Turkey Links for Thanksgiving

A comparison between Sidereal Confluence‘s trading and John Company‘s politics, and how the former tries to eliminate politics. The sort of post I wish I’d written. A review of Dragon’s Down, a derivate work of Magic Realm. A “cleaned-up” Magic Realm would be a grail game for me …. sounds like they didn’t catch the lightning. This year’s finalists for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. I have watched/listened to this visualization of Music for 18 Musicians multiple times. Boardgames to Go interviewed Ken Tidwell. (The only person in the Venn Diagram intersection of “People I have played Games With” and “People who started companies I applied to work for.”) I’m all for more of the “Sandman Extended Universe” appearing on Netflix (in the form of Dead Boy Detectives) but let’s get cracking on Season Two, as well. I’ve known that many people consider Albert Brooks the funniest man alive, although I’ve never thought he was. (He’s more intellectually funny than laugh out loud funny, IMO. But I wouldn’t object to anyone putting him in the Top 25 or so). But hearing that he was routinely improving for Rob Reiner and Mel Brooks as a teenager (video), and never bothered to test bits before performing it on TV …. well, that’s impressive. Ruin a Board Game by adding a Sponsor (reddit) — My Favorite is “City of the Big Head and Shoulders”

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Also, not a link, but I did eat at a restaurant that could be Friedemann’s next big hit.