# Speak to me only in Video Game Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 7, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763 "2012-08-07T18:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/161 "2014-04-23T07:23:10Z")
I’m Mirabelle Monet. I run the Fo’c’s’le, a boarding house for sailors. Sorry, I reserve my beds for seamen. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/162 "2014-04-24T03:51:07Z")
The genius of the hole: No matter how long you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/163 "2014-04-24T04:19:43Z")
Oh ? You came back ?! I didn’t really… plan for this. Can’t actually reset the death trap. So. Ah ! Could you just jump into that pit there ? Would you just jump into the pit for me ? There ? That deadly pit ? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/164 "2014-04-24T04:50:09Z")
A DUNGEON’S DARK… WHEN IT’S NOT LIT… BE CAREFUL OR… _[player falls into a pit]_ ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/165 "2014-04-25T04:11:12Z")
It ain’t no secret I didn’t get these scars falling over in church. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/166 "2014-04-25T05:04:16Z")
You… I’ve seen you… Let me see your face… You are the one from my dreams. Then the stars were right, and this is the day. Gods give me strength. ---
**Author:** ![Didactylos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Didactylos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didactylos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/167 "2014-04-25T12:13:09Z")
“Proceed with caution, though ill equipped and poorly trained, at close quarters Ivan makes a cunning foe who loves nothing more than to drive his rusty blade in to honest german flesh.” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/168 "2014-04-25T15:31:28Z")
Oh, don’t worry. No one ever goes there because they say it’s a ghost town. And since ghosts don’t exist, you can just focus on the landmines. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/169 "2014-04-27T20:01:22Z")
Fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/170 "2014-04-27T23:59:07Z")
Dear Brother, I do not spread rumors. I create them. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/171 "2014-04-29T06:01:17Z")
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing of the wind. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Jackthew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jackthew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackthew)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/172 "2014-04-29T17:07:37Z")
I have no allowances for old man! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/173 "2014-04-29T17:15:04Z")
My dreams grant me no opinions of success. Their compass ventures not beyond the doors of death. But in your face, I behold the sun’s companion. The dawn of Akatosh’s bright glory may banish the coming darkness. With such hope, and with the promise of your aid, my heart must be satisfied. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/174 "2014-04-30T04:39:24Z")
All right, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whose gonna burn your house down – with the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down! ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/175 "2014-04-30T13:23:09Z")
I thought my duty was to protect people from the storm, but I was wrong. It’s to protect them from you. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/176 "2014-04-30T19:54:27Z")
As unlikely as your story sounds, I believe you. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/177 "2014-05-02T03:47:18Z")
When was the last time the wind said “hostiles” to you? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/178 "2014-05-02T23:45:44Z")
Yes, it’s what everyone calls me. I guess I’m partly to blame. I’ve never made it a secret that I’m actually only half Orc. I am a Lord’s son, yet I’ve been denied the noble privilege to which I am entitled. So I have become the Gray Prince, noble in my own right. Still… if I could prove who I really am, and show the world that an Orc can be noble in blood as well as deed… ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/179 "2014-05-06T04:18:01Z")
Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far beyond the point of no return I couldn’t remember what it had looked like when I had passed it. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763/180 "2014-05-06T05:17:03Z")
Have you seen all the rats around here? Its making me crazy! First this guy decides he’s gonna make a million, opens a fancy restaurant: Rats in a Cream Sauce, Rat Flambe, Rat Necrom with Bonemeal Gravy, Deep-Fried Rat, Lemon Rat and Wild Rice, Rat Ragu with Powdered Deer Penis. Of course, when the guards found out, they ran his sorry butt out of town, but they left the rats. Rats! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-video-game-quotes/630763.md?page=10)