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No. "Retrofuturism" is "what the past thought the future would be". Steampunk would be more appropriately classified as alt-history...
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I am not well versed in the genre because I am not a huge fan of the aesthetic, but I thought The Difference Engine was consider an...
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I agree. I would say that the 1954 Disney 20,000 Leagues and the 1960 Time Machine movies had a big influence on the steampunk aesthetic...
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Dannyalcatraz replied to the thread How Much Do You Care About Novelty?.Which is very common in science fiction, generally. While there is certainly dystopian steampunk fiction, I don’t thinks dystopian...
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With respect. Wells was commenting on his present, using allegory set in the future. For steampunk, it's nigh-dystopian aspects are...
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Dannyalcatraz replied to the thread How Much Do You Care About Novelty?.There is a lot of gatekeeping about genre purity, yes, but also a lot of welcoming of new fans in general.
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Well, they're usually in that part of town, so they just blend in with the rest of the people doing questionable things in cars in broad...
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Dannyalcatraz replied to the thread How Much Do You Care About Novelty?.Ah- yeah, I agree with that. I still think it’s a stretch to consider Verne & Wells to be truly steampunk. Even granting numerous...
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I think you misunderstand me. Now, people can look back and say that they can collect a number of works and say, "These were the early...
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Dannyalcatraz replied to the thread GMing Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past.I made 2 mistakes in a small window in my oft-mentioned HERO 1900 supers campaign. A new guy wanted to join, so I told him about the...
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Dannyalcatraz replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.If you’ve ever seen the old B&W series of Batman & Robin, two things stand out as inappropriate to modern sensibilities: 1) there is...
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I feel like the fact he keeps taking in nearly identical orphan boys and dressing them up in similar outfits might be another red flag. -
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Robin Trower, of course. Without Batman his music would have taken a totally different turn.
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Dannyalcatraz replied to the thread How Much Do You Care About Novelty?.Personally, I see “steampunk” much like you do, a 1980s-spawned genre inspired by writers like Verne & Wells, akin to how “neoclassical”...