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Discuss the first article by @SpanishSpy here.
Nice article @SpanishSpy.Discuss the first article by @SpanishSpy here.
Never a problem to remind others that you are mentioned a lot, you should be proud of it.Great article (and I'm not just saying that because my writing is mentioned in it a lot ).
Sometimes, in fact, that emotional effect can be laughter, and I wonder whether in the following years broadcast AH may come up with more light-hearted shows in the vein of La Maison Bleue. Comedy, too, has cathartic potential, and in today's world a lot of people are looking for catharsis. After all, there's a comforting aspect to looking at what may have happened if a different decision had been made in the past, and realizing that actually we wouldn't be noticeably better off.Salt emphasizes the historical effect of the point of divergence; these works emphasize the emotional effect of the point of divergence.
La Maison Bleue isn't the only example of that - there's a Swedish show in which PoD is a different house ruling Sweden that @Ares96 mentioned to me in a Zoom call that strikes me as doing similar.Sometimes, in fact, that emotional effect can be laughter, and I wonder whether in the following years broadcast AH may come up with more light-hearted shows in the vein of La Maison Bleue. Comedy, too, has cathartic potential, and in today's world a lot of people are looking for catharsis. After all, there's a comforting aspect to looking at what may have happened if a different decision had been made in the past, and realizing that actually we wouldn't be noticeably better off.
There isn't much AH comedy I can think of off the top of my head other than Maison Bleue and various Sliders eps (our own Comedy Throughout The (P)Ages doesn't count because we had to write it), I wonder why that is?
My concern is about the fact that with the wealth of information available today, particularly through sites like Baseball-Reference, Fangraphs, and StatCorner, it has become quite possible for members of the internet generation of saberpeople to cite statistics without really understanding them at all.
A good analogy, indeed. Of course there's a fair bit of crossover between sports stats and AH, as with Meadow and Roem's normie explanation of (their brand of) AH as "it's like Fantasy Football but with politicians".I just read this post on a baseball blog about sabermetric (statistical analysis) "generations" that reminded me a little of these "tradition" categories, and this particular segment reflected an issue with newer "internet tradition" AH in particular:
I feel like this hits the nail on the head concerning how this sort of pushes internet AH towards "broad but shallow", especially in TLs where it's clear that a lot of it is just grabbing names from Wikipedia without really getting the figures behind those names.
It says a lot that when I started writing my recent political timeline I made sure I had read at least several books and watched documentaries on the characters of Gould, Kinnock and Mandelson and 80s Labour to ensure I could capture it well, and even then I'm still doing research and making sure I prepare for eventual second drafting's and stuff.I feel like this hits the nail on the head concerning how this sort of pushes internet AH towards "broad but shallow", especially in TLs where it's clear that a lot of it is just grabbing names from Wikipedia without really getting the figures behind those names.
This is absolutely also true and I know a few people who've let the perfect be the enemy of the good and never pick up the pen (metaphorically) because they'll never have done enough research.I dunno. Like the thing is you're never going to know everything, at some point you have to stop researching and start writing.
Then one reaches a point where doing more research becomes an excuse to postpone the actual writing.It says a lot that when I started writing my recent political timeline I made sure I had read at least several books and watched documentaries on the characters of Gould, Kinnock and Mandelson and 80s Labour to ensure I could capture it well, and even then I'm still doing research and making sure I prepare for eventual second drafting's and stuff.
That’s why I’m still writing my story, all further research can be used on second, third etc. DraftsThen one reaches a point where doing more research becomes an excuse to postpone the actual writing.