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belethor keeps saying: “i’d even buy one of your relatives, if you are looking to sell”.

i just realized that the dragonbones im selling him are my relatives

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belethor keeps saying: “i’d even buy one of your relatives, if you are looking to sell”.

i just realized that the dragonbones im selling him are my relatives

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I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”

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i think oblivion’s “leveling problem” is actually kinda cool. i think if it was done intentionally by a modern indie dev, ppl would be calling it a brilliant subversion of traditional rpg mechanics, which builds and plays out over dozens of hours. i think the experience of playing an rpg that gets more difficult and hostile over time is weirdly cool and interesting. and it’s a shame that it’s seen as this irredeemable flaw, that only exists so gamers can bitch about it online. i’d go so far as to say that if you play the game according to “optimal leveling” guides, you’re missing out

if you play the dlcs after the main questline, it ties up the narrative and ludonarrative threads in a nice neat bow. see, you are never really the main character in oblivion’s main quest, you’re just the messenger. you’re constantly doing things so that martin can move the plot forward. sure, you’re a hero, you save the world. you do tons of heroic shit. you charge headlong into oblivion to save kvatch and bruma. and for awhile, everyone knows your name. but martin is the dragonborn. when mehrunes dagon shows up, it’s martin who faces him in the final battle, while you just stand there. that’s what the world remembers. most of your heroics are only yours to remember

so you find yourself facing increasingly impossible odds, on a quest you won’t be remembered for. isnt it fitting that during all that, you feel the world is turning more and more hostile toward you? that everything is out of your control? i think it makes sense that the rpg loop of killing monsters and getting loot eventually takes its toll on you. as you progress, it only gets less satisfying. you finish the main quest, and you still keep doing it, even when it starts to hurt. you might ask yourself, what’s the point of doing this anymore? and yeah, what is the point?

knights of the nine takes you a journey of transcendent spiritual healing. you learn to move on from these earthly things that have been grinding you down the past few in-game years. maybe there’s more to life than “adventure.” taking this path means becoming one with the gods. this questline involves one of the only quests in the whole game that asks you to not attack something. in the end, you lay some old spirits to rest and become one with the gods

shivering isles represents the opposite reaction to all this. if you play it after (or instead of) kotn, the narrative resolves with the pc accepting the futility and absurdity of their life, at the price of their sanity. and they ultimately succumb to ambition. this story also ends with you becoming “one with the gods,” but in a much darker way. just like martin mantled akatosh, you mantle sheogorath. and it brings you satisfaction. it feels good to be on equal footing with martin. you decide that power and progression have value. just look at what that turns you into

idk, i just think in an era where pathologic is getting serious love, i think oblivion has a place. not despite, but because of its “flaws.” i know oblivion is the haha ugly meme game. it’s bethesda’s awkward teen phase between the narrative genius of morrowind and the mechanical genius of skyrim. but i like it!!!!!!!! ok!!!!!!!!!!!! it can and should be judged on its own merits, as a single text with something valuable to say

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“If you feel your skill is lacking, do not lose confidence! Fish can tell when you have cast a nervous line. They will tell their entire school what a bad fisher you are and how your bait shakes like a bone trap. Do not give them the satisfaction.”

–Swims-In-Deep-Water

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Its skyrims anniversary so

here we go again

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my most used skyrim spell is clairvoyance. it’s the only way i can find anything. the questmarker just leads me off cliffs. the questmarker killed me more often than all enemies combined

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I’m replaying Skyrim again for the first time in a while and I went and forgot about my favorite part of joining the thieves guild. Every base level member is surprisingly nice to the ldb. There’s something so surprising about having a bunch of thieves be like “if you ever need anything just let me know” like 💕🥺💕 I mean I know it’s because they can level up your skills but still!

yea they're all so nice!! even if they are skill trainers it doesn't matter all my brain knows is that they're nice to me and now im attached to them. i love when thieves are nice to each other.

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happy birthday to the only game

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The Anniversary Update to Skyrim is 3.3 gigabytes on Steam.

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omg i took a nap and dreamed that uesp decided to forgo obliquely referencing other people's posts and just outright reblogged mine and told me to shut up

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Different glances

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I wonder if the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim will finally remove the TestJeremys, who have been marked to be deleted as soon as it is “done”.

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just learned that the word “ferret” is derived from the Latin word furittus meaning “LITTLE THIEF” and that a group of ferrets is called a BUSINESS and i am absolutely pleased with this new knowledge

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Me, Majoring in Evil with a minor in Fucked-up