video games as we have established previously is <a href="https://informationprime.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/the-three-traditional-forms-of-art-explained/">a form of art</a>(combining visual and performing arts) and we know that all art is subjective, you like what you like. However every good art still has core elements like; <a href="https://informationprime.wordpress.com/2021/12/29/how-to-improve-your-drawing-with-negative-space/">negative space</a>, proportion, value, composition etc. therefore if we tried to find some dominant features across successful video games, it shouldn’t be impossible. should it?

What Makes A Video Game Great

Consider a simple yet evergreen game like Tetris. There is no storyline just a classic easy to understand gameplay, it goes to show that a game with good gameplay and easy to understand controls can make up for any lapse in other areas.You may say “oh Tetris is an old game!” but even in modern games like Call of Duty, for instance, the importance of excellent gameplay still rings through, most people don’t even bother with the campaign, they’re more interested in the multiplayer. This is true as well with Fortnite and PUBG.

Gameplay

With many other games, realism would not be one of the first things criticized but with sports titles, it is essential. The nearness of the in-game characters to the real-life sports stars they try to mimic is critical to their success. Yet, graphics and design don’t always have to be realistic to be engaging and a big example of this is the borderlands series and its cartoon-inspired Cel shading. However, with every FIFA/Borderlands, there’s always Minecraft.The important thing with graphics then maybe that the game’s art style should fit the objective it pursues and the story it tells.

Art, design and graphics

The concept of challenge and reward cannot be more vividly explained than with a mission on grand-theft auto. The balance of challenge and reward is something Rockstar games have mastered over the years and not just with individual missions but from getting control of zones and gangs on San Andrea’s, to getting Diaz’s mansion in vice city or being filthy rich in liberty city the balance of challenge and reward ensures that players feel a sense of accomplishment after overcoming a difficult mission or level.

Challenge and reward

A good story becomes essentially important if a game is a single-player only experience like the aforementioned title. The gameplay alone will not always save such a game. Other good examples for this are the Batman Arkham Series and Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed seriesA great story can keep the player immersed in the game, players become attached to the characters and want to continue playing to see how the story unfolds, just like I did with Kratos.

Story

These ideas explain 4 elements that makes a great video game.

From Tetris to Mario to Zuma, FIFA, God of war, Assassins Creed, Need for Speed, Call of Duty and not forgetting the Grand Theft Auto series. You’ve probably played them all and many more –have a high five- some of these games have absolutely nothing in common except for the fact that they are all…

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The Queen is a true example of a negative character – jealous, vindictive, selfish and cold. She is very arrogant and will do anything to get what she set her mind to, even if it requires human sacrifice.Jealous of Snow White's beauty, the wicked queen orders the murder of her innocent stepdaughter, but later discovers that Snow White is still alive and hiding in a cottage with seven friendly little miners. Disguising herself as a hag, the queen brings a poisoned apple to Snow White, who falls into a death-like sleep that can be broken only by a kiss from the prince.

Moral Of The Story?

The evil queen wants Snow White dead as she cannot accept the fact she is not the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. This vanity destroys her in the end.Vanity - inflated pride in oneself or one's appearance. Usually viewed as a negative, it is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The framework of the deadly sins is used to help people curb their evil inclinations before they can fester, with specific focus on pride and greed, thought to be the sins that sever the soul from grace, the very essence of evil, with these two underlying all other sins.

The Danger Of Vanity

The concept of real beauty is another theme discussed in this story. The evil queen may be beautiful on the outside, but she is wicked and ugly on the inside. In contrast, Snow White is beautiful both inside and outside.Throughout the story, Snow Whites kindness and pure heart helps her defeat injustice. She doesn’t have a bit of wickedness in her, so it’s easy to deceive her because she’s a bit naive. Even so, the good people around her keep her safe, she gets her happy ending.The queen is not as beautiful as Snow White because her heart is not pure. Real beauty comes from within.

Shine Bright Like Snow White 

Famed is thy beauty, Majesty. But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee.”

"I'm awfully sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you. But you don't know what I've been through. And all because I was afraid. I'm so ashamed of the fuss I made.”

What do you do when things go wrong? Oh! You sing a song!

