Fernando M.

I’ve developed a craving for cell-shading. Too bad there isn’t many games taking advantage of this technology. It’s amazing.

oiitan:

fernandomoutinho:

Ah. I see.

I don’t know you long enough, but, I’m pretty certain you won’t be part of that.
You seam to understand the countries economics and to why that move was made in the first place.

And besides, why go outside when you can have so much right here?

I swear that I won’t be the part of any of that, except for the defenses of my country against any aggressors. Well, I don’t really understand but, our country’s economies are pretty much fucked up, ever since the ‘98 monetary crisis. Not to mention that the poverty is both caused by the government AND the civilians itself.

So yeah, both of them are pretty much stupid, and they should feel bad for destroying our country slowly.

You are one proud warrior man. Keep it that way.

oiitan:

eri-mizutani replied to your post: The only remaining questions is, How did Chiaki…

All gamer girls have bigger busts. That’s a fact.

Actually, all jokes aside, this may be true.
I speak from experience…

oiitan:

fernandomoutinho replied to your post: [[MOR] My grandma just called me, said that she…

What do you mean by “demonstrator”? Does it have something to do with protests?

HOW THE

Yes, I mean the protests.

Ah. I see.

I don’t know you long enough, but, I’m pretty certain you won’t be part of that.
You seam to understand the countries economics and to why that move was made in the first place.

And besides, why go outside when you can have so much right here?

postbusters:

sfwflot:

The Claims
made regarding the “arrow to the knee” stock phrase from the Skyrim video game

pandyssian:

OH MY GOD APPARENTLY TAKING AN ARROW TO THE KNEE WAS AN OLD NORDIC SLANG FOR GETTING MARRIED 

I THOUGHT THAT ALL THOSE GUYS IN SKYRIM HAD LITERALLY BEEN SHOT IN THEIR KNEES WITH ARROWS BUT I GUESS NOT

dragon-wolf8:

So… apparently, the phrase “take an arrow to the knee” is old nordic slang for getting married.

The Findings
I have been at this for a solid three hours and have turned up absolutely nothing. I did learn a lot about women in viking society as a whole, and while they were generally held in relatively high regard for homemakers, it was unlikely that they were held so highly that men would see marriage as something “crippling” as the arrow-to-the-knee joke suggests (assuming, of course, that Skyrim is a historically accurate game that just also happens to have magic and dragons and werewolves and whatever else on the side).  

Based on previous research into similarly dispersed urban legends, here’s what I’m thinking happened: a funny, deadpan “what if” joke came into somebody’s mind. “what if it’s code for something?” From there, the joke morphed, and as it got passed along in the great global game of Telephone that are jokes and urban legends, someone misheard that “what if” and it became a “did you know.” But the spread didn’t stop there. It just kept going, because it made perfect sense — it’s ridiculous to think that all these NPCs wound up being shot in the knee with arrows and it’s a little world breaking in an otherwise extremely immersive game lauded for the work put into it. But it’s easy to forget that the “arrow to the knee” phrase is no more or less common than any of the other stock NPC phrases seen throughout Skyrim, and that “arrow to the knee” was just that: a stock NPC phrase, and certainly not something that was ever said by Norse people historically.

Of course, this isn’t to say that perhaps in the mythos of Skyrim, a land where magic exists and a human can be part-dragon and also a werewolf and shouting loud enough can knock someone unconscious, “taking an arrow to the knee” is used as slang by men and women to speak ill of their homemaking spouses while they yearn for the good old days of being adventurer like yourself. And just like that, you have another (or maybe your first?) head-canon.  

Also, according to Know Your Meme, the developers put it in there just to give the guards more personality, and according to Snopes user effo5231, it was a joke.

effo5231 says: 

The arrow to the knee line was written as a joke by the developers to reference the fact that the armor system changed from Oblivion to Skyrim. In the previous game, armor consisted of helmets, chest pieces, leg pieces, boots, and gloves, but in Skyrim they condensed the chest and leg pieces into one category by removing customizable leg armor.

owo:

punkmonksteven:

lalatula:

*does the anime character with glasses thing*

Does that really work though?

What…?

that’s so cool i wanna do it too!!!!!!

ok here goes

NO

swafg:

staff at checkout: that’ll be $9.95
me: here’s $10.00
me: keep the change 

worcaholics:

judgementdays:

why is this whole website suddenly obsessed w/ cotton eyed joe

Yeah like where did it come from where did it go

Who’s cotton eyed joe?

definemotorsports:

لا تتكئ على بلدي مايباخ يا ابن سخيفة من أحد المزارعين

لا!

helghasttactician:

The mental image of someone driving a Jeep or other 4x4 in BF3 while listening to music from Diddy Kong Racing and running over people is making me laugh so hard I’m crying. What makes it even funnier? Seeing bodies ragdoll in the air as you drift into them.

deguzzi:

peixesass:

pikanoob:

seeaann:

when friends make plans in front of you but don’t invite you

when accidently making plans in front of friends you don’t want to invite and they invite themselves

when someone hits your pokemon and its super effective

hashtags on Facebook

hashtags that don’t work outside twitter.

rocksymom:

Home is where your wi-fi connects automatically.