This troper while playing spore galactic adventures, tried to use a grenade in close combat, it didn't work very well...

This Troper's sister thought a grenade was a powerup in ''{{Halo}}.'' She was turned into bloody chunks more than once that way.

One classic source of ''NetHack'' [=YASDs=] is the cockatrice corpse: Alive, the cockatrice is dangerous because one touch will start turning you to stone unless you take preventive measures. Once killed, however, the corpse will ''instantly'' turn you to stone if you pick it up without gloves, trip over it, fall down a flight of stairs while holding it, etc. Why carry the thing at all? Well, what it can do to you, it can also do to opponents, making it one of the most dangerous weapons in the game. Many, many foolish players have chosen power over good sense, leading to Yet Another Stupid Death.

Polymorph trapped into a Dragon. Ok, losing my nice armor sucks, but there are worse things to polymorph into. See a cockatrice, ok, I can usually handle these in a couple hits. You bite the cockatrice. You turn to stone. Would you like your possessions identified?

The ''Sokoban'' level, while rewarding, involves pushing a lot of boulders, and a message is added to the message window every time you push one a single square. This tends to drown out other messages... such as messages warning you that you're about to pass out from hunger while your backpack's full of food.

Yet Another ''{{Nethack}}'' example: This troper was once playing as an elven Wizard who started with a wand of sleep. There was an enemy monster directly north of my starting position. The wall was close enough for me to be hit by the sleep ray's rebound. I forgot that elves don't get sleep resistance for a few levels. That Wizard was dead before she woke up. This later inspired me to contribute to a line in "Lessons Learned the Hard Way".

Me again. This time my Wizard's pet cat did her in while she was wearing a ring of conflict (makes monsters attack other monsters--and you--indiscriminately). Couldn't take it off because it was cursed (to be fair, I did try to check this beforehand) and had no way to uncurse it. I did try to uncurse it using a partially-ID'd wand, but it wasn't the one I thought it was.

''{{Nethack}}'' creates a lot of these, doesn't it? This Troper just died, then immediately afterward, realized he knew a healing spell that, had he cast it after the previous fight, almost certainly would have saved him.

Another from the same troper: I got a wish, so I reverse-genocided Krakens to gain easy xp. I was level two. I reached level six before discovering that just because they mostly don't attack back when out of water doesn't mean they ''never'' do.

Level four. Killed by a wild kitten. Nuf said.

JBridge here. Solstace relayed this story to me in #yackfest. #QUOTE# Solstace: My death on my farthest character was a tad ironic, though. #QUOTE# [=JBridge=]: What happened? #QUOTE# [=JBridge=]: YASD? #QUOTE# Solstace: So, I quaffed a smoky potion and got a wish. #QUOTE# Solstace: This was on the first floor, mind you. #QUOTE# Solstace: So I wished for an Archon figurine. #QUOTE# [=JBridge=]: And? #QUOTE# Solstace: My Archon would kill shopkeepers, and I'd loot the shops for comestibles, #QUOTE# [=JBridge=]: Nice. #QUOTE# Solstace: and eventually built a small pet army. #QUOTE# Solstace: Then I ran out of food, because my pets would eat it before I could pick it up. #QUOTE# Solstace: I starved to death. #QUOTE# Solstace: ...

I had something similar in an {{Angband}} variant. In common with most of the variants with vampires, you could heal for free if you bit your enemy, but only if you were hungry. So to exploit this I kept myself just a little hungry. Cleared the level, was hungrier than I thought, became weak from hunger, didn't reach the stairs in time.

This troper has had two: one indirect one, from putting ''all'' of his equipment into a Bag of Holding (including the Wand of Cancellation), thus causing all of it to disappear, and one by attempting to Genocide Liches. With a Scroll of Genocide, whose BUC was unknown. At level 3. Guess how that one ended?

Back when this troper played Nethack, he had a large number of these. The most notable, however, came when his character was facing a swarm of soldier ants (of course). He wasn't too worried, because his character was level nine or so, but just to make sure nothing bad happened he fought the ants in front of a doorway, so he could face them one at a time. The following messages ensued: #QUOTE# You hit the giant ant! The giant ant misses. #QUOTE# You kill the giant ant! #QUOTE# You miss the giant ant. The giant ant hits! #QUOTE# You kill the giant ant! #QUOTE# You kill the giant ant! #QUOTE# You hit the floating eye! You are frozen by the floating eye's gaze! (Troper, yelling: WHAT THE HOLY HELL???) #QUOTE# (After a little time) The ogre hits! The ogre hits! The ogre misses. The ogre hits! The ogre hits! The ogre hits! You die...