Remember, you're the one that can fill the world with sunshine.

“[laughing] It’s for Snow White. When she breaks the tender peel, to taste the apple in my hand, her breath will still, her blood congeal, then I’ll be fairest in the land!”

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.

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Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.

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Negative space is the area around and between a subject. It is most evident when the space around a subject forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape. A popular example of this is seen in Rubin’s vase

How Negative Space Can Improve Your Drawing

The ability to discern and draw negative space comes with the following key benefits:Drawing what you seeUnderstanding CompositionUnity in Drawing

Why is learning Negative Space Important

A recurring message in art classes and tutorials is that as a beginning student, you should: “draw what you see not what you know”, this can be easily done by drawing with negative space. You have no previous knowledge of the negative space unlike the object itself, therefore you would have to draw by focusing on what is in front of you. Drawing with negative space makes it easy to abide by the laws of perspective and foreshortening.

1. Drawing what you see

If you are just starting art and design, it is easy to assume that your work is to fill up the blank page but in truth, you need to work with the blank page. An artwork/design is a combination of both positive and negative spaces on the page.

2. Understanding Composition

Asides from helping you with the compositional elements of your drawing, paying attention to negative spaces can ensure that everything fits together with the page. A major mistake every beginner makes is to start a drawing without due consideration of the page, only to realize towards the end that the drawing is going off page at one point and too tiny at the other.

3. Unity in Drawing

These ideas show how negative space is important in drawing

Negative spaces are present in all art and design even though they usually go unnoticed. Picture this: while watching Tom and Jerry, every time one of our favorite frenemies gets punched or pulled through a door leaving their shape in it, the principle of Negative space is at play. The form you see is only…

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Chess is the ultimate mindgame – it requires every single cognitive resource you can muster up. And it most definitely isn’t easy. But books can come to the rescue. Here’s a list of 10 books about chess, for beginners as well as advances players that you should definitely have on your bookshelf.

10 Books About Chess That Every Chess Player Should Read

10 books about chess that every chess player should read

Here’s a list of 10 books about chess, for beginners as well as advances players that you should definitely have on your bookshelf.

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<ul><li>Eat and drink to optimize your health. ... </li><li>Exercise regularly. ... </li><li>Stop using tobacco and nicotine products. ... </li><li>Study and practice relaxation techniques. ... </li><li>Reduce triggers of stress. ... </li><li>Examine your values and live by them. ... </li><li>Assert yourself. ... </li><li>Set realistic goals and expectations.</li></ul>Sell yourself to yourself.

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You only live once? False. You live everyday. You only die once.

You need to play to win. But you also need to win to play.

Before I do anything, I ask myself ‘would an idiot do that?’ and if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.

‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretsky

“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.”

There are always a million reasons not to do something.

These quotes, especially the last one, really resonate with me. The Office is a comedy, but it has a lot of serious moments and many touching lines.

From The Office for Life

Once you start gaming, you’ll realize there’s a lot of jargon, slang, and acronyms floating around that you may have never heard before. You may wonder, are these actual words? Are they speaking Orcish or some other fantasy nerd language? Instead of widely known and easily digestible phrases like “Idk my bff Jill,” you’ll be tasked with deciphering sayings like “DL addons like HealBot and ElvUI,” “watch out for the AoE,” and “that dude got rekt!”. If none of that made sense and you’re already rolling your eyes, then you’re in luck because this article is totally perfect for you.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GAMING: FOR BEGINNERS IN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES

First, let’s cover ESRB ratings. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), as its name suggests, rates video games as a means of regulating the industry. You’ll often see a little section on the game’s front cover with its logo and a rating with a letter. This tells you the target audience for said video game. Kid-friendly platformers and the like are usually rated E for Everyone. Violent action games depicting blood and gore, on the other hand, tend to be M (for Mature). Here is a basic breakdown.

Understanding ESRB Ratings

<ol><li> EC - Early childhood, intended for young children</li><li> E - Everyone, for all ages</li><li> E10+ - Everyone 10+, for ages 10 and up</li><li> T - Teen, for ages 13 and up</li><li> M - Mature, for ages 17 and up</li><li> AO - Adults Only, for ages 18 and up</li><li> RP - Rating Pending, not yet assigned a final rating</li></ol>With that out of the way, let’s go over game genres. We’ll be skipping things like sports, action, adventure, racing, and fighting because they’re self-explanatory, but we’ll help you figure out all those acronyms you’ve been hearing.

