The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Chapters 17–18
Thursday, 23 April 2026
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
I didn't reach a particularly significant milestone today or anything (I've played 208½ hours; didn't visit any new towns, or complete any major quests; etc). But, for various reasons, I decided to log the third in my occasional and slightly random series of "how are things going?" screenshots (the first was at 73 hours, the second at 151 hours).
Despite being only 57½ hours on from 151 hours, my Quests Completed has more than doubled in that time. I guess I went through a period of focusing on quests more, before tailing off again. I'm intending to get back on that soon. Somewhat interestingly, though, my Side Quests Completed has gone from 4, to 8, to 12 — if you didn't know better, it would look like that was the stat dictating these updates.
One additional thing I thought to do this round is create a graph to show my progress over time, because that's the kind of thing I think is fun. I've picked a few select stats to include, and it looks like this:
Skyrim tracks loads of other stats for you — locations discovered, people killed, spells learned, ingredients harvested, locks picked, and about 90 more (including, somewhat infamously, "bunnies slaughtered") — but, sadly, I haven't been screenshotting them all along, and the game itself doesn't offer any history or graphs or anything (more's the pity). It feels a bit late in the day to begin tracking it all... but I took screenshots of everything this time, just in case I want to. And if I ever do a second run,* you bet I'll be screenshotting from the start!
* There are plenty of "forever players", who start the game over and over again, trying all sorts of different things, for thousands of hours overall. It's one of the reasons the game has endured for so long. But I can't imagine that'll be me — I've got literally hundreds of other games I want to play, including multiple other hundreds-of-hours-long RPGs, so I'm not likely to do Skyrim over again when I've got those other adventures to experience. Doesn't mean I won't come back to it one day though, especially as there's definitely stuff I won't do in this playthrough (you can only join one side in the Civil War, for example; and I'm pretty sure at least one quest is already bugged to unplayability for this run; and, to be honest, I've got so much left to do, there's still a chance I'll want a change before I finish it all).
I didn't reach a particularly significant milestone today or anything (I've played 208½ hours; didn't visit any new towns, or complete any major quests; etc). But, for various reasons, I decided to log the third in my occasional and slightly random series of "how are things going?" screenshots (the first was at 73 hours, the second at 151 hours).
Despite being only 57½ hours on from 151 hours, my Quests Completed has more than doubled in that time. I guess I went through a period of focusing on quests more, before tailing off again. I'm intending to get back on that soon. Somewhat interestingly, though, my Side Quests Completed has gone from 4, to 8, to 12 — if you didn't know better, it would look like that was the stat dictating these updates.
One additional thing I thought to do this round is create a graph to show my progress over time, because that's the kind of thing I think is fun. I've picked a few select stats to include, and it looks like this:
Skyrim tracks loads of other stats for you — locations discovered, people killed, spells learned, ingredients harvested, locks picked, and about 90 more (including, somewhat infamously, "bunnies slaughtered") — but, sadly, I haven't been screenshotting them all along, and the game itself doesn't offer any history or graphs or anything (more's the pity). It feels a bit late in the day to begin tracking it all... but I took screenshots of everything this time, just in case I want to. And if I ever do a second run,* you bet I'll be screenshotting from the start!
* There are plenty of "forever players", who start the game over and over again, trying all sorts of different things, for thousands of hours overall. It's one of the reasons the game has endured for so long. But I can't imagine that'll be me — I've got literally hundreds of other games I want to play, including multiple other hundreds-of-hours-long RPGs, so I'm not likely to do Skyrim over again when I've got those other adventures to experience. Doesn't mean I won't come back to it one day though, especially as there's definitely stuff I won't do in this playthrough (you can only join one side in the Civil War, for example; and I'm pretty sure at least one quest is already bugged to unplayability for this run; and, to be honest, I've got so much left to do, there's still a chance I'll want a change before I finish it all).
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