Apparently, when you aren't paying attention, a lowercase blue a and a lowercase blue e look pretty similar.

This troper has one from playing ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne. He faced the Matador while equipped with a magatama that was vulnerable to wind magic, and with an active party full of demons who were also vulnerable to wind. He knew better, because he had the frigging spoiler book. He just wanted to indulge in a SelfImposedChallenge.

Yeah, so Matador just isn't the guy on whom to be trying out self-imposed challenges (god forbid on Hard mode). But you know this.

Actually, it ''was'' on hard mode. I usually don't bother with the "normal" mode unless it's the only way to unlock hard mode. Of course, when I tried facing Matador with the wrong party, I got spanked in the first round.

My first real Nocturne experience was on hard mode. Nothing better than walking into a dungeon I completed 10 levels ago and getting ambushed and GameOver'd in the first round. Right, my demons are weak to fire and I went to a fire dungeon...

Now that I think about it, every dungeon starts like this: Enter dungeon, get in fight, get spanked because my team is weak to their main element/insta kill spell on the hero/5 crits on a row against the hero before I get a turn (!!!), rebuild party.

This troper's main character in WorldOfWarcraft is a druid, and as a result, I died a ''ridiculous'' number of times from falling when I shapeshifted out of Flight Form with the intention of shifting back before hitting the ground.

Did you manage to shift back, only to crater anyway?

On a related note, I've lost count of the amount of times I've mounted up to fly off somewhere, then realised half way to death that I am riding a tiger, NOT a gryphon. *splat*

The above tale is why @/{{Ripsaw}}'s main characters on any given server are Engineers. Parachutes attached to cloaks are shiny when you make that style of mistake.

This troper once ''fell off the island of teldrassil''... She hit a rock or a branch or ''something'' sticking out of the side of the island about halfway down and died. She then tried to corpse run back, in hopes of getting her body and hearthing out, but she accidentally hit an arrowkey and the next thing she knew, she was falling again. As a ghost. Hit the water, sat there for about five minutes not knowing what to do (didn't know about the town on the other side of the base of the island at the time, dunno if it would have helped anyway) and finally had to be rescued by a GM.

Oh, and there was that time she fell into a pit of acid, with dinosaurs in it. To this day she doesn't know if she died from drowning, fire/acid damage, or being eaten by diemetradons.

On a related note, I was in Loch Modan, I think, and found the dam at the end. I decided it was a perfectly sensible idea to jump off the dam. What do you think happened?

Main reason healers die in party runs: "Phew, the tank is safe, the rest of the party is on max, everything is perfe-- WAIT I DIED???". This is why this troper plays Holy Priest. Returning as Spirit of Redemption after dieing is useful.

This holy priest troper did exactly that in the deadmines: got [=HPs=] whittled down to about 3 without noticing while keeping everyone else on full, somehow aggroed a pirate and his pet, tank pulled the pirate off... and I was oneshotted by the parrot. A ''parrot!'' That is what happens when you pay attention to everyone's health but your own.

When this troper plays WoW, she tends to ignore quests and dungeons in favor of exploring mountains. It's a good thing druids in cat form take less fall damage, or else I'd have died many more times than I actually have.

A friend of this troper was playing ''GrandTheftAuto III'' some years back, and after completing the mission that repair the bridge to Staunton Island, went to cross it. However, inexperienced as he was with the style of bridge--the middle section is lifted straight up, rather than the halves of the bridge lifting up in an angle--he was unable to recover and plunged into the drink below. Before he had gone off the edge, however, he hadn't really been paying attention (hence why he went off), and so had built up a good head of steam, causing him to fly so far as he fell that he actually got the loading screen for the next area...before coming back and finishing his splashdown. As he said: #QUOTE#"CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--Welcome to Staunton Island.--AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!"

