Skyrim is chock full of quests for eager adventurers, and there are so many things to do in the game players usually don't catch them all on their first playthrough.

But animal lovers were disappointed to find Skyrim sorely lacking in quests to find canine companionship, because players can't directly adopt a stray dog in game.

worst part of Skyrim was when I found that dog whose owner died in a cabin, and then I of course had to adopt the dog bc i'm not a monster

— Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton) April 5, 2016

The lack of dog adoption options made most gamers shrug their shoulders and Fus Ro Dah on, but dedicated dog lover Patrick Lenton wasn't going to let the game squash his dream of adopting a virtual dog.

@PatrickLenton and i have to fight like 300% harder to save my dog from being eaten by a dragon and i've honestly never been so anxious

— Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton) April 5, 2016

Patrick took on the glitchy quest to figure out how to adopt a dog in Skyrim, a quest that drove him to the brink of madness.

@PatrickLenton so i go to an orphanage, to discover they are being mistreated by an evil woman, so I kill her

— Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton) April 5, 2016

Read One Man's Mission To Adopt A Dog Is The Best Skyrim Story Ever Told here

When we find ourselves in a relationship with a partner we feel is our soulmate, aka “The One”, we will go to great lengths to keep that person happy.

But how far is too far when you're trying to please your partner?

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He Took His Skin Off For Me is a surreal short film by Ben Aston which is based on the surreal short story by Maria Hummer. Ben's "pearl of wisdom" about this piece:

if you take off your skin just to be with somebody? That’s only ever going to end messy…

-Via Laughing Squid

We've covered some of the crazy suits offered at Opposuits before, but generally speaking, the whole gimmick of their clothing is how ugly it is. Now that they've released this amazing Pac-Man suit though, they've obviously changed their goals because this thing is simply gorgeous. 

The design is perfect for all of your suit needs -especially if you have an upcoming day in court.

Via Geek Tyrant

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Inspired by artwork by NoFlutter, Rini Cosplay created this retro look for Power Girl. She wore it to the Dutch Comic Con in Utrecht last month. You can see additional photos here and here.

Going to a party is easy, and crashing a party is surprisingly easy too as long as you don't draw attention to yourself, but leaving a party can be a bit tricky.

But party escape is always possible, and if you need to update your book of strategies then study this comic strip by Christiann MacAuley of Sticky Comics and learn the ways of the leaving.

-Via Laughing Squid

All photo editors use Photoshop these days, because aside from making basic touch ups a breeze it also makes it easy to radically alter a photo, perhaps a bit too easy for all those sloppy editors out there.

Whether they're changing a model's skin color, chiseling away at body contours or simply erasing someone or some thing from a photo entirely, it's easy for editors to make obvious mistakes when they're in a rush.

Even His Holiness the Pope can't prevent a Photoshop disaster from befalling one of his photos, unless this mysterious third leg is actually one of the Vatican guards going full ninja mode...

See the 52 Worst Photoshop Mistakes In Magazines here

When you're the passenger you ride and you ride, you travel through the city at night, and if you're lucky everything will look good tonight.

But if you find yourself driving through the industrial part of town and you start to feel like you might fall asleep at the wheel take a note from the short film Passenger and get a hotel room!

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Passenger is a short film by Jazz Walker that warns against falling asleep at the wheel, even if you're parked on the side of the road.

-Via GeekTyrant

When Peter Capaldi was a young Doctor Who fan drawing cartoons of Tom Baker at the TARDIS controls there's no way he could have known he'd someday get to play the role dearest to his heart.

But now that his geeky dreams have finally come true his drawings of the Doctor have become drawings of himself all decked out in the Twelfth Doctor's garb.

Capaldi created this far out illustration as a thank you for illustrator Rachael Stott's hard work on the Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures series, which naturally sent her over the moon with good feels.

To further illustrate his cartooning prowess, and the fantastic effect Doctor Who has had on his life, here's a video of Peter Capaldi talking about his favorite Doctors while he sketches their portraits.

