How to calm yourself down when raging at video games? - Games

[QUOTE=TheWhiteFox1;35245764]To be honest, this actually works pretty well. In a game like Dark Souls, you know when you die that it was your fault, and you can use your failure to learn how to get better. If you want to stop raging so much, stop playing multiplayer games.[/QUOTE] It teaches you to be careful and to be patient. If you're not, you're either very lucky, or you'll be punished for it. However, that is hardly the case in multiplayer games. And being careful and being patient doesn't work in all games, either. At least in my experience.

Get a punching bag No, wait get two.

[QUOTE=garychencool;35246175]Get a punching bag No, wait get two.[/QUOTE] It won't help to calm down, but it will surely limit damage to headphones or any other surround objects.

I used to rage when I was younger, but now I just shout at the telly. Being beaten by a video game makes me says things I never normally would.

[QUOTE=SilverHammer;35245821]I still flip my shit when those cougars in Red Dead Redemption sneak up on me. My controller flies across my room like a frisbee. [/QUOTE] Funny related cougar story. Just finished a mission by the river that separates the American areas from Mexico. I see one of the gangs holding a chick "hostage" but turns out to be one of those deals where she is with them. So I kill all the guys, she starts running into the brush. All the sudden a goddamn cougar jumped out and killed her instantly and I jumped out of my goddamn chair and fired like 8 times. One of the few times a game has genuinely scared me.

I haven't really raged significant amounts at games until I played BF3, and even then it's nothing beyond just banging my fist into the table once or just letting out a loud grunt. I still wish being stuck with a losing team it didn't affect me as much, but on the other hand the emotions are mirrored when a game actually goes really well. I suppose a game that feels really good during the good rounds must inversely feel equally bad during the bad rounds. Then again, I do have a bit of a love-hate relationship with that game, as I can imagine many old fans of the series have.

Just follow the goddamn train.

Rage quitting sometimes passes the rage on to the other players I feel the rage flow out of my body and into someone else

How to calm yourself down when raging at videogames? More videogames!

I just yell at the plants outside fucking plants

If you need to physically calm yourself down from a video game then you need to really should play more casual video games. However, just cursing to yourself here and there when you do something stupid in a game then I don't really see a problem with that. For you raging when your team loses in TF2? What's the point? Are you playing in tournaments or just in random servers? If just in random servers then let the good times roll, man. Take a breather, change your name to some gimmick like "HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION" and just run around trying to punch people to death as a heavy. It's kind of zen. For games like BF3? Again, you're playing with random people. Although there is more incentive to rage since you get direct EXP and a cumulative record just understand that overall it will even out in the end. You can't make the difference to a team and there are many outside factors you cannot control (like the enemy team having plenty of premade squads and yours having none, trolls, etc). Gmod? Please, you're going to get trolled 24/7 in Gmod, it's practically built for that. Just accept that and do some fun shit. In DarkRP I like to pretend I'm a slave master with a thick persian accent and then trick people into walking into dark rooms where I lock them in. Do fun stuff like that. And alas, the dreaded MOBA's. You didn't say anything about League of Legends and DOTA2, and I hope you don't play either. If you're throwing your shit around over GMod then I have no idea what kind of crazy shit you'll do when you play these type of games. At first, you'll suck complete balls at them but think you're awesome. And I'm not just saying this about you, I'm saying this about literally everyone who tries a MOBA for the first time. You'll keep dying and you'll never know why so you'll blame everyone but yourself. You won't know what people do and you'll probably look for scapegoats. I did it, the top players did it, almost every player goes through this. Once you become seasoned you'll look at people who are doing the same mistakes and you'll want to kill them because you now know how dumb those mistakes are. You'll begin to question human intellect at even the most primal level after watching a level 30 with 1200 wins go 0/11 and cause your whole team to lose. You'll begin to question the future of video games as a whole when you encounter the many people that hold your team hostage until they are able to play the exact character they want. I'm not sure where I'm going with this actually, you should just probably stay away from League of Legends and DOTA2 unless you're not prone to raging. Also, playing Dark Souls is quite zen and rage reducing. Try it some time.

The only games that actually get me mad, are call of duty games. I have no idea why, but those games get me everytime. Also, try not playing games in general for a while. I found that the less I play games, the less I get worked up about them when I do.

You could try restraining yourself to your seat

Play dwarf fortress! -Watch annoying nobles threwn down to the pit -Kill people with forgotten beast by kicking them in the face -Get legendary skills and try to disember your target -Fuck up entire fortress with shitty malfunctioning lava trap -Get the Fun

I smashed my laptop screen a few years ago, that's when I realised I had a serious problem. If you find yourself angry, control yourself. Imagine how much of a cunt you look sitting there and screaming at your computer. Breathe and calm down. Through time you realise that it's just a game, its a real rarity for me to get angry at a game now.

If I get frustrated from playing a videogame, I just think to myself "oh fuck this shit" and quit and do something else. A videogame that stops being fun after a while starts being a chore.

[QUOTE=tommyc225;35260991]I smashed my laptop screen a few years ago, that's when I realised I had a serious problem. If you find yourself angry, control yourself. Imagine how much of a cunt you look sitting there and screaming at your computer. Breathe and calm down. Through time you realise that it's just a game, its a real rarity for me to get angry at a game now.[/QUOTE] Is it bad that thinking like that makes me even more angry, sometimes?

Listen to Ave Maria... or play Hitman games... take your anger out on the targets.

It's fucking stupid to tell someone to "just get over it". Some people just get legitimately angry when shit doesn't go their way, video games aren't magically excluded because they are video games. I am volatile as well, and it shows when I do things like rugby and soccer, but those are more easily manageable as you can vent by playing harder. With games, I either do as many pushups as I can before getting tired, take a quick jog, or if all else fails use the mass of coats and hoodies strung up on my door as a makeshit punching bag. Sometimes playing with friends helps too, as you can laugh it off in some instances.

[QUOTE=Hidole555;35241249]Boot up GTA4 and start killing people. [URL="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatharsisFactor"]Catharsis Factor.[/URL] Also remind yourself that you are being angered by moving pixels on a screen. That you are getting mad because of lights irrationally changing.[/QUOTE] I couldn't have said it better myself.

Kirby games man, they're the best stress relievers around, so gratifying, and yet there's no challenge whatsoever.

[QUOTE=elowin;35263421]Kirby games man, they're the best stress relievers around, so gratifying, and yet there's no challenge whatsoever.[/QUOTE] Kirby's Return to Dream Land was pretty unforgiving in some parts.

[QUOTE=Raptortheawesome;35262862]Is it bad that thinking like that makes me even more angry, sometimes?[/QUOTE] Don't know, it just makes me facepalm at my own stupidity :v:

When I'm about to have an aneurism in APB, I just hop in a dump truck and start harassing people. Do something annoying to others, fun for you.

I just close the game, play some chill music and read LMAO pics. Works like a charm.