This troper was playing ResidentEvil 4, and in the mine area -you know, the one with two Dr. Salvadors? - she went, killed one Salvador, then took a minute to break open some barrels for treasure. A minute later - "VRMMMM""AHHH!"* Leon's head goes thunk on the ground*

In the same game, this troper was killed several times by Salazar's instant death attack on his first play-through, and it went something like this: '''1)''' What the heck is he--HOLY SHIT! '''2)''' ''(after looking up how to know when the attack is coming, aiming the rifle)'' Hold ''still'' you little--uh...oh crap that's it--! *DEATH* '''3)''' OK, staying in the middle is getting me hit with a lot of attacks, let's try from the side, I can probably survive the few seconds his head is off screen. *turns around* *DEATH* '''4)''' Yeah, staying on the side of the room is much easier, just gotta shoot the tentacle every now and then. Oh, speak of the devil. I'll just shoot this bugger and--*DEATH* '''5)''' ''No fair killing me while I'm in the middle of reloading, you prick!''

This troper recalls a rather embarassing moment in ''PopNMusic'' when he got to nearly the end of the song, thought it was over, forgetting that the song has a few more notes. His LifeMeter promptly fell to just below the required amount needed to clear the song. Cue FacePalm.

I'm playing Half Life 2, and I'm at the stage where you are fighting through the Overwatch Nexus. I come up to a turret and an overturned table. I dash to take cover by the table, and lob a grenade, trying to aim at the turrets weak spot. Well, what ends up happening is the grenade bounces straight off the edge of the turret, and onto the table. The blast knocks the table clear over my head, leaving me exposed to the turret, which promptly slaughters me. It was easily the most unlucky thing I have ever unwittingly pulled off in the game.

This troper has died in more blatantly stupid ways in Spelunky than he cares to admit, including but not limited to rape by bats, getting hit by an dart after it ricocheted, being thrown repeatedly against a wall by the same enemy, landing on a spike, and one case of all of the above at the same time. needless to say, modding the game to have explosions on the main character's death made it more enjoyable.

My personal favorite (and by favorite I mean MADDENING) Spelunky deaths are as follows: Standing on an edge, jumping and firing the shotgun to kill a bat, and then being thrown onto some spikes from the recoil; accidentally throwing the dice into the shopkeeper while rolling them; jumping to reach an idol, missing, and falling to my doom onto a spike pit; and falling off the edge, getting shot by TWO arrow traps on the way down, and landing stunned on the floor only to get run over by an angry caveman until I died.

This troper can name two:

I was running out of time, but decided to loot a treasure chest before exiting. The chest was located at an acove at the bottom-left corner of the level, and as I was opening it, a ghost appeared right next to me, conveniently blocking the only way to escape.

I saw a caveman jump up on a spike trap. I thought to myself: "interesting means of suicide" ... before impaling myself on another set of spikes.

Here's another: I shot a pot with a shotgun (they occasionally contain monsters, so throwing them around in order to break them isn't exactly advisable). Moments later, I came across a shop, thought to myself: "I am running out of rope, let's buy some, and perhaps climbing gear while I'm at it" ... before being shot dead by the shopkeeper. (The previous shotgun blast had hit him.)

One of the stupid deaths ever: ''Attaching a sticky bomb to '''yourself'''''. And this was after I got both the jetpack and the shotgun without attacking any merchants. I was pretty mad.

During the final battle against the giant head, I managed to stay alive, thanks to my jetpack, by sitting atop it and throwing bombs down. When he started summoning monsters to aid him, I jumped away from them... and hit the floor hard, allowing a spider to smack me to death.

This troper, while playing ''{{Arcanum}}'' was at a point in the game where she had to complete a side quest by entering a cave and throwing a sword into a burning pit to destroy it, ala ''LordOfTheRings''. She attempts to toss the sword into the pit, misses, and instead hits her poor little dwarf wizard companion, killing him instantly. This causes Magnus and that elf chick, both good-aligned characters, to immediately turn on her character and start attacking. This troper could not stop laughing as she was trying to run away, all the while shouting that it was an accident.

The Mega Man 9 demo. Remember those little things that fly out of each pit and basically kill you unless you stop or shoot first? This Troper lost ''more than a continue worth of lives'' before passing the first pit. He still bought the full game despite\because of that.

Ever think in a game that you've got to handle the average mook in the most over-the-top fashion possible? I tried it plenty of times in Uncharted, often diving straight into a group of grunts armed with assault rifles, shotguns and grenade launchers, and trying to kill them all with my fists...guess who won that battle? Hint: Not me.

