Any Steampunk Fans?

[Lewina]

Second page bitches!

[Oogium]

I am a fan of steampunk

Great. Glad to hear it. Read the stickies.

I do also like steampunk, though.

[Oterro]

you can like different niches of fiction and stuff, personally i dont like steampunk, but when you drag that shit into real life you start to make my skin crawl. guys walking around in fedoras with SUPER COOL pseudo victorian garb on are horrendously embarrassing.

[The Steam Century]

Wut iz steampunk?

[Condunum]

It's all about Cyberpunk.

It's all about electro-punk, bro.

Nah yo. Cyberpunk is, aside from the outlandish aspects, a quite possible future.

[Desperate Measures]

This thread has stayed remarkably on topic. It's so punk around here.

[Condunum]

This thread has stayed remarkably on topic. It's so punk around here.

PUNK, YO.

[Lewina]

This thread has stayed remarkably on topic. It's so punk around here.

PUNK, YO.

IMA BUST A CAP IN YO ASS!!!!

[Genivaria]

Is there a 'punk' genre that DOESN'T make the future look like shit?
Most settings I see it in make the world a shit place....except Girl Genius, Girl Genius rules.

Steampunk is necessarily in the future? Huh.

I'm talking about Punk in general not just Steampunk.
I just get so tired of all the movies basically going 'OHH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS SCARY!'
If its not GM foods its rogue robots or some other thing, I don't deny that they make for good story-telling but its the fact that they influence our views on science that pisses me off.

[Northern Artic Islands]

Steampunk is necessarily in the future? Huh.

I'm talking about Punk in general not just Steampunk.
I just get so tired of all the movies basically going 'OHH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS SCARY!'
If its not GM foods its rogue robots or some other thing, I don't deny that they make for good story-telling but its the fact that they influence our views on science that pisses me off.

I admit I don't have much experience in it, but I've never seen something like that. May you enlighten me?

[Condunum]

Steampunk is necessarily in the future? Huh.

I'm talking about Punk in general not just Steampunk.
I just get so tired of all the movies basically going 'OHH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS SCARY!'
If its not GM foods its rogue robots or some other thing, I don't deny that they make for good story-telling but its the fact that they influence our views on science that pisses me off.

I don't find cyberpunk to be about technology being scary. Rather, it's a display of what would happen if we were to allow our consumer culture to continue to grow in a pre-type 1 society. In fact, Cyberpunk is almost always "Tech good! Tech abuse bad! FIGHT BACK! We are one, we are the people!"

[Genivaria]

I'm talking about Punk in general not just Steampunk.
I just get so tired of all the movies basically going 'OHH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS SCARY!'
If its not GM foods its rogue robots or some other thing, I don't deny that they make for good story-telling but its the fact that they influence our views on science that pisses me off.

I admit I don't have much experience in it, but I've never seen something like that. May you enlighten me?

Experience in what exactly? Fiction that depicts science and technology as being dangerous?
Avatar for example?
The nature loving space elves are depicted as the 'good guys' and the oh so horrible technologically advanced humans are evil.

[Distruzio]

Dieselpunk is the way to go.

[Genivaria]

I'm talking about Punk in general not just Steampunk.
I just get so tired of all the movies basically going 'OHH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS SCARY!'
If its not GM foods its rogue robots or some other thing, I don't deny that they make for good story-telling but its the fact that they influence our views on science that pisses me off.

I don't find cyberpunk to be about technology being scary. Rather, it's a display of what would happen if we were to allow our consumer culture to continue to grow in a pre-type 1 society. In fact, Cyberpunk is almost always "Tech good! Tech abuse bad! FIGHT BACK! We are one, we are the people!"

Tech-abuse? No I must disagree there. Its the centralization of technology that's bad and encourages social stratification.
De-centralization of technology and making it available to everyone results in a healthier society.

[Oterro]

Experience in what exactly? Fiction that depicts science and technology as being dangerous?
Avatar for example?
The nature loving space elves are depicted as the 'good guys' and the oh so horrible technologically advanced humans are evil.

uh considering the protagonists were human one of whom used technology to fight other humans.

considering the entire reason he could interact with the blue dweebs was technology.

sure you're not being overly defensive? came across more like the jingoistic space fascists were the bad guys rather than humans tbh.

[Condunum]

I don't find cyberpunk to be about technology being scary. Rather, it's a display of what would happen if we were to allow our consumer culture to continue to grow in a pre-type 1 society. In fact, Cyberpunk is almost always "Tech good! Tech abuse bad! FIGHT BACK! We are one, we are the people!"

Tech-abuse? No I must disagree there. Its the centralization of technology that's bad and encourages social stratification.
De-centralization of technology and making it available to everyone results in a healthier society.

That's sort of what I mean. Cyberpunk generally revolves around the fight for a monoculture society, one that moves away from the hierarchical system of corporatism, in an effort to produce a better society when we enter type-1.

[Gauntleted Fist]

uh considering the protagonists were human one of whom used technology to fight other humans.

considering the entire reason he could interact with the blue dweebs was technology.

sure you're not being overly defensive? came across more like the jingoistic space fascists were the bad guys rather than humans tbh.

No, it really did come off as "Humans are Cthulhu". Except the very few who fight with the space elves. They're 'special'.

[Farnhamia]

you can like different niches of fiction and stuff, personally i dont like steampunk, but when you drag that shit into real life you start to make my skin crawl. guys walking around in fedoras with SUPER COOL pseudo victorian garb on are horrendously embarrassing.

Why would you be embarrassed?

[Genivaria]

Experience in what exactly? Fiction that depicts science and technology as being dangerous?
Avatar for example?
The nature loving space elves are depicted as the 'good guys' and the oh so horrible technologically advanced humans are evil.

uh considering the protagonists were human one of whom used technology to fight other humans.

considering the entire reason he could interact with the blue dweebs was technology.

sure you're not being overly defensive? came across more like the jingoistic space fascists were the bad guys rather than humans tbh.

You might have a point there, but I would hardly call the humans 'space fascists'.

[Thafoo]

This thread has stayed remarkably on topic. It's so punk around here.

IT IS SNOWING

[Desperate Measures]

This thread has stayed remarkably on topic. It's so punk around here.

IT IS SNOWING

Snowpunk.

[Condunum]

IT IS SNOWING

Snowpunk.

[Lewina]

IT IS SNOWING

Snowpunk.

BJpunk

[Thafoo]

Why is worthless thread not locked yet?

[Condunum]

Snowpunk.

BJpunk

BJ?