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What's with TCG players and hygiene? I remember my MtG days when you couldn't attend a single tournament without at least two of your opponent smelling like spicy corpses.
It's mostly just men hitting puberty and developing glands and pores they didn't have before.
You're going to find all the same smells in the locker room and the band van and the construction site. Anywhere you've got adolescent men congregating. Especially if there's bad ventilation and poor AC.
What about the middle aged stinkers? What’s their excuse?
Depression probably.
Drinking, smoking, and sleeping rough are the most common cases I've noticed.
You hit puberty anywhere between 11 and 14... I dont think thats the main crowd.
You continue through puberty until you're around 17. And you don't stop smelling bad once it's over. 20 year olds who spent a few hours out in the sun will smell even worse.
(mostly facetious) irrelevant! The last time a TCG tournament player spent a few hours in the sun, we were building decks out of clay tablets!
Is this what activating a trap card is? Everything I've ever learned about TCGs has been done unwillingly through shitposts.
I have to disagree, from first hand experience I'm mostly talking about grown adults.
Why can't they be... taught? To clean themselves?
They can. But they also have to be.
Part of the cycle is new kids coming in, smelling bad, getting bullied for smelling bad, and changing their habits as a result. And then more new kids come in, and the pattern repeats. But you do need a baseline.
I've been in gyms that smell absolutely foul. And the folks who have normalized the odor simply don't notice. If nobody says anything or otherwise makes an issue of it, the folks running the place don't change the policies or put in the legwork to clean the place up.
With the construction site, It could just be the corpses in the concrete that are starting to smell a bit.
Definitely not the leading cause of TCG-smell. But that is a complicating factor for that age group