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For those who don't know, Jack Kirby is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic book creators to ever live. His career started in the 1930s, but took off in 1940 when he, alongside writer-editor Joe Simon, co-created Captain America. During the 40s, he and Simon would collaborate several...

So, how do people think the Internet, which, at the time of 9/11, was just starting to turn from the Web 1.0 scrappiness to the modern corporatized Web 2.0 hellscape we know and love(?), would be different?

In this world, due to some twist of fate, the conditions we know as the human immunodeficiency viruses never manages to leave a small corner of West Africa before dying out. What are the results of this? What is the impact on LGBT rights, on culture in general, of this massively damaging disease...

Disney and Nintendo, titans of family friendly entertainment with legions of adoring fans, but, ever since the disastrous live action Mario movie, the two have been on the outs. How would one foster a closer relationship between the two companies, and what may result?

Hm, true, and it would give me the best shot at what i'm hoping for here IE Nixon in office and, most likely, even MORE morally bankrupt and paranoid then he was IOTL.

Let's say that, in this timeline, due to whatever reason, perhaps earlier wins in Vietnam, perhaps the Southern Strategy failing to yield as much, or maybe just a less decisive Democrat primary, Nixon loses the 1968 Presidential election to Hubert H. Humphrey. He vows that he will leave politics...

God, I really need to read this again. Sorry to rejoin this journey at the end.

For the sake of a concrete POD, let's say around March 1965. Operation Rolling Thunder still commences, but LBJ decides against putting boots on the ground, instead sticking to the current policy of military "advisors" and slowly winding down the amount of US troops in the region over the next...

Ugh. I hate finally getting back in here right as it ends...Well, i've got some stuff to do, I guess.

Meh. I generally enjoy both Todd and Lindsey's work, but I think that second video is too narrowly focused. Todd's speciality is Pop, and, like, it's true there wasn't much anti-Bush there, but there was tons of anti-Bush rock and hip hop and the like. And I think calling all the Punk artists...

Bump. Anyone?

Sure, but my point is that Moffat has said that was what inspired him to even consider doing a modern Holmes take.

The year is 1997, and things are not great for Sega. The Saturn, despite dominating in Sega's native Japan, due to a series of bad decisions, sunk harder then the Titanic in America, falling like all others against the Playstation behemoth. Sega is making a new console, the Dreamcast. Based...

It probably doesn't. I belive Moffat stated that the thing that made him want to do a modern Holmes adaptation was the realization that Watson's backstory of being a doctor who was injured in war in Afghanistan was suddenly completely plausible again.

True. Yeah, but no clue what they'd be about. Possibly sticking to WWII, or maybe leaning more into full-on sci-fi?