Sithposting to the extreme

Skyrim be like: as a Dragonborn, it is in your nature to want to dominate, to want to control. You control the world around you with mere words. Your final battle will be against those who share your blood, and have as much of a drive to dominate as you, but they have given in to their evil nature. In order to free the land you must learn words specifically designed to control and dominate others. But within this, is this what you really want to do? Who are you? Are you a “true son of Skyrim” or a loyal imperial? And with that, what fate will you force upon the people of this land? What stars guide your fate? What god or demon do you follow? Is it better to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort? No we will not be expanding on these themes beyond the surface level and you’ll have to heavily infer all of this. Go kill some draugr.

The Elder Scrolls is a vehicle for fanfiction first, source of inane bitching with friends second, and video game franchise as a distant third.

amen brother

Tbh I thought it was for collecting a variety of shiny gems and food to fill my house...

lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldn’t have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. i’m so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.

I hate how well this works

this is good as heck

It just keeps going…

Low-key hilarious how 95% of Dragonborn end up with a Hoard. Absolutely peak intersection of narrative and game design. You consume ONE dragon soul and next thing you know you’ve got 175 wheels of cheese. You learn like 3 whole words in Draconic and you’ve got poor Lydia pack-muling candelabras across the fjords. I personally mostly Hoarded precious metals and gems, but I’ve seen people who Hoarded books and pelts and, like…there is No mechanical reward for this. Players just love to Hoard shit in that game. Absolute Dragon behavior.

"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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