Or the few times I played Ocarina of Time when I randomly attacked the chickens...little did I know that my death would be swift.

On this tropers first play through of Left 4 Dead she was following her brother up a ladder when he yelled 'Witch!' and jumped back down. This troper, who had not yet realize that the witch was a special type of zombie, promptly slapped the witch and died.

I'm playing Knights of the Old Republic and I'm in the Rakatan Temple, which is near the end. I get to a computer terminal and access the security cameras. I then get the option to overload the terminal and say yes. Result? Three extra crispy characters and a 'your party has been killed' screen. And this is that last section of the game - I should have KNOWN better...

''ThunderForce IV'': "Hey, is that flashing orange thing a powerup?" *dies of bullet-y death* "FDASFDS!!"

During a round of ''Quake Live'', this troper sniped someone who was about to use the {{BFG}} with his railgun. Promptly thereafter, he backed into a pit of red liquid, killing himself and negating the frag.

Ever accidentally use Growl or Leer instead of Tackle or Scratch in your first Pokémon battle? Doing that even once can result in your leading 'mon fainting, you know.

And yes, I've died at the first Goomba. More than once.

The first time I coherently remember playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'', I thought the Goomba expies were mushrooms.

This troper has fallen victim to more than a few deaths by sheer dumb luck in Mario games. Once, he was playing ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'', and he practically cleared Galaxy's "The Perfect Run" on only the 8th try... except that the very last Boomerang Bro. he needed to kill just CONVENIENTLY HAPPENED to jump on the one infinitesimally minute space that he was standing on. Cue a Wii Remote in the wall and another 20 attempts.

Hey, let's set up a neat stack in ''{{Tetris}}: The Grand Master''! And then undo my efforts by plugging up the shaft for the I-block!

The same stupidity, now in Sega ''Tetris'' with many times less gravity!

Okay, hands up if you actually tested the message in the one safe room in IWannaBeTheGuy. If you didn't raise your hand, you're a liar.

This troper once plays NetHack, and he got hold of an unidentified amulet. Since he's scared of it being strangulation and he just used up his pray a few turns ago due to accidentally getting food poisoning, and there's no altar around to do BUC check, so he just left it in his pocket. Then, a few turns later, he got killed by a rothe. What's the amulet? ''Life Saving!'' If he's just not make mistake of using that pray, he might survive this!

One ''FightingFantasy'' death: Jumping through an opening you've just been watching a golem stick fiery rocks through. You can guess what happens next.

This troper was once playing a NancyDrew game, and was wandering around outside looking for clues. I saw a pond, and went to step into it - WHOOPS! That was actually a CLIFF! As the game said "Goods news: it wasn't a very large cliff. Bad news: ''it was still a cliff''."

Another troper was playing a NancyDrew game, and was wandering around inside the elevator shaft and the connecting areas, trying to figure out how to get to the room she wanted. There was a huge bottomless pit with a ladder on the side. Upon clicking on the ladder, Nancy would repeatedly say "I'm not sure if I can make it." After about ten clicks, she finally jumped--and fell. This troper tried to jump across that pit several times before she figured out that she needed to find another way across.

What, no DwarfFortress? I once tried to build a build a dwarvern fluid logic computer using magma. There was a memory leak. I've already started on my next attempt.

This troper used a wand of cancellation on himself to see what "cancellation" does. + 0 weapons and armor, plain scrollbooks, and clear potions later. Subverted in that he's not dead ''yet'', he just doesn't know what to do now.

My brother was playing the 2nd to last mission in CallOfDuty 4 and was in the elevator. He tried to toss a grenade through the door, but it bounced off the door. He spent the next 5 seconds futally trying to get rid of this grenade by throwing it at the wall.

Not that NetHack has been mentioned yet, but this troper once had a game in which he found two wands of wishing, before the castle, and died by accidentally taking off a ring of levitation instead of another item and drowning.

This troper tried to explore Ogrimmar. His character was a Night Elf. Cue the guards killing him and a Tauren attempting to corpse camp.

This Blood Elf player wanted to try and get the white kitten from the little boy in Stormwind (the human capital). She swam all the way to the port... It all went well until the guards (and the FRICKIN' WAR MACHINES) saw her. Oh, and she was level 30 at the time.

