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Poll: Does playing starcraft make you angry/upset?I get angry but it's internal and usually at myself. (603) 56% I can't help but rage uncontrollably. (227) 21% No effect. (157) 15% I shed tears of sadness as I GG. (91) 8% 1078 total votes Your vote: Does playing starcraft make you angry/upset? (Vote): No effect.
(Vote): I get angry but it's internal and usually at myself.
(Vote): I can't help but rage uncontrollably.
(Vote): I shed tears of sadness as I GG.
Just a quick explanation for why I wanted to make this thread.
For all my life I have been a relatively calm but competitive person. I have played professional competitive sports without many incidents involving myself despite being playing for a team Notorious for raging, being banned etc(and people knew this and took advantage of this).
However I do find that the one thing that really gets under my skin is Starcraft. The joy, satisfaction and sense of achievement of winning a game on ladder is also accompanied by a sense of anger, frustration and depression(why do i spend my time in this game, im going nowhere, not real life shitty mood depression lol).
In my earlier RTS days playing WC3 I had a few occasions where I would break my keyboard or small things around me, but I was quite a young child at that point.
Now any "rage" that may develop usually just leads to me watching a replay and getting mad at my mistakes and I generally only rage at an opponent if I'm provoked or having a particularly terrible string of losing streaks and luck. My biggest lash-out is usually punching my arm-chair or desk with an open fist or cussing myself out for being stupid(like when you have a huge lead, but fail to react in time or get complacent and lose, things like that REALLY get under my skin).
I've also noticed that in my masters players I play, it is very seldom to receive a simple GG. I'd say about 10% of my victories end in this; most of the games the player will either just leave without saying anything, complain about balance, or be straight up twats and BM to hell before GTFO'ing. Also, in the games I lose, many of them end in offensive GG's, "get out" or "EZ". I've even had a couple situations where I've typed "gg wp" to receive "EZ noob gtfo" in reply...things like this serve to make me more likely to reply in kind the next game I win.
Personally I think this happens because I invest a great deal of my personal life to SC2 playing/watching/reading that when things don't go my way it's bad times; for those of you who work, it feels like when you submit a proposal/piece of work for students and your boss/teacher absolutely tears it apart despite you having legitimately having worked very hard on it.
How does Starcraft and your relative success in it reflect your mood and how do you deal with the emotions it generates?
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I get somewhat angry at myself when I lose to people I feel/know I am better than.
I know I should have won, but played bad and lost. Get mad when I knew I could have done a lot better. Motivates me to play harder.
Now days I dont get angry that often. Maybe it is because I dont lose so much to early cheeses and dont care that much anymore. Ladder games are just simple practice for me, and I have little to no emotional investment in them.
I never get angry at the opponent though. Well maybe if they lift off all their buildings, but still then I know I won so convincingly that they got this mad. Makes me both mad and happy at the same time.
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I don't get mad, maybe a sigh every now and then though. Losing ladder points makes me a sad panda T_T
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For me starcraft are one of the few games where i never rage uncontrollably. I may get angry, but it is never shown on the outside. I think that is because of how exausting the game is in a way, since when pllaying bf2 or other fps games i usually slam my hands into the table or something when i die.
Maybe one of the big reasons for that difference is because, in fps games most deaths which can be compared to losses in a sense, comes from one mistake, in most cases that is.
While in starcraft, you mostly lose beacuse of many consecutive mistakes.
That is at least my take on why i don't rage in starcraft
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I am a generally calm person, ( I spent 4 hours in bumper to bumper traffic and was perfectly fine), but when playing SC2 I can get mad at myself when I make mistakes I know not to do and the ilk. I suppose it good to release that anger every once in a while, so I dont worry about it.
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I am incredibly calm and peaceful person, but SC2 turns me into a raging monster. If there was a way to kill someone over the internet I would be mass murderer by now. It's like 2 minutes of rage and then I'm cool again. Not my fault that retarded ladder shit is so annoying 
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Typically, I rage at myself, at how stupid I was, or how I didn't realize he was doing something even though the signs were there. Sometimes, cheeses make me rage at them.
Also, when my brother bothers me in a game makes me rage at him :S
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I try my best to not be angry at my opponents even if they cheese or all-in. Sometimes I'm mad at myself for doing dumb mistakes but everytime you lose there is more to learn 
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I rage quite a lot. After a loss I'm met with an uncontrollable urge to fix things, which makes me want to click the find match button as soon as possible. However, I'm usually still depressed about the loss and don't feel like playing.
Edit: I think it brings out my anger because I expect myself to be artful. If I execute a strategy like a timing push, it feels like I must win here and now, and even if I lose the push but win the game later, it'll be a fuck-up. Like, in the same way that you can't just flop a piano recital and try again right there on the spot, because then the whole point of it would be lost; you have to succeed, or pull it off.
