well you get mad by the smallest shit, start to work on that first

it's no use to tell your opponent your unhappy / maddenink slowly

almost as retarded as people not saying hf or gg in random pubs :D

not saying hf and gg is almost as retarded as not talking about your feelings inbetween games. thats why i love playing with italians, not only for their lagging player models!!

please explain to my why not saying hf is retarded?

i rarely do it, its obvious i play the game to have fun, and i wish the same for my opponent...

It's just basic manners.

but saying hf and gg on random ffa/othercrapmodsnotduelmods is retarded if you ask me Oo

plasma.... is.... awesome....

beltards :SSSSSSSSSSSSSS


i just rage, dont see anything bad in it... call your oppo a dickhead few times, say his mom is a fat slut and you're feeling better in a blink of an eye

that's impolite

and? its just internet... lots of shit everywhere :DDDD

dear god your parents rock

yeah they do, after all im awesome :DDDD

"...it's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself.

That's why so much animosity exists on the internet.

Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person turn to the internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met... Just to make themselves feel superior.

Isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else.

But... that isn't true salvation. Wouldn't you feel more relieved simply admitting you're a failure of a human?"

-Welcome To The NHK Episode 23


shame on me for quoting from an anime.

true nerd have spoken xD [god i hate this smiley]


i just like to flame ppl,both online and irl, gives me lot of lols...

even though you hate the smiley, you're using it.

does your hatred for yourself have no boundaries?

when you grow up, you will understand, that sometimes ppl have to do things they hate... like using fucking xD in orderd to not repeat :DDDD 2 much

oh right, the guy who writes 'ppl' '2 much' and with broken english in general tells me to grow up.
classic.

did i tell you to grow up? :>

nopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :DDDDD


and tbh, stay a child as long as you can

it's not only obvious that you're an unlikable person, but also insanely stubborn.

well, at least you we're revelant to this threads topic, this time, eh?

im not unlikable, just specific... ppl often say im a twat, but very sympathic twat :-)

ow, and its were*

And no, don't be a hypocrite, we all do it.

I don't. I really don't. I got so used to losing it doesn't even bother me anymore.

not sure if positive thing or not

If you have any wish to improve your skill then it's definitely not positive.

so sad, almost want to hug you :*

:D

what rage..

i drink peppermint tea

"peppermint"

I never say hi, hf or gg when I'm playing some random duels. For me it's just extra typing that takes too much effort.

Wait for someone to join -> "hi" -> warmup -> "hf" after readying up -> "gg" after the match -> "bb" when you leave the server. And if you're losing remember to throw some random insults. Preferably in your own language.

I even made made a "hi/hf/luck/gg" bind because some guy I played against a few days ago called me a retard for not saying gg.

I get where you're going with that, but common courtesy and perhaps even something that lets you ease off that rage is what saying hi/gl/hf/gg is.

But suit yourself, I can work with someone not saying a single damn thing.

Human is a social animal. Stranger is danger and you can't be fully relaxed in his presence. You can explain yourself why does saying "hi/hf/gg/bb" make it better.
These are really simple facts about human nature.

Writing hf/gg is a ritual to me. By writing hf I immediatly become calm and concentrated (until I take the first facerocket or random pinapple); when I say gg, I immediatly let go of the game I just played, especialy if it is a game where I performed badly.

i think killing emotions overall is somewhat required, become robot and win

Tuvok ftw!

I think about how difficult is to find a legit WMO then get calm because getting furious = wanting to slap the mouse against the table.

I stay zen quite easily by recognizing that my opponent rages more, knowing that I don't time any other item but the 25 health bubble above megahealth on dm13.

For every other map I just know I'm better than everyone else. I just don't want to brag so I let people off, cutting them some slack.

Also: "Plasma - Biggest bullshit weapon I've ever seen and can pretty much mess up an entire game but won't go into specifics"

*Giggle*

I fart and all is better.

like your idol

Keep Ludwig out of it.

who idolizes an economist anyway, up to the point of making a clan with his name, jesus! couldnt you have done like, dunno, Clan Kierkegaard, or Karl Marx Quaking (if you're really into that economical-political shit), or Copernicus Gaming, or a ton of cooler names, but Mises? Bleh

[+] Error: The target user can't receive judgements

i find that just focusing on the game prevents me from caring too much about my own emotions.

Man I used to get so angry, it was due to training up for say a duel cup and you put high expectations on yourself. I played in this duel cup and lost to a guy I thought I would rape and I raged so hard. From that point I realised how much anger and expectations hold back learning so now I just play for fun and try my best, if I lose then it's purely because my opponent did better.

EDIT: Also when you are training hard you are usually not sleeping much which can lead you to be more snappy at people to.

when I was young I did every time pushups ( 20-30 medium ) when I raged during the game. That's a good tactic too get smthng out of ur random rage :)

im more nervous than angry.

holy shit i hate it so much when im falling behind and have to run away since i miss every single jump and/or run into a wall. all shaking and shit hahah dunno why.

aftor rendom staf u fileng luser urself, u regge --->u bed aim and alltayme +forwart with mashnegen--->90% garante loosen geme. So solushn is to spamenk smiles after such situashns like rusens ppl do: just bind 1 "sau ))))))))))))))))))))))))" and hit buton aftor evere u fragink enemer - so u forcenk regge ur enemer not uselth.

channel it.

