A
popular internet
meme which has derived from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, in which town guardsmen will often say to the
player "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee".
The
meme is often used as a response in forum posts or YouTube comments, particularly to
people thinking of past events in their life.
Guy
1: "Look at my new Gamecube!"
Guy 2: "Yeah I used to have one of those"
Guy
1: "...Then I took an arrow to the knee"
Or as a
way of expressing the fact that Skyrim is the game to be playing right now. For example:
YouTube comment from 2008 - "GTA IV is the best game ever! I'm gonna play it forever!"
Reply to the comment from 2011 - "Then I took an arrow to the knee."