Most of Otacon is fine. But in some of the video rooms, and ALWAYS in the rave room... whew. The rave room REALLY IS THAT BAD. When I said a tangible wall of olfactory horror, I meant it. You approach the area, and you start smelling something fowl. You walk up to the door, your ears are asaulted by sound, and the foulness gets a little worse. You cross a line, a threshold, if you will, and actually enter the room, and your nose explodes. What -I- don't understand is how ANYONE, even the people PRODUCING the stench, can possibly stand to be around themselves. It's worse than anything I've ever smelled before.
Mostly things are okay, but the rave room is horrid. A few video rooms could use some febreeze, but are tolerable for reasonable periods of time (after which the stench builds up and you just have to get out of there). Hygiene is part of it, but another part is the fact that there's a very large number of people placed in a small contained space, often wearing big furry costumes. In the middle of the summer. The ventilation just isn't strong enough to handle all those people, and then when they walk outside the convention center to get food, that just compounds the issue.
And then there are those who just don't shower, don't wear deoderant. And it only takes one or two to fill a room, esspecially if they hang around that room for hours. Otacon has several thousand people show up. If even 1% don't shower, that WILL be a lot of stench. And the percentage of non-bathers is likely higher. Most of us are fine... it's just the sheer numbers.
