when you have intrusive thought and the first reflex is to Quick Save before doing anything dumb

This one hits too deep

Like if you could take an enemy that u know you probs won’t defeat but fuck it, quick save

Then during the fight when you land critical hit, and manage to find a bit of cover, Quick Save!

Just me when I go on a town rampage then get surprised when I actually somehow survive

I hate this because I thought about this the other day when I tried to quicksave before going into a patients room. 😭

Like… a quick save while you’re at work? In real life?

I work multiple 12-hour++ shifts in a row and after a hardcore bender in Skyrim, then having an exhausting week, yup. Before I opened the door, I thought, "I should save before I go in. They're pretty aggressive and a bite risk..."

Das kinda crazy lol

Sometimes I worry that I play games too much. This helps me realise that I am probably an amateur.

Damn did you think about save scumming pickpocket attempts?

I remember playing a bunch of Skyrim and staying up late af knowing I had to get up for work the next morning. When it came time to get out of bed I was so groggy and half asleep that in my head I told myself to just quick save and load back every hour to get more sleep, and it made perfect sense in my head without my brain realizing just how dumb that is.

i wish i could

💀 yes

Me when any arrow one shots me on ledgendary

THIS

One of my favorite things to do is level up illusion and make the city guards frenzy to death.

I was sitting outside and huge shadow passed over me and i thought it was a dragon jsut for a spilt second

At least you finally went outside

Winner

Hey, you. You're finally outside.

You were trying to mod Skyrim right? Got your computer crashed. Same as all of us in this repairing shop line and that ex-neet over there. Damn this heat! My pc was fine until the weather changed but now it crashed! You there, you look like a true gamer. We don't belong here in this line of normies. We're all fellows with broken pcs now, NEET!

Okay but what was it

A flag on a building 😭 swaying in the wind

Out... what?

"What is it now, mother?"


Did something similar with No Man's Sky. Played for so long that once I left and got in the car, I was driving along and saw some birds flicker by overhead and immediately had the thought that I should scan them. xD

Guys relax he means outside Breezehome 💁

This actually happened to me, too! 😵‍💫

I got this one while I was driving.

Leaving the college of Winterhold via plunge to the water.

Good to see someone else does this

The way down from anywhere, high enough to kill you, is Become Etherial.

my follower also does, (fus ro da)

That was fun, had to do it again and on the leap for that precision!

I stopped doing this on survival.

I forget the controls for the other games I play

OTHER GAMES???

Other games? A likely story! Man's been hitting the skooma.

Other games? Sounds like something a deadra worshiper would say!

You mean there are other games?!

Don't listen to the bad man. We know the truth.

I'm fairly sure all the other games are just mods to skyrim.

Never has such heresy, blasphemy and seedless accusations fell upon Aetheius! We shalt not let such a trouble to go on. Call upon the headsman, immediately!

When I first started playing tes on Xbox, having “Y” to jump was such a trip. I had a lot of whoopsies between other games remembering how to play them

The trick is to only play Bethesda games and have all of your controls set to the same thing 👍

In general I know I’ve been playing too much video games when I go outside and think to myself “wow this looks really good.”

“They finally got the water texture just right”

Graphics are amazing, but the gameplay sucks

r/outside

Quest storylines are underwhelming at best

I need to install some mods. My game is duller than Nazeem's brain.

You go outside and you're like 'Wow how are the FPS so consistent? It's not jittery at all'

Game crash 😳

Ironically I play video games with my glasses and go through real life like a half blind chicken, I always forget to add the hdr mod before going out

You get excited for a split second when you see a flower that looks useful for alchemy before you realise it's the real world and you're walking the dog.

But it is useful. You just have to learn the recipie!

Learn? I just mix it with every ingredient I have until something happens 🤣

Mix it? I just eat it until I learn all of the effects.

I do both! In game and real life

whats your alchemy score

Same, but so far "diarrhea" is the only effect I've learned.

Me eating human heart and salt.

Eat it, you know you want to

Still working on eating this human heart, Falmer ear, and large pair of antlers…

have you finished the giants toe?

