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Is anyone into Steampunk?
- Thread starter Cooky
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I like games with a steampunk theme.
Cooky
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Is this steampunk?
No, that’s all wrong... All wrong! You have to wear a monocle, with a top hat. Or possibly a Boater Straw Hat. Actually a Bowler hat might even do.
Maybe I'm just old, but there's something outputting about this degree of post-modern baroque. Ornamentation for the sheer sake of wretched excess seems just plain decadent.
Tom
Cooky
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I've always found it a fascinating genre of science fiction design
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When you put it that way, it is quite fascinating.
Well, he's dressed in punk style, and he's in a steam room. Steampunk. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Cooky
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Skwim
Veteran Member
Of course. It's a parody of the crank and shaft machinery of the time.
Textile processing machinery .....................roller-printing machine
Compound steam engine
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It's not my favorite, to be honest. There's some neat designs but the theming of the genre tends to be much shallower than genres like cyberpunk. Steampunk isn't really 'about' anything. The themes stop at the aesthetics.
The decadence is part of the point. Steampunk is the marriage of Victorian sensibility with steamworks technology sent to the future. Good steampunk fiction will challenge this with tackling Victorian classism. Bad ones will just be 'Tophats and steam planes are cool.'
My daughter is into some graphic novels of the genre.
And I really enjoyed a couple of steampunk themed video games over the years.
Heck, I still play Sunless Sea, which kinda has that aesthetic going.
And I really enjoyed a couple of steampunk themed video games over the years.
Heck, I still play Sunless Sea, which kinda has that aesthetic going.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Shallower? Cyberpunk revolves around a single theme, and a timeworn one at that: violence. "I'll be back!" *Yawn* Steampunk is about reveling in the fantasies of yore when the latest machineries were envisioned to take us into the future by being bigger and "more." Likewise, it's clothing, with its quirky industrial revolution accouterments meets a hint of late 20th century sexiness is simply F U N. Anything fun about cyberpunk unless you're a sadist? Not that I can see.
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Terminator is technonoir, not cyberpunk. And cyberpunks theming is incredibly broad
From transhumanism to corporate future dystopianism. And while violence is not required in cyberpunk, I'd rather have some darker themes in my fiction than just empty titillation. And besides, the best steampunk stories also have violence (see bioshock), usually about classism or unrestrained technology or both. Hell the quintessential steampunk founding has terrorist villains like Captain Nemo. So I'm not really sure what you're going on about.
Cooky
Veteran Member
What?
It looks more like the "marriage" of Borgian Catholicism with "The Gilded Age".
That's just how I see it.
YMMV
Tom
Skwim
Veteran Member
If I was into wearing steampunk fashion my $35 would be on its way immediately. Them's cool shades.
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