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-Via io9

The Japanese make American things look so much better when they apply their unique and weirdly wonderful view of the world to a product from the United States.

They make Kit-Kats seem like magic candy, turn Pepsi into a multi-flavored elixir of the gods, and make working at McDonald's seem like a grand adventure. (Subtitles by AnimeBird)

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McDonald's Japan is using this anime style ad as part of a new part-time worker recruitment initiative, enticing young employees to hire on by showing them that working at McDonald's is a blast.

-Via Geek Universe

Apparently all Lorne Michaels needs to do to resurrect the formerly funny SNL is bring Peter Dinklage in as host, because he nearly raised the show back to its former glory with his first appearance.

There was the obligatory Game of Thrones parody in the form of a “sneak peek” of the upcoming season.

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Then Peter stripped down to his birthday suit to do a sketch spoofing the Discovery channel show Naked and Afraid.

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And finally Peter got to show off his awesome singing voice and get weird with a wig on in the sketch called Mafia Meeting, a sketch in which Peter sings a super catchy song about Space Pants.

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Will SNL ever be as badass as it was when Dinklage sat in the driver's seat? It sure will, just as soon as they get Peter to host again!

The first of the promised Disney stand-alone Star Wars films is coming. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story takes place between episodes III and IV, and involves the Rebellion stealing the plans for the Death Star. Yes, the plans that eventually ended up encoded in R2D2.

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Disney plans to produce one of these every other year, called the Star Wars Anthology series, to slot in between episodes of the continuing story of the Skywalkers. Future films will include biographies of some of the characters we are already familiar with, like Han Solo and Boba Fett. Look for Rogue One in theaters in December. -via Star Wars   

The Toyota Corolla is surprisingly effective in the sands of Jakku. Even BB-8 has trouble keeping pace.

Redditor dubsallday saw this great car mod inspired by Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. S/he also made a recording of it rolling forward in traffic. You can watch it here (auto-start).

Who does it belong to? You can investigate by following the hashtag printed on the side of the car: #ISpyBB8.

-via io9

Johnny McHone took advantage of the Vine format to stage battles between toys. This became a series, which has now been assembled into a movie. Characters from just about every TV, movie, comic book, and video game franchise that ever spawned action figures is included.

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Power Rangers against Stormtroopers! Hulk Hogan vs. the Predator! Luke Skywalker vs. a dalek! Most of the time, it’s pretty easy to tell the good guys from the bad, until you run into a one-on-one  battles between two characters you’re not all that familiar with. But those sequences are short. There is a time-travel device involved, too, which throws a wrench into the whole plot. A lot of work went into this. -via Digg  

Emilia Clarke clearly enjoys playing Daenerys on the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, and even though she plays one of the most popular characters on the show she hasn't let fame go to her head.

In fact, it seems like she has more of a sense of humor about herself now than when she started on the show, at least according to the goofy pics and vids she posts online.

Her latest hilarious video gem was created for Glamour Magazine, recreating her famous "where are my dragons?" line while looking for her spanx, her wig and her kale chips. It's the mother of all funny celeb videos!

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Read a highly entertaining interview with Emilia Clarke at Glamour

If you're going to build yourself a robot bride then you might as well build one that looks like your favorite movie star Scarlett Johansson instead of, say, one that looks like your dead mother.

And isn't it every young geek's dream to build their own beautiful movie star bot so they don't have to binge watch shows on Netflix alone?

Of course, most sad little fellows don't have fifty thousand dollars laying around, nor do they have the drive to create a robot from scratch despite their lack of mechanical skills.

But amateur bot builder Ricky Ma had the cash and the driving desire to create his very own "famous Hollywood actress", so he learned along the way:

When I started building it, I realised it would involve dynamics, electromechanics and programming. I have never studied programming, how was I supposed to code?

Additionally, I needed to build 3D models for all the parts inside the robot. Also, I had to make sure the robot's external skin and its internal parts could fit together. When you look at everything together, it was really difficult.

As a robot she's fine, but as an actress she's a bit robotic...

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-Via The Daily What