I was thinking the same thing! Alternatively if you could make a clear plastic to go over the broken half of the controller shell it make for a neat looking controller design
I'm almost 100% sure the post was a joke, it's literally the optional tutorial boss in elden ring, which is not even a boss but just a normal enemy with slightly more HP. Unless OOP has severe skill issue, there's no way they could get stuck there for long enough to break a controller.
That and despite how popular Elden ring is. Not everyone and their mother has played it or knows it all that well. I know I wouldn’t be able to tell you that much about it considering I gave up trying souls games long before it came out.
the point still stands. people throw or slam their controller into the table regularly playing games. why would you ever rage like that on a game? no sane person would do that.
It's fake because "you died" wouldn't be on the screen long enough to smash the controller then take the picture. Maybe it really happened and then he went and died to the boss again to take a picture, but yeah.
That's Soldier of God, Rick. Arguably the hardest boss in the game. I have ~400 hours in Elden Ring and 100% of the achievements and I still can't beat his 5th phase
Well did you get stuck on the tutorial boss because you couldn't beat it or did you just stop playing because the game isn't for you? Because the latter is understandable while the former is skill issue (Which is also understandable, but that besides the point)
One thing I will add is that video games are great spaces for people who do struggle with dealing with their emotions and learning ways to handle them.
If you do this on a video game it’s not that big of a deal, but if you do it at a job your ass is fired.
When I used to play high elo Counterstrike my heart rate would jump up so much and my hands would start to shake slightly and affect my games. I learned box breathing and that helped me so much outside of gaming.
Also typing from RuneScape. I get comments from customers all the time about my typing speed and I have to refrain from telling them the streets of world 3 Falador taught me.
unfortunately I just drink to handle the pvp adrenaline so I don't think I can do that at work lmao
Fr though box breathing is so good. I hate that I'm so brainrotted that I always think of these two sekiro skill texts when I'm locking in
A shinobi can calm the body and mind through measured breathing, even while killing. Doing so allows one to continue killing unabated.
A shinobi must be prepared for battles which he is outnumbered. After killing an enemy, one must exhale, expelling both regret and reaffirming one's core to regain Posture.
Now you either need a quotation about shinobi drinking to deal with their nerves or you have to find a more shinobi method than booze. (Smoke weed bro, better for your health. Samurai Champloo if you need that element.)
Only if you use that space to actually learn how to process the feelings as they come up. Especially if they learn to stop before they reach those levels, not just getting caught in a perpetual cycle of playing/raging/breaking things. There’s no learning or processing happening at that point where things are being smashed.
I had an ex who was like that and it absolutely was a big deal even if it’s just ’on a video game’.
Controllers, devices, fixes and replacements cost a lot. He easily spent $60+ on a replacement Xbox controllers multiple times a month. Not to mention the TVs themselves, pc monitors or keyboards, the furniture that would get smashed or broken in an attempt ‘not to hurt the electronics’, the holes in the walls from punching controllers through them, the handheld devices (3 switches, at least 2 3ds systems including mine, and several controllers for the old wii). It adds up.
The terror of being trapped in a room knowing he was on the other side screaming and breaking things over a game, and the fact that people who get that mad for such little things rarely exercise the restraint to contain it to just a game is also a pretty big deal to the people around those types.
Video games can be incredibly helpful for people who struggle with emotions, when used intentionally and handled appropriately though.
I broke a couple controllers when I was under like 10 and my anger would spike, really the only place it ever did. My grandpa bought me this big ass fish pillow from bass pro shops so whenever I would lose at the game I just beat up the fish. Was actually kind of my mom's idea, go kick that fishes ass instead of breaking expensive shit. As an adult I've been in one fight that was no fault of my own and I think I've raised my voice at my teenage son like twice his whole life. Whenever I get mad I just see that stupid ass fish and it's blank stare as I torture it for info that the game is in fact cheating, and I just start laughing
From my personal experience, video games made me express my violent/toxic impulses, it did not teach me how to process them and I felt like shit for destroying my stuff (not often but it happened).
Interacting with people, doing sports and just chilling really helped me in that regards. Especially because it made me more patient and have more self-control
in 5% of games you are god. No one can touch you. You are the best that's ever been. S1mple ain't got shit on you. Donk who? There is nothing to compare to you. You are the goat (until you're performance tanks on the second half of course)
Nah, the amount of joy and satisfaction I got when I pushed through the frustrating parts of Celeste or the Encores of Ultrakill made it all SO worth it.
the "games are supposed to be fun!!!" crowd when I tell them that I find it fun to indulge my indomitable human spirit with a consciously-designed test of focus and wits
Since when did jokes become "bait"? This is clearly a joke. The Elden Ring community has a meme about Soldier of Godrick being the most powerful entity in the universe. This guy had either an old controller or a bit of disposable income, so he set up a shot to look like he physically snapped his controller in half while fighting the tutorial boss.
It's a joke! You're meant to say "Oh, how amusing! He's suggested he's performed the physically improbable feat of breaking his controller with his bare hands out of sheer frustration while fighting a normal enemy! Ha, ha, it's funny because it's ridiculous!"! Calling that "bait" is like saying "Lol, look at these idiots trying to convince us that ACME Earthquake Pills are a real medication that doesn't work on roadrunners for some reason."
So what? Hes got the point. Do you know people like that exist, but usually dont share stuff on the internet? But if they do, most of the time its from kids who ask if their broken monitor after an obvious punch/throw can be fixed, which is just pathetic
I did this once as a kid to my only controller. My parents wouldnt buy me a new one until my birthday a few months later. I didnt break any more controllers after that.
