What percent of players do you think have mental illness on this game? I've dealt with a lot of people and I'm really concerned. The rage in normals is unreal. If you rage at a video game won't you rage at people in real life? I mean I would wager that the next mass murderer of children would be a bronze player on league.
An English Guy5 votesPeople are a lot less restrained online than they are in real life, due to the lack of any real life repercussions. Just because someone rages online it doesn't mean they are in poor mental health.
You're either a troll or an idiot. For your sake, I'm hoping a (bad) troll
MagusExcellus1 votesIf you're easy to anger then you're probably unintelligent at the very least and mentally ill at the very worst. I realize that people know they have no repercussions, but if your mind is so weak that you have to spend 40 minutes calling people fag-gots and nig-gers then I really question your mental health. I truly think about 40% of players on this game are mentally ill. (Almost always 2 ragers per game.)
Shrikesnest5 votesOkay, as someone with Bipolar Disorder I find this incredibly offensive. I don't know why you're conflating mental illness with low intelligence, and I certainly don't know why you're conflating it with immaturity and raging. You should educate yourself about bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and similar illnesses, because you seem to have a very skewed idea of how they work.
Iros A Mierda3 votesIf you rage at a video game won't you rage at people in real life?
Because, you know, how one acts in a video game where there are almost no repercussions is directly correlative to their attitude in real life where there are repercussions.
MagusExcellus1 votesIt actually is related. There is essentially no difference between a person who bottles their anger up and one who explodes. They both have anger issues. One is just more obvious. Both are potentially dangerous.
MagusExcellus1 votesHere is a nice link about Asperger's. You'll notice that rage is one characteristic. Another one is not knowing what behavior is acceptable. http://www.autismedmonton.org/what-is-asperger/characteristics-of-asperger
Iros A Mierda1 votesYou may want to check in to the hospital and get a nice scan, because you might have some issues. The point I was making was that the majority of the time there is no correlation between behaviour on a game and off a game. Most people act in this manner when exposed to ANY system in which there is little to no repercussions for their behaviour. It would be akin to the movie the purge, everyone would be doing whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. ESPECIALLY online in a video game where you don´t really lose anything for their behaviour.
Horrorling2 votesI struggle when I see comments like "most people." How are you certain of your statement? Has a study been conducted that you were a part of that indicated stated facts above? Most people rage on the computer and not in person? This is what is considered "obvious," and your reasoning why is common sense. But, the underlying answer still remains to be concluded. Nobody can say scientifically that this is the case.
Maybe next we will start buying into "video games cause violence in the real world."
MagusExcellus1 votesI think what we can say for certain is that there is a portion of the community with anger issues. Some of them are so severe that it leads me to question their mental health. I don't know what percent of the community suffers from mental health issues but I think it is safe to say at least some do. The question here is to what degree does set of ragers intersect with the set of people with mental health issues.
I'm skeptical of the idea that lack of authority means people will act poorly. See John Locke's State of Nature for an interesting read on this subject. People tend to behave because they recognize that there are consequences at all levels of human interaction. In league of legends the the consequence could be banning, but the immediate consequence could be losing. If you rage at people in your game and cause them to lose the game then you're effectively losing on purpose. Yet, you're mad that you're losing. Does that not sound like complete cognitive dissonance? This is such simple reasoning that it does make me question the mental capacity of these players.
Iros A Mierda1 votesJohn Locke wrote a book. Let´s use actual real people and not literature, because literature is just subjective. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200203/the-man-who-shocked-the-world http://io9.com/the-psychology-experiment-that-involved-real-beheadings-511592436 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment All of these experiments show that it is very common, (at least in a random test group), for people to have a certain level of disregard for morality when they are presented with situations in which they are not going to be punished, and these were experiments where people were HURTING other things. So, if people would continue to hurt each-other in a REAL LIFE situation, you think for a second that a ton of people are gonna give a damn for telling someone over the internet that they suck at a video game and should do X? You´re probably getting yelled at by a 14 year old, it´s not a psychological problem, it´s called being a child with no repercussions.
Iros A Mierda1 votesI explained the basis for my generalization below, but yes, you are correct in that ¨most people¨ is ambiguous and without backing. I was trying to explain it to him without pulling out the studies on human behaviour, but I guess I have to pull them out now.