The rules here are mind bogglingly simple. I'll propose an alternate universe with the use of the words "what if". Then someone responds with something that they think would happen in that universe. If they wish, they may propose another alternate universe, and see what crazy things people will think up to answer your "what if". OR you may just let the currently proposed universe sit around, and let someone else come up with a crazy idea for that universe.
Example:
- A: What if zombies were friendly?
- B: Then we would have no need to fear the zombie apocalypse.
What if humans could breathe underwater? - C: Florida would be underwater.
- A: Atlantis wouldn't be lost.
Make sense? Okay, now for some restrictions:
- Of course, all forum rules apply. Keep your proposals and ideas clean, please!
- That being said, ideas for alternate universes can range from a small change in history to a large change in nature, so if anyone brings up the topic of slavery (or Hitler, for that matter), please don't take it too seriously. This is all supposed to be for fun.
- If it has to be a change in history, don't pick something as recent as "what I ate for breakfast this morning." That really has too little of an impact in too little time for anyone to come up with anything that might be different.
Are we good? Than let's start with the idea that has lead me to create this forum post in the first place:
What if women were the dominant gender, rather than men? (i.e. before sexual equality, women would go to work, while men just stayed home and cooked, and so on.)
Then WWII wouldn't have happened (Hitler was a guy. So yea)