Hm I've never raged because I'm so good at gaming and have never lost. I do feel as if I'm a walking power keg, though, and intend to hurt my immediate family if/when that day ever comes.
@Gavin McPhie I had a brother that was just like you. When he finally lost he just had a blank expression on his face and calmly said that he was going out for a walk. Haven’t seen him sense. That was 5 years ago...
I’ve raged but personally I’ve never thrown a controller or done anything crazy. Which is weeeird cuz outside of videogames I am VERY ANGRY. But just not with gaming, it’s almost like my happy place.
@@krusher181 Makes sense to me, honestly. My real life is already infuriating enough. Why would I waste my anger on something as trivial as a video game. It's not that I'm not invested in the game. It's that I have some freaking perspective
I went to the Police Academy for about a year, which is halfway done btw in my state, and I can completely believe that the dude at the end is a police officer. Like for real... I was an idealistic individual coming out of high school and I felt being a cop would be a good way to help the ppl I live around. Turns out, the police academy sorta weeds those ppl out and alienates them until they just quit. As the sort of ppl the academy actually wants, per the peer to peer treatment and basic training you must do, is those capable and willing to hurt others. There is that famous situation in which police officers were recommended they experience a third party education course on how to change your behavior and be willing to kill. This is something they suggest in my state as well. Never met a good cop in all my days... disappointing reality...
Those last couple minutes were amazing, inspirational... My parents still have our childhood SNES whose controllers bear the teeth marks of my little brothers rage with Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. I don't think he does that anymore.
ah, a fellow biter. when i was a wee lad playing miniclip on my dad's pc, there was a game called dream tower that resulted in tiny little canine marks on the computer desk.
YES. Breaking your board in half and throwing it in THUG 2 was such a good outlet for my rage 😭😭 Best skateboarding game with one of the best soundtracks of all time
Social anxiety and a low budget was my totally fine cure for real gamer rage, after maybe 6 years. Also great to see such a dedicated reporter out in the field getting berated in game to really get some data.
I was subscribed for the longest time after his 'locations of Fallout video' but I just couldn't keep watching after he screamed directly into the microphone for 36 seconds in his latest video. I have my limits
Much like many gamers and their esport of choice, I find that I can't help but become emotionally invested in every single one of your videos. Even the stupidest joke line can lead to introspection. Not sure how you make every video feel so casual yet hit so deep
So, I think the reason we see mostly dudes raging out over game moments is simply because they make up most of the gaming streamer/youtuber personalities. If the majority of women were being shown playing these games surrounded by mostly other women, emotions wouldn't have to be as 'in check' as they have to when you're the odd man out most of the time. I think we kind of unconsciously know we're being watched and evaluated more often than just a random dude in a sea of random dudes so we err on the side of what makes us less susceptible to unwanted attention. Hopefully, that makes sense. Growing up I raged more than my brother did at games, but I have/had an anger problem (blah blah blah couldn't handle sadness so I just turn it into anger), however, I still did the classic rage moves like throwing the controller at our tv, squeezing the controller trying to break it, oh and my favorite taking scissors to the metal strip inside the nintendo cartridge (this somehow did not hurt the game in any way ever).
I'm glad to see someone in the comments bring this up. I feel like people often assume rage is solely a guy thing and women who express this kind of anger are the outlier, but it feels much more accurate to say this is just one of the ways women have to moderate their emotions in male-dominated spaces. I feel like its also important to state that this doesn't mean women are innately better suited towards managing difficult emotions though, because suppression still can result in unaddressed/internalized guilt or shame that may build up over time in some cases. This isn't to justify rage as a productive response, just that, as another woman who's experienced anger issues, rage does have a sort of cathartic effect that is denied when suppressing that reaction, especially when its done as a result of social pressures rather than for personal growth, ya know?
@@randomcloverr Exactly! Oh, I'm so happy my rambling was coherent. Yeah, suppression while it may be necessary it really isn't healthy long-term. Much like suppressing any emotion for long periods of time isn't healthy for anyone. Thanks for the read!