I was one time 3-0 up, in control, 200/200 on Sinister, red room. Went towards teleport, and bamm telefragged.

The opponent tied up the game afterwards, but I somehow managed to win at the end with 1 frag.

Unfortunately, I can't help with any anger management advice because I was so pissed after that, I played the whole game with rage, and I was even raging after I won. Hell, I was angry as hell all day. And just now that you reminded me of it, and I'm writing this I'm getting mad already.

ahahahah :)

haha YOU SUCK!

Have a + to calm down!

I know the feeling, should stop playing late games cause i cant sleep for 2 hours if im in rage mode after a shitty game! :D

you man the fuck up
shit happens (c)

what about the (c)...you came up with it...? congrats

never get angry. I just feel disappointed if I fail to perform a basic task in a video game

heck, even if I do perform I still feel disappointed if it's not flawless.

such is life, I suppose

"Ego depletion is the idea that self-control or willpower is an exhaustible resource that can be used up. When that energy is low, mental activity that requires self-control is impaired. In other words, expending one's self-control impairs the ability to control oneself later on. In this sense, the idea of limited willpower is accepted as correct.

In an illustrative experiment on ego depletion, participants who controlled themselves by trying not to laugh while watching a comedian did worse on a later task that required self-control compared to participants who did not have to control their laughter while watching the video."

Take this as a muscle (stamina type). The more you train self control and focus on training it, the longer you will be able to play without raging. Self-control is the ability to control one's emotions, behavior, and desires in order to obtain some reward, or avoid some punishment, later.

IIRC the same resource is used by decissionmaking or staying focused on the game (controlling yourself to be focused), which means that already playing uses it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion

Anyways, in order to kill whine, I try to kill it at it's birth. Basically when some shit happens you have 2 things you can do - use the next 5 seocnds to reassess the situation and all the variables currently at work OR you can start whining. If you get into the habbit on reassessing the situation after every frag, no matter the characteristics of the frag, there is no time for emotions to take power.

I'm proud of you, dueler with (, usual for dueler,) big Ego.

haha, ego depletion is a good hypothesis. I always attributed gamerage to IED: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_explosive_disorder

Portal frags, grenades to the face, getting knocked into the lava, plasma

those are not very random if you look at them, and most of the time completely your own fault

but listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9SCrpXN3EE and make a cup of tea or something, think rationally

and working on your ego is very important, if you don't have a problem with your ego, you rage less

define "problem with ego"

thinking too highly of yourself and being afraid of losing, the former makes you unable to see your mistakes and flaws in game and latter just slows the progress because you don't get to play as much as you would without egoproblems. and you probably end up playing lower skilled opponents which isn't good for you either

ok agree

mby edukate b4 dule

Learn to be more present and less outcome dependant - or become better at focusing. The reason you get pissed off is because something crazy just happened and it lost an advantage you'd been working for or it outright lost you the game or made your life way harder than it should feel like. It means you have too much of an emotional connection to the outcome of the situation or the game.

When you're at your peak level of focus you become very 'present' to the moment. What this means is you're thinking constantly about your situation _now_ and how that information helps you make the next decision. Whether a situation is "good" or "bad" becomes irrelevant and it just becomes information that helps you make a decision.

You have to let go of the idea that the winning of fights or games in practice is important. Decision making is something you can consistently rely on, execution you cannot.

One thing any aspiring top player should get into the habit of doing is analysing the decisions you make given the information you had in the moment prior to the execution of that decision. You shouldn't think about the outcome, ever. It's pointless to think about whether you won the fight or not, you should instead be thinking about whether the decision to take that fight was correct.

Due to the fact that aim is an inherently inconsistent factor, this can be quite raging if you miss a lot or if you made the right decision but your execution failed you. In these situations you need to remind yourself that it's the decision that counts and not the aim, never rely on something that's inconsistent - ask yourself, I lost the fight but would I make that decision every time? What you can do instead if you find that aim is a bottleneck in your game and that that sort of thing repeats too much is to isolate that issue and train your aim specifically in the many varying ways that are possible.

A benefit of becoming free of thinking about your aim and only ever thinking about the information and the decisions you have to make is that you allow your aim to fall more into the subconscious aspect of your game. Things such as aim that are execution based perform best when you aren't consciously thinking about them, but instead are built into your subconscious through rigorous and meticulous practice over time.

Also remember that your focus gets worse the more tired you are, so if you are practising when you are tired out you are more likely to lose your ability to perform your best and stay present. You'll start to become frustrated much more easily, it's better to stop when you know you are reaching that point as the quality of your practice takes a nose dive at that point.

One way to train "presence" and "focus" is to meditate for 20 minutes a day. I saw a good video recently about practical meditation if anyone wants it just im me or something.

my 2cents!

tried "meditating" a few times... refreshing naps I must say

Quality post.

