FIFA is a lot of fun, but only in an ego-boosting sort of way. Like 'damn, I scored all those sick volleys from 30 yards and now I don't feel so terrible about life.'
But when you're not winning, FIFA is hell. It's the cruelest kind of bullying, it leads to uncontrollable anger, getting told off by your mum for being a child and, worst of all, rage quitting.
Obviously, rage quits are not exclusive to EA's hugely popular football simulator, but it seems to induce the most (FYI, rage quitting involves getting enraged at a game, and quitting as a result. Duh).
This could be because FIFA does little to punish you for quitting a game out of anger. If you rage quit on your own, you just re-group and go again. If you rage quit online you get little more than a recorded loss.
But if the game won't punish your short fuse, the footage will. Rage quits are often caught on camera, as people know there's nothing funnier than someone having a breakdown over a video game. Here are some undeniably incredible videos of people losing their shit.
I feel like there's at least a four foot gap between where he was sat and the bedroom window from which he lobbed his PlayStation. He launches it out with the ferocity of someone who's just found a bathroom spider and desperately wants to be rid of it.
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He then tosses out the PlayStation's box, so there is literally nothing to remind him of his spur of the moment lunacy.
This guy already has a fervid face that screams 'I'm the mate most likely to purposely reverse over an animal after I've run it down, just to make a point.' So when his mate starts teasing him over his FIFA misfortune as soon as the video starts, I feared the worst.
This is a bit like watching Pulp Fiction for the second time and you're just waiting for John Travolta to shoot that kid in the face. You know it's coming.
The original and best, the real McCoy. This is Rocky I, or Rambo First Blood. Everything that followed was just a lesser sequel. A supremely angry, hugely offensive Scottish man. I especially love the way he whips the controller into the TV in a sort of half-uppercut half- death stroke boomerang manner.
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If this unfortunate TV was a man, the controller would have struck him right in the chin and made him bite a nearby curb. I pray for the safety of FIFA players the world over if this guy hasn't been locked away.
Words by Matthew Cooper
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