How to pronounce “dung” in English

- Absolutely. In those days, there was a great stigma to mentioning your, any real-life info. You just kind of kept it all really close to your chest, and you never knewdungeon, and everything goes wrong, as it's prone to do in EverQuest.

So it was a really fun process in that respect.Dungeons and Dragons is-- you homebrew it.

make head nor tails of."Dungeons and Dragons" is now everywhere.

And it's like two hours long, two and a half hours long.Dungeons & Dragons-- for the things that actually matter so that you're not waking up and every morning deciding what to have for breakfast.

for a lot of people I think when they read these books and they open up the next dark elf book it just puts them back to 1989, or 1992, or 1995 or whatever when they were playingDungeons and Dragons with their friends. So it's almost like a lifeline home for a lot of people and it is for me as well when I'm writing. So it's been it's been a couple coolepiphanies that have happened as we've gone through and. So if you and the other thing is last month, July, marked 25 years ago, last month, July 1987 is when I started writing

- That's exactly right. I mean, even Alcuin, I think he writes a little later on that the dead were left as dung in the streets. So he's describing dead monks asliteral dung in the streets. And, you know, who would do this to men of God?Inhuman monsters. - So who were they, the Vikings, coming from the north? How did they think of the violence that they were doing?

Fast trial and error, very pragmatic.So Dung Xiaoping, the leader, talked about crossing the river by feeling the stones.The CEO of GM China talks about failing in a government-sponsored direction, electric vehicle.

I mean, and I'm just having some new realizations as we're sitting here, but I'm just like, that's pretty weird.into "Dungeons and Dragons." And then eventually, I was like, OK.

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We're not skipping this slide.So "Dungeons and Dragons is certainly having a moment right now.The game is as popular as it's ever been, but it hasn't always been this way.

And we've got to this point where the vernacular and the shorthand about gaming and some of the important principles that were inventedby "Dungeons and Dragons," leveling up and XP, are all part of our culture already.So in a sense, people have already been playing "Dungeons and Dragons." And now they're exposed to it, and there's this easy entry

make head nor tails of.that "Dungeons and Dragons" does-- it's not ambiguous-- it does drive your children insane.

make head nor tails of.And "Dungeons and Dragons" provides him that.

money that way. It gave us a framework of how to operate in this world." Characters in place, Arneson sent the players to explorethe dungeons beneath the castle in town.Inside, he hit them with another twist-- the subterranean passages weren't defended by human soldiers but inhabited by fantastic monsters, like a

intelligence whatsoever, I would direct my interest to something fascinating and unique-- the Balkan Wars, for example." No matter.The Dungeon Master want to choose his own adventure.Gygax had aspirations to run his own company-- he just didn't have the time and money to start printing books.

Williams College, up the road from Lake Geneva in a town called Williams Bay.Because "Dungeons & Dragons" is one of those things that was not only sort of a seminal game and a cultural force in

Pit vipers detect infrared light with night vision sensitive enough to notice when temperatures vary by 1,000th of a degree.And even the tiny dung beetle have evolved to use light from the Milky Way for navigation.Now, despite the ingenuity of these animals, I should mention that nature and human innovations differ in significant ways, too.

political freedom because you can't stay a single party system if you give your citizens political freedom but to everyone surprisedincluding not least Mr dung that worked there was enough economic freedom topull China out especially Shenzhen the southern uh what's now becom the electronics District was one of the

Anyway, we have a dinosaur pie, right?A dinosaur heap of dung, and it looked like elephant dung.And I said, we can't look like elephant dung.

As long as you don't have to handle it.It defies the dung law, though.The one that's in the movie, you know?

The one that's in the movie, you know?A pile of dung should never be any higher than the place it came from.Good to remember. Yeah.

We send in there a bit of synthesized mammoth DNA.Elephants eat the dung of their moms just after they're born in order to establish the microbial community that they need to break down

So interestingly enough for many of you-- who may or may not know-- one of the best forms of manure which we have experimented with is made with cow dung.So cow dung is one of the top-notch fertilizers which actually creates such a fertile ground.So if you leave the cow and the earth alone, both will sustain each other.

The cow will eat the good, give cow dung.That cow dung will give more grass when it hits the ground.And in this way, both take care of each other perfectly well.

So how does the food come?So from the cow dung, you have other kinds of crops which can be grown.So on that card what you see is rice.

So how do you use that?So the cow dung, again, is used in what is known as a bio-gas plant.So in a bio-gas plant, cow dung becomes an input.

World cattle dung-- and people in India collect that.

made of dried cow dung which is interesting.

random generation of the dungeons, - Yeah.

We're-- like Coach Dungy said, we're almost 24, 25 years into this, and I'm just so thankful.

That's why Coach Dungy's wife Lauren helped me.

This was their introduction.Welcome to "Dungeons and Dragons." You die.Enjoy the Tomb of Horrors.

It's competitive. You have all these different groups, and they're all running concurrent.There are different dungeon masters running each group.So Gary knew, because up until now, what is he doing?

make head nor tails of.to the Dungeon Master's chair.

the twisted dungeon of the mind of the Dungeon Master.

We designed our own dungeons, became fanatical players, wrote some of the parts of the rules and booklets for D&D.

and played Dungeons and Dragons.

and you played Dungeons and Dragons, and you read fantasy and science fiction.

So he plays Dungeons and Dragons with his friends on the weekend, and then he's on the flag football team.

BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY: Dungeon in English.

So the kind of 60-second ancestry, before I get to reading a little bit of the book, is that role-playinggames like "Dungeons & Dragons." I kind of trace their origins all the way back to chess.Which if you think about it, is really a war game.

Williams College, up the road from Lake Geneva in a town called Williams Bay.the first box of "Dungeons & Dragons" had a stolen piece of artwork on the cover?

have a dungeon. They have all the things that a castle should have, a moat. And you can

So biological also-- it's 18 and16, which is much less than the standard specification.So then you use the cow dung as manure, but then, when it comes in contact with the grasses and the plants, then that insect again,

So biological also-- it's 18 and16, which is much less than the standard specification.So we have using the cow dung a manure, but the cow dung has sometimes these insects which act against the interest of what we are trying.

- Absolutely. In those days, there was a great stigma to mentioning your, any real-life info. You just kind of kept it all really close to your chest, and you never knewjust stealth and get out of the dungeon on my own. So I saved Barfa, not really knowing who Barfa was, and I did it with a very expensive

He likes to joke he minored in Dungeons and Dragons.

Because we played songs about things like Dungeons and Dragons and dinosaurs.

We're "Critical Role." We play "Dungeons and Dragons." He's like what are you?