Yeah anger outbursts are a problem even outside of games. After kicking something real hard and being injured for a while, I decided to get into therapy. Haven't hit something in a while.
What I started doing more on multiplayer games when I'm losing or dying is how awesome it must feel for the other team. Because I've been on the other side of the situation and it's awesome That helps sometimes
I've been trying to get therapy for a while, partially to deal with my anger issues, and it's not easy to keep up with appointments and get on the same page with the therapist I'm assigned to. But then I heard about Bet- Really though, MAJOR props for not turning this into a BetterHelp sponsorship. Also the rest of that was true, although thankfully I never break anything when I "rage" (aside from one time when I threw a plastic bottle and it bounced off the floor and gained enough momentum to leave a dent in the wall NOT MY FAULT, it's just a very bad feeling to have and I don't want to have it. And yes, it is embarrassing as well. Although idk about that statistic about it not being the game's fault 99% of the time, are you sure you're a real gamer? Maybe I'm just not taking multiplayer games into account enough, those are probably responsible for at least 50% of rage quits which usually wouldn't be the game's fault. But I mostly play singleplayer... so it's usually just because I suck at games... but not always! Certainly not 99% of the time... I'd hope... But I do think a good number of games are pretty unfair. Am I just making excuses? Maybe? So what? Maybe I like games to be easy, is that so bad? Somehow I feel like I've gotten off topic, even though the video was largely about video games. Anyway, great job.
Oh man, stay strong, therapy helped me with a lot too. Still need more probably definitely, but it takes a lot to speak about it to a camera like this and is commendable, in my opinion. Hang in there, keep it up. This video inspired me.
this video all at once: is informative and genuinely insightful, hits close to home and makes me self reflect, and is absolutely hilarious best channel on this website
I'm in love with this video. The way it pivots from a somewhat jokey discussion with dark serious undertones to a period of immense masculine vulnerability is really beautiful to see! I know we talk a /lot/ about how men need to talk about their emotions, but it's /hard/ and anyone who has the guts to do what you've done here has my respect. Whilst I don't really struggle with interacting with videogames with anger in the same way some others do, I definitely have a few similarly shameful memories where anger has overtaken me that I really don't know how to process. It's been to a point for a while where I'm really uncomfortable with anger as an emotion, and this has certainly given me something to reflect on in my self. This, I think, is a text book case of the strength of conversations about emotions. I might also say that I've quoted your Amulet of Bral'Doon video in disucssions about my depression about a dozen times in talking to others about my depression, and in general I really appreciate this subtext in all your content. What I'm trying to say I guess, is thank you!
This was hilarious and relatable at an incredible level to me, I've struggled with destroying my things out of rage but I also realized the best way to not do so was to not put myself in situations where I can get very angry at a game, excellent video Leo.
im in therapy and she doesnt listen when i speak. in the first session she told me to "work on grounding techniques". its like she shoos me away every time we meet for an hour session, she says bye after literally 2 minutes
One game who's developers went specifically out of their way to avoid gamer rage situations is Deep Rock Galactic. And man, does it show. Legitimately the best, least toxic gaming community I've ever seen, and I really doubt it would have turned out that way if the devs hadn't prioritized making sure inter-player relationships ran as smoothly as possible.
11:42 The ass thing works. I usually mix it with some shadow boxing and poorly sung death metal. That way nothing gets broken. Kinda fun too, just need to get the bad energy out.
I need big props for recognizing The Wild At Heart OST playing as background music. GOD TIER GAME edit: i just read the description and saw that it was listed. oh well.
Fantastic vid! Therapist here. 😁 I appreciate you giving voice to this issue. Glad you've found ways to help yourself. I would also try Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Maté. It posits that someone can only trigger you if you're carrying ammunition. Similar to Stoic philosophy. It asks you to explore the emotions and core beliefs that underlie anger in order to prevent it from cropping up again.
