Been reading up TVTropes, and came around to the Epic Failure article, and then realized why my streams can grab some attention still.
Despite my skills in gaming, whenever I make my playing public (even to a private audience), my chances for certain events tend to reciprocate. For example, where I'm normally good, or would not expect to screw up, I will somehow screw up spectacularly, and other times, the chances for something miraculous that happens in an off-the-wall manner seem oddly more likely; especially when I stop taking the game seriously, and start screwing around.
Spelunky aside (which had it's moments of these), I wonder what other games I can play that can exploit this that would make some of my livestreaming more entertaining?
EDIT:
Duh, LCS and DF Adventure Mode is ripe with stuff like that bound to happen. I can always bandwagon hop XCOM again.
Last epic failure I experienced resulted in decent progress (1st mission, my named guy died along with a couple others), then the game corrupted. I loaded up the old save, all troops died in the mission (on loading; or it retconned into non-existence), and then the world map lacked XCOM bases, yet I was still able to send my Interceptors and Skyranger. Despite having no place to return to, they were flying indefinitely on no fuel, and the aliens took over the Earth unopposed. Talk about epic failure there.
Another epic failure was me forgetting a certain detail of the map in Zillion. A normal exploit I took became my undoing when I noticed the elevator shaft I was jumping down was shallower than expected, and had no way up or out (respawning the elevator car); especially considering I abandon the elevator for an express trip downward.