Playing through Half-Life 2, this troper tried to use the gravity gun to carry a car axle through a door for future use as a weapon. The door closed before I had gotten my cargo through, and the axle got stuck in the door. A few seconds of struggling later, the door opened, and a quirk of the physics engine resulted in the axle shooting forward with enough force to take my head off. And that's not even getting into all the times I've cut myself in half whilst attempting to carry a rotary blade through Ravenholm.

Same troper. I was playing ResidentEvil4 just now, having fun with the various unlockable super-weapons. After dispatching the second El Gigante (the one you can drop boulders on), I decided to blow down the second wooden door with the Plagas Removal Laser. Unfortunately, the PRL automatically fires at any and all viable targets within range...and Ashley and I happened to be standing directly beneath the second boulder trap. #QUOTE#'''Plagas Removal Laser:''' *fires a beam upward* #QUOTE#'''Me:''' Wha--Aw, shit. #QUOTE#'''Boulder:''' Squish.

This troper was playing the mission "Uboat warfare" on ''1914 Shell's of fury'' thinking that they were unarmed, I decided to surface to take them on with the deck cannon, until... #QUOTE# Disguised Battleship cannons: *THUMP, THUMP* #QUOTE# Dallen: What was tha-- crap}} Aww shit #QUOTE# *BOOM*

Not it though I was also trying to take out some Battle ships while under the surface, I let My guard down and turned the periscope to see one of the battle ships attempting to ram my sub. #QUOTE# Dallen: Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh FU--- #QUOTE# *CRUNCH*

Once more Jason Ecker told me that My sub would sustain a good depth, the increased creaking of the hull made Me nervous #QUOTE# Dallen: Are you sure its a good idea #QUOTE# Jason: Yes I-- (See's the hull icon turing orange) {{Oh Crap}}! #QUOTE# Game: Your sub was destroyed by exceeding the depth limit #QUOTE# Dallen: Told You

A Mystery Dungeon: Sky experience. Im telling you, using A move in a hallway, confused is strictly not a good idea, #QUOTE# Dallen used Reversal #QUOTE# Move missed #QUOTE# Abomasnow used Swagger #QUOTE# Dallen's Sp. Atk rose #QUOTE# Dallen was confused #QUOTE# Dallen used reversal #QUOTE# Sparky took 147 damage #QUOTE# Sparky was defeated

It didnt help that 1: Sparky's maximum HP was below the damage reversal dealt 2: most of our HP was gone from a freaking monster house 3: reversal does more damage based on the lower HP is 4: Swagger increase my Special Atk.

Or how about This Troper's early playing of {{Pokemon Mystery Dungeon}}:Explorers of Time? #QUOTE#Drowzee(male) used Confusion! #QUOTE#A critical hit!! #QUOTE#Mudkip took 46 damage! #QUOTE#Oh no! Mudkip was defeated!

And I thought that only happened in {{Fire Emblem}}.

This troper, whist playing through Imperishable Night managed to get killed by the stage one (mid-)boss by being exactly where she arrives on-screen, before a single bullet is fired. Why was that? Power-ups and points came before safety.

Wriggle Kick!

YAMAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

This troper was playing around in Garry's Mod and decided to make a vehicle out of a large bronze horse statue. While trying to weld the seat to the statue, I sort of forgot I was standing between the two. Cue a large bronze statue flying across the room to meet a seat and pulverizing the poor stupid sap in the way.

Hey, I can lift stuff with the physgun while standing on it! Whee! Cue object tearing through my fragile body at terminal velocity, resulting in instant death.

When this troper got the Cain for the first time in Mass Effect 2, he somehow forgot the fact that it creates a miniature nuclear explosion and tried shooting at a Scion a few feet away. Kind of an embarassing end for Commander Shepard.

That one's actually pretty reasonable, as the Cain has an invisible blast radius far larger than its explosion would suggest. As the only way to find this out the hard way. HilarityEnsues.

