Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Ah that video came out darker than I expected, it shows me trying to firebolt a frostbite spider in a mine but missing, then resorting to shouting at it which launched it straight up.

Yeah I've been rolling with a companion mage as a pack mule that happens to conjure ice atronachs. I've actually reloaded a previous save if I accidentally kill them to avoid just that scenario, though I didn't do it when I killed Lydia because a) the fight was tough and I didn't want to go through with it again and b) it was in Whiterun so I didn't have to go far to recover the loot.

Always go with the companions that cannot be killed!

Somehow lost Lydia swimming in high seas near Winterhold and now I’ve lost all the loot she was carrying for me

Lydia, oh Lydia, say have you seen Lydia, oh Lydia my pack mule lady

I just picked up a perk where my attacks no longer hurt my companions, so time to let 'er rip!

I tried playing this for the first time a couple weeks ago but didn't get very far. It's very pretty but it also makes me very anxious playing it! Maybe I'm not cut out for CRPGs.

lol i get that a lot, i don't think playing stealthy helps

Every time I come back to this after an extended absence, I'm all like, 'this is one of the best games ever, why would I ever take an extended absence from playing it,' and I'll have a good ol' time for a couple of hours and then the game will inevitably freeze up for no goddamn reason and I'll lose all of the progress I've made in the couple of hours I've been playing and then I'm all like, 'ohhhhh, yeah, this is why I take extended absences from playing it.'

(FTR, I'm pretty sure I turned off autosave because I read somewhere that the autosave function increases the likelihood of random freezeouts, but the failing to manually save is I guess all hubris on my part. But seriously, the brokenness of this game is only just slightly outweighed by its awesomeness.)