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The Atomic Lamp

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One beautiful sunday afternoon i was playing a casual 4-player session with a friend and his two brothers. We were playing Pro Evo 2008 and one of the guys i was playing with was not very good. Me and this person (who i will call the Pimp) have a long history of jeering and taunting each other. I am usually on the recieving end of the insults, however on this occasion i was kicking his ass.
I preceeded to taunt him mercilessly. He then threw his controller at me, this was not in a violent manner more of a lob. I, not realising the rage lurking within, continued to tease him. The anger was no coming to the boil, his nostrils flared with rage, he rose from his seat and launched a projectile at my face (it was a lung capacitaitor). I, still not quite understanding the full extent of his grievance, then proceeded to put his bed covers down my trousers.
At this, he lost all self-control, he was loosing his grip on his anger. His mind spiralling into a dark abiss of depravity. He snapped. The Grand Theft Auto Limited Edition Box was at hand. I can still recount the incident with horror. He grabbed the weapon and raised it above his head like a primal man preparing to smash a rock on a boulder to start a fire. The metal box came down hard on my genitals. I whailed with pain, my body became taught with agony and distress. He ran out of the room like a little girl.
He has still refused to apologise for the incident and i have not had an errection since.

The point of this story is to find out if anyone have been in the same circumstances as I and how the have overcome their violent assault. Or perhaps you are a complete loser who like taunting others but can't take it yourself.
 

the monopoly guy

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...right...I wonder how long it will take for this to get locked...

anyway I experience the same thing as pimp whenever I play against a 10 year old on an M rated game...even more so if he can't shut up!
 

errorfied

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I get really pissed off when people beat me at the board game Ludo.

How the hell can you be "good" at Ludo! Stop gloating about the fact your skills of luck are greater than mine! It's rolling a dice! There is no skill!

I haven't punched anybody over it though. Yet.
 

Kovash86

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errorfied said:
I get really pissed off when people beat me at the board game Ludo.

How the hell can you be "good" at Ludo! Stop gloating about the fact your skills of luck are greater than mine! It's rolling a dice! There is no skill!

I haven't punched anybody over it though. Yet.
There is a certain amount of skill to rolling dice, mostly though it is simple superstitions which have proven themselves right time and time again, for example if you need anything but a number and you announce this the dice will come up said number. 90% of the time (the other 10% being you announcing that you need a 1) after you roll a 6 you will roll a 1 and vice versa, etc etc.
 

TheMadDoctorsCat

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I once laughed evilly for five minutes after accidentally shooting the moon in a four-man live friendly of "hearts".

I got a few weird glances.
 

Ultrajoe

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are you talking about

THE RAGE?

the rage is all consuming

the rage is all powerful

the rage is the red mist in your vision

samus is the man beside you

the rage is everything

your balls are just another in a long line of victims.

(PS. Kudos to whoever gets the reference)
 

Uskis

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Hope all makes sense, I hate writing long sequences in english because my sentences get a bit weird sometimes.. aaanyway:

One of my freinds has the same problem. It was really bad some time ago, where he would behave like an immature fucktard if he lost or if we mocked him for losing, which we do, cause he's intolerable when he wins and brags like he's the god of the game. It's gotten a lot better than it used to be, but sometimes when we drink alcohol and play together it comes back. He's a really great guy, and i like him a lot, but it's a pain not allways knowing where you got him.

There's been an incident like the one you mentioned in which he threatened me and two others with a dumbbell, by grabbing it and pretending to throw it at us. We were genuinely scared, but he just laughed and pretended it was a joke. Another incident which happened recently, was when we all got drunk together. I was dancing around pogo style with two other lads in the room, just fucking around and being drunk. My freind tried to make a joke i guess, where he would pretend to threaten us with i knife or something. He does that sometimes, which is quite uncomfortable, but not a big problem since nothing ever happened. this time however, i didn't notice him and he didn't pull the knife back in time or something, so I cut two of my fingers pretty badly. As you can imagine, I was furiously pissed of at him, and I made it pretty clear to him that if he ever made fun or fooling around with knives in front of any others, I would knock him out cold (I'm a lot bigger than him, so it wouldn't be a problem I guess).

