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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5871879" data-attributes="member: 51930">Hi tech vs. steam punk:   We grew up with He-Man and Thundercats, both of which are high fantasy with technology.  I can see why they've be better at it than clockwork stuff.Frankly, I wonder if some players choose to not "get" things like Steampunk.  It's a concept, a big variable box, the X in the game where you can put magic, psionics, steamtech, hi tech, whatever.  Granted, it's a silly idea, but it's the same suspension of disbelief principle.Weird how people can only suspend their disbelief and stretch their imaginations is really familiar ways: you have to give them the familiar.  Everyone gets D&D-land, but try running Gamma World and you'll get hums and hahs.  Heck, try Sci-fi that isn't Star Wars or Star Trek (or some other known franchise) and you'll put most people off until they form that bond with whatever it is.  Even Star Gate used mythology concepts (gods as aliens).Oh well.Also:  I went to the theatre on a rough night with the sis, and we had two options: Van Helsing or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.  I'd read the comic for LEG, but VH was made by the guy who made The Mummy (a fave for sure).  I went with my gut (a real "use the Force Luke" moment), and we picked Van Helsing, and it was spectacular: it hit all the points I wanted for it, and was a thrill ride the whole way (a bit silly, but not uncomfortably so by any stretch).  And thank God we did, considering how awful LEG was (I heard Sean Connery had the director fired so he directed the last bit, it was such a train wreck).     Like anything, you have to be able to do two things:  relax and have fun with it.  Just relax, it's not like they're changing the constitution; and have fun, it's a silly film but people worked hard on it.  Entertainment, nothing more nothing less, and imho it was a great job.  I still watch it when I'm down.</blockquote>

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