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So Orwell isn't Big Brother, but Goldstein?

if the Reds lose the Russian civil war, the civil war just continues when the shaky alliance that was the White Army turns against itself. Best case scenario you've got chaotic disfunction. Hopefully the lack of the USSR butterflies the Nazis because otherwise invading Russia and claiming...

The American Moonshot is butterflied for sure. Why worry about Space and Rockets when you have The Bomb? I don't know if a Soviet Union without the Bomb could make it to the Moon before a US that did but the Soviet Union probably gets further into and does more research into space travel.

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Imagine girls arguing which guy in a tracksuit with a terrible haircut is cuter. Instead we have girls arguing which guy in a silk shirt with a terrible haircut is cuter. welp it's time to invent a way of traveling between timelines.

How ever long it would take for either the confederate economy to collapse like a sandcastle at high tide, the country to rip itself to shreds in racial violence, or for them to be invaded and conquered by an abolitionist state. whichever came first.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what-ifs as DLCs for video games. My first thought was a DLC for Middle Earth: Shadow of War that was more combat and managment focussed, as the other two were stealth heavy. From there it essentially boiled down to "What if Gandalf took the One Ring from...

Hard to say. Not great cause Monarch but he is a big part of the national Psyche, maybe as a heroic defender against invaders and an "enlightened king." I dont think Monty Python would just make propaganda, so Depicting a national hero as a helpless idiot would be a transgression but less so...

Generally well meaning but stupid, and perhaps a little arrogant. Sir Lancelot, Arthur, and Galahad all want to do good but are so stupid they are at best useless and at worst actually make things worse for the peasants they claim to defend. Maybe we have a token intelligent Merlin the Magician...

Meaning of Life is more or less the same, a series of unrelated shorts situated around a theme. Life of Brian... they probably make something else, maybe situated around a different story. Or maybe Brian actually did all the things and Jesus was given the credit for it, but Brian gets the...

In that version, Arthur is a buffoon and those two peasants have to keep saving his life

I like the posts @Bib , but the board's rule is three posts per day

I would love to read more of that

In all of Star Wars all music we've ever seen has been played live. Mando didn't play a song while spending god knows how long flying between planets. He sat in silence, and he isn't unique. The Falcon doesn't have a databank with songs Han has downloaded or even a tape deck. This gives me the...

You could throw in something about Videogame Console Wars, 3-D movies, and stuff like that For years without a lot of stuff in them

I mean, crime and romanticizing criminals is as old as crime so something resembling the book and movie would probably exist in the abstract.

If Nuclear weapons aren't quite figured out by 1945, the the Allies begin Operation Downfall. Now, part of the reason Japan surrendered when they did was because they thought the Soviet's would depose the Emperor. Things probably won't get quite as bad as the worst case scenario, once the allies...

And also jokes about the Holocaust, so I guess there will be no TL-191 equivalent of Southpark. Ohhhhhhh nooooo what a horrible thing.

A line from William Gibson's Jury of the Damned, a short story in Smoldering Steel, a pseudo sequel to Burning Chrome. The Story takes place in a law firm that is staffed entirely by Artificial intelligences uploading the stored knowledge and personalities of long dead people, as well as the...

You could still have that, just actually explain what it was and what it meant. I liked the implication, I just wish it had actually been explained. But generally I agree, the last season was so rushed Essentially saving The Man in the High Castle comes down to "Amazon Prime doesn't decide to...