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Originally Posted by Needle77
Tonight was honestly my worst night of SC I've ever played. And that includes my brood war days. I don't think I've ever been frustrated before...to the point that I just couldn't handle one more game without considering raging, and I basically never rage.
Wow..
pausing at the end of your games and thinking for a minute before you exit helps to prevent the rage from spreading... also it always helps me to say glhf at the beginning of the game and simultaneously clear my mind... also listening to rap while playing is a recipe for auto tilting
as in poker i only rage at very specific things and they both have to do with people i'm playing against being commonly stupid. in poker it was when someone exhibited a betsizing tell and ended up winning the hand with what i supposed they had... i played SNGs so it was often when people would 3x with a very short stack in the small blind and have AA or when i cbet into a 3bet pot and get minraised by villain who left t20 chips behind and showed a set, or whatever. in sc2 it's when i realize i'm playing against some idiot who has horrible manners and does common BM type things which are obviously just him being really bad at BMing and not a level such as preemptive GGs out of nowhere or saying "n00b gtfo" or whatever idiots often say. unfortunately in both poker and sc2 these things happen very often.
edit-i just went back and read a thread i made in the psych forum about my rage problem in poker and there was a guy who made a good post which basically states that everything i wrote above is about protecting my ego more than anything and if i could control my ego i could control my rage. he dropped a book recommendation as well which i'm gonna follow up on.
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Last edited by skater3598; 07-11-2011 at 04:48 AM.