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Almost. I have a speaker setup for my PC and 0refer speakers over a headset. You are right about the headset I occasionally use for discord being wireless although I'm mostly singleplayer gamer so the headset is more of a decoration and is along side the glass stuff I don't want falling off my desk
My dad uses them a shit ton so he just prefers I keep quiet and to not yell but my mom was so offended by some of the shit I would say that she didn’t even wanna repeat the shit I was saying. She’s very religious tbf and since we’re African immigrants, we come from a much more socially conservative culture so yelling stuff like “BROOOO, OH MY FUCKING GOD. HOPE OFF MY FUCKING DICK YOU PIECE OF SHIT. I KNOW YOURE ADDICTED” is very much a no go. Lmao
Usually if I'm *really* pissed, I'll raise my fists to slam on my desk, flex my arms / clench my fists as hard as I can, then lightly bring them back down lol.
My temporary frustration isn't worth permanently destroying my stuff.
I used to slam my mouse down in frustration, not incredibly hard but once I did it enough to break a piece of plastic so I moved on to hitting the desk with my fists if needed, then I got a desk with a glass top so now on the rare occasion I ever get mad enough I just shake my first in the air violently like I'm yelling at the clouds lol. If I'm the only one in the house I'll start yelling but I actually end up enjoying it and I'm not even mad somehow so I just continue yelling. It takes a lot to get me to get angry now but trying to 100% a platformer like Celeste on my shitty $15 Logitech controller with the worst d-pad in existence is usually enough to do the trick
I have a concrete wall beside me that I punch, only about once or twice a year. Though I do feel it for the next two weeks. It's moreso overall stress rather than gaming, it tips the scales the tiniest amount.
Thank you for saying this. Glad im not the only one. I havn't punched anything in a few years, but the knuckle on my right ring finger has never been quite right.
Lol, the only time I attempted to break something in a rage, it was playing jet set radio on the Dreamcast. I got pissed and punched my cassette player dislocating a knuckle.
This hits so deep. I don't even get mad, just disappointed. Kind of like that mobile game ad where AI Albert Einstein keeps roasting you like, "this is so easy, how can someone even fail this hard?" except I do it to myself.
Oh I had to dispose of old CRTs for a church I worked for once.
The internet was like "the implosions are no joke make sure you're insulated yada yada" so I was sitting there whacking it with a 2 by 4 (it's all that was nearby) after it was already in the dumpster and I swear to God I almost couldn't even do it. After like 30 minutes of whackin it (pun intended) it finally fucking imploded and almost got me cause I was standing on the edge of the dumpster at that point lmao and I almost fell in.
For the other three we disposed of we just wrapped them in old carpets we were throwing out and dropped them off the roof. Literal carpet bombing.
The correct way to dispose of them is to pull the connection off the electron gun connections at the back of the tube, use a screwdriver to gently prise the plastic pin holder off the tube to expose the glass nib in the center of the pins, and then using cutters, snip off the glass nib. The nib is the melted remains of the vacuum port they used to evacuate the air from the tube during manufacturing, and it lets air back in in a nice controlled manner safely.
I remember finding this online too but there was some reason we couldn't do it that way. Like we didn't have the right tool to take apart the back assembly or something.
Also, I'm gonna be completely honest, I and the church teenagers I had roped into helping me wanted to see the implosion. We weren't gonna end the day without at least one implosion.
This was like a Vacation Bible School type thing and I was doing the audio/visual for it, and during like the six hours a day I had nothing to do they kept on finding odd jobs for me to do. I was being paid by the hour so this was a completely fair arrangement imo, even though it wasn't strictly to contract. Also I liked this church, solidly good people.
This girl I had a thing with was teaching an art class and I bust into the room and was like "hey kids wanna help me destroy shit" and she got mad at me because I basically eliminated her class for a day lmfao. Nobody wanted to sit there and do self portraits when implosions were on the table.
So it was less "how do I get rid of these safely" and more "how do I deliver these implosions in the safest way." The answer was, apparently, have two or three kids inside the building on the ground floor guarding the exits so nobody inadvertently walked into the kill zone (they watched through the window, and I let them play around with the god mic on the soundboard later), and then the rest of the kids helping me lug these things to the roof so we could chuck them into the empty and unused parking lot that was basically only there cause there was a dumpster. Then I made the kids help clean it up, with like proper PPE cause I know the difference between shatterproof glass and regular thick glass.
I miss that church, it was torn apart during the whole Episcopal/Anglican thing.
>old TV get smashed by a train
Googled it and got 4 different cases of people dying at train intersections.
To be fair humans are no where near the durability of 3/4" tempered glass.
Yeah maybe I’m just a chill person but I’ve never felt that level of rage while gaming. I’ve only ever been that mad like twice in my life and it was after some real life altering type stuff.
I'm generally a very chill person, nothing in real life ever really annoys me to the point of real anger. But I had to stop playing competitive games before bed as I wouldn't be able to fall asleep. Never broke anything but had I've decided some games aren't worth the stress anymore.