I really like that "subconscious aim" thing. It reminds of a CA (I know...) match during which I received a phone call from my mother and decided to continue playing as I was talking with her. I didn't pay much attention to the game and noticed at the end of the match that I had played like a god. It felt good.

Thank you, ddk.

it's not something "crazy" what happens

either you run through a bunch of grenades or you run through a tele exit, if you do those things you need to know there is a slight chance you get -400 hp'd, got nothing to do with luck just chance (unless of course you've never played quake live and you don't know what cann happen in those circumstances)

idiots who cry luck luck luck on their shitty pub duels..

"got nothing to do with luck just chance" - Luck and chance are two sides of the same coin.

It is not an intentional, smart move to try something stupid like trying to frag someone who is 200-200 off spawn, it's a dumb move that happened to fall into their favor through, as you said, chance and it is incredibly frustrating to lose a game to something like that.

Give in to the rage or you'll never become a super saiyan.

I think the best rage is cooller/strenx rage on one video 8:12 espeically
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4HYeWpikdg
also strenx vs reload dreamhack winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXFa76haMuY

One thing that helps I have seen is to forget who are you playing against and imagine that you are playing the world's best player (rapha/cypher) and you have zero chance of winning no matter what you do. You will find your decisions become much more rational when doing this, as you are not trying to force dominate anyone rather taking bunch of logical steps of performing self-preservation while dealing as much damage as you can.

However I can do this only 2-3 games at a time, after that I tend to rage, assuming you practice this regimen probably you can do this for longer periods.

Sounds a bit fishy for me. Imagining things like you have zero chance to win would probably leads to a very passive play, which is not a good thing.

omg you stole my profile photo

Oh, come on. The plasma gun is a cool weapon :D. I love it!

(happened earlier today)


On topic :
I only very rarely get angry when I'm playing. However, when I do, I just stop playing. If you don't have fun, there's no point in wasting your time with a game.

You need to give yourself a reason not to rage. For me it's what i heard from a pro sc2 player "I think a good player controls his emotions" and i try to try to stand by that, I mean just look at rapha. The pro players are always boasting about rapha's mental ability and how important your mental state is for the game/

1:46

i remember this match... strenx was a machine during beat it tourney, when he had to play in LB...


and i would rage too... it was such a good trap :<

in theory yea, badly executed

stenx powah

Weak dodging from rapha. Too frequent direction changes imho.

nope, strenx

Ye ye, everyone knows you're the expert.

nope, strenx

When you are that passionate about the game it's almost impossible not to rage sometimes :)

I purposely plussed you :)

I threw my dreamcast at the wall and it exploded.
Also bashed my fightstick TE against the desk and it broke the BACK\START buttons.

Other than that, I am rage free!

>compulsive need to always reply to everyone on there
>rage free
pick one

What are you talking about...

in something so random as ql duel you deal with it.

plasma (biggest bullshit weapon I've ever seen and can pretty much mess up an entire game but won't go into specifics).... you name it

you see theres your problem, you never did the magic phase, what makes you calm ql player... FORGET there was q3.... no you expect lg to kill in 2 minutes direct beam hitting, how dumb of you:D also plasma is a serious weapon in close and mid range, train with it

plasma is also usefull on long range, as a "fuck off, i know where you are" element...


sadly it doesnt work as it should online :<

I lost a $2400 pot as a 65% favorite in the midst of a long downswing ($800 was the standard all in pot at the time)... needless to say i punched the wall so hard part of the wall caved in.

yea u really gotta work on it
:D

http://www.esreality.com/post/2347765/ins-vs-jetro/

"I think he's never coming back" ... oh what a wish

I don't rage during a game. Its the tense moment when you have just lost a really close game against some random player (or a player that you don't respect). Then you hear what you've been dreading, eyes dart to the bottom left of the screen and thats when I snap. EVERYBODY does it. Its not like I get mad because I just lost some shitty ELO points. I want a rematch to prove myself because I believe I can beat them if I'm given another shot.

I'm not sure why people leave after one game, whether its for the ELO points or simply because they don't want to go through that tension again. I had to be through the same tension myself and I find it pathetic if you're only playing to keep your ELO up. I will admit I've done it either because they're just so frustratingly "lucky" or dumb (in my eyes) or I don't think I could handle the tension myself either.

I suppose this problem could be tackled by either some sort of BO3 mode for duels so that if you leave after 1 game you lose anyway (fuck you ELO whores) or just having a duel partner.The first idea doesn't look very viable at the moment though and I'm not active enough for a duel partner. I should probably invest in a punching bag.For now its just one of those cunt things people do I guess.

Tension in my case...... and the fact I rarely ever ping below 140.

As for rage, rarely ingame but it happens usually because my connection goes haywire and then I can't execute whatever I was trying to do, be it dodging LG and rockets or intricate bits in fighting games then getting punished severely for something that would have otherwise not have happened.

That is not Irish, that is pikey!

its kaide for sure

Me, playing quakelive in public duels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzAufWvuXEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIz1YPNV94Y

*ROAR* ouch sonuvabitch :(

let's ask Spart1e

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