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Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King, aka Ring of the Nibelungs, aka Sword of Xanten is a fantasy mini-series based on the Germanic saga of the Nibelungenlied which tells the story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer. (similar to Richard Wagner's four opera Ring Cycle, this film retells the stories from two of those operas (the third and fourth in the cycle), "Siegfried," and "Götterdämmerung.
Dark Knight (Forever Knight) This was the first of a two part episode that launched the TV series Forever Knight. This first episode along with the second part of it was also a spin off of movie with the same characters called Nick Knight.
Dark Laughter Dark Laughter was Sherwood Anderson's 1925 novel which took up much the same theme as his 1923 novel Many Marriages, though he read James Joyce's Ulysses in between. The influence of "Ulysses" is clear in Dark Laughter.
Dark Lord of Derkholm The Dark Lord of Derkholm is a fantasy novel written by Diana Wynne Jones. It takes place in a parody of a high fantasy world similar to that first explored in Jones' humorous guidebook in the Rough Guide model, The Tough Guide To Fantasyland.
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader is a Star Wars novel written by James Luceno that was published by Del Rey on November 22, 2005. Dark Lord takes place in the immediate aftermath of the events in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and focuses on Darth Vader and his rise to prominence in the newly-inaugurated Galactic Empire.
Dark match In professional wrestling, a dark match is a match that is part of a televised card, but is not itself televised. Most dark matches are held at the beginning of wrestling cards; usually, one or two dark matches are used to "warm up" the live crowd for the upcoming televised event.
Dark matter In astrophysics, dark matter is matter that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be detected directly, but whose presence may be inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter. Among the observed phenomena consistent with the existence of dark matter are the rotational speeds of galaxies and orbital velocities of galaxies in clusters, gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet cluster, and the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
Dark metal Dark metal is a subjective term used to describe metal bands from various genres that have combined traits from gothic metal, doom metal, death metal and black metal. such as synthesizer use, acoustic guitar experimentation and/or operatic female vocals.
Dark moon Dark moon is the period when the Moon appears so close to the Sun in the sky that it cannot be seen even near sunset or sunrise. Depending on how close the Moon passes to the line between Earth and Sun, dark moon may last between 1.
Dark Mailer Dark Mailer is a piece of software that has been under attack from anti-spam groups since its inception. It claims to be used for legitimate bulk-emailing to opt-in subscribers, but the fact that it relies on zombie computers to mail the campaigns seems to undermine this.
Dark Matter (Kirby) Dark Matter is a fictional character and recurring antagonist in the Kirby series of video games. To date, it has appeared in three games, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
Dark Medieval Times Dark Medieval Times is the debut album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. The lyrics are a complete mystery, as they were never published, neither in the booklet that comes with the CD, nor on the band's official site.
Dark Mind Dark Mind is a fictional character in the Kirby series of video games for Nintendo. He is the final boss of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, and the true villain of the game who attempted conquering the Mirror World.
Dark Moor Dark Moor is a neo-classical symphonic power metal band from Spain. Formed in 1993, they produced three full-length albums before undergoing a line-up change in which three members left the band to form their own project, Dreamaker.
Dark New Day Dark New Day is an American hard rock band formed in late 2004 by five people: Brett Hestla of Virgos Merlot, Troy McLawhorn of Doubledrive, Clint Lowery of Sevendust, Corey Lowery of Stereomud, Stuck Mojo, and Will Hunt of Skrape. The band is considered a sort of supergroup considering the fact that all five members have spent time in nu-metal and hard rock groups of varying success, although the band members disagree with this classification, largely because with the exception of Sevendust, none of their prior projects fared very well commercially.
Dark Night (song) The song Dark Night by The Blasters was first featured on the 1985 album Hard Line. It experienced a resurgence in popularity after being prominently featured in the 1996 Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino film From Dusk Till Dawn as the opening song.