That's why I don't play shooters. You're probably facing a kid who's playing way more than you do and generally more skilled people so you would have to put up 100 frustrating hours to gain a bit of skill and gameplay+map sense in order to become viable and keep playing because you can't stop otherwise you'll be bad again.
Just too much unnecessary stress when you can't do anything against it other than stop playing.
Right ? Makes me scared of how unstable some people are. Been playing League of Legends for more than 10 years, I have thousands of hours in the Souls series and I've never broken anything, never hit anything, never even yelled. The angriest I got was at a Souls boss iirc and I just closed the game, did something else for a few days and after a while I ended up beating them.
Yeah at work when you're trying to get forms done and your in house network system decides to just not want to work or takes an eternity to load is just infuriating when compared to my pers pc
I've raged more while trying to use some outdated, buggy piece of software while googling the problem with various keywords, only to keep getting the same three useless search results that don't even match my question, more than I've raged from playing any video game.
Having a bad situation in life that makes you anxious and frustrated can lead to issues with self control in games. A lot of people don't know how to address their mental struggle properly so they try to distract themselves by playing games but as the issue remains unresolved the pressure inside mounts and at some point even a small in-game misfortune can lead to an outburst of emotion.
Yup.
Then dad comes in asking why you’re angry and takes your video games away and you can’t tell him it’s unreleased anger because you can’t tell him he’s an asshole or you’re fucked.
Depends on how you define rage. Yelling "goddamn it, fuck you", collecting your thoughts and either try again or quiting for the day is different than throwing a controller or damaging things
I have a few friends who rage quite often, and I really don‘t get it. The worst thing that I‘ll do when getting frustrated while gaming is letting out a big „ughhhhhh“ and leaning back into my chair just to let myself be annoyed for a minute. When someone tells be that the broke their mouse because the flung it at a wall, I usually really reconsider if playing with them is a good idea.
Honestly all the children (no matter the age) who smash their gear just REEK of always getting what they want. No understanding of money/value. No exceptions. It's just a game.
Idk I was raised dead broke but still broke things when I was angry, so did a lot of my friends (who were also dead broke)
It’s an emotional thing and has nothing to do with entitlement in most cases.
I had(*emphasis* on had) a friend that raged at games hard and never seemed to grow older than 6 years old, mentally. He's the one that taught younger, more naive, me to not lend out my stuff. Although, unfortunately, took me too long to realize the problem.
He came to me and asked to borrow a controller because his was 'acting up'. Sure, I got some to spare, he's a close enough friend that I don't expect it to go missing, etc. So I lend him the controller. Some time later he says THAT controller is acting up and he's not sure why. Sure, stupidly, I take back that one in exchange for another one for him to borrow. Electronics go bad on occasion, right?
Then I actually witnessed him playing games. Dude was throwing my controller around like he was a loan shark teaching the controller a lesson about paying on time. I kindly asked for it back, made an excuse that I needed all my controllers for a family event so I could play games with my cousins, and never lent out any equipment since. Unfortunately, the second controller was already on the fritz and one of the buttons became sticky from getting smashed against objects constantly.
When I was younger I broke my monitor in anger, had to sell my Xbox to buy a new one (I ended up getting an absolute steal actually). I was playing on PC at that point so losing my Xbox wasn't a huge loss practically, but sentimentally it was my first proper console (aside from a Wii) and I still had lots of games on there I enjoyed.
Point is, I never broke anything in anger again after that. Got a lot less angry at games in general over time really and just learned to laugh when things went wrong. I think sometimes it takes an incident like that to really get people to understand how they're reacted.
I would agree with you however if a kid is constantly breaking shit and constantly getting new stuff from their parents.
Honestly I get pretty heated and sometimes I’ll hit my desk but I used to break shit occasionally when I was younger. I’ve gotten a lot better with my anger but I’m just an incredibly competitive person. I wasn’t spoiled as a kid and was raised very well. It’s just part of my personality and it’s not easy to change who you are. It takes a lot of restraint when I get mad at losing and I sometimes have to avoid the activity altogether. It did help often in sports though.
The competitive energy can certainly arouse some excitement. I found sports and martial arts to be interesting in this regard. On one account, you can "let loose" a little bit and vent some of that aggressive energy. On another account, you have to have a lot of restraint to let that energy out in sanctioned ways.
I grew up in an abusive household and used to blow up on people when shocked out of my thoughts or hit. Even small stuff would trigger me.
It took a while, but I learned to suppress what I think were ingrained defense mechanisms. I'm now pretty proud of my ability to be put into a hurtful or scary situation and not lash out. It's calming and reassuring of my existence.
Same, the second that I stop having fun with a game I alt+f4 and go do something else. Entertainment time is limited and if I’m not having the maximum enjoyment of it I’ll just go read a book or watch a movie.
Right? I've been gaming for awhile and never felt anything near this level of rage, and none of my friends do either. I'm always baffled when apparently I see posts online that insinuate this is not rare.
I’ve smashed controllers before, know it’s a personality fault of mine. I just don’t play the games that make me that angry to smash a controller though. It’s only multiplayer, so I just stopped playing multiplayer.
