I used to giggle at people who screamed at the tv, their rage building at the outcome of a situation over which they had no control. I would giggle and then remark to myself that they knew the outrage was false—manufactured almost entirely for them to feel put upon. Then one day I woke up and those people were my own kids.
Fact: it is impossible for the number of people my kids presume to be ‘hacking the game’ to actually be hacking the game. What they find outrageous is that what they perceive as what should be happening (based on their perceived ability and awareness of the situation) is not happening. They shoot. They miss. Must be hackers. Maybe you just missed. However them missing is impossible. The blame falling anywhere near themselves is impossible unless it is so blatantly their ‘bad’ that no excuse can cover it.
There is a ton of manufactured outrage associated with Fortnite. I sort of think they play for the chance to yell and feel outraged, in the same way many people watch sports in order to scream at the refs. To them it is part of the game. To me it is part of a deeper failure of personal responsibility for which I am, at least in part, responsible. What I ought to be doing is shutting down the system every time they complain about the unfairness of the game or the situation. Shouts of Hacker! Should be rewarded with bleeps of power down sequence.
Some thoughts:
- Knicks just traded away their entire team on the hopes of landing a top player. The Knicks are stupid. Nobody wants to come to New York and rebuild. What will happen is they will, once again, pay top money for second rate players and face another decade of despair.