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« Reply #75 on: November 24, 2010, 09:13:18 pm » |
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You started it!
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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Time Traveler
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« Reply #76 on: November 24, 2010, 09:16:29 pm » |
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No, that was tinkergirl waaaay back in '07, she definitely started it!
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GameraGX
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« Reply #77 on: November 25, 2010, 05:59:53 am » |
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With your obsession with ranks gentlemen, you are nothing but a bunch of gentleman rankers.
Yeah, coming from a zeppelin admiral! It seems you've been doing more ranking on this forum than most. Ooooh.. I'm an officer now? Sweet! I've only been here a fortnight, too. Admittedly, I've divorced Facbook for this harlot of a forum and am almost always on here... My monitor's almost burned in! she may be a harlot, but she is our harlot. |
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« Reply #78 on: November 26, 2010, 03:25:09 am » |
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She's not a harlot... maybe just a bit of a cheeky tart....
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« Reply #79 on: November 27, 2010, 09:04:15 am » |
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She's not a harlot... maybe just a bit of a cheeky tart....
"Strange women, lyin' in ponds, distributing swords is NO basis for a system of government!"-the VERY first thing that popped in my head when I read that. "Dear God, I need a life..."-The very NEXT thought... |
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Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
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« Reply #80 on: November 27, 2010, 02:45:03 pm » |
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Now you've done it...just wait for it...
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« Reply #81 on: November 27, 2010, 03:24:42 pm » |
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WHAT this isn't a life......weeel it does do a decent simulation.   |
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Who you calling old, Sonny boy? Just because my birth certificate is on birch bark there isn't any reason to be calling names.
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« Reply #82 on: November 28, 2010, 10:37:58 am » |
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WHAT this isn't a life......weeel it does do a decent simulation. C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!! |
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neon_suntan
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« Reply #83 on: November 28, 2010, 10:59:09 am » |
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But does anyone have a suggestion as to WHY Steampunk happened or why it became, and is still, so popular?
This'll sound odd but.... I woke up one day remembering that I'd heard the term Steampunk somewhere and wondered what it might mean. Then I found Brass Goggles... a forum that seemed to have everything I liked.... It's all a bit of a blur after that really.... |
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« Reply #84 on: November 29, 2010, 06:01:19 am » |
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But does anyone have a suggestion as to WHY Steampunk happened or why it became, and is still, so popular?
This'll sound odd but.... I woke up one day remembering that I'd heard the term Steampunk somewhere and wondered what it might mean. Then I found Brass Goggles... a forum that seemed to have everything I liked.... It's all a bit of a blur after that really.... This is the story of fully half of the people on here, including myself.  |
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"The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations."
--General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, clearly talking about me.
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« Reply #85 on: November 29, 2010, 06:44:11 am » |
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But does anyone have a suggestion as to WHY Steampunk happened or why it became, and is still, so popular?
If Wikipedia is to be believed, then this: Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term steampunk originated in the late 1980s as a tongue in cheek variant of cyberpunk. It seems to have been coined by science fiction author K. W. Jeter, who was trying to find a general term for works by Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates, 1983); James Blaylock (Homunculus, 1986); and himself (Morlock Night, 1979, and Infernal Devices, 1987)—all of which took place in a 19th-century (usually Victorian) setting and imitated conventions of such actual Victorian speculative fiction as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. In a letter to science fiction magazine Locus, printed in the April 1987 issue, Jeter wrote:
Dear Locus,
Enclosed is a copy of my 1979 novel Morlock Night; I'd appreciate your being so good as to route it Faren Miller, as it's a prime piece of evidence in the great debate as to who in "the Powers/Blaylock/Jeter fantasy triumvirate" was writing in the "gonzo-historical manner" first. Though of course, I did find her review in the March Locus to be quite flattering.
Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like "steampunks", perhaps...
—K.W. Jeter[2]
I personally found the term when I was searching for instructions on how to customize and build your own action figures; found a guy that had made "Steam Wars" figures, as it were. I've always been into the Victorian era of clothes, Wells/Verne type books, and as far back as I can remember I've been a collector of HO scale trains. Just never knew that it had a name till I found those "Steam Wars" action figures. Then I found this site when I was looking at some of the compters that Datamancer had constructed. And that as they say, is that!... at least I think that's how it went down... I was pretty strung out on painkillers at the time; it all happend right after I messed up my back. |
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« Reply #86 on: November 29, 2010, 06:36:23 pm » |
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Applying for Field Marshal!
...well, someone hafto keep an eye on the ground forces when y'all flying around in dem fancy airships!
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« Reply #87 on: November 29, 2010, 08:01:54 pm » |
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I used to have an old Commodore Amiga. One of the games on it, I forget the name, was a very basic space trading game. When you choose your character in it, you are assigned a suitable "ship", with one being a martian in a flying saucer, a futuristic character with a sleek white spaceship etcetera, and my favourite was "the kegger". The character was basially what is identifiable as Steampunk- Victorian outfit, the ship itelf a steam powered wooden barrel with loads of brass on copper... Very Jules Verne inspired!
That game dissapeared along with my Amiga, many many moons ago, but not my affection for the style! When I found about Steampunk some 20 odd years later it was like it was designed for me!
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