The RIOT Act

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Rant time: I hate people that rage at their teammates. All of them. It's incredibly immature and usually a thinly-veiled way of trying not to look like a bad player yourself (which seems to be some kind of moral black hole in online gaming culture). Honestly, it never bothers me when people on the enemy team are douches, but when someone on my own team starts doing it, it makes me want to play a different game. Ex: yesterday, upon dying nowhere near me, someone immediately goes OMG, HELIXAGON and then follows up with an explanation that it's my fault because I died in their lane once and now the enemy is 'fed'.

It also makes me weep when you see this kind of behaviour and the target of the rage is like "sorry, my bad". As though making a mistake entitles someone else to be a dickhead about it. It's a vicious cycle of moronity that makes people feel the NEED to blame others for losing, lest they themselves be blamed and verbally lynched. It's this kind of culture which makes it difficult to get new people to play these games.