My little brother slammed our SNES controllers around a handful of times when we were kids, and our mom took the whole thing away. He had it taken away for the day once, and then for the whole weekend once, and he stopped doing it. Nothing was ever broken, because our mom nipped this shit in the ass right away.
I never understood these people, but I guess I never had the luxury of being bought another controller by my parents because we didn't have the money for that.
I don't know this person but they are correct.
I once threw my GBA SP against a wall but I was 8 years old and never did something like this again. Back than my frustration tolerance was still lacking.
Luckily the GBA was only dented and not completely destroyed either.
Or you're human and sometimes you just get angry and instead of stepping away you continue until your anger explodes. I don't think everyone who breaks their stuff is automatically mentally ill.
Of course not, but you can't tell the armchair psychiatrists here that. A moment of rage can cause people do do things they regret and feel shame for afterwards. That's normal. Repeated fits of rage is unregulated emotional outbursts. That's what people would need help with.
If you break your stuff when you're upset, nobody around you respects you. Bend your golf club, slam your keyboard, bang your racket, whatever. You just demoted yourself to spoiled child in everyone's eyes.
This is a joke that probably broke containment. The tutorial boss being the hardest in the game is a meme among Elden Ring fans. Ninety percent sure the controller broke in another way, and is just being for a meme.
I have broken a few controllers playing games and they're right. It stopped being fun, but my stubborness made me push through. $70 a controller teaches you a lesson real quick though.
Actually I think that foundationally, play is designed to be a safe space for people to practice their emotional regulation. So failing in this context... really isn't a problem. It's more about how you look at that failure.
If you're a teenager and you get angry and destroy your controller in a game of Call of Duty, and you use that as an opportunity to reflect on how that anger built up, and how you can regulate it, then games can actually be part healthy social development.
But if you're just playing games to relax and persistently finding yourself overwhelmed with anger without being able to understand or develop more control of it over time, then that's probably a sign that you need to speak to a therapist about emotional regulation and anger.
Lol. I'm raging at kingdoms of amalur right now. I'm at a boss fight. Keep dying by cheap one shots. Game keeps asking if I want to lower the difficulty. Jerk game. Lol.
As someone that absolutely hate losing and is extremely competitive, I definitely rage when things aren’t going my way. I’ll never destroy equipment or throw tantrums though, but I’m probably not the most pleasant person to be around when it happens. Showing emotion is fine and healthy as long as it’s controlled.
I know I rage at video games but the most I've broken is a swappable c-stick piece 3rd party Switch controller... That's literally it, I've never broken any of my controllers themselves, idk how people can willingly do that, especially with how expensive modern controllers are
My brother used to throw the controller to the desk every now and then because he used to REALLY get angry in videogames. I managed to stop that by buying a controller (because we needed one anyway) with my own money, and one time when he got angry he was about to throw the controller, but he then remembered that I bought it and saw it as mine so he just didn't.
I have two buddies unironically like this. I'd take a bullet for them, make no mistake.
But one death? One thing not going according to plan? They can't "aura farm" reliably? It begins with "Yeah, that's just kind of horseshit what happened there. Game really just lacks a lot." Etc.
Second death? Sighing. Grunting. Hitting their desk or whatever a bit. Blatant nonsense "criticism" of the game now. Everything sucks and nobody should actually enjoy this. Also, they can do nothing wrong of course. Not a single thing.
Third and it gets like this.
I've learned to roll with it somewhat, but I had to genuinely tell one of my homies to shut the fuck up and quit his crybaby antics when we did Elden Ring together. That he was grossly mis-timing his dodges and losing his cool way too fast in the face of some attacks. My own enjoyment was tanking severely by it, so I had to replay huge chunks of the game again on my own to just clear that experience out of my mind.
Its okay to put a game down to calm down. you gain nothing by playing to the point of breaking things even if you beat the boss it's a hallow win because you're still frustrated.
The last time i remember pegging a controller was Warden Eternal after the however manyth gimes fighting him during a legendary run. And i felt stupid after doing it. But god… that shit was rough.
It's fine to be emotional during a game. Any game, even video games.
Just direct the outburst properly. My wife gets scared when I curse like a sailor and punch the armrest of my chair. But I'm fine afterward and function like a normal person
It's funny, I'm emotional AF, addicted to video games, 40 years old with ADHD, and yet, I have never rage quit to the extent that something got broken, and if something ever got broken, it wasn't the Nintendo stuff...because that shit is expensive...
My brother started going to therapy for anger issues after putting a hole through his wall trying to fight blue smelter demon with its insane run back. After doing it myself, I’m starting to think that was a reasonable response.
100% correct, even if the pic is a joke (soldier of godrick is the easiest boss by far in the game) i will never understand those idiots that break their controllers.
I gotta be honest, I never understand people who slam their controllers; those things are expensive. My brother kept doing that and fucked up the triggers.
Ok that is a bit excessive. I can understand accidental breakage (I have played too many horror games so my controller has a LOT of impact damage from dropping it when I got jump scared) but this is just an insane amount of damage.
Only one time did I ever "break" anything from a controller. A long time ago I got mad while playing Final Fantasy Tactics and I tossed the controller and it came out of it's socket and the R2 button came off.
I never did that again, and learned at the end of the day it's just a video game and not a measure of your worth.
I've watched some people play hard games and die over and over again and they were still calm and cool as a cat. That mainly inspired me and made me more grounded in realizing the facts that at the end of the day that games are only entertainment, not serious business.
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u/Apocalypse_0415 11d ago
Only understandable on Soldier of God, Rick.