ESRB Rating Guide

1) 3PS / TPS / OTS<ul><li>Third-Person Shooter / Over the Shoulder. These games include titles like Gears of War, The Division, Mass Effect, and more.</li></ul>2) 4X <ul><li>“eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate” games are a very popular subgenre of strategy games. Think the Civilization series.</li></ul>3) CCG <ul><li>Collectible Card Game. Most popular one out there right now? Hearthstone.</li></ul>4) FPS<ul><li>First Person Shooter. With such a large audience, you should know what these are by now: Battlefield, Call of Duty, Halo, CounterStrike, etc.</li></ul>

Genres

5) MMO<ul><li>Massively Multiplayer Online. This is more of a general term regarding online games intended for a large player base. It can cover a variety of genres, such as FPS, RPG, and more. The most well-known, World of Warcraft, is an MMORPG.</li></ul>6) MOBA <ul><li>Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. A recent genre that has gained serious momentum and involves controlling a single hero/champion in a team-based game that looks a bit like an RTS. Top contenders (with large eSports prize pools, too!) include League of Legends and Dota 2.</li></ul>

7) RPG<ul><li>Role-Playing Game. Put on your robe and wizard hat and go on an adventure. Or don your armor and sharpen your swords. Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, etc. (You know, those games that take way too long to finish.)</li></ul>8) RTS<ul><li>Real-Time Strategy. A strategy game that plays out without pausing, usually tasking you to build structures and armies to take out opponents before they can do the same.</li></ul>9) SIM<ul><li>Simulation. Includes everything from Farming Simulator and Flight Simulator to Job Simulator in VR.</li></ul>

Once you’re finished installing and have gotten into your game, there are going to be a lot of things thrown at you very quickly. If you’re playing a single-player game, you can progress at your own speed and look things over. On the other hand, multiplayer experiences tend to be more hectic, and when you end up Googling things, you’re going to want to have at least some entry-level knowledge.

1) 1-Up <ul><li>Everyone should know this. Ever since Mario, the 1-Up stands for an extra life.</li></ul>2) Adds <ul><li>“Additional Monsters.” When fighting a boss monster, it will sometimes summon additional things for you to fight.</li></ul>3) Aggro <ul><li>“Aggravated” or “Aggravation.” When you have aggro, that means the monster is focused only on hitting you and no other players.</li></ul>

In-Game Terms

4) AoE <ul><li>“Area of Effect.” Refers to spells and abilities that work within a certain area rather than just against a single foe. Usually these are shown as green circles (while casting) and red circles when they inflict damage. Long story short: if you’re standing in a red circle and your health is going down, you’re doing it wrong.</li></ul>5) BoA<ul><li>“Bind on Account.” Usually found in MMOs, BoA items are things that once are picked up, cannot be transferred to another player; however, they can be moved or used on another character from the same account.</li></ul>

6) BoE<ul><li>“Bind on Equip.” Whereas BoA allows items to be shared among characters, BoE means the item is bound to one specific character once it’s been equipped and cannot be transferred.</li></ul>7) Buff / Debuff<ul><li>Beneficial / harmful effect on target. These are caused by spells, potions, and the like. Buffs and Debuffs can last for seconds, minutes, or even indefinitely, depending on the game and effect.</li></ul>8) Camp<ul><li>To stay in one spot. Commonly used in FPS when players hide around a corner or hallway to get the surprise drop on others.</li></ul>

9) CB / OB<ul><li>“Closed / Open Beta.” Terms used to refer to games that are still under development and are running tests before its final release. Closed means private or invite-only, and open means available to the public.</li></ul>10) CD<ul><li>“Cooldown.” Some abilities and items have cooldowns. After using it, you’ll have to wait a set time before you can use it again.</li></ul>11) DPS<ul><li>“Damage Per Second.” A measurement of damage done by a weapon or spell. “DPS” is also used—not as an acronym—to refer to certain, damage-focused classes in MMOs, such as rogues, mages, and hunters.</li></ul>

