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Western countries were objectively racist, though, so the question is basically "Can racist people fight a different race without using racist propaganda?"

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...

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...

God, I don't even want to read about a better-run Toronto, it's too depressing to compare it to the real one.

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...

From what marathag was saying, it seems that the alternate D&D wouldn't necessarily have been fantasy.

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...

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...

Man I don't even like butt stuff.

Full anal penetration.

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...

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...

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...

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?

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?

I know Disney was thinking of shutting down its animation division in the 1980s, which was probably the low point of Disney cartoons. I don't know how seriously this plan was being considered, but let's say it happened. Obviously there's no Lion King, no Aladdin, etc. The what-ifs in regard...

Hmm, 150,000 people is within spitting distance of the population of the state of New York in 1776. This Ming state couldn't easily be conquered by the Americans for a while, then. Anyone know at what point the US would have been able to sustain a major military campaign on the West Coast...

Yeah, that's pretty much how all the other Commonwealth countries went. Speaking of which I would think that the British would tell the Chinese New Zealanders to keep their traps shut about China or else the Anglo-Japanese Treaty would be put in jeopardy. It would get kind of awkward to be part...

Trading, same as the Chinese did. I'm not saying they end up in New Zealand; the scenario is that they go just a bit further than the Chinese actually did.

Why would Japanese ships go east when they could go west to India and south to Java and Srivijaya instead? Profits would be much more certain than just sending ships into the void. How about this? Japanese traders go further and further south and eventually end up meeting Polynesians who tell...