I once joined a random group of friends playing Rainbow Six. It was mostly guys, but there were also two girls who were girlfriends of two of the guys.

One of the boyfriends was usually the leader whenever we played. I don’t know if its happened in the past, but his facade of this cool, macho tactician went out the window after he died 4 rounds in a row without a single kill. Now, I was a terrible player - I wasn’t even playing with headphones lol. I had on my speakers - but I managed to clutch and bring us back to a more reasonable score.

He lost it after his gf told him to chill and started to insult her and left the game.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that I realized I was becoming like this guy - not hostile to anyone, but just unhappy and angry doing what was supposed to be a leisurely activity. Now I just play Crusader Kings by myself.

It’s also funny because nowadays gamers are mad that CoD has skills-based matchmaking. I’m sure the system is shit, but usually they’re angry about “sweats” aka players with similar skills killing them instead of stomping on children all day