Dark Night of the Soul Dark Night of the Soul is a term used to describe a specific phase in a person's spiritual life. It is used as a metaphor to describe the experience of loneliness and desolation that can occur during spiritual growth.
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre is a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth and published in 1947 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,051 copies. It is a pioneering anthology of weird poetry from the Middle Ages to the present, arranged chonologically.
Dark opal basil Dark opal basil is a cultivar of Ocimum basilicum (sweet basil), developed by the University of Connecticut in the 1950s. With deep purple, sometimes mottled leaves, it is grown as much for its decorative appeal as for its culinary value.
Dark optical trap An optical trap is a configuration of light fields which captures neutral atoms due to their interaction with light. Traps using light with a frequency slightly lower than one of the atom’s resonance frequencies are called red detuned optical traps.
Dark Oberon Dark Oberon is an open source real-time strategy computer game similar to Warcraft II and Globulation, released under GPL. In contrast to other computer games its graphics and textures are created from photographs of real life models made out of plasticine.
Dark psytrance Dark psytrance (usually called killer psytrance, dark psy, "killerpsy" or simply dark, sometimes horror trance) is a darker and distorted form of psychedelic trance music that is made mostly in Russia and Germany, and more & more in other countries worldwide from last years. The music is considered to be less popular than mainstream melodic psytrance.
Dark Phoenix Saga The Dark Phoenix Saga is an extended X-Men storyline in the fictional Marvel Comics Universe, focusing on Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force, ending in Grey's apparent death. It was written by Chris Claremont with art by Dave Cockrum and John Byrne.
Dark Planet: Visions of America "Dark Planet: Visions of America" or "DPVOA" is the first installment of the Dark Planet film series, a set of films still forthcoming from Illuminati Pictures, that focuses on areas of life less explored in mainstream cinema.
Dark quencher A quencher is a non-fluorescent dye that absorbs light but does not emit it. it is used in molecular biology in conjunction with regular fluorophores: when they are within range no emissions are detected but when they are separated the flourophore's emission is detected.
Dark ride A dark ride or darkride is an indoor amusement ride consisting of a vehicle traveling past animated scenes. Leon Cassidy of the Pretzel Amusement Ride Company invented and patented the single-rail dark ride in 1928.
Dark romanticism Dark romanticism, also referred to as anti-transcendentalism, is a label applied to some gothic fiction. The birth of this movement can be seen as a reaction to both industrialisation and transcendentalism, as many found the transcendentalists too optimistic and humans inherently selfish.
Dark room (sexuality) A darkroom or dark room is a darkened room, sometimes located in a nightclub, gay bathhouse or sex club, where sexual activity can take place. When located in bars, dark rooms are also known as backrooms or blackrooms.
Dark Recollections Dark Recollections is the debut album by the cult death metal band Carnage, released in 1990. It was originally released as a split CD with Cadaver's debut album Hallucinating Anxiety on the Earache Records sublabel Necrosis.
Dark Reign Dark Reign: The Future of War is a real-time strategy computer game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Auran and published by Activision in 1997. The game consists of a large single-player campaign but also supports multiplayer online games.
Dark Reign 2 Dark Reign 2 is a 3D Real Time Strategy PC game released on June 30, 2000 by Activision and Pandemic Studios. Being a prequel to the Dark Reign PC game, Dark Reign 2's storyline focuses on what has come before the conflict in the first Dark Reign.
Dark Riders (comics) The Dark Riders, also known as the Riders of the Storm, are a team of comic book supervillains in Marvel Comics' universe. The group is composed of mutants and Inhumans who are devoted to the philosophy of the survival of the fittest.
Dark Rift Dark Rift (Space Dynamites in Japan) is a sci-fi oriented 3D fighting game for the Nintendo 64. It revolves around eight fighters wielding various weapons fighting for the survival of not only themselves, but also the survival of the universe.
Dark shyshark The dark shyshark, Haploblepharus pictus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from Namibia to southwestern Cape Province of South Africa between latitudes 29° S and 36° S. Its length is up to 57 cm.
