Mr. Boltneck
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« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2011, 07:51:42 pm » |
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Thankee!
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Major Wolfram Quicksilver
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« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2011, 08:33:18 pm » |
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Nicked, put on facebook Brass Goggles, and accredited to you Good Sir.
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'This job looks complicated, get a bigger hammer!'
'The 4lb lump hammer, also known as a Birmingham Screwdriver'
'Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is never putting them in a fruit salad.'
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« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2011, 05:18:37 am » |
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too many rules spoils the fun, though...  |
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Mr. Boltneck
Rogue Ætherlord
United States
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« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2011, 05:59:51 am » |
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But the more rules there are, the more fun we can have breaking them!
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Angelica Needle
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« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2011, 08:25:13 am » |
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11. Empire build with vigour! Does CivIII* count? * I never had time to play the later ones  |
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The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
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Just call me Rob
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« Reply #30 on: May 25, 2011, 08:41:27 am » |
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Rule 1: A Steampunk does not need have to do anything with steam.
Rule 2: A Steampunk does not need to have anything to do with punk.
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Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting aiw kwacken.
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Dave the Troll
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« Reply #31 on: May 25, 2011, 10:31:37 am » |
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Firstly they are "more of what you call guidelines than actual rules". 4. Encourage child labour, workhouses, and women to be women.
This I am heartily following. I recently purchased some cutlery to take to the steampunk camp. This cutlery is authentically steampunk. Why? Is it because they are made of brass? No. Is it because there are more knives and forks per setting than is quite necessary? No. Is it because I forced an eight-year old to Brasso each and every one of them? Yup. What makes them steampunk is not what they are, it is how they were cleaned. Have a hideous 70's gas fire? Get a small child to clean the flue and it is now a "steampunk" hideous 70's gas fire! |
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Dr. Madd
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« Reply #32 on: May 25, 2011, 05:47:45 pm » |
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I play Civ. Hannibal looks just me in the Industrial age.
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What do we want? Decapitations!
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Guinevere Meander
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« Reply #33 on: May 26, 2011, 10:07:42 am » |
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You all made me laugh soooo hard..again...
Thank Coq for steampunk and BG
Guin
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"...it was here just a minute ago!" Motto of the lovely Lady Guinevere Meander
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Clym Angus
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« Reply #34 on: May 26, 2011, 03:55:31 pm » |
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Thou shalt not be made of plastic, wood, vulcanised rubbers, inanimate materials as understood by science OR any derivatives there of;
E.G. Paper mache, cardboard or pump air engorged inflatables.
If this is the case, you are decreed to be known as; "Decoy Steampunks" AND ARE IN NO WAY to be considered proper or real. Decoy Steampunks are tasked with the purpose of drawing fire and/or fooling the enemy into thinking that our numbers are greater than they actually are.
If you feel that you have been incorrectly classified as a Decoy Steampunk; then the ONUS is on YOU to prove sentientcy! We suggest running around, waving your arms in the air, shouting "Look at me! I'm real!" This should alert the proper authorities to their mistake.
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Guinevere Meander
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« Reply #35 on: May 26, 2011, 04:15:11 pm » |
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*sputter tea*
*roar*
*hack*
sorry about posting again, guys, but you all are just way too good for me and then some....
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Taillte
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« Reply #36 on: May 26, 2011, 04:18:02 pm » |
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I love all of you so much. This is fantastic.
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Just call me Rob
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« Reply #37 on: May 26, 2011, 04:24:36 pm » |
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Rule 34. Thou shalt wear no unexplained cogs.
Rule 34b. A decorative cog is an explained cog.
Rule 35. Please do not split the atom.
Rule 36. No smoking near the Hydrogen.
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Miles (a sailor)Martin
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« Reply #38 on: May 26, 2011, 10:28:47 pm » |
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Remember rule 2 ;NO Poofta's
and rule 7 Absolutly no poofta's
@ Monty Python. weird stuff
love the Python gang's humor
Miles
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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.
machinist for hire/ mechanic at large
Warning : minstrel with a five string banjo
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Miss Pickup
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« Reply #39 on: May 26, 2011, 10:34:16 pm » |
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Rule 34. Thou shalt wear no unexplained cogs.
Rule 34b. A decorative cog is an explained cog.
Rule 35. Please do not split the atom.
Rule 36. No smoking near the Hydrogen.
Eep! *dashes off to hammer atoms back together* |
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« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2011, 03:37:36 am » |
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Rule 34. Thou shalt wear no unexplained cogs.
Rule 34b. A decorative cog is an explained cog.
Rule 35. Please do not split the atom.
Rule 36. No smoking near the Hydrogen.
35b. Unless there is no other viable way to get Hydrogen avaliable to you |
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Several modern detectives now claim that “Jack the Ripper” was actually named Carl.
“Carl the Ripper” just doesn’t have the same ring.
