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Outlaws from 2 different worlds met...

Azure, 1st born of Sicher Dukedom (human)
Crimson, human turned vampire

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January 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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A Better World

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A Better World: Do you occasionally feel that, collectively, we might at a few crucial junctures in our history have taken THE WRONG CHOICE? That, in the infinitely-branching multiverse in which we entirely-possibly exist, there therefore are other, alternative timelines in which we took the OTHER fork in the road and Paltrowed ourselves into a slightly-different but vastly better alternareality that doesn’t involve quite so much of…well, *all this*? Would you like to perhaps EXPLORE some of these alternative timelines and see whether or not you can take make some small, crucial tweaks that will ameliorate everything for everyone? OF COURSE YOU WOULD! A Better World is a very, very fun little webtoy thing with a very simple premise – fire it up and it presents you with a series of historical events (you get a different starting set each time), some of which you are told you can CHANGE. So, for example, in the version currently open in a tab here I could choose to ‘modify’ the fact that Copernicus discovered the heliocentric model in the 16thC…so I just decided to see what happens if the Church, improbably, gets right behind the science and supports it, and now there is a whole new timeline in which Pope Galileo establishes the Great Scientific Church in 1603, and the creation of an orbital church in 1922…THIS IS WONDERFUL, seriously, and you can tweak all sorts of moments from the past in all sorts of ways and, basically, either take us to a glorious, post-scarcity alternafuture or, er, condemn us to semi-literate grubbing, and as both a game and just a fun counterfactuals toy it’s a an excellent way to spend 15 minutes. You even get a little ‘karma’ score based on how much you’ve ameliorated (or fcuked) the world, should you wish to keep track of your godly achievements. I don’t *think* that this is built on an LLM, although on reflection this is exactly the sort of thing which they would be perfectly capable at. By the way, I just fiddled with something else in my ‘Church of Science’ timeline, and now Adolf Hitler is President of East America by 1920, so, actually, perhaps the arc of the universe just bends towards Nazi and there’s nothing we can do about it, sorry lads.
February 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM