It used to be gaming's most pervasive meme. Then it took an arrow in the knee.

"I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee."
Ah, Skyrim. In the pantheon of Gaming's Greatest Memes, "The cake is a lie" from Portal may have the edge. But anyone who was plugged into games back in 2011, when Bethesda Softworks released The Elder Scrolls V, surely remembers "arrow in the knee."
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Those two, short sentences seemed to forever be on the lips of every nameless guard acros