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Only Zerg players unleash the rage within me. And Terran. And PvP.
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I usually call myself bad while I punch the bed behind me. Then I'll calm down and play another game.
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There are a few games that bring the worst of me out there (SC2, Street Fighter IV, Dota 2..), sometimes I even have the urge to like write "Fuck you" or "asshole" in the chat but I can always control that and decide not to type that in. I sometimes wish I could just control the anger more since it sometimes really hinders my ability to enjoy the game.
And I'm usually a very calm and friendly type as well, it seems only those games like make me really mad.
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On March 21 2012 00:34 Sosweets wrote:
I don't get mad, maybe a sigh every now and then though. Losing ladder points makes me a sad panda T_T
Haha, I do the same thing. I'll be ahead, but make some small game-losing mistake somewhere, knowing I lost, and just siiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhh. Sad, sad, panda.
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it brings out my depression more often then my anger bc i know i could have played better
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winning doesn't test you like losing does. It's ok to be disappointed but foolish to get angry (especially at your opponent).
Treat your losses like they're an opportunity to improve.
I have never played a game where I have so much opportunity.
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SoCal, USA3955 Posts
When I first started playing SC2 when it came out laddering was very frustrating. I was really bad at it, I was poor at everything I did from scouting to macro. At times I would just get really mad and make angry sounds. Then eventually I got discouraged and stopped laddering.
And now I have go back to laddering again, but switched from terran to zerg. I am better at doing things and when I started to ladder I told myself just be calm when I lose don't rage and junk it will only just make it worse for myself. So when I lose it's kinda like take a deep breath phewwwwww it's over. And at times I just get sad cause I know I screwed up. I really try to learn from what I did wrong. If I lose I will just gg and leave the game, there is really no need to BM people when you leave the game imo.
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Don't really get mad at sc2 because I know I'm not very good at it, but I do get mad at other games sometimes.
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I think for me, the only anger I experience is that feeling of not being able to express who I really am or what I'm truly capable of. Starcraft 2 is one of those games where you have to be sharp 24/7, or you lose everything. It's not like Counter-Strike or Sports, where I could not play for a week and still be good after a quick warm up. When I first picked Sc2 up I practiced for about a week against AI and then played a few ladder matches. I was awarded Platinum, which made me pretty proud of myself because I felt like being in the middle of the pack on my first week was a moderate accomplishment. Then I didn't play for a few days because I get burned out quickly, and when I came back I dropped games all the way to silver. To go from beating Platinum players to being smashed by Silver players in a few days is a bit much. I felt like unless I was willing to essentially dedicate my life to the game and play it several hours a day, there's no way I could ever feel good about my skill level. There's no way I could ever know how good I really was, or could have been. That's why I decided to be a manager instead of a player. I love the game, I love the community, even though there are so many BM people, it's all part of the experience. Being a manager allows me to be emotionally detached and just enjoy the pure essence of Starcraft 2. It's a game of truth, and there is little to no luck involved when you really get into it. There's no such thing as a lucky shot. A bronze player will never beat a Grand Master, not even 1 in 1,000 games. That's why I respect it and the people who play it seriously so much.
I watch my players pour their hearts into a game that never forgives weakness. I watch them challenge themselves, and it honestly is an emotional journey. It may just be a game but at the same time, isn't everything in life really the same? Isn't everything a test of who you are? If you fail at games, business, love, it all hurts, it all makes you question where you stand in the universe. Why aren't you the best? Why are they winning and you're losing? What's wrong with you? I think that the people who can brush it all off are the people who don't really care, but not caring is not the same as being strong. Starcraft 2 is a metaphor for the essential human experience, as is everything else. You express yourself honestly, you take a chance, you give it your all and whatever echoes back is what you have to accept as truth for the time being. You win, you lose, you get made fun of, you get hoisted up on shoulders. I think the only reason people can laugh at those who get mad at a game is because they have never honestly risked giving 100%. Otherwise they'd understand. It's not the medium that matters, it's the fundamental experience of self-discovery.
That's why it's so amazing to watch and be a part of. It's got characters, and they have stories, but it's real and it's raw. There's no glamour in breaking a keyboard because you don't know if you can believe in yourself after losing to someone you thought you were better than.
If you honestly don't learn anything about yourself playing Starcraft 2, you're doing something wrong.
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The only anger I usually display is a loud "fuck!" when I do something stupid, if I'm out of a game and I'm still frustrated after 7 breaths, I swear once really loud and that usually helps assuage my rage.
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I've never gotten angry over SC (or any game for that matter), but I do sometimes get disappointed, or just fed up and go do something else.
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