The Twilight Realms

Pointless trivia time about everyone's favourite indie horror game, Five Nights at Freddy's. The game's creator, Scott Cawthon, took inspiration for the game from criticisms towards one of his earlier games, a family-friendly game called Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. Internet reviewers claimed that the game's characters looked like creepy animatronics. This initially caused Scott to go into a deep depression, and he almost quit making games entirely, but then he decided that he could make something a lot scarier, and so Five Nights at Freddy's was born. Scott has said that the only animatronic in the game he truly finds scary is Bonnie. He apparently had several nightmares about Bonnie while creating the game. Chica is actually a chicken, despite many people referring to her as a duck. The disturbing laugh that plays whenever Freddy moves from one room to another is the slowed down recording of a little girl giggling. The unedited sound clip can be heard if ...

And now that song is in your head. Pointless trivia time about Pokémon. Everyone knows this already, but the title of the show is an abbreviation for Pocket Monsters. In Japanese, it's common practice to shorten an English-borrowed phrase into something easier to pronounce, such as shortening "paasonaru konpyutaa" (personal computer) to "pasokon", or "sutaatingu menbaa" (starting member) to "sutamen". Shortening "Poketto Monsutaa" to "Pokemon" was just following this trend. The "Pokémon" title (with an accent added over the e to stop people pronouncing it "poke-mon") was used outside of Japan to avoid conflicting with another work called Monster in my Pocket. Pikachu's name comes from the Japanese onomatopoeia words "pikapika", the sound of sparkling, and "chuchu", the sound of a mouse squeaking. The Pokémon names Gastly and Ninetales are often misspelled as Ghastly and N...