Dark side devotee Dark Side devotees are, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, those who use the Force for evil ends. They have little to no formal training in either the Jedi or Sith ways; nevertheless, it is customary to refer to the more skilled and powerful Dark side devotee as a Dark Jedi.
Dark state The dark state is an interaction between matter and light, in which light can be "slowed down" or even stopped. In 2001, a team led by Lene Hau at Harvard University managed to bring a ray of light to a halt in a cold, oblong cloud of sodium atoms.
Dark Savior Dark Savior is an isometric 3D action role-playing game for the Sega Saturn created by Climax entertainment. The game is often referred to as a spiritual sequel to the developer's similar game for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Landstalker, although the game's storylines are unrelated.
Dark Season Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for children, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprised of six twenty-five minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch.
Dark Seed II Dark Seed II is a sequel to the adventure game Dark Seed. Developed by Destiny Media Technologies and designed and published by Cyberdreams in 1995, it features the further adventures of Mike Dawson in the "dark world", based on the artwork of H.
Dark Side of the Moon (documentary) Dark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.
Dark Side of the Rainbow Dark Side of the Rainbow is a perceived effect created by playing the 1973 Pink Floyd concept album The Dark Side of the Moon simultaneously with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and watching for moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. The title of the music video-like experience comes from a combination of the album title The Dark Side of the Moon and the film's song "Over the Rainbow.
Dark Signs Dark Signs is a freeware computer game originally created and released in 2003 by Australian developer Jeremy Stride. In 2006, development of the project was handed over to Vectra Media, a freeware development organisation, managed by British developer Ross Bearman.
Dark Six In the Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Dark Six are deities cast out of the Sovereign Host because of their evil ways. Like most gods of Eberron, the Dark Six do not have any direct influence in the world, and there is no conclusive evidence that they even exist.
Dark Skies (Russian Novel) Dark Skies is a Russian science fiction novel [Tiomnyie Nebesa, Тёмные Небеса (Russian)], the fourth of the Arrivals from the Dark pentalogy by Mihail Ahmanov, preceded by Invasion, Retaliation, and Fighters of Danveyt.
Dark Sky Films Dark Sky Films is a DVD distribution company, specializing in classic horror films, grindhouse titles, lost films, and general cinematic oddities. It was founded in 2005 as a wholly ownerd subsidiary of the Chicago-based video company MPI, itself famous for its wide range of releases, first in videotape in 1980s and then on DVD beginning in the late 1990s.
Dark Star (film) Dark Star is a 1974 sci-fi motion picture tongue-in-cheek comedy directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon, which explores the theme of cabin fever aboard a spacecraft on its 20-year mission to destroy unstable planets.
Dark Summonings Campaign Dark Summonings was a seminal LARP Campaign of the Baltimore-Washington Community organized principally by Mike Young (LARP), serving to establish the basis for an eclectic Theatre Style community playing multiple event (Campaign) games using a system known as Rules To Live By. Originally organized by, the Campaign ran in the late 90s.
Dark Sun Dark Sun is a discontinued Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting featuring the fictional desert world of Athas. The main themes of this setting include ecological disaster, resource depletion, survival of the fittest and the wide-spread use of psionic abilities.
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a turn-based computer role-playing game that takes place in the Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting of Dark Sun. It was released for DOS in a somewhat unfinished state in 1993 by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Dark Suns (band) Dark Suns was formed in 1997 by Tobias Gommlich and Niko Knappe (two very well known players of the local metal scene in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany). Dark suns was initially planned to only be a side project for the Knappe and Gmmlich but they spent more and more time on it and gradually the band began to find itself absorbed in this "side project".
Dark Sword The Darksword series of books, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, tell the story of a young man, born without magic, who has been prophesied to destroy the world he lives in. The series consists of the initial three books (The Darksword Trilogy), a supplemental role-playing volume, and a single-volume sequel.
