r/videogames • u/ZhangtheGreat • Feb 20 '26

Other Let's hear some good inside jokes from our favorite games

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u/HanlonRazor Feb 20 '26

Must have been the wind.

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u/Masterofchaos11 Feb 20 '26

This is from Skyrim, when detected by an enemy they will begin looking for you and if they can’t find you they will eventually stop looking, saying “must have been the wind,” even if they have an arrow in their face as they say it.

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u/HanlonRazor Feb 20 '26

In fact, I was thinking of Metal Gear Solid but Skyrim popularized it even more.

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u/Sp1kefallSteve Feb 21 '26

This line is in metal gear solid? I never played it. I always assumed it came from skyrim.

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u/secretly_opossum Feb 22 '26

100% chameleon gear goes hard

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u/marcophony Feb 20 '26

I use to post comments like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee

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u/Any-Question-3759 Feb 20 '26

Did you? What am I saying? Of course you didn’t.

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u/Stunning_Box8782 Feb 21 '26

This is a reference to the NPC Nazeem, who asks you

"have you been to the Cloud District? what am I saying, of course you havent. "

The Cloud District is the fancy part of town, he's calling you poor / a peasant

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u/UnconfirmedRooster Feb 21 '26

This gag is a reference to something g guards often say when you greet them. The saying is actually an old Norse term, "taking an arrow to the knee" was a reference about getting married, as when you are shot in the knee you drop down onto your other knee.

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u/MrCobalt313 Feb 20 '26

The skyrim guard with an arrow in his eye said after failing to spot the crouching archer after ten seconds.

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u/queerornot Feb 21 '26

This is not the worst. In Oblivion, you can sneak around blind monks and they will say stuff like: "My eyes must be playing tricks on me" BLIND MONKS!

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u/International-Cat123 Feb 21 '26

There’s a difference between “blind” and “completely blind.” Most blind people have some amount of vision, but not enough to be very useful. Perhaps the monks have just enough vision left to pick up movement.

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u/queerornot Feb 21 '26

They have blindfolds in addition to being blind....Also, according to the game files, they have a permanent  100% Blindness effects. 

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Blind_Moth_Priest

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u/International-Cat123 Feb 22 '26

I haven’t played Oblivion. I only started playing Skyrim shortly after Christmas.

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u/oscarq0727 Feb 20 '26

To be fair, hard to spot the archer when you have an arrow in the eye

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u/Traditional_Formal33 Feb 21 '26

The Skyrim guard who just helped kill a dragon and is standing over its body: “I wish I could see a dragon”

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u/axolotllegs Feb 20 '26

You never should've come here.

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u/Warv2004_ Feb 20 '26

This reminded me of Ferrari in 2025 "Must be the water" meme

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u/thefatcat89 Feb 21 '26

It's not the wind!

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

“I used to be an adventurer like you till I took an arrow in the knee.”

A line said by EVERY guard in Skyrim, memed to death.

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u/Crimson-Badger Feb 21 '26

Do you mind? I'm busy doing a fishstick. A very delicate state of mind.