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** The straightest example: optical illusions. Alcohol and various other consumable substances may also cause these at suitably high concentrations - certain groups even deliberately classify and seek out hallucinogens so as to experience these effects more often.

** Mental illness does this to the player. Normally, it's obvious to everyone but them.

** Getting a short period of sleep at night can also have effects on the player.

* [[International Showdown By Proxy]]: See the World Cup, the Olympics, and every game of professional sports ever played.

* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: So far, this has held true in [[Real Life]], from slings and stones, to bows and arrows, crossbows and bolts, cannons and shells (and guns and bullets), and more recently, guided missiles. And in the future, mass drivers like railguns and Gauss cannons provide a logical path for even further advancement of kinetic weapons. [[Energy Weapons]] have also existed for quite a while, in the form of [[Kill It With Fire|fire]], and recently a couple of experimental lasers as well, but have never been so prominent.

** Missiles are not kinetic weapons, they are explosive weapons. So are most tank-rounds.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: A hairless biped with no fangs, claws, poison, or other natural weapons to speak of, incredibly long and dangerous physical development, poor muscle tone, a lethargic movement speed, no tough skin or thick fur, and no special defenses has achieved this status with nothing more than the ability for its thumbs to have [[Boring Yet Practical|oppositional movement]] and a [[Badass Bookworm|large brain]]. [[Magikarp Power|Technology]] and a potentially limitless [[Tech Tree]] have given this race the chance to either unmake its world or survive its end. Ever notice ''every'' player reading this page has this character type?

** Speed? Slow. Endurance, however, is not so lethargic. Apparently this character type has one of the highest endurances of all land animal character types. Few choose to cultivate this skill, though.

* [[Let's Play]]: There are over millions of videos depicting these, as well as other mediums.

* [[Level Grinding]]: It can take decades of grinding to achieve levels in most [[Prestige Class|Prestige Classes]].

** The Science Museum of Minnesota has an entire exhibit designed this way on purpose. It contains a traditional Hmong house, an Egyptian mummy, a phrenology machine, a giant dead polar bear, and many prehistoric tools, among other things.

** The Redpath museum in Montreal is home to several stuffed animals, fully articulated skeletons of ''Gorgosaurus'' and ''Dromaeosaurus'', an Egyptian mummy, a seashell collection, a mineral collection, some trilobite fossils, a samurai suit of armour, a fossil of an aquatic lizard, Chinese shoes made for bound feet, charts showing the dinosaur family tree and the phylogenetic tree of all life on Earth, an anaconda skeleton, a ''Triceratops'' skull, a banner made out of human teeth, skeletons of two whales, a sea lion and a turtle and a giant origami pterosaur, all in about two and a half floors of space. In other words, it looks ''exactly'', inside and out, like every natural history museum stereotype ever. It's [[Crazy Awesome]].<ref>Oh, and it's appeared in ''[[Dinosaurs Decoded (TV)|Dinosaurs Decoded]]''.</ref>

** ''Ripley's Odditorium'' located on Hollywood Boulevard of [[Ripleys Believe It or Not]] fame.

** The Greybull Museum out in Wyoming fits this trope perfectly. it has taxidermied animals, historical artifacts, and fossils scattered all over the museums with no sense of organization whatsoever. A fossilized turtle shell is on the exact opposite side of the section with ''Coryphodon'' tusks and belimnite shells, both of which are opposite the corner with the sauropod femurs.