Everybody making the same grade school comments and jokes. I'm sure you all came to these ideas on your own, like convergent evolution before our very eyes. I'm sure, as well, it has nothing to do with having been primed to expect it to smell bad by abusive and exploitative ads, and hackneyed sitcom scripts, that raised you when your parents had something else they'd rather have been doing. No, you all say the same fucking thing because it's just such a good joke (you all independently came up with) that we need to hear it a thousand fucking times every time the opportunity comes up.
I think the reality is, several of us have been to these events and there is a reason for the jokes. The last MTG tournament i went to had a literal sign on the door that they could refuse service if you smelled like a week old cum sock.. Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean it's not a real thing.
Had MIDI parties in the 90s cuz we didn't have network cards yet. Just one big ring of machines all daisy chained together with MIDI cables. And it was awesome.
I think that being horrified by the smell of human beings is pretty broken. It's not a big deal. Some people even like it. Don't be a brainwashed tool of ad execs all your life.
Well not horrified.. it's one thing to smell a locker room after a game day. It's another if it's an entire parking lot structure with hundreds of people.
Can we have this except with Steam Decks? How bad would we garble up the radio bands with all of them connecting to the Wi-Fi and various tethered phones?
Nah "there's no girls on the internet" jokes in 2023 (or current year) are kind of cringe, and the only people I hear say jokes like that (even ironically) are in their 40s. Lemmy skews older, so I can see why we'd find that funny.
If we're going to be pedantic, it's "at LAN parties".
And our experiences are very different. I went to a lot of LANs in the 2000s with my parents where there were many women participants. Not quite 50/50, but a sizeable percentage. 0% women at a LAN sounds like a culture issue to me.
