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[pisskop]

Heh, some Klei games dont even have enemies.

[pisskop]

So when you wage a 10 year war on ming as an island nation who isnt japan . . . and then find out that the war goal isnt 'hold the random island with your very superior navy' but 'show superiority' because the game places diplomatic insult CBs above conquer CBs.


It wasnt all bad though, I got several hundred ducats worth of gifts from various superpowers, and I burned the fuck out of beijing.

[Majestic7]

I like to play a good guy, so I popped in a solar system looking to investigate a distress signal. I got immediately jumped by two pirate fleets lying in wait. I can take this, I thought, since although they had a lot of ships, they were all shitty pieces of flying junk. I ordered all of my combat ships deployed (except frigates, those would come in as reinforcements later) and organized them around a sensor jammer. It was pretty much Helm's Deep in space with drug-crazed pirates flying space junk dying en masse.

Then I did a classic mistake - I noticed one of my carriers was in trouble after being flanked by fast enemy destroyers. I rushed to help the Star Witch and pushed the enemy destroyers back. As my blaster barrage overwhelmed their shields, they started withdrawing. My mistake was becoming overconfident and bloodlusty. Instead of holding the line, I started pursuing, thinking I'd be able to destroy or damage them quickly and then come back to the formation. Well, I didn't pay attention to the surroundings and a light attack cruiser charged in, cutting me off from my other ships. My shields were quickly overpowered when attacked by two destroyers and the LC from different directions. And that is when the enemy torpedo bombers swarmed me...

[Greiger]

Not quite a death but a lot of wasted time equivalent to a death in most games.

Moved my (small) TV and nintendo switch from one side of the room to my computer desk by the monitor so I can play it while sitting in the desk chair instead of having to sit on the floor to play the switch or watch tv.

Moved everything safely didn't drop a thing.  Turn on the TV, still works. Put the switch back in the dock... No dice.  Instant panic.

I spend a good hour looking at it.  Switch itself works, but it's not docking.  Check the docking mechanism, looks fine, blow it out with compressed air and clean what I can with IPA.  Notice the power connector is coming right out of the port way too easily.  Look up youtube videos.  Getting ready to take the whole dock apart to figure out whats wrong.

....I was plugging the power into the wrong slot.  I was plugging the power into the inside controller slot. Switch it to the right port and it works immediately.

Life: Pre spaceflight DLC.

[Aoi]

Check the docking mechanism, looks fine, blow it out with compressed air and clean what I can with IPA.

"Well, that might be the problem... you're cleaning your electronics with beer." India Pale Ale, IsoPropyl Alcohol, same thing, really...

[Imic]

Neck snapped by peanut. In the end the last standing mtf killed peanut, and was then in turn killed by chaos insurgents who spawned on top of him.

Scp secret lab.

[Iduno]

I've beaten KOTOR before, I've even beaten the stupid arena before. This playthrough, however, Marl (the melee combatant) seems to move faster or something, and always kills me.

I just now wondered if I have an adhesive grenade.

[Akura]

Was building a thorium reactor. For some reason, probably low pressure in the pipe, the coolant wasn't being piped into the reactor. I happened to be flying over it at the time. Took a while to rebuild the industry lost; I redirected some resources to a builder drone factory since they *usually* auto-rebuild destroyed blocks.



A little later, a boss showed up. My gun-wall took out about a third of its health, and then it chased me over a different thorium reactor group. While dodging its shots, a stray bullet must have taken out a piece of coolant pipe. On the plus side, it took the boss out as well. On the negative side, by the time I got the reactors rebuilt and my power levels up to a positive number, I was already launching off the map. Not helping was the fact that the game mysteriously forgot what was lost(when rebuilding, there's normally a helpful ghost image of what was destroyed), meaning the builder drone didn't rebuild them automatically.

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Mindustry

[pisskop]

The Plutocracy took over my country by a total span of 3 frackin' days, due to a few rando events firing.

The painful part isnt the army morale lose or even the lose of the other estates, it was the undoing of the event.  300 admin lost, and 2 development stripped out of my capital for something I could have almost just lived with.  Except for the lose of the other estates, it wasnt anything game breaking for my run.  I dont need army morale when I can buy more mercs than russia has men or when I can send my unrest to the moon with well-chosen ideas.  But I need my extra monarch points because Ive already developed 2 institutions.

