What describes your fit of rage when you die?

[Crunch]

Just a simple, single "Fuck!" usually does the trick or "Oh, wow...".

[IlMrm]

Most of the time, a combination of "cheap fuck", "cheap cunt", and "fucking cunt".

[sffan]

"Ahhh! Dammit."

(I don't get too carried away.)

[captain ahar]

I literally PUNTED my first PS2 across the room because it wouldn't read Gradius III + IV. Yeah...that fixed it all right. :B

hilarity at its finest.

[Klatrymadon]

I just died all over the place on Trizeal and was as cool as a cucumber. I don't see the point in getting in a huff about it. This view may not go down too well here (and it's something I posted elsewhere a while ago), but what the hell... I'm an intensely quiet guy who likes to keep himself to himself. What I think is worse than being socially inept is when people don't even realize it, fill the hole with something as trivial as shooting games [ trivial in the grand scheme of things, that is...they're very dear to me personally], and bullshit themselves into thinking it means a lot. I think this is partly why some people get so angry, although I know a lot of the more casual gamers are still full-time controller throwers . They're placing too much weight on their hobby.

Now, I would never suggest that practicing at shooters is a worthless endeavour (I spend hours each day playing them myself, and I have never seen work or the notion of "the career" as important), but I could never get to the point in my slightly videogame-centric life where I thought there was something deeply important, impressive or superior about it. This is probably why there are so many overblown, pretentious and arrogant personalities on shooter forums - not that I mean to insult anybody here.

I'm not really going anywhere with this utterly tangental drivel, and most likely anybody who doesn't really know what I'm getting at is too "far gone", if you will, to ever be able to understand it, so I'll stop here. So, yeah. Relax, my dear friends. This high score deadline-meeting kind of mentality is probably causing a lot of the anger. Practice because you enjoy it and it is important to you, not purely to impress strangers on the internet, aye?

*gets off soap box*

I dunno, I realize that dying in shooters can still be annoying even if you don't think like these dreadful people I've been fumbling to describe; I guess I'm just incredibly laid back all the time.

[Leandro]

I scream until my throat hurts.

[Metrackle]

It depends on the condition...

Stupid death early on: *resets the game in mild annoyance*
Dying somewhere in the middle or towards the end (with plenty of lives to spare): "Whatever..."
Losing every life to a tough boss: "Damnation!" or "Screw this."
Losing final life to last boss when I'm a few seconds from victory: "OH SHIT OH FUCK OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!"

[Carmen]

Remember in the Flinstones when Fred gets real frustrated, and he starts mumbling some incoherent cave speak? Thats about the equilvalent of what I do

[bpe]

I'm with Bal-Sagoth on this. I totally hate it when you dodge the densest of Cave patterns, and then 0.2 secs before you're in the clear, you deliberately fly into that one stray bullet that gave you 4 kilometers in every direction to dodge. Which is actually dumb and funny, so the reaction would be, throwing arms in the air, laughing out loud, shaking head, then start cursing about your own stupidity (in dutch) and for extra style bonus, slam your head against the buttons a few times.

.... and then realize that you're sitting in Hey!, hooked up to the big plasma screen, kind of standing out as the gaijin already, smack in the middle of all those pokerfaced japanese leet dudes... and quickly go back to a straight face and game on as if nothing happened.

Ah, the memories

[llaoyllakcuf]

my reaction is not quite as bad as this guy's...

http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?ID=327

[ScrambledValkyrie]

If it's way early in the game, I reset. I can do better than that!
If it's far enough to Zen me, I run around for an hour or a few and go way hyper.

[neorichieb1971]

Im terrible for stuff like this and its partly the reason my wife left me.

I'd blame everything except myself for dying

If I could hear the washer/dryer/dish washer/airconditioning/fish tank I would turn them all off, if anyone moved in or out of the room for ANY reason I would get so bad tempered.

[MJR]

I used to destroy joysticks when I played Xenon 1 & 2 in the eighties.

These days, I just stop playing if I get annoyed. I'm getting old..

[dai jou bu]

Trizeal is the only game that makes me smile and start giggling everytime something kills me for some unknown reason. It could be because of the music. Gunbird 2 deaths are always funny if I'm Marion and I get hit by something.

Other games, depending on the sound your ship/character makes when they're hit, startle me more than anything else. I've died so many times in shmups that I never really get frustrated at my deaths anymore because that death means that I haven't practiced the stage enough to prevent that type of scenario from happening.

[landshark]

Tourette's Fantasia ... that has to be one of the coolest descriptions of swearing I've seen/heard.

[gs68]

Stupid mistake early on = restart

Stupid mistake later on = ranges from hitting keyboard/wristpad, to what is possibly the cheesiest "NOOOOO!" you will ever hear (even moreso than Darth Vader's). May include "what the fuck," "crap!," and "I got a stupid-ass [insert fairly respectable score that could have gone much further here]!"

[Plasmo]

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(see mars matrix highscore thread for details kthx)