For people who "point down" after a drastically unfair fight... what makes you think it's ok?

I'm genuinely curious. Like, were you not hugged as a child? Did your parents teach you you're so precious it's ok that the only way you can feel joy is not through your own accomplishment, but at the expense of others?

It's the "GGEZ" of Dark Souls. You know, a quick and easy way of saying, "wow I can't believe how bad you were, know your place, trash." It's a way to instantly remove the good-natured sportsmanship of a game and replace it with juvenile toxicity. And it's even worse when it was only a victory because you decided to run off and take pot shots from a hoard of enemy mobs, chipping away my HP while the game does all the work for you.

In the real world, this wouldn't be acceptable. If you were playing street hockey with the neighborhood kids and behaved like that, you wouldn't get invited next time. If you threw a little victory tantrum on the field after a professional sports game, you'd get kicked off the team for embarrassing yourself and everyone around you. If the teams were lined up to say "good game" afterward and one piece of garbage decided to start screaming about how easy it was to win, you'd be blacklisted from playing ever again. Sportsmanship and mutual respect are a basic expectation of any interpersonal activity.

So I ask again. What makes you think this is ok? Are you so emotionally fragile that you couldn't handle when the middle school football coach told you your behaviour was unacceptable, so you had to cry and run to video games where you could hide behind anonymity? Do you seek to compromise others' enjoyment of a game to compensate for the hollow emptiness you feel, knowing the ever growing stack of failure that is your life will never measure up to the dreams you once had?

Do better, hollow one. It's never too late to turn around and become a better person. Do better.