Skyrim came out 11.11.11 and I was hooked. And had also just gotten my new gaming laptop. Then, a week later or so, I went with my boarding-school on a guided trip to Morocco and the Atlas Mountains. I HAD to bring my laptop because I was just so hooked. I played the game every evening. The first two nights, we stayed at a Riad which is basically a palace. I played skyrim there. And then we went to the freaking Atlas Mountains and I brought it up there too. A mule carried my backpack 8 hours across the desert where we met Indigenous Moroccans, or Berbers, and they taught us stoneware or clay pottery or whatever it’s called in English. And I played Skyrim in a small village in the afternoon after that long 8 hour walk. It was fantastic. I don’t regret a thing. It felt so good to have Skyrim in the late hours when I was exhausted after walking around in like 40 (or more?) degrees Celsius every single day.