loss condition

English

Noun

loss condition (plural loss conditions)

1. (chiefly video games) An event or state which constitutes defeat for those encountering it.
   • 2017 May 4, qntm, “SCP-3125”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 August 2024:

     Standard procedure is that I have to tell you what to do next if this doesn't work. That's the asynchronous research covenant.

     But I don't have a good picture of who you can even be, reading this and alive. In your scenario there is no machine, Hughes is missing, I'm dead, the Site is ruined, and how'd you even get in here? Can you be Foundation? Are you conscious? Is there a single word of this which you comprehend?

     You live in a world bathed with SCP-3125. That's the loss condition.

     I can't help someone who doesn't exist.

Antonyms

• victory condition
• win condition