Recent content by Johannes Parisiensis

  1. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Looks like scholarship about military matters advanced enough for military manuals to be written. Looks like they're creating a military education system, maybe with cadets being attached to military units to watch senior officers at work (said senior officers using this manual to help them to...
  2. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Sure, they aren't hereditary positions but could the local equivalent of the OTL 877 Kiersy-sur-Oise edict or the Sengoku period if central authority is weakened enough by a disastrous war or an economic crisis? And it might be interesting if Mozist religious institutions such as temples and...
  3. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Wouldn't Mexico be too dry for rice?
  4. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Always interesting to know about historical diets, since it could describe the health, the technologies and the wealth of the eaters and their world-view. The fact that the lower classes eat only once a day and spend their days suffering from the prangs of hunger doesn't look healthy: it might...
  5. The Best Video Games Never Made

    SimLife 2 (2021) In 2021, in order to restart the brand Maxis after the failure of Simcity (2013), Electronic Arts announced that some of the simulation games (or "software toys") would be remade, more precise, more accurate and deeper thanks to the better performance of the current computers...
  6. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    How did they manage to attract female support, if they're doing a replay of Saudi Arabia? I'm not surprised that such restrictive rules are more followed by the upper classew, which can afford to follow them, than the common workers who need every arms. Indeed, I fully expect that purdah will...
  7. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Looks like the birth of a modern bureaucracy might make this state more efficient, by having more efficient civil servants able to provide more public goods to the population, both enhancing the legitimity and producing even more wealth and thus even more taxmoney. And I bet that literacy might...
  8. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Good, you're back! I hope to be able to write a TV Tropes article on the TL. Nook like North America will have its own version of an evangelist, universalist religion. Even though it call itself universalist, and given the slowness of communication, how many local versions will emerge...
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery

    The A4 would care, because racial strife could endanger their logistics and provide Nazi propaganda easy publics to target ("Join the Reich to maintain White supremacy"/"Join the Reich to free your homeland").
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery

    I guess that OAS-like activities might be repressed and the most pro-Vichy civil servants (OTL, even after Torch, Vichyist administrators repained in their posts, enforcing anti-Semitic laws and even making these stricter, until it was transfered to De Gaulle). Likewise, I guess the Antoine...
  11. The Best Books Never Written

    It might be a good idea to include these. At least, until there's enough comic-related submissions to create a devoted thread. EDIT: added second line.
  12. African nationalism and decolonization in a world without WW2?

    Will the White Highlands be settled enough to provide to Kenya a base for a White dominion? Southern Rhodesia already was stretching it OTL. I imagine Italy would retain everything. What about Belgium?
  13. How viable would the United Baltic Duchy have been after a German victory in WW1?

    OTOH, these mutineries might calm down if the German attack is more serious than OTL.
  14. The Best Video Games Never Made

    Does your game has societal management features, such as managing happiness, public order and health for both space colonists and Earthlings? If so then it would be perfection.
  15. African nationalism and decolonization in a world without WW2?

    It might depend on whether the Netherlands deems it can finantially afford Suriname.
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