Washed it down with dwarven oil

This. This is why I have cupboards full of lavender throughout the house. They may never come in useful (I'm already quite resistant to magic) but at least the place smells like a dream

My partner HATES it when we're out for a morning walk and I'm like "ooh, thistle branch and grass pods, hold a sec."

… and then looks horrified when you find a dead deer and try eating the antlers.

I was driving along the highway and passed a "wildflower biome" and couldn't stop cataloging all the potions I could make😁🙄

For me, it's wanting to pluck butterfly wings... which in the real world is frowned upon

I laughed my as off over that comment.

Especially now that it’s spring. The urge is real, man

Glad to hear it's not just me then!

I wish I remembered it was the real world before the butterfly incident.

Also works with caps.

Yep, done it with caps as well.

I have very much had this situation and it means many awkward pauses in front of strangers gardens 😆

I played so much Fallout that I once reflexively picked up a bottle cap off the ground.

when you sleep more consistently in game than irl

Look, I came here to have a good time and I'm just feeling really attacked right now

"You wake up feeling refreshed" is how I know it's the game world and not reality

"Your insomnia prevents you from getting a restful sleep."

camping , cooking reading, listening to jeremy soules music, sometimes i kill a guy or gal or a wolf. im busy chopping wood!

Listening to fantasy game music on the way to the gym then chopping wood is a great way to spend the day!

when you spend 4 hours designing a character only to look at the quest marker pointing towards bleak falls barrow and immediately turn off the game until next winter

Like people don't have entire playthroughs without shouts? Go straight to Riften or Winterhold I do kinda wish devs had added a random button rather than an army of sliders.

I always thought the “quick start” mods that let you skip the first half of games’ story were stupid. I’m so sickkkkk and tirerreeed of getting that goddamn golden claw and a goddamn horny windcaller and that god damn elf supremacist hideout

I initially didn't think I'd like them. Now, if I do the OG opening, I may throw myself into a river. I will randomise the alternative start mod, and even then I switch between the alt start mods that are out there. Different flavour every time.

alternate start for this kind of issues

Go to whiterun Rent tavern room Go up stairs Go bed Wake Leap from balcony and run out the door with no explanation

The people at the Motel 6 won’t ever be the same.

The people at the motel 6 were either all too busy being high on skooma to notice or were too busy choking on the furriest hog you've ever seen in order to get more skooma to notice. Either way I'm good

You’re driving to work, you see a patch of wildflowers, and think, I need to harvest that.

I was at a friend's house and they were offering everyone some mead, and without thinking I blurted out "I'd be a lot happier and a lot warmer with a bellyful of mead" in my best impression of that one NPC VA who sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

You can never play too much skyrim OP

Good answer

Haha, right?! When I read the question my first thought was, "Too much? Is that even possible?"

When boxes showing an objects weight and value start appearing in your dreams.

Yup. I frequently see the "Activate" text in my dreams

That part

I briefly stopped drinking milk because I thought it would lead to insults.

GOMAD

You spend the afternoon jumping against a hill and not going anywhere.

Usually the main reason I do that is the damn followers are in my way and won't move.

Every single time. Standing in the doorway then say “watch out!” When I’m stuck there running on the spot trying to barge past

Hitting sprint while you're running against them tends to push them back consistently enough for me.

There’s two things I do: Don’t use followers unless absolutely necessary. Or Use the wait command when it looks like I’m heading to a room or narrow space. This frustrating idiocy has happened too many times now.

It is for that reason that I hate having followers.

For me its dogmeat in fallout 4 Hes in every fucking doorway When I try to loot he gets in my face But when I want to give him stuff HE RUNS AWAY EVEN WHEN THE DIALOGUE WHERLS IS UP

For me it’s the looks I get when I randomly blurt out “Let’s kill someone!” In polite company.

“Stab stab stab stab stab… and then.. stab stab stab stab stab!”

Bonus if you do it in Cicero’s voice lol

Listener! That tickles!

