Bringing the bad swearing out in the open
Not long ago a fellow blogger Angeline of My Chamber ~ Raison d'etre asked the big question:
Is it normal for people to scream and swear when playing games?
I looked back to my past years, and I realized the answer was YES. Why, barely a few nights ago a few security guards came knocking on my door to check out an apparent noise disturbance. Well it couldn't have been us as the house is always loud. But then again when I reflected back, we could have made serious noise unconsciously when we were in our euphoric climax(es).
What? It's Thrill of the Hunt
Long ago we used to participate in group hunts for food that runs and bites back. When hunting was rendered obsolete thanks to refrigerators and McDs, KFC etc, we converted the primordial urge to hunt into something else e.g. cheering for the group when your club scores a goal. As the gene pool gets more desolate from the hunter-gatherer functions, the newer generation find the same thrill of the hunt in games.
Why? We Just Love Psychotic Frenzy...
Not long ago a fellow blogger Angeline of My Chamber ~ Raison d'etre asked the big question:Is it normal for people to scream and swear when playing games?
I looked back to my past years, and I realized the answer was YES. Why, barely a few nights ago a few security guards came knocking on my door to check out an apparent noise disturbance. Well it couldn't have been us as the house is always loud. But then again when I reflected back, we could have made serious noise unconsciously when we were in our euphoric climax(es).
What? It's Thrill of the Hunt
Long ago we used to participate in group hunts for food that runs and bites back. When hunting was rendered obsolete thanks to refrigerators and McDs, KFC etc, we converted the primordial urge to hunt into something else e.g. cheering for the group when your club scores a goal. As the gene pool gets more desolate from the hunter-gatherer functions, the newer generation find the same thrill of the hunt in games.
Why? We Just Love Psychotic Frenzy...
Well during the hunt of any sort our adrenaline kicks in and and all the senseless screaming, shouting, swearing and physical abuse comes in uncontrollably. Normal individual would utter words others would never imagine he/she would shout normally, just like someone with Tourette's syndrome. Some will begin banging and bashing their machines or their teammates, resulting in a domestic violence WHILE swearing etc.
From my own experience I would swear in 3 different languages and tilt my head backwards to face the sky asking "WHYYYYYYY?!!!!" silently, then back to the killing. Occasional middle fingering is normal from time to time and thank fully no bashing of properties and/or individuals were involved.
It's an impulse reaction to a stressful situation. It's like crying while chopping onions. Angry when Streamyx is down again. Happy when you eat KFC after a long weekend.
It's all those emotion.
When? When We Reach Orgasm
All the tantrums and unprecedented behaviors can occur during these scenarios:
OWNAGE (basically when you get raped by the opponent)
Imbal (for imbalanced, when you think the game is not balanced)
From my own experience I would swear in 3 different languages and tilt my head backwards to face the sky asking "WHYYYYYYY?!!!!" silently, then back to the killing. Occasional middle fingering is normal from time to time and thank fully no bashing of properties and/or individuals were involved.
It's an impulse reaction to a stressful situation. It's like crying while chopping onions. Angry when Streamyx is down again. Happy when you eat KFC after a long weekend.
It's all those emotion.
When? When We Reach Orgasm
All the tantrums and unprecedented behaviors can occur during these scenarios:
- During an OWNAGE where everyone and everything is being killed
- When you are being killed
- When you almost die
- When you hit 0 HP and dies
- After you character dies
- When you feel the game is imbal
OWNAGE (basically when you get raped by the opponent)
Imbal (for imbalanced, when you think the game is not balanced)
Where? Worldwide...
Apparently this 'disease' is not an isolated case e.g. happens for Asians youth only. It's a global pandemic that usually affects male who happens to have medium-high contact with electronic games. What started out as a minor case of swearing over Monopoly has now turned into an uncontrolled malaise over the internet and local area networks.
Below are examples of gamers worldwide showing chronic swearing and physical abuse:
Cure?
There is currently no cure, because a gamer cannot be treated when he is off the game. whereby he becomes normal. Once in contact with a game the gamer changes dramatically and the only solution when this change happens is to either:
To all people out there who knows such nuisance gamers, please refer to the strategies mentioned above. To those who live with such nuisance gamers, be safe to know that no one is being murdered in your house. To the nuisance gamers, PLAY HARDer!
Below are examples of gamers worldwide showing chronic swearing and physical abuse:
This is just Counter Strike. The same happens to DotA, Mordern Warfare and other multiplayer games involving interaction (well mostly killing) other human players.
Cure?
There is currently no cure, because a gamer cannot be treated when he is off the game. whereby he becomes normal. Once in contact with a game the gamer changes dramatically and the only solution when this change happens is to either:
- Physically abuse them back to shut them up, no point swearing back as they're immune
- Call the relevant authorities
- Tell them to go play somewhere else
- You pack up your sleeping bag and sleep somewhere else
- Join the swearing frenzy
To all people out there who knows such nuisance gamers, please refer to the strategies mentioned above. To those who live with such nuisance gamers, be safe to know that no one is being murdered in your house. To the nuisance gamers, PLAY HARDer!
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