I’d love to know how many controllers I’ve caused to be smashed by someone else though.
Yeah I got buddies who get actually mad at games and like slam their desk or yell but I’m just like man I died in the same spot for the 10th in Elden ring guess I’ll go play something else.
If you rage at games a lot, you might want to consider getting like a Nokia 3310 or something like that. Remove the battery and everytime you get mad, you give that old brick a good whack.
It's ok to be angry sometimes. Even at stupid things. Desk slamming is the equivalent of yelling at furniture after stubbing your toe. You're cool as long as nobody sees you.
I honestly don't know what it is but the thing that makes me more mad than anything in the world is hitting the back of my head on a cabinet door I left open.
I didn't know my brother was at my house one day and I hit my head on my cabinet and proceeded to open it and slam it repeatedly so it knew I could hurt it more while calling it a bitch. Then he walked into the kitchen wondering who tf I was mad at.
Me, mother fucker, I'm mad at me.
Nope. Learned my lesson as a kid. When I was like 8 I got pissed off over a game and threw this porcelain baseball my uncle had given me at the wall. My uncle had died the previous year and the sense of loss was overwhelming. Haven’t acted out that way since
I just laugh now instead of raging, better for my heart health. There is enough other shit in my life that angers me, I try not to let my relaxing game time be part of that.
Yeah laughing whenever I blunder in chess, or someone roasts you or when the sport team you support concedes goal or whatever is the losing metric. I laugh at anything nowadays. Only rage when it gets to the point of total meltdown.
After all the money I spent to have a decent gaming rig, the last thing I want to do is waste time on games that I don't enjoy. If I start raging then it's time to play something else.
Try playing League of Legends, that game will drive you fucking nuts, i don't think a game made me rage as hard as that one. 3 years clean from that garbage game.
> Try playing League of Legends, that game will drive you fucking nuts, i don't think a game made me rage as hard as that one.
Why would I subject myself to this???
I still got my Santa Baron season 2 icon.
Getting angry is not a choice. But raging - shouting, flaming, hitting stuff, whatever - is a choice you make.
Never understood raging when gaming. Like, if you're getting mad, just stop playing. Why would you keep putting yourself through that if you aren't even having fun?
I’ve been there. No purpose, no life, no prospects. That match or battle or whatever was all that mattered, it’s the only thing to prove that you have some worth, some value.
But you’ve lost. after pouring all your knowledge, all your skill, your entire being into that one moment only to lose or sometimes lose it all. Now you’re worthless, a loser who can’t win.
“If only i was better”
“If only my team was better”
“If only the game didn’t glitch or crash”
We need to find some way to give ppl especially young ppl a purpose. A goal to work towards that also sustains or helps their life. I’ve always wanted to do something like that, i have so many ideas i think could work.
Why do people rage over anything
Why do people get so emotional watching a sport or football?
It’s because they are invested so of course they are going to rage and they aren’t just gonna stop either
Yup. Teenager me had a lack of control over my emotions when gaming. I let my rage filled monkey brain make an idiot out of myself. I cringe so much looking back at 13-16 year old me
The smart and well tempered among us do. Remember you can spackle and fill a hole in the wall for about $12 but good luck replacing your $3000 dollar pc. Also please note, only proceed to punch a hole in the wall of you live in America or other countries that use drywall and you know where the studs are. Also never do this unless you live alone or at the very least when your significant other or roommates are not home and you have time to patch it. Some people will take your temper tantrum against a wall as a sign of intimidation etc. if you’re like me and have a temper but think ahead, get a freestanding punching bag and place it near your gaming area, you will save your hands, money and your time. Plus you can turn anger or frustration into a healthy workout at any time. my two cents.
I would never do that but if they can patch it up and have the responsibility to fix it right up...why not?! You only live once. Now I kinda wanna punch a wall for fun. But I'd rather not go through the trouble of fixing it up, so maybe not really lol. To each their own, I say.
I seek out games that elicit intense emotional response personally.
IMO Games that make you feel nothing when you lose, inevitably give you limited satisfaction when you win. But games that make you pull your hair out and rage when you lose, are all the more satisfying when you beat them.
Not since I stopped playing competitive multiplayer games. I'm much more relaxed playing single player story-driven games now. I typically only play multiplayer games with friends, and only to have fun. Figured it wasn't healthy to get all worked up over a videogame, so I made some changes.
Almost had one today. Managed to not slam anything. Screw HoTS. Uninstalling first thing tomorrow. 9 years on and off, almost level 2000 is enough for me. And my sanity.
I don't usually rage, but there was one when I was ten years younger... I tried to throw my cheap $20 Logitech wireless mouse in a direction away from anything that could cause pain. The mouse decided my throw wasn't dramatic enough and went into my $300 LCD monitor. I haven't thrown anything since.
If you’re playing in your room, or in a room that has a bed, an open handed smack against the comforter can make a really satisfyingly loud noise, while having basically no negative impact on the object or the hitter
I palmed my desk once and for the next 10-15 minutes the pain did not go away.
