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[Sirus]

Pro tip for the future, throw potions of acid or ink or similar poisonous beverages at golden bells. They'll dodge the bottle, but the puddle of liquid will poison them. Since Bells don't have a lot of health, typically they die in a turn or three.

[Akura]

Wasted days of time because I misunderstood a certain game mechanic.

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Summoning Spiritomb requires talking to 32 other players in the Grand Underground. There are also a total of 35 NPCs that randomly spawn in the Underground who count towards that - thus you don't need multiplayer at all if you talk to 32 of those 35. I don't know if it resets if you successfully summon and battle Spiritomb.

The part I messed up on was thinking that you merely had to talk to these NPCs 32 times(leaving the Underground to make it count), not find 32 of them. The confusion of course comes from the fact that this is exactly what happens when talking to other players - leave the Underground(including entering a Secret Base), then talk to that same player again and it counts both times.

Needless to say, I spent many times talking to Cowgirl Meri, which is who spawns about 90% of the time in that corner beneath Pastoria Town, with absolutely nothing to show for it.

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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond.

[MCreeper]

Got compensation for basically no invasions on previous three and then some playtroughs. Trying to go to Eygil's Idol, got invaded in quick succession by two red phantoms and two blue phantoms. I didn't see that many smurfs (except on red arena, which almost consists of them) before that, but all of those were very obvious smurfs.

Dark Souls 2

After that, i got invaded and killed by blue phantom two more times. He wrote me a hatemail. I didn't deign to read it, but he had some kind of paladinic nonsense on his profile. Looks like it was one hell of self-righteous bastard. 

Come to think of it, i was invaded at least 11 times this evening, while usually it's negligible 5 per playtrough, string or no string. Blues don't get someone to invade frequently, do they?

[EuchreJack]

Oh yeah, I died in Elona+ Custom G lately.  I loaded it up without having played it for quite a while, loaded an Ironman character (forget what Elona calls it), and promptly died on the field map because I wasn't paying attention.  Well, dunno how many hours of my life I lost in a couple of minutes.  Can't delete the save, since that deletes the gene file that I had fortunately made.  A REAL heirloom gene, I'd say, since I have no clue what this poor soul collected before expiring.

[Akura]

Second-to-last campaign mission. The enemy ramps up their attacks pretty fast, and I'm overwhelmed more than once before I can get proper defenses set up.

I work out a new strategy where I manage to push the T2 engineering upgrade on my commander very quickly, get some heavy turrets and eventually shields, giving me a strong enough position to actually work on doing the mission. Figure that would be a good time to save the game.

The game crashes during the save.

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

[Robsoie]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker

My hero is on an adventure exploring the unknown lands around the capital of his newly created Barony leading his party of level 5 guys and gals (after defeating the Stag Lord and claiming the area as our Barony we got to level 5 as we were level 4 up to then).

We then enter the area that features the bridge over the Gudrin river at some distance of the capital.
Instead of just going to the end of the bridge, we start to explore the surrounding hill and clearing , killing and looting what's on our path.
At some distance of the bridge, near the river bank there's a hill and right in its side there is the entrance to a huge cave there.

After destroying the wolf pack that was nearby we enter the cave, lot of bones and broken items around... looks like we found the feeding ground of those wolves.
Then we run into the cave owner ... uh oh that's no wolf this one, it's also gigantic like a huge dragon, it's horned but there's no wing and it has 2 arms and instead of legs there's some big snake tail.

That huge beast is called a "Crag Linnorm" , having never heard about this thing and the description being on mostly unknown for the stats, i decide to bravely throw my party of level 5 characters into the fight.

The less i can say is that they really didn't last long. After checking wiki about what the hell was this "Linnorm" creature, i understood how silly underleveled i was to face that thing

[Persus13]

As soon as you mentioned the bridge over the river I knew exactly where your post was going.

[Akura]

During the final mission, I was building a bunch of Tempest-class experimental battleships(which suck by the way), with myself helping the Aeon support commander that's given at the start of the mission(Rhiza is best girl; she gave me not only the S-Com, but a Galactic Colossus. Fletcher just gives you a bunch of bots with his S-Com).

While building those, an enemy Czar(giant flying saucer) flew over and started rapidly destroying the Tempests already built(I did say they suck). I sent my own three Czars to counter it. I was looking away at the time it happened, but I surmise that my Czars decided to fly into the collision box of the enemy Czar - they do this to themselves if you order multiple Czars to move without dragging a formation for them. It seems that live Czars, possibly all aircraft but I haven't thoroughly tested that, have no collision to anything but hostile weapons fire. It's when they die, then they can crash into something. So, when the enemy Czar died, it hit my Czars, killing them, and sending them down.