This Troper was trying out the new Dungeoneering skill in {{Runescape}}. I came up to a puzzle that involved some fishing. "Oh, cool, Lemme just get my fishing rod. Cue me walking back to the shop, getting sidetracked and almost getting killed by monsters en route. Eventually, though, I got back to the room with the fishing spots. "FINALLY. Nothing to kill me in here" I thought, then started fishing. My character then spazzed out and died. Reading the chatbox, I saw "You have a hilarious fishing accident that you would have told your grandchildren some day, had it not killed you.". Needless to say, I was a bit embarrassed. Still, doesn't quite beat the time one of my friends messed up on a bit of crafting and seemingly slipped so badly he impaled his throat with his chisel and died.

This Troper has a habit of being a lemming on Timesplitters, but this entry was accidental: I was playing on a mapmaker level where the goal is to wipe out all the enemies while five floors above them. He was one person away from victory...and stepped too far forward in my attempt to kill the last enemy with a gas canister and fell to his death. He did this FOUR TIMES! He has also ran into his own proximity mines too many times to be funny.

Rare tabletop version: this troper has heard a story in D&D-3.5e wherein a certain pyromaniac wizard had come into the habit of blasting absolutely everything with Scorching Rays and/or Fireballs. That worked well until they hit an oddly cold room covered with brown fungus...which he proceeded to Fireball for the hell of it. As it turns out, Brown Mold absorbs heat and expands exponentially in the presence of flame. Human popsicles ensue.

Oh, have another tabletop one to keep it company. Character wanted a hat for a disguise, knew the people who wore them had cranial bombs which blew them up if they died. Saw one of them dying after being shot and falling off his motorcycle, ran to get the hat. As if running at a human bomb lying on a fuel tank wasn't bad enough, said character was the one carrying demolition charges. The rest of us ran away and later failed to find anything identifyable to bury.

Have a third: Wandering through an ancient, part-flooded Aes Sedai research facility from the Age of Legends, my party stumbled across a swift-running stream, with a collapsed bridge. Being the biggest, strongest member of the party, I volunteered to brace myself at the halfway point so the others could cross. Unfortunately, through a combination of poor rolls, the ''two'' heaviest party members were swept off their feet and knocked my character over. So far, survivable, yes? Well, the stream fed into a series of small tunnels, filled with incredibly fast flowing water, so all three of us were fired along the Flume of Doom, and mostly passing out along the way, before being deposited in a deep pool by the BigBad's evil underground lair. Worse, but sill survivable, if my character hadn't landed face up, wearing mail and half-plate, with a massive steel shield on his back. ''While unconscious''. The moral? Chain mail is not swimwear...

As a regular player of CallofCthulhu, this troper has plenty of stupid tabletop deaths. A few of the highlights: one of this troper's friends failed a dexterity check to walk down a flight of stairs in the dark. He tripped and fell, knocking himself out. The stairs didn't technically kill him tough. The fact that he was unconscious when the monster in the basement came out did. Later in that same adventure this troper almost caused TotalPartyKill when he decided to burn down the house. Probably should have done that after the party left... however, only this troper's character died, largely due to a HeroicSacrifice on his part that allowed the rest of the party to break down the door and escape. In a later adventure, this troper found a horrible mutant living in the basement of cultist's house. This troper did at least leave the house before burning it down...only to see a flaming mutant emerge from the rubble of the house and charge at him. It didn't end there though: this troper and his friends managed to kill the monster, but as it died it cast a spell (which only had a 5% chance of success) to summon Yog-Sothoth. The spell succeeded, and not only was the whole party wiped out, thousands died when You-sothoth went on a rampage around the city. Oops.

On my first playthrough of ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'' I was playing aggressively, taking out the Alpha Sections whenever possible. Naturally, when I went to sneak into the Alpha Sections headquarters, I tried attacking the guards. (And that was after [=DoubleH=] warned me that should the guards notice me, I'm good as dead.)

While playing ''{{Nethack}}'', I ran into some slime monsters who proceeded to kick my ass. In panic, I read a random unidentified scroll I had with me... and was teleported to safety! Yoohoo! ...Then, for no reason whatsoever, I proceeded to go back to where the slime was hiding (even though there were other, safe routes). Of course, I died...

Again in the CallofCthulu, after many times playing this game I decided to demonstrate how to win... by making a blind quadriplegic, because he was unable to leave his apartment and unable to see the shambling horrors he outlived every other character... eventually starving after he ran out of food and was unable to leave and get himself more.

This troper, when playing Oblivion, had an instance of this early in the game. Standing on the second floor of a fortress I stumbled upon, I looked down and though "Hey, this isn't too high up; instead of taking the stairs, I can simply jump down and keep going!". Obviously, that decision lead to one really stupid death.

