People who play Smash at tournaments are a different beast from other FGC players or even just people who play Smash but not competitively.
It's a mindset thing, and competitive Smashers are rather... unique. It gets even weirder when you see the even further divide between the "inner" crowd who are Melee purists and the "outer" crowd of competitive players for the other Smash games, who sort of act like "transition layer" of attitudes between that inner crowd and the Smash/FGC playerbases at large.
Which is why it's important to get ones that are also antiperspirant rather than just deodorant, non antiperspirant deodorant is the literal worst.
What a second...humidity in Sacramento?! The heck happened? It's been hot, but I never experienced humidity in Sacramento.
Also those water rates are just a stack of reasons why I wont go back to California.
I've been there where I smelled just absolutely horrendous. I don't remember why I didnt care, but I care now. I think it's just naivety and laziness.
Is there even deodorant anymore that's not antiperspirant?
Yeah, I think it's more common in areas that don't get that hot.
I have a terrible sense of smell. My sense of smell is a blessing and a curse, for instance, if someone driving makes the nastiest smelling fart ever and rolls up the windows like an asshole, everyone around me starts dying and I'm fine. I can only smell things that are very concentrated, which means really rancid food, skunks, powerful perfume, etc. However, it means I can't really smell flowers, it's hard for me to notice if a room smells bad (and thus needs cleaning), and I sometimes have trouble detecting if food is bad just by smell alone.
My worst fear is smelling bad but not being able to tell, so I always shower and wear lots of deodorant with antiperspirant, plus two small squirts of cologne just in case. Some people will just never tell you if you smell out of "kindness" but letting someone be a walking bio-hazard is not kindness at all.
There's been links with diminished sense of smell and autism. Not making any conclusions here, but in my personal life a lot of people I've known who were on the spectrum were Smash players, myself included. I wouldn't rule out some of these smelly Smashers literally can't smell how bad they reek.
If you have a friend that stinks, tell them. I really doubt they'd be upset and more thankful that someone let them know.
While there are quite a few Smashers on the spectrum, such as Mew2King, the inability to smell is actually a fairly common symptom of a lot of genetic, disease and disorderly causes due to being our weakest major sense and shouldn't really be seen as the metric for this assertion.
Calling the non-Melee comp Smashers an insulation layer is realllllly pushing it. The age disparity between the FGC and SSB4/SSBU crowd is very noticeably larger than with the FGC and Melee communities (a lot of the SSB4/SSBU scene being literal children) though in both cases, the average FGC member is generally older. Melee players are definitely grotesquely insulated overall and a ton of them need to find out about the wonders of the thousands-upon-thousands of other great games out there, but the modern Smash community has done some heinous shit, too, including attacking modders online for just wanting to have fun editing the game like how most communities mod their games or how they've even tried to justify sexual predators during the SSB4 era.
Fair enough. I originally called it a "transition layer" in the original draft, but that didn't quite get the message across of how insulated Melee is from the rest of the gaming space and only seem to interact indirectly with the outside world via the modern Smash crowd. But I did also try to imply that modern Smash comps aren't totally innocent either. Maybe I should've wrote "insulation/transition layer" and just covered all my bases.
Speak for yourself. I have a weird reaction to any of the aluminum based antiperspirants. I start sweating buckets from anywhere they are applied. I'm told it's not an allergic reaction, but the amount of sweat I produce is unfuckingbelievable. A dermatologist didn't believe me at first, so I put on a thick coat and I literally had rivers running down my arms on the drive home.
I've been using this stuff for years now. It works, it's cheap, and it doesn't have nasty cheap scents.
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