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Do peoples experiences with the really violent angry pol suggest this was out of the blue for that person? It seems like the stuff described in the thread is consistent with severe ADHD, autism or developmental disabilities.
The impressions I get are that most overly angry losers/dickish winners are relatively new to the concept of competition, or never learned to form cordial relationships with siblings or friends as a kid. In their heads they have no way to rationalize losing, or any desire to acknowledge others' skills.
That being said, I get frustrated sometimes, too, but usually only so far as saying "Man, I fucked up," or "I didn't see that coming." Sometimes it's just adrenaline talking.
The way I think of it is simple: I've been playing video games all my life. It's what I'm good at. I never played sports or did anything like that. Growing up, played mostly single-player games, and there was no element of competition whatsoever. Now in the days of easy multiplayer over the Internet, I find that there are some games I rule at, and some games where I'm not nearly as good as I thought compared to others. When you find out that you're not really that great at the thing you do best in life, it gets discouraging.
The problem is that when I was younger, I defined myself as being good at "games", which is as broad as saying you're good at "sports" instead of individual sports like saying you're good at basketball or baseball or whatever. So now, I'm no longer good at "games" because people will kick my ass in Halo 3 and mop the floor with me in Call of Duty 4. I am good, however, at Rock Band, Guitar Hero, etc.
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That...That doesn't sound like healthy behavior. I mean, I can see someone taking losing badly, maybe punching the floor or a wall. But to hit yourself in the face.
Is she punishing herself for losing?
It's okay, it's a girl that plays videogames so any insanity is worth it rite.
It's most likely a case of low self-confidence, in that she's hurting herself for not being able to beat a simple computer or other person.
I will just up and quit games for long periods of time that do frustrating things, mostly of the MegaTen "surprise, that 1% chance of death in every battle from bad luck just got you" variety. I have quit out of particularly laggy online fighters, but I'm usually winning anyway, so that's more of a "this isn't fun at all" thing than anything else. Mostly MBAC, so a fighter where throwing out crappy pokes leaves an opening for a basic combo taking off a quarter of your life... but with lag, those dangerous moves are suddenly safe because people can't capitalize on them. It's even more frustrating when the other person isn't good enough to realize that they're playing really really badly and only getting away with it because of the lag.
Of course, it's also amusing to completely fake people out and actually see them only successfully block a cross-up or whatnot because of the lag.
I also used to be 13. So now I usually just quit the game, because if I'm not having fun then there's no point in playing.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Probably gets mad that some of their attacks go through his air fireballs.
I also enjoy the difficulty of games like Ninja Gaiden 2 and Ikaruga, so I suppose it would be pretty tough for me to play a game that makes me angry out of sheet difficulty. Even in versus games, the only things that bother me much nowadays are cheaters and my controls failing me. And by controls failing me, I mean that quite honestly. The 360 controllers have the worst dpads in existence, so I get frustrated when moves in fighting games simply do not work because the dpad is so terrible.
Preaching to the choir, man. The only thing that sucks more in fighters than getting a move inputted that you didn't want, is playing online in getting hit by a move you blocked due to lag(I'm looking at you Ken and your double shoryukens).
I thought he'd finally learnt his lesson when he had to replace his monitor, though - one day it just gave up and died after another high-speed visit to the wall. He didn't - until he found out the expensive way that LCD monitors won't take anything like the punishment he'd been dishing out.
I was playing Halo 2 with a couple guys from the basketball team. Now we're destroying this one guy who fancied himself to be a quality player. He just sits there stewing in his rage, muttering curses and the like. Eventually he gets assassinated just as he was about to finish a guy off, next thing I know he's on his feet, yanks the controller (duke) out swings it around on its cord a few times and slams it into the floor right between us. It dents the wooden floor yet remains in one piece, and he just walks off leaving us stunned, and wondering if he'd just tried to brain us.
Though he was hella competitive in all aspects of life. It wasn't just losing videogames that got him pissed.
p.s. paging Willeth if he ain't posted yet.
I play Vega, who is supposed to be only above Dan on the tier list and I get similar reactions sometimes.
The best part is they DC while the screen is covered with Vega dashing from one side of the screen to the other slashing them with showers of red rose petals all over the place.
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That's... disturbing. And also the fact that while he was swinging it over his head none of you did anything?
Back when Halo 2 came out, I decided to try it out with him. I had grown up with Nintendo and had never really played many shooters, so obviously I wasnt very competitive. Well, after playing a few rounds with him, I decided that I would never again play Halo against him. We both have very different ideas of what fun is. His idea of fun is beating me 50-2 and teabagging me after every kill. Halo was put away very quickly.
A few years later, he gets Fifa for the 360. I had some experience with soccer games in the past (and the sport in general), so I knew some basic strategies. As a result, I would win each game like 2-0, 3-1 etc. Close games, but I was better. Nearing the end of our last game, I scored with about 2 minutes left to go up by two and he then subsequently shuts the Xbox off and goes upstairs.
Another story. He was a big Xbox fanboy, so it took a bit of convincing from my girlfriend to get him to play Nintendo. We set up a game of Mario Party and play one of the minigame modes, which basically means we have like 15-20 minigames to play in all. About 10 games in, he is noticeably upset about being forced to play a game he is not good at (which is ridiculous, since all Mario games are designed to level the playing field). He is on the verge of tears because I am forcing him to finish what he started. Fortunately, we get a game which he found fun and it somewhat salvaged the experience for him.
One last thing. All 4 of his 360 controllers are damaged in some way. One controller is completely distroyed and the rest are held together by tape. I have been playing video games for almost 20 years (good god I am old) and I have never come close to destroying a single controller. He counters that all the "Mario games" I have played are not nearly as intense as the games he plays......:rotate:
I have 549 Rock Band Drum and 305 Pro Drum FC's
REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS
and ring
when getting killed in CS or DoD
even my monitor when he was visiting
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I did that once. When a program I was writing wasn't doing what I was trying to make it do.
That boss isn't that difficult when you learn how to do it -
o_O are you dating courtney love or something
I have killed two controllers in my many years. A PS1 dual shock and a 360 wireless controller. I kept the broken 360 controller and put it on "display" next to the TV to remind myself not to be a shithead when frustrated by a game. And also to remind myself that 360 controllers aren't cheap.
Does he look dead to you?
every time he died he would punch 1-3 times and swear
he is a 12 year old ass hole
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Do not engage the Watermelons.
Walking past me occasionally.
I am playing Trials HD right now!
And I'm so happy I'm alone because right now I'd bash someone's skull in out of pure anger!
The only game that has made me rage-quit thus far is Warhawk on the PS3. Awesome game, it's just that so many people who play it loathe any gametype that isn't just "Kill Mans" so they refuse to actually attempt to capture a flag/zone. And whenever I play Deathmatch and start to pull ahead (love proxy mines), out come the nonsensical insults and rage quits.
Only on the inside
Also tonight reminded me that one of my friends from work is also a horrible loser. We played Tiger Woods and Madden for awhile, and every time something goes wrong he makes an excuse to justify it ("Ok the game just lied to me again that's fucking sweet," "Every time I fucking kick it goes to the right even when I'm going to the left what the fuck I didn't do that fuck") or just quits. He doesn't get physically angry or anything, there's just a lot of whining that usually culminates in him turning off the game and leaving.
He's still with her, strangely enough. The laptop croaked, though.
As for a story of my own: Several of my friends stopped talking to me for a while (and one broke his own controller) when I trounced them in a 4 man FFA match in Halo 2. I won 25 to 2 to 2 to 1.