Frivolous ASB thread

[spanishspy]

Sept 10, 2018 6:06:49 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 10, 2018 5:16:27 GMT spanishspy said:

What if the committee of Public Safety became Khornate Cultists?

A lot more French people will die before the decide that the committee needs to lose their heads.

But then they will have access to the Ruinous Powers.

[lordroel]

Sept 10, 2018 6:54:45 GMT spanishspy said:

Sept 10, 2018 6:06:49 GMT lordroel said:

A lot more French people will die before the decide that the committee needs to lose their heads.

But then they will have access to the Ruinous Powers.

If that is the case, Europe is screwed.

[stevep]

Sept 10, 2018 6:56:59 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 10, 2018 6:54:45 GMT spanishspy said:

But then they will have access to the Ruinous Powers.

If that is the case, Europe the world is screwed.

  I fear that would be more accurate, at least unless you have some countervailing force.

[spanishspy]

Sept 10, 2018 14:42:44 GMT stevep said:

Sept 10, 2018 6:56:59 GMT lordroel said:

If that is the case, Europe the world is screwed.

  I fear that would be more accurate, at least unless you have some countervailing force.

Louis XVI is the Emperor of Man. 

[lordroel]

Sept 10, 2018 17:07:41 GMT spanishspy said:

Sept 10, 2018 14:42:44 GMT stevep said:

  I fear that would be more accurate, at least unless you have some countervailing force.

Louis XVI is the Emperor of Man. 

Not the one and only emperor Napoleon.

[Zyobot]

This one's probably against the rules as well: the 1910s German Empire goes all Nazi and, once WW1 breaks out, pulls the same monstrous crap that the real-life Third Reich did. Totalitarianism, Aryan racial supremacy, an industrialized Final Solution equivalent, etc. would all be attempted decades before they happened IOTL (yes, I'm aware that they actually carried out the Herero and Namaqua genocide).

Wonder how Corporal Hitler would like to serve a regime analogous to the one he'd have eventually ruled in WW2.

[stevep]

Sept 19, 2018 17:09:38 GMT Zyobot said:

This one's probably against the rules as well: the 1910s German Empire goes all Nazi and, once WW1 breaks out, pulls the same monstrous crap that the real-life Third Reich did. Totalitarianism, Aryan racial supremacy, an industrialized Final Solution equivalent, etc. would all be attempted decades before they happened IOTL (yes, I'm aware that they actually carried out the Herero and Namaqua genocide).

Wonder how Corporal Hitler would like to serve a regime analogous to the one he'd have eventually ruled in WW2.

  TTL's WWI probably ends quicker and with relatively less bloodshed.  Such policies would be so destructive to the German war effort and would harden the resistance of many if not all its opponents.  You could even see Austria refusing to support such a German state, or being shattered by civil war if its German minority tried to.  A lot would depend on how open it was in its bigotry and brutality.

  I checked and Fritz Haber demonstrated the initial laboratory version of the Haber-Bosch process so that would probably go ahead pretty much as OTL, although Haber may no longer be in Germany when war began, such he is Jewish, which could hinder its chemical warfare development.

[Zyobot]

I have another idea: ASB ISOTs one person from every decade since the 20th Century started--1900s, 1910s, 1920s, etc.--into a single room where they have a conversation with each other.

I've also thought of doing the same thing with American soldiers from every conflict that the US has participated in (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, disputes w/Native Americans, Civil War, WW1, WW2, etc.).

[stevep]

Sept 22, 2018 10:26:51 GMT Zyobot said:

I have another idea: ASB ISOTs one person from every decade since the 20th Century started--1900s, 1910s, 1920s, etc.--into a single room where they have a conversation with each other.

I've also thought of doing the same thing with American soldiers from every conflict that the US has participated in (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, disputes w/Native Americans, Civil War, WW1, WW2, etc.).

  In the 1st case would they be from the same country and if so which one?  Or at least speaking the same language as otherwise it could be pretty confusing.

  In the 2nd there were so many Indian wars, from directly after the revolution to ~1890 and also many smaller conflicts the US has been involved in, especially since 1945 but a number before.  [War with the Barbary pirates, with Spain and with Mexico and assorted interventions in Central America.]  Plus if only one from each side would CW one be a northern or a southern?

[futurist]

What if Al Gore wins in 2000 and then becomes transgender right afterwards?

For the record, I previously had a dream about this, but without having Al Gore win in 2000.

[Zyobot]

This will probably be fine as a thread, not so much as a TL. I'm thinking that the world goes anarcho-capitalist overnight; total free markets, unbridled business and the nonexistence of the state become the norm more-or-less everywhere all at once. Rather predictably, the situation will be chaotic from the get-go.

A Future History TL where society gradually becomes anarcho-capitalistic, however, may be worth writing about. Once I become well-acquainted with real-life history and whatever ties into it that I ought to address, I can seriously consider it. Inspiration from Snow Crash and the like will abound, little doubt.

[mullauna]

1. Manuel Noriaga at the height of his rule gets the personality of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

2. In 1938 at the time of Munich, Hitler gets the personality of the Skipper from "Gilligan's Island".

[Zyobot]

Maybe not so much one that's frivolous, but one that it's rather hard to do yet is a later 21st Century ISOT to the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis or other mid-to-late 20th Century crises that'll have taken place exactly 100 years before.

I'm also partial to doing a 2020s or 2030s-to-aforementioned events ISOT, if because uptimer socio-culture won't be so alien compared to today's, and I'll still be rather young when reading/writing/having my fictional self experience it.

[Zyobot]

Oct 18, 2018 13:58:08 GMT Zyobot said:

Maybe not so much one that's frivolous, but one that it's rather hard to do yet is a later 21st Century ISOT to the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis or other mid-to-late 20th Century crises that'll have taken place exactly 100 years before.

I'm also partial to doing a 2020s or 2030s-to-aforementioned events ISOT, if because uptimer socio-culture won't be so alien compared to today's, and I'll still be rather young when reading/writing/having my fictional self experience it.

I have another idea like this. What if sometime during the Cold War, the two superpowers suddenly switch roles; that is, the US goes communist while the USSR goes capitalist?

I'd like to do this ASB at some point, but I don't know enough to offer a much more specific and detailed premise than this. That'd just create more trouble for me than would otherwise exist.

[lordroel]

Oct 22, 2018 14:33:22 GMT Zyobot said:

. What if sometime during the Cold War, the two superpowers suddenly switch roles; that is, the US goes communist while the USSR goes capitalist?

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Is that not somewhat the basic of the book Back in the USSA, but with the Soviet Union remaining the Russian Empire.