Dumb moments you had in video games

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Tell some of your dumb moments that occurred to you in video games.

In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, when I was in that swamp area and that Hag Sister was hurt, I thought I had to play the Song of Healing to heal her. xD.
 
Pinkie Pie said:
Tell some of your dumb moments that occurred to you in video games.

In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, when I was in that swamp area and that Hag Sister was hurt, I thought I had to play the Song of Healing to heal her. xD.
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It's very simple: if it says heal or some variant thereof, play the song. If not, think of something else. Nintendo always uses red text to give away important plot details...

When I first played Twilight Princess, my wooden shield got burned going up Death Mountain, so I bought a new metal one and proceeded through normally, until I had to use the Shield Attack to learn the Back Slice. The guy hit me around 30 times before I realized I had never equipped my new shield. I had finished an entire temple without it :P
 
Don Pianta said:
When I first got Animal Crossing, I donatated some fossils to the museum
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If you think this is dumb you're a bad person.
 
I have so many. I kept a log of my dumb moments, and listed the month and year. I'll share four of them.

11/06: Playing Yoshi's Island. I ran into THE FIRST SHY GUY IN THE TUTORIAL, and thought I could finish without Baby Mario. So I lost a life. (I've always hated the image when he gets captured. It gave me nightmares.)
4/07: I fell asleep during the "Escape" part in ML:SS. I did awaken and get out...and with three seconds to spare...
1/09: I had a complete brain fade playing Paper Mario 2 and thought the Goombas ALWAYS died when you squished them. (If you are really weak and don't time your jump right, they'll live.) I still can't let this go.
10/11: I failed to brake playing NASCAR 2011, charged into Infineon's hairpin at 155mph (250kph), and ended up rolling onto my roof. You should take the hairpin at ONE FOURTH OF THE SPEED I DID.
 
In Pokemon FireRed, I sent Mr. Mime against Lance's Aerodactyl thinking Solarbeam would take it out in one shot, but Mr. Mime got OHKOed by Aerodactly and by that time, I realized that Solarbeam probably wouldn't have done that much damage since Aerodactly was also part flying-type.
 
Don Pianta said:
In Pokemon FireRed, I sent Mr. Mime against Lance's Aerodactyl thinking Solarbeam would take it out in one shot, but Mr. Mime got OHKOed by Aerodactly and by that time, I realized that Solarbeam probably wouldn't have done that much damage since Aerodactly was also part flying-type.
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Aerodactyl's SP DEF isn't all that impressive though, so Mr. Mime's SolarBeam would still be capable of heavily damaging it, if you were able to pull it off. Of course, Thunderbolt would've been a wiser option in the end.

Anyway I've had my fair share of Pokemon battle mishaps as well. For one example, I was using a Trick Room team, but I was forced to forfeit when my Trick Room users were getting hit by Taunt.
 
I made a similar mistake in HeartGold. I sent out Gyarados against Lance's Aerodactyl hoping Waterfall would OHKO it, but, Aerodactyl pulled off Thunder Fang, taking out my Gyarados.
 
Don Pianta said:
I made a similar mistake in HeartGold. I sent out Gyarados against Lance's Aerodactyl hoping Waterfall would OHKO it, but, Aerodactyl pulled off Thunder Fang, taking out my Gyarados.
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Uhh.... Aerodactyl's a rock type. Gyaradoes is a Water and Flying type.
 
Don Pianta said:
I made a similar mistake in HeartGold. I sent out Gyarados against Lance's Aerodactyl hoping Waterfall would OHKO it, but, Aerodactyl pulled off Thunder Fang, taking out my Gyarados.
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In a similar manner, I gave my Alakazam Focus Blast so that it could counter the Dark-types. I was up against an Absol, but it managed to KO my Alakazam before it could even attack. But you know, even if my Alakazam was able to use Focus Blast, it might've missed, due to its 70% accuracy.

Additionally, my Garchomp used a Life Orb boosted Dragon Claw on another Garchomp, and there have been occasions where the attack did not deliver a 1-hit KO. During those occasions, the opposing Garchomp would often KO mine with Dragon Rush or Outrage.

I guess you can say that I'm often baffled when I get crushed by Pokemon who are using attacks that I don't teach my Pokemon; I prefer Dragon Claw over Dragon Rush for the accuracy.