The Horrors of Trading Card Games

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  @PapaMeat · 1 year ago · pinned

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYh-HrtvnLE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYh-HrtvnLE</a>

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  @YoBoiHrcky · 1 year ago

  There being &quot;The One Ring&quot; card and people losing their shit over it, paying millions to get it is literally the point Tolkien was trying to make

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  @Sinniboi · 1 year ago

  God, I&apos;ll never forget the day in our sixth grade class. When the teacher just stopped mid sentence, sighed, and was like &quot;alright y&apos;all we need to have a talk. You are all at that age now, where it is getting important to take a shower and wear deoterant. If you can&apos;t get some deodorant, I will buy it for you. This classroom stinks, it&apos;s unbearable. If you don&apos;t, I&apos;m gonna start calling out the biggest offenders.&quot; I was so afraid of being called out for being stinky in front of class, I&apos;ve never forgot my deoterant since that day. These tournaments need Mrs. Eckles.

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  @chloedustin1794 · 1 year ago

  boyfriend recently taught me how to play commander, my general body odor increased by 50%

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  @hoozoohleague8264 · 1 year ago

  EXPERT ADVICE: I worked in prisons. Some inmates will stink up their cells on purpose to annoy workers or other inmates. VICK&apos;S VAPORUB UNDER YOUR NOSE. A little bit will do.<br><br><br><br><br>Social anxiety is so common in &quot;nerdy&quot; hobbies. I don&apos;t understand &nbsp;how people who are anxious to be in public dont take the bare minimum of time to look good before they go to these events.<br><br>I have a tiny bit of social anxiety. When I go to my friend&apos;s house for game night, I shave, shower, brush my teeth, put on fresh clothes. I carry gum on me because I&apos;m a smoker and I understand some people are very annoyed with even the slightest residual

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  @punishedbung4902 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Favorite ruling to ever be made for any card game is “you cannot eat your opponent’s cards.” Many tcgs were forced to implement this because people would destroy another person’s card, then call over a judge to disqualify the other player for having a deck that didn’t have the minimum amount of cards.<br>Thank you for covering this ruling.

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  @rogueparagon9952 · 1 year ago

  Will always find it hilarious that a competition where you sit and have close to no physical movement or interaction has people who smell worse than most athletic events

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  @CasualDuelist · 1 year ago

  Hygiene has been such an issue in the yugioh scene, Konami made a master rule for competition, stating players that smell bad will be removed from events.

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  @nathantaylor3773 · 1 year ago

  People should be shamed bad for their personal hygiene, if they don’t meet the requirements they should be shamed in front of everybody.

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  @TheMartinicity · 1 year ago (edited)

  I play warhammer at a local venue and I am not even kidding when I tell you there have been tire tracks on the chairs magic players used

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  @lilsoggins · 1 year ago (edited)

  My cousin worked in a stable at a farm and once told me “the trading card shop smelled so bad I had to take my stuff and leave.” 💀

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  @somefeathereddinosaur · 1 year ago

  Yu-Gi-Oh! had to make a game rule change because of bad hygiene once. Not a tournament thing, an actual mechanic of the game was changed because people were being stinky and sweaty. <br><br><br>There&apos;s this one card (Yu-Jo Friendship) that asks for a handshake so both players may equalize the life points basically, however, if you had another card in hand (Unity), the other player was forced to make the handshake. If they didn&apos;t do it it&apos;d be a game loss for them.<br><br>Thing is, people noticed that, and they started playing with the most awful hand hygiene they could just so the opponent would be grossed out and give up the game for not shaking hands. Not washing their hands, purposefully getting them sweaty, coughing and sneezing on them, etc. You could do this in a tournament and you&apos;d win.<br><br><br>This led to the definition of a game ruling where the &quot;handshake&quot; in question is just the idea of a handshake, and no contact was necessary so long as you agreed to the idea of that handshake.<br><br>Absolutely wild.

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