{"id":22245,"date":"2014-02-08T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22245"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T23:36:14","slug":"skyrim-ep3-catbert-the-swifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22245","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP3: Catbert the Swifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_2U1C-GxCE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4_2U1C-GxCE'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Rutskarn&#8217;s Introduction to Elder Scrolls Cosmology 101: Aedra and Daedra<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So once upon a time, a bunch of nerd gods out in nerdspace decided they wanted to make a model universe. So they did, and it was pretty cool at first. Everyone got so into it they self-inserted themselves as planets and spent all their time in this fake universe they made. But then they started bickering hardcore, and this one guy was such a tool that he ended up getting kicked out (although if you ask him, he&#8217;ll say he left of his own free will).<\/p>\n<p>But on his way out he ended up tearing a hole into another dimension. A dimension of rad dudes, who smoke and drink beer and party on school nights. And even though they didn&#8217;t make the nerd-universe, since they were too busy getting laid, they still had all their powers because they were coming in through the hole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey!&#8221; said the nerds. &#8220;This is our universe! We worked really hard on it! Get out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You worked hard on this? Haha, dudes, come check this out. Look, they even made little people and shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those people love us and they worship us as Gods! It&#8217;s very rewarding and life-enriching!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh yeah? Hey, that does sound like fun. Hey, little people, worship us too!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Th-this isn&#8217;t your universe! You can&#8217;t make them worship y&#8211;&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CHECK IT OUT LITTLE DUDES, I&#8217;M MAKING IT RAIN MONEY AND ARTIFACTS! GO KILL EACH OTHER!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop! Stop! You&#8217;re ruining it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s basically the Elder Scrolls cosmology.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tune in for next week&#8217;s lecture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Professor Rutskarn&#8217;s Introduction to Elder Scrolls Cosmology 101: Aedra and Daedra So once upon a time, a bunch of nerd gods out in nerdspace decided they wanted to make a model universe. So they did, and it was pretty cool at first. Everyone got so into it they self-inserted themselves as planets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[342,337,209,208],"class_list":["post-22245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-professor-rutskarn","tag-rutskarn","tag-skyrim","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}