What describes your fit of rage when you die?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:13 pm

I'm a bit of all of the above to be honest. My wife hates it. Anyone else as childish as me?

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:35 pm

I scream out fuck in the train while im playing sengoku cannon and people are just looking at me like..wtf

Shalashaska · Post by **Shalashaska** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:38 pm

Depends. If I'm just playing for fun then dying doesn't really bother me but if I'm going for something like a high score or a 1CC game then I will randomly throw out any of the above. For the sake of voting though I chose option 2.

Post by **undamned** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:41 pm

I stomp my feet like a little kid, throwing a tantrum. Seriously. My roomate and his friend both did one of those *slow head-turn to see what the crap is going on* the other night when I died on Dangun, or whatever I was playing

I'll usually shout something, too. I remember talking to my mom, on the phone, and in mid conversation I'd outburst with some sort of wrath, and she'd be like "What's the matter?!" And I'd be like, "oh, I just died on this game," and she'd be like, "Well, if it makes you that mad, then stop playing!"

-ud

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:05 am

My habit of occasionally swearing in front of the kids isn't much appreciated here. But, f***! I can't help it sometimes! To die with 2 bombs is one thing. To die with 4+ warrants some serious profanity.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:12 am

Am I the only one who feels a bit annoyed and just starts over again without doing something to express my profound anger?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:19 am

Ganelon wrote:Am I the only one who feels a bit annoyed and just starts over again without doing something to express my profound anger?

I do that too, but something about restarting from Stage 3 or 4 doesn't sit well with me.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:49 am

Ganelon wrote:Am I the only one who feels a bit annoyed and just starts over again without doing something to express my profound anger?

Honestly, shmups don't piss me off as some other sorts of games. The game that pissed me off the most was Maximo: Ghosts to Glory. That one caused me to throw my controller a number of times. At least I beat that P.O.S. game.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:08 am

i'm as childish as i can be while living with my parents.

i also like to shout an hearty "fuck you" and flash a finger at bosses that give me trouble, when they finally go down. DOJ level two, i'm looking at you beyotch!

swearing is commonplace, however volume must be muted is their are two little ones trying to sleep.

on that note though, i no longer go on the warpath, when i lose a round. half a dozen controllers and my first gba suffered during this period.

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:18 am

I cuss very profusely when I die.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:49 am

I'm pretty cool about it actually. In fact, that's a good way to describe me: pretty cool.

I'm a pretty cool guy.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:13 am

Ganelon wrote:Am I the only one who feels a bit annoyed and just starts over again without doing something to express my profound anger?

Heh, for me it's not really a matter of if I die or when or where I die, but rather how I die. If something nails me and I'm just not skilled enough to evade it properly, then I might just grumble "ah nuts" and be done with it...however, if I'm nailed with a) invisible bullets/obstacles, b) a point-blank or last-second "bastard bullet," c) something which pops up in a place you'll NEVER be able to avoid unless you've played the stage before, d) an ever-so-slight nick on my hitbox which I swear should have missed, e) enemies/shots slipping through my inadequately-slow fire rate, or some such thing, sometimes the game will earn a slightly stronger rebuke from me...usually nothing worse than "you bastard!" though. Occasionally I'll smack my hand down on the seat next to me, but I don't think I've ever thrown or broken a controller.

U K Narayan · Post by **U K Narayan** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:24 am

I just keep my cool, and keep gunning.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:21 am

The poll needs to be checkboxes instead of radio buttons

- Sailor with tourettes
- Tearing apart controlers
- Smashing controllers
- Throwing controller at TV
- Throwing controller at floor
- Throwing controller at 2nd couch
- Punching couch
- Punching TV (most common)

And my best ever, kicking my TV through the back of my mame cabinet into the wall.

Yes I have an anger problem.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:13 am

I never get angry at all. After all, its not the games fault you suck!

I simply yell a loud shout "FUCK"!, or something similar. No big deal really.
I'll just try to do better next time around...if I'm outa practice with a given game, well what would you expect?

