That’s What the Lifeboats Are For

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29 Responses to That’s What the Lifeboats Are For

  1. NartFOpc says:

    I think the games bar for water needs to come down a bit and the real life bar needs to go up some (the ocean is a cruel mistress), but whatever.

  2. Ben Of Bodom UK says:

    I think you should have added other potentially deady liquids to this graph, like Poisonous Green Slime, Toxic Waste, Quick-Dry Cement, and of course some sort of Acid.

  3. Radius says:

    Right, but all H2O in video games is replaced with H2SO4.

    That’s sulfuric acid to all you non-chemists.

  4. Mr Viper says:

    Real-life turtle = pet
    In-game turtle = sworn enemy

  5. VoltRabit says:

    You know what else pisses me off in game? Wooden doors. So what if its locked. Its f8king wooden door. I don’t want to run all over the place turning over clues to solve a puzzle that give me the key when I have a perfectly good rocket-launcher cocked locked and ready to rock. Hell I could just kick the damn thing down.

  6. Mizzy says:

    Yet a Warthog engine will still run underwater.

    Some physics is not a videogames friend!

  7. SaboWolf says:

    On a related note, why does everything you place in the water on Longshore float for about 10 seconds and then sink? I was happy on my dinghy until I randomly gurgled and died. ;_;

    • xLAS3RP01NT3Rx says:

      That because probably your dingy was made by Somalia and is full of holes.

    • soulofaqua says:

      Emh.. a dingy isn’t made to carry 1,000 lbs or 450 kg for that matter.

    • Mr Viper says:

      Bungie actually mentioned this. They used to float, but apparently there was a glitch involving a bubble shield and a rocket launcher that allowed people to take the oddball/bomb/etc out of reach by turning the dingy into a powerboat.

      • bs angel says:

        I don’t think I would ever play matchmaking again if you could turn the dingy into a powerboat!

        • xLAS3RP01NT3Rx says:

          But it would make for some epic custom games.
          Powerboat races!

          They should’ve just taken out the rockets.

  8. DethPwn says:

    Except for in Super Mario 64, where water healed you for some reason.

  9. Monkey_lord says:

    If there was a life boat on water, then the bar for video games be lower. However there is on occasion when a glitch occurs and you just go through the damn thing. Happened to me in the Maw level of halo 1 when the elevator just went up w/o me. That was annoying. Sorry I digress, but with the life boat thing, I say the bar might be a 75% the glitch still keeps it up. Also some people just miss the boat entirely.

  10. IcyTreats says:

    Or they get in the lifeboat, fly down to a ringworld, and everyone in it xpt for one guy survives. That one guy goes on to destroy the ringworld, and the lifeboat in process, while managing to find another lifeboat.

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