Realising that anger is usually a secondary emotion and trying to work out in a moment of anger which primary emotion it stemmed from is a life changing step in feeling more in control of yourself, highly recommend 🥰
Whenever I gamer rage I start moaning really loud and rock back and forth in my chair. At first I did it as a joke but know its just an immediate response. Better to destroy my reputation than my laptop
Got spawned trapped by a friend on nuketown in Bo2 and I got so mad I bunch my arm rest on my chair so hard a metal pole shot through the arm rest. After that I always try my best to not rage out.
I wonder if any streamer has tried having a drum setup next to their computer setup, just so that when they have a rage moment they can instead just beat it out on a drum solo
It's interesting, because I think a lot of the same ways video games can breed toxicity and anger issues can also do the exact opposite. A lot of it depends on how we're taught to react to these stimuli. I see kids playing some FPS completely unsupervised screaming into the mic, and I know those kids are going to grow up to be awful little gremlins. And I know it's not the video games fault, it's those kids parents fault for using the Internet as a baby-sitter. Weirdly, I have a lot of current anger issues, and I've been a lifelong gamer, but I don't think any of them really came from gaming because all of my gaming experiences were very well supervised. I only really started having anger issues during my first customer service job and even then my anger issues were mild and isolated to home-life, at least compared to one coworker who once punched a hole in a wall because he got reassigned to do a task he didn't like and threatened to literally kill me with a boxcutter once because I was taking "Too long" to clean a sugar spill. I probably shouldn't, but I feel the need to say that I was taking so long because it was after 8PM and at around that time we empty out all the mop-buckets so they can be filled up with clean water the next morning.
As a person who played a lot of videogames without getting any better at them, I am accustomed to losing. So I never really did more than slapping my thigh once in frustration, even then it is usually if I lose because of technical issues. Most recently the time Elden Ring minimized its window during the Radahn fight. I was always more concerned than entertained looking at rage videos, ever since the infamous "I deleted my brother's wow account" video blew up ages ago.
I’ve played all the soulsborne games multiple times, defeated all bosses and optional content. Just completed Elden Ring. There’s only one secret optional boss encounter I haven’t done yet. And I’ve still never had a “rage moment” beyond a frustrated exhale from the nose or a quiet “fuck you”. Which leads me to believe these streamer freak outs are at least partially for the benefit of the audience, or they’re done hoping for it to be recorded and shared around. I use those games as an example, because I can’t even think of a game prior to this series that would even pass as frustrating unless we go all the way back to 2-D side scrollers. Maybe I’m the ultimate capital Z Zen, capital R gameR, but I doubt it. I bet this applies to a lot of adults who game.
2:25 Actually in a lot of modern games netcode and server issues can also be very apparent and ruin how games work. So sadly in some cases it is the games fault or at the least the studio who supports it. Even in some cases it is unfair or unbalance game design that is either made poorly or made to aggravate you, many games have design meant to anger the players such as dogs and rats in souls-likes or Get Over It. Though many modern competetive games tend to have poor in game balance which is the accidental case. Back to the topic of poorly designed or bad servers, Halo Infinite's game search and net code has had many issues and severe desync still occurs for many, which is both a Wifi and server issue alongside though it has slowly become more and more ironned out. Rainbow Six Seige has some severe desync aswell, players can vault off of a story and fall to the ground but they may not even be in the air falling for one side. Warzone has horrible design in many circumstances and has people justifiably mad because they prioritize the most profitable solution then the most balanced solution so whenever the newest game releases they make sure the guns are balanced in that games favour. Another example of bad design is GTA: Online where on PC there netcode is garbage and people can cheat and hack extremely easily. Though in actual design they intentionally have civilians drive into you and have given many AI enhancements alongside unlike the story mode also in most cases aren't able to be headshot. Aswell the game in open world PVP is mostly considered Pay to Win because Rockstar would rather unbalance the game and make things incredibly expensive so you have to grind for it or you give them 20 dollars and you get the new extremely broken tech immediately. The last bit though is that other players are also intentionally toxic and intend on ruining your day because they gain joy out of others despair. The real truth is just if your getting angry at something stop playing it and do something else, anger is fine but if you know you have taken yourself to far just stop and cool off or gain some catharsis and complete what you are doing.
