I like it when people rage

[Longview]

Not really been one for trolling but recently I find myself enjoying seeing people rage in online games.

Don't really game online much either but have been playing more and more Rocket League and just randomly I like to just add a comment like "your mum" just to see how some people flip out completely.

Bearing in mind i'm not a young man, i've been around the internet along time now and i'm gonna be 35 in a few months, but I just can't help myself. I play alone and never show anyone the things that are said so it literally is for my own enjoyment at this point.

So to make this "thread" worthy, do you flip out at online games or what is the best flip out you ever witnessed?

 

[Sassafrass]

I've mellowed out a lot, especially in Rocket League. We concede and I'm just "Meh, shit happens." while my buddies "Fucks sake, no ones defending, where the fuck were you/was he?!"

As for the best flip out, I've not really seen too many flip outs, just quick leaves at the end and maybe the odd "Fuck you, ****". I always enjoy seeing a party of three rage quit in RL though, either at the end or mid game. It's oddly amusing.

 

[Fappy]

I used to flip out all the time back when I played WoW and LoL. It was very rare that the subject of my rage saw/heard it unless they were my friend, however. Don't want to make people feel like total shit... even if they are feeding Mid T^T

That said, I will occasionally do some light trolling if it's called for. I typically try to be a nice guy in multiplayer games though.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

The best times I've had with someone who can't accept a loss and gets mad, is my little bro. I beat him an a cousin on a 2 vs 1 match in CoD 2. And he blamed our cousin for losing; when they were both camping and screenwatching me. Another instance in CoD2, two younger relatives came over. I won the first game, and he said I only won because the female cousin was better than her brother. So we switched teams, and my team still won. Despite playing on his 360 with controllers he was more accustomed to. That was the one time he just shut up and accepted he lost for the moment.

I also beat him in the original Gears of War via chainsaw. He knew where I was, and followed me to an area with a big dark shadow. That I used to sneak up on him with a classic chainsaw kill. Which pissed him off tremdously. As asides from how embarrassing it is to get chainsawed in the original Gears. He was expecting to beat me since he had GeOW far longer than me. There was also one time I killed him via friendly fire in the Bad Company 1 open beta. And he won't not shut up for the rest of the match about that mistake. Kept on blabbing on "how you kept on shooting me". Afterwards I decided he was too poor of a sport to play with. And my thought of us teaming up online to be a one two punch was squashed.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

I'm not very competitive, so I don't get hugely invested either way. On the rare occasions that I play multiplayer, I just play to hang out with friends. Win, lose, whatever; I'm too old to get angry at the vicissitudes of online gaming.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Meh, I dont care if I make another player mad. I mean, if they send me a message or something I might get a kick out of it, but I do my best to have no one angry at me.

 

[Fijiman]

If you like listening to people rage then you should probably play with me on World of Tanks some time.

I'll admit I tend to rage a lot and I kind of hate myself a bit for it, but more often then not it's hard to say I'm not even a little bit justified in being so. For example, in one match I had just a little while ago just about every shot I took went in the complete opposite direction of where it needed to go. Then to top it off I had some douchebag telling me about not using the auto aim feature when I hadn't used it once that match and wouldn't believe that I hadn't no matter what I said. And that was just one match out of an entire evening of bad matches. If I don't have even a little bit of a right to be somewhat mad about that then I fucking give up.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I used to rage in games quite a bit more than I do now and that was normally at bullshit like RNG or lag, the staples...but these days?

I yell at traffic about 90% more than I do anything on my computer or tv.

As for observing? I'm not a fan really. It's unpleasant all around. Not a source of pleasure for me so much as it is a means to an end- with that end being my eyes rolling so hard I catch the occasional glimpse of brain matter.

It's just not worth the bother.

 

[Gray-Philosophy]

I try my best to be tolerant and friendly with people in online games, even if they're doing terrible I'll keep my cool. But if someone starts going off in a rage I'll let them have it and provoke them until tables are flipped, it's just too much fun.

I rarely really rage myself, at worst I'll whine out loud on my own. Since I regularly play League of Legends however, I witness fits of rage quite often.

