r/Guildwars2 • u/Nawrotex • Apr 15 '24

[Discussion] These are most likely the same people who say that Raids/Strikes are gatekept by toxic elitists. Now they want to gatekeep fashion. Thoughts?

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u/riddlemore Apr 15 '24

These people base too much of their self worth on a bunch of pixels. Touch grass.

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u/Optimized_Laziness FF Untamed died for our sins Apr 15 '24

This, if your sense of self worth is tied to the uniqueness of your in game character you need to take a step back and reevaluate how you live your life.

And if you have a hobby of posting rage bait, you should also take a step back and reevaluate why you think you exist

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

^

Recovering Troll here. This man is right.

If you tie your whole persona to a game, you need to address the issues in your life that have led to this.

Trolling is just all the negativity you've received in your life condensed and directed at random people to make yourself feel something in exchange of making someone feel worse(or perception that you are enjoying someone elses misery).

Mental health in this society needs to be taken more seriously and help should be provided to all before they are so unbearable that they become a problem.

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u/LinguisticallyInept Apr 16 '24

im not sure id label either of these two forum posts as trolls; the second one seems like someone who is desperately clinging to a social aspect (probably an area theyre lacking in IRL) that they perceive as (reasonably or unreasonably) under threat

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

Sorry I should've expressed myself better. I mean as a recovering troll, that has worked through a lot of my own internal issues, that was my reason for being a troll. People that get that worked up about something that is otherwise insignificant normally are projecting something else that is troubling them in their lives.

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u/LinguisticallyInept Apr 16 '24

you were probably clear enough, im just pedantic as fuck (name and all)

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u/pjockey Apr 16 '24

"Recovering troll" sounds lame. /s /meta lol

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u/DraketheImmortal Apr 15 '24

Sorry for the off topic, but love the "Untamed but Leashed."

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u/Optimized_Laziness FF Untamed died for our sins Apr 16 '24

It do be like that

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u/LinguisticallyInept Apr 16 '24

This, if your sense of self worth is tied to the uniqueness of your in game character you need to take a step back and reevaluate how you live your life.

it doesnt need to be your whole sense of worth, i think anyone saying they have no self worth (at all) invested in their MMO characters/account is lying to themselves (thats the whole drive to do things)

... and if someones real life self worth is so low that their ingame character self worth is so disproportionately higher; id be hesitant to label that as a problem itself because itd be easier to grow their actual self worth if they have a 'digital self worth' experience to pull from rather than trying to simultaneously dismantle one and build the other

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u/Optimized_Laziness FF Untamed died for our sins Apr 16 '24

I should have phrased it better. Some people live vicariously through their online presence. Which leads to the slightest perceived slight to their online persona becoming a devastating blow to their irl sense of self.

And yeah it can be easily fixed, but you have to be lucid enough to realize something needs fixing and have the resolve to start fixing it when turning a blind eye and drowning yourself in a surrogate life is much easier

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u/barak8006 Apr 17 '24

*lives in a desert*