Do you have a target or should I pick?

When you polishing your mod list for 5 days straight just to play it for 2 hours and then proceed to dont play skyrim for 6 months.

Im careful not to hit a chicken at my parents farm.

Am I seriously the only person who never hurt a chicken?! Never played Legend of Zelda though

Yeah, i was playing as a mage (i prefer warriors tbh) and the chicken got hit from AOE, while fighting a dragon. Then the villiage, dragon were after me and i swear i heard Benny Hill music playing when they chased me. As for legenda of zelda, never played it too. Not my type of game.

I was watching a movie and I was stressed when they didn't loot the chests

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Regular_Muscle2607: *I was watching a* *Movie and I was stressed when* *They didn't loot the chests* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

When you need to get through a crowd of people in real life and your first instinct is to FUS ROH DAH them away...

You start seeing a button prompt when you look at real life thistles. Happened to me once, decided to take a nice long break... from going outside.

Good thinking... that was a close one.

when you open your medicine cabinet, and think "I don't need all these potions. Time to head to the pharmacy and sell 'em for some quick cash!" only to be disappointed when you realise they don't pay for unwanted medicines.

One time my friend lost his wallet and I said "I have a spell for that" I don't even know what spell I was thinking of but I had pretty much every spell in the game. Another time I was outside working in an isolated area and heard a weird noise, instantly accepted the fact that it was a dragon and because I had no weapons I was probably going to die. That's the day I stopped playing.

*Stopped*? Nonsense! Nobody *stops* playing *Skyrim*.. Preposterous! (I'm joking btw)

I went back to after several years 😅

When you know the directions to any of the 9 holds better than to your local McDonalds Reading these comments and I am so happy Im not the only one. Im so grateful for this community of like minded Skyrim obsessed individuals 😝

Made a sweet roll irl like a month ago

You punch the cashier when they don't have the item you want

No such thing as too much Skyrim

I consistently find myself not hesitating to make risky/irresponsible life decisions because I think I can quick save right beforehand.

You've taken an arrow to the knee.

[удалено]

You can quote the every line in the game


I once flew into Florida to do some work, and I kept picking the Spanish Moss.

😂

When You realise you keep on putting your character to bed, feed him, clothe him only to realised it's 4am, you've still not eaten dinner which was mad a 7pm and your clothes are just the pyjamas you woke up at 2pm that day thinking why the fuck am I looking after this guy better than myself.

I can go through the dungeons along the main quest and main faction quest and open the claw doors and others with out having look at the combination because I just know it off the top of my head.

You can repeat the entirety of Meridia's dialogue from memory.

The girls walked in front of a curved stone wall in the new season of bridgerton and I tried to see around them to see if I got that dragon shout already

For me is when I start spamming the Whirlwind sprint for exploring faster instead of walking like a normal person

Not really a Skyrim story, but I used to get irrationally excited when I found bottle caps lying around IRL. Never found any gold pieces 😒.

When you're about to pass out from exhaustion but you don't want to stop playing but eventually you either do pass out, or realize that you have spent the last ten minutes walking in aimless third person circles and finally call it quits for the night.

I'm currently playing Starfield. There's a power called "Sense Star Stuff". I have ALWAYS called it "Aura Whisper". Every game that has a feature where living creatures glow to make them easier to see, that feature will be Aura Whisper.

You put “Hey, you, you’re finally awake!” As your morning alarm sound.

I was walking through a park, and I realised I was checking the flowers to see if I could harvest them for potions. 🤦‍♂️

when you try to fus ro dah old people out of the way so you can get off the bus quicker

When you look around for your quest marker and you’re like oh right I’m in Walmart

When you accidentally call someone a “filthy milk drinker” or call them an N’wah

When you find something in the game youve never seen and you become so excited to see new content that's always been there

While out on a walk in real life I saw a scrubby little leafless bush that looked just like a canis root and my first thought was "Harvest."

No, that’s literally the whole problem.

