Has anyone used the "I went to a party in [insert name of nuked town here], it was a blast" from 1983:DD with Hiroshima and gotten laughs out of it or just me?

People might be asking instead "WI Stalin had decided to make a big encirclement battle in winter 1941/42, leading to an earlier win?"?

My thought:

If you want to find a way for the Nazis being more successful, and neither want ASBs nor other dumb luck nor Allies screwing up (understandable), you have to look for possibilities of the Nazis doing better, there's no way around it. This means: You have to look where the Nazis screwed up IOTL. And pointing out that Nazis have screwed up - that's something no anti-Nazi should mind.

The other way round: Any time you find an example of the Nazis screwing up (shouldn't be that hard), you find a possible PoD for a TL where they have more success. (Even if it doesn't have to translate into a WW2 victory.)

I don't know about you, but I think that's something to ponder.

(Originally posted here.)

Reasons:

why is Rostov so circular?

• because i had nothing to go off of, so its up to Ukraine and the USSR to figure out what to do with that

why did you add Poland-Lithuania?

• why not, at least it messes with any plan the USSR has with eastern europe

why did you add Silesia?

• messes with any plan Germany has

why is Turkey so divided?

• judging by the last two answers what do you think the answer for this one is (messes with any plan Turkey has)

this map sucks, never let me write a peace treaty again

The "main nine" characters of the series would be Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Grover, Bert, Ernie, Elmo, the Count, and Zoe.

All things i've altered:

==Main series==

* Characters like Guy Smiley and Herry Monster remain prominent supporting characters instead of fading into the background over time.

* Episode 0276 ends with the adults meeting Snuffy, erasing that obnoxious running gag where they can't see him. (I hate that gag)

* While he still becomes popular like in OTL, Elmo never gets popularity to the point where he dethrones Big Bird as the protagonist, although Elmo's World is still created in 1998.

* The closure of Around the Corner after Season 29 (1997) never happens.

* Smiling George ( Oscar's cousin, see here: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/File:How_to_Be_a_Grouch_-_Smiling_George.png ) appears in a Season 12 (1980) episode as a actual character instead of remaining a book exclusive.

* Miss Piggy guest stars in a episode that same year, invited over by Kermit (making this episode a crossover with The Muppet Show).

* Pino from the Dutch co-production "Sesamstraat" visits the American street in 1999, in a similar vein to the OTL Abelardo episode.

* "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce" makes it to the airwaves in 1992 as episode 2985, as the test audience wasn't negative unlike OTL.

* Noggin's syndication of seasons 1-20 would include more episodes.

* Zoe is introduced a full 16 years earlier (in 1977) to fix the gender imbalance on the show, and becomes the token female from then on. She also replaces Frazzle in "Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)", to make the parts he did more audible than in OTL. Her TTL debut is also one of the classic episodes added to the TTL Noggin package.

* The Zoemobile debut episode from Season 30 (1998) is moved up, it replaces the now-redundsnt Season 17 (1985) premiere where Snuffy was revealed OTL.

* Abby Cadabby's four episodes from season 37 (2006) are moved to season 32 (2001), thus introducing the character 5 years earlier. She never becomes as big as in OTL due to TTL Zoe being the show's token female.

* Hooper's Store is never redesigned in 1998 because i hate the new design from 1998.

* The Cookie Monster "Number of the day" segments start airing in 1995 instead of 2002.

* Jim Henson never dies and keeps playing Ernie until eventually retiring. Peter Linz (Steve Whitmire is skipped in this TL due to his reputation) replaces him as Ernie's main performer in 2005, although Henson still occasionally did the role until 2010.

==Co-productions==

* The first French co-production, "1 Rue Sesame", continues past 1982 and ultimately stops being much of "nightmare fuel" as time goes on. The second one from 2005 is thus retconned.

* "Ulica Sezamkowa" did not end in 2001, and still airs today.

* "Sesamstrasse" introduces the local German Muppets Samson and Tiffy at launch in 1973 instead of in 1977-78 like OTL.

* The "Iftah Ya Simsim" raid in 1990 during the Gulf War never happens and the series instead continues.

* "Vila Sesamo" never made the mistake that killed it (removing ALL AMERICAN CONTENT minus Bert and Ernie), allowing the series, unlike it's OTL counterpart, to continue uninterrupted.

* The time reruns of the classic "Rechov Sumsum" aired from 1987 to 1996 was instead spent on making new episodes. 1996 is when the Israeli contract with CTW ran out and the original series was canned.

