Thanks For The Meme ories

Meme is one of those words that we all have heard of but when it comes right down to it, I find it difficult to explain what one is - 'It's a thing, that everyone knows about, where people have seen something or heard something, that's then used by everybody and everybody knows what it is and what it means but it's used in a different context and it's funny, you know?' (definition not pulled from the Oxford English Dictionary).

OED Definition (definition pulled from the Oxford English Dictionary ;-) ).


Memes are everywhere, popular culture is fueled by them. Some old favourites

"These are not the droids you are looking for" [Know Your Meme]

“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.” [Know Your Meme] 

"You shall not pass!!!" [Know Your Meme]

"I find your lack of faith disturbing" [Know Your Meme]

"One does not simply walk into Mordor [Know Your Meme]

"Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor, Not a X" [Know Your Meme]

PC Gaming memes from Memecenter

The above video is a sweet one!


RP

Categories: Lord of the Rings, meme, Skyrim, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Elder Scrolls V

Elder Scrolling - I finally got to start

I got to finally start The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

I started out in the back of a cart and I got to look around and it brightened as I approached a town. It was only then that I realised I was a prisoner and I was about to be executed. I got to create my character, I was pretty conservative, I realise that now. Someone got beheaded, woah! It was pretty realistic. So, It's going to be that kind of game. OK. Then something, sound and the sky flickered, just for a second. Then, a dragon. A great dragon sat atop the tower it transpires I was to take shelter in. What a dragon. I'm hooked.

I climbed the tower steps, the people in ther mostly ignoring me. The dragon flew past an opening up the stairs. I jumped but it was too far. I incurred damage. I looked around a burning building (incurring more damage from burning. Must watch that in future). I couldn't pick anything up so I went back in the tower, climbed the stairs, jumped out of the breach in the wall again but this time I was careful. I think I got hit by the dragon's wing or something. It wasn't going away. My health was dropping further. I walked around a little more, the dragon was still doing the rounds...

I stopped here. I probably will not survive but I saved my character anyway. I will create a new and less conservative one next time. It was 18 minutes but what an 18 minutes. The stuff that dreams are made of.


RP

Categories: Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Elder Scrolling, Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls V

Elder Scrolling

The Key

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition

I've now finally gotten around to installing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition.

What a palava (a cross between a pavlova and a pullover?). I purchased said game back in October last year, did nothing with it for eons. So, the moon is full, Mercury is in ascendence (whatever that means, the bones have been thrown and all bodes well. I open the case; a gorgeous full colour map, information about the 3, yes 3 expansions! and the temptation leaflet to spend the rest of my life 'online' in Tamriel with The Elder Scrolls Online and... No Steam Key. What? No Steam Key?

Now, the smart amongst you will have cognitively registered that a Steam Key is obviously important to get the thing up and running. You would be correct in that assumption, it was a boxed purchase with a digital key. I spend several days looking for the manual, there must be a manual right? Do I have a vague recollection of removing it from the case and pouring over the tome, late one night in bed, by the light of a wan moon? Or is this just false memory... I don't find it. I got in touch with the company I bought it from and they now kindly inform me it would have been in an email.

Email? don't tell me email! I keep them all, of course I do. I have folders stretching to infinity, all neatly labelled and chronologically archived, except that I had to cull my Inbox/Outbox/Dumpbox/Mustn'tdeletebox a couple of months ago! Aha! Luckily, fortuitously, sensibly, I took an export, so I trawled through this but alas, no Steam Key. The company I bought it from said it had to be addressed within two weeks but if it had been within six months, they would have had a copy of the email but they cleared their emails after six months. I thought I smelt something, it wasn't pleasant...

Aaaaarrrggghhhhhh!

Thankfully, those wonderful people at G2A came to the rescue with a not too expensive solution to get hold of a Key. Installation was a doodle (like a doddle but I scribbled on random bits of paper whilst the game downloaded) and the whole saga came to a close.

The saga of Skyrim is just about to begin.

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The moral of the above is; get the damn thing installed!


RPGamer

Categories: computer games, Elder Scrolling, G2A, Legendary Edition, Skyrim, Steam, The Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls V