9.09.2025

In the game Skyrim I play to escape from reality there are these vile High Elf agents, the Thalmor, imperial bullies, basically, who go around arresting citizens for worshiping the wrong gods. Even these bastards don't wear masks, and they're legitimately kinda tough to fight as they actually know how to use magic and they're fairly organized. If you side with the Stormcloaks you're pretty much obligated to attack the bastards wherever you come across them which can be problematic, say, when they're just hanging around the throne room in a castle where you're trying to be friends with the Jarl. The issue with the worship thing, they reason, is that the god everyone likes was only a man who got elevated to godhood in popular mythology so he can't be a god so that's enough of that nonsense. What they probably don't know is that the man who became a god in the previous game was voiced by Patrick Stewart whose presence automatically confers at least some implied divinity. Oh and happy Star Trek Day (belated). 09.08.1965. What a hell of a thing it must have been to see that for the first time.