Insecurity breeds hate. They feel awful about themselves, so they project it onto other people, which is easier than ever through the countless medias we have access to these days.
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I always feel super guilty when someone dies, while I’m the healer. It helps me a lot to look through all the deaths in Details at the end of the dungeon. 90% of the deaths are people getting hit by some avoidable mechanics that hit for 400-500k.
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Yes I know. I was always checking cause i was also feeling guilty and bad when they die but if it was not my fault then why so much hate. I play alot of games and in each one is same ‘blame heal’ tendency.
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I think a lot of people just can’t admit they do mistakes. It’s sad really, since it’s the best way to improve.
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All I want to say is… THANK YOU!
Everyone here was so nice, and it gave me so much hope!
Thank you everyone this really made me feel so much better that there are still people who are nice and actually understand what I’m saying instead of spamming GIT GUD.
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I just took the point of view that whilst I knew it was going to cause massive lag on my server, I would do something else that evening. I didn’t know the person, and never watched their streams (I am assuming they were a streamer), but they had never had a harmful impact on my server, and so rather than complain about it, or be insincere, I would just let it happen and do something else. Someone taking their own life is generally a tragic act with certain exceptions (None of which apply to just some dude on youtube) so I saw no need to complain, whine or disrupt.
I have been in the position Reckful was unfortunately successful in, twice in my life, and remember how abjectly awful everything was. I had nothing to contribute to this memorial, so just stayed silent and stayed away.
Such things, commemoration of people are vastly different from streamers crashing a server for fun, which is why this time it was like “Yeah, that is actually tragic, no one can complain really”
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Some people are rude on the Internet because they cannot be punched in the face over TCP/IP.
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Is it bad that my first reaction to your post was suggesting to install spring-loaded boxing gloves into all monitors?
My mind thinks up such wonderful crap.
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Honestly I think the bad people just make us normal people look like good people.
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I lost my faith in humanity long, long time ago and learned to vallue and appreciate Individuals, not the “People” as a whole
Yes, People are mean… becasue they are humans, they are people
BUT
Not all of them! And 'till you are able to notice the few good ones and maybe befriend them?
It can’t be that bad
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People are behind a screen. It is much easier to be rude and offensive when you don’t have to look at a person in the eyes.
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This is the case with all low-skill high apm games. WoW is a very simple games that has become basically a slot machine - you press some buttons, sparkles fly around and stuff dies. There’s some challenge, but in the end, the game is designed to put you in an exctatic state, high adrenaline, high emotion. The thing is that all the games that do this, also tend to push out the most emotional responses - both positive and negative. M+ with its competitive element is bound to make people more negative, and that combined with their frothing at the mouth, smashing their keyboard and watching sparkles really isn’t a combination that encourages positivity.
Take a look around. Fast games, with cartoony graphics, easy gameplay and high low margin for error (and the margin in M+ is very low, it’s very easy to make mistakes) tend to bring out the worst in people. Slower, more methodical game, that don’t rely on providing you that basic satisfaction through sound and visuals (and I don’t just mean the quality of graphics, look into how slot machines are visually designed) tend to have better communities, even in the competitive modes.
But as soon as you put a competitive element in a game, the community gets on edge immediately.
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Reads title
It’s a holy rule of the internets
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Have you ever tried playing Tibia? It’s anything but a good community. People will literally kill you to get your spawn.
I feel you. I got my friend to try WoW with me. We are lvling together but when we join dungeons, someone always complains about him because he does not deal enough damage, almost every dungeon. I am scared of doing group content with him because ppl are terrible…
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At some stage in life, whether at school or a workplace or anywhere, people were mean to them.
On the internet they find themselves in a rare position of immunity. Anonymity. They can put themselves in the boots of those who were mean to them, and feel the rush it gives them.
It’s a cycle, and you can sympathize with such people, but you can also recognize that they are just as bad as those who were mean to them.
Sometimes there are people who rise above that and will still be kind to those around them, even though they suffered themselves. They usually go far in life.
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“Why Are People Mean?” you ask
I asked that myself and some others multiple times.
I mean… What do you gain from it?
You don’t have to like someone, you don’t have to agree with someone with certain things but being plain toxic goes way too far and it NEEDS to stop.
And am convinced that for at least a big part it’s because of that, because of the toxicity that Reckful decided to commit suicide.
Those people should be ashamed of themself.
I also think that if people report people with such vile behaviour, Blizzard can take appropiate action against it. Not only because of moral standards but also because it’s against the Blizzard’s T.o.S.
I know some people might be like “You can’t completely stop it”
But i truly believe with the appropiate and right tools, like by means of reporting and people on these forums passing certain information on to others, like to those that are not really the forum type (to put it mildly) the message will be passed on so to speak. Not because of what i said or the way i said it, but because this is using some common sense. And once reported, it’s up to Blizzard to actually take appropiate action against it.
Maybe it won’t stop completely but i would damn sure try to at least minimize it.
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you cant blame them though .
usually when people artificaly lagg out servers like that they get temoporary bans
most people dont know who recful was and dont care - they want to play the game without interfernces. and they are right about it because they pay money to have smooth access and lagged servers make their experience in game worse.
so ofc they are angry about it.
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you dont have to be anonymus tobe mean to others.
you can do it in real life to if your net value for company/friends etc outweights the value of people who you are mean to.
does that make you a jerk ? yes ofc it does. if it brutal and primal ? yes it is - does it work nowadays still ? ofc it does.
and you wont meet any consequences - unless you for some reason loose your value - then they will shred you into pieces for that behaviour.
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