Why do people get so emotional after being laughed at in a video game?

Got tilted last night after facing a few mld comps back to back then the friend that just came back got 1 shot by a prot warrior.
I’m tired of tanks being busted. Can keep everything The way it is as long as they prune tanks

Everytime I beat Bramot in game I smile not because he’s bad but because I know him from forums. Sometimes I laugh versus fotm but honestly I generally don’t emote in game.

Sitting up in the chair cuz it’s a forum poster yep been there

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Classic ixi move

Wow so insightful.

Could you tell us all about what emotes you used when you played in tournaments

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have we qued into each other

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As an active forum poster I like to make posts about in game interactions

After rereading my original post I realized I never called out bunny for lying so I wanted to make sure I did that.

You and your mw typing multiple sentences within .5 seconds of each other after an arena match to me when I said nothing to you describes this term perfectly

I don’t even have 200 games played on my 55 renown 1 leggo mist weaver but I guess rounding up 110 games to fit your narrative is cool.

When I’m 9 ilvl behind every1 else for missing 2 weeks and having 0 tier set I can’t queue because this is shadowlands season 3

My first 2700 was on hpal in shadowlands season 1. Another lie to fit your narrative.

You are a turbo cleave 1 trick you don’t get to do that

Didn’t you do the same thing by coming here and making a post about it?
Pretty emotional to have to do that.

You don’t have to pay money or go through a long process or any effort to make a forum post. If curiosity is an emotion then you are right.

I just want to know what it is about emoting in an RPG that gets people so upset

Upset enough to come to the forums, a totally different part of the game to make a thread about it? That takes some sort of emotion

I’m on the forums every day tho?

so, your in-game character is a dick.

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Well, obviously your emotions gets the better of you. Just like me.
Do better

When people spam emote macros at me in the arena, I cross my fingers that they’re too busy clicking it to actually play their character, and I can get an RNG 1-shot on them.

It’s a longshot, but every rating counts.

ye I play rad hunter kfc and qtfrankly thug my ele sits low cr in lfg 2-21

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For the same reason poor sportsmanship pisses people off IRL. It’s just rude, irritating behavior and 99.9% of people who play this game aren’t RPers, so when you (or whoever) emotes after a match that was frustrating to begin with it’s just throwing salt into a wound. People aren’t thinking ‘this tauren just mocked my elf,’ they’re thinking ‘it’s not enough this guy just won, he has to spit in my eye after he does it.’

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He has 6(?) Other classes with 2.8+ XP how’s that one tricking

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This was a fun post to read during lunch, thanks all. :joy:

idk about that man
i make fun of dork for a lot, but being a turbo one trick is surely not one of those man, that’s a huge reach

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15 seasons playing holy paladin
going as far back as 2013
netting about 9 challengers and about as many rivals
to get 2700 in 2022
during a time where 85% of the healing ladder was hpal
and people were 3700

do you think you’re good at rsham for ‘rerolling in 1 season’ and getting barely above percentile glad for the first time in nearly 10 years of consistently playing or do you think you’re that bad at holy paladin that you could never make it work

does that make you a 1 trick rsham player? or does it make u a bad ‘multiclasser’

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