 

[Zhukov]

I just sigh and hit the mute button.

God bless mute buttons. Best fucking invention since personal lubricant.

I get frustrated myself sometimes of course. Nothing quite like a team game where you can do your darndest and still lose because some stranger on your team has no clue. But I keep it to myself. Expressing your annoyance never helps.

Even trying to be helpful usually makes things worse.
"Hey man, if you're getting ganked a lot you might want to try buying some wards."
"Fuck you ******! Don't tell me how to..." AN ALLY HAS BEEN SLAIN.

 

[default]

I've only gotten angry a couple of times playing games, and that was playing LoL. I don't like LoL at all but I used to play it with my friends to keep in touch. When you're doing badly, unable to do anything at all and stuck in an excruciating 50 minute long game that you hate it used to be hard for me to keep my cool at times.

If someone is getting mad at me or directly insulting me I turn it around in a really stupid, cringey and self-deprecating way that makes them uncomfortable (or at least I like to think it does, they probably just think I'm a moron).


them: 'lol you're a fucking ****** feeder, kill yourself'

me: 'why are you talking to me like this? what happened? I thought you loved me.'

them: 'lol so you ARE a ******'

me: 'now you're putting labels on how I feel about you? you aren't the man I used to know. you've changed. don't you remember that night in Paris? when you kissed me and told me that we would grow old together?'


Cause I don't care about the game and usually in a bad mood anyway I just dedicate myself to making the other person uncomfortable. They tend to quiten down after a while or at least cave in and say 'what the fuck man you have issues'.

And don't worry LoL fans, I've since stopped playing so now I won't drag down any more teams.


Apart from that I sometimes tend to begin tilting when playing Dark Souls PvP. At the skill level I play at it's very tech heavy and based around a meta of glitches and unintented mechanics. It can be frustrating to break through into being comfortable with the systems. I find I only tend to tilt if I'm playing a game I really care about. Apart from that I don't really mind if I'm doing badly.

 

[Longview]

I don't. It's boring, people all act the same way, and after all you are enjoying their misery. Mostly it's boring though. I would rather eat a lightbulb than be bored.

Boring is subjective

Something you find entertaining may easily bore someone else

 

[P. K. Qu'est Que Ce]

Not to be too blunt, but if what gets you off is some flavor of another person's misery, you're a terrible person.

 

[visiblenoise]

Not to be too blunt, but if what gets you off is some flavor of another person's misery, you're a terrible person.

I shamelessly enjoy seeing other people throw meaningless fits online, and I say so in direct acknowledgement of your comment

 

[P. K. Qu'est Que Ce]

Not to be too blunt, but if what gets you off is some flavor of another person's misery, you're a terrible person.

I shamelessly enjoy seeing other people throw meaningless fits online, and I say so in direct acknowledgement of your comment

I should probably add a caveat to my comment, which is, "Unless you are in your teens/early 20's, then you're just young."

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

I don't think I've ever actually raged. I've certainly become upset, but I usually get over it.
If someone on my team plays a game poorly, I don't usually hold it against them. It's a game. We're all there to enjoy playing it. I'm not getting paid to play the game, so most times as long as I do well I don't care how the rest of the team does.

If I'm playing with friends and they do poorly I'll give them shit about it, but that's all in good fun anyway.

I usually just get convicted as a "rage-quitter" when I decide to leave a lobby when a game goes bad, though it's never really the case. I actually leave to prevent myself from getting that angry. Why get pissed at myself or others in one lobby when I can just leave and start fresh in a different one?

I do have a story of someone else flipping out though. My friend and I were playing Modern Warfare 3 on PS3, playing in a Domination game.

We were both excessively good at it at the time, mostly due to us playing Split-screen online and having good coordination. This one guy started screaming at us for winning so much, calling us hackers and cheaters, swearing at us with just about every possible swear imaginable. I thought my friend's TV speakers were going to break from the sheer amount of volume and noise coming from this guy's microphone. We ended up playing another match with the man, won that as well, and despite us both being red in the face from laughing so hard, we decided to leave in hopes of finding a quieter match.

