nerd rage.

[midgetbob]

rage quitting, nerd rage, w/e you want to call it. Everyone gets it playing video games of some sort. How do you all deal with it?


After the umpteenth time of lag being so bad playing was pointless in certain games (SB for example during banes oh so long ago), I started nerd raging. Then proceeded to kick my tower.... repeatedly. Once I saw the damage I had done, I nerd raged for nerd raging, and proceeded to toss my keyboard and mouse. It was a sad day to be electronics around me
I've also shattered a flat screen monitor before by punching it in an unrelated scenario.

I'm glad I'm over the physical rage I had when I was an angsty teenager. Though the nerd rage never seems to go away. Now I just get frustrated, curse a few times, maybe pace a lap or two of the room and sit back down. Then one of two things happens. I'm angry and play another game / round and win or I know I'm too angry to do anything rationally and just log out (and apparently make posts).

Sooo... how does everyone else contain their gaming nerd rage?

[loaf]

I aint got no nerd rage.

I make the nerd rage for them nerd ragers cause they nerd rage like they are the best but when they really aren't the best they just think they are cause they are like LOL IM GOOD LAWL but when you own them in the FACE they nerd rage out so quick it's so funny. Like in Left 4 Dead one you just do a pro ass smoker triple hunter attack and it's nerd rage all night lonG ALL LONG.

I never actually nerd raged, just kinda bitched at some noobs who think they are good and don't listen to advice when given to people who are clearly better then them. Like in DOTA, I stopped playing because I hated public players, I had more fun steam rolling teams in 10 minutes with 4 friends then having a terrible band of allies and lose a game we could have won if people listened to me. But it's all gravy slavy you dig?

[rJ floW]

The only time I would rage on a game is when DW4 would somehow "lose my saved data" while I was beatin down king metals ready to dominate necrosaro...and oh did i slap the shit out of the nes!

Nowadays i pretty much say...its a game. Though my ps3 JUST got the ylod and I didn't take to kindly to it...(BTW if anyone has a great way to fix it rather than thermal compound + heating gun let me know PLEASE)

but seriously...just a game, no one will care in 5 years, so just relax. As per lag....stop online gaming, my online madden got lag and i just stopped playing...case closed.

[Unknown Entity]

Haha, this has been happening to me lately playing the baseball and karaoke mini-games in Yakuza 3. ^^;

Best thing to do is to take a break. I mean, turn the TV off so you can't see it, go to the kitchen to get a drink or snack, come back and slowly eat the snack/drink whilst doing something else. Like talk on MSN or watch a video on youtube, or rant on a forum somewhere. Alternatively, skip the trip to the kitchen and go to the bathroom and splash some water on your face. Or take a shower. I'm not suggesting to take a shower every time you rage, but it helps, especially if you need to have one anyway.

But honestly though, I don't rage at games that often. In the last few weeks, I've only raged a few times at RDR (I was playing online, so that's kinda different) and Yakuza.

[Jin]

I make the nerd rage for them nerd ragers cause they nerd rage like they are the best but when they really aren't the best they just think they are cause they are like LOL IM GOOD LAWL but when you own them in the FACE they nerd rage out so quick it's so funny.

This earns the prize for best sentence on TFF.


I nerd rage during single player games far more than multiplayer. With multiplayer games, the odd times I do play them, I just accept that I suck on them and move on, but in single player games, there's always that sense that the computer has somehow cheated and enough fails at the hands of that sends me flying. I haven't broken anything, but I've thrown a number of things against walls. I'm usually in control enough to find something other than expensive electronics to throw - I've never once thrown a controller.

[kupo]

i only really got nerd rage during MMO's (especally warhammer). but, i dont really play much anymore. dealing with said rage usually just involved myself having an (one-sided) exchange of colorful, descriptive words at my computer screen.
then i'd make myself a sandwich. cause they make everything better

[midgetbob]

yeah, i think the last time i had an electronic rage destruction moment was a good 5++ years ago. Anymore I get a scowl and maybe some cussing. As stated before, I just don't care enough about the game to rage over anymore... but it's still known to happen.

i know a lot more people nerd rage then they let on though, as it happens to everyone. upset that they lost at whatever boss, or to a stupid strat etc.

[Lily]

It's usually limited to shouting profanities with me, though, if Im getting really frustrated I either try to bite the control pad or break it in half...beacuse Im a weirdo. Ive thrown (and broken) a fair few in my time as well, i threw one at a tv so hard, that something inside it smashed, and the colour ****ed up and it was like, a black and white tv only in green ]: First time I ever played/beat FFVIII was in a green hue. fail

its things liek mario kart and fighting games with me, or frustrating to **** mini games in FF's. Or Xaldin. I swear I almost had a nervous breakdown over that arse wipe

[Block]

Sooo... how does everyone else contain their gaming nerd rage?

