Yet Another Stupid Death - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: tweaks

2025-12-26T05:01:59Z

tweaks

2025-04-21T01:53:49Z

‎dNetHack: - more shared symbols

2025-04-21T01:49:10Z

‎dNetHack: - mummies

2025-04-21T01:46:42Z

follow up some

2025-04-21T01:40:19Z

add #Variants subsection

2025-04-11T09:02:00Z

pothole

2025-01-11T20:43:32Z

Don’t wear the eyes of the Overworld if you haven’t taken care of Medusa.

2024-12-22T03:05:41Z

replace "his or her"

2024-07-26T19:03:31Z

potholes, word choice

2024-04-26T12:57:55Z

Added saccing a unicorn on its own alignment altar

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 * Thinking the {{gray|P}} in Gehennom is a harmless [[gray ooze]]
 * Treating an {{blue|e}} in Gehennom like an ordinary [[floating eye]]
-* In a cluster of spawned [[gas spores]] in Gehennom, thinking all those {{gray|e}} are gas spores
+* Not spotting the {{gray|e}} [[Beholder (dNetHack)|beholder]] in a cluster of spawned {{gray|e}} [[gas spore]]s
 * Killing [[Mummy#dNetHack|mummies]] for fun

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 * Thinking the {{gray|P}} in Gehennom is a harmless [[gray ooze]]
 * Killing [[Mummy#dNetHack|mummies]] for fun

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 * Thinking the {{gray|P}} in Gehennom is a harmless [[gray ooze]]
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 *If you are a [[monk]], wearing the [[eyes of the Overworld]] before you have dealt with Medusa.
-Some players distinguish YASD from '''YAAD''' ('''Yet Another Annoying Death'''), using YAAD or [[DYWYPI]] for random, unavoidable events such as falling onto [[Spiked pit|poison spikes]] (provided the [[pit]] wasn't already known, of course) or an encounter with a [[Gnome With the Wand of Death]], and reserving YASD for pilot error. The dividing line depends on the player; to an expert, almost all deaths are avoidable YASDs.
+Some players distinguish YASD from '''YAAD''' ('''Yet Another Annoying Death'''), using YAAD or [[DYWYPI]] for random, unavoidable events such as falling onto [[Spiked pit|poison spikes]] (provided the [[pit]] wasn't already known, of course) or an encounter with a [[Gnome With the Wand of Death]], and reserving YASD for pilot error. The dividing line depends on the player; to a sufficiently expert player, almost all deaths are avoidable YASDs.
 Amusingly enough, YASDs can happen to [[monster]]s as well, such as bouncing a beam off a wall back at themselves.
-== Variants ==
+[[Bad Idea]]s can sometimes (but not always) lead to YASD, and there is an article dedicated to [[lessons learned the hard way]] from Bad Ideas and YASDs alike.
-=== EvilHack ===
+==Variants==
 * Attacking a [[gray fungus]] in melee combat
 * Quaffing from a [[Forge (dungeon feature)|forge]]
+{{nethack-360}}
 [[Category:Acronyms]]
 [[Category:Instadeath]]

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	Amusingly enough, YASDs can happen to [[monster]]s as well, such as bouncing a beam off a wall back at themselves.		Amusingly enough, YASDs can happen to [[monster]]s as well, such as bouncing a beam off a wall back at themselves.
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		+	== Variants ==
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		+	=== EvilHack ===
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		+	* Attacking a [[gray fungus]] in melee combat
		+	* Quaffing from a [[Forge (dungeon feature)\|forge]]
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		+	=== dNetHack ===
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		+	* Thinking the {{gray\|P}} in Gehennom is a harmless [[gray ooze]]

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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 *Attempting to engage [[melee]] combat with very low [[HP]] left
 *Being killed by a [[water demon]] or [[water moccasin]] after [[quaff]]ing from a [[fountain]] in hopes of getting a [[wish]]
-*Not noticing that your character has gotten weak from [[hunger]], then being attacked while fainted
+*Not noticing that your character has gotten weak from [[Nutrition|hunger]], then being attacked while fainted
 *Not noticing that your character is satiated, then greedily eating a corpse for intrinsics and choking
 *Touching, eating, fighting [[bare hands|bare-handed]], or otherwise manipulating a [[cockatrice]], its [[corpse]], or its [[egg]]

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 *Forgetting that you have low health when restoring a save file and immediately starting to explore
 *Consorting with a [[foocubus]] at XL 1 and dying from level drain or exhaustion.
 Some players distinguish YASD from '''YAAD''' ('''Yet Another Annoying Death'''), using YAAD or [[DYWYPI]] for random, unavoidable events such as falling onto [[Spiked pit|poison spikes]] (provided the [[pit]] wasn't already known, of course) or an encounter with a [[Gnome With the Wand of Death]], and reserving YASD for pilot error. The dividing line depends on the player; to an expert, almost all deaths are avoidable YASDs.

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 *[[Scroll of genocide|Genociding]] oneself
 *Eating rotten food after recently [[praying]]
-*Eating something you shouldn't eat ([[Medusa]]'s [[corpse]]—"hey, there's a [[melon]] on the ground!")
+*Eating something you shouldn't eat (e.g. [[Medusa]]'s [[corpse]]—"hey, there's a [[melon]] on the ground!")
-*Zapping a [[wand of death]] (or some other powerful [[ray]]) at a wall and getting hit by the reflection
+*Zapping a [[wand of death]] (or some other powerful [[ray]]) at a wall and getting hit by the rebound
 *Wandering near a known [[giant eel]] or [[kraken]]
 *[[Death by boredom]]
-*Getting [[Anger#Smiting|smitten]] by [[Sacrifice|sacrificing]] a [[unicorn]] on an [[altar]] of its own alignment
+*Being [[Anger#Smiting|smote]] by [[sacrificing]] a [[unicorn]] on an [[altar]] of its own alignment
 *[[Kick]]ing and injuring your foot resulting in death due to low health
 *Falling off your [[Knight]]'s starting [[pony]] after attempting to [[ride]] it at [[XL]] 1