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Lantyssa
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Samwise
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The RSS reader is my favorite. Even if I don't know Morse code that well.
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schild
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I inquired about buying one of the steampunk keyboards about a week ago. Will cost upwards $1,000.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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If that monitor worked, it'd be the shiznit.
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CmdrSlack
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Heh, I like the vaporizer.
The Original Model 420 Pneumatiform Infumationizer indeed.
The 420 part is a dead giveaway, but that's a really classy dope smoking (or in this case, vaporizing) tool.
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I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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Righ
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I inquired about buying one of the steampunk keyboards about a week ago. Will cost upwards $1,000.
Not bad. You obviously like your art cheap. I like the watch. The problem? It's $375,000. |
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Signe
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I really enjoy the look of that Steampunk stuff. I didn't expect those prices though. The watch is cool looking but not THAT cool looking.
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schild
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I inquired about buying one of the steampunk keyboards about a week ago. Will cost upwards $1,000.
Not bad. You obviously like your art cheap. I like the watch. The problem? It's $375,000. $1,000 would have been fine if the keyboard that was being sold was using a Model M as the base (like the one in the image) the one that't being sold uses an off the shelf USB keyboard. Which sucks baaalllllllllllllllllls. I'd kill for that watch. |
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Nonentity
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Ooo, shiny.
That guitar is badass. I hope someone truly awesome buys it.
If I hear about anyone in Fallout Boy obtaining a steampunk guitar, I am going to eat a pistol.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
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Murgos
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I'm generally against paying a lot of money for watches, I give my coworker no end of shit about his Omega fetish, but I would buy that watch.
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Bunk
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Hmm, this seems like as good a thread as any. A friend of mine just came back from Thailand, where he picked up a couple pieces done a by a local junk metal sculptor. Pure geek art at its finest. This is one of the pieces, it's about a foot tall:  His site: http://www.koart.co.th/index_main.php |
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CmdrSlack
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I'm generally against paying a lot of money for watches, I give my coworker no end of shit about his Omega fetish, but I would buy that watch.
Omegas are expensive? I have my grandfather's Omega from ages ago...it gains about 5 mins an hour so I've been wanting to get it fixed. I didn't realize that was some big brand or whatever. |
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Murgos
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You can get the NASA Omega for around 3K new. It's not HEUG money in watch land but, like I said, I'm not into mens jewelry.
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Tale
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Is there much to steampunk literature apart from The Difference Engine? Or is it a genre made more of cool steampunk items and their pics on the Internet?
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schild
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Steampunk is tough. Very little falls into the category. And a lot of stuff is clumped in that shouldn't be.
I've always had a problem with the classification of Frankenstein for example.
Wait, didn't we have this conversation a while ago in Gen. Disc?
Well, anyway, the best examples I've come up with since then are Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups), Steamboy (goddamn japan makes it obvious), The Prestige, Castlevania (particularly 3), , Dreamfall had some good stuff going on... but wasn't quite there.
The best example is still FF6.
I still stand by my previous drawn out, complicated definition of Steampunk.
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DeathInABottle
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Grant Morrison did a three-comic steampunk series called Sebastian O that's worth checking out. The trade paperback is cheap, if you can find it.
You could call a lot of Hayao Miyazaki's stuff steampunk, right? Like Castle in the Sky and maybe Howl's Moving Castle?
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schild
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Grant Morrison did a three-comic steampunk series called Sebastian O that's worth checking out. The trade paperback is cheap, if you can find it.
You could call a lot of Hayao Miyazaki's stuff steampunk, right? Like Castle in the Sky and maybe Howl's Moving Castle?
Maybe Conan? |
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tazelbain
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You are forgetting the definitive Steampunk of all time: Wild, Wild West.
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schild
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Back to the Future. 3.
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CmdrSlack
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Arcanum probably counts, even if it has magic. In that vein, I'd almost count Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, even though it's more like Victorian types in a nano-tech future.
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Rishathra
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Arcanum probably counts, even if it has magic. In that vein, I'd almost count Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, even though it's more like Victorian types in a nano-tech future. If you just look at the cultural aspects, yeah, that could easily count as steampunk. |
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