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[A Thing]

First time playing the game, trying to find my way onto the Aurora. Somehow wind up getting stuck simultaneously inside it and outside the world proper, and become unable to escape. Eventually died from dehydration.

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Subnautica. As an aside, I have zero idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

Yeah don't even bother with the Aurora until later and even then look up where the actual entrances are. It's really glitchy and phasing through it is really common.

Did you repair the radio in your lifepod/make one in a base? The game pushes you towards progress with radio messages from what I remember.

[Sirus]

Yeah, that was one of the first tasks I set myself: building a repair tool and fixing up the lifepod so it wasn't full of annoying smoke.

I think I found the proper entrance on my return visit (and dodged a really massive thing on the way in), but I had just acquired a code to a cargo bay when I couldn't figure out how to proceed. I tried to clear a path through some fire with an extinguisher, but I guess it was insta-kill decorative fire because I died almost at once. So I guess that's technically my most recent death (and I've had a number of near misses since).

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Subnautica, again.

[Telgin]

Strangled by a gotdang robot.

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Alien: Isolation.  Was trying for the My Turn Now achievement, which I somehow never got before.  Took a few tries to find a way to cheese the permanently hostile Joes in the later half of the game to get the needed hits in with the maintenance jack.

[Culise]

You get one minute to fight Odin.  I took one minute to beat Odin.  The timer ran out as his defeat line was shown right before he faded out, and he cutscened the entire team.  Fighting on with zero HP is technically not unprecedented, but...

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Final Fantasy V

[Greiger]

"That's an elder dragon?  It's tiny, I'm pretty sure it's smaller than Great Jagras, and there is 2 in the mission. It can't be that hard, it's not even high rank."

-Noob upon joining a quest to kill 2 kirin shortly before getting struck by all the lightning.

Monster Hunter World

[itisnotlogical]

Slowly exploring the world to acquire hints, party members, and a sense of where everything is in relation to eachother. I'm exploring the area around Trinsic, hoping to find a dungeon or at least an herb shop, when I encounter a party of liches. Liches have powerful magic attacks. I did not survive. I lost a ton of food and gold, and my ship is stranded somewhere near Trinsic, but at least I got some level ups.

It might be time to start mapping the world on paper again, so I can cut out a lot of wandering and guessing.

Ultima IV.

[Akura]

Get an arc furnace setup, only for every wire to start exploding the second I turn it on. Apparently it's caused by wires being networked instead of a one-way power flow, but the tutorial(which has you putting wires down a similar way as I did here) does not ever think to mention this.

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Stationeers. Would be a lot better is the tutorial actually teaches you anything, and if the interface wasn't so godawful difficult to work with at times.

[EnigmaticHat]

That... sounds wrong, but I don't know enough about wires to dispute it.

[Kagus]

Isn't that how SS13 handles wires? Everything was this magic network that worked as a two-way communication of both electricity and information all the way along, rather than having to account for directional flow. Makes sense that Stationeers would carry that over.

It also lets you string together horrific abominations of circuitry that still somehow manage to function.

[EnigmaticHat]

Well what I mean is that a "wire" as we would think of it is a bundle of separate wires that includes both directions.  That's why you only have to plug appliances into the wall once and it still makes a circuit.  Unless stationeers is REALLY granular, one-way wires shouldn't be a thing.

Edit: What am I looking at in that screenshot?  Logic reader/logic writer?  What?

[Rolan7]

I finally got around to using my Meltan mystery box last night!
Use an incense, lucky egg and stardust, hoping the incense will make more Meltans spawn-
Oh, can't use the mystery box because "that enchantment is already in effect".  It's considered an incense apparently.
welp

Use another stardust and lucky egg and the mystery box, got some Meltans woo!
... This morning, an alert:  "For a limited time, Shiny Meltan may appear when you use a mystery box."

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Pokemon Go

[Akura]

That... sounds wrong, but I don't know enough about wires to dispute it.

I don't know enough about wires either. Or else they wouldn't explode. I simply set up a connection between a power generator, arc furnace, and autolathe - much the same as done in the tutorial - and the wires burn out the instant I turn on the arc furnace. I saw something on the Steam boards about using a setup where power comes out from the generator, but doesn't feed back in. ...I didn't actually read the entire post on how that was supposed to work.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Shouldn't there be a transformer in there? I haven't played the game but I seem to recall a video where something was built between the generator and other devices because it would burn out the cables due to overloading them.

Or it could be something completely different idk.

[Akura]

Area Power Control? That's what that's for?

[itisnotlogical]

After using the console to kill about 20 scamps in a row, I realized that conjurers probably have infinite MP and the only way to get anywhere was to kill the conjurer.

I chased him down a hallway and he led me into an arrow trap which killed me.

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.