Bad AH you just HATE!

[Umbral]

I was innordinately annoyed by the premise of Larry Nivens near FH, "Fallen Angels".

Where the cretinists win the battle for the US education, in an alliance with the New Agers.

And pretty much the entire rest of the worlds education systems immediately copies them!

It takes stupidity to a new level.
I'm also annoyed by bad science somtimes. Not so much obscure things, but easily researched ones. If you are getting a book published, for gods sake do the minimum. Everything in Eliot Maggins "Kingdom Come" (although ASB anyway), and Larry Nivens ocean dynamics in Lucifers Hammer springs to mind.

 

[Tocomocho]

-Superempire (TM) takes over the world.
-USA invades Canada, Cuba and Mexico by 1850.
-CSA invades Canada, Cuba and Mexico.
-13 English Colonies invade Cuba and New Spain. Of course, they conquer all in a ouple of decades.
-France retains its North American possesions and invades Cuba and Mexico.
-Hmmm... I said yet that I hate TLs with a super-duper NA superpower invading Cuba and Mexico?
-Absurds PODs with more absurd, unrelated and never explained consequences. For example, Bourbon Spain declares war on Bourbon France in 1750 (!) and invades Louisiana (!!). A couple of centuries after, "obviously", Sonora and Chihuahua seccede from Mexico as a Princedom sponsored by the CSA and Hitler dies in a RAF raid (????!!!!!). Yes, I saw it in an AH web.
-Muslim "Reconquista" of Spain after 1300 (plus if the reconquest is doing by a weak-joke kingdom of Granada ruled by a Castilian puppet like Boabdil).
-New Muslim Spain under Boabdil house conquest all Europe by 1500.
-The Aztecs stole a knife and an ill donkey from Cortés. Of course, this able the Aztecs to take over 1/3 of the world by... hmmm... 1600?
-Draka, Draka... Draka!!!!

 

[pieman3141]

I really don't have anything that I hate. I guess the worst would be Turtledove's idea that if even one small thing doesn't go as it was in OTL, the world would be a bass-ackwards place with heathens and primitive steam-using Germans, and stuff. Says who??? Sure the Europeans were the first to get science and reason (HA!!), but that doesn't mean that nobody else will. And if there's no USA, then there's no industrial revolution or no electronics? Huh??

Anyhoo. Someone way back mentioned RA2 as being impossible... No, not really. Sure chronospheres and iron curtains and ship-eating squids (fricking cool as they are) don't exist, but it wasn't as if the USA didn't have their act together (they beat the Sovs in RA1). All the Soviets had was the power of KANE!!!11 going for them.

 

[TyrannusZero]

I really don't have anything that I hate. I guess the worst would be Turtledove's idea that if even one small thing doesn't go as it was in OTL, the world would be a bass-ackwards place with heathens and primitive steam-using Germans, and stuff. Says who??? Sure the Europeans were the first to get science and reason (HA!!), but that doesn't mean that nobody else will. And if there's no USA, then there's no industrial revolution or no electronics? Huh??

Anyhoo. Someone way back mentioned RA2 as being impossible... No, not really. Sure chronospheres and iron curtains and ship-eating squids (fricking cool as they are) don't exist, but it wasn't as if the USA didn't have their act together (they beat the Sovs in RA1). All the Soviets had was the power of KANE!!!11 going for them.

RA2 is realistic. We need to get our scientists working on Mirage Tanks and ship eating squids.

 

[Jared]

RA2 is realistic. We need to get our scientists working on Mirage Tanks and ship eating squids.

First thing to do would be to check Doctor What's laboratory.

 

[Xen]

First thing to do would be to check Doctor What's laboratory.

Yes the good Doctors Lab, its filled with the best porn from across the world, even the stuff as old as photography, from Vintage Porn to Future Porn, I dont know how he got ahold of things from the year 2100 but he did, good for him.

 

[TheMann]

RA2 is realistic. We need to get our scientists working on Mirage Tanks and ship eating squids.

Mirage tanks aren't all that impossible at all. Cameras rotate to create a panoramic view of everything around them and then use the body of the tank as one big giant screen. Possible with today's technologies, I think.

 

[MacCaulay]

I used to hate the Stars and Stripes series from Harry Harrison. Then I realized that it was just an adventure story like Lancers of Peshawar.

I've started enjoying AH alot more since I realized that good plots can make up for somewhat lacking logic.

 

[rewster]

Mirage tanks aren't all that impossible at all. Cameras rotate to create a panoramic view of everything around them and then use the body of the tank as one big giant screen. Possible with today's technologies, I think.

Why would the cameras rotate? Assuming a somewhat boxy shaped tank, you could have six cameras, one on each face, and then project the live feeds from those cameras onto the face opposite.
I'm pretty sure it would be visible though, just due to the odd shape sitting there where you expect flat terrain, and problems with light refraction and what not.

 

[Superdude]

I really don't have anything that I hate. I guess the worst would be Turtledove's idea that if even one small thing doesn't go as it was in OTL, the world would be a bass-ackwards place with heathens and primitive steam-using Germans, and stuff.

Actually, I think in the one you are referring to, there was a plague that killed 4/5 of the European population. The world is roughly at 1500-1600 tech, and it looks like there will be an industrial revolution in a century or two.

 

[G.Bone]

Anything having the Confederates/Draka/Germany in WW2 win.

 

[TheGrandVizier]

the scenarios involving either China or the USSR taking the US as their own in the cold war. just stupid. they would have kept it as a satellite nation, not annex it!