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"OMFG You DON'T know what SKYRIM is?!"

SchitzoSchitzo
edited 2011-11-30 18:47:09 in Meatspace
They're somethin' else.
Me: "No."
Nerdbro: "are you joking?"
Me: "Fuck no."
Nerdbro: "oh my fucking god."

-walks off-

Nerdbro: -off in the distance- "OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD."

Me: >:/
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  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-11-30 18:48:24
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT SKYRIM IS

    /only semi serious

    But seriously, it's surprising, considering how much everyone has been talking about it everywhere.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Hell, my parents know what Skyrim is, and they didn't even hear it from me.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    edited 2011-11-30 18:49:21

    At least he didn't ask "You don't know who Soulja Boy is?"

    But in all seriousness, you don't even having a passing familiarity? Even while only minimally following gaming nowadays, I can at least give a very broad description of it. Of course, computer engineering classes are full of nerds, but you get the point.

  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus
    edited 2011-11-30 18:49:47
    Can't blame him. Even if you haven't played it, you can't go to a forum without seeing people discussing Skyrim. Including this one.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    edited 2011-11-30 18:51:28
    They're somethin' else.
    He sounded almost exactly like (and acted like) Barney from How I Met Your Mother.

    Aw, man this looks snowcloneable.

    I love how this thread got like 5 responses over the course of half a minute while every thing else is thrown to the wind unceremoniously
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Aw, man this looks snowcloneable.
    I'm going to take this opportunity to remind the people who don't bother with reading the rules thread when there are new posts in it that we do have new rules about how much snowcloning is okay.
  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus
    And I was going to make a thread called "OMFG You DON'T know what RIMJOB is!?"
  • DYREDYRE
    Realistically, I'd have no idea what Skyrim was if not for the fact that I was already mildly interested in The Elder Scrolls via playing Morrowind and Oblivion.  I'd probably know it's a video game, but other than that... not much.
  • MidgetsnowmanMidgetsnowman
    dude..I can kinda get your point..but even my roommate who plays nothing but Modern Warfare knows what Skyrim is in a vague way.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    I am vaguely interested in what social circles Schitzo runs in now.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Oh trust, me, I'm friends with (non forum) tropers and young nerds. But I only have a very vague recollection of what the elder scrolls are, having never played them before. I also didn't know what Skyrim is and hardly took it upon myself to look it up.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    That's understandable, I guess. I was just wondering why you never heard the word Skyrim itself, in the same way a person has never heard the words Star Wars or Harry Potter.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-11-30 23:18:17
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Elder Scrolls: WRPG series published by Bethesda, set in a MEHF setting and with an emphasis on a wide-open sandbox world.  First two games (Arena and Daggerfall) are DOS-era games now available as (albeit proprietary) freeware.  More recent entries are Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.  Oblivion, the fourth game, is the source of the "criminal scum" meme.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I keep thinking to post as though I don't know what Skyrim is but realize Juan will come in and point out I've posted full knowledge of Skyrim.

    So fuck you Juan. >:|
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I'm trying to figure out what MEHF is, but I can't quite wrap my brain around it.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^Medieval High Fantasy.

    I'd argue that that's not entirely true, though it does apply to some of the countries featured in the series.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-11-30 23:23:10
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Oh. I probably would have gotten that if the 'E' wasn't there.

    And isn't Oblivion the only one that's really MEHF? Skyrim is more nordic, and Morrowind is just weird.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Arena covers the whole continent, so it has MEHF.

    Dunno about Daggerfall.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-11-30 23:29:37
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Medieval European High Fantasy

    ^^^ Oh, I thought it was roughly based on the Tolkienesque tradition, with some variants.

    ^^ Oh, didn't know that.  Then again, the Norse countries are part of Europe...
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2011-11-30 23:49:39
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    The depiction of the Nords in Skyrim could only be considered medieval -- reasonably early medieval, to be precise. I'm thinkin' before 1066.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    While that's true, it generally isn't what people think of when they hear Medieval Europe.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    If we went on public definitions...

    Yeah. Gonna stop there.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    The point you're about to bring up is a fair one. I'm just talking in terms of subgenres :P
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ^^^ Then what do they think of?  As far as I can tell, MEF would be knights and lords and peasants...

    ...wait, that's like central European, like French/Italian/Spanish/German.  I guess.

    Then Arthurian stuff is related, and Norse/Germanic stuff gets lumped in when you make it high fantasy in part because Tolkien.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2011-12-01 00:03:12
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    There's a lot of ways to break up historical European subgenres for the purposes of media, y'know. <_<

    ^ For the time period, most of Europe was very consistent with the rest of Europe. You don't get plate armoured knights fighting Vikings or anything. So characterising something by geography alone doesn't quite work, or it at least shuts off a variety of possibilities. For instance, the Saxon, Teutonic, ect. lands immediately south of Scandinavia were populated by extremely similar people, albeit they lived in a warmer climate with heavier forests and greater access to resources.

    After all, many trademarks of these cultures show up in cultures immediately related to them. Thus how you get the tale of Sigurd from the Nordic folk and the tale of Siegfried from the Germans -- extremely similar stories altered somewhat by audience and time period. Likewise, you get the Arthurian mythologies through the Welsh, English and French alike.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Well, yes, I kept hearing the name, but It never occurred to me to just look it up.
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass
    Until I read this thread, I had no idea what Skyrim was. I assumed it was a probably a new computer game of some sort, but not exactly what.
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    Yeah, OP made me laugh.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    So fuck you Juan. >:|

    Only after the third date.
  • NyarlyNyarly
    edited 2011-12-01 13:11:05
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    I don't see what's so strange about this. Sure, it's hard to miss that many people talk about Skyrim (unless you don't visit the internet), but you don't learn about it by that alone. If you don't have any interest in the subject, you don't normally don't try to learn more and there is only so much you can learn (and actually remember) in passing.

    That happened several times. If I had no interest in Skyrim and didn't know Elder Scrolls, I'm sure the only things I'd know is that it's a popular current game and probably of the fantasy genre. Maybe I would also notice that it's apparently snowy.

    Also "Nerdbro" seems to be one of these people, who really, really need a punch in the face.
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