Poll: Raging at games. Acceptable?

[Bluance]

Another thread got me rather curious about this. But is raging at games deemed acceptable? I don't mean just getting mad at a game due to any various circumstances. But i mean actually raging to the point of breaking controllers, monitors, and games. I don't know any other medium where they pride themselves on destroying things when they get mad at them (Atleast i haven't heard any stories of people who burned books that got them mad, or broke a t.v when a movie turned out horrible.) So in addition to the poll i want to ask, why are we seemingly Ok with people going into a rage over games?

 

[madwarper]

As long as whatever they're doing doesn't have any actual effect on me or my property, then they can go nuts if they want to.

If they feel like damaging their own property, who are we to judge?

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I'd say no. You're getting upset over nothing, and only exacerbating the problem though continued practice. After all, humans love getting enraged.

But as long as it's their stuff being broken, who cares?

 

[Iwata]

As long as you're not breaking shit or punching someone, go for it.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Another thread got me rather curious about this. But is raging at games deemed acceptable? I don't mean just getting mad at a game due to any various circumstances. But i mean actually raging to the point of breaking controllers, monitors, and games. I don't know any other medium where they pride themselves on destroying things when they get mad at them.

Clearly you're not much of a sports fan are you? It's funny my dad will have a go at me for raging over a game, yet we will both get extremely pissed off watching a football match and that's for some double standard bullshit reason deemed more socially acceptable. At the end of the day both sports and video games may both seem like silly little games that are nothing to get upset over to outsiders, but it's because we are so passionate about them that we rage when things don't go our way. So personally, I'm prone to it fairly regularly and see no problem with it.

Edit: I rage but I don't actually brake anything.

 

[mikey7339]

Rage and curse and break all of (YOUR) stuff you want!

 

[Artina89]

I don't get the point of getting mad at a game to the point of breaking things. A friend of mine raged at a game and broke my brother's controller when he threw it across the room. My dad promptly frog marched him to the nearest Game store to pick up a new controller. I don't mind of you get mad at a game and start shouting at it (even though I would just turn it off if I got that mad) as long as you don't disturb the neighbours, but I don't agree with the destruction of other people's property. If it is your property that you are destroying, then be my guest, but things would end up getting fairly expensive if you keep breaking contollers/monitors/TV's just because a game isn't going your way, and you seem a little bit childish (at least in my opinion.

 

[Bluance]

Clearly you're not much of a sports fan are you? It's funny my dad will have a go at me for raging over a game, yet we will both get extremely pissed off watching a football match and that's for some double standard bullshit reason deemed more socially acceptable. At the end of the day both sports and video games may both seem like silly little games that are nothing to get upset over to outsiders, but it's because we are so passionate about them that we rage when things don't go our way. So personally, I'm prone to it fairly regularly and see no problem with it.

I personally don't see sports rage as any more acceptable behavior (So yes haha, i am not a sports fan.) The question for me is why does flying into a fit of rage seem normal to us? And should it even be considered normal, or should we regard people who do this sort of thing as crazy and to be viewed at from a respectable distance. (I'm over exaggerating that last bit.)

 

[Stall]

Eh, if its your property, then go ahead and break it. No one really has a right to tell you otherwise. It's not healthy, per se, but you own it, so you are free to do whatever you want with it.

Anyways, I see no problem with getting mad over a game. People get mad and passionate over sports, and get upset by what they see in movies. People take hobbies seriously... nothing wrong with that.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Clearly you're not much of a sports fan are you? It's funny my dad will have a go at me for raging over a game, yet we will both get extremely pissed off watching a football match and that's for some double standard bullshit reason deemed more socially acceptable. At the end of the day both sports and video games may both seem like silly little games that are nothing to get upset over to outsiders, but it's because we are so passionate about them that we rage when things don't go our way. So personally, I'm prone to it fairly regularly and see no problem with it.

I personally don't see sports rage as any more acceptable behavior (So yes haha, i am not a sports fan.) The question for me is why does flying into a fit of rage seem normal to us? And should it even be considered normal, or should we regard people who do this sort of thing as crazy and to be viewed at from a respectable distance. (I'm over exaggerating that last bit.)

Different people are driven to anger over different things, some are more patient than others. Whether the thing someone is raging over, is deemed worthy of eliciting such rage is entirely down to whoever is watching them and their own personal hang ups. In other words I basically just spent about two paragraphs trying to say 'it's subjective', curse my verbosity.

 

[s0p0g]

sure, raging's fine. and fun.

whining not so much. i can listen to someone rage all day, but those whiny whiners are what makes me leave teamspeak ^^

 

[Bluance]

sure, raging's fine. and fun.

whining not so much. i can listen to someone rage all day, but those whiny whiners are what makes me leave teamspeak ^^

I'm curious, but what exactly is the difference between raging, and whining? Most people i know who are raging at a game (Directly at the other places) s also usually considered to be whining in my experience.

 

[s0p0g]

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I'm curious, but what exactly is the difference between raging, and whining? Most people i know who are raging at a game (Directly at the other places) s also usually considered to be whining in my experience.

the difference:

Spoiler

whining:

raging:

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

No, never ever ever EVAR!
But maybe i'm biased.
You see, my brother rages so hard and so violently so easily that it's driven me to breaking point.
Everytime he get's killed- MODDER! WTF!? UHHHHH I SHOT HIM! I KNIFED!
Uhhhh...
NOOB!!!
Argh! He is so annoying!
So, no. You should always keep calm while playing games.
Always.

 

[Cheesus333]

(Atleast i haven't heard any stories of people who burned books that got them mad, or broke a t.v when a movie turned out horrible.)

I imagine that's cause you can't fail a book or a film.

...Although if you did somehow manage it, that would certainly be a good source of enraged confusion.

As for my view, I think it's a non-issue until it's to someone else's detriment. No-one wants to be on the receiving end of frustrated wrath, so please just contain it within thyself.

 

[Mark Flanagan]

Never broken anything or shouted at team mates, sometimes I get angry and I will swear or ***** but I'll turn my mic off before I do (If it's on, more often than not it isn't)

I will admit to getting very angry once or twice playing COD that I 'paused' and reminded myself that it was just a game till I calmed down.

End of the day if you get mad and throw your controller or smash your TV like a child thats your business but I don't want to hear it.

 

[Mauro Carrizales]

Its perfectly natural to get pissed off at a frustrating game as long as your don't kill someone.

 

[MysticToast]

I think it's fine to rage at a game. People rage at sports all the time (which, in my opinion, is stupider, as sports is something you have ZERO control over) and no one seems to have a problem with that