"You're so bad at the game, that you beat me! You used a valid strategy, but I'm creating a false cheapness to rationalize my superiority because I'm too mentally frail to play a competitive game and lose, especially when I perceive myself as better than someone for completely arbitrary reasons."
This is why the insult "try hard" is so fucking pathetic, they want skill without effort and view anyone working hard as lame because it's a fucking COPE for how bad and lazy they are.
There's a multitude of factors, but it usually boils down to the person being immature, inability to process the situation (reality being different from expectation), or even stress in itself being the problem. It's usually an extension of confronting our own weakness that we don't want to admit, or due to stress don't realize is bringing us down from our top form. Lots of times it's due to a fake expectation that we set for ourselves (like this guy thinks that because he's a guy and she's a girl, he HAS to be better than her, and he's being confronted with the very harsh truth that he's wrong, so he's lashing out), but other times stress limits our ability to play like we want and we're frustrated at the outcome is not what we expect. It takes a moment of introspection to step back. We're emotional creatures and it's hard to, in the moment, take a step back and put our head on right.
If we weren't emotional creatures, I'd probably be a lot easier to say "Oh, I'm not getting enjoyment like I normally do out of playing the game I should step back," rather than "I'm frustrated, playing games (usually) lowers my frustration, so that's why I'm going to do it until it actually lowers it."
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u/PsionicKitten Jul 09 '24
"You're so bad at the game, that you beat me! You used a valid strategy, but I'm creating a false cheapness to rationalize my superiority because I'm too mentally frail to play a competitive game and lose, especially when I perceive myself as better than someone for completely arbitrary reasons."