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  1. WI - A Non-aligned post-1990 Hungary

    How do you think Hungary would have turned out, if it became a Democratic country in 1990, and had the Soviet troops depart it in 1991, yet it never decided to join NATO in 1998, and join the EU in 2004? What fate would you think the most likely has occured for this country if what was...
  2. WI: More Western MMORPGs had a priestly class of a more explicitly Christian bent?

    In the Ragnarok Online universe lore, an Acolyte or Priest doesn't have magical powers on their own, instead they basically say a mental prayer that they want to Heal a fellow human, or render an Undead inanimate, and God agrees, granting the cleric the power. This seems similar to...
  3. Which were your favourite episodes of Sliders?

    I looked it up, apparently the new Macgyver series started airing here about a week ago, but this happened back around October last year, so the kids must have been talking about the 80s series. Another interesting bit of Sliders trivia from Hungary, about 2 years ago I was visiting a friend...
  4. Which were your favourite episodes of Sliders?

    I find it a very interesting cultural phenomenon when a show which didn't have such a large fandom in its country of origin to begin with and has since largely faded into obscurity, unexpectedly gathers a much more diverse circle of fans in a totally different place and is still somewhat...
  5. Which were your favourite episodes of Sliders?

    Toughness and no-nonsense pragmatism.
  6. Which were your favourite episodes of Sliders?

    For us, it was simply the run of the weekly Saturday TV-shows. Early Afternoon: A Latin-American soap-opera, Mid-Afternoon: Sliders, Late-Afternoon: Stargate. This schedule was running on a widespread commercial TV-station which everyone could receive in the country with a rooftop antenna, and...
  7. Which were your favourite episodes of Sliders?

    I liked "Applied Physics" for the same reason. Like an echo of Season 4 in Season 5, but with Diana. Yeah, don't remind me of the time when I smashed my fist against the floor so hard it hurt, then went outside to kick the trunk of a pine tree until my parents came out to ask what's my...
  8. Which were your favourite episodes of Sliders?

    From the ones you listed my favorites are Exodus and World Killer. I also have a soft spot for Roads Taken. I remember bawling my eyes out over it when I first saw it as a child, and no matter how often I see it again, it always makes me cry, especially the part where Quinn and Maggie's life is...
  9. WI: More Western MMORPGs had a priestly class of a more explicitly Christian bent?

    In the Warcraft Universe, the faith of the Human race was increasingly retconned into a more "spiritual but not theistic" leaning from Warcraft 1 onwards, eventually resulting in the religion of the Holy Light which is kinda like Unitarian Universalism mixed with Buddhism, but keeping the...
  10. AHC/WI: An alternative Elitist religion for Medieval Europe?

    That is more like the final goal of Buddhism. In Manichaeism and a lot of other Gnostic religions, the Material World is Evil, created entirely by Satan, or a Demiurge, a Trickster God, while the Spiritual World is Good created by the true God. After death, you would be able to shed all of your...
  11. AHC/WI: An alternative Elitist religion for Medieval Europe?

    The main tenet of this religion would be that it would offer nothing for common people after death, just the chance to continue on with their lives with no misfortunes. They would survive, be able to father children, and not contract deadly diseases. However if they stray from it, e.g they don't...
  12. AHC/WI: An alternative Elitist religion for Medieval Europe?

    So let's imagine that for some reason both Christianity and Paganism die out in Early Medieval Europe, and a new religion, with some relation to Manichaeism and Gnosticism comes to be dominant in Europe after the 3rd Century CE. In this religion, there is a whole Priestly caste called the...
  13. WI: Magyars convert to Orthodoxy

    Is it possible that this TL would have led to a better Hungarian-Romanian relationship in the present day? For example more Hungarian and Romanian soldiers would have joined arms against the Ottoman occupation, more Hungarian nobles would have been sympathetic to Romanians, and Romanian folk...
  14. WI: Magyars convert to Orthodoxy

    I'd be happier. :) Even though I'm an Atheist, I love Orthodox Christian liturgies from an artistic and traditional aspect. Being able to attend one near my home would be a great experience. ;) More seriously, I think Hungary would have become much more strongly an Eastern European country...
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