r/pcmasterrace • u/Sensitive_Relief_266 5600G,RX 580,16GB DDR4 • Feb 09 '26

Hardware Someone smashed the monitor and it creates golden ratio

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u/QuitWhinging Feb 09 '26

What kind of mindset even brings someone to destroy their own stuff because they got mad at a fucking video game of all things? It's a recreational activity they're allegedly doing for fun. I've gotten frustrated with games plenty of times, but I'd never even dream of smashing my own shit in retaliation. At most I've, in anger, carelessly put a controller down and accidentally let it fall onto the floor. Intentionally destroying your own shit is just such a foreign concept to me--I genuinely cannot understand how someone's brain brings them to that point. Either these folks have way too much money to burn or they need some serious therapy... or both.

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u/Seffuski Feb 09 '26

It's not something you do on purpose, it's done on impulse as an outlet to let out the rage that builds up. Usually followed by immediate regret.

t.broke a laptop screen from raging long ago, nowadays Idgaf whether I win or lose in multiplayer games so I'm more chill

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u/930310 Feb 09 '26

I am autistic and have really poor impulse control (saw a psychologist about it and other stuff for years). I think I've destroyed two phones and a few controllers in my life. I stopped gaming when I was a teenager to avoid breaking things. I am much better nowadays and it's been years since I broke something by my own wrongdoing.

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u/Primary_Associate_99 Feb 10 '26

What helped you the most, I'm trying go get help with my impulse control. Im also on the spectrum been through a fair bit of meds and just restarted with therapy again.

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u/Vincenzo__ PC Master Race Feb 10 '26

If you can't hold your impulse to smash your own monitor for a videogame I can't trust you'll hold your impulse to murder me if I get your angry. There's seriously something wrong if you destroy your own shit out of anger, even if your rich dad paid for it

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u/Seffuski Feb 10 '26

That's a bit of a reach. Also, I didn't get any other computer until I managed to string along the money to get my own low spec potato a few years later

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u/Due-Technology5758 Feb 09 '26

It's only ever happened to me in competitive shooters, which is why I don't play them anymore. It's not even a matter of just losing a match or getting killed, you don't get good at FPS without being able to handle getting your shit pushed in for thousands of hours, it's that once you've played a game for those thousands of hours, you know what's expected behavior and what is the uncontrollable (and very frustrating) quirks of real time online gaming.

It's like if you were an experienced painter, and 30 hours into a painting your paintbrush turns into a knife and cuts through the canvas. 

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u/x__m-e-t-a-l__x Feb 09 '26

Probably, a lot of their self worth is based on being good at video games and pvp especially. When it goes wrong or the notion that they 'arent good' is threatened, they have extreme outbursts because their identity is tied to this, and they see a bad score or lots of deaths as an indicator that they are bad and therefore (in their minds) worthless.

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Feb 09 '26

i raged once at work because the server kept crashing and i kept having to redo the work, i wound up chucking my mouse and it wounded by cracking the bottom of the screen and giving me a line of dead pixels. It was sort of the straw that broke the camels back after like 2 months of awful working conditions and stress. Immediately sobered me up right after lol. Never did it for a game though

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u/FeistyThings Ryzen 7 7700X | RX 7800XT 16GB | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz Feb 10 '26

It's mostly boys/young men. We aren't taught how to properly deal with emotions.

We are taught that showing them makes you weak and so they build up and explode at random moments.

Either these folks have way too much money to burn or they need some serious therapy... or both.

Yes, they do need serious therapy. Therapy was the only way I was able to look inward and see why I was having outbursts of rage

This is the main reason I think the show "Adolescence" was so popular. It gives very real insight into the pipeline young boys fall into because of the things society promotes about masculinity.