Replay Couch 11: Death and Taxes

This week's crop is the definition of pain, featuring an endless stream of streaming deaths and cringe-worthy moments.

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Video of the Week: Below the Belt (link to this video)
Fighter Maker 2 looks almost as awesome, and painful, as the original Fighter Maker.

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M-M-MONSTER SQUAT (link to this video)
It must be difficult being a Darkwalker in Unreal Tournament 3. People use you as transportation all day long, and then get all up in your favorite seat. Who can blame you when things go wrong?

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A Fond Farewell (link to this video)
It's always a personal challenge of mine to kill people in video games that can't be killed. Lord British knows what I'm talking about.

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They Call Him The Eraser (link to this video)
Woman's intuition is the only explanation for something this scary.

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Off-Road Velociraptor Safari (link to this video)
Raptors driving cars and wearing monocles? Cars slamming raptors with giant spiky chain-things? Sign me up.

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The Battle of Aur (link to this video)
Shacknews is proud to present a Gmod presentation of the greatest Half-Life 2 video ever created. The setup: Fort Aur is rebel Council's last place safe.After they lost battle at Last Stand Hill,everything has gone bad.

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A Day in the Life of Two Portal Turrets (link to this video)
The guys over at The Leet World bring us this peek into the lives of two murderous, mundane turrets from the melancholic world of Portal.

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Retro Trailer of the Week: Grim Fandango (link to this video)
After killing off millions of video game monsters and bad-dudes, LucasArts' brilliant adventure Grim Fandango is still my favorite game about death. Enjoy this early trailer for the Tim Schafer classic.

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The Spawn of Mechachicken (link to this video)
What happens when strange beasts drop from the folds of Mechachicken, Cloverfield-style? You wipe them out. All of them.

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Impossible Video of the Week: Elaborate Suicide (link to this video)
Jumping off a building is so 1998. Here's an alternate view of the most elaborate Halo 3 suicide to date, showing the impending detonation with a handy picture-in-picture presentation.

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