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I'm not trying to be a nudge. But I still can't understand how people look at alternate history on this board.
Many people offer PODs that are accepted while others aren't. (AN EXAMPLE ONLY) If I had a story were Pierce was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act or he didn't issue the Ostend Manifesto. Some would be in an uproar saying its not in his nature to do these things. To me alt-history is about things that couldn't happen in an entertaining story. Plus the true POD is not him making the decsion, but way back in his youth that did change his nature to make those descions that would change history and maybe lead to a better America. Once again, I'm using this as an example.
One of the best stories ever on this board had Australia with an almost whole new ecology but we can't accept minor changes in peoples responses.
I asked "what if" Operation Pastorius succeed and the first comment was "How could it go well? It was dropping 8 hardly trained people off with nearly no chance of success." well yeah of course.
Did I have to spell out, "if the Germans had better trained people with a better plan would " ...... I mean come on really.
Maybe I don't understand the rules. I always thought alt-history was why not or what if.