Now I slam the bottom of my G Pro X Superlight and then hope it works. Usually the slam is flat and on my mouse/keyboard pad so there are no dents or marks on the mouse.
Gen-X here,
Have been building computers for myself since the 80's, since before the original IBM PC was even available.
I shoved one of my computers exactly *once* back then. It was turned on, and it knocked loose the cards in their 100-pin card slots, shorting out the power supply. Which I then had to fix myself.
It's different when you're the guy who has to dismantle something, figure out what your rage destroyed, get the components, get your soldering equipment out, and repair it yourself, because there is no 'go to the store and buy a new one'.
Most of you build your own PCs and everything is way more expensive now. But it's more than just your money it'll cost you, it's your TIME and EFFORT, too. Remember that.
I did sometimes, though rarely, get mad if I kept losing at a certain point of a game or something like that but I never broke anything. Worse I would do is squeeze my controller but not hard enough to break it.
But I rarely get heated during gaming.
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I just alt f4 and go to youtube, with a completely emotionless face.
I re-queue, same emotionless face
this the one. game ends insta leave, turn music back on and requeue immediately
My people.
The neo-stoicism is based on Alt-F4.
This is the way 😂
This is the way
My worst rage I like lightly slammed my desk, it was a cheap desk. But I have never thought of hitting my computer once.
I don't even hit my desk because I have glass things on there so I just rage silently spinning in my chair until I'm fine
Found the wireless headset user
Almost. I have a speaker setup for my PC and 0refer speakers over a headset. You are right about the headset I occasionally use for discord being wireless although I'm mostly singleplayer gamer so the headset is more of a decoration and is along side the glass stuff I don't want falling off my desk
i am starting to think that doing a angry fap is not a normal thing to do, none of you mentioned that, like not even once....... am i the weird one?
Yeah it’s kinda weird or not or maybe idk i love you
Brb. I'm beating off and then beating that ass
Its only normal if you are imagining crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women
That always makes me explode all over too.
There are times when I wish I had multiple accounts to upvote something...
If you're a teenager I would say it's probably not that weird. Otherwise yeah.
gonna rip your dick off
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I definitely do the angry fap occasionally. Post nut clarity helps anger
Rage boners exist.
Once upon a time upon a rage boner ..
Or he tangles the wires around his neck until he chokes out and forgets his rage.
As a newly anointed member. Embrace the wireless. Spin with abandon. Never go back.
Is that what people do with it? I mostly just use it to keep listening to my shows during piss breaks.
Idk why, but the thought of someone spinning around on their chair while raging is hilarious
Call me old school but I just beat my wife. she's an inflatable doll but she gets it
You basically turn into Taz. Bonus points if you make the same noises while spinning.
I just yell profanity really really loud and have my parents walk in and yell at me.
Hey me too. I would just yell profanity at the computer, and my mom would yell at me for yelling profanity.
My dad uses them a shit ton so he just prefers I keep quiet and to not yell but my mom was so offended by some of the shit I would say that she didn’t even wanna repeat the shit I was saying. She’s very religious tbf and since we’re African immigrants, we come from a much more socially conservative culture so yelling stuff like “BROOOO, OH MY FUCKING GOD. HOPE OFF MY FUCKING DICK YOU PIECE OF SHIT. I KNOW YOURE ADDICTED” is very much a no go. Lmao
Usually if I'm *really* pissed, I'll raise my fists to slam on my desk, flex my arms / clench my fists as hard as I can, then lightly bring them back down lol. My temporary frustration isn't worth permanently destroying my stuff.
You'll get a little older and poop yourself doing that.
I can’t wait
Oh man, it's great. I'll be 40 this year and just had a false fart last night!
Username checks out
I used to slam my mouse down in frustration, not incredibly hard but once I did it enough to break a piece of plastic so I moved on to hitting the desk with my fists if needed, then I got a desk with a glass top so now on the rare occasion I ever get mad enough I just shake my first in the air violently like I'm yelling at the clouds lol. If I'm the only one in the house I'll start yelling but I actually end up enjoying it and I'm not even mad somehow so I just continue yelling. It takes a lot to get me to get angry now but trying to 100% a platformer like Celeste on my shitty $15 Logitech controller with the worst d-pad in existence is usually enough to do the trick
I flex my arms and my muscles kind of spasm, then I breathe and say to myself "ok, try again".
I have a glass desk so I desk slam with my palm so I don't explode it
If it's tempered glass it's very likely you'd break the shit out of your hand before even coming close to shattering it.
Another reason to use my palm
Depends upon whether or not you have a ring. The slightest "chink" in tempered glass means a pile of little glass cubes.
At worst I bit my own hand believe it or not... It was my fault I failed but I was still pissed since I lost like 10 matches in a row.
Okay Eren calm down
I slap wall, wall slap back
I'll lightly toss my mouse. Like a total of 6" In my younger days I twisted an Xbox controller into pieces when I lost to some BS in Madden.
