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  1. What will happen if ancient pagan Celtic males never invented tartan, plaid, and the kilt?

    I realise that I shouldn't, but... "Patterned cloth with crossing horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours, forming simple or complex rectangular patterns" is not something that only the ancient pagan tribal Celtic pagan ancient tribesmen could invent. (That's tartan.) Nor is wearing...

  2. Which power would colonise/rule a non-Meiji Japan

    I am not entirely certain it was anywhere near as busy while Korea was the "hermit kingdom" (a phrase coined in 1882 specifically in reference to Korea) and looking at the map its location doesn't quite scream "maritime trade goes here" Singapore-style. That's a curious way to describe it...

  3. Were black magic users and worshipers of dark gods and godesses (esp Satanic counterparts) not necessarily welcomed? Maybe even persecuted openly?

    I think I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that, yes, people engaging in acts considered evil, practising evil magic and worshipping (as opposed to appeasing or at times turning to, which I've been given the impression is the more general polytheist approach) evil gods were not...

  4. WI: Someone tries to colonize Japan.

    So... Not around the the time of the Meiji Restoration...

  5. WI: Someone tries to colonize Japan.

    Question for clartification: By "around the Meiji restoration" (1868) do you mean something like intervening in the Boshin War (1868-1869), by which time the various Japanese armies had an increasing amount of modern firearms and all other Great to Moderate powers would likely go "Oh, no, you...

  6. Which power would colonise/rule a non-Meiji Japan

    Considerably smaller than either. Quick check suggests about three quarters of Spain, and three fifths of France.

  7. Which power would colonise/rule a non-Meiji Japan

    It'smaller than California or, to use a European example in order to remind Americans that not all Europeans are Massachussetts-sized like Belgium, Sweden. Also, by the time phrases like "never modernises" and "non-Meiji" becomes relevant to the implied/assumed POD, guns were very much not...

  8. The Effects of the Roman Industrial Revolution on Christianity

    And that difference is relevant to the statement "Since Christianity appealed to Roman slaves it is not unlikely that it could also appeal to Roman urban/industrialised labourers" how? Even if we don't add "...and this might affect how Christianuty develops or branches"?

  9. The Effects of the Roman Industrial Revolution on Christianity

    If memory serves, slaves were among the more notable groups of "early adopters" of Christianity in the Roman Empire, with the implication/speculation that something like that was one of its attractions.

  10. Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?

    So was Charles I's...

  11. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    For a more contemporary comparison, The Finnish Civil War (lasting roughly 4 months in 1918) saw about 10 000 killed (just) in combat, according to Wikipedia and with a population of a little over 3 000 000.

  12. WI: The Pokémon franchise never existed?

    While it is a bit unclear with Sanrio/Hello Kitty products showed up when, Hello Kitty was created in 1974 and had her first anime series in 1989... And that, in turn, was not the first anime (or Japanese TV show) that was aimed at children or, to some degree, selling toys and merchandise. Not...

  13. WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    Thank you. Although, once again "early D & D is rubbish" is less of a hot take and more "a truth generally acknowledged". Is it the Holmes or the Moldvay edition that is described as "the first version you could actually play without having it explained by someone who already knew it"?

  14. WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    I think the argument tends to be more along the lines of whether science fantasy (or specifically Star Wars*) is part of science fiction, part of fantasy or something of its own. *I get the impression that at least some other this-should-be-called-Science-Fantasy stories and settings tend to...

  15. WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    Using that reasoning most of science fiction, even a lot supposedly hard science fiction, is fantasy, which is arguably true but makes any discussion of what constitutes the fantasy genre pointless. Science fiction is very much about "scientific noises". (Obligatory-random Hark, A Vagrant strip...

  16. WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    Superhero media tends to lean towards the science fiction end of the spectrum... I think it is more that it is misunderstood - Tolkien's influence on fantasy is less elves and dwarves and tropes, and more trilogies in fourteen parts. According to several people who were there at the time...

  17. WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    Danish-American (arguably Danish-Swedish-American) and apparently spent the late 1930s in Denmark. (You can sort of tell how the connection is Danish in Three Hearts and Three Lions as it starts in Denmark, stars a Dane and references the Danish one of Charlemagne's paladins...) If memory...

  18. WI: Fantasy as "varied" as science fiction?

    Are you asking for multipolar or multiple subgenres? Because you seem to either flip between them or ask for "non-anglosphere generic fantasy" rather than "fantasy as diverse in origin and subgenre as science fiction" (which, as noted, already exists). You mean the period of the Conan-pastiche...

  19. Maratha capture of Goa in 1683

    Taking Goa doesn't mean taking over the parts of the Portugese Empire that is run from Goa anyway. It means that the Portugese have to decide where to run it from instead (and possibly that they've lost all the arcives and paperwork).

  20. Changing Industries: Nintendo pursues Manga instead of Video Games

    I'm reasonably sure that's not quite how the manga industry and manga publishing works.... Also, the entity that would decide to pursue the video game industry would presumably be the publisher, Shueisha, not an individual magazine. There is also the small suspension of disbelief issue that it...
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