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  1. The Byronic Hero

    WI: Burt Reynolds made better movie choices?

    Have him take the lead in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as he was offered, and you might see him start to consider deeper roles. The studio had doubts in his ability to pull it off, but if they accept the gamble it opens so many other options for him.
  2. The Byronic Hero

    Wank a Company, or Industry

    Kassar doesn't exist here; he came in with Warner's and only assumed control after Bushnell's ouster. Nolan has gone on record about the difficulty of an IPO and how issues both professionally and personally affected his decision to sell to Warner's. Running a separate "competitor" also created...
  3. The Byronic Hero

    Wank a Company, or Industry

    Nolan Bushnell decides not to sell to Warner Bros. (He was having doubts up to the sale). The VCS remains a success, but Nolan wants to continue pursuing a new system and technologies in order to keep ahead of the jackals. He treats the programmers better than Warners did keeping many in house...
  4. The Byronic Hero

    AHC/WI: North Korea reforms economically

    Bush is re-elected in 1992 and goes to war over North Korean nukes. After a brief, and intense, conflict, the US, South Koreans, and Chinese jointly occupy and rebuild the country.
  5. The Byronic Hero

    WI Mormonism doesn't protestantize

    I grew up LDS (non-practicing now), live in Salt Lake, and had a hobby researching the history of the Church. Speaking in tongues was very much a part of the early Church, considered speaking the equivalent of angelic languages...
  6. The Byronic Hero

    What are some "creative" ways Germany could have won WW2?

    France and the UK agree to an air strike on the Caucasus oil fields in response to Soviet aggression in Finland. What Stalin's response would be is interesting. With the Winter War revealing deficiencies, it's unlikely he masses a strike in response but he can't let the West get away with it...
  7. The Byronic Hero

    What are some "creative" ways Germany could have won WW2?

    Fix the German G7e (Type II) torpedo prior to the war. A better torpedo would give the Royal Navy serious headaches. You may even see Churchill die when the ship he was on is hit by three torpedoes (two failed OTL). The Norwegian campaign is going to see serious British casualties and render...
  8. The Byronic Hero

    Could Atari have made a comeback post-1983?

    Jobs hated Atari but had a close friendship with Nolan (that animosity likely stemming from the changing culture of the company). Nolan's connections with Don Valentine gave Jobs access to his own capital years later. Perhaps Nolan invests in Apple. Nolan would step away from the industry due...
  9. The Byronic Hero

    Could Atari have made a comeback post-1983?

    As Nolan later confessed, he felt burnt out and if given a small break wouldn't have sold to Warner Communications. He felt pressured and rashly agreed to an arrangement he later regretted. Imagine if he had stayed on and managed to keep Jobs in house (Steve Jobs' first job was Atari) likely...
  10. The Byronic Hero

    Could Atari have made a comeback post-1983?

    What Atari needed to do was listen to Bushnell when he told them they needed to continue innovating rather than sending him "to the beach " Atari could have started on a new system sooner. Likewise, Atari would have kept Chucky Cheese (useful as a testing bed for new arcade games as well as...
  11. The Byronic Hero

    AHC: Screw a Good President/PM

    FDR's Newport sex scandal draws worse punishment.
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    AHC: Have the Nazis gain control of Germany earlier than in OTL

    Hindenburg dies before the 1932 presidential election and Hitler wins, likely with aid from the same supporters like von Papen and von Schleicher. With presidential powers, Hitler can do whatever he wants.
  14. The Byronic Hero

    W.I. Hitler dies fighting?

    The "power" of propaganda.
  15. The Byronic Hero

    W.I. Hitler dies fighting?

    Stalin either covers it up, claiming Hitler was cowering in his bunker, or the body is paraded for the world to see. To be fair, the state Hitler was in at the end, he isn't doing much.
  16. The Byronic Hero

    The daily life and fate of the East in a German victory.

    I think within twenty-fifty years, the only thing broadcasting out of the East is snow.
  17. The Byronic Hero

    Could Germany have negotiated a lasting victory in Summer-Fall 1941?

    But...Hitler...
  18. The Byronic Hero

    What if Switzerland and Sweden got involved in World War 2?

    If you really want to shake things up, get Turkey to join the Axis. Able to supply rebellion in Iraq against UK as well as open another front in Barbarossa making Baku an objective. Sadly not an option. Switzerland just seems a mess with no gain and Sweden brings more to the table as a neutral...
  19. The Byronic Hero

    AHC: USA With Nordic Economic Views and Policies

    A worse Depression could make this a possibility, coupled with keeping Weimar alive preventing WWII and all of the economic aid remilitarization and the collapse of Western Europe as a competitor did to aid the US' recovery.
  20. The Byronic Hero

    Mobile tech without Apple influence

    Blackberry hangs around longer. The horror.
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