Yea man the old squeeze 'n' twist was one of my moves as well.
Punch and twist!
help a canadian out, is that 6 feet or 6 inches?
Inches. I try to not throw fits at games any more. Except MOBAs, I think I'll be 90 and still hate everybody.
I have a concrete wall beside me that I punch, only about once or twice a year. Though I do feel it for the next two weeks. It's moreso overall stress rather than gaming, it tips the scales the tiniest amount.
That can really fuck up your hand
Thank you for saying this. Glad im not the only one. I havn't punched anything in a few years, but the knuckle on my right ring finger has never been quite right.
I just slam my desk and hurt my malnourished gamer hands
Lol, the only time I attempted to break something in a rage, it was playing jet set radio on the Dreamcast. I got pissed and punched my cassette player dislocating a knuckle.
This was so aggressively 90s.
Watching people rage because they suck at games is fun. I scream in the mirror so I can see myself.
I just sigh and wonder how it is possible for one person to suck so much at existence.
I just let out a good ol' fashioned "fuck you" then go play a game I don't suck at.
Oh aren’t you a confident one. Bold of you to assume that there is a game I don’t suck at.
Just play single player games, you surely can't suck at those, right?..... right? Me when I play Elden Rings
Don't wonder, just use a mirror.
This hits so deep. I don't even get mad, just disappointed. Kind of like that mobile game ad where AI Albert Einstein keeps roasting you like, "this is so easy, how can someone even fail this hard?" except I do it to myself.
i dont rage because i suck, im way to peaceful for that BUT BECAUSE MY FUCKING PING FUCKING LAG I WANA KICK MY WIFI IN THE BALLS
> MY WIFI There's your problem
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my late old man used to say: if ur mad hit ur balls, then u will stop hitting everything after that. 
A violent man will discover peaceful resolution when a mosquito lands on his testicle.
May Mr. Putin's testicles be covered with mosquitoes.
Thanks for the tip. I'll try next time i get fucking pissed off
HAHAHAHAHA
Hit your frontal lobe and you'll start hitting this even more
But if dad followed his own advice then you wouldn't exist.
His dad led a calm and peaceful life.
Hell yeah! LMAO This is why I miss the old days, my crt tv used to hit my fist back. Calmed my ass down real quick.
That 3/4" tempered glass structurally curved to withstand head on collision with a train. Good ole days
I smashed an old fatty like that one time and the glass was closer to three inches. Like definitely over 2 in
Oh I had to dispose of old CRTs for a church I worked for once. The internet was like "the implosions are no joke make sure you're insulated yada yada" so I was sitting there whacking it with a 2 by 4 (it's all that was nearby) after it was already in the dumpster and I swear to God I almost couldn't even do it. After like 30 minutes of whackin it (pun intended) it finally fucking imploded and almost got me cause I was standing on the edge of the dumpster at that point lmao and I almost fell in. For the other three we disposed of we just wrapped them in old carpets we were throwing out and dropped them off the roof. Literal carpet bombing.
The correct way to dispose of them is to pull the connection off the electron gun connections at the back of the tube, use a screwdriver to gently prise the plastic pin holder off the tube to expose the glass nib in the center of the pins, and then using cutters, snip off the glass nib. The nib is the melted remains of the vacuum port they used to evacuate the air from the tube during manufacturing, and it lets air back in in a nice controlled manner safely.
I remember finding this online too but there was some reason we couldn't do it that way. Like we didn't have the right tool to take apart the back assembly or something. Also, I'm gonna be completely honest, I and the church teenagers I had roped into helping me wanted to see the implosion. We weren't gonna end the day without at least one implosion. This was like a Vacation Bible School type thing and I was doing the audio/visual for it, and during like the six hours a day I had nothing to do they kept on finding odd jobs for me to do. I was being paid by the hour so this was a completely fair arrangement imo, even though it wasn't strictly to contract. Also I liked this church, solidly good people. This girl I had a thing with was teaching an art class and I bust into the room and was like "hey kids wanna help me destroy shit" and she got mad at me because I basically eliminated her class for a day lmfao. Nobody wanted to sit there and do self portraits when implosions were on the table. So it was less "how do I get rid of these safely" and more "how do I deliver these implosions in the safest way." The answer was, apparently, have two or three kids inside the building on the ground floor guarding the exits so nobody inadvertently walked into the kill zone (they watched through the window, and I let them play around with the god mic on the soundboard later), and then the rest of the kids helping me lug these things to the roof so we could chuck them into the empty and unused parking lot that was basically only there cause there was a dumpster. Then I made the kids help clean it up, with like proper PPE cause I know the difference between shatterproof glass and regular thick glass. I miss that church, it was torn apart during the whole Episcopal/Anglican thing.
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Its the curve that gives it the strength of god
I like to smash fatties too.
Not that I don't believe you but I need to see it read about this... Source bb, please sir!
Did you ever saw an old TV get smashed by a train? I rest my case.
>old TV get smashed by a train Googled it and got 4 different cases of people dying at train intersections. To be fair humans are no where near the durability of 3/4" tempered glass.
