Posted November 24, 2009
I think most of us are guilty of it at one time or another, and I'm sure it isn't an unfamiliar problem to many interweb dwellers such as myself.
We read a thread, something in the thread upsets us, we feel the strong urge to say something on the matter. Sometimes finding that someone else beat us to the punch, other times having to struggle with the fact that it's over a month (or year) old and not worth our time.
We play a video game, having a good time when suddenly it all goes to hell and the enjoyment stops. Again, and again, and again, as we have come upon a section known as Video Game Hell or Impossible Scenario or those dreaded Guide Dang It moments. I'm sure that I'm not alone in having want to rip a game out of a console and hurl it across the room or grab the controller and smash it into the ground out of rage.
Who says games don't lead to violence? :D
But no, I'm here today asking about other people's experiences with anger issues. Online, offline, in games, etc. Maybe you try (and succeed or fail) to control the fires that burn. Maybe you've broken a controller here, posted a scathing message there. I'm certainly not guilt free of either example.
To this day, I believe I've broken (on purpose and accident) about 7 or 8 controllers since I first started playing games in the early 80's. NES controllers were sturdy and the anger didn't burn so fiercely then (except at the dreaded Dust issues with NES games), so no casualties there. I did, however, lose a couple of cheapo SNES controllers that I'd boughten at the local Blockbuster back in the mid-early 90's. I know one was probably to a fighting game, and I know at least 2 simply fell apart because they were badly made (the cord came out of the back of one). I have lost at least 1 or 2 PSX controllers and 1 PS2 controller to game rage. I have gotten much better over the years, though. It's not been an issue since 2004.
Sometimes I get in a bad mood, whatever the reason, and I've taken my flustration out at someone online who either said something to me or did something stupid on a forum I frequented, and I lost it at them. Sometimes they deserved it, sometimes they didn't. I usually try to apologize for my behaviour to those who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time or those I yelled at unjustly.
The "angry post" is not something I'm unfamiliar to, either from experience (writing and recieving) or from witnessing them aimed at others. Sometimes we are genuinely passionate about something we're saying, and someone just has to have a smug attitude or a condescending remark that they probably thought was witty or clever, but all it did was piss us off and feed the flames.
I don't know.. I just feel that there's no escaping it sometimes. I may not break controllers anymore, but you should hear me swear and curse and rage and fume when playing a particularilly annoying game... I think I made my fiancee nervous when I was playing Mario Galaxy one time.
We read a thread, something in the thread upsets us, we feel the strong urge to say something on the matter. Sometimes finding that someone else beat us to the punch, other times having to struggle with the fact that it's over a month (or year) old and not worth our time.
We play a video game, having a good time when suddenly it all goes to hell and the enjoyment stops. Again, and again, and again, as we have come upon a section known as Video Game Hell or Impossible Scenario or those dreaded Guide Dang It moments. I'm sure that I'm not alone in having want to rip a game out of a console and hurl it across the room or grab the controller and smash it into the ground out of rage.
Who says games don't lead to violence? :D
But no, I'm here today asking about other people's experiences with anger issues. Online, offline, in games, etc. Maybe you try (and succeed or fail) to control the fires that burn. Maybe you've broken a controller here, posted a scathing message there. I'm certainly not guilt free of either example.
To this day, I believe I've broken (on purpose and accident) about 7 or 8 controllers since I first started playing games in the early 80's. NES controllers were sturdy and the anger didn't burn so fiercely then (except at the dreaded Dust issues with NES games), so no casualties there. I did, however, lose a couple of cheapo SNES controllers that I'd boughten at the local Blockbuster back in the mid-early 90's. I know one was probably to a fighting game, and I know at least 2 simply fell apart because they were badly made (the cord came out of the back of one). I have lost at least 1 or 2 PSX controllers and 1 PS2 controller to game rage. I have gotten much better over the years, though. It's not been an issue since 2004.
Sometimes I get in a bad mood, whatever the reason, and I've taken my flustration out at someone online who either said something to me or did something stupid on a forum I frequented, and I lost it at them. Sometimes they deserved it, sometimes they didn't. I usually try to apologize for my behaviour to those who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time or those I yelled at unjustly.
The "angry post" is not something I'm unfamiliar to, either from experience (writing and recieving) or from witnessing them aimed at others. Sometimes we are genuinely passionate about something we're saying, and someone just has to have a smug attitude or a condescending remark that they probably thought was witty or clever, but all it did was piss us off and feed the flames.
I don't know.. I just feel that there's no escaping it sometimes. I may not break controllers anymore, but you should hear me swear and curse and rage and fume when playing a particularilly annoying game... I think I made my fiancee nervous when I was playing Mario Galaxy one time.
