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Never use a mic and always mute in popular online games.
Its not what you do with your life that matters, its what you do to the thing that killed you after you respawn that does.

Morrowind: Never talk to people standing in roads unless you want to go on a magical journey of frustration.

Company of Heroes:
-Every ten feet they advanced, the British army of ww2 constructed a mighty fortress that made the atlantic wall look like a garden fence. On the offensive

-getting wounded as a member of the volksturm just turns you into a battle hardened eastern front veteran

- a shot from a 57mm gun can go right through the front glacis plate of a tiger tank, first time every time

-US Army field manual: To take out a german tank, get really angry and run at it with a bazooka

It's not over 'till you've castrated an Ork on your chainsword.

[Spess Muhreen]

Any online shooter.

-Always reload your weapon
-Never reload your weapon

Any fantasy RPG.

The value of gold is almost completely random.

I have 5 gold pieces, I can use this to buy 5 gold bricks, you sell those bricks for half that or make some gold object from it in which case it is suddenly worth 200 gold pieces. Because logic.

If I can see bodies, then it means I've been here before.

Earth001 wrote:
Never touch electric water.

Never touch acid pools.

 EmilCrane wrote:
Morrowind: Never talk to people standing in roads unless you want to go on a magical journey of frustration.

Company of Heroes:
-Every ten feet they advanced, the British army of ww2 constructed a mighty fortress that made the atlantic wall look like a garden fence. On the offensive

This is true. Also a good tactic.

 purplefood wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:
Morrowind: Never talk to people standing in roads unless you want to go on a magical journey of frustration.

Company of Heroes:
-Every ten feet they advanced, the British army of ww2 constructed a mighty fortress that made the atlantic wall look like a garden fence. On the offensive

This is true. Also a good tactic.

In game when you could dig a trench in 20 secs it was a brilliant tactic, the germans never expect to be out defensived on the defensive

 EmilCrane wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 EmilCrane wrote:
Morrowind: Never talk to people standing in roads unless you want to go on a magical journey of frustration.

Company of Heroes:
-Every ten feet they advanced, the British army of ww2 constructed a mighty fortress that made the atlantic wall look like a garden fence. On the offensive

This is true. Also a good tactic.

In game when you could dig a trench in 20 secs it was a brilliant tactic, the germans never expect to be out defensived on the defensive

The howitzer was also good... though it should never be built next to large buildings such as windmills...

 purplefood wrote:

The howitzer was also good... though it should never be built next to large buildings such as windmills...

Oh yeah, that was hilarious when you saw windmills getting blasted apart in the the fog of war

 EmilCrane wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

The howitzer was also good... though it should never be built next to large buildings such as windmills...

Oh yeah, that was hilarious when you saw windmills getting blasted apart in the the fog of war

I built one next to a windmill that an ally had troops in.
First time it fired, blew the thing to pieces with the troops along with it.

Skyrim
- Looking and searching in someones pockets is legal.
Dishonored
-Everyone is a traitor.
Fable 2
-Keep a dog with you, its the perfect meatshield.
-There are snails who eat children as their diet and then there are snails who eat them just for fun.
-Throwing tons of Money into a church will reward me with a shiny butcher axe.
TF2
-Piss makes someone more vulnerable.
-It takes only 18 mercenaries to wreck havoc in Australia.
-Gold from Australia will make me more mannly.
Dark Souls
-Dark rooms? Nope, nope, nope....