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I've seen tables flipped, tv sets punched through, furniture thrown. And that's just in the home.

How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a sportsball game seem a reasonable thing to do?

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[-] benni@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago

Should ask somewhere else, you won't find these people in a federated open-source communist link aggregator website.

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 months ago

People who destroy things over computer game outcomes: Why?

I've seen keyboards flipped, monitors punched through, controllers thrown. And that's just in the home.

How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a computer game seem a reasonable thing to do?

More relatable?

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Ironically, the only game I've ever damaged my own stuff over was a sportsball game.

Most games you fuck up due to your own incompetence, but football games and the like make you feel like you could do nothing wrong in a game and still lose. It's infuriating.

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

Not really. It's just as irrational. Why destroy something because you lost a video game? I've been frustrated before due to a game, but never anywhere near frustrated enough to destroy something that I paid a lot of money for and am very happy with. At most I'll slap my desk or something, but that's nowhere near hard enough to have any effect.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

More relatable?

No

I've seen keyboards flipped, monitors punched through, controllers thrown. And that's just in the home.

If this is true, then people in your home need some professional help. I have never seen something like that over a videogame

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago
[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Rage quitting doesn't have to involve destroying stuff. If you are so much out of control, you need help and I don't mean that as a rhetoric figure.

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'd say, based on most of the answers here, that the reasons behind the sports scenario (people who are spectators) and the reasons behind the video game scenario (personal failure) are very different.

Apples to oranges.

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