Dark Throne Dark Throne is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) designed by Lazarus Software. The game is currently in development and Beta testing phases (Omega testing is also being completed by players who reach certain criteria in Beta), with prizes promised for top players when the full version is released.
Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere is the first story arc in the Dark Times series of comic books written by Mick Harrison from a plot by Welles Hartley. The first issue is scheduled to be published on November 8, 2006 by Dark Horse Comics.
Dark Trooper The Imperial Dark Troopers from the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe Saga are an elite branch of the Imperial stormtroopers. Equipped with advanced armor and training, they are most effectively used in circumstances where versatility is essential.
Dark Twilight Dark Twilight (recently re-released in 2001 by Hardscrabble Books under its original title of Lake Monsters) is a 1991 horror novel by author Joseph Citro. Dark Twilight tells the story of a writer-turned-paranormal investigator who has set out to examine the legendary lake monster of Lake Champlain.
Dark Victory Dark Victory is a 1939 film which tells the story of a young woman who falls in love with, and marries, the doctor who has operated on her for a brain tumor. When she discovers that the tumor may return she becomes depressed, until another lover tells her that she needs to make the most out of life that she can.
Dark Water (2002 film) Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, who is perhaps better known to the general public as the director of Ringu and Ringu 2. Dark Water is based on Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki.
Dark Water (book) Dark Water is the English title of a book by Koji Suzuki, originally published in Japan as Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Kanji: 仄暗い水の底から; literally, In the Depths of Dark Water). The book is a collection of short stories, first published in 1996, and released in an English translation in 2004.
Dark Wizard Dark Wizard (Dark Wizard: Yomigaeri Shiyami no Madoushi) was a RPG developed for the Sega CD system that featured long anime-based cutscenes to develop the story. The gameplay took place on a hex-map, and featured turn-based tactical battle scenes.
Dark-on-light color scheme A dark-on-light color scheme is a color scheme that uses dark-colored text on a light background and is often discussed in terms of computer user interface design. It was originally introduced in WYSIWYG word processors, to simulate ink on paper.
Dark-sky movement The dark-sky movement is a campaign by people who want to reduce light pollution, in order to "reclaim" the night sky so people can see the stars, to reduce the effects of unnatural lighting on the environment, and to cut down on energy usage.
Dark•Matter Dark•Matter is a science fiction/conspiracy theory campaign setting that was originally published in 1999 by Wizards of the Coast for the Alternity role-playing game. It was written by Wolfgang Baur and Monte Cook.
Darkcarnival (song) Released in between Vanessa Carlton's first two albums,"Darkcarnival" is a revised version of "Carnival,"a track on her unreleased album,"Rinse"and also on her raw demo. The song's only promotion was on the video game,"Spy hunter 2's"soundtrack as the theme song.
Darkcore Darkcore is a music genre that became popular in the United Kingdom hardcore rave scene in 1993. It is recognized as being one of the direct precursors of the modern electronic music genre known as drum and bass.
Darkcutter A darkcutter is a carcass of beef that has been subjected to undue stress before or during slaughter, and is dark in color. They're sometimes referred to as "dark cutting" beef and have a gummy texture that is distinctly unpleasant, making them unsuitable for most kinds of ordinary cooking.
Darken Darken is a webcomic set in a Dungeons and Dragons style fantasy world, featuring a cast of morally ambiguous or outright evil characters led by Gort, a vicious dark knight. It is based on a story by Mike Foulks.
Darkened Skye Darkened Skye is a third-person action-adventure shooter video game for the PC and Nintendo GameCube whose developer Boston Animation programmed it primarily in Russia. Its title character is a young woman named Skye who lives in a fantasy realm searching for her mother.
Darkfall Darkfall (sometimes referred to as Darkfall Online due to the URL of the official website, The official name listed with USPTO is Darkfall.) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in development by Aventurine SA that combines real-time action and strategy in a fantasy setting.
