Sinful Sunday: Winning, no matter how you do it!
Do you like to win when you play a game? If so then you're probably a bit of a try hard like me, this constant urge to bring everything to the table to get a win. What's worse is how you treat your team mates when things aren't going so well. Of course it's not always someones fault but sometimes it's clearly someones fault and then there are multiple ways of dealing with that, but unfortunately I would often take the least nice way of dealing with that. Then there are all the cheap tricks you can use to try and secure the win, I mean if you don't do it then who will?!!!
Winning no matter what?
My father raised me to always go for the win, second place is for losers is what I learned. Which is of course dumb when I think of it now but sometimes in the heat of the moment I can be such a try hard at something. I want to win, not always because I think I deserve it but because I want it. It feels good to win and afterwards you can be a dick to your friends and give them shit for not being able to win. Which is fun, even if your friends will eventually hate you for it! Of course I try to keep things fun but sometimes in the heat of the moment you can easily get so worked up that everything seems to be permitted. For example I would pull the controller out of the hands of my competition on the couch or give bad advice. I also love to taunt, to be this cocky bastard in the lead and just keep making fun of those behind me. This is mostly my behaviour with friends, which I'm surprised I still have friends at this point with this kind of behaviour, but with strangers online I usually go a bit less agressive with that. I still want to win and I will do my best, but often there are things outside your control. For example how good are the other people in the match? If they suck then it doesn't matter how good you are they will drag you down and there is very little you can do about that!
Taking things too serious?
I know that games are just games, it's not really that important who wins but it's nice when you win. Just the feeling of winning is like pure happiness in your brain. If you also get rewards for winning then that makes it just more important to win. This also makes me hate on my team mates when they ignore the objective or deliberately seem to feed the enemy team kills by running at them by themselves and die every time they go there. It's frustrating to deal with that and if you have this strong desire to win then things only get worse. I try not to plug in my mic and yell at team mates, that's really annoying and I hardly ever do that, but there have been moments where I felt like I had to say something. For example in Overwatch ranked matches I've been trying to give some pointers to some team mates. Not saying that they're rubbish, eventhough they actually were, but more asking them to help me with a certain enemy or if I needed health I would ask for that. Maybe I take certain games too serious and that's not fun, I realize that but it also sucks when you lose a match that you could've and should've won.
Let go of the desire to win?
Easier said than done! But I've come a long way, from the little try hard scumbag to a mildly tempered average gamer. I'm not saying that I don't care who wins or loses but I have learned to appreciate the match more than the win. So if I had a great match and lost then I will still consider that as having a good time. I used to only consider a win as having a good time so that's at least progress. The truth is that you can't win everything, when you play a game you should always keep in mind that sooner or later you'll lose. That's just the way it is and unfortunately there isn't much you can do about that. Of course you could cheat but that's something I never did and never want to do. Because if you need to cheat to win then you're the biggest loser, no matter how many wins you've got with those cheats. So even if I like to win, even if I would do a lot to get that win there are things I wouldn't do and cheating is one of them. It also helps to just let go of that strong desire to win, it only makes you happy when you win and when you lose it can feel as if someone kicked you in the balls. For those who don't know the feeling, it sucks a lot! So I try to just have fun, make the most of things and try not to get too serious. I try to reserve my try hard gaming for single player, then the only person I can annoy is myself.
Winning no matter what?
My father raised me to always go for the win, second place is for losers is what I learned. Which is of course dumb when I think of it now but sometimes in the heat of the moment I can be such a try hard at something. I want to win, not always because I think I deserve it but because I want it. It feels good to win and afterwards you can be a dick to your friends and give them shit for not being able to win. Which is fun, even if your friends will eventually hate you for it! Of course I try to keep things fun but sometimes in the heat of the moment you can easily get so worked up that everything seems to be permitted. For example I would pull the controller out of the hands of my competition on the couch or give bad advice. I also love to taunt, to be this cocky bastard in the lead and just keep making fun of those behind me. This is mostly my behaviour with friends, which I'm surprised I still have friends at this point with this kind of behaviour, but with strangers online I usually go a bit less agressive with that. I still want to win and I will do my best, but often there are things outside your control. For example how good are the other people in the match? If they suck then it doesn't matter how good you are they will drag you down and there is very little you can do about that!
Taking things too serious?
I know that games are just games, it's not really that important who wins but it's nice when you win. Just the feeling of winning is like pure happiness in your brain. If you also get rewards for winning then that makes it just more important to win. This also makes me hate on my team mates when they ignore the objective or deliberately seem to feed the enemy team kills by running at them by themselves and die every time they go there. It's frustrating to deal with that and if you have this strong desire to win then things only get worse. I try not to plug in my mic and yell at team mates, that's really annoying and I hardly ever do that, but there have been moments where I felt like I had to say something. For example in Overwatch ranked matches I've been trying to give some pointers to some team mates. Not saying that they're rubbish, eventhough they actually were, but more asking them to help me with a certain enemy or if I needed health I would ask for that. Maybe I take certain games too serious and that's not fun, I realize that but it also sucks when you lose a match that you could've and should've won.
Let go of the desire to win?
Easier said than done! But I've come a long way, from the little try hard scumbag to a mildly tempered average gamer. I'm not saying that I don't care who wins or loses but I have learned to appreciate the match more than the win. So if I had a great match and lost then I will still consider that as having a good time. I used to only consider a win as having a good time so that's at least progress. The truth is that you can't win everything, when you play a game you should always keep in mind that sooner or later you'll lose. That's just the way it is and unfortunately there isn't much you can do about that. Of course you could cheat but that's something I never did and never want to do. Because if you need to cheat to win then you're the biggest loser, no matter how many wins you've got with those cheats. So even if I like to win, even if I would do a lot to get that win there are things I wouldn't do and cheating is one of them. It also helps to just let go of that strong desire to win, it only makes you happy when you win and when you lose it can feel as if someone kicked you in the balls. For those who don't know the feeling, it sucks a lot! So I try to just have fun, make the most of things and try not to get too serious. I try to reserve my try hard gaming for single player, then the only person I can annoy is myself.
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