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== Tabletop Games ==
== Tabletop Games ==
* Plasma weapons in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' are [http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/3/27/633737570370792860-plasmaweapons.jpg totally worth it] despite the [[Critical Failure|Gets Hot Rule]] that has a 1 in 6 chance of killing the user. Similarly, any spectacular but suicidal maneuvers taken by a losing player at the end of the game.
* Plasma weapons in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are [http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/3/27/633737570370792860-plasmaweapons.jpg totally worth it] despite the [[Critical Failure|Gets Hot Rule]] that has a 1 in 6 chance of killing the user. Similarly, any spectacular but suicidal maneuvers taken by a losing player at the end of the game.
** Spells and psychic powers in Fantasy and 40,000, respectively. In 40,000, they have a decent chance to kill the user. In Fantasy, they have a decent chance to kill the user, his entire unit, and maybe a few random models in your army who happened to be in the same county as the offending wizard. Still worth it.
** Spells and psychic powers in Fantasy and 40,000, respectively. In 40,000, they have a decent chance to kill the user. In Fantasy, they have a decent chance to kill the user, his entire unit, and maybe a few random models in your army who happened to be in the same county as the offending wizard. Still worth it.
** [[Ramming Always Works|Ramming]] a Basilisk with a Vyper going at maximum speed. Totally worth it.
** [[Ramming Always Works|Ramming]] a Basilisk with a Vyper going at maximum speed. Totally worth it.
** BECOMING a Space Marine. Years of [[Training From Hell]], only to prepare you for a war you can [[Hopeless War|NOT Win]] and will [[Forever War|NEVER End.]] Was it worth it?
** BECOMING a Space Marine. Years of [[Training from Hell]], only to prepare you for a war you can [[Hopeless War|NOT Win]] and will [[Forever War|NEVER End.]] Was it worth it?


== Videogames ==
== Videogames ==
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* [[Awkward Zombie|I...]] [[Large Ham|REG]][[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|RET...]] [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-010509.php NOTHING!]
* [[Awkward Zombie|I...]] [[Large Ham|REG]][[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|RET...]] [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-010509.php NOTHING!]
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' when the strip returns after a decade-long hiatus, [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061230.html Jean punches Voluptua,] something she'd been dying to do ever since the last panel of the previous version of the strip. Jean: "That was ''worth'' waiting a decade for!"
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' when the strip returns after a decade-long hiatus, [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061230.html Jean punches Voluptua,] something she'd been dying to do ever since the last panel of the previous version of the strip. Jean: "That was ''worth'' waiting a decade for!"
* [[Cyanide and Happiness]]: "All your fingers are broken." [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2409/ "Worth it."]
* [[Cyanide & Happiness]]: "All your fingers are broken." [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2409/ "Worth it."]
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/ec_vol_0_preview_-_break_strip bonus story] involving Chloe in kissing booth. Since she's a succubus who only recently matured enough to drain, but didn't yet learn to control this, boys with greyed skin and empty eyes sit or sprawl all around the booth... and there are more, seeing this yet willing to get her kiss. Of course, this was ''after'' an episode when she involuntarily drained other students, so they at least know this can be quickly fixed.
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/ec_vol_0_preview_-_break_strip bonus story] involving Chloe in kissing booth. Since she's a succubus who only recently matured enough to drain, but didn't yet learn to control this, boys with greyed skin and empty eyes sit or sprawl all around the booth... and there are more, seeing this yet willing to get her kiss. Of course, this was ''after'' an episode when she involuntarily drained other students, so they at least know this can be quickly fixed.


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== Web Originals ==
== Web Originals ==
* This bash.org quote: http://www.bash.org/?900148
* This bash.org quote: http://www.bash.org/?900148
* When the [[Freelance Astronauts]] did their [[Let's Play]] of ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]'', actions that resulted in another player dying at the cost of the perpetrator's own are met with this reaction. Usually by pipes!.
* When the [[Freelance Astronauts]] did their [[Let's Play]] of ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', actions that resulted in another player dying at the cost of the perpetrator's own are met with this reaction. Usually by pipes!.
* One of [[Mastermind (web animation)|the Mastermind's]] minions dooms his last chance of not being blown up in Finland. Judging by the looks on his colleagues faces, they seem to agree it was Worth It.
* One of [[Mastermind (web animation)|the Mastermind's]] minions dooms his last chance of not being blown up in Finland. Judging by the looks on his colleagues faces, they seem to agree it was Worth It.
{{quote|'''Minion:''' I-I-I thought your speech was good, sir.
{{quote|'''Minion:''' I-I-I thought your speech was good, sir.
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