DBWI: What if one period of the 20th century was boringly repetitively overused?

Thande

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I'm glad we live in a world where alternate history consideration of all periods is roughly equal, and in which everyone makes the effort to consider new variations on scenarios before posting them.

After all, can you imagine how irritating it would be if half the threads on the front page were about just one conflict, and most of those were about just one front in that conflict?
 
A world of pedants. Great.

Seriously though, I can't see it happening. We maintain variety around here by consistently choosing different subjects. How would anyone be able to differentiate their TL from anyone else's? It would probably come down to endless replays of the same events, adding or excepting one invention or "great man" in each. Maybe inventing some hypothetical great man along the way. Gah. What a waste.

I assume the period in question would be after World War II?
 
I dunno, maybe if a major English-speaking country had engaged in a huge war with another world power, and then that war was a major subject of movies and books for decades afterwards, and if that country had some sort of "history channel" dedicated mainly to showing documentaries about that war, then yes, I'd expect an English-speaking forum to have a lot of topics about that war, though maybe not as many as you posit.

OOC: I've heard that there's a Russian language alternate history forum much like this one. Do topics on that board disproportionately concern the Eastern Front of World War II?
 
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Hmmm, that would certainly be weird. However, I could see how one member, particularly one who was researching a timeline on a specific front of a specific war, could actually enjoy such a state of affairs, providing a poster named 23drab didn't post meaningless drivel on all of the threads.

OOC: Me. :D
 
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