Whiners Disease

Recentlly reading Webmonkes post about TiDs has prompted me to write about another rare and more fatal disorder: Whiners Disease (WD).

A friend of mine suffers greatly from this affliction. Whats truly sad is that he is the person that got me into Halo and online gaming, but I can no longer tolerate his rants and have subsequently had to remove him from my friends list.

Since he nuptuals a year ago he only gets to play online occasionally and his skill level has dramatically dropped off. Considering that he was only a decent player at best; he really sucks now! Unfortunately in his mind he is still an "awesome" player and if someone beats him "they cheated". Hes usually good for about 1-4 games but slowly he will slip into full blown WD and eventually become totally unbearable. At one time or another he has accused every member of our local LAN gatherings of cheating. He will rant on an on about how he "unloaded two full clips into you, administered three beatdowns, and we turn around fire one shot and kill him!", then sarcastically ask us how did we kill him? On several occasions I have watched his screen during a LAN and he is nowhere near target, and not landing any melees. Ive also mid game switched places with him and played on his setup and almost doubled his score! Myself and several other members have tried to politely inform him that his skills have dropped off and he needs to play more and quit whining. This typically infurates him more and increases his accusations and rants.

Unfortunately we no longer have our 6-8 week LAN parties soley because of him, and nobody who host has the balls to have one and not invite him. This past Friday was the pervervial "straw that broke the camels back" when he was in full WD: I had to leave mid game with no explanation offered other than a brief VM to the party host apologizing if I gave them blue screen, and deleted him from my FR. Im very sad for the loss of comradery we used to have at our LANs, but now only exists as fond memories of days gone by.

I sympathise with anyone else who has suffered a loss from this horrible disorder.


Posted by bunsen27 on Mon Mar 20, 2006 @ 9:44 pm EDT | 3 Comments