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  1. Could Japan be fought *without* racist stereotypes?

    Western countries were objectively racist, though, so the question is basically "Can racist people fight a different race without using racist propaganda?"
  2. The Legacy of Saint Brendan: A History of the Western Hemisphere, 512 to 1400

    I added up your word counts and came to almost 70,000 words (actually almost 68,000). You basically wrote a short novel so I think 2 years is a decent amount of time to do that. Anyway, besides offering my kudos, I would also like to request that for part 2 you put in a continually updating...
  3. The Legacy of Saint Brendan: A History of the Western Hemisphere, 512 to 1400

    What are the borders of the various polities in the Americas? I know that this question is kind of difficult to answer for anything besides modern nation-states, as even the Roman Empire's maps were more aspirational than factual at the edges, but I'd like to at least get an idea of how big the...
  4. Toronto Thinks Big

    God, I don't even want to read about a better-run Toronto, it's too depressing to compare it to the real one.
  5. Dungeons and Dragons never invented

    Dragonlance was originally an alternate setting for D&D games, like the Forgotten Realms. Weis & Hickman first wrote the novels to accompany the modules. But as I understand it the setting never really took off and the novels were way more popular. The mental health thing is of course...
  6. Dungeons and Dragons never invented

    From what marathag was saying, it seems that the alternate D&D wouldn't necessarily have been fantasy.
  7. Dungeons and Dragons never invented

    Interesting, it does sound like the zeitgeist demanded the invention of the RPG. However, I did mention "everyone experimenting with wargames in the Midwestern US and beyond ". Would this mean not inventing the RPG means not inventing the wargame, or keeping it as something played by...
  8. Dungeons and Dragons never invented

    Hi, so my question is regarding alternate social and cultural history, instead of the political and military stuff that dominates on this forum. Let's say that the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons was never invented. Gary Gygax was run over by a car, Dave Arneson's family moved to...
  9. If We Didn't Shake Hands, How Would We Greet Each Other?

    Man I don't even like butt stuff.
  10. The Legacy of Saint Brendan: A History of the Western Hemisphere, 512 to 1400

    Good stuff, I just recently subscribed and got caught up. Something to point out is that the Skin Men's Dorset relatives should be colonizing northern Greenland around now, if things haven't been too disrupted by disease and so on. I think by this point the Thule might have crossed from Siberia...
  11. What could balance the Roman East trade?

    Modern economies don't trade with each other by handing over bags of silver, which is why economists of today aren't overly concerned about balance of trade. But back in the day, buying stuff from another country meant actually having less money domestically. I believe ancient Rome and China did...
  12. What if the Cold war never ended?

    How would the superpowers react to the growing evidence of anthropogenic climate change? Would the continuing Cold War make the world care even less about fixing the environment? You know, along the lines of "well, that's certainly bad but it would be even worse if those other guys get the upper...
  13. What one event from 1900-2016 would you remove/change for the best modern earth?

    Not necessarily. Who knows how many future Einsteins starved to death in a ghetto or were robbed and killed while fleeing as a refugee? Or how many captains of industry died on the beaches of Normandy?
  14. Could the US have conquered Europe immediately following WW2?

    Would a dastardly Soviet attack be sufficient reason for the Western Allies to get ready for a rumble? If Stalin went insane and ordered such an attack, would his subordinates have followed through or would there have been a mutiny as with the American Unthinkable?
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