Male competition.

hepatosplenomegaly · 2014-08-10T18:14:56+00:00

Dont be a sore loser, or arrogant winner. Set a good example for your friends. Better yet stop playing computer games they will suck your life out.

favours_of_the_moon · 2014-08-10T12:16:04+00:00

I'd be honest with them, unless they're uber bluepillers who can't deal with reality.

Sounds like they're being douchebags.

Say what needs to be said, hear what needs to be heard. In other words, be a man.

Rumble_in_the_Jungle · 2014-08-10T12:24:35+00:00

Lay out your expectations with them and if they don't agree or agree and don't follow through then don't spend as much time with them.

[deleted] · 2014-08-10T12:31:57+00:00

This can really get to me, I can relax by playing games but it's so much harder when they are taking it so seriously themselves.

Have you tried to just laugh about it? I mean their behavior is so obviously childish and you already know how they will react. Just giggle when they pull the shit you have seen thousands of times. Why do you care?

You play to relax not to get validation.

So, say you won and they say it wasn't fair. Now you can either get angry because they don't give you validation for being the better player or you could laugh your ass off because they are so weak that they make up excuses. You know that they know that you have won by being the better player. They just dont want to admit it. That's funny! Chuckle and beat them again.

when something doesn't go their way, they get pissed (it's not fair) when something goes their way, it's pure skill. They also really rub it in when they win and negate their losses.

As a sidenote: as childish as this kind of behavior sounds, it's often (emphasize "often" not "always) a trait of successful people. You know how they say people tend to remember negative experiences 7 to 11 times as much as positive/successful experiences?

Now imagine how they hamster it so that they think every success was by their skill and none of the failures was their fault. And they only really remember/think about their successes all the time.

This can lead to high self-confidence and a risk-taking mentality. (Which leads to either success or total failure, but it creates a momentum that many self-reflecting people lack).

I read about this somewhere but cant remember where. Found it interesting.

whitey_male · 2014-08-10T12:52:06+00:00

"when something doesn't go their way, they get pissed (it's not fair) when something goes their way, it's pure skill."

I don't like people like that. Probably wouldn't really want to be friends with them.

sir_wankalot_here · 2014-08-10T12:52:47+00:00

You are expecting too much. You described 95% of people with this statement.

when something doesn't go their way, they get pissed (it's not fair) when something goes their way, it's pure skill.

Accept that is the way most people are. They avoid responsibility for most of their actions. If you want call them on it, but it will just create a scene and it won't change anything.

ObservationCreation · 2014-08-10T14:12:44+00:00

Competition is always healthy, but it's also important to unwind.

I was better than my old best friend of 15 years at every video game we played. He was the type that broke a controller every 6 months out of frustration.

My best advice is to make the game harder for yourself. (ex. In FPS, I would use nothing but handguns.)

win/win - score levels out, you still have to try, you become skilled in even the 'weaker' aspects of the game and any bitching on his end you 100% discredit because:

1) it's a video game, who cares 2) he is your friend of whom you've accepted their flaws

OG-Wyze · 2014-08-11T16:34:39+00:00

Who's being a bitch in all this... Well first off you're complaining about playing strategy games. If they dish out they better be able to take. If you win shove it in their face as much as they do to you, it's the pure spirit of things.

But if you really do work in a high stress environment and make more money than them, I assume wearing a suit (Fuck I love wearing suits for work), ask yourself, whose the bitch? Just stop complaining about getting ribbed playing games, its a fucking game, who cares.

Title	Male competition.
Author	Sunshinelorrypop
Upvotes	3
Comments	8
Date	August 10, 2014 11:57 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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