesn't give them the excuse when they don't wash, but some days are just terrible for tourneys and people in foam armor cosplays.
It’s when your buttcrack gets all moist and sweaty from humidity+hot weather, depending on the hygiene of the individual, it can smell like dirty sweaty ass.
You can usually tell which ones exercise and which ones don't. Even the casual after high school smash bros sessions at the library across the street had a few stinkers in em.
And that's implying you have to physically exercise in order to produce sweat and body odor. If I'm playing a fighting game or RTS and tryharding I can sweat a bit just from being to into it I suppose? Nervous isn't the right word because I'm not nervous but I guess I'm just trying to react faster than I do when I'm not playing those games.
Still not an excuse to not shower and smell like swamp ass on stage though.
Oh pls no. If someone told me "I never wear deodorant, I just shower!" I'd feel so skeeved.
Like, idk, maybe if you sit all day in an environment no hotter than 65F/18.3C, but overall that still sounds gross
Jesus, every two weeks? I can feel myself getting oily after one day of missing a shower..
Deodorant is literally just perfume, it has no hygienic function. Anti-perspirants stop you from sweating, while most deodorants contain Anti-perspirants not all do.
Even at my most unhygienic points in my life I always showered before going out to any kind of extensive event like a convention or even a film. I cannot understand how little you must think of yourself and others to not even try the most basic of hygienic practices when you're going to be in a crowded situation for prolonged periods of time.
I'm generally really hygienic: I wash/exfoliate my face, brush and floss, etc. but the prices for water in California are abysmal and there are additional taxes on water. I have to go to the gym to shower which I don't mind because it means there's an onus on me to workout but I can't imagine in any basement dweller smash players in California have even seen the inside a gym much less take advantage of the showers.
I don't know either, but it extends past Smash. I go down to my LGS to play X-Wing occasionally and there is some people there that smell absolutely fucking rank.
There was a few people who just didn't shower, but we have one kid there who had rotten stubs for teeth. (He has some conspiracy theorist reasoning for this, about the government putting shit in the toothpaste too.) Every time I see him there, he drinks nothing but soda and burps extremely loudly. His mouth smells worse than a fucking rotting deer carcass. It has gotten to the point where no one plays with him there, and he solely shows up to try to flex on new players. I don't know how he hasn't gotten kicked out yet.
I'm happy for you but without deodorant two hours after showering my armpits smell to the high heavens
I mean, economic reasons and all that are understandable, what's not understandable is, if this is a result of an economic or some other more complicated problem, how is it only affecting Smash players? If this was a complaint about body odor in conventions or esports in general that would be understandable, but this problem seems specific to Smash players, you don't see any other esports telling their players to fucking shower, so to me it doesn't seem like it's some sort of economic problem, to me it just seems like smash players just don't really care about their hygiene because, well, they don't care.
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