Flaming?

Somehow....

I really do not understand what is wrong with people. Why do people have to 'flame' and whine and make someone feel like shit if they have a bad game or if they do badly in something in general? Does it help? I'd say quite the opposite.

So what does it do then? Does it make one feel better about oneself to blame things on others? Is it truly to boost one's self-esteem to bash others down for their mistakes? Am I mistaken in recalling that this very same behaviour is linked with the 'disease' called 'narcissism' ?

In other words if you do not consider yourself a narcissistic personality and you find someone failing at something, don't go bitching at him/her about it. It doesn't help. Besides if it's a game or such and this person is in your team, it hardly helps that you attack him/her. All you do is make him/her feel crap and play worse or do whatever she/he was doing - WORSE than before. You want to win, right? Don't make it worse. Think about it.

A very wise friend of mine once said: "If you want to get better, blame every loss on yourself."

Another point of view: if it is a teamgame. Then it rarely is just one person who is doing something wrong and even more often you yourself can actually do something about what is going wrong. So you can improve and this applies to teamwork as well. You can improve teamwork by gently commanding, encouraging and rallying OR you can destroy it completely by flaming and being a dick about it. And if it doesn't work; at least you tried. Even so you'd have improved your own game and done everything you could.

This ought to be especially for the people who play League of Legends and flame.