Current Events > Does this guy sound unhinged?

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Now, about that bit about people having an emotional reaction.

I have been in and out of therapy my entire life.

One thing has remained consistent with every therapist I have ever seen: My emotions are my responsibility.

Now, how does this relate to the game? Well, like it or not, I am playing the game in a perfectly legitimate manner. If someone has a bad emotional reaction to my perfectly valid choices, that is entirely their problem and I have no responsibility or obligation at all to consider it. For that, they should see a therapist, like I did.

If they really are struggling, then they need to stop playing video games as at that point they are clearly dealing with issues which an online gaming environment, especially one that features PvP, will only worsen.

Do not try to put other people's health in my lap as my responsibility. That is not how the world works.

So to be blunt: No, I don't care about their feelings. Not in the context of the gaming environment we are sharing.

We were in a conversation about killing other players (most of the time unprepared players not geared for combat) in an open world game.

His logic likely extends past gaming so yeah he's definitely unhinged

Sounds like dark souls, and ol boy sounds like a weirdo for thinking this deep about it and connecting some videogame shit to a need for therapy.

Not necessarily unhinged nor wrong, but it's obviously deeper than he's letting on.

Not at all. In fact I one hundred percent agree with him.

On the one hand, your emotions are your own responsibility.

On the other hand, don't go out of your way to be a dick to people.

Sounds like he's playing DayZ/Conan/Ark and killing nakeds, which is just a shitty thing to do as you don't stand to gain anything.

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