''{{DeathSmiles}}''. Item counter at 1,000. Okay, time for SuperMode...oh crap wrong buttons! And I just lost my last HP. FML.

''Persona3'' has a very intense final boss battle, as anyone whose played it can tell you. It's made significantly harder if you, like this troper, make an utterly boneheaded mistake 95% of the way in. Sure, use the "massive, unblockable damage to all monsters" spell, that'll really show... er, wait, she didn't put up a reflective attack barrier, did she? Right? I'm not going to insta-kill my entire party... am I? ._.

This troper has killed Lara Croft SO MANY TIMES by getting distracted from the game for a second and jumping straight off a cliff.

''DesktopDungeons'' death #15: The boss is Super Meat Man. I pray to Jehora Jehu, requesting the Polymorph miracle (hoping for an easier boss). I get... the Iron Man, who has 75% Magic Resistance. ''I'm playing a Wizard.'' In the name of an honorable demise, I throw myself at him anyway.

This troper lost count of how many times he rammed into a bullet while trying to pick up an UFO in Undefined Fantastical Object. That game just ain't for him.

When AmericasArmy introduced vehicles, one of the few commands added was a Buckle/Unbuckle Seatbelt command. The in-game Army instructor is quite insistent about buckling up before you take that humvee out for a spin against the Opfor. You can probably guess what this troper didn't do. Fortunately for his pride, the game doesn't show an AI commanding officer writing a condolence letter about how my highly trained Special Forces character died by failing to put into practice what every five year old knows about car safety.

TombRaider IV: Lara was atop a platform overlooking a very deep pit, and needed to make a series of difficult rope-jumps in order to access a platform on the opposite side of the room. Recognising the challenge, I saved the game before making the first jump. I then jumped, successfully grabbed the first rope, and saved again, ''over'' the save I'd just made. Now, when Lara is clinging to a rope in Tomb Raider IV, one needs to hold the action button down; if one lets go of the action button, Lara lets go of the rope. And when one loads a saved game, of course, one is not holding the action button down. And it turns out that if one loads a level with Lara in mid-air, she immediately enters her "OhCrap I'm falling too fast and I can't grab onto anything I'm doing to die ahh" stance... and dies.

I've learned from personal experience that rockets are not close range weapons.

Define "personal experience". You're well enough to post on TV Tropes, right?

False.

This troper has a good one for DwarfFortress. Just because glass is magma-safe, and demons can live in magma, doesn't mean it's a good idea to make an "Infernarium". FinaglesLaw dictates that containment ''will'', somehow, be breached.

I died often in stupid ways in lots of video games:

SWAT 4: Hitting a suspect with the less-lethal shotgun. Reloading. Having an ennemy pop up and shooting while I was reloading.

A classic one: Rocket launcher... dumb to live}} At point-blank range!

Alternatively, having a Stupidity}} Teammate crossing my line of fire while using it.

{{Freedom Fighters}} Killing nearly all ennemies, including a {{Giant Mook}} with a {{BFG}}, ending up near existence Failure}} dead. No prob, Thyself}} Medic Kit coming up! Messing with weapon selection, selecting the molotov instead, killing myself with it, or getting killed by a stupid soldier with his weak {{AKA 47}}. Happens to me all the time.

Swinging his {{Emergency Weapon}} while moving, and accidentally hitting a Barrels}} barrel.

This troper was playing ''{{Galaga}} '88''. He decided to upgrade his dual ship to the triple ship by having it captured...but upon capture he noticed that he had ''no lives left.''

The roguelike ''IVAN'' eats rookies alive with these. Such arcane concepts as lightning bolts reflecting off hard surfaces, monster corpses that are NOT edible, zombies carrying contagious diseases, and chain-reaction explosions have left a body count to make WW2 look like a frat-party brawl.

This Troper decided to play a round of ''Nethack''. She played as a female gnomish Archeologist named Kitzeh... and died on level 1, killed by a sewer rat. The next game wasn't much better - she fought a gas spore and was caught in the explosion, then rested in an attempt to heal, and a kobold zombie wandered into the room. Killed the kobold zombie, then found that it had another gas spore following it. You can see where this is going.