12) Dungeon<ul><li>A separate, closed-off area with its own bosses and monsters. Dungeons often have their own name, such as World of Warcraft’s “Ragefire Chasm.”</li></ul>13) EXP / XP<ul><li>“Experience Points.” The more points you have, the closer you are to reaching your next level. These can be used to measure character levels, faction reputations levels, skill levels, and more.</li></ul>14) FoV<ul><li>“Field of View.” The area of the world around you that is being displayed at once. A higher FoV means you’ll have more peripheral vision, but can result in distortion effects when set too high.</li></ul>

15) Grind<ul><li>To do something repetitively. You can grind quests, monsters, and even crafting. (e.g. leveling up leatherworking is going to take a lot of grinding.)</li></ul>16) HP<ul><li>“Health / Hit Points.” The measurement of how much damage you can take. Lose too much and you’ll end up dying.</li></ul>17) HUD / UI<ul><li>“Heads-Up Display” / “User Interface.” These are the things on the screen that display your character’s status: health, mana, equipped items, position in a race, and so on.</li></ul>

18) KDR / KR
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<li>“Kill-to-Death Ratio.” On average, how many enemies you take out before being taken out yourself. A lot of players are obsessed with their KDR, as if it portrays how good they are. It may be relevant, but they can focus on this to the detriment of a team by forgetting about the game’s objective.</li>
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19) Lag
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<li>A technical problem that delays the game’s reaction to your input. If you pressed left-click to shoot and your character does it two seconds later, take a break from gaming until the problem has been fixed. Sticking with it will only lead to frustration.</li>
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20) Loot<ul><li>Items and drops. Loot can be found in defeated monsters, chests, and boss monsters. Usually harder monsters and bosses drop better loot.</li></ul>21) Mod<ul><li>Modification. Some games, such as Skyrim, support mods. Mods can range from a variety of content from bug fixes to new items to entirely new quest lines and game types.</li></ul>22) MP<ul><li>“Mana / Magic Points.” MP measures how much resource or casting ability you have. Spells will cost a certain amount per cast, and once you run out, you’ll have to replenish your meter before you can cast again.</li></ul>

23) NPC<ul><li>“Non-Player Character.” Characters that aren’t controlled by another living person. They can be quest givers, shop keepers, or just a random person sitting in town. They don’t always have to serve a narrative function.</li></ul>24) Ping<ul><li>Time in milliseconds for information to travel to the server and back. Lower ping is better. When people have high ping, commands and overall gameplay can be delayed, causing lag and leading to an unpleasant experience.</li></ul>25) PvE<ul><li>“Player vs Environment.” A game type that focuses on fighting monsters or other non-player enemies.</li></ul>

26) PvP<ul><li>“Player vs Player.” Fighting against other live players, whether it’s done in arenas, battlegrounds, or even in the open world. Online FPS are usually PvP in nature.</li></ul>27) QTE<ul><li>“Quick-Time Event.” Simon Says in video game form. To give the appearance of interaction, games will occasionally require a certain series of button presses to make a cool or important onscreen thing happen (e.g. make a character avoid falling boulders or stop them from tumbling down a cliff).</li></ul>

28) Raid<ul><li>A large-scale dungeon with multiple players. Whereas dungeons can be done solo or with a small group, raids usually consist of more than ten players fighting through a dungeon to get loot. Some old World of Warcraft raids took as many as 40 players working together to complete.</li></ul>29) Roll<ul><li>Randomly generated number from within set bounds defining a certain value or attribute, such as damage or power.</li></ul>

30) Skin<ul><li>An aesthetic change to an item or player. Generally, this doesn’t serve any other function other than to make your character look better (or worse). Games like CounterStrike offer skins in loot boxes, which can be sold for IRL (in-real-life) money.</li></ul>31)Tag<ul><li>A player’s online handle, or the act of aggro-ing a mob. Players tag multiple monsters and use AoE abilities on them to save time.</li></ul>

