I consume dragon souls, am a thane in every hold, and still I get talked down to by children.

So, this is probably outing me as a huge video game nerd, but I absolutely love the playstation game Skyrim. It is part of the Elder Scrolls series created by Bethesda games.

In Skyrim there are a number of strange physics, non-sensical consequences to actions, and repeated or unrelated dialogue. That said, Skyrim is an incredible achievement in open-world gaming. By open-world I mean that it does a better job of creating the illusion that your choices mean something and you are not being funneled through a specific story line in a specific order of sequences. The company that made the game, Bethesda, has been made fun of for having a number of "bugs" in their game code—earning the name Bugthesda. 

This meme is a screen shot from the game with the text super imposed. The joke is based on those strange game physics I talked about earlier. In the game if you walk up to a mountain you can just keep pushing the jump button and you will slowly work your way up the side of the mountain. The reason many people do this is because it takes less time than walking all the way around the mountain.The purpose of this particular meme is to express the gamer's feeling that there exists this weird loop hole in the game that is both immersion breaking and wildly convenient, especially if you have a horse— which can climb just about anything.

This meme is one of my favorite types, it is called stare dad. The joke here is based on a line that several of the guards in the game say in a condescending tone. The line from the game is, "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee." I feel the reason for this meme is that gamers joke a lot about this particular line but in the game it is actually very condescending and annoying to hear over and over. I think the meme expresses that frustration and the subsequent desire to stick an arrow in the leg of the guard who says it.

This piece of fan art is one of the few I was able to find that was not comprised of original artwork. This is the compositing of selection of screenshots from the game. This particular piece I think required a huge amount of skill to create because it flows seamlessly from one image to the next. I don't know a lot about image manipulation but I assume that one of the main tools used by this creator was photoshop. This time, I think, the picture was created to highlight the huge diversity of the game and some of the elements that make it such a captivating and addicting game to play.