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Clicker

United States1012 Posts

April 09 2011 04:25 GMT

That's what I'm calling it.

After I play a game for a while, I occasionally have the tendency to get 'raged'.

Known rager inducing games: Counter-Strike 1.6 clan matches, WoW arenas, NBA Live series online ladder play (DONT JUDGE ME)

I've occasionally gotten frustrated in certain difficult places in games, we all do right? ;x

But those particular games my rage just hit this certain point where I could stop and be like wow, WHY am I getting so pissed? But being unable to prevent it from happening.
I guess the problem is I have a tendency to game 'binge' where I play a lot of games, and a small losing streak or something frustrating just really sets me off on a new level.

So what's the point of this post?
I'm afraid that SC2 fell under that category today. I'm writing this after a break. I went for a 11pm jog then came home and took a comforting shower.
I feel better now, but I hope, HOPE sc2 hasn't hit that tipping point.

I wish it was easy and just telling myself this shouldn't happen ;'x

felizuno

United States164 Posts

April 09 2011 04:27 GMT

lol NBA live makes me soooooo angry! But the rage is normal, especially since you said you went running and took a shower. Unhealthy rage is throwing you mouse or punching walls, you just get worked up and take it seriously.

Siphonal

United States81 Posts

April 09 2011 04:28 GMT

Like my good friend Johanas once said to me, "don't let the otters eat the cow`s horn".

Terranist

United States2496 Posts

April 09 2011 04:42 GMT

if NBA live online is anything like NBA 2K online i can see why you would rage. yao ming getting 60 pts 20 rebounds 10 blocks and pick and roll every god damn play. noobs using lebron to crossover 50 times until your defender slipped then highlight dunking it was also frustrating.

at least sc2 you can make those rage moments into learning experiences instead of basing it on reality where if a guy is 7'6 then i guess they gotta put him in the game.

frogurt

Australia907 Posts

April 09 2011 04:47 GMT

Counterstrike made me so angry, especially when you feel like you're letting your team down and try to pick up your game, then getting shot in the face again. >:0

The good thing about starcraft is its less precarious than other games, when you lose you know why, so you dont feel cheated. Like if you get wallbanged randomly in 1.6 or crappy spawnfrags in quake duel or something.

Clicker

United States1012 Posts

April 09 2011 04:50 GMT

haha, the rage from NBA live online was the exploiting that used to happen. There was some way to disconnect the other player and have it log as a win, which people used to do pretty often. There were other cases, but this was the most common. It sucked dedicating 30 minutes to a close game to have them just DC it in the final minute when I managed to pull ahead.

Terranist

United States2496 Posts

April 09 2011 04:58 GMT

On April 09 2011 13:50 Clicker wrote:
haha, the rage from NBA live online was the exploiting that used to happen. There was some way to disconnect the other player and have it log as a win, which people used to do pretty often. There were other cases, but this was the most common. It sucked dedicating 30 minutes to a close game to have them just DC it in the final minute when I managed to pull ahead.

sounds like a chronic problem with EA sports games lol. in the earlier maddens once you started losing you could just sit there in kickoff formation moving the aimer around and it would never call delay of game. so many sore losers would pull that move. madden 10 you could call a timeout at certain points of the game and the opponents camera would just loop the same static shots over and over until someone disconnected.

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

April 09 2011 05:12 GMT

Such reckless hate

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