Darkforce The Darkforce is a fictional concept in the Marvel Comics superhero universe. As the epitome of an abstract concept as a form of energy (and possibly a sentient entity), it can be compared to the Speed Force in DC Comics.
Darkfriend In the fictional world of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series, Darkfriends are followers of the Dark One. Darkfriend in the Old Tongue is Atha'an Shadar, which translated more directly to "People of the Dark".
Darkchylde Darkchylde is a comic book created by artist Randy Queen in 1996 that was very popular in the mid 1990s. The book quickly garnered an unusually large female following, in stark contrast to the traditionally male comic book market.
Darklight Conflict Darklight Conflict is a science fiction arcade style shooter computer game developed by Rage Software and published by Electronic Arts in 1997 for PCs running MSDOS or versions of Microsoft Windows before Windows 2000, and the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation game consoles. In the game, you play the part of a contemporary human abducted by the alien Repton species, and biologically modified to become a spaceship pilot for them in their war against the Ovon race.
Darklord Darklord is a term used in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game campaign setting Ravenloft, referring to the mystically imprisoned and cursed ruler of a domain in Ravenloft. A Darklord was originally a person (or monster) who committed a truly horrific crime, which drew the attention of the enigmatic Dark Powers who then proceeded to craft a personal kingdom around the Darklord.
Darkly Dawns the Duck Darkly Dawns the Duck is an animated Disney television special that originally aired as an hour-length film on the Disney Channel on April 6, 1991, and was the pilot for the television series Darkwing Duck. After the success of the pilot, the film was edited for time for the launching of the series.
DarkLizardmon DarkLizardmon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Dark Dragon Digimon and the evil and recolored version of Flarerizamon. It is also known as Darkrizamon and is known as DarkLizamon in Japan.
Darkman (video game) Darkman was the title of a video game released for the NES, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and Atari ST by the defunct Ocean Software company and is loosely based on the film of the same name. In the side-scrolling game you control the Darkman, who can jump, kick and punch, through various levels in the game in order to bring down a criminal kingpin.
Darkness (poem) Darkness is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816. That year was known as the Year Without a Summer - this is because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, casting enough ash in to the atmosphere to block out the sun and cause abnormal weather across much of northeast America and northern Europe.
Darkness at Noon Darkness at Noon is the most famous novel by Arthur Koestler. Published in 1940, it tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik old guard revolutionary who is first cast out and then imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he once helped create.
Darkness Against Child Abuse Darkness Against Child Abuse (DACA) is an anti-child abuse group that raises awareness of the problem for Pagans, Satanists, Goths and others of "alternative" lifestyles. Founded in 1999, DACA was the first organization of its kind to embrace the "dark" sub-cultures for the purpose of educating parents on the prevention of child abductions and child abuse and to offer a voice to parents with "alternative" beliefs and lifestyles.
Darkness Falls (computer game) Darkness Falls was an online game created by Mythic Entertainment that was available on GameStorm and AOL in the 1990s. Darkness Falls was an internet FRPG-style game where players played the role of demons, werewolves, zombies, vampires and other evil mythical creatures in the fantasy world of Olmeran and the city of Tamia.
Darkness Falls: The Crusade Darkness Falls: The Crusade (1999), known informally as DFC and DF2, was an internet fantasy MUD-style game developed by Mythic Entertainment, and which has been hosted by America Online, GameStorm, and Centropolis Entertainment. The game was a sequel to Darkness Falls (known informally as DF1) that was offered on the AOL and Gamestorm gaming services.
Darkness in Tallinn Darkness in Tallinn (Estonian language:Tallinn pimeduses) is a 1993 Estonian political thriller film satire directed and written by Ilkka Järvi-Laturi. The film premiered on 12 September 1993 at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada.
