If you could change history

[Binyalan]

I've recently succeeded in time travel and changed the events of the Battle of Waterloo so that Napoleon did not win.

Napoleon wouldn't have won at Waterloo had he had laser rifles. It was little more than a castleless seige.

Well, he originally won until I changed it so that he lost. I've found myself mentioned in the history books.

[Cameroi]

to really change history, going back less then two thousand years is thinking too small. three or four or even five thousand would be better still.

a lot of the crap we keep screwing ourselves by repeating goes back approximately that far. rome was certainly the elephant in the room, but greece wasn't all warm and cuddly either.

[The Isles of Berk]

Make it so Persia never existed...
Convince the Chinese to explore/aid the Indians against the British/French/Americans in every war.
Get rid of income tax, in the U.S. and go back to a flat tax on everything.
Make it so Hitler got into Art School.
Get rid of Rasputin, or at least make it so the Romanovs lived...
Give George Washington dentures from today, (those hippo ivory dentures most have hurt. )
Pay Benedict Arnold out of my own pocket so he didn't go all traitor >_>

[United Kingdom of Poland]

unless the british and french replace the idiots in charge that were there in WW1. nothing would change.

With who, pray tell? All the military commanders on all sides were caught wrong-footed by the new dominance of defense and the meatgrinder it created. World War I was an attempt to adjust to a whole new kind of war.

maybe they should have paid attention to the US Civil War.

[Dakini]

Make it so Persia never existed...

Why?

[Death Metal]

Get rid of income tax, in the U.S. and go back to a flat tax on everything.

Why are you wanting to collapse the world economy exactly?

[EnragedMaldivians]

Make it so Persia never existed...

Why?

I know. That was really random.

[Serrland]

Why?

I know. That was really random.

No kidding. How shitty would it be if we had to call these little cuties "those cats from that one place east of Mesopotamia and south of the Caspian" instead of Persians?

[Ensiferum]

I would have Carter elected for a second term.

[The Mercenary Peoples]

Push harder for the Crusades to totally wipe out Islam in order to avoid the three way split we have when it comes to major religions thus giving us a better chance for peace.

Either that or stop Africa and the Middle East from gaining their independence from being European colonies so they could actually advance at something approaching the rate that the rest of world thus saving millions of lives in their "revolutions" and the countless warlords and clan chieftains. and slowly but surely raising the populations where they could one day actually support new more advanced forms of government ie Democracy or forming a Republic without dissolving into civil war at the drop of a hat.

[Farnhamia]

Push harder for the Crusades to totally wipe out Islam in order to avoid the three way split we have when it comes to major religions thus giving us a better chance for peace.

Either that or stop Africa and the Middle East from gaining their independence from being European colonies so they could actually advance at something approaching the rate that the rest of world thus saving millions of lives in their "revolutions" and the countless warlords and clan chieftains. and slowly but surely raising the populations where they could one day actually support new more advanced forms of government ie Democracy or forming a Republic without dissolving into civil war at the drop of a hat.

The crusaders didn't have the numbers or the unity to "totally wipe out Islam," no matter how hard you would push. Also, the Middle East was never colonized the way Africa and the Americas were.

[Farnhamia]

The first time someone started a fight in an ice hockey game, that person would be dragged off the ice by his teammates and told to stop acting like a prat.

[Ensiferum]

The first time someone started a fight in an ice hockey game, that person would be dragged off the ice by his teammates and told to stop acting like a prat.

Why would you do that? Why would you ruin such a wonderful part of the game? 1997, Joe Lewis Arena.

[Cameroi]

Get rid of income tax, in the U.S. and go back to a flat tax on everything.

Why are you wanting to collapse the world economy exactly?

why not? its certainly over rated. the u.s. too. but no, i wouldn't advocate colapsing anything i'd likely be standing under either.

[Farnhamia]

The first time someone started a fight in an ice hockey game, that person would be dragged off the ice by his teammates and told to stop acting like a prat.

Why would you do that? Why would you ruin such a wonderful part of the game? 1997, Joe Lewis Arena.

I don't know, because it makes the players and the fans look like a bunch of ... makes them look less than mentally acute. Only the NHL allows fighting, no other hockey venues do. You change what you want, I'll change what I want.

[Serrland]

Why would you do that? Why would you ruin such a wonderful part of the game? 1997, Joe Lewis Arena.

I don't know, because it makes the players and the fans look like a bunch of ... makes them look less than mentally acute. Only the NHL allows fighting, no other hockey venues do. You change what you want, I'll change what I want.

Plenny of fights in the AHL, too, sadly. Takes away from the sport, to be honest. It's one thing to have an enforcer on the team who can get a bit rough when the situation calls for it - but it's another thing entirely to feel the need to throw a few punches every so often to keep the "fans" engaged.

[Eliasonia]

Make the dodo fly.
Because lolz.

[Farnhamia]

Make the dodo fly.
Because lolz.

Why stop there? Give them razor-sharp beaks, huge claws and a taste for the flesh of men who have been at sea for a year or so.

[Krazakistan]

Make the Treaty of Versailles not be as harsh as it was on Germany.

[Samuraikoku]

The first time someone started a fight in an ice hockey game, that person would be dragged off the ice by his teammates and told to stop acting like a prat.

I remember the only reason for me getting NHL 08 back in the day was to see about the fight phenomenon.

[Eliasonia]

Make the dodo fly.
Because lolz.

Why stop there? Give them razor-sharp beaks, huge claws and a taste for the flesh of men who have been at sea for a year or so.

Yes yes... breed a group of super Dodo's.

[Farnhamia]

Why stop there? Give them razor-sharp beaks, huge claws and a taste for the flesh of men who have been at sea for a year or so.

Yes yes... breed a group of super Dodo's.

You have to think big.

[Death Metal]

Why are you wanting to collapse the world economy exactly?

why not? its certainly over rated. the u.s. too. but no, i wouldn't advocate colapsing anything i'd likely be standing under either.

Well, a flat tax means a taxpayer who is paying the average rate gets his rate up by about 700 dollars a year, even moreso for those under the average. The spending habits of 30-50% of the population evaporates overnight, small businesses will erode, then comes the unemployment...

Directly tanking the US economy, but as we've seen in the last decade the US economy is so vital on the world stage that this effects everyone's economy.

[Anachronous Rex]

Yes yes... breed a group of super Dodo's.

You have to think big.

Why not just turn the island into Jurassic Park?

[Death Metal]

You have to think big.

Why not just turn the island into Jurassic Park?

Because life finds a way.