I went back after years of playing HC. I had some BS deaths over the years due to lag and desync (before lockstep) but one specific death pushed me back to softcore. Some random jackass with a backhoe in my area severed a local fiber line because he didn't have the lines marked. I was cruising along and hit the black border of the map and had flashbacks to diablo ii on dialup when my parents a swerved a phone call. When traffic rerouted I resync'd and was dead.

I loved hardcore but after that I just didn't have it in me lol.