Naming NPCs is one of the banes of my existence as a DM (or GM if you prefer the more generic and broadly encompassing title), and try as I might to come up with new names I often fall back on old standards.If the guy or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/The-Ever-Present-NPC-Naming-Dilemma-In-Dungeons-Dragons/There are reasons that fictional characters do things that no one in real life does. Groups of real people never sit at half a round table because there is no camera or audience. But there are so many odd behaviors in mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/34-Things-Movie-And-TV-Characters-Do-That-No-Real-Person-Does/The song of the laughing kookaburra is one of the most distinctive bird songs in nature, and it's one of the standard sound effects used whenever footage of the Australian bush is shown on film.That signature kookaburra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/The-Unreal-Sound-Of-A-Kookaburra-Laughing-In-Slow-Motion/There are plenty of adages about how to be happy, like "Stop and smell the roses," and "Learn to find joy in what you have." These can be boiled down to "lower your expectations," which is a sure-fire way to make yoursel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Adjusting-Your-Expectations/The world is full of weirdos, including those who walk around all day talking to themselves out loud, but the weirdiest weirdos of them all are those who chat with their hair all day.These loony lock lovers are so convin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Farkels-An-Animated-Short-Thats-Just-As-Strange-As-It-Sounds/"Dagnabbit" is a hilarious word that you probably learned from Yosemite Sam. It's a pseudo-swear word you can use in public when you don't want to be technically blasphemous, like gosh, golly, gee, and other substitutes....
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/The-Long-Linguistic-Journey-to-Dagnabbit/[https://youtu.be/QmUzEwT4yyY] (YouTube link)How many languages can a person learn? How do language rules change over time? What are the most confusing English grammar rules? What is the real definition of "irony"? How d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-English-and-Other-Languages/It's been more than a year now since astronaut Scott Kelly returned to earth after spending a year on the International Space Station. He and his identical twin brother, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, are the subject of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/The-Long-Term-Effects-of-a-Year-in-Space/There are so many bizarre video games out there that the top ten lists kinda just make themselves, and strange games are constantly being made so these top ten lists will keep rolling out FOREVER.In this video by WatchMo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Some-Of-The-Weirdest-Video-Games-Ever-Made/THE PSYCHO BUNCH by SkullpyWhen eight horror movie slashers find themselves without a movie deal or a home they come together like never before- in prime time! One day Freddy came upon the house of his dreams and as l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/THE-PSYCHO-BUNCH-Eight-Slashers-One-Bathroom/Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turns 85 years old today. She will probably celebrate by doing pushups. In honor of her birthday, Mental Floss has a list of 15 things you should know about the Notorious RBG, wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/15-Things-You-Should-Know-About-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg/The pirates of olde were from all different countries, social classes and walks of life, but the ones we see in popular media tend to be either British, Spanish or Dutch thanks to books like Treasure Island and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Dastardly-German-Pirates/Firearms are understandably a hot button issue in America these days, and while everyone is shooting their mouths off about guns the guns themselves are sitting around waiting to kill again.Oh wait, I had that backwards,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Guns-Explained-With-Cats/Mark Hamill posted a Tweet that illustrates how much Luke Skywalker action figures have changed over the years. Of course they have. The character has aged, and the tech involved in making the dolls has also changed. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Luke-Skywalker-Action-Figures/With great knowledge comes great wisdom, with great vision comes great foresight, with great power comes greater responsibility, and with a great many number of things to watch this wizard ends up watching porn.Eh, sound...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/The-Watcher/The following is an article from the book Uncle John’s Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader.Like us, you probably can’t remember a world without highways—a time before there were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Dustbin-of-History-The-Lincoln-Highway/