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« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2011, 03:45:10 am » |
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Regards the Victorian age - take what's best, and leave the rest... |
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SteampunkObserver
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« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2011, 06:49:07 am » |
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I've been looking for this thread, only to be terribly let down. Sadly, gentlemen, you've gotten it all wrong! Your "lifestyle" section is missing so much. Far too little emphasis on titles, the need for a regular commission (the National Guard, the British Territorials, and rankers, are all swine), and the White Man's Burden. You also forgot to add clubs (in the US a swanky country club will do, in England Army Navy is acceptable, Whites' or Brooks's would be better). You've also said nothing about what schools one must attend (in the US, I would think only the Ivy League, the "little" Ivies, and a smattering of other schools founded before about 1820 would be acceptable). As to imperialism, Africa's an option. (As an aside: I'm actually a little torn myself over present African imperialism. With friends from the Northern Congo and in Rwandan politics, I'm really not sure what side I should be supporting in the ongoing conflict north of the Congo River.) Afghanistan would be more gloriously imperial, and you're probably qualified to be some kind of Federal government contractor if the infantry isn't for you. Most importantly, you've forgotten to add the objectification of women and demanding they pop out as many heirs as possible as quickly as possible. Successive wives is a plus, each about the same age at marriage as the first. This is actually still quite accepted in American culture. Apparently the Europeans have reverted to a more barbaric treatment of women, where they demand they share an equal burden. Fortunately, we are still civilized in this country. If you don't regularly go to church, eat meat, smoke, box, shoot, enjoy the company of your wife, enjoy the company of your mistress, and command other individuals (such as servants and people of a lesser social station), then you clearly are not Steampunk.Housing (especially considering its depressed value and present accessibility) is also important. If you can't afford more than two stories, find a way that you can. I have promised honesty, so I will use my own situation as an example. I, for one, live in a seven-story gothic castle cut in to a mountain, overlooking a wide river. I also have guards dressed like the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz. V/r, ~SO EDIT:  |
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Clym Angus
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« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2011, 11:56:20 am » |
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If your being humorous as I know you are, because the sign on the door said "tongue in cheek". Given the sum total of your posts so far it would really help, of you sprinkled your comments with the odd smiley. You know, just so some people don't get the wrong end of the stick.  You forgot the child chimney sweep; no consumption racked 6 year old buffing the soot from your chimney? Nil poi I'm afraid. |
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Rockula
Immortal
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Nothing beats a good hat.
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« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2011, 12:03:52 pm » |
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If your being humorous as I know you are, because the sign on the door said "tongue in cheek".
Given the sum total of your posts so far it would really help, of you sprinkled your comments with the odd smiley. You know, just so some people don't get the wrong end of the stick.
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The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...
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Capt. Dirigible
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« Reply #45 on: May 27, 2011, 12:16:10 pm » |
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EDIT: There's nothing to see here, folks...move along please. Nothing to see. Go about your business.
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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LadyAsprin
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« Reply #46 on: May 27, 2011, 12:18:21 pm » |
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If you don't regularly go to church, eat meat, smoke, box, shoot, enjoy the company of your wife, enjoy the company of your mistress, and command other individuals (such as servants and people of a lesser social station), then you clearly are not Steampunk.
Under your logic its a lot harder for women to be steampunk. |
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Only girls fight with swords these days.(Wellington - Duel and Duality - Blackadder III)
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Dr Fidelius
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« Reply #47 on: May 27, 2011, 12:28:22 pm » |
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If you don't regularly go to church, eat meat, smoke, box, shoot, enjoy the company of your wife, enjoy the company of your mistress, and command other individuals (such as servants and people of a lesser social station), then you clearly are not Steampunk.
Under your logic its a lot harder for women to be steampunk. Now that you mention it, none of the lesbian couples I know have any interest in Steampunk. (Of course, almost none of any couples I know in "Real Life" (tm) have any interest in Steampunk, so my observation may not be stastically significant.) |
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The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not represent any other persons, organizations, spirits, thinking machines, hive minds or other sentient beings on this world or any adjacent dimensions in the multiverse.
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« Reply #48 on: May 27, 2011, 12:30:02 pm » |
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If you don't regularly go to church, eat meat, smoke, box, shoot, enjoy the company of your wife, enjoy the company of your mistress, and command other individuals (such as servants and people of a lesser social station), then you clearly are not Steampunk.
Under your logic its a lot harder for women to be steampunk. Now that you mention it, none of the lesbian couples I know have any interest in Steampunk. (Of course, almost none of any couples I know in "Real Life" (tm) have any interest in Steampunk, so my observation may not be stastically significant.) His logic pretty much says that for a woman to be steampunk she needs to be a lesbian. |
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Dr Fidelius
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« Reply #49 on: May 27, 2011, 12:33:30 pm » |
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If you don't regularly go to church, eat meat, smoke, box, shoot, enjoy the company of your wife, enjoy the company of your mistress, and command other individuals (such as servants and people of a lesser social station), then you clearly are not Steampunk.
Under your logic its a lot harder for women to be steampunk. Now that you mention it, none of the lesbian couples I know have any interest in Steampunk. (Of course, almost none of any couples I know in "Real Life" (tm) have any interest in Steampunk, so my observation may not be stastically significant.) His logic pretty much says that for a woman to be steampunk she needs to be a lesbian. Well, that would take half the interest out of the thing for me. (Disclaimer: as a happily married man I am only interested in looking and daydreaming.) |
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