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Eyes of Nine replied to the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk?.How about the fictional concept of Standard Oil, Union Pacific (or other railway(s)), US Steel, and JP Morgan all merged into one big...
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Eyes of Nine replied to the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk?.I think one of the qualities of a megacorp in cyberpunk settings is it's transnationalism/ubiquity. The fact that Renraku, a Japanese...
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Eyes of Nine reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with
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The United Fruit Company is up there too - its the reason Banana Republics exist -
Eyes of Nine reacted to dragoner's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with Like.
If I were to do a steampunk megacorp I would base it on Standard Oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
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Eyes of Nine replied to the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk?.so, TIL diselpunk Which led me down the wikipedia rabbit hole of cyberpunk derivatives. I like this sentence on the wiki...
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Eyes of Nine reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with
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Steampunk is what happened when goth discovered the color brown :P -
Eyes of Nine reacted to Gradine's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with
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Eyes of Nine reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with Like.
Well, I would disagree with that sentiment, in a couple of ways. "-punk" is about rejection of the status quo - whatever it happens to...
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Eyes of Nine reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with Love.
Why not? Because steampunk is a reaction to cyberpunk, not merely a time-shifted mimic of cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is about the...
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Eyes of Nine reacted to Gradine's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with Like.
The biggest issue is that a lot of time steampunk settings and stories forget that the word includes "punk"
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Eyes of Nine reacted to jian's post in the thread Why aren't megacorps as big a part of Steampunk as they are of Cyberpunk? with Like.
I think quite a few steampunk settings do have megacorps (or at least their Gilded Age equivalents, robber barons and their feudal...
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Eyes of Nine replied to the thread Do you have kids of your own?.12 pounds is a large baby |full stop
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Morrus is British?!?!?! 😮
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Eyes of Nine reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Do you have kids of your own? with Haha.
"of your own" No, I keep raising everyone else's. ;)