While playing ResidentEvil4, I tried to stock up on supplies and take them out with a full arsenal as best I could. After ~2 minutes of looting the room, I stand my ground ready to fight, where one of the druids throws his sickle through his team members and cut off my head. Oddly enough Hilarity Ensued

Note to self- not every game allows Rocket Jumps.

This troper has lost track of the number of times in the freeware shooter ''[=BZFlag=]'' when a long-range shot misses its target and a wayward ally blunders into the path of the bullet (worse, into the path of a ricochet). Since the server I play on discourages {{Griefer}}s by killing anyone who teamkills, I've lost track of the number of lives I lost because somebody didn't check their radar system.

Overloading computer terminals in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic is a good way to clear out enemy-filled rooms from across the map. It's also a good way to cause a TotalPartyKill if you overload the terminal you're ''standing in front of.''

This Troper got killed by the boat physics in Two Worlds 2. He was sailing, minding his own buisness, and suddenly saw a large island he had never noticed before. He couldn't resist the mystery of it all and had to explore it, he sailed out of the water, onto the sand of the island and got out of his little boat. For some reason, the boat decided it didn't like the ground and flew about thirty meters into the air, did two backflips, and smashed into This Troper's head, killing him.

This troper, while fighting a mob of unidentified enemies in ''StrangeJourney'', decided to use Rock Bullet, a Gun-elemental skill that hits an enemy with a chance of Stone status. Why is this a bad move to use on unknown enemies? Well, suppose the enemy repels Gun attacks, causing Rock Bullet to bounce back at you, leaving ''you'' with a chance of Stone status (and, this being a ''ShinMegamiTensei'' game, your death or petrification is an instant Game Over even if your demons are still intact). Guess how this troper learned this lesson?

This troper was excitedly rushing out of his ''{{Minecraft}}'' home for his first experiment with dynamite when he noticed that the door had failed to open. He soon realized that he had accidently clicked through the door’s tiny window, placing the dynamite on his front porch. Attempting to open the door and examine the problem, he managed to click through the window again and activate the dynamite.

''{{EarthBound}}''. At around age 10 or 11. Frank. How do you lose to this WarmUpBoss? AttackAttackAttack

{{@/Icarael}} once tried to escape three Sharks goons at around Level 5. They caught up with me. And I was facing away from them. Cue ambush and CurbStompBattle.

Inversion: In {{Dissidia}} 012, I was fighting The Emperor in Tidus' story mode, when this happened (I was in EX Mode, by the way): I used Energy Rain to reflect one of his Flares back at him; later on in the fight he successfully hit me with another Flare. Cue the Flare that I reflected hitting him, ''allowing me to defeat him with my EX Burst.''

Funny story. Well, it's not funny at the time, but I'm sure it will be sometime in the future. I've been reading this page and was thinking how lucky I am, that in my 10+ years of playing video games I've had hardly any deaths that can really be called YASD. I decided to take a break from reading and go play Minecraft. An absolutely wonderful spelunking adventure ensued, with me finding TONS of gold and redstone, and two(!) dungeons. I also found a ton of lava. I have a thing about surrounding lava with glass so I can walk on it safely. I happened to be working near a lavafall, and accidentally placed a glass block so it redirected the lava flow- right onto the spot where I was standing. I didn't get out of the way in time.

Happened to this troper in GTA San Andreas. I was having a regular police shootout, and at one point I took out a bazooka and blew up one of their cars. I kept on fighting the cops, but died soon afterwards. How did that happen? The door of the car that I blew up fell on top of me and killed me. It could be an EpicFail, but I was so surprised that I was completely stupefied. My friends that were watching me play never laughed harder.

Last year at Gen Con, I played a HackMaster demo with my kid brother. We were in a small church, and I was a human cleric. He was a halfling rogue. Our party was attacked by zombies. One of them picked up my brother and proceeded to hug him to death; I, being a concerned sister, decided to attempt to take out the zombie instead of turning him. I didn't make the roll, and sent the stone from my slingshot right into my brother's head. He died, and then hit me as hard as he could.

This Troper walked into a MexicanStandoff in {{Fallout 3}} over a fridge of fresh water, with ''very'' little health. I had hoped to use the water to heal the instant I got it, but no dice. From the frames it took to loot the water to get to the Pip-Boy, I had gotten killed. Very. Little. Health.