slim_breezy
This FML is from back in 2016 but it's good stuff
Los Angeles, United States
Genius
Today, I had to rush my son to the ER after he ate a poisonous plant. He said the plant looked like one in Skyrim and he thought he'd get super powers from eating it. FML
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theoldman 22
I used to be an adventurer like your son. Until I took an arrow to the knee.
epost1 13
I'm not to proud to have a similar experience
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epost1 13
I'm not to proud to have a similar experience
extrasnipes 22
Hey one of the plants I ate eating gave me more mana for my fire spell. Or at least I think that's why my throat was burning...
dante123113 11
Please elaborate!
Dale_shackleford 13
Well, did they?
junjunbun 28
Yeah, sure... the power of being brought to the hospital that is.
Chikiriwak 17
He*
ChromaScarlet 12
Clearly it was a weakness to poison ingredient. Should have added more ingredients could have changed the affects :p
mjd02 15
I love skyrim. I hope you teach him a lesson though.
Danne696 14
I think the lesson was fairly obvious without OP doing anything.
urbanbigfoot 20
My best friend got me started on Skyrim a few months ago. Needless to say I am addicted.
abNormal62 23
Please tell me he is of grade school age and not high school or above , excluding special needs
TrippingOnAcid 29
I'd hope not. Most games have an age rating for a reason... I'm not saying that age ratings should be set in stone - most kids 13 and up can probably handle the "18+" games - but maybe if your child is stupid enough to eat poisonous plants you shouldn't be allowing them to play mature games
theoldman 22
I used to be an adventurer like your son. Until I took an arrow to the knee.
kikimajigger 12
Fun fact for the people who got sick of hearing Skyrim soldiers use this line: Did you know that "taking an arrow to the knee" is a Nordic idiom for getting married? All those guards didn't have the same tragic accident - they just settled down :-)
amandasoushek 16
46- I never knew that. Thanks for the info. I figured it was just the game having a limited quantity of "soldier" lines and it just kept cycling through (which obviously it did) but now it's not so bad since marriage is a lot more common then every single city watch man having the same accident.
GhostFox 34
I'm pretty sure that's been disproven as the reason behind it. It's just as likely that the 'arrow to the knee' thing has to do with a law about every bone fragment removed from an injury costing a set amount of money, and healer paying off bandits and criminals in exchange for said criminals aiming for areas that would create a lot of bone fragments- like knee caps. Add in that without knee caps walking long distances is painful, and you have a lot of people with combat training that are stuck within a certain range. May as well put them to use, and make them feel useful.
metalcrazed 21
No,it isn't.
dragonowl21 9
Nice to meet you, Game Theory.
tiptoppc 21
Good to know your “it figures” method of research is so profound. To save myself the last braincells I have left, I’m going to ghost your foxxing ass, and gain intelligence by doing real research. That said, lots of games with period-centric stories, many times include obscure info as either an easter egg, or an inside joke, but it’s an immersive part of story-telling. Not saying this is the case, just an observation, but even though a fantasy, even the new Dungeons and Dragon’s movie kept a rule expert and knowledge master on-site at all times to make it was within boundaries of the lore. It can bring surprising results. Then again, Watch Monty Python’s Search for the holy grail for why knights are spelled that way. Likely their pronunciation of it is correct. Translations do funny things to history’s culture
Chikiriwak 17
Welcome him to the real world
DrChrisOfWumbo 12
The drugs they use to fix his ass might make him think he has super powers for a while
janfleury 19
How old is he?
MitchRapp 20
Did he get the super powers?
DRaffie 18
I heard he found out how much he can vomit in an hour.
crudeandrudeguy 29
Natural selection at work...