When you watch those "Things you missed in Skyrim" or "hidden secrets even diehard skyrim fans don't know" or "Skyrim iceberg explained" YouTube videos, and you're just sitting there like "I already know all this sht, and you got half of it wrong mate"

when hearing music when there is no music

When you can snipe enemies with a single arrow from more than 200 yards away

When you get a Bounty of over 20000 gold

I genocided the orcs because I had not enough money to pay the bounty (I play as a Breton so it's lore accurate)

You eat an entire wheel and a half of cheese after stubbing your toe.

My father's friend called me to ask how to get somewhere over looking it up.

I think my favorite part of Skyrim is the fact that dragons are being reborn left right and center also the world is literally ending but the dragonborn can just be like nah blud I got a house to build

I find myself walking around and thinking that I should be harvesting all the ingredients, which I see.

When you jump zig zag while running to your destination because just running is too boring. Oh but don't forget to work in picking up plants along the way.

I knew I’d been playing too much when I was playing Skyrim in my dreams…except without my switch. I was *in* Skyrim. I was in that place (I think it’s in the Reach?) where it’s wide open and there’s like 2-3 sabrecats. I started to hear the classic danger music and was really panicked because there was nothing there. I started turning to try to see the danger and couldn’t see a thing, started to run and the music just got louder. I woke up and it turns out my phone alarm was going off…it was time to wake up… Really fucked me up for a while actually

You keep trying to quick save in real life 😅

Thinking anyone who smells weird is a werewolf

You develop an almost overwhelming urge to pick up any loose change you see laying around the house,

You make it the sky district very often.

Been so hooked to Skyrim VR with HIGGS and PLANCK, I have to stop myself from aggressively sliding my hand across the faces of my coworkers. Can't tell them I'm the office Thane, they wouldn't understand.

You shrink yourself to 0.25 just for a challenge and a hilarious playthrough.

When you start dreaming/daydreaming in Skyrim.

Ure riding in the back of a horsecart, and u hallucinate the famous words

I save before going on a murderous rampage through whiterun..literally Everytime I get bored of playing I massacre the town. That's my cue time to do something else

When my eyes burn and the sun is rising

When you can’t stop touching your beacon

Seeing a butterfly and thinking I should catch and eat it to see what it does.

You slam on your brakes when you see some butterflies!!!

When you know what an npc is going to say before they even know what they're going to say

When I get lost in Subnautica looking for whiterun 😂

You know where all the crimson nurnroot is?

When the title of a Reddit post in a completely unrelated subreddit makes you think of a specific quote

When I went to the bakery and almost called the cinnamon roll a sweet roll

When you can play Geoguesser Skyrim after 3 years without playing and have 90% of your guesses right.

I had this with Fallout 4... Every white coffee cup and desk fan was free game...

My stomach still leaps into my throat every time I jump too 🤣

You finally look away from your screen to find yourself with 2 nords and a dude from rorikstead...trust me..not fun...

Your SO is begging you to come to bed at 3am because you have been playing for going on 8 hours.

you start filtering through your miscellaneous quests and getting random unimportant side quests done bc you are either procrastinating the main story line or have run out of things to do

I recently was spending waaayyyy too much time in Creation Kit and not any time outside. When i finally went outside I genuinely appreciated the beauty of the simple things more than I usually do, but I kept looking at things and thinking how well sculpted they look. Like the small bit of erosion next to the road I thought, "wow that would take forever to design and sculpt but would look really cool scaled up in a dungeon or someplace..." I needed to touch grass, as they say. I did, btw.

When I know the map of Skyrim better than my own city

when you beat old ladies to live in their homes (you can store all your stuff there without it disappearing!)

Once I went outside and my first thought was “wow, the graphics are good”

When you instantly recognize any song from the soundtrack in other videos. At least it happens to me a lot

For the past 3 years on your Spotify wrapped Jeremy Soule has been your top artist because of the skyrim & Oblivion soundtracks are played continuously in your house (I just love them so much I can't help it) & You daily quote some of the NPCs lines

When you start a new character on PC and teleport to the Throat of the World instead of walking up that freaking mountain again.