If there's one game that will never die no matter how much we want it, it's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It's been ported to pretty much every console on the planet, and the total amount of hours played by everyone who has ever played it is probably enough man-hours to synthesize a cure for all known cancers it if was actually spent doing something productive. I've beaten the game twice, and I can attest that it has a way of consuming your life like World of Warcraft or Everquest could actually do. Except Skyrim is a Bethesda game, and that means it can be modded infinitely to keep the game fresh.

However, one of the best parts of Skyrim for those who've long decided to put it down are the memes and in-jokes that seemingly never stop having relevant use in every day life. That's where the Skyrim skill memes come in. There's nothing better than finding a great moment in real life and comparing it to a fictional video game. There's a ton of them and they're all hilarious for the most part, but today I'm just showing you twenty-five of the best ones I could find. Prepare to get meme'd on, kids, because I'm about to take you on a trip filled with loaded skill bars and ironic talents.

25 Doggo Camo

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There are successful sneaks. There are successful sneks. There are also doggos. It is well known that all doggos are successful. So, of course, there are moments when doggos sneak. but rarely are they ever successfully captured in real life because they're so busy being such good doggos. So while this doggo is a little not good because he got caught, he still 100/10 because he's the best, tiniest doggo on the planet. I would love give this good boy a hug because he's a good boy and he is a doggo who is good. A man can dream of a best friend, right? RIGHT?!

24 We Have Reached Peak Smiths

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When you think of the 2000s, you think of the wonderful-turned-tragic series of Matrix movies. And probably the exact moment when this movie jumped the shark is when Clint Eastwood McElrond replicated himself infinitely to try and destroy Keanu Reeves. It was amazing back in the day, but it doesn't really hold up now.

And of course, smithing in Skyrim is a profession in which you summon technologically-advanced virus life-forms into being, in a world with not even a single cotton gin. Don't look at me, guys, I didn't make the mod that made this statement factual. Never mind the fact that even if I just pulled that sentence out of my hoo-ha, you thought it was plausible because you remembered there's a mod that turns meteors into Steam Trains.

23 Mega Ultra Block

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Ah, young love.

Wait, did that person just get shot down? Oh god, yeah they did. I hope they've got their tanking skills maxed out, because their block just got topped off. That, and he might need to crank out some Daedric armor.

I mean, the sheer power with how hard they were blocked ended up giving them max block in return. If this person got a rooster, it has been slammed into a wall, if you know what I mean. And if they had a cat, that one got blocked as well. The sheer amount of denial shown here is enough to actually form a river in Egypt. Other people might use that figure of speech willy-nilly, but this is actually the one time where it's not bull-schnikes.

22 ODOR BLOCKING POWERRRRRR

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I'm pretty positive there are only a few people out there that are able to actually do the Skyrim shouts in real life, and one of them happens to be Terry Crews. He's pictured here, throwing the Fus Ro Dah to the evils of body odor. Not pictured is body odor getting knocked the heck out. I mean, I can't show that kind of stuff on here, much less write about it.

If Terry Crews was a Skyrim character, he'd be a dragon with Terry Crews' face, and he would soar high in the sky, yelling the word "POWERRRR" into the night sky, only stopping to knock up giants into the stratosphere just because he could.

21 When The Heal Spell Gets Interrupted

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There's so much I love about this set of photos to begin with. I still don't understand how Ecce Homo, the priceless piece of art beloved by so many, got so screwed up so easily. But what's done is done, and instead of our lord and savior looking sad and forlorn, we have a sloth in a neck ruff, gazing listlessly towards the horizon, dreaming of the piece of carrot he munched on twelve hours ago, and what a nice dinner that was.

You can't help but laugh, and whoever was behind this meme knew the power this piece was gonna have. It's too good not to get the Skyrim treatment. And I love how it turned out.