1) Cheese<ul><li>An underhanded strategy. Can also be used as a verb.</li><li>eg: He’s cheesing his way to victory.</li></ul>2) DC<ul><li>“Disconnect.” Often, players will disconnect and reconnect. Sometimes, it’s not their fault.</li><li>eg: Sorry about that, I dced.</li></ul>3) EZ<ul><li>“Easy.” A term that’s used derogatorily, denoting that a player had an easy time this match because their opposition was barely any competition.</li><li>eg: GG ez.</li></ul>3) Feeder / Feeding / Fed<ul><li>Someone who dies to the other team repeatedly, either intentionally or not. A player who benefitted from the feeder is referred to as “fed.”</li><li>eg: Why is our Vayne such a feeder?</li></ul>

Chat Terms

4) FF<ul><li>“Friendly Fire” or “Forfeit.” If your teammate shoots you and you take damage, that’s Friendly Fire. When it gets bad, your teammates may drop the FF (forfeit), so they can end the game.</li><li>eg: Hey! Watch the FF.</li><li>eg: Guys there’s no way we can win. Let’s ff.</li></ul>5) FTW<ul><li>“For the Win.” Normally used at the end of a comment after something happens such as killing an opponent before they kill you.</li><li>eg: Lol deagle FTW.</li></ul>6) Griefer<ul><li>A person who harasses or provokes other players on purpose to ruin their fun. (Don’t be a griefer.)</li><li>eg: Can you ban this griefer? He keeps setting my house on fire.</li></ul>

7) GG / BG<ul><li>“Good Game” / “Bad Game.” Usually written at the end of a game. People who show good sportsmanship usually write GG. Salty players will blame others and write BG.</li><li>eg: GG all.</li></ul>8) GG no re<ul><li>“Good Game, no remake / replay.” When you have a good game and you’re not going to play another round with the same people again.</li><li>eg: GG no re.</li></ul>9) Hacks / Hackz / Hax<ul><li>Cheating. If someone’s landing headshots left and right, he’s either very good or hacking. This can also refer to cheating software itself.</li><li>eg: That guy killed me through a wall. Hax!</li></ul>

10) HF<ul><li>“Have Fun.” Friendly term usually written at the start of a match.</li><li>eg: Gl hf everyone.</li></ul>11) IGN<ul><li>“In-Game Name.” The part of self-identification that’s equally hard as designing your character’s appearances and is frequently taken, so you need to add numbers to the end of it, making it look dumb.</li><li>eg: Let’s play WoW. What’s your ign?</li></ul>12) INC<ul><li>“Incoming.” Used as a warning for incoming monsters or players like “heads-up!”</li><li>eg: Hey, adds inc.</li></ul>13) LEET / 1337<ul><li>Short for “elite” and is also an alternative alphabet using symbols (leetspeak). Can be used as an adjective.</li><li>eg: This gun is leet.</li></ul>

14) LFG / LFM / LFP<ul><li>“Looking for Group / More / Party.” Commonly found in online multiplayer games when players are trying to run a dungeon or raid. Sometimes LFM includes a number denoting how many players are needed.</li><li>eg: LFG Deadmines.</li></ul>15) Noob / n00b / newb<ul><li>A player who is new at a game. Sometimes used to describe players who are performing poorly, regardless of their experience level.</li><li>eg: Stop being such a noob and get out of the fire.</li></ul>

16) OHKO<ul><li>“One-Hit Knock-Out.” A term often used in fighting games, which refers to a single attack that entirely depletes an opponent’s health.</li><li>eg: If you can perfect it, Jigglypuff’s pound is OP. OHKO city.</li></ul>17) OOM / OOR<ul><li>“Out of Mana / Resource.” When your mana or primary resource is depleted so you can’t cast abilities. Much faster to type during intense boss fights.</li><li>eg: Wait up, I’m oom.</li></ul>18) OP / Imba<ul><li>“Over Powered” / “Imbalanced.” Used to refer to items or characters that are too strong compared to other things in the game.</li><li>eg: Miss Fortune is OP atm.</li></ul>