I don't think he will do anything like it again, but it still pisses me off that he can act so irresponsible and irrational at times. I think he acts like that because he has some issues of inadequacy or something. The outbursts of anger comes if we have been teasing him or mocking him, so offcourse we have learned to moderate these things, and not make fun of him in ways that could turn uncomfortable. I would never think about not being friends with him anymore. I really love the guy, he is one of my best friends. I just hope he can get a little more mature and get control of his issues, something I think we should help him with by being more supportive or something..

Just something i felt like sharing. Hope you can relate or use it or something Atomic Lamp ;)
 

Ultrajoe

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Uskis said:
Hope all makes sense, I hate writing long sequences in english because my sentences get a bit weird sometimes.. aaanyway:

One of my freinds has the same problem. It was really bad some time ago, where he would behave like an immature fucktard if he lost or if we mocked him for losing, which we do, cause he's intolerable when he wins and brags like he's the god of the game. It's gotten a lot better than it used to be, but sometimes when we drink alcohol and play together it comes back. He's a really great guy, and i like him a lot, but it's a pain not allways knowing where you got him.

There's been an incident like the one you mentioned in which he threatened me and two others with a dumbbell, by grabbing it and pretending to throw it at us. We were genuinely scared, but he just laughed and pretended it was a joke. Another incident which happened recently, was when we all got drunk together. I was dancing around pogo style with two other lads in the room, just fucking around and being drunk. My freind tried to make a joke i guess, where he would pretend to threaten us with i knife or something. He does that sometimes, which is quite uncomfortable, but not a big problem since nothing ever happened. this time however, i didn't notice him and he didn't pull the knife back in time or something, so I cut two of my fingers pretty badly. As you can imagine, I was furiously pissed of at him, and I made it pretty clear to him that if he ever made fun or fooling around with knives in front of any others, I would knock him out cold (I'm a lot bigger than him, so it wouldn't be a problem I guess).

I don't think he will do anything like it again, but it still pisses me off that he can act so irresponsible and irrational at times. I think he acts like that because he has some issues of inadequacy or something. The outbursts of anger comes if we have been teasing him or mocking him, so offcourse we have learned to moderate these things, and not make fun of him in ways that could turn uncomfortable. I would never think about not being friends with him anymore. I really love the guy, he is one of my best friends. I just hope he can get a little more mature and get control of his issues, something I think we should help him with by being more supportive or something..

Just something i felt like sharing. Hope you can relate or use it or something Atomic Lamp ;)
push him over the edge, post pics, it'll be awesome.
 

Afro John

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Sorry Bud, but I don't see the need for the long winded explanation.

I also have encountered such an experience. I suffered my assult from my friend Craig, I was always better at halo 2 than him and I often hosted halo 2 LAN partys with a buch of lads and a few drinks. As would be expected part of the fun of such an event is in the light-hearted taunting of one another and similarly small rivalries. Well one such one was with my friend Craig who upon being taunted numerous times in the night had had the last straw and pounced upon me, unfortunately for him I am a little larger built than he is an I won the battle despite his element of surprise. But I had never thought that someone could become so worked up over a game, we are still friends, but I always remember that fateful time and laugh at how crap he was.
 

Gooble

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Hilarious story dude!

I've never had anything game-related, but I was taunting my sister when I was about 5 or 6, she's 3 years older than me, and she kicked me in the mouth and knocked out my first 2 teeth!
 

Nickson

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I really can't stand it when people get angry when you kill them. Sure you wish you didn't die, but that's the point of the game isn't it? Weren't you just trying to kill him? What would you rather have, a game where everybody has guns but instead of shooting each other you have a tea party?
 

