Sinful Sunday: Why are you angry?
When I play games I get angry, sometimes because of such little things that happen but that annoy the crap out of me! Maybe it's because I don't have a lot of patience or I just don't handle failures well, but the fact remains that the slightest things can piss me off. Which makes me wonder, why are people angry? It seems simple but sometimes there can be a whole story behind that or no story at all.
You hate it when things go wrong?
Games are great when things go right, you make progress and you get rewards. It's like nothing can touch you, but then it happens something goes wrong! It breaks you out of your peaceful state of mind and you scream at the tv screen, what the hell happened?!!! Some people just shrug and continue with what they're doing, but there are also people that immediately feel their anger swell up inside and get mad. It's the worst when you don't expect it and what happened to you is complete bullshit. For example an enemy that hits you while you're in cover, an enemy that spaws behind you and kills you with one shot, when driving on your bike (in GTA V) a car out of nowhere gets in front of you and it makes you crash and you die or it fails whatever objective you were doing, you get hit by someone while you're already around the corner or you're disconnected from the game while in the middle of a mission. Does that make you mad? If not then congratulations, if you do get mad then I won't blame you because it is quite annoying if one of these things happen to you. What's even worse is that this happens a lot to you, at that point it's probably better to stop playing because you're going to be so mad if this keeps happening. Is it ok to just accept that this happened and move on or do you feel the need to get mad? I can't help but get mad, at first you're annoyed but if this keeps happening then you get so mad that you just want to punch people which is why I prefer to play games on my own because otherwise it will only become more difficult to fight the urge to punch someone in the face. What I definitely hate is when people are talking to you when you're upset, as if words are going to make you feel better at that point. I know that I've told people to shut up or I've even kicked people out of my room when I was upset. Yes that also includes my parents. I find it difficult to accept defeat, especially when it's complete bullshit. But considering that a lot of things that happen to you in certain games is bullshit it's difficult to stay calm, which kind of makes me wonder if I should continue playing these type of games. The thing is that often the games that can be frustrating are also the type of games that can be a lot of fun.
Why do you get mad?
Why not? Am I supposed to just sit there and let the game screw me over? Oh I know that getting mad isn't going to fix the problem but it does make me feel better. To ventilate this frustration out of your system feels good, it's like you cleansed yourself from whatever it was that made you upset and you feel better afterwards. Maybe the people around you think you have issues but these days who doesn't have issues? Nobody is perfect and I would never consider myself as perfect, I'm just a guy who gets mad when I feel that I get screwed in a game. Not immediately but the more it happens the more I feel the anger boil inside of me. You can keep that anger inside, never let it out and try to stay calm. But that makes you a time bomb, the anger will get out sooner or later but then at a time when it's probably less convenient and when you can actually hurt someone with your words or in extreme situations you even become violent with physical actions. I think it's better to ventilate anger as soon as possible, frustrations are everywhere and trying to keep the anger that comes from that inside is foolish. Let me also add that I don't plug in my mic and tell other people in the match that they suck, that I wish they were dead or that I say other things to them. I keep my anger to myself, I would mute myself if I have my mic plugged in because my anger is my anger and I don't spread that to others over the mic. There's nothing wrong with getting mad, just try to keep it under control and you might want to keep things to expressing yourself verbally instead of physically because otherwise you'll have to clean up the mess you made once you calmed down. So why do I get mad? It's my way of feeling better, because if I say or do nothing then things will only get worse and that's something I would prefer to avoid. So yeah maybe I'm that douchebag that screams at his tv when I get mad, but the thing is that afterwards I feel better and it didn't cost me one cent of talking about my feelings with a shrink. We all have our own way of dealing with our problems, but what works for one person doesn't have to work for someone else. You might want to keep that in mind.
You hate it when things go wrong?
Games are great when things go right, you make progress and you get rewards. It's like nothing can touch you, but then it happens something goes wrong! It breaks you out of your peaceful state of mind and you scream at the tv screen, what the hell happened?!!! Some people just shrug and continue with what they're doing, but there are also people that immediately feel their anger swell up inside and get mad. It's the worst when you don't expect it and what happened to you is complete bullshit. For example an enemy that hits you while you're in cover, an enemy that spaws behind you and kills you with one shot, when driving on your bike (in GTA V) a car out of nowhere gets in front of you and it makes you crash and you die or it fails whatever objective you were doing, you get hit by someone while you're already around the corner or you're disconnected from the game while in the middle of a mission. Does that make you mad? If not then congratulations, if you do get mad then I won't blame you because it is quite annoying if one of these things happen to you. What's even worse is that this happens a lot to you, at that point it's probably better to stop playing because you're going to be so mad if this keeps happening. Is it ok to just accept that this happened and move on or do you feel the need to get mad? I can't help but get mad, at first you're annoyed but if this keeps happening then you get so mad that you just want to punch people which is why I prefer to play games on my own because otherwise it will only become more difficult to fight the urge to punch someone in the face. What I definitely hate is when people are talking to you when you're upset, as if words are going to make you feel better at that point. I know that I've told people to shut up or I've even kicked people out of my room when I was upset. Yes that also includes my parents. I find it difficult to accept defeat, especially when it's complete bullshit. But considering that a lot of things that happen to you in certain games is bullshit it's difficult to stay calm, which kind of makes me wonder if I should continue playing these type of games. The thing is that often the games that can be frustrating are also the type of games that can be a lot of fun.
Why do you get mad?
Why not? Am I supposed to just sit there and let the game screw me over? Oh I know that getting mad isn't going to fix the problem but it does make me feel better. To ventilate this frustration out of your system feels good, it's like you cleansed yourself from whatever it was that made you upset and you feel better afterwards. Maybe the people around you think you have issues but these days who doesn't have issues? Nobody is perfect and I would never consider myself as perfect, I'm just a guy who gets mad when I feel that I get screwed in a game. Not immediately but the more it happens the more I feel the anger boil inside of me. You can keep that anger inside, never let it out and try to stay calm. But that makes you a time bomb, the anger will get out sooner or later but then at a time when it's probably less convenient and when you can actually hurt someone with your words or in extreme situations you even become violent with physical actions. I think it's better to ventilate anger as soon as possible, frustrations are everywhere and trying to keep the anger that comes from that inside is foolish. Let me also add that I don't plug in my mic and tell other people in the match that they suck, that I wish they were dead or that I say other things to them. I keep my anger to myself, I would mute myself if I have my mic plugged in because my anger is my anger and I don't spread that to others over the mic. There's nothing wrong with getting mad, just try to keep it under control and you might want to keep things to expressing yourself verbally instead of physically because otherwise you'll have to clean up the mess you made once you calmed down. So why do I get mad? It's my way of feeling better, because if I say or do nothing then things will only get worse and that's something I would prefer to avoid. So yeah maybe I'm that douchebag that screams at his tv when I get mad, but the thing is that afterwards I feel better and it didn't cost me one cent of talking about my feelings with a shrink. We all have our own way of dealing with our problems, but what works for one person doesn't have to work for someone else. You might want to keep that in mind.
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