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See, the confusing thing about the Mushroom World is that while it's allegedly set mainly within a medieval-style kingdom where spears, heavy armor, steam trains, wooden ships, and dirt roads are the norm, the games (especially the RPGs) are chock-full of modern-day technologies like televisions, cars, neon signs, electric lights, jukeboxes, conveyor belts, bazookas, computers, pagers and cell phones (both with ringtones), rocket ships, jet planes, blimps, handheld video game consoles, and more.

While some of this could be chalked up to geniuses existing(E.Gadd, Bowser, Wario)I think there is also another explanation.

See, in Bowser's Inside Story we see Bowser has Shroobs frozen in his basement, very likely for research of their tech given how smart Bowser is. Given that Bowser did it, I think it is quite likely the other kingdoms of the world also snatched up some of the Shroobs to understand their advanced technology.

What we see in the Mushroom World today is the result: medieval kingdoms have basically leapfrogged ahead to modern levels of tech thanks to studying the Shroob, which is why the various Kingdoms are a weird mix of modern and medieval.

A side note is that this gets into sort of dark territory that the various kingdoms basically frozen an entire species and are experimenting on them to find their tech, but that's a note for another day.

TL;DR: the various Kingdoms studying Shroob Tech explains why the tech in the Mushroom World is both modern and medieval.

See, if John really faked his death(which I personally don't believe, but since there is a John Wick 5 I must guess I am wrong) there's got to be a way to bring him back into the mess, because the Harbinger literally said that he was free of all obligation to the High Table.

My theory goes something like this: by the end of 4, John has died as a martyr against the High Table, literally going unpunished more or less for killing the Elder and the Marquis. At the same time , Eve in Ballerina has literally destroyed the Cult with the help of John.

This likely encouraged a wave of anti-High Table rebellions to occur, to the point where the High Table collapses entirely. As a result, the criminal underworld plummets into anarchy, with violence being committed everywhere, even on Continentals.

Perhaps a incident even occurs on the New York Continental which kills or at least wounds Winston, forcing John back into the game.

I dunno, these are just my ideas. I'm personally not fond of the idea of a sequel, but it's not my decision.

What do you guys think?

Let's say that you get the choice to be retconned into the Verse by a Act of God as one person's sibling. Which member of the main cast would you choose?

In my opinion, this is one of the most interesting AUs, because for all of Ozai's crimes, I don't think anyone ever called him out on the fact that he murdered his own father for the Throne.

What do you guys think would happen?

A lot of people here have agreed that if the Allies had intervened at any time before the invasion of Poland, Nazi Germany would likely have collapsed swiftly due to the humiliation.

What I don't see talked about is: what would the impact on the rest of the world be without a WW2/Holocaust? A quickly defeated Germany means the rest of Europe is roughly intact without war, and maybe people would like fascism more due to not having fought a war against it.

What do you guys think would happen?

I don't know if anyone has considered this before, but I realized a lot of incidents in the MCU were caused by Loki going off the rails during his term as King.

If Loki doesn't go crazy(say he decides he doesn't care that he is a frost giant because Odin is his true father):

• Thor remains on Earth as a normal guy with Jane.
• The Avengers never form without Loki attacking, though most of their members minus Thor are still around.
• The Mind Stone never makes it way to Earth without Loki, meaning no Wanda or Pietro or Vision
• Thanos needs to either find someone else to get the Tesseract or go for it himself.

What other effects are created?

Look at our reality and how many conspiracy theories we have spawned based on the largest stretches and the smallest pieces of evidence possible.

Now imagine there actually is a Satanic Cult in the highest echlons of the government seeking to establish a fascist dictatorship dedicated to the worship of the Devil. On top of that, they've been around for a thousand years, and rumors are bound to leak out eventually.

Now I wanna see a bunch of in-universe incidents like the JFK assassination that were actually caused by the Sith.

At first, when we all watched First Avenger, we thought that "Cut off one head, two more will take its place" was just idle classic Saturday-Morning Cartoon villain boasting that ultimately came to nothing, as by the end of the movie it seems to pretty throughly destroyed(Red Skull is gone, Zola is captured, most of their bases are destroyed).

