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Discuss this new article by @heraclius here
If I can comit the faux pas of quoting myself from a thread in the Old CountryThis is an interesting series.
Alright, so alt-history ‘wanks’ are generally pilloried, and it is a ghastly term. But what I like about this series of events is that no one living through them would think it was a golden age.
The Severans will nevertheless make the list of the Good Emperors. The campaigns are inconclusive, hardly part of the great Roman roll of glory.
And yet, we know that the Empire is doing far better. It’s a fine line to tread, and you’re doing well so far.
As in many cases, the term originally meant 'egregiously overpowered, to the point of farce'. Now, it just means 'doing better than OTL'. Not only is it a dreadful term, it's conflation into the latter term means many 'does slightly better' TLs are now faced with being labelled 'wanks', however thoughtful and interesting they are.Geordie said:I do think that this site overuses the term "wank".
"Doing better than OTL" shouldn't equal "wank". Scotland surviving as independent past 1603 isn't a Scotwank. All it needs is Elizabeth of England to have a kid, or for Edward VI to survive long enough to get an heir or two. Taking that PoD to have Scottish aircraft carriers patrolling an Empire the size of OTL's British Empire in the twentieth century? That's a wank. Another example: Italy avoiding the Second World War might have been able to turn Libya into the projected Fourth Shore. That's an improvement, a stronger Italy. Italy building a New Roman Empire like in some Hearts of Iron game, stretching from Portugal to Syria? That's a wank.