19) OTW<ul><li>“On the Way.” Save some time typing with these three letters.</li><li>eg: OTW, wait for me.</li></ul>20) PK<ul><li>“Player Kill.” To kill another character controlled by a player. Used as a verb.</li><li>eg: Let’s go PK some noobs.</li></ul>21) PUG<ul><li>“Pick-Up Group.” A group composed of random strangers looking to complete the same objective, such as a dungeon.</li><li>eg: PUGs are so frustrating. No one knows how to play!</li></ul>22) QQ<ul><li>How you type the crying emoji without emojis. The circular part of the Q resembles eyes and the dash, tears.</li><li>eg: Stop QQing and git gud (get good).</li></ul>

23) Rekt / Owned / Pwned<ul><li>“Wrecked.” Players usually drop this one after a one-sided match. It can also be used when you outplay another player.</li><li>eg: Ya’ll just got rekt.</li></ul>24) Rez<ul><li>“Resurrect.” Request a rez if the healer doesn’t realize that someone has died.</li><li>eg: Hey… rez plz?</li></ul>25) Salty<ul><li>“Upset” or “bitter.” Dying too much or having someone complain the whole game can make you salty. Don’t let your saltiness evolve into toxic behavior.</li><li>eg: You salty bruh?</li></ul>26) Smurf<ul><li>An experienced player who makes a new character or account to play against lower-leveled players.</li><li>eg: Why’re you smurfing in Bronze?</li></ul>

27) Toxic<ul><li>Used to describe a person’s attitude and behavior. When a player starts complaining and cursing at others, he or she is being toxic.</li><li>eg: Keep being toxic and you’ll get banned.</li></ul>28) WTB / WTT / WTS<ul><li>“Wants to Buy / Trade / Sell.” In trade chat, users will use these to denote their intentions followed by an item or service.</li><li>eg: [WTB] 10 x Gold Ingots. [WTT] Potato for Tomato.</li></ul>29) Xpac<ul><li>“Expansion Pack.” A substantial package of new content for a game that wasn’t part of the initial release and usually costs money. As of 2017, World of Warcraft has released seven expansion packs.</li></ul>

1) Triple-A (AAA)Games that have a big budget, a lot of backing, and generally get a lot of praise from fans and critics. Your CoDs Battlefields, and such.2) BugCoding error with unintended results. Can be good or bad. Some bugs let you duplicate items, while others can break the game.3) DLC“Downloadable Content.” Ranges from small updates like a few new weapons to a full-blown campaign. Sometimes sold in groups as “Season Passes,” which are purchased in expectation of future content rather than after all of it is available.

Miscellaneous Terms

4) DRM
“Digital Rights Management.” When a game has some form of DRM, that means there is software built into it that is intended to protect it from pirates.
5) Easter Egg
Hidden feature within the game left by a developer that usually takes effort to find. (E.g. Diablo II’s Secret Cow Level.)
6) F2P
“Free to Play.” Refers to games that are free to play and make money off ads, micro-transactions, or other means.
7) LAN
“Local Area Network.” Your home network. Some games will have the option for LAN play, so you can play with whoever’s connected to your home network.

8) P2P“Pay to Play.” Games that you need to purchase to play. Can also include micro-transactions.9) P2W“Pay to Win.” Games with micro-transactions that give buyers an upper hand over regular players. (e.g. the ability to buy stronger weapons, additional stat points, etc.)10) VOIP“Voice Over IP.” A program that lets you chat with others online. Some games have VOIP built-in. Players may also opt to use alternatives, like Discord, Ventrillo, Mumble, TeamSpeak, etc.

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Be the interesting person in the room and share a fact or two. But before you do that, try not to say woah to any of these facts. Ready?

46 Interesting FACTS You Might Want To Know 

1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.3. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.5. Ant's take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12 hour period.6. "I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.7. Coca-Cola was originally green.8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand

11. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.13. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.15. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.16. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.20. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.21. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.22. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky23. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.24."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

25. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.26. It is impossible to lick your elbow.27. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,32128. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.29. A snail can sleep for three years.30. All polar bears are left handed.31. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.32. Butterflies taste with their feet.33. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

34. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.35. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.36. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.37. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.38. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.39. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.40. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.41. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

42. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.43. Most lipstick contains fish scales.44. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.45. 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.46. 98% of people who read this, don't know, What is SEO?

