Dumb Ways To Die

[Andy Shandy]

About a month ago, a song came out called "Dumb Ways To Die" that some people may have heard.

Spoiler: So many dumb, so many dumb ways to die...

And naturally, I assumed that there would be a good version of this all to do with video games.

Lo and behold, just yesterday, someone has made that very idea come to life!


And I can relate with oh so many of the deaths sung about there, so (as well as giving attention to the Dumb Ways To Die song and its' video game parody) I thought it would make a good idea for a thread!

So what are some dumb ways that my fellow Escapists have died?

 

[purf]

Another thread brought memories from EVE Online, so here it goes:

I'm in transit through a system notorious for small time pirates doing their piraty stuff and I get messaged from a guy who invites me to join him on this awesome discovery he has just made and I should warp to him.
"Yeaaah, right" I think, "are you really expecting me to fall for this?" Next thing I know, I... decide to find out(?)

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The song is just so catchy

Really mellows me out man, and being about vidja games is a bonus.

 

[mad825]

A grenade that you've thrown bounces back towards you. I've done that so many times, I must be stupid.

 

[Fisher321]

A super soldier in an advanced Exo-Skeletal power armor that can survives the rigors of space dies when he becomes submerged in water....

*cough Halo cough*

Special Operations Soldier with the ability to take 10 rounds to the torso and shrug it off but gets killed by a knife to the toe...

*cough sneeze cough CALL OF DUTY blargghhghg*

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I accidentally rooted myself when trying to cast a regeneration spell while quad-kiting hill giants in Everquest.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I was playing on Halo(the stage Halo) and Cortana's all the sudden like, Alert! Covenant airship inbound! So I look up to see if I can spot it, and completely miss the bridge at the beginning of the level and fall to my death. What a dumb way to die.

 

[Aeshi]

I once accidentally Rocket Jumped into a bottomless pit.

 

[White Lightning]

In Dark Souls when you see an item on a ledge and you go to grab it... only to miss and fall to your death.

 

[MikeTheMugger]

Love this song! I actually thought this was a Rebecca Mayes song the first time I heard it. It definitely sounds the part.

 

[Pink Gregory]

The first multiplayer shooter I ever played was 007 Nightfire.

I managed to rack up 100 deaths in the first match. Admittedly I did jump off a ravine a few times to round out the figure...

 

[Jinxzy]

The song is very catchy, I really like it.

My boyfriend and I were playing dead island and I seen a beach ball. He went up pass me to check on a door to see if you can open it while I hit the ball with my melee. The ball flew at the back of my boyfriends character, pushing him into the door and into the floor. Killing him. He did his revenge when the quest with the truck. The truck gliched not showing up right away then popped in above me falling on me and killing me.

 

[Ljs1121]

I've had more than my fair share in Just Cause 2.

The most memorable would have to be the time I was having a high-speed vehicle chase with the police and somehow completely didn't notice my car was on fire. One second I was looking behind me, trying to see where they were and the next second I was nothing but a million explodey bits.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

A grenade that you've thrown bounces back towards you. I've done that so many times, I must be stupid.

What makes that worse is when a teammate walks in front of me and my grenade bounces off his head back at me.

One that makes me feel stupid in Assassin's Creed is when I go to take a leap of faith but he jumps in the wrong direction and face plants.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I tried playing Daggerfall on DOSBox the other day.

I got killed by the rat on the tutorial level because I didn't see it first off, couldn't work out how to look down to hit it and couldn't outmanoeuvre it, so it chewed my ankles off and killed me. It took a couple of minutes.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Nothing will ever be as dumb as forgetting which one is the dodge button.

 

[sky14kemea]

In LOTRO I was waiting near the Prancing Pony in Bree for my fellowship, and a giant lvl 85 lizard elite spawned there. Apparently it was a daily quest for people of that lvl cap (and VIP members, I think).

However, normal players could join in the battle if they wished, and some people 'joined in' without wanting to as well, there were a few complaints.

Me being the joyful, stupid lvl 25 I was, ran towards the lizard with glee and shot a spell at it. It then proceeded to bitchslap me with an instakill.

It was pretty damn funny though.

 

[Aariana]

There is this custom map for Warcraft 3 that the bf and I used to play a lot (until a later patch borked the coding). I usually played as a Ghost, an invisible unit who was good for stealth and recon. I also had plasma grenades (nice damage over time that stayed on the ground for 10 or so seconds), and an orb attack that would travel through everything in a line, but bounce off obstacles such as walls and cliff faces. He would play engineer, good for rocket launchers and satchel charges. I'm sure you know where this is going...

There was a command to ping the other player, as they weren't shown by default on the minimap. We usually used it before using any of the aforementioned skills, as all of those would kill friendlies. Well, we forgot. A LOT. I've shot him in the face with orbs multiple times (if it hits the person, it knocks them back and stuns. If it explodes in the area, it 1-shots you). If a boss comes along, chances are he will satchel charge, forgetting that I'm usually right in front of the boss (bosses can sometimes see invisible, so I'm not totally invisible). The charges are on a five second timer; long enough to run out of the way if you're in the middle of it (aka the one setting the charge). When you're on the opposite side, and you have no warning other than the ping on your map, you're basically screwed.

I would say almost all of our deaths in that map were quite dumb, as probably half of them were caused by each other. We've played probably hundreds of games by now, so that's saying a lot.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Didnt happen to me, but a friend of mine during a LAN.

Killing herself - and only herself - with a Redeemer in UT, trice, in the same round by shooting a small atenna right infront of the weapon spawnpoint.

By the third time it happened the whole room was laughing tears

 

[Sir Pootis]

Jumping down a bottomless pit in a platformer, expecting a platform to be down.
Using Kamikaze in Worms when your target is out of range.
Sticky jump too high, die on impact.
Attack an NPC who clearly outmatches you.
Try to dodge a bullet on a small platform.
Forget about the landmines in this area.
Get to the Point of No Return without adequate equipment.
Switching to your shotgun in close quarters, only to realise you haven't reloaded it yet.
Attacking a Huo-Long Heater heavy with a Spycicle.
Try to run from the Demoknight with a Half-Zatoichi.
Switch to a Sapper instead of your revolver.
Poison yourself with a medkit.
Killed by faulty motion sensors.