Throwing/breaking stuff (controllers) is DUMB...please stop the insanity!

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:22 am

Usually, the worst I give is a low "grrr" or "Ah, nuts" when I get killed whilst playing.

But occasionally, it's: "bastards" uttered through clenched teeth.

Much like Andi, I try to keep my cool. Besides, I don't have the ducats to replace broken controllers or TV's.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:30 am

Andi wrote:I'm pretty cool about it actually. In fact, that's a good way to describe me: pretty cool.

I'm a pretty cool guy.

Yes, and thats what I like about you...

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:33 am

I have to admit to having done in a controller or two in my day... I'm not really good enough at these types of games to get far enough in that I need to break something when I get beat. My banging and on things these days is usually reserved for bad beats in my online poker games (yelling usually isn't part of it though.) If I get annoyed occasionally I'll just hit the off switch on my cabinet (since 95% of my shmupping is on there these days) and go do something else.

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:56 am

I usually just shake my fist and let loose a swear word or two: "PISS!" "DAMN!" "FUCK!" and "ASS!" are my staples.

I don't fling control pads. They cost money, and you can't really buy the cheaper ones because they suck mightily.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:31 am

I'm just a MAX CHAIN of fuck.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:42 am

In my younger days, I had a real problem. My most memorable (read: stupid) moment was picked up my Commodore Amiga (one meaty piece of equipment) and throwing the entire thing through the window. It still worked by the way. Countless SNES pads were trashed, one system, and a lot of carts ended up damaged.

These days I've calmed a little, although both Xbox pads still have cracks around the casing from being thrown, and the DC Arcade stick is a little beat up (although that's the stick's fault, not me, floppy inaccurate piece of shit

), the main problem is the swearing. If I could chain like I can swear, I'd be in the worlds best at Iky.

My GF finds it amusing in a 'sad little boy' kind of way, but she gets all moody and annoyed when it's her that's sucking

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:52 am

I once bit a cheap PC controller out of frustration while playing Samurai Shodown 4 (You try pulling off Ukyo's Swallow Swoop Slice with a PC pad) and broke it. For real.

Moogs · Post by **Moogs** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:56 am

I let loose with a re-dizzy combo of "shits" and "fucks."

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:26 am

Ganelon wrote:Am I the only one who feels a bit annoyed and just starts over again without doing something to express my profound anger?

The first few times I'm like this, then after the 5th or 6th restart, that first level starts to really piss you off - little graphical touches that used to be cute, now become your main critisisms of the game

This just gets you more worked up until every death has a torrent of swearing, toys thrown from pram etc... to go with it

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:12 pm

All of them, with the occasional "omg i'm going to do push-ups/bench-press/run a few kilometres" to calm down.

Seriously!

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:49 pm

Usually my first run-through is the best, and I do well enough that when I die, I'm already proud of my accomplishment.

It's the subsequent deaths that piss me off more and more with each one, and my whiney "Goddammit's" become increasingly violent to the point when I turn off the console and insert the next shmup. Rinse, repeat.

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:26 pm

I do my usual combo of english/french cursing, but that's as far as it goes... never really throwen a controller or punched the screen.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:27 pm

I usually get a little upset, but dying in a shmup isn't something that get's me really ticked off.

Samudra · Post by **Samudra** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:13 pm

Scary. Now I can understand why so many people seem to lump stress and gaming together in the other thread (how do you train...).

Honestly, I do not feel a single change in emotion whether dying, living, 1cc'ing, power failure, &c.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:02 pm

Vexorg: Where do you play online, and what type of games? I used to do that too, but my wife finally said she had enough.

The only time I broke a controller and didn't mean it was my old US Saturn back in college. I had died or something in some game, and was more put out/bored than anyhting. I tossed the controller out of the way... pretty lightly, but I hit it square on the coffee table and it broke. Did more damage than all the times I've thrown them (very hard) at the floor or something.

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