In
Nethack, YAAD is an abbreviation for Yet Another Annoying Death. It is different from
YASD (Yet Another
Stupid Death) in that YASD typically refers to a
death that could have been avoided with more
care or
knowledge of Nethack, such as choking to death on a
wraith corpse or being killed by a
newt while paralysed by a
floating eye, while YAAD typically refers to death from unavoidable bad luck. A typical YAAD would be when everything is going fine until...
You fall into a pit!
You land on a set of sharp iron spikes!
The spikes were poisoned!
The poison was deadly....
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