20 Sneaky Cock

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Some of you end up looking for the rooster. Some of you just find a rooster living his best life. Believe in your dreams, kids. This cock is going to hit on some hot flamingos and honestly, I hope that he makes it. I'd love to see the weird little chicken-mingos he'd end up making. His sneak skill is truly deserving of praise.

So what should we call this? The one cock sneak? The rooster cabooster? The chicken lickin' kickin' condition? Getting your Colonel Sanders on? I mean, the possibilities are a bit endless, but I think you're going to run out of poultry metaphors before you top "The Chicken Lickin' Chicken Condition."

19 MOM BURNS

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Now, if my memory serves me correctly, Potter Harrison was a magician boy magically orphaned by his natural parents, a ghost deer and doe. He has a cloud tattoo on his forehead he got from one wild night in Rio, and now he's in Britain to attend law school with teachers that are also wizards.

It was only when he got here he found out that his parents were actual people that abandoned him to get ended by a real-life lizardman because those exist. Needless to say, this story was very successful and garnered this video game release, where nasty boy Derrick Muffintop picks on Potter with pretty much the sickest burn on the planet.

18 Monstrous Forearms

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Yoooooo.

This might be tongue-in-cheek here, but I mean honestly, as long as your girl loves you that's all that matters.

Side note, I do love the background here on the text. I know it's supposed to be a constellation, but it looks like a forge or something. Also, tuning your One-Handed skill in Skyrim is, of course, possible by finding the right kind of mods. Going on dates, getting new outfits - the possibilities are limitless. Or, of course, it could be the other —grosser— thing that you don't want anyone to know.

17 Pyramid Head's 'Off' Brother

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Here we see the phalanx of what is obviously the revolution. They shall roll over the fields of the fallen and deliver the heads of their enemies to their lords and bring forth the apocalypse in which the world of men shall fall. Stop signs and traffic cones in hand, there will be no remorse. There will be no mercy. There shall only be the laments of humanity and the battle cries of the hereafter.

Before I move on to the next one, I want to refer you all back to the title of this entry. Now I want you to imagine this piece of work lumber toward you — it's a bit uncanny, right? Or does it kills the gravitas?

16 ALCHEMY, B—s!

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If there's one bad thing about Breaking Bad, it's that you're going to finish the whole thing in one sitting without sleeping and then never stop talking about watching it. On the plus side, you have a great time with jokes like this. And hey, if you remember, learning how to make new things in alchemy require you to eat certain ingredients. Thankfully, Blue Sky doesn't exist in the Elder Scrolls universe. They just have a problem with Skooma.

Man, now I kinda wish Skyrim would have come out after the show was complete, because you know there would've been a Heisenberg reference in it.

15 The Text Of Total Denial

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Dude. In one damn word, one person's hopes and dreams were completely destroyed. That, or at least their plans for the night took a turn to the decidedly "one-handed." Either way, the block skill we're seeing here is legendary. Most people would try and let others down easy or just talk them down some other way, but this person is just not having any of it. Honestly, I love it. They're a bulwark of no, a meme come to life within a meme. It feels great to look at, knowing that there's a complete joke here just in the space of four words and a number.

14 Hello, Friend. I Am Not A Virus.

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Bringing out the evils that can plague your computer system is the cornerstone of all computer anti-virus software. So when you end up looking through your anti-virus scan and see things like this, you just have to admire the cojones that particular virus coder must have had to name their program "Not-A-Virus."

That's the filename equivalent of using a pair of Groucho Glasses to hide from the cops who have been running after you on foot for ten minutes. Not only did they see you steal the glasses and put them on, they have to take a second and admire your sheer gall before they beat the heck out of you and arrest you for whatever you did.

13 Babymancy

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Some of you might not know this, but TheGamer's offices are based in Montreal, Canada. The ever-so-humble (yet handsome) person writing this article is based in a city that's easier to just call "Detroit," though he hates it when other people do it for their city.

IF YOU LIVE AN HOUR FROM DETROIT, TUCKER, YOU DON'T LIVE IN DETROIT.

