It's all about what sort of group you're playing with. I run a group for some kids at my school and I know they would be heartbroken if I just straight up killed them.
I've only had to do this once though. I made it a lesson about caution. The player was being reckless, and they 'died'. Seeing how distraught he was, I decided after the encounter, that the other players should roll for a perception check, and noticed the character still breathing slightly. It was nice to see the kid perk up immediately afterwards.
As long as you're not going super hardcore, I don't see the problem with just letting the truth of the dice decide whether a character receives a 'fatal' blow, only to find after the combat encounter that the character is barely alive, and the rest of the group needs to focus all their resources on triage and emergency evac.
Getting out of a dangerous place with a barely conscious character can make for a pretty tense situation.
You wanna know what happens to all the moisture in your body when you freeze it?
It crystallizes, turning basically every cell in your body into an expanding razor blade which slices through every other cell.
Your brain gets turned into mush, held together by a matrix of ice.
Imagine dropping a piece of paper into a paper shredder, then putting those paper strips into a blender with water. Then you take the blended mass of paper mush out, and try to reassemble it.
That's what these people think medical technology can do in the future.
Fucking morons. There's nothing to put back together! It's fucked! You cannot unblend your death certificate!
If you don't believe me, try freeze a block of tofu at the back of your freezer at the coldest setting, then thaw it out.
Yeah back scratches are great and all, but have you ever noticed the exact moment when your nose becomes completely unblocked and you can suck as much air as you want through either nostril?
It's to be expected though. The thing about open world games is they have a lot of variables; not even GTA:V is free of bugs after all these years later.
When I was 12 my Mum gave me my first PC, it was a second hand work PC with a tiny HDD.
There wasn't enough space to install The Sims, so I deleted the Program Files folder, thinking I don't need any programs, only games.
I bricked my PC lol. Needed a tech to reinstall Windows. Thankfully, I could tell him I needed enough space for the game and he debloated it as much as he could. Legend.
Technically not. There are habits, which are mental, and then there are chemical addictions.
Regardless, you could simply wish for crack to magically appear in everyone's blood stream in a constant pace for the next week, then turn it off suddenly, and watch everyone (except the crackheads with a stash) go through hell together.
I'm never alone when I've got my very own life sized, anatomically correct, Rouge doll, with alternate costume from Sonic Adventure 2.
(Yes I did get A rank on each level, so I'm allowed to dress her up in it).