Ego trip: Getting over it

drkfrontiers

I disabled dueling and freed myself from something I have no interest in doing.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

The fact you took the time out to dedicate an entire post to the event in question, would make me assume you were more bothered about it than you care to admit. But I'm a cynical old ***, so no offence meant.

PvP is a funny social experience. It has the power to turn people who are usually sensible and obviously very intellectual into sniffling little kids in mere seconds. I'm 43 and most things don't bother me as I've went through worse things in life than being put on my ass in some game. Yet there was once I went waaaaay ott and reverted back to being a 10 year old little kid. The person in question was obviously young and probably young enough had he said anything to me irl, I'd have ignored him. After all, it takes a very special adult to feel the need to get 1 up on some 12 or so year old. But i became that special adult that time. Thought about it, then laughed about it and never done it again. Even though it was the other person who was doing the baiting, I actually messaged them and apologised as I don't think there is ever any reason for an adult to start a slanging match with a young kid. I was in the wrong, not the other person.

@Prof_Bawbag
What you gotta remember is we're all kids deep down inside

monktoasty

Grow up

Sevn

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

The fact you took the time out to dedicate an entire post to the event in question, would make me assume you were more bothered about it than you care to admit. But I'm a cynical old ***, so no offence meant.

PvP is a funny social experience. It has the power to turn people who are usually sensible and obviously very intellectual into sniffling little kids in mere seconds. I'm 43 and most things don't bother me as I've went through worse things in life than being put on my ass in some game. Yet there was once I went waaaaay ott and reverted back to being a 10 year old little kid. The person in question was obviously young and probably young enough had he said anything to me irl, I'd have ignored him. After all, it takes a very special adult to feel the need to get 1 up on some 12 or so year old. But i became that special adult that time. Thought about it, then laughed about it and never done it again. Even though it was the other person who was doing the baiting, I actually messaged them and apologised as I don't think there is ever any reason for an adult to start a slanging match with a young kid. I was in the wrong, not the other person.

It's funny how PvP can turn 40somethings into 12 year olds isn't it. I used to get sooo worked up, up until about 10 years ago when I found myself rage quitting a match, not because I was bested, but I just couldn't get my *** together! Realized how foolish I'd become and just stopped taking most pvp seriously.

Have never enjoyed gaming more. Though I still enjoy competitive racing, no crying about op gear, no crying about op skills or classes. Just driver skill against driver skill. Love it.

thedude33

Kova wrote: »

The other day I was attacked by a nb and we had a nice little dance. The player was obviously not use to the class or just not very good in general because they missed their burst opportunities and kept running low on resources. Then it happened...

...screen freezes....goes black...no signal message floating in front of my eyes. I look down to see mi lindo gato playing with the HDMI cable. I rush to plug it back in, and just as the screen pops up, the player executes me...and promptly begins to make tea.

I hate these moments so much usually, but this time I laughed about it and it felt great. This dude obviously saw me not attacking for some reason, killed me, and felt proud enough to squat over me and I just couldn't be mad about it.

Do any of you have a moment where you finally conquered the salt inside? How've you dealt with toxic players?

At least you didn't use the dog ate my homework excuse

magictucktuck

if someone get a lucky kill and squats me i kill them and ignore them and act like it was nothing if i squat back it just makes them think i felt like it was an accomplishment

WuffyCerulei

I got the elk mount recently, so I like to stand over farmers and people I know are buttholes and make the god awful sound it makes until they release. That's my way of coping with toxic peeps.

thedude33

smacx250 wrote: »

There was a time in the game where if I couldn't break free before fear got to a certain point in its animation it wouldn't ever break. After experiencing that a number of times, whenever I saw it get to that point I would just take my hands from the keyboard, sit back, and wait for the death recap (and whatever else). Go ahead and take the cheap kill - no, I'll let you have it - I really don't care.

Yep, it's obvious that it doesn't really bother you.

smacx250

thedude33 wrote: »

smacx250 wrote: »

There was a time in the game where if I couldn't break free before fear got to a certain point in its animation it wouldn't ever break. After experiencing that a number of times, whenever I saw it get to that point I would just take my hands from the keyboard, sit back, and wait for the death recap (and whatever else). Go ahead and take the cheap kill - no, I'll let you have it - I really don't care.

Yep, it's obvious that it doesn't really bother you.

Well, I went from rage to ambivalence, but I certainly didn't get to "happy with it"!

OrdoHermetica

Dont_do_drugs wrote: »

As for being emoted on when I've lost? Don't care in the slightest I consider the type of player who feels its necessary and thats enough to make it salt-free. Especially with some of the worse PvPers who only usually get to do it when they are grouped with real fighters, those guys are so desperate for the chance its comical.

Actually I am wondering, why people dont like emotes? Well I can a little bit understand it for teabagging, but everything else is something i consider more like a relaxed, funny and friendly afterthingy. Doesnt matter wether someone does it to me or i do it to him, actually I never thought of it as insulting someone but showing happyness (which also is some kind of compliment, bcs killing a starter doesnt make me happy a lot) as example or some kind of funny teasing.

I actually often use emotes as a sign of respect. For example, a couple weeks ago a friend and I were capturing resources, and this level 25, fresh off the literal boat Nightblade bow ganker decides to take us - and the guards of the resource we just captured - on. They died, obviously. But then they came back. Again and again and again. They were determined to stop us. The threw themselves at us so many times that they actually slowed us down enough that their team's zerg was able to arrive before we cut the keep off. I killed the ganker one last time, saw the horde headed my way, and /pray'ed over their body just before I was cut to pieces. My buddy /saluteloop3'd.That was heroism, no doubt about it.

GreenhaloX

Sevn wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

The fact you took the time out to dedicate an entire post to the event in question, would make me assume you were more bothered about it than you care to admit. But I'm a cynical old ***, so no offence meant.

PvP is a funny social experience. It has the power to turn people who are usually sensible and obviously very intellectual into sniffling little kids in mere seconds. I'm 43 and most things don't bother me as I've went through worse things in life than being put on my ass in some game. Yet there was once I went waaaaay ott and reverted back to being a 10 year old little kid. The person in question was obviously young and probably young enough had he said anything to me irl, I'd have ignored him. After all, it takes a very special adult to feel the need to get 1 up on some 12 or so year old. But i became that special adult that time. Thought about it, then laughed about it and never done it again. Even though it was the other person who was doing the baiting, I actually messaged them and apologised as I don't think there is ever any reason for an adult to start a slanging match with a young kid. I was in the wrong, not the other person.

It's funny how PvP can turn 40somethings into 12 year olds isn't it. I used to get sooo worked up, up until about 10 years ago when I found myself rage quitting a match, not because I was bested, but I just couldn't get my *** together! Realized how foolish I'd become and just stopped taking most pvp seriously.

Have never enjoyed gaming more. Though I still enjoy competitive racing, no crying about op gear, no crying about op skills or classes. Just driver skill against driver skill. Love it.

Well.. it's doesn't matter your age. All adults playing ESO or any other video games, we are all just big kids. However, others tend to be more mature big kids than others.

Sergykid

whenever i see party members squatting i type in /s "what r u 9 y o"

but i see less tea recently, think people are finally getting over it. But fear not, a new toxic behavior will trend.

Lylith

i'd settle for a &*#%ing game that worked consistently and wasn't so subject to exploits and glitches.

no ego involved and nothing amusing about it.