I’ve seen tables flipped, tv sets punched through, furniture thrown. And that’s just in the home.
How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a sportsball game seem a reasonable thing to do?
Should ask somewhere else, you won’t find these people in a federated open-source communist link aggregator website.
People who destroy things over computer game outcomes: Why?
I’ve seen keyboards flipped, monitors punched through, controllers thrown. And that’s just in the home.
How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a computer game seem a reasonable thing to do?
More relatable?
More relatable?
No
I’ve seen keyboards flipped, monitors punched through, controllers thrown. And that’s just in the home.
If this is true, then people in your home need some professional help. I have never seen something like that over a videogame
I’d say, based on most of the answers here, that the reasons behind the sports scenario (people who are spectators) and the reasons behind the video game scenario (personal failure) are very different.
Apples to oranges.
It’s called displacement aggression The sportsball fan identifies with his team to the point that it feels like he lost the game himself. Since he can’t express his frustration and subsequent aggression towards the opposing team (since he is in front of his TV several 100km away), he expresses it towards the next best thing that is weaker and accessible, e.g. furniture, walls, wife and kids…
It’s also really heavily about tribalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism
Because people like to be part of a specific group and feel like the goals of said group are their goals, regardless of the reality of the thing
I personally find it weird when fans use “us” and “we” when discussing their sports team as if they have anything to do with how the team performs or is managed. I just call my local/city sports teams by their name.
It is always weird to hear fans refer to what happened in a game as “we”
