I asked some IRL friends whether they’d trust our favorite reindeer doctor to do surgery on them. Surprisingly, most said no. I would trust him, as he has a perfect track record, but I’d like to know what you think.
Inglorious Basterds is an a very exciting World War II movie in which the war ends early because a special unit of Jewish American soldiers assassinate Adolf Hitler and most of the German High Command in a movie theater. What would be the impact on the postwar world if this scenario actually happened?
According to multiple sources, Plankton was originally going to be a one-off villain who would appear only in the episode "Plankton!". I guess he was just going to stay trapped inside Karen forever. But Doug Lawrence enjoyed playing Plankton so much that he convinced Stephen Hillenburg to make Plankton a full-time character.
My question is how different the show would be if Plankton had been a one-off character as originally intended? The obvious downsides would be that we'd be missing not only a fun and entertaining villain, but Karen wouldn't have been developed into a fully sentient snarky computer either. On the upside, the writers would have had to come up with more creative plots than Plankton trying to steal the formula over and over again, but they may have run out of ideas and the show may have ended sooner. Ultimately, I think it's a good thing that Plankton ended up becoming a full-time character.
When you think about how tremendously the first Death Star backfired (first with turning neutral systems against the Empire and then with its destruction), you'd think the Empire would realize building another one was a bad idea. Yet they built one anyway. Why did they think it was a good idea?
I think I read somewhere that construction of the second one began before the first was destroyed, but I don't remember where and I'm not sure it's canon.
If Vladimir Lenin hadn't died of a stroke in 1974, how might the USSR have developed? Might it have been able to avoid Stalin's reign of terror? How might WWII have played out in this scenario? Lenin himself would have died by then, but a successor would inherit whatever situation Lenin left behind.
Benjamin Franklin famously wanted to make the turkey the national animal of the United States due to its historical significance, but this proposal was rejected in favor of the bald eagle. How might things be different if the turkey had been America’s national animal?
What would have to happen for a “Western Orthodox” church to gain enough popularity to compete with Catholicism and Protestantism, and what would be the impact on Western cultural and social development?
I'm far past Fishman Island, but it's often cited as one of the worst arcs in One Piece. I disagree with that assessment, and I actually think the arc is quite good. It has some very important lore about the treatment of fishmen in the One Piece world and the first mention of Joyboy, it's got some great character development for Jinbe and Nami, and shows us Koala's backstory, and it showcases everyone's post-timeskip abilities. I think it's actually a good arc. Not as good as Enies Lobby or Alabasta, but I still like it.
The Empire would have remembered the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) as traitors to the Republic and a prime example of why it was necessary to form the Empire, but I'm curious as to how the New Republic remembers them. Does the New Republic still see them as traitors, or are they seen as having been right all along? The Empire was the embodiment of everything wrong with the Republic, and I wonder if anyone after the Empire fell would think the CIS was right in hindsight.
AC6 is a very underrated Ace Combat game. It was fun, and I wonder if another game on that continent could work. The most plausible scenarios I can think of are another civil war in Estovakia, or perhaps something involving Nordennavic.
I’m asking the classic question of whether you all would join the pirates, marines, revolutionaries, or none of the above.
To answer my own question, I’d join the Revolutionaries. They are less popular than the other options, but they stand out to me as the only factoon that is actually fighting for a better world. The Marines uphold an oppresssive system, and most pirates (with the exception of the Straw Hats) just pillage and burn. The RA are actually fighting for a better world.
But what about you?
This part of Anima is never seen in RWBY, and we have very little lore about it. Do you all do anything with it?
In my lore, it's based on the Gobi Desert since Anima is Asia and the area appears to be arid. The easternmost part of the peninsula is volcanic, as suggested by the wiki, and the volcanic ash supports plant growth in the otherwise barren land. The area is home to a town called Ashland, home to Melyna Mahin and a militia that formed to protect the town since its remote location makes it hard for huntsmen to get there. The Ashlanders helped defend Haven Academy during the Second Battle of Haven. The Aureus Mercenary Corporation also has a secret base in the region.
Have you all done anything with this area?
SpongeBob SquarePants first premiered 27 years ago today. I was only a year old at the time and too young to remember, but to those of you who do remember, what did you think of the show when it first aired?
SpongeBob SquarePants first premiered 27 years ago today. I was only a year old at the time and too young to remember, but to those of you who do remember, what did you think of the show when it first aired?
What PoD would be required for the Soviet Union to avoid its collapse in the early 90s and survive until the present day?
Tolkien doesn't go into a lot of detail about what the land of Mordor looked like before Sauron made his base there, but I'd like to know what you think. I imagine it was much more fertile than it is now thanks to the ashes from Orodruin. The area may have also had trees, which Sauron would have cut down to fuel his war effort. It may also have been inhabited by men who were later exterminated or enslaved by Sauron. The fun but non-canon game Shadow of Mordor shows us some of that, and while the game isn't canon, I believe the scenario is plausible.
I also believe the popular theory that Orodruin is a unique volcano created by Morgoth and is tied to his power, which is why the One Ring was able to be created and destroyed in that location. Evil has always had a presence in the area thanks to Morgoth, which along with Mordor's mountainous borders was a reason why Sauron chose Mordor as his seat of power. The fact that Shelob was drawn there also supports the theory that evil has always had a presence in Mordor. It seems that a persistent theme in Tolkien's works is that land itself can be good or evil.
How might European history have played out if Britain had been a peninsula instead of an island? A few immediate changes I can think of is that with a land connection to France, Britain would be more culturally aligned with Southern Europe than Scandinavia (historically, it has traits of both). The English language might sound more like French than it does in OTL, and Britain might have remained Catholic as well. Since Britain wouldn't be an island, its navy would probably be smaller than historically.
I really, really hope this doesn't happen, but it's possible that one of the four main girls will die. The show has demonstrated that it WILL kill off important characters, as we saw with Pyrrha and Penny. Could one of the four main girls die? If it happened, it would have to happen at the very end of the series. Otherwise, RT would have to change the title. The most likely to die is Ruby. She has already died once, but the show is willing to kill off resurrected characters again (see Penny).
Again, I REALLY hope none of the four main girls die. I'm not sure I could keep watching if any of them died.