Step 4 : The Liam neeson When you're so mad at a game that you'll track down the fictitious character in real life and put it in a dangerous situation just to prove a point . for example real bandicoots don't stand a chance against a factory with heavy machinery and moving platforms
I would watch ten hours of you calmly conversing with insane online game wackos
Yes please we want that
As long as this doesn't impact Leo's mental health, I would watch a series on this. Absolutely. 100%
Look at "Daniel from second life"
Basically that type of content
yes and please sir
Idk, he seems like hes too much of a jib-jabber thats gonna get strangles by a police officer breaking into his house
I’m so used of losing that I never raged because of a game before. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
Hm I've never raged because I'm so good at gaming and have never lost. I do feel as if I'm a walking power keg, though, and intend to hurt my immediate family if/when that day ever comes.
The only game I rage in is just warzone cause it just pisses me off by existing but yeah same for every other game
@Gavin McPhie I had a brother that was just like you. When he finally lost he just had a blank expression on his face and calmly said that he was going out for a walk. Haven’t seen him sense. That was 5 years ago...
I’ve raged but personally I’ve never thrown a controller or done anything crazy. Which is weeeird cuz outside of videogames I am VERY ANGRY. But just not with gaming, it’s almost like my happy place.
@@krusher181 Makes sense to me, honestly. My real life is already infuriating enough. Why would I waste my anger on something as trivial as a video game. It's not that I'm not invested in the game. It's that I have some freaking perspective
I went to the Police Academy for about a year, which is halfway done btw in my state, and I can completely believe that the dude at the end is a police officer. Like for real...
I was an idealistic individual coming out of high school and I felt being a cop would be a good way to help the ppl I live around. Turns out, the police academy sorta weeds those ppl out and alienates them until they just quit. As the sort of ppl the academy actually wants, per the peer to peer treatment and basic training you must do, is those capable and willing to hurt others.
There is that famous situation in which police officers were recommended they experience a third party education course on how to change your behavior and be willing to kill.
This is something they suggest in my state as well.
Never met a good cop in all my days... disappointing reality...
The Tony Hawk Raging button smash was a really genius mechanic
It was cool, but after 5 minutes it's just slows down the game.
Smash buttons to see 1 of 4 animations
Those last couple minutes were amazing, inspirational...
My parents still have our childhood SNES whose controllers bear the teeth marks of my little brothers rage with Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. I don't think he does that anymore.
Most controllers don't have wires anymore
@@wearecoterminous Oh I wasn't talking about the wires, lol. Though I think they got chewed on too
Hah! I was guilty of that. The controller itself and the wires. Surprised I didn't shock myself.
ah, a fellow biter. when i was a wee lad playing miniclip on my dad's pc, there was a game called dream tower that resulted in tiny little canine marks on the computer desk.
Gamer rage feels like a culturally acceptable form of toxic male anger.
The voice chat in sim-racing is some of the funniest raging you can find, even if I have been known to be the one raging on it 🤣
I love listening to people mad at other people
Ah, yes. Noah-Caldwell Gervais. Famous for his extremely loud and intense fits of rage.
God, I would pay good money to see that. Even when NCG gets really into a game, he frames it in terms of a fucking Whitman poem, haha.
The last minute was hilarious man, I envy your ability to laugh at that dude raging, usually it just makes me angry in return lol
It's a bit with one of his friends.
@@jupiterofthemonkeyii5569 Thought so, it still made me feel kinda sad for some reason.
That Noah Caldwell-Gervais joke is the funniest thing you've ever said.
