In most cases, you’ll be asked to leave the house. If you’re an invited guest to someone’s house, and in the middle of playing Monopoly you pick up the monopoly board and hurtle it across the room, then you’ll immediately pay a price with all the other adults in the room. I was responding to a very specific scenario advanced by a person above. If you think that, maybe you should stick to playing AI opponents instead of subjecting actual people to that attitude just because they are anonymous to you.Īnd I'm obviously not talking about exiting out of an online game when I said I'm "done", I was equating pushing someone's car off the road because "you don’t give a fuck because you know you’re playing a game that has no meaning" being like flipping over a Monopoly board because you decided you no longer care about the game like you no longer care about the race. People can obviously tell the different between a car crash in real life and in a video game, no one is trying to equate the two examples as being the same or having the same consequences, but there is some serious cognitive dissonance at play here if you think it's okay to treat people however you want online because you don't have to see a person face to face and don't have to deal with the consequences. The difference is you have to deal directly with the consequences of your actions and attitude when you are face to face with a person whereas online you have anonymity and you can pretend that it's all "just a game" and is "meaningless". I'm pretty sure in iRacing he was treating the race just as seriously as the other players, or he wouldn't have gotten that agitated.Ĭlick to shrink.I'm astonished that you think not evening knowing some person's real name means you shouldn't treat them with respect in the same way you'd treat a stranger that you just met for the first time. That was 10 years ago, and I assume the first and last time or he probably wouldn't be racing any longer.
RACEROOM RACING EXPERIENCE CRASHES DRIVER
More or less the same situation as the iRacing snafu got caught up in a collision where he was the one who ended up in a detrimental position, felt the other driver purposely fucked him over and went to get payback. Scott Speed has pushed at least one person off the track in a real race as well. The only possible redeeming factor is whether it's being done to douchebags. Regardless of how much of someone's time you're wasting by purposely ruining their experience by breaking the established rules/norms, or whether it's done in a game, you are undeniably being a douchebag. Starbucks lines appear to be shorter than that. Generally, that's a good way to get people to not like you.Ĭlick to shrink.I don't know how long the average iRacing race is, but the one in the OP tweet is 22 minutes into a ~28 minute race. but you are still disrespecting other people and their time and not playing well with others.
You could rationalize it in your mind how no one was hurt, nothing was damaged, etc. Like if you decided you were "done" with a game of Monopoly in real life, if you just flipped the board over and ruined the game, I doubt people you were playing with would take "It's just a game! Stop taking it so serious!" as a reasonable reason to not consider you a douchebag. It's not just "the rules of conduct", it's about dealing with other human beings, and just because you don't have the same consequences in gaming that would make the average person think twice in real life before acting like an anti-social sociopath, doesn't mean that your actions and behavior shouldn't reflect on you as a person, especially when you know you are interacting with real people on the other side of the keyboard. Click to shrink.Except that if people are willing to take out their real life frustrations on people online because it's "just a game", there is a high chance that same person is a prick in real life, even if they treat their loved ones well and are generally courteous.