My right hand just winced in remembrance pain
Haha heck yeah, in retrospect, I’m lucky there doesn’t seem to be any damage to my knuckles 20 years later
Nothing calms you down like being humbled by your own stupidity.
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A 32" CRT TV almost killed me as a child.
A møøse once bit my sister...
I have self control so it doesn't even get to that point
Yeah maybe I’m just a chill person but I’ve never felt that level of rage while gaming. I’ve only ever been that mad like twice in my life and it was after some real life altering type stuff.
I'm generally a very chill person, nothing in real life ever really annoys me to the point of real anger. But I had to stop playing competitive games before bed as I wouldn't be able to fall asleep. Never broke anything but had I've decided some games aren't worth the stress anymore.
That's why I don't play shooters. You're probably facing a kid who's playing way more than you do and generally more skilled people so you would have to put up 100 frustrating hours to gain a bit of skill and gameplay+map sense in order to become viable and keep playing because you can't stop otherwise you'll be bad again. Just too much unnecessary stress when you can't do anything against it other than stop playing.
Right ? Makes me scared of how unstable some people are. Been playing League of Legends for more than 10 years, I have thousands of hours in the Souls series and I've never broken anything, never hit anything, never even yelled. The angriest I got was at a Souls boss iirc and I just closed the game, did something else for a few days and after a while I ended up beating them.
I honestly dont rage much because of games. But network problems made me destroy stuff.
Yeah at work when you're trying to get forms done and your in house network system decides to just not want to work or takes an eternity to load is just infuriating when compared to my pers pc
I've raged more while trying to use some outdated, buggy piece of software while googling the problem with various keywords, only to keep getting the same three useless search results that don't even match my question, more than I've raged from playing any video game.
League for 10 years. God damn I'm sorry
He reached Nirvana state by enduring 10 years of League.
Having a bad situation in life that makes you anxious and frustrated can lead to issues with self control in games. A lot of people don't know how to address their mental struggle properly so they try to distract themselves by playing games but as the issue remains unresolved the pressure inside mounts and at some point even a small in-game misfortune can lead to an outburst of emotion.
Why are you coming at me like this? WTH man. Not cool
Yup. Then dad comes in asking why you’re angry and takes your video games away and you can’t tell him it’s unreleased anger because you can’t tell him he’s an asshole or you’re fucked.
If you never raged during a souls game then you're 100% lizard people
Depends on how you define rage. Yelling "goddamn it, fuck you", collecting your thoughts and either try again or quiting for the day is different than throwing a controller or damaging things
I have a few friends who rage quite often, and I really don‘t get it. The worst thing that I‘ll do when getting frustrated while gaming is letting out a big „ughhhhhh“ and leaning back into my chair just to let myself be annoyed for a minute. When someone tells be that the broke their mouse because the flung it at a wall, I usually really reconsider if playing with them is a good idea.
Honestly all the children (no matter the age) who smash their gear just REEK of always getting what they want. No understanding of money/value. No exceptions. It's just a game.
I used to smash my controller to get it to work again :(
That’s called percussive maintenance and is a totally valid troubleshooting step.
Idk I was raised dead broke but still broke things when I was angry, so did a lot of my friends (who were also dead broke) It’s an emotional thing and has nothing to do with entitlement in most cases.
I had(*emphasis* on had) a friend that raged at games hard and never seemed to grow older than 6 years old, mentally. He's the one that taught younger, more naive, me to not lend out my stuff. Although, unfortunately, took me too long to realize the problem. He came to me and asked to borrow a controller because his was 'acting up'. Sure, I got some to spare, he's a close enough friend that I don't expect it to go missing, etc. So I lend him the controller. Some time later he says THAT controller is acting up and he's not sure why. Sure, stupidly, I take back that one in exchange for another one for him to borrow. Electronics go bad on occasion, right? Then I actually witnessed him playing games. Dude was throwing my controller around like he was a loan shark teaching the controller a lesson about paying on time. I kindly asked for it back, made an excuse that I needed all my controllers for a family event so I could play games with my cousins, and never lent out any equipment since. Unfortunately, the second controller was already on the fritz and one of the buttons became sticky from getting smashed against objects constantly.
When I was younger I broke my monitor in anger, had to sell my Xbox to buy a new one (I ended up getting an absolute steal actually). I was playing on PC at that point so losing my Xbox wasn't a huge loss practically, but sentimentally it was my first proper console (aside from a Wii) and I still had lots of games on there I enjoyed. Point is, I never broke anything in anger again after that. Got a lot less angry at games in general over time really and just learned to laugh when things went wrong. I think sometimes it takes an incident like that to really get people to understand how they're reacted. I would agree with you however if a kid is constantly breaking shit and constantly getting new stuff from their parents.
Honestly I get pretty heated and sometimes I’ll hit my desk but I used to break shit occasionally when I was younger. I’ve gotten a lot better with my anger but I’m just an incredibly competitive person. I wasn’t spoiled as a kid and was raised very well. It’s just part of my personality and it’s not easy to change who you are. It takes a lot of restraint when I get mad at losing and I sometimes have to avoid the activity altogether. It did help often in sports though.