“I’m going to find you, I’m going to STRANGLE YOU *IN YOUR SLEEP!* ”
followed immediately by “I am a police officer actually” is supremely funny
"because information costs money not just like everyday dis-information" had me rolling
Noah Caldwell Gervais has the most epic freak outs of all time.
YES. Breaking your board in half and throwing it in THUG 2 was such a good outlet for my rage 😭😭 Best skateboarding game with one of the best soundtracks of all time
Social anxiety and a low budget was my totally fine cure for real gamer rage, after maybe 6 years. Also great to see such a dedicated reporter out in the field getting berated in game to really get some data.
I do have to hit my desk 3 times to establish order in my court room sometimes. A very necessary evil.
"I think it would be healing to go through those reasons one by one" actually killed me
These videos always make me belly laugh, like the hilary joke and the gameplay at the end, I was in tears
The clip at the end is truly something else
That therapist level calm takedown of a child in the credits was amazing. +1 for gamer therapist Leo vids.
I’m glad somebody finally had the balls to call out Noah Caldwell Gervais for his over-the-top performative hysterics.
He's like the James Corden of TH-cam game critique. Loud and showy to the point of vulgarity.
I was subscribed for the longest time after his 'locations of Fallout video' but I just couldn't keep watching after he screamed directly into the microphone for 36 seconds in his latest video. I have my limits
He can’t keep getting away with this!
I have never seen someone scream curse words so eloquently for a full minute
I've only seen his dark souls video. Does he actually rage super hard in his other vids?
The King K Rule joke might be one of your best I’ve seen on this channel
Much like many gamers and their esport of choice, I find that I can't help but become emotionally invested in every single one of your videos. Even the stupidest joke line can lead to introspection. Not sure how you make every video feel so casual yet hit so deep
5:40 was the best description of the online matchmaking experience in games I have ever heard
Considering that I will put Noah Caldwell Gervais essays on when its nap time hearing his name threw me through a fuckin loop with that joke.
I think of that joke so often it’s so fucking funny
So, I think the reason we see mostly dudes raging out over game moments is simply because they make up most of the gaming streamer/youtuber personalities. If the majority of women were being shown playing these games surrounded by mostly other women, emotions wouldn't have to be as 'in check' as they have to when you're the odd man out most of the time. I think we kind of unconsciously know we're being watched and evaluated more often than just a random dude in a sea of random dudes so we err on the side of what makes us less susceptible to unwanted attention. Hopefully, that makes sense.
Growing up I raged more than my brother did at games, but I have/had an anger problem (blah blah blah couldn't handle sadness so I just turn it into anger), however, I still did the classic rage moves like throwing the controller at our tv, squeezing the controller trying to break it, oh and my favorite taking scissors to the metal strip inside the nintendo cartridge (this somehow did not hurt the game in any way ever).
I'm glad to see someone in the comments bring this up. I feel like people often assume rage is solely a guy thing and women who express this kind of anger are the outlier, but it feels much more accurate to say this is just one of the ways women have to moderate their emotions in male-dominated spaces.
I feel like its also important to state that this doesn't mean women are innately better suited towards managing difficult emotions though, because suppression still can result in unaddressed/internalized guilt or shame that may build up over time in some cases. This isn't to justify rage as a productive response, just that, as another woman who's experienced anger issues, rage does have a sort of cathartic effect that is denied when suppressing that reaction, especially when its done as a result of social pressures rather than for personal growth, ya know?
@@randomcloverr Exactly! Oh, I'm so happy my rambling was coherent. Yeah, suppression while it may be necessary it really isn't healthy long-term. Much like suppressing any emotion for long periods of time isn't healthy for anyone. Thanks for the read!
The dude who opened his keyboard to scream inside of it should be in jail.
Yeah anger outbursts are a problem even outside of games. After kicking something real hard and being injured for a while, I decided to get into therapy. Haven't hit something in a while.
What I started doing more on multiplayer games when I'm losing or dying is how awesome it must feel for the other team.
