Please stop with the "what if" scenarios

[Disquisition]

You know what, guys? LightSpectra is right. Imagining fictional alternative histories, nay, realities is not only a total waste of time but a detriment to the study of history at large. Furthermore, I suggest that fiction in all forms be banned, as it can serve no possible purpose.

 

[Yui108]

I love writing alternate histories, and reading them...

But yeah, a lot of the time it's just a guy letting his historical faction of choice go on steroids. Which I am personally guilty of.

 

[LightSpectra]

You know what, guys? LightSpectra is right. Imagining fictional alternative histories, nay, realities is not only a total waste of time but a detriment to the study of history at large. Furthermore, I suggest that fiction in all forms be banned, as it can serve no possible purpose.

If you freely admit that they're utterly fictional, which I agree with, then you should also agree that it therefore does not belong on the History Forum.

 

[Glassfan]

But it's just a game forum - it's not a real history forum!

A little levity is appropriate. Not to mention bad spellling.

 

[BananaLee]

Well, why bother having a history sub-forum then?

 

[Glassfan]

To speculate.

To argue.

To debate.

To educate.

To learn.

To theorize.

To wonder.

 

[Glassfan]

And to kill 15 minutes....

 

[Lord Baal]

And to kill 15 minutes....

If you want to kill that 15 minutes with levity go to the Humour & Jokes forum. The History forum is for History.

 

[BananaLee]

To speculate.

There's the stock market. Available on the off-topic forum

To argue.

There's the Off-Topic forum

To debate.

Ditto

To educate.

While the forums do facilitate that to some degree, I really don't go to forums to learn or educate in the proper sense, it's more to pick random stuff up.

To learn.

See above

To theorize.

That's what university is for

To wonder.

That's what your life is for

 

[Steph]

Well, my innocent claim that Ethiopian swords look a lot like katanas started an argument about sword types which persisted for so many years that I wished I'd never said it in the first place...

Hey! You are trying to make you the first with a claim in this katana affair, while it was me who wrote the first remark about it!
This is intolerable. Meet me tomorrow at dawn in the field behind the church with said katana so we can settle this terrible insult in a duel to the death. Bring your witnesses. If I'm a bit late, you can start without me.

Seriously, I think what if history can be interesting as long as they remain reasonnable and based on hypothesis which are a bit reallistic.

 

[Plotinus]

Hey! You are trying to make you the first with a claim in this katana affair, while it was me who wrote the first remark about it!
This is intolerable. Meet me tomorrow at dawn in the field behind the church with said katana so we can settle this terrible insult in a duel to the death. Bring your witnesses. If I'm a bit late, you can start without me.

I don't have a katana. Can I bring an Ethiopian sword instead?

 

[Steph]

I have two wooden boken, we could use them.

I know they are lacking the Tsuba, so they may look closer to the Ethiopian swords.

However, being wooden, the duel to the death may last a little longer.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Does this mean a mod slot will open up?

 

[Steph]

No. One of the moderator will come back to haunt the forum as a ghost. You know what they said about unfinished task preventing a spirit to go to the other side.

 

[awesome]

...what if you never made this thread?

 

[.Shane.]

Sure they are. Have a look at Dachs current time-line in his signature. The knoweldge and historical accuracy of that (even though it diverges!) is better that what the majority of posters here can muster.

lol, I guess I'm wrong because a CFC poster has a REALLY COOL SIG!

Sorry, you're still wrong. A thread on "what if Hitler had won WWII" is no more historical than Star Wars.

Seriously, I have no problem with what-if scenarios being posted in the world history subforum. Alt-history, in my mind, is just an offshot or a subcategory of history itself...

Sorry, totally disagree.

Should the science & tech forum have a sub-forum on magic? Maybe the jokes forum should have a sub-forum on literary criticism?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Hey! You are trying to make you the first with a claim in this katana affair, while it was me who wrote the first remark about it!
This is intolerable. Meet me tomorrow at dawn in the field behind the church with said katana so we can settle this terrible insult in a duel to the death. Bring your witnesses. If I'm a bit late, you can start without me.

(yes, this part of the thread is REALLY funny!)

 

[Camikaze]

A thread on "what if Hitler had won WWII" is no more historical than Star Wars.

I don't see how this is even close to true. Such a thread (whilst clearly not being one of the best 'what ifs'), would have to deal with historical precedent to determine what the possible course of events may have been supposing the premise of Hitler winning the war. It involves some level of analysis of history to make a judgement about what may have happened had one part (albeit a ridiculously large part in this case) of history had occurred differently. Star Wars, on the other hand, does not have any roots in history, and is entirely fiction. I'm sure you can see the difference.

 

[Mathalamus]

"What if the Turks all died and never attacked Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire became a federal State with Colonies in the New World?"

I hate them.

wrong. the Turks didn't die en masse, they merged with the mongols ( which DID invade Anatolia) in the current version of my time line. Federal states is inevitable. for the most part. the new world was discovered in 1408, not 1492, because the Byzantine Empire wanted to Expand. im still debating whether the Byzantine Empire could be a superpower without colonies.

if you didn't like my work just say so, dont beat around the bush.

on topic: i say keep all those what if scenarios. they are good ideas, but usually poorly thought out. the people can offer suggestions to change, remove or add things. i added the Mongol invasions of Byzantium because dachs said that victory after victory is not realistic.

 

[aelf]

I'm thinking of a meta-althist where the Althists have killed all the Puritans and taken over the Historum, led by an avatar of Althistian Zheng He. They then proceed to found the religion of Althistianity with the holy city of Byzanistan. All they need now is a Great Althist to construct the Temple of True Baloney.

Who's up for that?