The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim<\/em> went live yesterday and has taken the Internet by storm, already racking up nearly 150,000 views. <\/p> What is Shirley’s reasoning behind starting to make let’s plays? “I want to start a blog for older gamers, like myself,” Shirley says, “because I feel we are not represented enough on YouTube.”<\/p>
If this first video is anything to go by, Shirley will surely<\/em> be a star in no time with such a calming voice and dialect. “The Bob Ross of video games,” as one commenter put it. Pretty spot on.<\/p> Calmly explaining how she uses poison on her arrow tips to fight dragons, to being disgusted by a giant spider, grandma Shirley has all the charm of your grandmother if she were a hardcore gamer, and I love her. Keep up the good work, Shirley!<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":171789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1,97,137],"tags":[341,1250,2394,4778,488],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":42,"display_name":"Jed Whitaker","user_login":"Jed Whitaker","user_nicename":"jed-whitaker"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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