Because I've been on the other side of the situation and it's awesome
That helps sometimes
I love how often you hear the windows device disconnect sound when watching these rage videos
Linking good therapy resources is a pro gamer move, I'm putting it in your stats as an assist.
OFC THE DUDE RAGING AND THREATENING HIM IS COP LMFAO
I've been trying to get therapy for a while, partially to deal with my anger issues, and it's not easy to keep up with appointments and get on the same page with the therapist I'm assigned to. But then I heard about Bet-
Really though, MAJOR props for not turning this into a BetterHelp sponsorship. Also the rest of that was true, although thankfully I never break anything when I "rage" (aside from one time when I threw a plastic bottle and it bounced off the floor and gained enough momentum to leave a dent in the wall NOT MY FAULT, it's just a very bad feeling to have and I don't want to have it. And yes, it is embarrassing as well. Although idk about that statistic about it not being the game's fault 99% of the time, are you sure you're a real gamer? Maybe I'm just not taking multiplayer games into account enough, those are probably responsible for at least 50% of rage quits which usually wouldn't be the game's fault. But I mostly play singleplayer... so it's usually just because I suck at games... but not always! Certainly not 99% of the time... I'd hope... But I do think a good number of games are pretty unfair. Am I just making excuses? Maybe? So what? Maybe I like games to be easy, is that so bad? Somehow I feel like I've gotten off topic, even though the video was largely about video games. Anyway, great job.
Oh man, stay strong, therapy helped me with a lot too. Still need more probably definitely, but it takes a lot to speak about it to a camera like this and is commendable, in my opinion.
Hang in there, keep it up. This video inspired me.
this video all at once: is informative and genuinely insightful, hits close to home and makes me self reflect, and is absolutely hilarious
best channel on this website
AHAHAHAHAHA IM LOSING IT OVER THAT NOAH CALDWELL-GERVAIS JOKE YOURE A TALENT
If anything happens to me you can pull my dental records off of my white Xbox controller
This video is amazing, how have I not discovered you until now?
I'm in love with this video. The way it pivots from a somewhat jokey discussion with dark serious undertones to a period of immense masculine vulnerability is really beautiful to see! I know we talk a /lot/ about how men need to talk about their emotions, but it's /hard/ and anyone who has the guts to do what you've done here has my respect. Whilst I don't really struggle with interacting with videogames with anger in the same way some others do, I definitely have a few similarly shameful memories where anger has overtaken me that I really don't know how to process. It's been to a point for a while where I'm really uncomfortable with anger as an emotion, and this has certainly given me something to reflect on in my self.
This, I think, is a text book case of the strength of conversations about emotions. I might also say that I've quoted your Amulet of Bral'Doon video in disucssions about my depression about a dozen times in talking to others about my depression, and in general I really appreciate this subtext in all your content. What I'm trying to say I guess, is thank you!
This was hilarious and relatable at an incredible level to me, I've struggled with destroying my things out of rage but I also realized the best way to not do so was to not put myself in situations where I can get very angry at a game, excellent video Leo.
Great video, makes me to want to re-watch Ludwig's Top 10 Salty Ice Climber Moments in Smash vid. Truly the greatest gamer rage vid of all time.
im in therapy and she doesnt listen when i speak. in the first session she told me to "work on grounding techniques". its like she shoos me away every time we meet for an hour session, she says bye after literally 2 minutes
One game who's developers went specifically out of their way to avoid gamer rage situations is Deep Rock Galactic. And man, does it show. Legitimately the best, least toxic gaming community I've ever seen, and I really doubt it would have turned out that way if the devs hadn't prioritized making sure inter-player relationships ran as smoothly as possible.
The least surprising thing in this video was the very end, where we find out the police officer has uncontrollable rage issues.
I love the fact that he is using charger cables to tie back the curtains
for me, this is just retelling myself things that i always thought of the topic with a sprinkle of comedy, which you can i dont have.
