Recent content by oshron

as far as mapmaking and especially layers goes, i use Photoshop and i typically have separate layers for borders and colors at the very least. my ultimate goal for my ASB ATL, at least, is to ultimately have all the maps for that in one editing file marked with their respective years, but as yet...

name recognition

i would've mentioned Siancong, but i'm not sure it was even a thing in any of the comics at the time (for those unaware, "the Siancong War" is how Marvel eventually reconciled the 'Nam-era origins of alot of their characters with the floating timeline of the main continuity) and i couldn't think...

realistically, they'd probably set it in one of Marvel's fictional countries that they would legally be able to use at the time and just retrofitted to their purposes, assuming the same film-rights sell-off from OTL still happened. after all, it wasn't "just any" terrorists that abducted Tony in...

i think i'll just about always be able to remember a given Robot Chicken sketch and bring it up when appropriate :P

alternatively...

yeah, it's probably best to assume that it's totally self-contained. there is an insinuation that some version of it, at least, is part of the "prime" Age of Empires TL, though--while i haven't actually played it, apparently AOE3 has one of its relics as the Armor of Arkantos

there's not as easily-defined a date to the Egyptian parts as there are to the Greek and Norse ones ;) and that's not even getting into the part about Atlantis being destroyed at the end of the campaign, which is traditionally said to take 10,000 years ago, so according to the game there...

think that's weird in the AOE franchise? even ignoring the mythical elements, the first campaign of Age of Mythology implies that the Trojan War took place at the same time as the Viking Age! XD (some Norsemen mention "the Fairhair clan", as in Harald Fairhair)

ahh, if only...

Sesame Street had a similar episode, which interestingly enough also used a fire and the ensuing trauma (for Elmo in particular) as an allegory for the attacks

i prefer "retroactive alternate history", personally

No it's not. Oceania has always been closely linked to Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

...you have got to be fucking kidding me.