A closer look
Skyrim features the constantly repeated and highly memeable guard dialogue about someone stealing your sweet roll, which is actually a deeply entrenched inside joke that spans across the entire history of Bethesda's roleplaying franchise. The joke originated as a moral dilemma question during the character creation quiz in the nineteen ninety-four game Elder Scrolls Arena, asking the player how they would react to bullies demanding their sugary pastry. The developers loved the bizarrely specific pastry theft scenario so much that they violently forced it into the lore of every single subsequent game they ever produced. So millions of players spent hundreds of hours in a high-fantasy viking simulator getting mocked by city guards about baked goods purely because some nerd wrote a weird personality test in the early nineties