* Italian and Greek co-productions of the series premiere during the early-to-mid 1980s, unlike OTL. Their names are "Strada Sesamo" (1981-present) and "Δρόμος σουσαμιού" (1985-1992, 2001-2006).

* "Galli Galli Sim Sim" first airs 10 years earlier than in OTL, so it premieres in 1996.

* Around the time "Sesam Stasjon" came out in 1991, more faithful Danish (1992-1996) and Swedish (1989-1998) co-productions are also launched. The Danish one replaces "Sesam, Luk Dig Op".

* The ill-fated Japanese co-production from the mid-2000s would likely have one of it's female characters replaced with a replica of the Zoe puppet. My pick for replacement is Grorie because Grorie's the same color as Zoe and also a mere Grover recolor.

==Other==

* The Netherlands opens a Sesame Place park in August 2003. It is called "Sesampark" and located near Burgers' Zoo in the city of Arnhem. The archway looks similar to Parque Plaza Sesamo's, but with Pino, Tommie and Ieniemienie on it.

* Due to her TTL status as the token female of the series, Zoe is included in several plush and figure lines that excluded her OTL, including the 2015 Funko Pop line.

* Zoe's walkaround at Sesame Place would likely debut around 1990.

* Palisades never goes bankrupt, so the action figures went into production in 2006 like planned.

* The Texas Sesame Place stays in business after 1984.

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The timeline were Biden doesn't drop out and somehow wins reelection

...of the countless Axis Victory timelines, they should be considered ASB timelines, since there is no realistic way for Germany to win WW2.

The title kinda explains it all, I feel like Differently is too open to new editors, which can lead to disputes over nations' ideologies, low-quality garbage being mass-produced, and general chaos, Differently really needs to regulate the amount of new editors editing/creating pages.

I'm gonna trash my timelines, since, when I wrote them, I was an actual idiot who didn't know what dialectical materialism was, or what anti-disestablishmentarianism meant.

CPSU Lives On - How did the USSR reform? Why did Tr*tsky take over instead of Stalin? How, literally how, did it go from a timeline about Kazakhstan being the last SSR to being about a smaller USSR existing? At this point, it should just be called "USSR Lives On" or something.

Radical River (post-adoption) - It, as a timeline, loves to throw around the terms "authoritarian" and "democratic" around CONSTANTLY, I genuinely do not get why, also, how is Yeltsin somehow a DemSoc instead of being the neoliberal ghoul he was in our timeline? Why is the State Committee on the State of Emergency supported by the types that would support Yeltsin in our timeline?

Ostdeutschland: Arguably the least horrible out of all of these timelines, when it comes to the pages I wrote myself, of course, but WHY did I call the Communist Party of China the "Chinese Communist Party"? Did I not know that people call it the "CCP" to promote McCarthyist ideas? Also, when it comes to the pages I didn't write, they have the same problems as Radical River, you know, throwing around the terms "authoritarian" and "democratic" around, two terms which barely have any meaning in the 21st century.

That one timeline about the National Bolshevik Party taking over Russia - WHY DID I MAKE THIS? This is one of my older timelines, when I was a N*zbol (borderline disgusting), I painted the National Bolshevik Party in a rosy, positive light (in which, why did I?), this is way, WAY before I read any theory, and got all of my information from social media, instead of actually having any knowledge, you know, at all.

TL;DR: Please read theory, or else you'll end up like me from 2-3 years ago.

What if did an alternate history 100% only based on polls??? it's probably been done before but i really wanna do it

Just make up some timeline ideas, and act like this is the AltHistory forum, I guess, this can be ANY timeline.

As fans of alt history, just wanted to know your general opinion of which ones are more overused and which aren't.

I want to make a timeline where the 4th crusade recieves the Papal Bull forbidding them from attacking Constantinople and the crusade then disbands because the Venetians pull their backing out in order to prevent any crusader butterfly effect. I can't do this on my own since I am focusing on Glory of Aloisopolis rn but if anyone is interested in joining this project, please let me know. Goal is 5 people! However I cannot do very good maps so I will need a mapmaker for this to get underway.

So, I'm making an AU where instead of Liechtenstein declining to by Alaska from The Russian Empire, Liechtenstein accepts and buys Alaska from it.

But I kind of need help of what the Liechtenstein Monarchy and People do after they buy Alaska.