I call my mom and cry.

No, not really. I often swear and rant for about 15 to 20 minutes about how terrible I am before I finally just go and watch something... anime or movie or what-have-you.

[Rocky]

I've changed a lot from my nerd raging. I used to be a big tryhard and I'd get really whiny when things weren't going right in online games, but after realizing how it makes me play even worse I just end up laughing it off. I think the key is keeping the emotions in moderation; it's okay to get frustrated once in while but if you act like that all the time, you're not focusing hard enough and then you get dumped on.

[Tiffany]

The worst time I nerd raged was when my OH accidentally deleted my profile off of Xbox Live.

ALL my game saves were gone. I was the leader in our Rockband game, lost the band that was thisclose to completing the game. Umpteen hours put into The Last Remnant, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect. GONE.

I got so angry with him I cried. He was fiddling around with stuff and I kept telling him to not do anything with it. He was trying to figure out how to merge accounts or something. I had two profiles on the Xbox, a LIVE account and a regular one. In trying to delete the regular one he ended up deleting my LIVE one as well.

Frig. He's lucky I didn't leave him right there on the spot.

[Xithor]

I've recently been playing a game called League of Legends which is from the creators of DotA and I gotta tell you rage quitting is such a pain in the ass. It doesn't matter if it's on my team or the people I'm playing against because it just makes the game unfair.

When people get killed and then leave the game it is the most annoying thing ever because now the game is no longer fair. But like Loaf said it is really annoying when noobs pretty much are the reason that you lose when you could easily have won because they just don't listen to their teammates. Frustrating sometimes.

[Xanatos]

I made huge progress over the years, I don't brake controllers anymore, nor do I smash mouse against the keyboard, now, I just curse few times and that's about it. I must admit, I don't remember the last time I had a nerd rage, I don't play multiplayer as I used to, and when I do, rarely can something anger me as I experienced pretty much everything. As for what I do to get over it, music does wonders for me, not just for nerd rage, whenever I'm pissed soothing music calms me down.

[SOLDIER #819]

I will curse and sometimes "AAAAGGGHHH" when I'm just about to win after having lost for the nth time but end up failing again. As time goes on I just accept that I suck/that the game sucks and lose all will to play. Then I'll cry like a loser after realizing that I spent all those hours losing.

Nothing's been destroyed in my rage yet. I break enough things just by being around them, so if I broke anything else I wouldn't have a game to play.

[Alpha]

I nerd rage during single player games far more than multiplayer. With multiplayer games, the odd times I do play them, I just accept that I suck on them and move on, but in single player games, there's always that sense that the computer has somehow cheated and enough fails at the hands of that sends me flying. I haven't broken anything, but I've thrown a number of things against walls. I'm usually in control enough to find something other than expensive electronics to throw - I've never once thrown a controller.

I'm like this, although instead of nerd raging, I just stop playing video games. I think I just don't care enough.

I suck at multiplayer games, period. I know and accept that. My brother bought me MW2 just so we could play and talk at the same time (him at his flat, me at home). And I play when my a few friends say they might come on. They are all better than me, but I just play to relax and talk to them, while shooting people in the face, less often than I am shot in the face.

One time one guy killed me, and yelled that I sucked, and he was better than me. I went 'Eh, tell me something I don't know.' And then he said that I should give up, because I suck so much. So I told him that I was going to give up, because he was being a ****, and suggested that he should stop caring about MW2, and his will to live. Wanker.

In single player games, I can get frustrated. And if I do, I realise that I've stopped enjoying a game, and move on. There's a fine line between a challenge and situation that induces frustration. Good video games are aware of it.

[che]

Whenever I rage, it's because I imagine some guy who sits at his computer being good at it. It's this guy with taped glasses and a smirk on his face that makes him look like an asshole because he's going to brag to his other nerd friends that he beat someone, because that's the best thing he will ever win at.

I can't stand to imagine the fact that someone beat me in a multiplayer game just because they devoted all their time into that game specifically. You can beat me in the game, but you won't be me irl, nerd!

[Rocky]

Whenever I rage, it's because I imagine some guy who sits at his computer being good at it. It's this guy with taped glasses and a smirk on his face that makes him look like an asshole because he's going to brag to his other nerd friends that he beat someone, because that's the best thing he will ever win at.

I can't stand to imagine the fact that someone beat me in a multiplayer game just because they devoted all their time into that game specifically. You can beat me in the game, but you won't be me irl, nerd!

[Howling Wind]

What is nerd rage? But seriously if I get miffed on an online game I just tell people I need to go for a bit and quit. My parents would nerd rage if I threw my controller/Keyboard and or Mouse out the window. And believe me nobody, especially me wants to see THAT happen!