That rage-inducing moment when you get hit by an attack that visually missed you by a mile — the animation clearly whiffed but the game's invisible collision box tagged you anyway. Hitbox fail is gamer shorthand for blaming the engine rather than your own play, the universal scapegoat for every cheap death you simply cannot accept. Clipped, uploaded, and replied to with '??' in every fighting game and action subreddit since online games existed.
Total hitbox fail — the sword was three feet away from me and I still died.
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