Recent content by Bassoe

New theory as to the identity of the Sea People just dropped.

The Creator makes a lot more sense if you apply niven's law of macguffins and assume the brain uploading technology is more than just a one-off. The new asians have gone full cybermen and are discarding their fallible meatbag bodies for robotic ones, since as long as they've got an industrial...

Kai Meyer's Dark Reflections trilogy. A gaslamp fantasy version of the nineteenth century where the Egyptian Empire is the sole imperialistic superpower thanks to necromancy. The Empire's sorcerer-priests can resurrect the dead as mindlessly loyal puppets and are grinding down the collective...

a bunch of ridiculous futuristic ideologies straight from the worldjerking subreddit

Well, I'd have to assume it blows its own cover to the point where the idea that there's something in the lake that can create undead puppets and it wants to take over the world has became common knowledge. This still leaves it fairly well positioned, assuming it has enough puppets to fortify...

The Tarn's big problem is, it's not particularly bright or knowledgeable about humanity and while it's rapidly learning, it's also raising suspicions. Or in other words, while it could easily conquer the world via machiavellian trickery if it could just keep itself secret, it blew its own cover...

Ursula Vernon's What Moves the Dead could make for an interesting eighteenth-century timeline if .

I know these are probably jokes, but they still deserve writeups.

What if there's been more than one loop? Voller already managed to travel back in time to the thirties and warn the nazi high command, including his past self, only to be promptly disbelieved and executed as a defeatist madman. But his past self remembered whatever he'd said and after it all...

Assuming no butterflies affect his wife's literary career, the political cartoonists are going to love this.

What I'm suggesting is that Voller wins, in the original timeline Indiana Jones lost and the entire Nazi high command got face-melted by the Ark and changing history so that didn't happen is Voller's attempt at winning the war for his side.

Obviously, his plan should've been to travel back to the thirties and sabotage his fellow Nazis.

You'd think a Hitler clone would have a harder time becoming a totalitarian dictator than anyone else, because everyone would be expecting them to do that and preemptively sabotaging any attempts at such ambitions.

Well, yes, in the sense that he'll only be persecuted if he does nuke it, because if he doesn't explosively quarantine the infection it'll go global and he'll either die in a cold-war era apocalypse bunker for the ruling classes or be shot by his bodyguards for his keys to said bunker to save...