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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to play MTG and can confirm the places I played almost always had that stale sweat smell.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You know, I always associated dirty, smelly degenerates with magic until I started playing - (I validated that by being the dirty smelly degenerate ๐Ÿ˜‰) it was interesting finding out that potentially due to the high cost of the decks, a good part of the playerbase actually really had their shit together. We're talking engineers, pediatricians, lawyers etc. who could afford to throw $500 down on cardboard. Enough folks were married that my wife started calling the place "husband daycare"

Of course the smelly smell still made an appearance, I was able to determine if a particular person was in the local game store (LGS) by smell alone, the moment I walked into the store.