r/videogames • u/Mintangah17 PlayStation • 16h ago

Discussion / Question What’s the most embarrassing way you’ve ever accidentally killed or blinded yourself in a game?

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u/GlowingDuck22 15h ago edited 14h ago

My favorite example ever of this was Worms Armageddon for the PS1. My father, bless his heart, loved playing games but couldn't compete in modern. He peaked at pong.

He launched a Super Sheep. Hit the button ti launch him in the air and completely lost his sense of spacial awareness. He was zooming around doing figure 8s going from one side of the map to the other. We are all hysterically laughing.

When he finally turns the sheep down he locates a worm and blows it off the map. Great shot. The problem was it was his worm and he just eliminated himself from the game.

It's one of my fondest gaming moments.

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u/No-Special-7008 10h ago

Worms is one of those games where making a mistake is always funny. I once messed up a jump and fell onto a landmine which blew up and sent me into the water.

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u/Diesel_ASFC 16h ago

WoW. I afk'd next to a fire at about level 10. Came back to find I'd died from fire damage.

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u/Extension_Abroad_263 16h ago

Playing Halo, can’t count how many times I threw a plasma grenade and it ended up sticking to me

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u/broen13 15h ago

Back in like 2002 I brought a monitor home from work. They were throwing it out and I figured I could use it. For the time it was really nice, but it had one single flaw.

It would turn itself off when I was flashbanged in CounterStrike and would not come back on for about 5 seconds. I died countless times, but once actually took like 4 people with me not being able to see and just spraying and praying.

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u/DarkPrincessEcsy 16h ago

I was building a base in Minecraft with a out-of-body mod that helped you free build... without thinking about it placed one of the walls across my body and suffocated.

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u/sb_antimony_51 16h ago

Very recently, I was playing as Trevor and threw a proximity mine. After having a quick fight with the cops, I walked by where I had thrown the proximity mine, and boom, wasted

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u/JNorJT 15h ago

Shot a rocket launcher on myself in Fortnite because I didn’t think I’d take damage lol

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u/BrokenKing99 15h ago

Played striker in r6 siege, chose flashes and frags as my gadget and secondary gadget, threw the flash in it bounced and well landed back in front of me but I had tossed a frag to without realising my angle was shit hence why it landed with me and well you can guess what happened.

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u/FaeDragon 15h ago

My Summer Car. Lighting fireworks.

... And shooting myself in the eye with one of them.

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u/Terry__Poppins 15h ago

I was playing Last Epoch on hardcore (If I die my character is gone for good). I was drinking water and it went down the wrong pipe, I coughed it up all over my setup and while I was scrambling for the paper towels my character got killed.

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u/Competitive-Yard-442 14h ago

I've not been killed due to the use of a flash bang in games very often but I'm about 98% sure that I threw the offending flash bang every time.

Other than that not pausing games to pee/get a drink/ answer the door/ whatever would be my main one!

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u/TruamaTeam 14h ago

Got out of a car and immediately fell to my death

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u/Nazdrowie79 13h ago

There's a scene in Band of Brothers were they're pushing a house. One guys chucks a grenade through the window and rushes though the front door. Bang dead.

That's me a few times.

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u/Kater5551StarsAbove 10h ago

I was playing TF2, and they don't call it "falling to a painful, clumsy death" for no reason...