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    The Death of Zeitgeist and the Reflective Superheroes of the Mid-2000s

    I remember 2008 being widely regarded as perhaps the beginning of a new era in that respect, popular attitudes towards superhero media- that we'd gotten quite possibly the two best superhero movies ever within months of each other in TDK and Iron Man- and realizing somewhere in my gut that the...
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    This forum will continue to operate

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    OfCom session for small sites trying to follow the Online Safety Act

    Please forgive me but I'm fully aware of this based on reading these threads, and your speculation has already proved instrumental in locking one discussion about it, so I'd very like to hear from the people who are actually capable of answering.
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    OfCom session for small sites trying to follow the Online Safety Act

    Not to be pressing or distracting or anything, but the not knowing is killing me- do we have any information, sense of vague optimism, clauster of impending doom, etc? Should I, you know, be working on my entry for the vignette challenge, or will I not have to worry so much about that end of...
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    For whatever it's worth, and whatever happens, this is a fantastic place and I'm glad you all built it. To the best of my capacity, I'll follow and support whereeever you end up going, even- and especially- if that place is still right here.
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    When did OTL leaders become 'plausible'?

    I've always had an irrational... AH-fondness, to coin a phrase, for William Hague- the first leader of the Tories not to become PM- and I think there's a lot of very near miss timelines where he isn't lost in the wilderness of the Blair years- for context, he's basically the same age as Barack...
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    On Trial. Day 12

    Not quite the question at hand, but similar to it- Clayton Kershaw (at his peak one of the best pitchers in major league baseball and one of the last active no-doubt hall of famer starting pitchers) and Matthew Stafford (an NFL quarterback who has perhaps never been great, but has been pretty...
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    A Myth is Good for a While.

    :) It's a thorny thing because unless you know, it's easy to miss, and even if no one would blame you (you're obviously not trying to cause offense and it's not an especially pressing issue, as seen by the fact that the proposal I linked has been dormant) sometimes stuff is weird, and we like...
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    A Myth is Good for a While.

    It is my understanding- and please note as I said above I am not qualified to speak on this in any way that matters, only for my own understanding- that it's not so much an active issue as it is one of those 'hey that's kinda messed up we should probably do better at some point' issues at the...
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    A Myth is Good for a While.

    (Small point regarding some of the words here: siwash/siawash is a word for any local Native, and a word that entered the trade jargon of the Pacific Northwest by corruption from the French and English sauvage/savage. As you might guess, that last word has had a bit of a rough patch lately and...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Okay but let's be honest if we were to be judged on the merits of one set of books We could definitely do worse than the Mack Maloney books where he travels to an alternate timeline to fight Nazis in his F-16
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    'Duffle bag' is perhaps my worst instance of this (I use 'carryall bag' in most places where it or a similar term would appear, because 'duffle bag' dates back to only the early 20th century, its earliest known appearance in, of all things, an e. e. cummings poem), but the inverse is also...
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    Prequel Problems: Michael Stackpole, The Continuity Strikes Back

    A lot of these problems of publication order vs timeline order come from us reading them out of time, with the full benefit of retrospective hindsight- I know Thande points this out obliquely in the article, but arguably the only reason we can notice problems like this is because these novels...
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    “Inevitable Cities” of the West Coast?

    Any significant port, river ford, river outlet0 fertile plain, etc will usually see some type of city, as we see in OTL across basically everywhere with significant human habitation. Major cities, though, often depend on a combination of definition (probably the biggest factor tbh- what that...
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    'Alt history stories you quite enjoyed except for one or two things'
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    I'm not saying it's a bad thing (except sometimes it might get a little excessive when y'all hit on a bugbear like NDCR), indeed quite the opposite I wish something I wrote was someone's least favorite AH, because seeing you guys go at it the way you do in this thread would actually teach me...
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    so because I just utterly despise my mental health or something, I read a significant chunk of this thread tonight and man, I'd love for someone to pick apart anything I wrote as thoroughly as you people ravage things you didn't even have to read
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