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There is something about gaming that can make people bizarrely aggressive, i suppose it is a surrogate for the play-fights that most primates engage in. I have also noticed that on internet forums people suffer from a similar thing, the smallest slight will precipitate a stream of bile. I think that one answer may be that gaming and forum usage is often the preserve of younger guys who are dealing with an excess of testosterone and not enough sex.

For my own part I once knocked my best friend out and had to call an ambulance over a drunken global warming debate. To this day I have not forgiven myself (though thankfully he has) and use the expereince to hold myself back whenever I feel the rage setting in.
 

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The Atomic Lamp said:
The metal box came down hard on my genitals. I whailed with pain, my body became taught with agony and distress. He ran out of the room like a little girl. He has still refused to apologise for the incident and i have not had an errection since.
HAHAHAHA, Sorry, I had to laugh. I played SSBB at my friend's house, and since I owned a copy of the game, and it was new, we fought each other, it ended up 24-1 in my favor. The match he won was because he smacked me across the face with his WoW model action figure. His Blood Elf had a dagger. After a while he got super-duper-de-duper pissed, but he's not the enraged type, so he just stormed out. It could've gotten violent though. I turned on Friendly Fire in Rainbow Six once without my (this a violent-prone, different friend) friend knowing, and, just as an example, when we were sleeping, a couple of our friends were in the other room, singing about tacos, and they wouldn't shut up, so he shot them with an airsoft Ump45. That being said, he threw the controller at my face when I shot him (in game, with a G3).
 

TheGreenManalishi

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I've punched a brother (in a freindly way) many times of mario kart or SSBM
or on DBZ budokai tenkaichi 2 where i let him use a high level character and said id use a low one and he made me eat his kamehameha
 

kinch

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Well, for an opinion on the other side of the coin... I was a very sore loser as a young kid... I've gotten alot better since growing up, but there are still times when I get very frustrated. (One time when I was about 8 years old I bit my sister coz she thrashed me at monopoly). The short version of why I get mad is that I'm not mad at the other person, I'm mad at myself. When I lose in an online game, it means I'm retarded and uncoordinated. When I lose at a strategy game it means I'm stupid. When I lose at a puzzle/logic game it means I'm blind and stupid (think, for example, of those scrabble games where you have to rearrange the letters... I always know the words when the time is up, but I can't see them).

Being constantly reminded of what a loser you are is depressing and can really make you angry. Yes you're angry at yourself for being a loser, but if the other person is a) beating you - and hence being the cause of showing you that you're a loser; and b) taunting you about it... then the aggression comes out, and on that person. It's not fair, it's childish, and it's stupid, but when high emotion comes into play, rationale goes out the window.
 

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Gaming only induces agression through frustration. Playing violent games won't make you a malevolent being, sucking at it and not knowing how to cope does.
 

SomeBritishDude

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I havn't experienced this myself, but a two friends of mine (lets call them Bill and Ben) have. They always playing each other on this crappy ps2 rugby game. Ben isn't very good. I've seen Ben beaten to a bloody pulp by Bill in game. Its not a good idea to be in the room when this happens.
 

SenseOfTumour

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I have to say I'm not sure how much 'gaming' has anything to do with it...

Maybe its just someone relentlessly taunting someone, ignoring all the clues that perhaps its gone too far, and its time to stop, and then pushing them over the edge that did it?

I do think its silly to get mad at someone, tho sometimes people bring these things on themselves.

Having said that, my friend who's an expert FPSer, finally convinced me to play...I think it was Doom a long while back...
At the point where it hit 63-0 I decided I'd had enough, particularly as I know now the term 'camping *****'. He's an obsessive winner tho, really hates to lose, but really, If you were Gary Kasparov, and you were playing someone who'd just been handed 'Chess for dummies' an hour before, would you be flicking his pawns off the board when he wasnt looking, or would you go for a fair honest match? There's something kinda low about camping someone who's still working out how WASD works.