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General Discussion => The Speakeasy: OOG/Off-topic Discussion => Topic started by: Vikarion on 30 Dec 2015, 17:10
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...me writing an alternate history play-through of the Second World War in Hearts of Iron 3?
I love alternate history, and I've enjoyed learning a lot about the Second World War, and since I may have a couple free days coming up (for the first time in a LONG time), I was thinking of doing a play-through and sort of doing a fiction series on it in the non-eve fiction area.
On the other hand, I don't want to offend anyone. So, if anyone would object or approve, lemme know. Otherwise I'll probably go ahead with it today or tomorrow. :)
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I'd be interested to read that.
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Obligatory comment regarding the numbers of us waiting on your Fallout 4 playthrough. ;)
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Obligatory comment regarding the numbers of us waiting on your Fallout 4 playthrough. ;)
That would require significantly MORE time. :P
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I'm gonna go ahead and do this.
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Is it a blog/vlog or are you posting it here?
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Is it a blog/vlog or are you posting it here?
Posting it here. Non-eve fiction area.
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Why would anyone be 'offended' by someone writing about their alternate WW2 video game?
Do your thing man!
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Why would anyone be 'offended' by someone writing about their alternate WW2 video game?
Do your thing man!
You obviously have not visited Tumblr very much. :P ;)
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Why would anyone be 'offended' by someone writing about their alternate WW2 video game?
Do your thing man!
You obviously have not visited Tumblr very much. :P ;)
So do the same people get equally steamed up about older alternate history works like Man In The High Castle or SS-GB? The Nazis winning is a popular theme for such things after all. Come to that they must've gone berserk with Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series (aliens invade during WW2 and as a consequence Nazi Germany is still around at the end of it).
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Why would anyone be 'offended' by someone writing about their alternate WW2 video game?
Do your thing man!
You obviously have not visited Tumblr very much. :P ;)
So do the same people get equally steamed up about older alternate history works like Man In The High Castle or SS-GB? The Nazis winning is a popular theme for such things after all. Come to that they must've gone berserk with Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series (aliens invade during WW2 and as a consequence Nazi Germany is still around at the end of it).
Heh. Heh heh heh.
I'll just post an example, from a "powerpuff-girl-kin":
(http://i.imgur.com/dwC3IjB.png)
This might be a poe, and let's hope it is, but the problem is that I can't tell, because this is, apparently, fairly normal for quite a few people. You have people who insist that they are god-kin, too, and dragon-kin, and etc. etc.
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The Nazis winning is a popular theme for such things after all.
Fatherland by Robert Harris is a good book, on that theme. Though the person lending me the book forgot that his copy had a publishing error :bash: and I wasn't sure if randomly jumping back and repeating a third of the book wasn't intentional for some reason as some kind of narrative device :bash: all fixed when I bought it for my kindle. :P
This might be a poe, and let's hope it is, but the problem is that I can't tell, because this is, apparently, fairly normal for quite a few people.
I expect so. It's almost too good to be real, and there's some very knowing elements - "Then it got worse when some horrible person decided to type into the chat box "if you were a pedo which powerpuff girl would you masturbate to?". At this point tears started to stream out of my eyes, and then it got worse, someone responded with "Buttercup." < that's an adroit and well observed summation of the interwebs, right there.
(though as you say, sometimes difficult to separate parody from who's being parodied)
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Well, anyway, the story is here:
http://backstage.eve-inspiracy.com/index.php?topic=6976.0 (http://backstage.eve-inspiracy.com/index.php?topic=6976.0)
It's not finished yet, and it's definitely been fun to write.
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It's been fun to read. :) Looking forward to more.
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I'll just post an example, from a "powerpuff-girl-kin":
(http://i.imgur.com/dwC3IjB.png)
This might be a poe, and let's hope it is, but the problem is that I can't tell, because this is, apparently, fairly normal for quite a few people. You have people who insist that they are god-kin, too, and dragon-kin, and etc. etc.
I cringed when I saw those hashtags......and maybe even died a little on the inside.
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Otherkin, yes. They are a thing. I know one who can't decide what species they are. Sometimes they identify as a squirrel and sometimes a ferret. That just inclines me to think of them as a prey animal.
However, back to the OT. I'm finding the story interesting, if depressing, reading. I guess that would be a lesson to would be time travellers. Don't kill Hitler, just any of his retinue with more than two functioning brain cells and enough will to stand up to him.