11:42 The ass thing works. I usually mix it with some shadow boxing and poorly sung death metal. That way nothing gets broken. Kinda fun too, just need to get the bad energy out.
Probably the best Children of Men review I've seen
"how'd you know I was a police officer" probably the violent, baseless rage
Ok, that “my Children… of Men Blu-ray” joke got me 😂😂👌🏽
Was not prepared for a king krule reference in a leo vader video. Shocking stuff.
that ending bit... chef's kiss
The King Krule play on words was fantastic
“good.”
LMFAO “I am a police officer actually how did you know that” after being the biggest aggressive asshole is just perfect characterization.
instantly recognized the soundtrack from before your eyes, great game, great video
That ‘throwing ass’ tip has saved my life, papa bless ❤
That ending was an absurdly funny payoff
I need big props for recognizing The Wild At Heart OST playing as background music. GOD TIER GAME
edit: i just read the description and saw that it was listed. oh well.
"Noah Caldwell Gervais" is a deep cut. It's only funny if you've seen his essays and know he doesn't really rage 😅
Dude. I am so sorry about your hand injury. Children of Men is an excellent film.
Fucking with angry gamers by being a guidance councillor is a thing that needs to happen more.
Owning a copy of Children of Men is the biggest flex
lmao wasnt expecting to see skill in there
every time a raging gamer threatening to unalive his teammates turns out to be a cop, the angel of r@cist brutality sheds a tear
Oddly accurate and shamefully helpful.
Fantastic vid! Therapist here. 😁 I appreciate you giving voice to this issue. Glad you've found ways to help yourself. I would also try Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Maté. It posits that someone can only trigger you if you're carrying ammunition. Similar to Stoic philosophy. It asks you to explore the emotions and core beliefs that underlie anger in order to prevent it from cropping up again.
Another knockout, dude. I'm forever impressed at the random topics you pick to talk about and how well you do every time.
My method is to go into the game telling your self not to angry
Your videos are criminally underrated man. Incredibly insightful and made me look inwards as well
Realising that anger is usually a secondary emotion and trying to work out in a moment of anger which primary emotion it stemmed from is a life changing step in feeling more in control of yourself, highly recommend 🥰
This mans sense of humor is absolute gold 😂
Hits again. Every time.
Whenever I gamer rage I start moaning really loud and rock back and forth in my chair. At first I did it as a joke but know its just an immediate response. Better to destroy my reputation than my laptop
Got spawned trapped by a friend on nuketown in Bo2 and I got so mad I bunch my arm rest on my chair so hard a metal pole shot through the arm rest. After that I always try my best to not rage out.
Oh man the ending was killing me 🤣
This isn't gamer rage, this is just men with emotional issues that need therapy.
I wonder if any streamer has tried having a drum setup next to their computer setup, just so that when they have a rage moment they can instead just beat it out on a drum solo
I could listen to you talk for hours
The only thing that really makes me mad when playing is the disparity between my intended game actions and the actual results (i.e. lagging).
Personally, I prefer the Odablock method of relieving my stress. Tossing that big dumpy around like an animal
Nice calm video about rage
Really thought it was gonna hard cut to a Vsaucs esque video when he says Assassin's Creed Revalations 😂
It's interesting, because I think a lot of the same ways video games can breed toxicity and anger issues can also do the exact opposite. A lot of it depends on how we're taught to react to these stimuli. I see kids playing some FPS completely unsupervised screaming into the mic, and I know those kids are going to grow up to be awful little gremlins. And I know it's not the video games fault, it's those kids parents fault for using the Internet as a baby-sitter.
Weirdly, I have a lot of current anger issues, and I've been a lifelong gamer, but I don't think any of them really came from gaming because all of my gaming experiences were very well supervised. I only really started having anger issues during my first customer service job and even then my anger issues were mild and isolated to home-life, at least compared to one coworker who once punched a hole in a wall because he got reassigned to do a task he didn't like and threatened to literally kill me with a boxcutter once because I was taking "Too long" to clean a sugar spill. I probably shouldn't, but I feel the need to say that I was taking so long because it was after 8PM and at around that time we empty out all the mop-buckets so they can be filled up with clean water the next morning.
