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It used to be gaming's most pervasive meme. Then it took an arrow in the knee.

November 26, 2017

“I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee.”

Ah, Skyrim. In the pantheon of Gaming’s Greatest Memes, “The cake is a lie” from Portal may have the edge. But anyone who was plugged into games back in 2011, when Bethesda Softworks released The Elder Scrolls V, surely remembers “arrow in the knee.”

Those two, short sentences seemed to forever be on the lips of every nameless guard across the land of Skyrim. That wasn’t actually the case; the line was just a randomly occurring “bark” in a game that featured many such lines. But it’s a memorable bark, and the internet seized upon it immediately. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | It used to be gaming's most pervasive meme. Then it took an arrow in the knee.

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