Interesting Links for 01-02-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Reports Suggest Tencent Wants to Buy Dungeons and Dragons from Hasbro

(tags:games business dungeonsanddragons )

2. America seems to be very close to an actual civil war right now

(tags:USA immigration civilwar Texas )

3. Adrian Carton de Wiart - a life so unlikely that if it was fiction you would think it had gone too far

(tags:history UK Poland Italy Belgium wwi wwii biography military )

4. Study: Closing toilet lid while flushing doesn't stop spread of airborne bacteria (for that you need disinfectant)

(tags:toilets disease )

5. Some context for Edinburgh's circulation plan

(tags:edinburgh transport cities design )

6. Photos of the giant Marchmont storm drain containment tanks being built on Edinburgh's Meadows

(tags:park water edinburgh photos )

7. A livestreamed D&D one shot will take place inside the vagina of the game's biggest monster, and it's for a good cause—science and education

(tags:vagina dungeonsanddragons wtf )

8. Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace

(tags:actors Technology )

Comments

[dewline]

1. This is not great news. They should try again after mainland Zhongguo becomes a multiparty democracy.

2. Yikes.

[rhythmaning]

"and tore off his own fingers..." Wtffff?!

Also I had no idea that after WW1, Poland was engaged in four wars simultaneously.

[autopope]

I see your Adrian Carton de Wiart and raise you one "Mad" Jack Churchill, who "fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes." Also won both the DSO and MC and bars on both (which means we won both medals twice), then went on to introduce surfing to the UK. Joined the commandos because it sounded dangerous, was captured then broke out of a Nazi concentration camp, and was angry that the second world war ended too soon because he was enjoying it immensely.

They don't make 'em like him any more. And I'm kind of glad about that ...

[calimac]

I had to check to make sure this wasn't Jack Churchill, Winston's brother.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I reckon that nowadays they wouldn't fit in in the army. They'll still be out there, and we should probably find them things to do so they don't just wander off and cause trouble!

[danieldwilliam]

Or at least don't cause trouble to us.

[anna_wing]

People of that era had such magnificently exotic names...