Wow, this video has more than a laugh a minute. I am so glad I subscribed last year
As a person who played a lot of videogames without getting any better at them, I am accustomed to losing. So I never really did more than slapping my thigh once in frustration, even then it is usually if I lose because of technical issues. Most recently the time Elden Ring minimized its window during the Radahn fight. I was always more concerned than entertained looking at rage videos, ever since the infamous "I deleted my brother's wow account" video blew up ages ago.
4:00 im just now noticing how the chart they're playing isn't even like super hard
I’ve played all the soulsborne games multiple times, defeated all bosses and optional content. Just completed Elden Ring. There’s only one secret optional boss encounter I haven’t done yet. And I’ve still never had a “rage moment” beyond a frustrated exhale from the nose or a quiet “fuck you”.
Which leads me to believe these streamer freak outs are at least partially for the benefit of the audience, or they’re done hoping for it to be recorded and shared around.
I use those games as an example, because I can’t even think of a game prior to this series that would even pass as frustrating unless we go all the way back to 2-D side scrollers.
Maybe I’m the ultimate capital Z Zen, capital R gameR, but I doubt it.
I bet this applies to a lot of adults who game.
I do the rational thing and watch your Now You See Me video every time I die in Dark Souls
I will never beat that game.
Just play a good game instead.
Just found your channel. Your videos are enjoyable and great quality! Thank you.
2:25 Actually in a lot of modern games netcode and server issues can also be very apparent and ruin how games work. So sadly in some cases it is the games fault or at the least the studio who supports it. Even in some cases it is unfair or unbalance game design that is either made poorly or made to aggravate you, many games have design meant to anger the players such as dogs and rats in souls-likes or Get Over It. Though many modern competetive games tend to have poor in game balance which is the accidental case. Back to the topic of poorly designed or bad servers, Halo Infinite's game search and net code has had many issues and severe desync still occurs for many, which is both a Wifi and server issue alongside though it has slowly become more and more ironned out.
Rainbow Six Seige has some severe desync aswell, players can vault off of a story and fall to the ground but they may not even be in the air falling for one side.
Warzone has horrible design in many circumstances and has people justifiably mad because they prioritize the most profitable solution then the most balanced solution so whenever the newest game releases they make sure the guns are balanced in that games favour. Another example of bad design is GTA: Online where on PC there netcode is garbage and people can cheat and hack extremely easily. Though in actual design they intentionally have civilians drive into you and have given many AI enhancements alongside unlike the story mode also in most cases aren't able to be headshot. Aswell the game in open world PVP is mostly considered Pay to Win because Rockstar would rather unbalance the game and make things incredibly expensive so you have to grind for it or you give them 20 dollars and you get the new extremely broken tech immediately.
The last bit though is that other players are also intentionally toxic and intend on ruining your day because they gain joy out of others despair.
The real truth is just if your getting angry at something stop playing it and do something else, anger is fine but if you know you have taken yourself to far just stop and cool off or gain some catharsis and complete what you are doing.
"I think it would be healing to go through those reasons one by one" LOL laughed so hard at this
Video games are actually the only thing that have ever made me physically violent
Hey, I figured it out! Keep up the great work Leo. 🙏🏻
Always great when one of your videos comes up - who knows what it's gonna be!?
Step 4 : The Liam neeson
When you're so mad at a game that you'll track down the fictitious character in real life and put it in a dangerous situation just to prove a point . for example real bandicoots don't stand a chance against a factory with heavy machinery and moving platforms
Can't believe I started this and immediately got hit with my GT edit lol
Alex is a fantastic actor
that's a very nice thing to say! thank you!
I thought the wordle grid said "gamer girls gotta piss"
"I am a police officer how did you know"