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Anno Societatis M

I've always wondered how the SCA will evolve if it continues. It still exists in the time span of a single human lifetime, so there's no guarantee that it won't be a flash-in-the-pan. I hope it goes on.

Will we extend things forward? Make it so that the "end date" for in period being 500 years in the past? That would be cool I think. There would come a time when we could include the Regency period, then the American Civil War, eventually we'd get to our own modern era. Maybe those future SCAdians would make a conscious decision to not become recursive by restricting period to May 1st, 1966 and earlier. Otherwise it would be weird to parse:

"So you're a 9th century Norman?"
"Nope. I'm a 20th century American pretending to be a 9th century Norman."

Imagine the problems of research:

"You're a 21st century Canadian? Oh, that's too bad - we have no pictures from that era because they saved everything to digital media and it was all lost during the great silicon plague of 2155. It's much easier to find photos of the 20th century."

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Catharsis

I'm suddenly looking forward to role-playing a well-armed, blood-thirsty amoral thug in tonight's Call of Cthulhu game.

Blasphemy is Now Illegal in Ireland

Basically, say anything against a religion that enough followers are offended by and you'll get fined. This is a problem because people can be offended by literally anything.

"I don't believe in your religion."
"That offends me. Pay me €25K."

Thanks to ladyerwyn for the heads-up.