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  2. Arrow in the knee - Wikipedia

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    The phrase became unexpectedly popular following the worldwide launch of Skyrim in November 11, 2011. It was frequently quoted on numerous message board forums and blogs across the Internet, either as a catchphrase or a snowclone in the form of "I used to X, but then I took an arrow in the knee", by players who were amused with the guard NPC's line of dialogue and voice acting. [4]

  3. Media control symbols - Wikipedia

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    Playback controls on a CD player. Control symbols on a Sony Betamax Portable.. In digital electronics, analogue electronics and entertainment, the user interface may include media controls, transport controls or player controls, to enact and change or adjust the process of video playback, audio playback, and alike.

  4. Page Up and Page Down keys - Wikipedia

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    The Page Up and Page Down keys among other keys. The Page Up and Page Down keys (sometimes abbreviated as PgUp and PgDn) are two keys commonly found on computer keyboards. The two keys are primarily used to scroll up or down in documents, but the scrolling distance varies between different applications. In word processors, for instance, they ...

  5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.

  6. Arrow keys - Wikipedia

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    The arrow keys are used in many applications to do different things such as: Moving text cursor to the right, left, previous line and next line; Moving player's character in video games; Scrolling down and up in different documents and web pages

  7. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    aiming down sights (ADS) Also aim down sights. Refers to the common alternate method of firing a gun in a first-person shooter (FPS) game, typically activated by the right mouse button. The real-life analogue is when a person raises a rifle up and places the stock just inside the shoulder area, and leans their head down so they can see in a ...

  8. Memory ordering - Wikipedia

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    In order to fully utilize the bandwidth of different types of memory such as caches and memory banks, few compilers or CPU architectures ensure perfectly strong ordering. [1] [5] Among the commonly used architectures, x86-64 processors have the strongest memory order, but may still defer memory store instructions until after memory load ...

  9. List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Arrow in the knee – City guards in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim would utter the line: "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee". The latter part of this phrase quickly took off as a catchphrase and a snowclone in the form of "I used to X, but then I took an arrow in the knee" with numerous image macros and video ...