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Post by american2006 on Feb 8, 2021 18:49:11 GMT
Depends on what year 2021 means in Politics and Current Affairs if many years in the past then Aliens, Magic and other Weird Stuff . Understood. This next one's not a thread idea, but is it fine if I post this video in the 'Funny Pictures and Videos Thread'? All it does is poke fun at Bernie Sanders' mittens picture, there's nothing political there. I think it’s fine but Lordroel is the final authority on it not me.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 8, 2021 18:49:37 GMT
Depends on what year 2021 means in Politics and Current Affairs if many years in the past then Aliens, Magic and other Weird Stuff . Understood. This next one's not a thread idea, but is it fine if I post this video in the 'Funny Pictures and Videos Thread'? All it does is poke fun at Bernie Sanders' mittens picture, there's nothing political there. Think it is okay, everybody has poked fun at his meme, even Bernie Sanders who has earned money for charity with it.
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 18, 2021 3:45:33 GMT
How about a 'Real Life Palpatine' thread? That is, discussing the possibility and/or implications of a powerful and malevolent figure(s) manipulating world events behind the scenes in order to amass total power for themselves? Or, is that too conspiratorial to discuss here (outside of, perhaps, writing a completely fictional piece on the subject)?
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Post by american2006 on Feb 18, 2021 15:44:28 GMT
How about a 'Real Life Palpatine' thread? That is, discussing the possibility and/or implications of a powerful and malevolent figure(s) manipulating world events behind the scenes in order to amass total power for themselves? Or, is that too conspiratorial to discuss here (outside of, perhaps, writing a completely fictional piece on the subject)? Arguably, such a person could be any political figure who overthrows a government. From what I've heard, Star Wars is based off of the Vietnam War and the Roman Empire. So, arguably, Palpatine was a Julius Caesar from a different perspective. Take your pick of places. ASB if Palpatine explicitly. But depending on the time frame, Future, Before 1900, and After 1900 could work.
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 18, 2021 16:56:52 GMT
How about a 'Real Life Palpatine' thread? That is, discussing the possibility and/or implications of a powerful and malevolent figure(s) manipulating world events behind the scenes in order to amass total power for themselves? Or, is that too conspiratorial to discuss here (outside of, perhaps, writing a completely fictional piece on the subject)? Arguably, such a person could be any political figure who overthrows a government. From what I've heard, Star Wars is based off of the Vietnam War and the Roman Empire. So, arguably, Palpatine was a Julius Caesar from a different perspective. Take your pick of places. ASB if Palpatine explicitly. But depending on the time frame, Future, Before 1900, and After 1900 could work. Thanks. Judging by lordroel liking your reply, I assume this reflects what his answer to the question would be? If so, while I'd certainly welcome discussion of conniving real-life figures who overthrow a decaying government and install their own, I was mainly considering a politician who worms their way into an already-existing government and progressively takes it over until they've officially become a dictator. Ditto if they have bottomless resources and countless years of planning behind them, which Palpatine enjoyed via the Rule of Two pulling strings behind the scenes centuries before he was born. But yeah, since I'm guessing we don't have someone who's a perfectly direct counterpart to him in real life, maybe I'll put it in Future History, since such an individual could probably rise in the future. Especially with the way things are going now, escalating division and crisis aplenty.
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Post by James G on Apr 13, 2021 18:21:25 GMT
Are all DBWIs going in Shared Worlds? I cannot remember if the rules are for that.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 13, 2021 18:31:31 GMT
Are all DBWIs going in Shared Worlds? I cannot remember if the rules are for that. That would be a different forum where there are those rules, here as far as i know, no rules to post it in any board exist, as long as readers can see it is a DBWI.
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 22, 2021 15:25:29 GMT
What about a ‘How Much History Has Been Written By The Victors?’ thread? I’d assume Politics and Current Affairs, due to the controversy that’ll inevitably come with it.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 22, 2021 15:31:55 GMT
What about a ‘How Much History Has Been Written By The Victors?’ thread? I’d assume Politics and Current Affairs, due to the controversy that’ll inevitably come with it. Could be also in the General Historical Discussion if it is none AH related, can always move it to Politics and Current Affairs if needed.
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 22, 2021 17:49:21 GMT
What about a ‘How Much History Has Been Written By The Victors?’ thread? I’d assume Politics and Current Affairs, due to the controversy that’ll inevitably come with it. Could be also in the General Historical Discussion if it is none AH related, can always move it to Politics and Current Affairs if needed. Thanks, man. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep it civil and free of more, uh, cockamamie interpretations of history. I know you’ve established ground rules prohibiting the dissemination of conspiracy theories here, but still. What about the ‘Minecraft Thread’? I assume it’d go in the gaming section, but am unsure whether it’s too frivolous to constitute its own thread or not.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 22, 2021 17:59:37 GMT
Thanks, man. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep it civil and free of more, uh, cockamamie interpretations of history. I know you’ve established ground rules prohibiting the dissemination of conspiracy theories here, but still. You will hear from me if the thread goes of rails. What about the ‘Minecraft Thread’? I assume it’d go in the gaming section, but am unsure whether it’s too frivolous to constitute its own thread or not. We had this Minecraft - picture and discusion Thread in the Media Hub, but it is over 5 years old and not much has posted in it, create a new one in the Media hub if you want to, you do not need to put II behind it, just call it Minecraft discussion Thread if you want too.
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 22, 2021 18:04:34 GMT
Thanks, man. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep it civil and free of more, uh, cockamamie interpretations of history. I know you’ve established ground rules prohibiting the dissemination of conspiracy theories here, but still. You will hear from me if the thread goes of rails. What about the ‘Minecraft Thread’? I assume it’d go in the gaming section, but am unsure whether it’s too frivolous to constitute its own thread or not. We had this Minecraft - picture and discusion Thread in the Media Hub, but it is over 5 years old and not much has posted in it, create a new one in the Media hub if you want to, you do not need to put II behind it, just call it Minecraft discussion Thread if you want too. Thanks again, lordroel. In which case, I'll probably set up 'The Minecraft Thread' sometime today.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 22, 2021 18:10:21 GMT
You will hear from me if the thread goes of rails. We had this Minecraft - picture and discusion Thread in the Media Hub, but it is over 5 years old and not much has posted in it, create a new one in the Media hub if you want to, you do not need to put II behind it, just call it Minecraft discussion Thread if you want too. Thanks again, lordroel. In which case, I'll probably set up 'The Minecraft Thread' sometime today. Have not played it in a long time so i do not know how much i can discuses about it.
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 22, 2021 18:16:00 GMT
Thanks again, lordroel. In which case, I'll probably set up 'The Minecraft Thread' sometime today. Have not played it in a long time so i do not know how much i can discuses about it. That's fine. I'm not an expert Minecraft player myself, seeing as I've never been great with Redstone and still have relatively basic things to master (i.e. Enchantment). Still, there are some cool mods I'm looking at downloading, which will probably become a staple aspect of 'Minecraft Thread' discussion, alongside the upcoming 1.17 update coming to Vanilla Minecraft. But for now, I digress.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 22, 2021 18:26:06 GMT
Have not played it in a long time so i do not know how much i can discuses about it. That's fine. I'm not an expert Minecraft player myself, seeing as I've never been great with Redstone and still have relatively basic things to master (i.e. Enchantment). Still, there are some cool mods I'm looking at downloading, which will probably become a staple aspect of 'Minecraft Thread' discussion, alongside the upcoming 1.17 update coming to Vanilla Minecraft. But for now, I digress. In the past we also had The Astra Minecraft Server Thread that spanishspy was a member of, but i do not know if that is still ongoing.
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