Out of Hand—Is it Ever OK to Throw a Controller?Two weeks ago, a
million-dollar contest supplied an interesting prism through
which to view the reactions to different people's failure to
accomplish the same thing in a video game.  In one, a gamer
stretched a remarkable achievement into an inhuman streak of
perfection, ultimately snapped as much by bad luck as his own
physical limitations. In others, their attempts were thwarted
much earlier, before they could even be considered any kind of
an achievement.  The failure to throw a perfect game in MLB 2K12
and the gamer's decision either to not throw a controller into
the wall, or to shatter it upon the floor, was likewise either
entirely sympathetic, or entirely contemptible.  "People who
smash $50 controllers are childish douche bags," said one
commenter, reacting to this anthology of disappointed gamers'
disproportionate reactions. And that's certainly a reasonable
opinion.  "I would have thrown that tv and system out the
window," said another commenter, afte