[P2TM Chat] The Restaurant at the End of the Multiverse

[Nightkill the Emperor]

http://you.regettingold.com/

For an old fuck like myself, this was interesting.

[Grenartia]

How would chemical engineering work in a dieselpunk setting? How does it differ from our setting?

I honestly don't see how it would differ all that much.

Yeah, I know that feel. I can't stand coffee unless its mostly milk and sugar in some form.

So it seems like I'm the only one here who likes coffee black...
Oh well, more for me.

To each his/her/their own.

I feel like this is a place I should be involved in. Hello, everyone.

Ew. A person.

As much as I've heard. How does chemical engineering work in this setting, and how does it differ from our setting?

I'd assume that the engineering would be able to produce a number of elements that you wouldn't be able to produce otherwise, whether their properties be similar to Tugnsten or Hydrogen, or a completely new element that you can basically make up as you go as a combination of other elements that would be able to assist you or hurt you in the RP. It would probably help if these elements helped create/were created from the Dieselpunk attitude. Though I'm not sure I should really be advising on this, I wasn't aware that Dieselpunk was a thing until now, and I'm not that familiar with Steampunk.

I honestly doubt all of that.

You're not going to get any new element creation unless you have some sort of advanced nuclear tech (and even then, they'd be super heavy transuranium elements, unless you somehow handwave a method for making Neutronium/Element Zero or something). Which would put you more into Retropunk (50s-mid 70s type shit, or, basically Fallout) than Dieselpunk (late 1800s-immediately post-WWII).

As for new compounds, you're not going to get anything from the combustion process (assuming the fuels in that setting and RL are the same) that we don't already know about. You might get something from petroleum manipulation (i.e., making plastics) that we already know about, but have only recently discovered, with a slim chance of making something new with novel techniques. But the same basic ideas involved in chemical engineering are going to be the same as now.

I consider my nation to be dieselpunk. In my nation there are no jet engines, there are no transistors, and there is no atomic fission. Characteristic technologies of my nation include biplanes and triplanes, zeppelin airships, early automobiles, submachine guns, primitive electronics utilizing vacuum tubes, etc. The world The High Tatras is set in often has mad scientists building superweapons, sky pirates with triplanes and zeppelins, mobsters with tommy guns and dynamite, private detectives in trench coats and fedoras, adventurers searching for lost civilizations and legendary artifacts with mysterious powers, and corrupt businessmen and politicians plotting wars for profit.

I'd honestly consider jets to be dieselpunk.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

How would chemical engineering work in a dieselpunk setting? How does it differ from our setting?

I honestly don't see how it would differ all that much.
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I honestly doubt all of that.
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I'd honestly consider jets to be dieselpunk.

This was an honest post.

[Grenartia]

I honestly don't see how it would differ all that much.
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I honestly doubt all of that.
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I'd honestly consider jets to be dieselpunk.

This was an honest post.

I honestly use the word "honestly" a lot.

[Sentinel XV]

Anyone around at this hour?

[Tiltjuice]

Anyone around at this hour?

Hullo Sent.

[Agritum]

Anyone around at this hour?

Well, me.

[The Grey Wolf]

So it seems like I'm the only one here who likes coffee black...
Oh well, more for me.

Me too. And I drink Italian espresso, dark like the night.

Once you go black, you never go back.

Sorry.

[Agritum]

Me too. And I drink Italian espresso, dark like the night.

Once you go black, you never go back.

Sorry.

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

[The Grey Wolf]

Once you go black, you never go back.

Sorry.

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

The Germans learned this the hard way.

[Hornesia]

Once you go black, you never go back.

Sorry.

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

And we all know what the captain will do to the next person who says shenanigans.

[Grenartia]

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

And we all know what the captain will do to the next person who says shenanigans.

Hey, what's the name of that restaurant you like, the one with all the goofy shit on the walls?

[Hornesia]

And we all know what the captain will do to the next person who says shenanigans.

Hey, what's the name of that restaurant you like, the one with all the goofy shit on the walls?

Oh, you mean she- not going there.

[Agritum]

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

The Germans learned this the hard way.

Italians: Adept at making German soldiers die in their place since the Roman Empire.

[The Grey Wolf]

The Germans learned this the hard way.

Italians: Adept at making German soldiers die in their place since the Roman Empire.

Actually, during WW2, it was the other way around.

There were actual cases of Italian forces managing to overwhelm the Allies, who then tried to claim later that it had been Germans with 88 mm Paks, and Panzer IV.

British tank commander: if anyone asks, there were fifty of them, and they were, er, German tanks.

[Urran]

Because Panzers were amazing.

The T55 just won't die though. So I guess that Soviet tanks were the best. I think something on the order of 25 countries still use the darn thing

[The Grey Wolf]

Because Panzers were amazing.

The T55 just won't die though. So I guess that Soviet tanks were the best. I think something on the order of 25 countries still use the darn thing

Because they worked so well in Golan Heights.

[Agritum]

Italians: Adept at making German soldiers die in their place since the Roman Empire.

Actually, during WW2, it was the other way around.

There were actual cases of Italian forces managing to overwhelm the Allies, who then tried to claim later that it had been Germans with 88 mm Paks, and Panzer IV.

British tank commander: if anyone asks, there were fifty of them, and they were, er, German tanks.

Well, I know that some of the fiercest Allies combatants in Italy were the Brazilians, of all people.

Fear the underdog!

[Urran]

Because Panzers were amazing.

The T55 just won't die though. So I guess that Soviet tanks were the best. I think something on the order of 25 countries still use the darn thing

Because they worked so well in Golan Heights.

I didn't say it was good. Just good enough to last more than four decades. Besides, it's impossible to win against Israel.

[Agritum]

Because they worked so well in Golan Heights.

I didn't say it was good. Just good enough to last more than four decades. Besides, it's impossible to win against Israel.

...Suez Crisis.

[Urran]

...Suez Crisis.

Technically the UN just forced a withdraw. They could have kept going had they wanted. But they aren't stupid, if you had the SU and US both against you, you would also quietly withdraw.

[The Grey Wolf]

Because they worked so well in Golan Heights.

I didn't say it was good. Just good enough to last more than four decades. Besides, it's impossible to win against a nation funded by the world's greatest superpower.

Fixed that for you.

I was rooting for the Arabs On second thought, let's not go there.

T-55 was a pretty good tank, imho, just not the best tank.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Because they worked so well in Golan Heights.

I didn't say it was good. Just good enough to last more than four decades. Besides, it's impossible to win against Israel.

Unfortunately, yes.

[Altito Asmoro]

Once you go black, you never go back.

Sorry.

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

The Costaricans will be your next target.

[Agritum]

Around Italians, be ready for shenanigans!

The Costaricans will be your next target.

We'll accidentally score an hat trick