We played another round, a normal round with normal people, until, lo and behold, the same raging guy happens to join our game, loses to us AGAIN, and then proceeds to start screaming again.

So we quit, after laughing so hard we couldn't breath again, and five minutes later my friend gets a private message. Guess who? A huge paragraph full of racist slurs, sexist statements, and filled to the brim with more swearing, calling us "fags" and "cunts", with countless spelling errors. We ignored it and went across the street to get something to eat.

We come back, about 15 minutes later, and my friend's inbox is filled with about 15-20 messages of this guy ranting at us, supposedly pointing out how we cheated and how we accomplished it, how he reported us to Sony and that we were going to get banned, and how he was going to, and I quote from memory, "Rape our mothers and then force us to clean it up with our tongues".

We blocked him. Nothing else happened. But holy crap was it a memorable moment.

 

[P. K. Qu'est Que Ce]

I don't think I've ever actually raged. I've certainly become upset, but I usually get over it.
If someone on my team plays a game poorly, I don't usually hold it against them. It's a game. We're all there to enjoy playing it. I'm not getting paid to play the game, so most times as long as I do well I don't care how the rest of the team does.

If I'm playing with friends and they do poorly I'll give them shit about it, but that's all in good fun anyway.

I usually just get convicted as a "rage-quitter" when I decide to leave a lobby when a game goes bad, though it's never really the case. I actually leave to prevent myself from getting that angry. Why get pissed at myself or others in one lobby when I can just leave and start fresh in a different one?

If a game is a hassle, the first thing any gamer should do is ask, "Why am I still playing?" I do the same thing, and would rather leave then get engaged in some dramatic crap.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

I've mellowed out a lot, especially in Rocket League. We concede and I'm just "Meh, shit happens." while my buddies "Fucks sake, no ones defending, where the fuck were you/was he?!"

There's so many unpredictable ways to fuck up in Rocket League that there really is no reason to actually get upset at someone anyway, mostly due to the ball's physics. There have also been countless times where I have the camera focused on the ball and I end up slamming headfirst into a teammate, causing both of us to miss and the opposing team to swipe the ball.

If there was an award for just barely missing the ball by less than half an inch, I'd most likely earn that shit completely.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Problem that I have is I play a lot of board games, and 'rage' usually entails a player flipping the board when they're losing. Had a really good friend of mine die in Betrayal at House on Haunted Hill(I think it was the werewolf haunt, but it might have been the basement tentacle monster) and he just flipped the board. The entire thing, then stormed away.

Likewise in 40k if I'm winning too much, most opponents just kinda' give up. They keep 'playing' sure, but they're checking their phone, not asking what or why when I ask them to roll armor saves for dudes I'm shooting at. They literally stop caring, and it just turns the whole night into an uncomfortable mess.

 

[Sassafrass]

I've mellowed out a lot, especially in Rocket League. We concede and I'm just "Meh, shit happens." while my buddies "Fucks sake, no ones defending, where the fuck were you/was he?!"

There's so many unpredictable ways to fuck up in Rocket League that there really is no reason to actually get upset at someone anyway, mostly due to the ball's physics. There have also been countless times where I have the camera focused on the ball and I end up slamming headfirst into a teammate, causing both of us to miss and the opposing team to swipe the ball.

If there was an award for just barely missing the ball by less than half an inch, I'd most likely earn that shit completely.

Oh yeah, that's why I'm so mellow. You think you've got a bouncing ball covered, then it hits the wall and somehow comes off at double the speed, either bounces back out or rolls around the wall and ends up in the goal. The Wasteland stadium is great for the rolling as that stadium is, I swear, 100% luck and no skill. Just hit it into a wall and it'll roll right up to the goal 9 times out of 10.

But yeah, as fun and hard to master as Rocket League is, there's so many outside factors unrelated to the player it's not worth getting mad about when shit inevitably goes wrong. Team-mates on the other hand who boost to a 100% boost, then use it to boost to another 100%, well...that's another matter.