3 days.....

[Eschar]

The Plutocracy took over my country by a total span of 3 frackin' days, due to a few rando events firing.

This isn't the Ameripol thread

[Mathel]

I invited a guy with a strong claim to a county into my court, forced him to matrilinearly marry one of my kinswomen, then pressed his claim. I easily won the war, making him the count there.

Why this thread then?

Before my army even returned home, he got declared on by a neighbouring count. I had no option to join the war to help him.

Crusader Kings II

[Jopax]

Didn't exactly die but the setback just made me quit the current session. See, I had my ritual underway, lost some towns to the chaos puppets but managed to get rid of them eventually. Was doing fine but decided I wanted to fully secure the region of the Frozen City, north of  Karond Kar, had all but one of the settlements which was held by rando norsca dudes (and causing all sorts of chaos corruption problems), declare war, wipe the settlement and take it figuring I'd peace them after a bit since they held trash and inhospitable places that I didn't particularly want or need right now. But the fuckers call in a random beastmen army to help them, now I wasn't expecting it to be a problem since Alith and his big bad army were already up north. Turns out these bastards came in from the south (no idea how the AI had contact with them either) and promptly razed one of my ritual settlements near Karond Kar.

There's one turn left on the ritual, none of my two armies are anywhere near it to rebuild it, if I recruit a new one it can't get past the full stack of beastmen sitting on top of the ruins. And if I don't have all the ritual spots by the time it ends it goes poof and I have to do the whole thing again, including fighting off the chaos invasion :I

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TW:Warhammer 2

[pisskop]

Framedeath at 2 months.  How the hell do people play nowadays?  Or do they not embark on large sites?  I used a 6x6, and all i did was breach a cavern

Dwarf Fortress

[Greiger]

I don't think I've embarked on a site bigger than 3x3 in....3 years?   Maybe more?  Though I think world size/age plays a role too.  All anecdotal though.

And for the sake of adding a death to the thread:

Wanted to tame a Ripper hound for my colony.  In the time it took for the colony trainer to finish his other tasks and actually go try and tame the thing, the hound had managed get it's ass handed to it by an Emu, losing a leg and getting infections in two different places.  I still rescued it and brought it to a animal sleeping spot outside the base walls to tend it thinking I could augment the thing with bionics to make a super bionic death aliendoggo.  Instead it died to infection, because I overestimated the power of herbal medicine.

I guess don't mess with Emus.

Rimworld.

[Akura]

Lost several builders to fire elementals because I was building an ancillary near the corruption. The problem was, the builders were going over to the ancillary, doing one build action, then walking over to a graveyard nearby over in the corruption and punching it. This provokes the mobs inside to come out and swarm whatever is attacking it(I've been sniping with ballista towers so far). Besides the obvious undead, one type of creature that can spawn are fire elementals. These are dangerous. The only practical way I've got to kill them is to godpimpslap them into a nearby lake and watch them fizzle and die like they deserve. ...Which requires them to walk out of the corruption because I can't use god-powers on things inside it.

I think I finally rage quit when one of my most experienced builders, who was also heavily pregnant at the time, died and then reanimated as a zombie because she died in the corruption.

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Rise to Ruins. Supposedly you can resurrect your dead, but that requires their ghost to appear, which I haven't seen yet. A quote from the developer from about a year ago says that ghosts will (almost) always appear during full moons(when seasons transition) but also randomly other times. Not sure if that will help poor Derpy Lassius(orig. Derpy Hooves but she got married) and her corrupted fetus zombie baby.

EDIT: Just remembered the one I wanted to post instead of the one above.

Saw a screenshot of someone getting swarmed by a death-stack of AI-designed ships. Using the screenshot, I tried to make a design based off the ships in the death-stack. Overall the design is nice: fairly speedy and a good ceiling height, armed with two cannons and a grapeshot cannon. Limited it to TL1 components in case I wanted to use it in a campaign as an early vessel. And as such, moderately cheap.

First attempt at battle-testing it, the opposing ship simply ramps mine, destroying the grapeshot and one of the normal cannons. Second attempt, this time against a rather silly design of mine armed with nearly a dozen ballistae, it proceeds to focus all the ballistae on the suspendium chamber(which shouldn't be possible, hit locations are more-or-less random), which detonates it.

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Airships: Conquer the Skies.