How do YOU "walk off" your YASDs?

[sixtypoundsofvan]

I splat a few dudes in dungeon sprint. Gets my mind off things like the KoHu I just lost in Z:5.

[pratamawirya]

Laughing helps sometimes.

[Jabberwocky]

Typically by taking a swig of my tea (I always play with a mug of tea nearby) and roleing up a new character.

[nicolae]

sacrifices to powerful demons

[Grimm]

cyc. seriously. the tavern helped a lot. when it started i was crawling for hours every day and getting pretty steamed. coming here to commiserate took the edge off the rage. now i spend far more time here than playing the game.

[inkydood]

Usually I go back to whatever I was using Crawl to procrastinate from. From the deaths of my characters, productivity is born anew. That's poetic, don't you think? Me neither.

[varsovie]

Go to bed, I usually YASD when I play tired.

[Grimm]

Go to bed, I usually YASD when I play tired.

Yet Another Sleepy Death

[sixtypoundsofvan]

Go to bed, I usually YASD when I play tired.

Yet Another Sleepy Death

Good, so I'm not the only one. Yarg.

[TwilightPhoenix]

"Well... crap." *Rolls new character or goes and does something else*

I think I stopped raging at my deaths after I could clearly see my mistakes that led to them. And when, after my 15-rune win, I started playing sub-optimal builds rather than the norm. It certainly takes the edge off when you go into a game knowing that your build plan is considered terrible and has a high chance of death rather than rolling a, say, a MiBe and expecting to win.

[Zicher]

Sometimes a good beat-em-up works well to vent the fury. There is nothing like having Nick Fury smash a battleaxe into a skull of some hapless sucker standing in his face .

[snowstorm]

ReEnter the dungeon with a TrBe and smash everything in my way while pressing keys like crazy. Until i die again. But this time it's actually satisfying.

[TwilightPhoenix]

Alternatively, play Felids.

You die...

"FUUUUUUUU-"

You rejoin the land of the living.

"...oh! Okay, whew!"

[moocowmoocow]

Take off clothes, jump out window.

[Xoai]

"Well... crap." *Rolls new character or goes and does something else*

I think I stopped raging at my deaths after I could clearly see my mistakes that led to them. And when, after my 15-rune win, I started playing sub-optimal builds rather than the norm. It certainly takes the edge off when you go into a game knowing that your build plan is considered terrible and has a high chance of death rather than rolling a, say, a MiBe and expecting to win.

+1... when I have a really bad sleepy death, I play an Octopode fighter or a human wanderer, etc., just to show the dungeon i'm not afraid!!

[Tiber]

"Well... crap." *Rolls new character or goes and does something else*

I think I stopped raging at my deaths after I could clearly see my mistakes that led to them. And when, after my 15-rune win, I started playing sub-optimal builds rather than the norm. It certainly takes the edge off when you go into a game knowing that your build plan is considered terrible and has a high chance of death rather than rolling a, say, a MiBe and expecting to win.

I do this as well. Only, I get stubborn and keep playing that build until I have a really crappy death or eventually win. It's the circle of masochism.

Though, I did end up with the first 15-rune all lucy DD win as a result, so there is that.

[BountyHunterSAx]

Anyone who's watched my crawl vids knows:

"Annnnnnd, I died." Followed by a pause. Followed by a detached analysis of why I died and how I could have improved my chances and/or how it was my fault. It's only the deaths where I feel it really *wasn't* my fault or there was very little I could have done about it that piss me off nowadays. For those? I generally go talk to my other friends who think that playing crawl as much as I do is stupid and then play a game of something else for a while...

... or run a DEWz/SpCj and try to win the game.

-AHMAD