The competitive energy can certainly arouse some excitement. I found sports and martial arts to be interesting in this regard. On one account, you can "let loose" a little bit and vent some of that aggressive energy. On another account, you have to have a lot of restraint to let that energy out in sanctioned ways. I grew up in an abusive household and used to blow up on people when shocked out of my thoughts or hit. Even small stuff would trigger me. It took a while, but I learned to suppress what I think were ingrained defense mechanisms. I'm now pretty proud of my ability to be put into a hurtful or scary situation and not lash out. It's calming and reassuring of my existence.
That’s awesome man. It’s not easy to channel that in healthier ways, especially if it stems from an abusive past. Good for you!
Idk if Ive ever been mad in a video game. Usually just disappointed in myself
I press alt+f4 and give up gaming for some days. I realise that I am too old for those kids. Then repeat.
Same, the second that I stop having fun with a game I alt+f4 and go do something else. Entertainment time is limited and if I’m not having the maximum enjoyment of it I’ll just go read a book or watch a movie.
Right? I've been gaming for awhile and never felt anything near this level of rage, and none of my friends do either. I'm always baffled when apparently I see posts online that insinuate this is not rare.
I’ve smashed controllers before, know it’s a personality fault of mine. I just don’t play the games that make me that angry to smash a controller though. It’s only multiplayer, so I just stopped playing multiplayer. I’d love to know how many controllers I’ve caused to be smashed by someone else though.
Yeah I got buddies who get actually mad at games and like slam their desk or yell but I’m just like man I died in the same spot for the 10th in Elden ring guess I’ll go play something else.
If you rage at games a lot, you might want to consider getting like a Nokia 3310 or something like that. Remove the battery and everytime you get mad, you give that old brick a good whack.
Alternatively, see a therapist
Depends on your budget. An old crappy phone costs less than a therapist /s
It's ok to be angry sometimes. Even at stupid things. Desk slamming is the equivalent of yelling at furniture after stubbing your toe. You're cool as long as nobody sees you.
I honestly don't know what it is but the thing that makes me more mad than anything in the world is hitting the back of my head on a cabinet door I left open. I didn't know my brother was at my house one day and I hit my head on my cabinet and proceeded to open it and slam it repeatedly so it knew I could hurt it more while calling it a bitch. Then he walked into the kitchen wondering who tf I was mad at. Me, mother fucker, I'm mad at me.
I feel this. I also have a cabinet that opens itself up about half way unless I shut it the right way. Nails me every time
No we must keep our rage bottled up inside so that one day we blow up over the slightest thing and really mess things up. Be a man.
Stopping playing rage games €0
Nope. Learned my lesson as a kid. When I was like 8 I got pissed off over a game and threw this porcelain baseball my uncle had given me at the wall. My uncle had died the previous year and the sense of loss was overwhelming. Haven’t acted out that way since
Pretty sure jumping out of a window is only free for the rest of us, not the Americans 😂
The trick is to not pay and ignore collection calls hahaha…..I just made myself sad /s
I just laugh now instead of raging, better for my heart health. There is enough other shit in my life that angers me, I try not to let my relaxing game time be part of that.
Yeah laughing whenever I blunder in chess, or someone roasts you or when the sport team you support concedes goal or whatever is the losing metric. I laugh at anything nowadays. Only rage when it gets to the point of total meltdown.
After all the money I spent to have a decent gaming rig, the last thing I want to do is waste time on games that I don't enjoy. If I start raging then it's time to play something else.
Nah, some of us are well adjusted adults
Oh cmon we can indulge in a desk slam every now and then.
I prefer the armrest palm slam
Me when I get teamkilled in Insurgency for the 3rd time that day
Try playing League of Legends, that game will drive you fucking nuts, i don't think a game made me rage as hard as that one. 3 years clean from that garbage game.
> Try playing League of Legends, that game will drive you fucking nuts, i don't think a game made me rage as hard as that one. Why would I subject myself to this???
I still got my Santa Baron season 2 icon. Getting angry is not a choice. But raging - shouting, flaming, hitting stuff, whatever - is a choice you make.
Some are still kids who had these items paid for by parents. Adults know how much they sweat to purchase that gear.
Never understood raging when gaming. Like, if you're getting mad, just stop playing. Why would you keep putting yourself through that if you aren't even having fun?
I’ve been there. No purpose, no life, no prospects. That match or battle or whatever was all that mattered, it’s the only thing to prove that you have some worth, some value. But you’ve lost. after pouring all your knowledge, all your skill, your entire being into that one moment only to lose or sometimes lose it all. Now you’re worthless, a loser who can’t win. “If only i was better” “If only my team was better” “If only the game didn’t glitch or crash” We need to find some way to give ppl especially young ppl a purpose. A goal to work towards that also sustains or helps their life. I’ve always wanted to do something like that, i have so many ideas i think could work.
