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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:09:46 PM EST
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For our 24th anniversary, my wife and I went to the Strassberg Steampunk Limited weekend.
Rode in the parlor car with Abney Park.  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:09:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If I added brass and leather…https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/FA5D22D2-307C-4284-98E6-4A5D38141D9A-2149987.jpg That your place ? The pumpkin is pretty awesome ! |
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:12:39 PM EST
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:15:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That your place ? The pumpkin is pretty awesome ! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If I added brass and leather…https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/FA5D22D2-307C-4284-98E6-4A5D38141D9A-2149987.jpg That your place ? The pumpkin is pretty awesome ! My pumpkin. The house in my neighbor’s. My house is a bit more modern (to the right, unseen from the street) |
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:22:01 PM EST
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:34:24 PM EST
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:47:48 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hate Steampunk with a burning passion. The stories from the genre are always so broken and stretch the steampunk'esk technology to such ridiculous ends that is breaks the best suspension of disbelief you can bring to the stories. The artwork is mostly random gears and pipes epoxied to some antique/outfit and called steampunk. Steampunk always seems to be created by people that have never even looked at a high school physics or chemistry book let alone cracked open a college level engineering book. Now cyberpunk on the other-hand is a great genre that, though it frequently ages poorly, still has created some great stories. Has anyone ever published a good steampunk novel/show? The only thing I have ever enjoyed from the genre is the original Wild Wild West TV series but I was a little kid, it would probably not be as good now as I remember it, if I re-watched it today. The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk. The father of steampunk = the father of cyberpunk @mcb |
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Posted: 11/1/2021 6:58:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/wwi-armored-car-jpg.494503/ https://www.wonderslist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Garford-Putilov-Armoured-Car.jpghttps://i1.wp.com/www.wonderslist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Simms-Motor-Scout-1899.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 And the best: https://providencechildrensfilmfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/movie_cars_chitty_chitty_bang_bang_ahall_dvdyke_hripley_ahowes_1600_900_2.jpg Have to disagree about "the best." I believe Professor Fate's "Hannibal Twin 8" fills the bill. After all, it has a cannon.  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/1/2021 7:55:17 PM EST
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Posted: 11/1/2021 8:22:09 PM EST
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Posted: 11/1/2021 8:40:07 PM EST
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A few years back I was in the top of an elevator shaft with the original electric motor installed sometime in the 20s. The motor and the safety systems in it were the most steam punk thing I've even seen. It has a working centripetal clutch with steel ball throw out weights.
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Posted: 11/1/2021 8:47:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I've always wanted to go to steampunk event. Never have though. Don't do it...your friends will hate you.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbq6Wfh9fi4Science! |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 5:42:23 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I went to an anniversary dinner in Los Gatos, CA a couple that attended dressed in steampunk. I was told that is how they roll. They were in their late 50s. It was sort of bizarre. First and only time exposed to it in real life. I went to a Springfield Art Fair / block party and there were tons of 20 something's wearing costumes. I was like dammit, I didn't know we could wear costumes to these things! Who doesn't love wearing a costume? Nothing like a good Renaissance Fair or for that matter Cowboy Action shoot! |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 5:57:22 AM EST
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I like and appreciate the craftsmanship of cool stuff from the past.
WTF - steam punk? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steampunk |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 7:50:30 AM EST
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Posted: 11/2/2021 7:57:47 AM EST
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Quote HistoryGo on…. |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 8:07:40 AM EST
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Quote HistoryGo on......... |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 8:22:31 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Publish it yourself. You can do it on amazon. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I wrote a steampunk novel in around 2011 or so but was never able to find a publisher for it (would have been the first in a series). The basic premise was to use tech as sort of a substitute for magic, and then I plugged in doppelgangers of rad inventors and just had them up their game or get tech out a little sooner than expected, all set amidst a second American Civil War around 1900 (California is cut off from the rest of the country in the center due to an ongoing Indian war and the south and north still hate each other). Tesla and Edison are building a bullet train together, Eugene Stoner and John Browning are a singular person, combat aircraft are in play, etc. Really fun concept that I consider dusting off every now and again but never do. Publish it yourself. You can do it on amazon. Or call a really cool printing company, like mine ;) |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 8:33:16 AM EST
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Posted: 11/2/2021 8:56:40 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or call a really cool printing company, like mine ;) @madwis15 What kind of printing do you do? Bookbinding? |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 8:59:32 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @madwis15 What kind of printing do you do? Bookbinding? Anything from basic business cards to full color paperback books. All in-house. We even do the occasional high school yearbook. Josten's and Walswort really hate that! |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 9:01:39 AM EST
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Posted: 11/2/2021 12:17:18 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Go on......... Quote HistoryQuoted: Go on......... Might as well add Lady Clankington to your searches too.   Attached File |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 12:22:15 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More of a diesel punk/ Art Deco kind of guy myself. Think Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow or The Rocketeer. Giant blimp aircraft carriers, tall skyscrapers, and an optimism for the future. Back to the Future III  |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 12:23:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryLittle known fact, humans have more body hair per square inch than monkeys. |
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Posted: 11/2/2021 12:41:37 PM EST
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Personally I go back and forth between steampunk and cyberpunk and which is better. I particularly like the weapons design of both. And the ladies
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Posted: 11/2/2021 2:17:29 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @adavis I would love to read that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I wrote a steampunk novel in around 2011 or so but was never able to find a publisher for it (would have been the first in a series). The basic premise was to use tech as sort of a substitute for magic, and then I plugged in doppelgangers of rad inventors and just had them up their game or get tech out a little sooner than expected, all set amidst a second American Civil War around 1900 (California is cut off from the rest of the country in the center due to an ongoing Indian war and the south and north still hate each other). Tesla and Edison are building a bullet train together, Eugene Stoner and John Browning are a singular person, combat aircraft are in play, etc. Really fun concept that I consider dusting off every now and again but never do. I would love to read that. Same here. I started writing a diesel/steam punk- esque novel that I was really enjoying putting together but shelved it to finish something else. Its on deck to be completed probably just for my own fun at this point. |
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