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This will often overlap with [[Have a Nice Death]] if the game decides to mock you for your stupidity. When player stupidity wipes out an entire party in an MMORPG, it's also [[Total Party Kill]].
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* ''[[Nethack]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]]. Good luck finding a habitual Nethack player who ''doesn't'' have a [http://everything2.com/title/YASD YASD story]. Same goes for ''[[Rogue (Video Game)|Rogue]]'', ''[[Angband]]'', ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', and Japanese console [[Roguelikes]]. <ref>The community distinguishes between this trope -- when it's (almost) entirely the player's fault that they died - and Yet Another Annoying Death -- for when the [[Random Number God]] is out to get you (common with some of the [[One
* ''[[Scorched Earth]]'' - firing a superweapon (or napalm) at just the right angle...and 0 power.
* The first ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' game has a good reason why you should NEVER group soldiers together if they're all carrying Flamethrowers.
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** A tank missile blowing up on the ground right in front of the tank. Miraculously, nobody was killed.
** An entire squad choking and dying from smoke inhalation.
** Ill-conceived use of [[A
* ''[[King's Quest VII]]'': had so many of these, and it took so much effort to find them, and the "Game Over" screens were so mercilessly (and hilariously) condescending, half of them might as well be Easter Eggs. In particular, there is a puzzle that involves a wandering ghost-traveler who died of thirst and now aimlessly meanders about the desert. Valanice can, with some puzzle solving, turn as salt water into fresh water as she likes, one clay potful at a time, but this first requires her to gain salt water as an inventory item. Giving the Far-Walker fresh water allows him to slake his thirst, but giving him salt water pisses him off. Doing it enough times makes him kill you.
** It also has such delightful lines as, "Well, it would seem that keeping a lit firecracker in one's pocket isn't the best course of action."
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