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I don't even know why the "poor performing males" want into these groups so badly
I am (depending on the game) a Skilled Gamer and I have been in these groups in the past. There were usually some players in them who paid a lot of attention to the perceived "hierarchy" at play and tbh it made them so fucking bad at the games we were playing because they couldn't focus on anything but their fragile place in it. They'd be so afraid of mistakes and couldn't have any fun because the game wasn't a game for them, it was fucked.
When I was younger, I played multiplayer games because
There’s a common joke about LoL players hating the game, but they also hate themselves too much to stop playing it.
I had to get a bit older to finally understand this but you are pretty much exactly describing people I know. We played dota 2 in college and there were certainly some emotions going on in those matches sometimes.