Did I mention that my ACU was right under them? Yeah, they crashed into me, killing me instantly as well. My last save was before completing the first mission objective, even before I finished building a Paragon(infinite resources, because Rhiza is best girl) and a Mavor artillery gun because of (spoiler:) {Fletcher's obvious and inevitable betrayal. The Mavor killed him quickly. Not before he blew up a bunch of now-useless(because of the Paragon) generators, though.}

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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. The funniest part is HQ's reaction to my death. It can be summarized as "Are you there? Oh, you're dead? Well, shit. HQ out."

That huge beast is called a "Crag Linnorm"

"Linnorm"(linnormr) is an old Icelandic word for a wingless dragon-like creature. The word became "Lindworm" in old Germanic, though Chrome's spellchecker says "linnorm" is right but "lindworm" is not.

Yar, you got gat by a dragon.


EDIT: Got reamed by Cynthia. I don't think I've had a flat-out loss like that in a mainstream Pokemon game like that in years. If my Empoleon had managed to survive her Garchomp's Earthquake, I might have been able to one-shot it with Ice Beam, but alas, I got gat by a dragon.

Also, a total lack of Grass-types on my team probably didn't help. Probably also doesn't help that, besides perhaps Cynthia's Roserade, there just aren't any decent Grass-types in the game until after you beat her. Probably could raise my own Roserade, I've got a Roselia sitting around. Plus, my Rapidash needs a much better physical Fire-type move than Flame Wheel. Apparently it's just a few levels short of learning Flare Blitz, which would have been a massive improvement despite the recoil.

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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond.

[MCreeper]

Library of Ruina. Do a mind-numbingly boring combat -> watch an interesting piece of story treadmill worked fine until first path divergence (that is not actually one). Losing in combat after one suddenly counted as complete loss after death of only one party. Not sure whether it was because i sent "main" party first or because it just does in this particular fight. And thanks to game's weird-ass progression and some carelessness i need to redo all fights from... uh oh, the third one. 

I find it funny how there are apparently no guns in this cyberpunk dystopia. Punks fight with bats and oversized chainsaws. Policegirls fight with swords bigger than a person. No guns to be seen so far. Guess it's because it's japanese cyberpunk. And characters' chatter makes me want to start up Lobotomy Corporation and see for myself what the hell happened at the end, but... no. No. 

[Akura]

Tried to go after to weakest bounty in the game, who had a bounty of 1,000,000 credits. Seemed decent enough, most missions and mining runs at my current level pay about 200k. I travel to his location, and see that he's flying a frigate, so I assume he's roughly on par with me and my frigate.


His first volley instantly deleted my shields, on all four sides. The second volley deleted me. I didn't have much chance to see what was going on, I was dead in 2 seconds.

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Starpoint Gemini Warlords. I can only wonder how these guys are supposed to be worth their bounty price, if the weakest of the lot is only 1 million. A good loadout of guns even for a frigate is going to run into the several millions easily, and that's without heavy launchers.

[Iduno]

Perfect Tower 2 allows you to bypass some of the most tedious parts of the game with in-game scripting, and is nice enough to allow import/export so you can use stuff from other people.

The factory automation thing I found claimed that it didn't matter that it wouldn't work with the scanning tool, because the built-in scanning assist was good enough. That's good, I think, because I haven't gotten enough stuff together to start scanning very many things. As a test, I tried to make 8 basic chips (mildly tedious to make, but also should complete quickly). On the fourth guess as to how to interpret the list of items in the instructions, it started doing something.

My already tight inventory is now full of garbage like tubes and other objects of not only the wrong tier, but also unrelated to making chips. I do have 10^7-ish precursors to one of the parts used to make the chips. Waste of space and resources.

[Mathel]

I tried to burn 4 zombie corpses in a campfire, but it was not working, in spite of parts of the corpses being in the fire. While walking around, I accidentally stepped into the campfire, fell over, and died, all in the span of about 2 seconds.

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Project zomboid

[AzyWng]

Smashed the window of a school thinking it was safe on the other side. It wasn't.

Project Zomboid.

[ZoddTheImmortal]

Tank had about us Pinned down and I tried to get a good look at where infantry fire was coming from. Didnt Duck Fast enough.

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Hell Let Loose

[Niveras]

Finally got around to setting up mall production for nuclear power. Got 4 reactors down, all the heat exchangers and turbines down, uranium sourced and processing into fuel, kovarex cycle started. Saved my game to end the session for the day.

And only after did I notice:

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No idea when it happened. All my autosaves are screwed, too, so it was a while back. Must have clicked a craft accidentally. Is there a way to turn off crafting from your suit?