#gamethrowing

For a personal example, I played a game of Town of Salem as a mafia member, where, if you play All Any Mode, you typically get between 2 to 5 other players who know who you are, what actions you’re going to take, and see what you say in the night chat.

One of the mafia members in a particular game abused this, then asked everyone to lynch them. Upon their death, their death note showed the names of all the other mafia members.

So, as a given, I end up lynched the next day.

The person, I’m gonna call them SoggyCracker, is making jokes about the situation in the dead chat (the chat where all of the dead characters can talk to each other without the “alive” ones knowing what they’re saying).

I immediately start complaining to this person that they were wrong and that I was reporting them for gamethrowing. Of course, SoggyCracker gives me the typical troll response: “You mad? lol”

I said, “Yes, I’m extremely upset! I wanted to play this game, and you broke the rules to ruin it for all of the mafia. Now we CAN’T win.”

(If at least one mafia member is still alive by the end of the game, all mafia, dead or alive, still win) Upon realizing that I wasn’t going to allow them to make fun of my emotions, they attempted to make it seem like I was being unreasonable by making the second common troll assertion: “It’s just a game, chill.”

I said, “Yeah, it’s a GAME. I would’ve liked to PLAY it, but YOU broke the rules and GAMETHREW, so now I can’t PLAY the GAME. We were supposed to be a team.”

SoggyCracker attempted again to make it seem like I was being unreasonable: “Then just go to another session.”

I was having none of it though, and said, “I shouldn’t have to go to another session to be able to play the game. YOU should just follow the fucking rules! We’re supposed to be a TEAM, and you backstabbed all of the mafia for a cheap laugh on your part. Well I’M not laughing, and no one else who was mafia is either. We wanted to PLAY.”

They kept repeating the same arguments over and over again, but I kept repeating the same answers. Eventually, they [/ignore]ed me so they couldn’t see what I was saying, and I ignored them back. But, the other mafia members were backing me up the whole time, and despite the fact SoggyCracker ignored me, the other mafia members continued the complaints.

Eventually, SoggyCracker left the game completely.

But it’s kind of funny. This guy tried so hard to make a laugh at everyone else’s expense, and apparently didn’t expect any real backlash. The moment you assert your feelings and show them how much of an utter tool they were, they start trying to make you seem unreasonable, even though they know they were being a dick.

So yeah, from then on, if someone was being a shit--like, in the same manner as SoggyCracker, not, like, I died because someone made a mistake in the game as they were genuinely trying to play--and got me killed for it, I complained. I told them what my feelings were and I told them why.

I don’t have to shut up if I have a good reason for being upset.