Recent content by Elcolo

As for who comes to power, its really up for grabs. Chaulbaud could easily have disappeared in this purge or that, while Guevara and his crew could be butterflied away by one revolution or another...I believe he traveled the region as some kind of "freedom fighter" before he seized power in...

A lot of the changes resulting from less brutality and bungling in WWII would result in a world unrecognizable to the unfortunate one we ended up with. Removing a big-business pandering New Dealer like JPK would do away with the hastily constructed 50-state nuclear power plant system that...

More of the same, at least for the everyman. The Mediterranean Federation isn't exactly run by traditional democrats, but by demagogues of the left wing variety. For the citizens of those unfortunate countries, little is likely to differ. The likely, long term result is an earlier CPSD...

Sweet, more long lost chunks of FaT. I'll edit those into the print version and update the file on my blog...eventually. As for the last two parts, yeah, I know they're fanfic, but I like 'em as enders to the story. I think they give it at least a _bit_ of closure. I wish Mike Davis had...

Hey, thats the FaT file I uploaded to my blog back in January. The internets a small place after all! I'm crazy about FaT, wish there was more supplementary material for it and a more fleshed out '80s and '90s, but I consider it an ideal piece of AH fiction...not technical, but enjoyable...

Other RTS games allow for mass-slaughter in a historical context, how is choosing to initiate the holocaust in HoI any more distasteful than sending Genghis Khan on a rampage in Age of Empires II? Recent memory, and the fact that the Germans lost. Japan gets the Rape of Nanking, the USSR gets...

Some sociologists assert that playing first person shooters and other violent video games help release the urge to do violence and release pressure. Not to say that gamers are inclined to violent acts, but I believe most people do at times...why else would we watch Rambo movies and play Halo...

I totally agree. I play HoI for hours on end and its given me plenty of mental stimulation and enjoyment, but the lack of war crimes/crimes against humanity (except in the most abstract sense) takes away from the potential of the game. Dystopian timelines like For All Time, Shattered World...

Well, he certainly wouldn't have become President in 1976... Oh, wait. That didn't actually happen. No mass suicide by members of what was at one point a respected-if quirky- religious and social organization maybe means that the anti-cult craze of the '80s is muted. Smaller and odder...

George Wallace and Curtis LeMay in 1960, for the Republicans on a platform of segregationism, hardline anti-communism and military interventionism. Those would be some fun times.

See For All Time If you want to see a scenario where the USSR came out on top read For All Time. That USSR stayed Stalinist for decades, became an industrial empire and spread communism far further than it ever reached on OTL. While the USA fell into the chaos of racial warfare and western...

its been done... you got this theory, almost word-for-word, from What If? 2.

It's been done before... study For All Time, or even Bobby's Shattered World TL...

Business didn't drop because the bars found a way around the smoking ban by removing the coverings they had for their outdoor patios. Had this loophole not been around, I bet you'd have seen a sharp decline in business, or in lost revenue from people who just "hopped out" to have a smoke and...

Well, duh... He ran against Thomas Dewey in '52, discrediting him due to the various scandals surrounding the Luzon War, and then rules as a manipulative Democrat demagogue for three consecutive terms. He is perhaps best remembered for supporting the construction of a complex nuclear power...