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====== Types of What If ====== | ====== Types of What If ====== | ||
- | A guide to WI terminology. | + | A guide to What If terminology. |
- | **WI:** What If? (and not Women' | + | **WI:** What If? (and not "Women' |
- | **DBWI:** [[offtopic:Double Blind What If]]. Correctly, this means writing from the perspective of another timeline and asking 'what if' the POD that produced that timeline had gone the other way - in other words, asking about OTL. For example, "DBWI: What if John Wilkes Booth had succeeded in his attempt to assassinate Lincoln?" | + | **DBWI:** [[Double Blind What If]]. Correctly, this means writing from the perspective of another timeline and asking 'what if' the POD that produced that timeline had gone the other way - in other words, asking about OTL. For example, "DBWI: What if John Wilkes Booth had succeeded in his attempt to assassinate Lincoln?" |
**TBWI**: Triple Blind What If. By analogy, but no-one can agree on what it means. | **TBWI**: Triple Blind What If. By analogy, but no-one can agree on what it means. | ||
- | **FBWI**: Future Blind What If - technically a totally meaningless term, as we cannot double-blind what hasn't happened yet, but this is employed by the same role-playing types who misuse ' | + | **FBWI**: Future Blind What If - technically a totally meaningless term, as we cannot double-blind what hasn't happened yet, but this is employed by the same role-playing types who misuse ' |
**ASBWI**: Used as a thread title in the ASB forum by people unintelligent enough to realise that, given that it is being posted in the ASB forum, it is fairly obvious to everyone that it is an ASB what if. | **ASBWI**: Used as a thread title in the ASB forum by people unintelligent enough to realise that, given that it is being posted in the ASB forum, it is fairly obvious to everyone that it is an ASB what if. | ||
+ | **N00BWI**: A form of roleplaying, | ||
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+ | ==== See Also ==== | ||
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+ | **[[AH Challenge]]** | ||
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+ | **[[ISOT]]** | ||
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+ | **[[Timeline]]** | ||
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