Is it the other players, because they beat you?
Is it you, because you chose to play the game?
Is it the game manufacturer?
Pragmatically, I am, not because I chose to play the game, but because I didn’t play well enough to win.
With the benefit of perspective, no one’s. There is no author. The game, the loss, all of it, and even the world it took place in are meaningless. It’s all just part of the universe playing with itself.
I mean it also depends on the gamemodes you play?
Kind of the reason I preferred playing Free for All over Team Deathmatch on Call of Duty, because if I lost, all I had to blame was myself and not the amoebas on my team giving the other team free points by only doing 360s off the crane for the whole game.
Also might be why I fell out of love with Battlefield after BF1, The game itself was great (wish I could still play it on Linux…) but you could tell there were a lot of new comers to the franchise who just ignored all the objective and teamplay aspects. I still find decent squad play on BF4 & 3 to this day.
The controller of course
There was too much lag!
my team, duh… It’s never my fault. Nope, never. Never once.
I have not been defeated, I have been assisted. I lose nothing and gain valuable experience. I grow and challenge my opponent again, helping them to grow as well.
Lag
Me. I suck at aiming.
Everyone else on my team but me
/woomi
Its an interesting question. It depends how proficient you are in a specific game. In the higher skills you generally will lose because of your own mistakes, so you’ve beat yourself essentially. In the lower skills its far more random. Maybe the manufacturer does have the biggest impact in those cases regardless of who wins or loses.
Me myself and I… Nah i’m kidding the other team was probably cheating /s
Me for starting the game. Losing is a part of life. We gotta live before we die.
I was thinking of this as a model of karma.
Simply put, you reap what you sow.
More complexly put, you choose your reality and a reality has various angles. So if you choose a reality (a videogame for example) where people fight, sometimes you will win and other times you will lose.
The reality of biology implies eating and being eaten. The reality of capitalism implies wealth and poverty. The reality of justice implies punishing and being punished. Etc
Or something like that.
You, for being such a whiny little bitch of a sore loser.
It’s my teammates who don’t know how to fucking play
(Fucking Pokemon Unite, I hate you so much)
You cannot change the game, you cannot change others. The only one you can change is yourself, and thus the only time blame can be profitable is when pointed inward. Just remember: sometimes the mistake is in playing the game at all.
It’s an empowering philosophy.
Did you have fun? Nobody lost.
Did you play Monopoly? Everybody lost.
