Why the RAGE? It's pointless.

[Goaticus]

Nerd rage has two flavors.

Healthy and Unhealthy.

Healthy nerd rage is fun of competition. Imagine Halo. Screaming at your dead enemy's corpse, teabagging them, laughing at them in the lobby. Imagine L4D, votekicking the 4th terrible teammate over and over, teamkilling them, and harassing them. It's all "in the moment" stuff that makes the game funner and more real.

Unhealthy nerd rage is violent tendencies acted out influenced by video games. Those people need counseling, and possible need to see a therapist.

 

[WOPR]

It's an emotional response. There is no logic to emotional responses.

Best answer on the thread. Thank you.

(If you don't know 25+ kills in one life grants you the title "GOD-LIKE")

I really, really don't care. Youtube is exploding at the seams with videos of people getting amazing scores in games. Good for you for being skilled but really, you are coming across as quite boastful.

yeah... sorry if I'm coming across as boastful; and yeah that's my happy picture from when I was younger!

either way I think this convo is done more or less

I think I was just venting because I'm tired of idiot dick-weeds breaking MY STUFF because they can't handle MY GAMES.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

yeah... sorry if I'm coming across as boastful; and yeah that's my happy picture from when I was younger!

either way I think this convo is done more or less

I think I was just venting because I'm tired of idiot dick-weeds breaking MY STUFF because they can't handle MY GAMES.

Well I think the reason you don't rage is because you're the one winning... if you weren't good at it then you might have a reason to get frustrated. Be empathetic towards your buddies, but if they break your shit over it then just punch them.

 

[WOPR]

yeah... sorry if I'm coming across as boastful; and yeah that's my happy picture from when I was younger!

either way I think this convo is done more or less

I think I was just venting because I'm tired of idiot dick-weeds breaking MY STUFF because they can't handle MY GAMES.

Well I think the reason you don't rage is because you're the one winning... if you weren't good at it then you might have a reason to get frustrated. Be empathetic towards your buddies, but if they break your shit over it then just punch them.

I don't need to punch them- I have a bat for that

but yeah on the occasion I do lose (fighting my friend scorpion in KI/MK/MvC2)
or Cory in DBZ:BT3

I don't get mad- I say good game, shake their hand, then get pumped up for the rematch

EDIT: Scorpion is the EXACT same way; he's not as obsessively good as I am, but is very challenging in multiplayer games (some good TF2 matches there)

 

[Levi93]

when ever i start to rage at games i generally switch said game off thats causing the rage and go play/ do somthing else.

 

[KarumaK]

FOOL ALL RAGE IS NECESSARY!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

 

[Mechanix]

You might as well ask why anyone ever gets frustrated or angry. If your friend breaks your computer or something, or you lose your job why get angry and yell? It isn't going to solve anything. It's just a reaction, and video games aren't an exception.

 

[Wrath 228]

For me it's all verbal, and it's only in MP games. I always play with at least one friend when I play MP games, so we "vent" to each other if stupid crap happens. I always have fun though, the verbal anger is just a way dealing with the stupid crap found in online games. The worst I'll do is quit if I'm REALLY not having fun. I never break things or get up and stomp around like a six year old. I just make a lot of noise, that's all.

 

[LightningBanks]

I don't break things but I do get mad, why you ask?

Simple, Adrenaline.

I love how every thread like this has a 6/10 chance of just being done and dusted just by the brilliance of the first post.

But yeah, I think its the fact that the game makes you do tedious bits youve already done that ticks me off. YES IVE DONE THIS 5 MINUTE JUMP SEQUENCE 500 TIMES NOW, LET ME GET TO THE BOSS.

Or stuff like the controls failing. I press jump, guy doesent jump, guy dies. Be it controller failure, pressing failure or game failure, its still bloody annoying.

 

[GLaDOS V 2.1]

So don't rage out, it wont help you get rid of your anger and you'll just end up with broken stuff.

Destroying and punching stuff is actually a known way to release stress... That's why companies make those stress dolls that you can punch and squeeze.

 

[Headsprouter]

My older brother gets pissed all the time when he plays games, online and offline. I can moan when something gets repetitive, but i never really get angry enough at a game to break stuff and yell at the top of my lungs (not even when i'm playing online, i don't mind losing).

 

[FalloutJack]

I never get mad at my fellow players for winning. It's clear they play more at [INSERT NAME HERE]. I play Blazblue often enough that I can only get creamed by REALLY good players, but I tend to be damn good on others, so it's obviously not cheating.

No, what I'll get mad about is what everybody gets mad at fairly: The game itself. Once you get good at a game, or lots of games, you should expect that confidence that gets you out of a situation even though there's four armored sentry robots on your tail. But if the game throws you a bullshitty curveball that should not be, then you're entitled to being pissed off because that's the programmers dicking around with you. That's not skill. That really IS a cheating bastard, namely the game developers. I think that's fair to be mad at...because it's a major buzzkill. I don't wreck controllers over it, though. To be fair, I just cheat.

 

[lewism247]

I don't break things but I do get mad, why you ask?

Simple, Adrenaline.

I love how every thread like this has a 6/10 chance of just being done and dusted just by the brilliance of the first post.

But yeah, I think its the fact that the game makes you do tedious bits youve already done that ticks me off. YES IVE DONE THIS 5 MINUTE JUMP SEQUENCE 500 TIMES NOW, LET ME GET TO THE BOSS.

Or stuff like the controls failing. I press jump, guy doesent jump, guy dies. Be it controller failure, pressing failure or game failure, its still bloody annoying.

Ha ha thanks.

That it is one of the reasons I tend to avoid platformer games, they get so frustrating when you need to do the same bits over and over again because you just miss a jump.

 

[JemothSkarii]

Dude, really something wrong with your friends, they need help. Or a Croquet mallet to the base of the neck, so then you can laugh and go "How ya gonna rage now huh!?" while their spine is broken and they'll become a quadriplegic.
*clears throat*
Sadistic tendencies aside, they really have problems; tie them to a therapy chair and hold a psychiatrist until they fix them

 

[Wieke]

Let's get some science in this thread:

Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? - Brad J. Bushma [https://illinois.edu/lb/files/2009/03/26/9293.pdf]

Catharsis theory predicts that venting anger should get rid of it and should therefore reduce subsequent aggression. The present findings, as well as previous findings, directly contradict catharsis theory (e.g., Bushman et al., 1999; Geen & Quanty, 1977). For reducing anger and aggression, the worst possible advice to give people is to tell them to imagine their provocateur?s face on a pillow or punching bag as they wallop it, yet this is precisely what many pop psychologists advise people to do. If followed, such advice will only make people angrier and more aggressive.

So don't rage out, it wont help you get rid of your anger and you'll just end up with broken stuff.

Yeah, ok, well, decades of studies contradicting this and several personal experiences regarding bottling up anger in both myself, my friends and even just acquaintances call bullshit on this. One study does not make fact. Anyone who's not a moron knows that bottling up rage is bad. And I never said imagining another as one beats up a pillow is good, I simply said that bottling up rage is unnatural and unhealthy.

It would be nice if you provided some kind of link to papers of the studies you mentioned.

Best thing to do (imho) is simply to try to calm yourself down. If you're not feeling angry, you aren't angry anymore, it won't "bottle up" somewhere in your brain.

Another study i found:
Catharsis, Agression, and Persuasive Influence: Self-Fulfilling or Self-Defeating Prohecies? [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/bbs99.pdf] (This one actually claims that all you'll end up doing is maintaining your anger.)