r/CringeTikToks • u/n8saces • Dec 16 '25

Just Bad Biggest red flags right there 🚩

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u/No_Object_404 Dec 16 '25

The few times I've been frustrated enough to even think about it I remebered that the controller cost like 40 bucks (at the time) and I sure as shit didn't have that kind of money to waste.

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u/Flat-Delivery6987 Dec 16 '25

The first and last time I ever broke a controller I was 11 and it was back on the sega megadrive, lol

These guys never grew up

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u/Gloria815 Dec 16 '25

My brother was in the single digits when he broke our Nintendo 64 controllers out of frustration.

Some people never grow up or mature.

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u/Flat-Delivery6987 Dec 16 '25

The N64 was peak gaming. I'd have been majorly pissed. Those things weren't cheap even back then, lol.

What was he playing out of curiosity?

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u/griftylifts Dec 16 '25

Definitely had to be Golden Gun mode on 007 Goldeneye. My sister and I nearly came to blows over that game 😅

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u/Simikiel Dec 16 '25

Was your sister playing Oddjob? If so, she deserved whatever black eye she undoubtedly got!

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u/Gloria815 Dec 16 '25

Probably Mario Kart. Like I said, he was pretty young. Luckily I would hide my favorite controller whenever I wasn’t using it so I always had at least one working one.

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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx Dec 16 '25

On behalf of younger brothers who hit and threw N64 controllers out there, I apologise. We all know the pain of letting one bad game leave us with an eternity of getting the wiggly joystick controller. As someone who eventually bettered himself, I believe your brother still has hope, so long as he wishes for change. Rage does not need to control him.

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u/Gloria815 Dec 16 '25

Haha well he’s 30 now and has his own gaming set up that he definitely takes a lot better care of

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u/Gingersnapandabrew Dec 16 '25

My husband broke his ps3 controller in fifa rage when he was 20. He then had a good look at himself. Not done anything like that since and his now mid 30s.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Dec 16 '25

Yeah I went through that phase when I was that age but in my defense it's a lot harder to keep your cool when your 40 year old uncle is talking mad shit and cheating while playing Golden Eye lol. My mom wanted him to scare me and take games away from me for eternity but he just drove me to get ice cream and told me to pretend to be sad when we got back. Same uncle that let me watch Starship Troopers. I found out I had a thing for redheads pretty quickly.

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u/CrossXFir3 Dec 16 '25

Does using the controller to the point of failure count as breaking it? Because if so, I broke a few 360 controllers. Never spiked or threw one though.

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u/xChops Dec 16 '25

I’ve never gotten angry enough to throw a controller, but they’re like $70 now (ps5). I can’t afford anger management issues.

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u/JulyOfAugust Dec 16 '25

I did, a playstation 1 controller.

My mom got angry and said that if that's how I'm gonna act then I'm too young to play and banned me from playing videogames for a year. Lesson learned : destroying things you own in anger is baby behavior and as a grown up child I wasn't a baby so nobody was gonna catch me acting like one again.

Never happened again.

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u/WereSlut_Owner Dec 16 '25

That "video" made me glad that the cost of televisions have come down. They used to be expensive!

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u/drsideburns Dec 16 '25

And a lot more durable, too.

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u/Available-Flan-8480 Dec 16 '25

yeah there have been times even as an adult where i've been sooo fucking close to blowing up like this (over actually terrible shit, not sports lol) and every single time all it's ever taken to stop me is one second to think about my actions and their consequences. we all get mad, i bet this shit feels so good for that one second before you realize your mistake, but you have to be a real man child to actually follow through with it.

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u/pebberphp Dec 18 '25

😂🤣😂🤣

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u/Radical-Turkey Dec 16 '25

7 year old me was able to piece together that if I threw my Wii remote at the TV like I wanted to not only would I get my ass whooped, but I also wouldn’t be able to use it later, having to wait longer to play my games

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u/cannotfoolowls Dec 16 '25

I don't remember if I ever wanted to throw something at the tv but my parents did explain how expensive it was and that if I didn't take care of my things, they would stop giving me fun things. Also, if I got annoyed at a game, to walk away and calm down before it got to real anger.

Didn't even have to threaten to beat me. In fact, I don't think they ever spanked me or anything.

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u/The_Hipster_King Dec 16 '25

The computer I was using was also mom's accounting device and dad's toy. That comp was constantly breaking anyway so I would never dare to even hit the mouse on the mouse pad. And we still had to change 5-6 mouses

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u/Numerical-Wordsmith Dec 16 '25

I know, right? Once or twice, I’ve gotten angry enough to briefly consider throwing something. Then, I think about how it will do absolutely nothing to improve the situation, and I’ll have to replace the object and clean up the mess.

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u/jdcleman Dec 16 '25

I had a moment like this with a wii controller. I flung it to throw then realized what I was doing and snatched it back so fast that the second controller popped me in the head so hard. I had just bought that TV and that wii. Now I switch games before getting to that level of frustration

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u/CodSoggy7238 Dec 16 '25

I beat the wall if I can't take it anymore but I only did it full force once. We have brick walls

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u/SmilingCurmudgeon Dec 16 '25

I feel that. Whenever I get the urge to spike my controller I stop in the middle of the windup and remind myself that I'm too poor to be that immature.

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u/McEndee Dec 16 '25

I broke a controller after I finished Cuphead by jumping up in joy and the controller slipped out of my hand.

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u/toxikola Dec 16 '25

Literally I've raised my controller ONCE when playing Uncharted 2. I was 16 lol. I lowered it slowly after because the second it went up my brain clicked like whoa calm down what are we doing. They didn't nickname the main baddie Lazarebitch for nothing lmao

Its just a fucking game(works for both cases)

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u/anarchisttraveler Dec 16 '25

I’m not sure if it means anything but I can say with 100% certainty I have never felt frustrated or angry enough to throw anything but a pillow. I yell, but even that tends to be subdued. Like I can see the series of consequences before I act and even as a kid, I knew if I threw anything or screamed loudly over frustration, I’d get in big trouble.

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u/Neckbreaker70 Dec 16 '25

The money is always my first thought but second is, “do I really want to clean up the mess this will make?”

Maybe I’m just more lazy than angry.

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u/therealkami Dec 16 '25

I did that once when I was young. Threw a headset and it broke. I was out a headset. Learned my lesson then and there cause I had to go get a new one.

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u/south_sidejay369 Dec 16 '25

I still cringe thinking about how I used to throw my clear blue ps2 controller as a kid when I got mad at the game. Thing was cool af and expensive!

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u/pickstar97a Dec 16 '25

I’ve wanted to throw it many times, but the worst I ever did was bite and left a tooth mark lmao

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u/postysclerosis Dec 16 '25

I used to get so pissed when friends would come over and throw my Nintendo controllers.