Recent content by Shiva

I want to point out that while the extremes of the left and right are pushed to the side in favor of the 'centrists' and 'moderates' in politics and the anti-war crowd is also being ignored. I don't think it's going to take long before everything resurges. After all once America gets over the...

I agree with most of this, but I don't think America would be very happy, even in Hetalia there are moments that are less comedic and more serious. I could see America being very bittersweet about the whole thing, because while the Cold War did end in America's favor, there were actual nuclear...

I did have a pop culture question, how did Hetalia deal with the death of the Russian nation ITTL?

She'd have had to have killed everyone remotely linked to the Tang dynasty and allowed one of her cousins to succeed her, not any of her children who were legally members of the Tang dynasty.

Why do you think they killed Castro in the first place ITTL? They are delusional enough to think that just by killing him they can just swoop in and turn Cuba back into what it was prior to the rule of the Castro brothers, a right-wing military dictatorship paying lip service to democracy. The...

Like I said, even without proof due to the antics of the recent past that America has engaged in with Cuba, they are the automatic #1 suspect before the evidence starts to surface. Also by killing Fidel this way, all that has been accomplished is to make him a martyr for anyone opposed to...

Thinking of the ramifications of all this, with Fidel Castro dead in such a blatant murder-y manner, he will become a martyr for the Communist movement the world over. The blame will fall on America as the obvious prime suspect and even with 'deniability', if someone is captured (or decides to...

I know that Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld did serve as a regent for the Principality of Leiningen after her first husband died on behalf of the son from her first marriage and was regarded as quite competent at it. The problem will be Conroy and how universally despised he wound up being in...

I have a thought on Russian culture, the TL constantly lamented the sheer LOSS of Russia's cultural development and all the artifacts and places irrevocably lost, and how many Russian exiles felt forced to hide who they were to the point they actively tried to force their children to forget...

There is one religion that I think that could challenge Christianity in a world without Constantine, especially if the Roman Empire breaks apart sooner than in RL. Manicheanism. Even when Christianity was on the ascent, Manichaenism spread very quickly from Persia in East and Western...

Ever since Wards and Wardens came out the game is constantly crashing on me at the load screen, right now I can't even get past the load screen without it crashing and that is with all the mods, even the updated ones, turned off.

When talking about the political evolution of the Confederacy, I think a lot of people forget that the CSA had it's own constitution, and while parts of it were inspired or outright copied the United States Constitution, other parts of the CSA's Constitution technically gave it's Federal...

I would say that multiple religions all having their origins in backwater desert regions and then go on to dominate much of the world for centuries would not only come off as unrealistic, it would be seen as lazy writing since clearly the TL writer couldn't think of any other way that a religion...

I know we did a Manichaen Rome years ago, the only Jewish list I can remember was a Kingdom of Israel set in the ancient world that sadly died. I've been thinking about why the lists are dying out and I'm wondering if maybe we should consider a new thread and a fresh start. We are getting close...

There is also the risk that if there is a drawn-out period of infighting that someone will 'miraculously' find one of the 'Princes in the Tower' to be alive and now there is a pretender Richard IV running around.