*When you get annoyed with the people over in the lore section because they don't have your superior intelect on the lore and history.

When you know khajiits have spikes on their pencses. :facepalm:

I wouldn't know, I'm not a lore buff.

When you know who found that out.

i didnt need to know that

and now we know the advantages of NOT being a lore buff

When most of your ES universe isn't found in the games.

Yep. Not a lore buff. Which is why I don't read the lore forum (where lore stuff belongs, hint, hint :whisper: )

Dear brother, I don't listen to lore. I create it.

It doesn't take a lore buff to know you're not of superior intellect, nextmastermind.

im would like to think of myself as a lore buff, but im not like some of those people down there. man, they know too much.

Not our fault that a few writers managed to make half a dozen video games better than almost every mainstream fantasy novel ever written.

when you know what the wild hunt is

I can entirely sympathise with the "you get annoyed with people in the lore forum because of your superior intellect". I am a lore buff at STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl, pretty much, and it really annoys you when people post totally wrong things How sad is that?

Anyway, I imagine it is when you start writing your OWN Oblivion history books.

Joke, joke, lighten up, friend.

Wow... not much incentive on becoming a lore buff now.

yeah, just one big thread of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE now

It does not require a lore buff to know that, all you need is to read the Daggerfall version of the Real Baranzhiah, or just pay an occasional visit to the lore forum.

Anyway, how do you know you are a lore buff? I would say one way is if you know more about the history of Nirn than your own country's history.

If you have extensive knowledge of the Elder Scrolls cosmology AND it actually seems to make sense to you.

You spend hours making up theories on the lore and posting them in the lore forum even though there is a good chance they will be proven wrong when the games actually discuss that subject.



That's not saying much, considering that much of main stream fantasy is pretty much exactly like Middle Earth, except not as detailed and well thought-out.

WOOHOO! You go, Selbeth! lol

When you post this thread in Oblivion General instead of the lore forum,which is where this belongs...

I think it sort of comes with the high IQ needed to actually write good games

You know you're a lore buff when you figured out CHIM on your own, from in-game sources. (I know I didn't)

When you have a library of ES books on your computer or have them bookmarked.

*You spend more time reading books in the games then you do smashing monsters or doing quests.

If you meet the Lore-Khan on the road, kill him.

Well generally you'll know because it's what people call you.



Which is also the reason nobody should ever admit to being one.

Ways you know threads like this a stupid and unnecessary.

*When you read them.