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Trainers & Gumboots?

He is Anakin Skywalker’s long lost brother. We will have a flashback to him stepping out of the shower.

Conspiracies used to be fun when everyone knew they were fantasy. No there are people in positions of power who believe that stuff they are too much a reminder of the reality we are trying to escape to include in a fun leisure activity.

That was a lot less stupid than their previous plan of trying to kill each other. Also, we need the rules published.

I don’t know if anyone else has commented on this, but I was reading the Solasta 2 dev blog and they were talking about the 2024 Champion fighter as if its inclusion were a fait accompli. I think that pretty much confirms that the game will be based around the 5.2 SRD.

No. It’s lies. There was no freedom of speech at that time, so you are looking back and seeing the propaganda. Churchill was a very skilled romanticiser of history himself.

Also romanticisation. “Nothing like as bad as the other guys” doesn’t make you good. In particular, Churchill’s success was founded on being an utter ruthless bstd (whilst complaining of only two bottles of champagne per day). And unity? A myth.

Really? Because my experience was steampunk didn’t go mainstream until the 90s. Personal experience, sure. But my feeling is it was much discussed within its little fandom bubble until it started to appear in other media.

Not my experience of cosplayers at all. The one I knew who was a cospunk steamplayer was also into Star Trek, with all the humanist values which come with that. I've also met pirate cosplayers who are definitely not in favour of murder, rape and pillage. But that's definitely a slippery slope...

It sounds to me like you are critiquing a whole genre (and cosplayers) because of a rare edge case. I can't think of any examples of steampunk that whitewashes real world history*. I can think of plenty of historical novels (and TV shows) without SF or fantasy elements that do that. *Unless you...

That scene involves a mouse. After Scotty first tries to talk to the screen, the guy hands him a mouse, and Scotty talks to that, assuming it's a microphone. Then the keyboard is introduced.

It may not have been a commercial success, but it was influential. It was certainly my introduction the the Steampunk genre*. I've never read The Difference Engine or seen Wild Wild West (was it ever on TV in the UK?), but I know Space 1889. *However I was a big fan of Doctor Who, which had...

I don't find "slippery slope" arguments entirely convincing: "One minute you are wearing a top hat, the next you are sending children down the mines". Especially not in the pre-social media days of the 1990s. Maybe some people? But then, should the steampunk genre be avoided, because it might...

In the 1800s Walter Scott was huge. From writing novels that massively romanticised the past. So long as it’s long enough ago that there is no one left alive who remembers what it was really like people will romanticise it. These days there are people romanticising the 1940s for goodness sake...

Never played that (or Alternity). I think I was playing WEG Star Wars d6 and FASA Star Trek when those were current.

2e? Think Fallout with the 1e AD&D rules. It was okay. Only played a couple of times.

Complement accepted! The job of a teacher is to get someone to think for themselves, not to tell them what is so, so asking questions is more important than answering them.

The past was horrible is fact. But letting the suspicion that some people might be guilty of romanticising it inform the way you define a genre is not.

Are you trying to claim its not true?! How would you know? I wasn't aware of the genre in the 80s, and you are 9 years younger than me. Steampunk toddler society? The past is another country, they do things differently there. I'm not in a position to comment on what steampunk used to be, I...