In They Bleed Pixels, I died around 20 times trying to get one of the collectibles, every time I died the exact same way, because I couldn't do the dash attack properly, then, when I finally got the thing, I died on my way back because I just walked off the ledge.
In Wipeout HD, during one of the races with some of the folks here, I got left behind hardcore, I later realized I wasn't pressing the button properly, so that's why I was never able to keep up with everyone else.
As for the other stuff, when I was a kid my mom got me DoA Extreme, I had rented 3 before and liked it, so all she saw was that it had the same name and thought it was the same game, nevermind that one had an angry dude in the cover and the other had 3 bikini-clad ladies. Since then I'm immune to any kind of embarrassment from that kind of stuff.