Why yes, that is The Guild‘s Felicia Day in a country music video about the unconventional but oh-so-sexy love between a honky-tonk man and a cosplaying woman.
It’s the latest episode of The Flog, Day’s new show on Geek & Sundry. Other notable episodes for gamers include the one where Day applies her Skyrim blacksmithing skills in real life or the one where she plays Streets of Rage for the first time.
Riding into battle against a giant in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Um, yes please!
I love The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. For all its little flaws and bugs and nuisances, it’s a meal I intend to keep nibbling on over time, stretching my Skyrim experience out as long as possible. Maybe 100 hours, maybe more. We’ll see.
But after seeing this video, my love for Skyrim feels slightly tainted.
Glitches are a part of the Elder Scrolls charm. They are a fact of life, like death, taxes and Mission Impossible sequels. No matter how much one game improves upon the last, there are always a bajillion glitches, and it never seems to stop them from winning awards and garnering widespread praise.
Dorkly mocks this phenomenon with a sequence of highly hilarious (and highly fictional) internal development memos that show how Skyrim‘s programmers got a little, well, out of control. Here’s a taste:
Move over, that other Internet-famous Christmas lights house, an amazing 19-year-old suburban nerd, who despite owning Skyrim clearly has a lot of time on his hands, has set his Minnesota home’s lights to the Sons of Skyrim.
And they say there’s a war on Christmas.
Via Nerd Approved
You might as well face it, you’re addicted to games.
According to press release issued by Gamasutra in partnership with GamePress, 63% of gamers surveyed said they feel “addicted” to gaming, 42% admitted they often missed out on social events in the name of leveling up and 82% said they regularly missed out on sleep because of video games.
There are, admittedly, worse things to lose sleep over than enjoying a favourite pastime, but as someone whose been stood up for a date because of Everquest, I beg of you, don’t do that. It’s douchey.
Here are the 10 console games respondents said they were most addicted to. I’m a bit bummed that machine-gun toting bros beat out dragon-slaying nerds for the top spot, but it warms the cockles of my heart to learn that Tetris is still ruining people’s friendships and health after 27 years.
So what games can’t you live without?
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I think Rob Bricken from Topless Robot sums up the message behind this ad for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 pretty perfectly when he says:
I think Activision could have saved a lot of money by replacing the commercial with nothing but text reading “NERDS PLAY GAMES WITH DRAGONS IN THEM. REAL MEN PLAY MODERN WARFARE 3.
A catchy ’90s children’s PSA repeatedly warned me in my youth: “If you don’t know just what it is, don’t put it in your mouth.”
That rule does not apply, however, in the wonderfully detailed universe of Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls games, where be it plant, animal or mineral, it boasts either magical or nutritional value.
Gus Matrapa over at Kill Screen has made it his goal to sample every delicacy the world of Skyrim has to offer, from venison to dragonfly, and catalog it here.
