Thuja 3,659 June 15, 2020 Share June 15, 2020 This is pretty much what I think of when someone mentions steampunk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splashee 28,566 June 15, 2020 Share June 15, 2020 12 hours ago, Thuja said: This is pretty much what I think of when someone mentions steampunk. It has gone this far huh? Steampunk is not my thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thuja 3,659 June 16, 2020 Share June 16, 2020 10 hours ago, Splashee said: It has gone this far huh? Unfortunately, not much has changed for the genre since this video was released. Not really into steampunk personally but whenever someone mentions it I automatically think of this song lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splashee 28,566 June 16, 2020 Share June 16, 2020 15 hours ago, Thuja said: Unfortunately, not much has changed for the genre since this video was released. Not really into steampunk personally but whenever someone mentions it I automatically think of this song lol. I like it when videos like this becomes popular so that the issues can be caught early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splashee 28,566 June 25, 2020 Share June 25, 2020 Oh god, oh no, oh god.... I just realized quantum computers are steampunk...: Just do an image search. Really, it cannot get more steampunk than this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadOBabe 19,011 June 30, 2020 Share June 30, 2020 (edited) Victorian fashion accented shining copper pipes and whirring gears? Yes PLEASE. I love the aesthetic so much. Only Clockpunk can top it in appeal for me! Edited June 30, 2020 by ShadOBabe 1 Check out my artwork any time: http://shadobabe.deviantart.com/ "OMG; You are such a troll. XD" - PathfinderCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splashee 28,566 June 30, 2020 Share June 30, 2020 7 hours ago, ShadOBabe said: Victorian fashion accented shining copper pipes and whirring gears? Yes PLEASE. I love the aesthetic so much. Only Clockpunk can top it in appeal for me! Searches for Clockpunk (You better have research that word!) Wow it was something. Well I like clocks. I don't like steam that much.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadOBabe 19,011 June 30, 2020 Share June 30, 2020 10 minutes ago, Splashee said: Searches for Clockpunk (You better have research that word!) Wow it was something. Well I like clocks. I don't like steam that much.... Yup. Similar concept to steampunk, but with more gears and clockwork tech, and an emphasis on Renaissance inventions and Rococo styles. Check out my artwork any time: http://shadobabe.deviantart.com/ "OMG; You are such a troll. XD" - PathfinderCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splashee 28,566 June 30, 2020 Share June 30, 2020 1 hour ago, ShadOBabe said: Yup. Similar concept to steampunk, but with more gears and clockwork tech, and an emphasis on Renaissance inventions and Rococo styles. It's almost impossible to come up with a new name for something. I was thinking Steamfunk, but no. Google didn't like that a bit. Have to check every word, because on the Internet there are inappropriate names all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early Sunsets 2,107 June 30, 2020 Share June 30, 2020 Steampunk is cool. It's not my favorite, but I do like how it looks. 1 Rainbow Dash Fanatic "You stroll down memories of younger, brighter times 'cause you never realize what you've got till you leave it all behind." ~ dBPony "So we’re here at the end, did we teach you well, my friend? Don’t look so sad to see us go, after the rain comes rainbows." ~ Princewhateverer "Darlin' you'll be okay." ~ Vic Fuentes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluttershutter 2,529 July 1, 2020 Share July 1, 2020 It's awesome z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDDash 19,203 July 1, 2020 Share July 1, 2020 (edited) Obsession with gears and Victorian fashion. People, it's just a form of science fiction All of those tropes is technically true. Edited July 1, 2020 by RDDash Extra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight-Sparkle17 230 July 2, 2020 Share July 2, 2020 I think that steampunk looks really cool (what with the many gears incorporated within the design of a steampunk outfit). I think that steampunk costumes/outfits look really interesting as will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatonRyu 1,033 July 3, 2020 Share July 3, 2020 I really don't care much for it. I prefer straight-up medieval fantasy, rather than contraptions with tons of gears and steam coming out of everything. It doesn't help that I consider the Industrial Revolution IRL an incredibly boring part of history, thanks to high school just going on and on and on about it. The one steampunk thing I actually like is this one restaurant/bar/whatever it actually is in Gothenburg, Sweden, because they've got great burgers and really fancy brightly colored drinks with dry-ice in them to make them smoke. Great place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixrec 86 July 3, 2020 Share July 3, 2020 (edited) I like speculative fiction in general, but that's because of the potential to speculate about how things might work in a very different world from our own, and how that would have tangible impacts on the way stories unfold in that world. So when a fantasy/sci-fi work appears to have put no more thought into the setting than "we're doing swords and sorcery" or "we're doing present day plus robots", a lot of my enthusiasm evaporates. Steampunk is one of those subgenres that in my experience is at just the right popularity level where it usually is a decent indicator that the author/artist/whatever put some serious thought into their setting and made something I'll find really interesting, but of course there are exceptions. Cyberpunk is in a similar place. Medieval european usually indicates the opposite, but I've been pleasantly surprised plenty of times. I don't have any strong opinions on steampunk relative to all the other subgenres defined by which branch of the tech tree your fictional world went down; they're all awesome when done well. Where MLP fits into this is interesting. The show's tech levels are all over the place, presumably because having tons of magic makes them less interested in pursuing certain kinds of technology (which is exactly the sort of thing I love to dig into), but the show tends to avoid explaining this aspect of the setting so it's hard to tell how much was intentional. The one big exception is weather/season manipulation, which it does go into quite a bit of detail about, and I loved all of that. Now the real question is... how many gears must one glue onto Twilight before she becomes a steampunk pony? Edited July 3, 2020 by Ixrec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee 4,323 July 5, 2020 Share July 5, 2020 (edited) -Deleted comment- Edited August 5, 2023 by Starry Sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splashee 28,566 July 5, 2020 Share July 5, 2020 🧱 brick walls are funnier than brass tubes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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