What makes you overreact and how often?

[Saulkar]

No more damned discussion about religion and theism in this thread! ENOUGH!

So are you one of those people who can not be shaken whatsoever or one of those people who can, regardless of adversity keep a cool head, or when faced with the unknown, crumple into a pile and scream at the world?

I consider myself pretty level headed but when confronted with something that I do not understand, or fathomed to have existed in the first place I tend to panic. I tend keep my head cool most of the time but there is always the small thing that I personally encounter then can arbitrarily set off alarm bells in my head and cause kneejerk reactions. It could be a social stigma, a new layer of complexity in drawing, a new methodology in 3D modeling, then kaputs goes my cool.

This thread was prompted after I reread a thread I created in the advice section last night, what a drama queen!

So how often do you overreact, to what, or how do you view those that overreact?

 

[Zhukov]

Eh, I'm pretty level headed. Probably more guilty of under-reacting than overreacting.

That said, I can get extremely frustrated by small things. Tasks that require fine motor control and dexterity drive me up the wall. Things like threading a needle. (That's a bad example, I can thread needles just fine, but small fiddly things like that.)

Also, machines and computers not working like they should. A buggy computer program or a car with a dodgy gearbox can send from cool, calm and collected to swearing and punching walls in about five seconds.

 

[shrekfan246]

I'll overreact to small things, especially while playing a section of a video game that frustrates the hell out of me, but otherwise I like to think I'm usually fairly level-headed. I can get worked up when people get confrontational about a subject I'm passionate about, though.

 

[Wyes]

I have a tendency to over-react to people being wrong about factual matters. This isn't always a bad thing, but I go really overboard sometimes (i.e. put in far too much effort to refute somebody), which is especially bad if the person was kidding to begin with.

 

[StylinBones]

Traffic. I over-react and get road rage from driving in traffic. Bad drivers bring out my worst.

 

[Genocidicles]

People standing still on escalators. Mothers with prams. People walking slowly.

MOVE YOU LAZY ASSHOLES! LEAVE YOUR FREAKING BABIES AT HOME OR WITH A SITTER! PEOPLE HAVE PLACES TO BE JESUS CHRIST!

Yeah I really hate having to move slowly in public. I want to get what I came out for and get back as quickly as possible. The only people who dont piss me off when they do this are the elderly and disabled. They have an excuse for going slowly. No one else does.

 

[Vault101]

1.people suporting Legion from Fallout:NV..will induce ranting

2.sexist things, even if unintetnional or not ment in a mean way, like that "how to I write female charachters?'" thread I defiantly flew off the handle

3.saying the music I like sucks

4. bashing Mass Effect

5. if a game is frustrating me I'll skip the F-word and start dropping C-bombs

 

[Eddie the head]

1.people suporting Legion from Fallout:NV..will induce ranting

Yeah this one. I tried to go with him once, but I couldn't do it. Betraying Arcade, getting Boone killed, and destroying Veronica's hopes. Not to mention everyone else. Just man if you can convince yourself that anything the Legion dose can lead to the grater good. I just don't know what they hell your thinking.

Slightly more on topic, I HATE it when people just throw out a controversial opinion to look smarter. I. HATE. IT.

 

[Gormech]

When people willingly make illogical decisions that directly effect myself when it is clear to them that their actions only have short term benefits with problematic results long term.

That and when things are done just in spite.

 

[Vault101]

Yeah this one. I tried to go with him once, but I couldn't do it. Betraying Arcade, getting Boone killed, and destroying Veronica's hopes. Not to mention everyone else. Just man if you can convince yourself that anything the Legion dose can lead to the grater good. I just don't know what they hell your thinking.

while some of the pros/cons on the Legion and NCR may be story vs gameplay related (by that I mean how can people in freeside be starving/poor when my courier can very easyly come across caps/food)

it seems to mosly come from looking at what they want to belive/cherry picking facts as opposed to whats actually there in front of them, in that the legion seriously don;t look that much better off than NCR people/other wasteland people

that and I wouldn't trust what Ceasar says...since that story about Lanius was clearly bullshit.

[quote/]Slightly more on topic, I HATE it when people just throw out a controversial opinion to look smarter. I. HATE. IT.[/quote]
[i/]yeah? well some people just can;t handle the truth or opinions they deem "unpopular" typical with this PC white washed society we live in....I'm just too edgy for people[/i] <- no, your still an asshole and yoru opinions may be unpopular because they are stupid

 

[Andy Shandy]

Anyone that attacks (whether that be physically or mentally) my friends or family no matter how slight.

I dont know if thats particularly ovveracting but thats when I get pissed off anyway.

 

[Stasisesque]

When technology breaks.

I'm not the most comfortable with technology, and often when it goes kaput I have no idea why or what's caused it - and when I don't understand something, I get angry. My loved ones seem pretty comfortable with this, though, as they'll always help me out even while I'm screaming obscenities at them/the broken technology/God.

 

[Starik20X6]

Cans that don't stack. Who's idea was this? I demand to know! What kind of dipshit designs a can that doesn't stack correctly?! I'll be trying to stack some cans in my pantry and they never sit right and I've only gotta bump one and they all come crashing down and then one lands on my foot and FRRRFGGGGHRRRAAAARRRRGHG! Especially, especially when it's a can that used to stack! Coke cans used to stack perfectly and they changed the can design to one that doesn't. What the sam shit is this asshattery!?

 

[Full]

I'll overreact to small things, especially while playing a section of a video game that frustrates the hell out of me, but otherwise I like to think I'm usually fairly level-headed. I can get worked up when people get confrontational about a subject I'm passionate about, though.

Yeah, this is pretty much how I act, except on top of that I tend to worry about things I do more. Little things I do that in retrospect I don't really care about, like what I did wrong on a test. That definitely goes deep, but I'm not in the mood to psychologically evaluate myself right now.



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[YingDerpington]

When people spout their own figures of something that are in direct contrast with the real figures (e.g. I had to make a personal budget, looked up individual income tax rates on the Australian Tax Office Site for 2012-2013... Very next day I hear some retard saying that he went on the site and spouted a bunch of bullshit figures, I even had a screenshot that I had to show to prove that he was being moronic).

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

Everything.

There's pretty much nothing that I will not overreact to. I've been like that for my entire life. Though, if I had to narrow it down, I would say that mistakes of any kind bother me most. The thing is, most things that bother me can be put into that category, so I guess that doesn't really narrow anything down...

 

[Aaron Sylvester]

Over the internet? Nothing and nobody is worth over-reacting to. Ever. That's how I roll

 

[Arif_Sohaib]

People blaming Islam for mistakes done or problems caused by Muslims, especially when they don't know about either one.
People talking against Pakistan especially in the context of the War on Terror where we are sacrificing probably the most in terms of people and money and still have to hear insults from the U.S.
(given the first two, think how happy I was looking at Medal of Honor's low scoring reviews and hearing EA lost money on it. I even listened to Doorfighter and Yahtzee's review multiple times).

People talking against or praising other countries/cultures without knowing anything about them, including Pakistanis talking against or praising the Americans without knowing anything about them (half our population puts the West on a pedestal and the other half thinks of them as the devil(metaphorically) with very few thinking of westerners as people like themselves.

People making generalized statements against men. I think I am hated due to the other demographics I am part of due to things other people of that demographic did, now I have to be hated as a man too due to things other men did?
People making generalized statements against women. What happened to looking at people as equals?

Yes, I am usually a very angry person.