And then we get to Winter Soldier, and it turns out that HYDRA is not only still around, but better than ever, having taken control of SHIELD and about to wipe out all their enemies through Insight. Luckily at the end of the movie the Helicarriers are destroyed, Alexander Pierce is dead, the Winter Soldier defected, and HYDRA is gone...right? Well, besides the literal post-credits scene showing that HYDRA is still around with the Twins and the Sceptre, Arnim Zola is probably still alive, as I don't buy that someone as cunning as him didn't think of putting extra backups into the internet.

There's a lot of examples so I'll just make this quick

• After Insight, Whitehall and Sunil take over with Strucker, List, and the HYDRA council.
• HYDRA gets defeated again during Age of Ultron and Agents of SHIELD with pretty much everyone above dying and the Twins defecting(plus we get the Sceptre back), but Grant Ward takes over and salvages the remains, and later Gideon Malick and Hive takes over that.
• After Ward, Malick, and Hive are killed, General Hale takes over.
• Thanks to the Framework, HYDRA comes back in a whole alternate reality.
• After the Framework is destroyed and Hale dies, HYDRA seems gone for good...but once again, not really: Candice Lee is missing, Mitchell Carson from Ant Man is around, STRIKE agent Jack Rollins is around, the Red Skull is alive on Vormir(it was confirmed without the Soul Stone he is free to leave), and Arnim Zola might be still alive somewhere.

The point is even though the MCU has introduced so many new bad guys that are as cool or cooler than HYDRA, there is just something special about HYDRA: like the Hydra it is named after, it can get all its heads cut off, but it will never die as long as some part of it remains to be reborn.

One of the most popular theories is that the Creeper is actually some sort of aggressive, mobile fungus that explodes in order to both spread its spores and kill any natural predators, and that the spores will eventually grow into new Creepers to start the cycle over. I think this is a good theory that explains a lot of details, and I'm just going to add my small addition to it.

My theory is that Slimes and their Variants are Creepers that, for one reason or another, have failed to properly grow into new Creepers, likely due to hostile conditions(Slimes spawn in Swamps and Underground, Magma Cubes are literally in Hell, Sulfur Cubes spawn in the Sulfur Biome). The spores continue to grow, but instead of becoming a Creeper, they just keep growing and merging together, until they have become a slime-mold-like mass. The mass still has the fundamental Creeper instinct to attack, kill, and reproduce, but without the Creeper's specialized gunpowder-synthesizing organs, they are unable to explode and spread their spores. The above also explains why Slimes have so many variants: they are trying to survive in any way possible to ensure that new Creepers are born.

This, in my opinion, explains a few things. Number 1, Creepers and Slimes not only are both green, but they are the only Mobs in Minecraft to share the exact same shade of green. The other Green Mobs(turtles and zombies) have much darker shades of green. Number 2, the Slime and its variants are the only Mobs in Minecraft to have a unique splitting ability, which I theorize is a larger version of the Creeper's spore-based reproduction(both involve "dying" and scattering their smaller parts around). Number 3, the Creeper and the Slime have a similar facial structure: large eyes and a mouth-like structure, with no other visible features. Number 4, Slime Balls(and Magma Cream) as well as gunpowder has alchemical properties(Oozing, Fire Res, and Splash Potion) as well as a affinity for Redstone(TNT, Sticky Pistons, Flying Machines). Number 5, when you are infected with Oozing(created from a slime ball), you taking damage literally spawns slimes, which is a major example of the spore-based reproduction it shares with the Creeper.

What do you guys think of my theory?

Let's say a higher power suddenly appears and offers to take away her psychic powers, but only if she allows it to. Would she say yes or no?

In this version of the Heresy, the Loyalists and Traitors decide to settle their feuds in a fair fight to the death instead of going to war and wasting more lives. They choose a undeveloped planet as a neutral zone and descend to fight for the last time. Both sides discuss strategy beforehand. All Primarchs are at their pre-Heresy levels, so no Daemon Primarchs or Chaos enhancements. Who would win?

Team Loyalists:

Lion El'Jonson

Jaghatai Khan

Leman Russ

Rogal Dorn

Sanguinius

Ferrus Manus

Roboute Guilliman

Vulkan

Corvus Corax

Team Traitor:

Fulgrim

Perturabo

Konrad Curze

Angron

Mortarion

Magnus

Horus

Lorgar

Alpharius Omegon(counted as one person)