Re: Gaming Rage
My friend does nothing but play games all day and all night. He rarely watches TV. That being said....he's very good at what he does. He's also way way way too competitive.
The best way to make a sleep over uncomfortable and quiet is to play Super Smash Bros Brawl. If I beat him ( he does have bad days. Especially when he's tired. ) He gets extremely angry, and quiet, until he gets beat again, then he curses, and stays quiet, rinse n repeat. The angrier he gets the worse he plays. I can beat him without trying.... heck I can beat him while subtly TRYING to lose. He then just picks random like he doesn't care, but if I try to stop playing, he just gets mad again and plays against computers ( or he plays another game, but plays it poorly, as if he just doesn't care. Like he WANTS to be in a bad mood. ) until it gets really late and he wants to go to bed. I HATE when he gets like that. Also, it's only when I beat him. If it's his other friends, he's okay with it... which is odd, because he considers me his only challenge..... like... how is it worse to get beaten by some one more challenging than some one who stinks at the game?
And then, now this is what happens 80 percent of the time, he does really good against me, and the occasional player 3. But the thing is, he's WAY too good, and he things up tactics on the spot, that just seem cheap to me. Sometimes they might even BE cheap, or maybe just design flaws. ( is it just me, or does Wolf's claws go right through any shield? ) But that's when I start to get really angry, and he gets really cocky and spams taunts when I am in the air, and he has this really smug grin on his face as he's winning. He really makes me feel inferior sometimes, and I get so mad about it. I end up suiciding if the odds are way to stacked against me, or if I play like, 5 matches in a row, and he destroys me each time, I just don't feel like playing anymore. He also really annoys me because he always chooses his character based on who I pick. Actually there's two meanings to that:
Sometimes, for example, if I pick Wario or Mario, he picks Mario, Luigi, Bowser, or Donkey Kong. If I pick Link, he picks Zelda or Ganondorf. If I pick Sonic, he picks Mario. If I pick Fox, he picks wolf. If I am Dedede he picks kirby... and if I change my character after he picks, he changes too. I prefer to have characters who have never fought, battle. That's why Brawl was made, right?
The second thing he does, and he does this more often, is he picks his character, based on who he things has better luck beating them. For example, he always picks Peach when I pick Sonic, because Sonic is my best character, and Peach is the only one who seems to be able to stand up to him. He seems to find a character for each of my mains. Peach for Sonic, Ike for Toon Link, Ganondorf for King Dedede, DK for Ness, and Wario is the only one he can't find a good rival for. He just refuses to be number 2..... ( He even forces me to be player 2, despite the fact that equal control is given to player 2. He hates playing on my Wii because we use my rules, and he is forced to be player 2. And when we play a Mario game, he refuses to play if I am Mario and he is Luigi. I always have to be his number 2, and it really realy irritates me. I think it's some kind of superiority complex... )
....That being said... I never cursed so much at a game, like I did with Sonic Battle, Kid Icarus, and Adventures of Link.
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"Insomnia is the worst enemy of a mind that wanders restlessly, until it stumbles into it's worries and fears about the future.
Insomnia is the best friend of a mind that is creative."
-Myself........ but boy, do I sure wish I could conk out before sunrise, like everyone else.
By Jove, I think this may be the most hostile forum I have been on. 