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Massed Gadgets
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Re: Steampunk
Steampunk seams to have far outlived cyberpunk in terms of popularity, despite it being an offshoot. Personally, I prefer the cyberpunk aesthetic.
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Re: Steampunk
No issue with "bluntness" per se; in fact, I find it moderately endearing - the foul language that accompanied it was unpleasant though ...wiped wrote:Apologies for the bluntness ...my breakfast. wrote:Wiped has a point, even if he put it rather bluntly!
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Re: Steampunk
I think the appeal of Steampunk is that it is tactile. The digital age is hidden from view for most of us. It will pass, as generations forget about the physical and as Frank Zappa says "discorporate". 
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Re: Steampunk
SteamPunk is a really bad neologism, since its not the -Punk thats being modified by the Steam- prefix, its the Cyber-
the word SteamCyber never would have caught on though
but really SteamPunk is just plain redundant: the Victorian era was inherently Punk already, all them characters from Oliver Twist for example, Jack the Ripper, all them dark creepy cobblestone alleys and crappy air and squalour and prostitution and plagues, and there was already steam of course...
others eg's of SteamPunk as ficton? Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had some epic-scale anachronistic technology in a well researched Victorian setting (Im hyping the brilliant comic not the crappy movie here)
but that was all cobbled together from Verne and Doyle and Welles who were already imagining it at the time, they werent trying to be anachronistic just speculative
and though Ive never seen it there once was a tv show called Wild Wild West with James Bond style gadgetry in a frontier cowboy context
the word SteamCyber never would have caught on though
but really SteamPunk is just plain redundant: the Victorian era was inherently Punk already, all them characters from Oliver Twist for example, Jack the Ripper, all them dark creepy cobblestone alleys and crappy air and squalour and prostitution and plagues, and there was already steam of course...
others eg's of SteamPunk as ficton? Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had some epic-scale anachronistic technology in a well researched Victorian setting (Im hyping the brilliant comic not the crappy movie here)
but that was all cobbled together from Verne and Doyle and Welles who were already imagining it at the time, they werent trying to be anachronistic just speculative
and though Ive never seen it there once was a tv show called Wild Wild West with James Bond style gadgetry in a frontier cowboy context
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Re: Steampunk
So there was, I'd quite forgotten about that!J Ed wrote:... there once was a tv show called Wild Wild West with James Bond style gadgetry in a frontier cowboy context
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVkzjvB4Pw
I've vague memories about a 90s film spin-off too. Did it have Will Smith in?
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Re: Steampunk
While on a theme! Stumbled across this pic ... nice interpretation I thought.
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Re: Steampunk
Do they have my communist TV remote?
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Re: Steampunk
Can a TV have political leanings?moom wrote:Do they have my communist TV remote?
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It's just scary...Beowulf wrote:Can a TV have political leanings?moom wrote:Do they have my communist TV remote?
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Apparently so!moom wrote:It's just scary...Beowulf wrote:Can a TV have political leanings?