People assume different gaming personalities. Maybe online persona’s are an extension of their real self, then again maybe not. It’s not all about the personalities though, its all about egos. Suddenly the game is no longer a game, its all about owning people. Teens talk about how they Raped so & so guy and boast about how good their skills are.There are exceptions though, but most of them run along the same track. You latch on to the game because you have an ego .. If you think you are your pennies worth then you simply wont take your first defeat lying down.
You get up, brush away the humiliating defeat/defeats and embark on a journey to superstardom. And if you have what it takes then you earn ( in some cases demand respect) from your gaming peers. Every rook is polite, every expert is condescending but its the inters who have the worst manners of them all! They are at a stage where they cannot be labelled as rooks but they cannot be clubbed with experts either, so they make up by talking trash .. Its amazing how rude some kids can get!
To think that these kids will be parents tmorrow is a frightening thought! Maybe its time we have a Cyber MOM but we still are a far cry from that kind of technology and the technology prevalent is just not enough. Ironically the best players are mostly well past their teens, seems the only social life some of these people have beyond their workplace is the gaming zone .
That should include myself whenever am in my “being addcitive moods”. Most people are like me, when they are hooked they are hooked to the point of exclusion of everything else. Needless to say personal life does not go unaffected, its a bit like alcohol .. you like it more when you are down! All the pent up frustrations could be taken out in the gaming room on your opponent, particularly if you are good. It does account for a certain measure of satisfaction but by and large it still drives you to go for more!
How many man hours ( which could have been productive ) have people ( me included) wasted into this game. Iam counting all these times when i have opened one of the gaming forums and been through the various flame wars.
Though they are disgusting and often distasteful they also have an element of entertainment value! Plus the countless times you spend trying to figure out the perfect & foolproof strategy to outperform others. Competitiveness is at its best in these rooms & its not sportsmanship which keeps it alive but rather the sinister internal individualities of simple people like you and me which drives it year after year.
That the gaming industry actually thrives on such, sometimes quite dispensible, behavour is a mystery. Do aggressive games bring out the monster in each of us? Does putting each other down translate into a measure of contentment or happiness however small the quanta? That they have a high entertainment value is proven, but how do we escape the evils which befall us as a consequence?
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