I want my Uber Dagger of Whiner Killing, now, now, NOW!
Jun 12, 2008 Games
If you are at a restaurant and someone’s child falls to the industrial carpeted floor, wailing, screaming and crying loud enough to shatter crystal and turn beet red in the face–would you call that acceptable public behavior?
When you (if you do) watched that ridiculous sweet-sixteen “reality” t.v. show, especially the episode where the lady bought her daughter a brand new car and she started crying and yelling about how she wanted it AT her birthday party, now NOW, and OMG HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!!11–did you barely restrain yourself from wanting to choke a brat?
If you answered no to the first and yes to the second and are a MMO/MMORPG player who often pitches a fit because you don’t get that dagger you always wanted, may I suggest you take your brow and beat it against your desk until the common sense is pounded in?
Honestly, in the past few weeks playing Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, a supposedly “mature” game, the amount of hissy fits, temper tantrums and all around screaming and crying has left me flabbergasted. Supposed adults turn into mewling, vicious sulky teenagers bandying insults about because they lost a roll for a piece of pretend equipment in a pretend world, twenty minute debates over who uses what weapon more, and thus, should have had said weapon they didn’t get until it deteriorates into a NO UR MOM argument. I am just about eye-lid twitching here ladies and gentlemen.
Protip: IF you lost a roll on an imaginary weapon in an imaginary world that doesn’t exist filled with people pretending to be half naked barbarians and IF you flip your wig over it? You are no better than the child laying on the floor with balled fists beating the carpet, screaming for the ice cream sundae denied him because he didn’t know how to be polite.
Games are meant as a means to get away from the stress of everyday life. Why in the world do some players forget this and seem to go out of their way to create ugly situations for themselves?
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