Failures
Problems
Both words in one sentence
- Clarkson likes to lampshade this with is famous 'still...could be worse' , listing all the problems and failures in his car and then switching to May or Hammond strugling with worse than what he mentionned.
- Deconstructed in Max Payne 3: the painkillers and alcohol (and V drug) combined make Payne superhuman when fighting normal mooks, but half of Payne's problems and failures throughout the game wouldn't have happened if he didn't have a serious need to drink himself stupid.
Source: Functional Addict - He often shrugged off problems that later became much bigger problems, such as Hermann Goering's repeated failures with the Luftwaffe.
Source: Red Oni Blue Oni / Real Life
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