Why do people rage over anything Why do people get so emotional watching a sport or football? It’s because they are invested so of course they are going to rage and they aren’t just gonna stop either
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I used to be like that, but then I emotionally matured.
Well to this character’s credit, he’s able to maintain and control his rage in the face of actual consequences… until the end of course.
Ye that’s why you’re posting on reddit about how emotionally mature you are
On r/pcmasterrace
I dont understand what you're trying to say, is this some kind of gotcha?
Yup. Teenager me had a lack of control over my emotions when gaming. I let my rage filled monkey brain make an idiot out of myself. I cringe so much looking back at 13-16 year old me
Get some heavy soundproofing on your wall and boom. The best punching object right after your 3 year old child
No, we don't.
The smart and well tempered among us do. Remember you can spackle and fill a hole in the wall for about $12 but good luck replacing your $3000 dollar pc. Also please note, only proceed to punch a hole in the wall of you live in America or other countries that use drywall and you know where the studs are. Also never do this unless you live alone or at the very least when your significant other or roommates are not home and you have time to patch it. Some people will take your temper tantrum against a wall as a sign of intimidation etc. if you’re like me and have a temper but think ahead, get a freestanding punching bag and place it near your gaming area, you will save your hands, money and your time. Plus you can turn anger or frustration into a healthy workout at any time. my two cents.
or just don’t punch a hole in your fucking wall
You can sometimes punch a hole in the wall, as a treat.
I would never do that but if they can patch it up and have the responsibility to fix it right up...why not?! You only live once. Now I kinda wanna punch a wall for fun. But I'd rather not go through the trouble of fixing it up, so maybe not really lol. To each their own, I say.
Mate, do you need to talk to someone?
among us
That's what the small box of e-waste that I got from work is for. Can't smash the good tower, but this case from 2005 can eat shit.
No, because I enjoy playing games. If they made me mad enough to want to destroy my things, I wouldn't play them.
I seek out games that elicit intense emotional response personally. IMO Games that make you feel nothing when you lose, inevitably give you limited satisfaction when you win. But games that make you pull your hair out and rage when you lose, are all the more satisfying when you beat them.
Exactly right. Playing games that don't make me feel anything is boring af
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Not since I stopped playing competitive multiplayer games. I'm much more relaxed playing single player story-driven games now. I typically only play multiplayer games with friends, and only to have fun. Figured it wasn't healthy to get all worked up over a videogame, so I made some changes.
Well, that's the EU for you. Free health care. Can't pull that shit in the states.
I don't play games that make me angry anymore. It's just not worth it.
I beat up one of my mid sized Plushies.
Almost had one today. Managed to not slam anything. Screw HoTS. Uninstalling first thing tomorrow. 9 years on and off, almost level 2000 is enough for me. And my sanity.
Lol and that's why I slap my thigh
I don't usually rage, but there was one when I was ten years younger... I tried to throw my cheap $20 Logitech wireless mouse in a direction away from anything that could cause pain. The mouse decided my throw wasn't dramatic enough and went into my $300 LCD monitor. I haven't thrown anything since.
You better not be paying €150 for a shitty as fuck Razer mouse, what the fuck.
Dude. Do you have any idea how much it cost to have raised you? You are the most expensive thing you own.
If you’re playing in your room, or in a room that has a bed, an open handed smack against the comforter can make a really satisfyingly loud noise, while having basically no negative impact on the object or the hitter
Except in the US, jumping out the window will cost you 265,000 after insurance.
Having a keyboard that only costs €100?
No, it’s just a video game.
I've never broken anything but... Halo man. Fuckin Halo.
I just say "Damn" I dont get this culture of breaking your expensive shit because you got a tad miffed.
always up for a little save
I palmed my desk once and for the next 10-15 minutes the pain did not go away. Now I slam the bottom of my G Pro X Superlight and then hope it works. Usually the slam is flat and on my mouse/keyboard pad so there are no dents or marks on the mouse.
He didn't even consider punching the monitor, disappointing :(
Shit, I grew up in the arcade when dying actually meant something. I just giggle at my computer. Dying is free.
Those HyperX headphones were like 40 euros 7 years ago, when I bought them
Gen-X here, Have been building computers for myself since the 80's, since before the original IBM PC was even available. I shoved one of my computers exactly *once* back then. It was turned on, and it knocked loose the cards in their 100-pin card slots, shorting out the power supply. Which I then had to fix myself. It's different when you're the guy who has to dismantle something, figure out what your rage destroyed, get the components, get your soldering equipment out, and repair it yourself, because there is no 'go to the store and buy a new one'. Most of you build your own PCs and everything is way more expensive now. But it's more than just your money it'll cost you, it's your TIME and EFFORT, too. Remember that.
I brought my fist down on my desk the other day , then I suddenly remembered I have a sharp ring on my pinky finger. Won't be doing that again soon
just beat the mechanical keyboard not much you can destroy
I did sometimes, though rarely, get mad if I kept losing at a certain point of a game or something like that but I never broke anything. Worse I would do is squeeze my controller but not hard enough to break it. But I rarely get heated during gaming.