Where was I? Oh, yeah. Canada. I don't want my bosses for TG to see headlines like this. This just gives them more fuel to look down on us, and if I want them to fly me to Montreal and tell me the secrets of Montreal steak seasoning, I can't have them think they're giving it away to some crazy babymancers.

12 If Only We All Had Such Vision

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I'm not a particularly anti-social person. Then again, I'm not a particularly social person. I'm the kind of sociable to where when I read this headline, my first thought was "Oh my god, why have I never thought of this? This woman has my undying respect, and she should have yours too.

Anyway, now that she's been outed, I can only hope she can figure out a way to go back. Because damn man, she was living the dream. But maybe she can teach us how to do that. Maybe she can teach us how to do the thing. I would love to know how to do the thing.

11 What's Good For The Goose...

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You know how you know times are tough? Damn geese out there using their own dang babies to distract a mark while momma goes and steals the cheddar. I mean, bravo for putting her kids to work and make the most of what is obviously a very dire situation, but still, you guys. Can we get some help for the little ones out there? They don't need to be subjected to these conditions.

But if it puts bread crumbs on the table then you're going to do what you have to do to look out for your own. We've all been there.

10 He's Not Going To Be Playing Any Cantinas After This One

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I know what you're thinking. Too soon? Well, when do we finally get to laugh about what is very possibly the emotional tragic low of one of the most commercially-exploited movie franchises of all time? If not now, when?

Probably when I can find another rad meme that makes fun of it.

Sad part is, you can see the hand flipped over and falling down the chute. It doesn't even look like it's holding a lightsaber, either - just a tin of coffee snagged from a PA to do this shoot really quick.

That PA never got their coffee mug back, by the way. It remains in the inner workings of Cloud City to this day.

9 Kitteh Nigiri

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Okay, this isn't meant to be "Steamy," but Mr. Forced Perspective over there is slurpin' up that kitty like he owes it for buying him dinner. And that cat is either dead asleep or loving every second of it. For purposes of making everyone as uncomfortable as possible, I'm going to say the cat loves it more than it loves tummy rubs.

More than it loves catnip.

More than anything it has ever loved in its short kitty life.

This cat loves getting eaten by an Asian dude on TV more than the person in the next entry loved committing massive mayhem and panic, and let me tell you, that is a whole lot.

8 It's First Grade, Spongebob!

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OF COURSE!

How else could China be hiding those boats that live their entire service careers under the waves? You know, the submersible vessel known as a SUB-marine? As in UNDER the sea?

Well done, writer. I don't know how else you could have written a more obvious, vague, and silly title. I mean, it deserves the equivalent of a Razzie for the journalistic community. Do those exist? Can we call them something like the "Tin Fart Cloud Awards?" The Farties? You know, because crap journalism reads like a fart smells, and the really bad ones stick with you for much longer than they're welcome.

7 SECRET DINOSAUR

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This T-Rex surmounts several things to get a snack. First, he completely surpasses the laws of anatomy, being able to utilize his tiny arms to not only create his disguise, but put it on. Second, he got construction paper and Scotch Tape in the Mesozoic Era! How in the ...?

But you know what? I think the real problem here is that the Pachycephalosaurus believed it in the first place. Maybe he had a death wish. We'll never know, though, because this was in incredibly distant past, and also totally never happened. I hope our masterful illusionist ate well that night.

6 Hiding In Plain Sight

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Seriously, this brings "hiding in plain sight" to a new level. This ring was hidden in a wooden necklace, held by his then-girlfriend for a whole damn year. It was there, unnoticed, almost traded, almost busted at airport security, until the guy was ready to pop the question. Once it was finally time, he snagged the necklace from her, accidentally broke it in his haste to give her the ring, to which she after the ecstatically said yes, she chastised him because she might have lost it without ever knowing what was inside.

But the best of luck to them, and I hope they got that house they were saving for in the article I read on this.