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Parker’s columns are like candy: read one—even a review of a book you’ve never heard of, it doesn’t matter—and you’ll be compelled to read the next. Unlike candy, however, these are not bad for you. Neither is anything else she wrote. As for her martini-fueled insults, well, the jury’s out. Either way, I am writing to encourage you to memorize some of her excellent quippage to use at your earliest convenience.&nbsp;

Dorothy Parker's Quips are Like Candy

“I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.” (<a class="idea-content-link" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4933/dorothy-parker-the-art-of-fiction-no-13-dorothy-parker">The Paris Review </a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;

For buying lottery tickets:  

“It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes. I can’t stand messes.” (<a class="idea-content-link" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4933/dorothy-parker-the-art-of-fiction-no-13-dorothy-parker">The Paris Review </a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;

For Friday nights:   

“Their pooled emotions wouldn’t fill a teaspoon.” (quoted in Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker )&nbsp;&nbsp;

For standing in the corner at parties: 

“Too fucking busy and vice versa.” (quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar by Oscar Levant)

For missing your deadline, answering emails, calling people back, etc.:

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style . The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” (<a class="idea-content-link" href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/28/happy-now/#note-10715-3">originally published </a>in a review in Esquire , 1959)&nbsp;&nbsp;

For being asked for writing advice:   

“Not just plain terrible. This was fancy terrible; this was terrible with raisins in it.” (quoted in Chimes of Change and Hours by Audrey Borenstein) &nbsp;&nbsp;

For riding the subway in New York City:

“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.” (<a class="idea-content-link" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4933/dorothy-parker-the-art-of-fiction-no-13-dorothy-parker">The Paris Review </a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;

For chiding that one friend who makes too many dumb jokes:

Embrace your inner teen and memorize some of her excellent quippage to use at your earliest convenience.

A Dorothy Parker Quip for Every Occasion

Discord is at the center of the gaming universe, having more than 100 million monthly active users, in millions of communities for every game and player imaginable. Its largest servers have millions of members. Discord's slowly building a business around all that popularity, too, and is now undergoing a big pivot: It's pushing to turn the platform into a comm. tool not just for gamers, but for everyone from study groups to sneakerheads to gardening enthusiasts. 5 years in, Discord's just now realizing it may have stumbled into something like the future of the internet. Almost by accident.

Discord almost accidentally invented the future of the internet

A community of book lovers, we read multiple books together monthly as well as just talk about our favorite authors and genres. Multiple authors present who enjoy talking to their fans. Everyone is welcome! (12k members) <a class="idea-content-link" href="https://discord.com/invite/7dQB9v5">Join this community</a>

Book Lovers Club

Largest academic philosophy discord server, a server for philosophy undergraduates, graduates, and autodidacts. There is a process to show philosophical competence, epistemic humility, and courtesy in order to become member and have access to all the chat rooms. (8k members) <a class="idea-content-link" href="https://discord.com/invite/TMfgKW9VH4">Join this community</a>

The Philosophy Chat

We are a discord community dedicated to the fandom of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi series Dune. We welcome everyone and anyone, from hardcore fans who’ve read every book to people interested in the 2021 Denis Villeneuve adaptation. Join us and the spice will flow! (4k members) <a class="idea-content-link" href="https://discord.com/invite/2jFcrVK">Join this community</a>

Dune

Bookaholics is a perfect place to discuss your favorite books. We’re officially Discord partnered. This server is itself a loving family for all book lovers. Has all your favorite genres. We talk about any genre! Events, Fiction & Non-Fiction Book Channels, Free books! (legally from Special Bookaholics Library), Happy Zone: Emotional Support, TV shows, Art & More channels!, Often do game events and have watch parties! (3k members) <a class="idea-content-link" href="https://discord.com/invite/2eSTgqVcZM">Join this community</a>

Bookaholics

Recently discovered Discord communities that made me remember my IRC days while also feel old. Here are some great ones I found.

In this compilation, we've gotten you a list of 60 Discord servers or communities which are book related, that go into various topics such as reading, writing, getting feedback, reading clubs, fan clubs of certain titles or genres and many more. With bots, channels and rewards - you'll have a great time in any of these servers. And from my personal experience, Discord communities are usually active 24 7, so once you're in, there's no such a thing as a pause or stop button. Have fun!

Discord communities around Books, Philosophy & Dune

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