The Psychology Of Toxic Gamers

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[josephbillanes]

It's weird cause even with the animosity, I just can't see myself being that toxic online. Feels wrong

[TheEvilRohanite]

I'm fortunately not invested enough into gaming to get mad when playing with friends cause the socializing will always override a digital L but this past year I've noticed that I get irrationally angry when playing alone, it's probably because games are something I consume solely for entertainment so when it fails to do so it just feels like I'm wasting time, whereas a real life sport would at least provide the benefits of exercise even when it goes badly. Games that involve ranked competition online are especially bad since not only is a loss less fun in and of itself but it plunges you into a vicious cycle of trying to regain your previous rank on TOP of trying to outdo your record, and if you don't succeed you're left with nothing but bad experiences and wasted time.

[uncleiroh]

The reason is obvious. Competition and anonymity. Think about the most toxic arenas. Social media where you can hide your identity, and competitions such as sports and even politics. So when you mesh the two and add a fanbase of younger people with pent up aggression, the result should be a no brainer.

[andyluong]

Call of duty Search and Destroy is always toxic when I play

[tcf]

The point about government is pretty salient.

Government exists to administrate co-existence and give structure to society, its people, and its interactions. It's infrastructure. And the history of government is filled with naked power arrangements, oppression, murder, silencing of dissent, and everything else.

What gets overlooked are the times government works well because when infrastructure "works well" by its nature it's invisible and less likely to get credit.

What the last 100 years in particular saw, alongside massive leaps in persuasion technologies and media, is a propaganda about the nature of government, what it's good at, and what we ought to do about it.

But if you strip it all away, or my favourite example of a hundred people stranded with amnesia on a tropical island, you'd see self-organizing and group problem-solving. When that codifies into structures, it becomes government.

It makes sense we've taken government and civics for granted.

[OneMeInMyself]

the part about crypto is really interesting, intuitively makes a lot of sense

[oppressormk]

Griefing is not toxic, it helps noobs get better at the game

[kungfujoe]

you need a 3 tier internet normies woke and shitposters
normies can only see normieposts
shitposters see evertything
woke sees normie and woke