5 Exciting Ways to Shake Up Your Stale Board Game Nights

1. Play Something New This will depend on the play style of your group. If someone is always bringing new games to the group, you may have all the game variety you think you need. Keep in mind, though, there are other ways to break out of a rut. If someone brings a new deckbuilder every week, you might be playing new games, but they can still start to feel the same....

3 min · 549 words · Ian Austin

5 Famous Movie Monsters and Their Origin Stories

1. Ghosts The first motion picture known to have featured a ghost is the 1898 lost filmPhotographing a Ghost, which focuses on two men attempting to take a picture of a crude supernatural apparition while the entity throws chairs and evades their efforts. In the end, they just give up. This precursor to the paranormal investigation genre is noted for using a recently-at-the-time patented method for creating double exposures—the technique that made it possible to simulate a ghost on screen in a way never before seen....

3 min · 579 words · Whitney Gregory

5 Fictional Sci-Fi Prisons That Are Worse Than Alcatraz

1. Salusa Secundas (Dune) Salusa Secundas is a prison planet from theDunefranchise, and its harsh environment is legendary throughout the universe. The planet has difficult terrain that’s crawling with wild beasts amid extreme temperatures. Criminals of the Corrino Empire are condemned to serve out their sentences here. This brutal environment is suspected to be the where the infamous Sardaukar troops are bred and trained. A little more than half of these potential Sardaukar even make it to the age of 11 in this ferocious place—that’s how rough it is....

4 min · 695 words · Lisa Barry

5 Key Benefits of a VPN for Gaming (And Why You Should Be Using One)

What Is a VPN? A VPN is avirtual private network. VPN providers have special servers located around the world that act as private networks. When you connect to a VPN, you’re connecting to one of these private networks—and your internet traffic gets encrypted while passing through that private network. In other words, the private network acts as a kind of filter or mask for your internet connection. When you browse the web or play games online through a VPN, it’s the VPN’s IP address that gets exposed and your actual IP address remains hidden, and the internet data going in and out of your device is protected from hackers and eavesdroppers....

4 min · 838 words · Jeffrey Morris

5 Legendary Movie Directors Cursed by Their Masterpiece Films

5. Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields) Roland Joffe’s debut feature-length film is considered one of the most poignant and devastating war movies ever made, precisely because it isn’t your typical war film. The Killing Fieldsshowcases the tale of real-life Cambodian journalist Dith Pran and his journey with American journalists Sydney Schanberg and Al Rockoff as they attempt to escape Cambodia after Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge took control. It’s a haunting picture that shows the horrifying atrocities Pot inflicted upon the country during his rule....

4 min · 832 words · Heather Ritter
simple hit counter