I apologize for not updating as often and for completely neglecting the second half of 1986 in our billboard countdown. If you want to know the ending of the countdown, Google it. The reason I have been neglecting my blog, my friends, my family, and work is simple and the title says it all. I have been playing Skyrim. I have played roughly 60 hours and have still yet to fight a dragon and be pronounced the Dragonborn. I mean I have had the quest on my quest log for a long time and keep telling myself I will get to it as soon as the list is dwindled down just a little more. So in the interest of full-disclosure I have compiled a list of the reasons I know I have been playing the game just a little too long.
#1 - Sneaking and Stealing
Every time I want to do something not so appropriate I feel the urge to crouch and walk very slowly towards my objective. I know from playing Skyrim that all one needs to do is crouch, move slowly, and not let anyone see you and you can pickpocket someone, or steal their clothes, food, weapons, money, books, scrolls, and everything else in their house and then just walk out the front door. As long as they don't catch me in the act I can carry everything in their house to the nearest Thieves Guild shop and sell it all and they will be none the wiser.
#2 - Learning
Hermione had it right, reading will teach you all the secrets to magic, and life. I now know that all I need to do is read a book and my skill level will improve. If that doesn't work I can just pay someone to improve my skills for me. I mean I could go and do those things to get better at it but that would require taking time out of my busy schedule of stabbing draugr and shooting bandits with arrows to mix potions and craft new weapons.
#3 - Commerce
I should be able to go into any store at the mall and sell my cups, wooden plates, cabbage, apples, potatoes, Sabre Cat eyes, Mammoth Tusks, and Fire Salts. I want to be able to take whatever I find in the world and sell it at my nearest Fred Meyer. Is that too much to ask?
#4 - Quests
I now view every task in my every day life as a side-quest to the main story line. I have an objective, find something to eat. After achieving my objective I am given another task to perform until I am rewarded with gold from the quest giver. Although for some reason when I go to Red Robin to achieve my side quest, Eat Dinner, I am rewarded with my gold being taken by the evil serving wench. This quest sucks and must be performed on a daily basis or I lose health and can't regenerate until I finish it.
#5 - Conversations
I now expect a dialogue box to pop up when I am in a conversation with someone with all the options for things I can ask them. This has not happened yet so I am at a loss for words when I talk to people because there is not some all powerful being making the decisions for me.
In all seriousness though I have spent enough time telling you about how I am viewing the world through Skyrim-colored glasses as of late and not enough time playing Skyrim. I bid you all ado and hope you understand where I am coming from and going to. I hope you can all see the wonders of Skyrim's snow covered mountaintops and hope it doesn't take over as much of your life as it has mine. Unless that is what you are looking for.
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