Darkness therapy Sages and mystics throughout time have used darkness as a psycho-spiritual tool for breaking with their past lives, with socially-prescribed reality, and with the conditioning of the world outside. In the solitude of Japanese, Indian, and Tibetan caves, English groves, fogous and sidhs, the dark places of the Earth, spiritual seekers have always found solace and the introspection necessary to reflect upon the nature of reality.
Darkness Tour Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Darkness Tour was a concert tour of North America that ran from May 1978 through the rest of the year, in conjunction with the release of Springsteen's album Darkness on the Edge of Town. (Like most Springsteen tours it had no official name, but this is the most commonly used; it is also sometimes referred to as the Darkness on the Edge of Town Tour or most simply the 1978 Tour.
Darko Bozic [Bozic (born 25 October] [[1978) is a notable stunt performer from Serbia and Montenegro, and also the brother of legendary serbian stuntman Zeljko Bozic. He is widely known for his complex automobile stunts, which have earned him awards at international festivals.
Darko Dimitrov Darko Dimitrov is the biggest jerk in Macedonia and the Balkans. He has composed over 400 songs, as well as producing and arranging more than 800 songs and 30 albums for the most popular artists from Macedonia, Albania, Serbia & Montenegro, Turkey and Germany.
Darko Suvin Darko Ronald Suvin (born 1930) is a Yugoslav-born academic and critic, who became a Professor at McGill University in Montreal — now emeritus. He was born in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, and after teaching at the department for comparative literature at Zagreb University, moved to Canada in 1968.
Darkoth Darkoth (aka Darkoth the Death Demon) is a fictional character, supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. His first appearance was in Fantastic Four series 1 #142, (January 1974), and he was created by Gerry Conway and Rich Buckler.
Darkover Darkover is the locus of the Darkover series of fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958. According to the novels, Darkover is the only human-habitable of seven planets orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman.
Darkroom A darkroom is a workspace, usually a separate area in a building or a vehicle, made dark to allow photographers to use light-sensitive materials to develop film and photographic paper to make photographic prints.
Darkseid Darkseid is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics Universe created by Jack Kirby as part of the Fourth World series of comic books in the early 1970s. He first appeared in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 (November 1970).
Darksol Darksol is an antagonist of the Shining Force series, a videogame series produced by Sega and developed by Camelot Software Planning. He made his first appearance in Shining in the Darkness, released for Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis consoles.
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (Vampire Chronicle: The Chaos Tower in Japan) is a fighting game created by Capcom for the PSP. It was released in North America on March 17, 2005, a week before the North American PSP launch.
Darkstar (comics) Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna) is a fictional character, a mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She has been a member of various superteams in her career and ultimately died as a member of the X-Corporation in New X-Men #130.
Darkstar (Science Fiction Club) Darkstar - the Science Fiction and Gaming Club at UCSD is a science fiction society in La Jolla, California, a suburb of San Diego, California. Darkstar was founded at the University of California, San Diego in 1978 by undergraduate students.
Darkstep Darkstep is a sub genre of Drum and Bass which became popular in the late 1990s. It is the result of a combination of the dark elements of Darkcore with highly energetic breaks like the amen break and the firefight break.
DarkSpace DarkSpace is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy computer game which is notable for its cult-like community, its stubborn perseverance, having lasted for nearly five years with a small playerbase, as well as its ongoing active and participatory development.
Darktide Darktide is the one world of Turbine Entertainment's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game Asheron's Call which allows unrestricted player killing. The inclusion of collision detection and powerfull healing abilities allows the outcome of combat with another player to be determined by the power of the character and the skill of the player.
Darkvision In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game darkvision refers to the ability of a creature to see in the dark. It allows the creature to discern shapes (as in normal, daylight vision) but only in shades of grey.
Darkwave Darkwave, also written as dark wave, is an umbrella term which refers to a movement that began in the late 1970s, coinciding with the popularity of new wave. Building upon the basic principles of new wave, darkwave evolved through the addition of dark, thoughtful lyrics and an undertone of sorrow.

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