Spyke
Huxreply
lemmy.ml

Uh, huh…and you call it that despite it obviously being a style of design and fashion that combines historical elements with anachronistic technological features inspired by science fiction?

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lemmy.world

Steampunk asks the question, "what if there was more white colonialism in history?"

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literature.cafe

Not sure how you get that, because it's either fantasy or alt-history that usually sees the British Steam Empire as the bad guy but okay.

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lemmy.zip

Yeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people.. in my 40 years of seeing art etc.

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Tbh it's an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream.

(e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)

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lemmy.world

Imagine dressing every day in green clothes covered in microchips and LCDs and li-ion batteries

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If everyone covered themselves in lithium ion batteries, gun fights in movies would get way more spectacular.

flesh wound "I'm alright!" burst into flames

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lemm.ee

I wonder what those boobs have to say, assuming they get in the way being so huge.

She even moves her arms oddly like they are actually so big they limit her movement. It's something alright

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eltimabloreply
kbin.social

Naiomi Wu's boobs are running the show now. She died years ago to allow them to take over.

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I need the stl of her body as a test print whenever my printer needs maintenance again xD

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kbin.social

I don't see where horny comes into this. Steampunk is generally Victorian dress, teched up a bit.

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lemmy.world

Maybe it's just me, but when I think of steampunk, I imagine women wearing the bottom half of a dress and a corset. Usually corsets are worn under clothing and is similar to a bra. It doesn't help that lingerie is very similar in appearance to corsets

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kbin.social

Still shuddering about Clockwork Planet where t hey somehow rebuild an another planet mostly with gears and everywhere are just gears stack on top of each other connecting to nothing. It's just gears all the way down, because, that's how it works.

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This is of course in addition to the goggles he wears over his eyes

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Its the women who put on a corset and use it to smash their tiddies way up under their chin... also a significant portion who decide that knee high high heeled boots, long skirts that have a split very high on the thigh and fishnets complete the ensemble.

Its less victorian and more cowboy era saloon prostitute, but you dont hear me complaining.

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feddit.nl

Horny "about" it. It's just slang that means people like it, possibly to an excessive degree. Like I would say I'm horny for SoulsBorne games...

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lemmy.world

Maybe that's what horny means to you Netherlands types but that's not what it means here! Here, it means wild west technohookers! Like that other guy said!

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The fediverse is free and open! I'm not from/in the Netherlands...

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lemm.ee

“Sir, we could use steam to power this-“
Hat.
sigh…I’ll get the cog wheels.”

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lemmy.world

"Sir, you've run the steam pipes directly into your goggles."

"I have a theory that the steam will reheat the low levels of light to daylight brightness and provide night vision!"

"Sir, I don't know how scientifically sound that..."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

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I’m not gonna lie. I would watch the hell out of a show where wacky steam punk inventors find out about the unfortunate laws of physics and thermodynamics.

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lemmy.ml

When breaking it down it down technology actually IS just hot water and clocks.

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Yeah, but think about it. Most energy nowadays comes from basically very hot water (steam) that runs through a turbine-driven generator. And integrated circuits are just very complex clocks.

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lemmy.world

Burn coal, make steam, use steam to turn tubine, generate electricity, transmit electricity, receive electricity, pump into alarm clock, vibrate crystal, count vibrations, tell time. Checks out.

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lemmy.world

If there was a sub for this kind of standup comedy post id subscribe

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lemmy.world

Yeah, I get that it isn't exactly a meme, but I wanted to share and I didn't know a more appropriate community.

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There isn't one, this is the best place for it for now. But if someone wanted to start a new community for stand up posts I'd join

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Be the sub you want to see in the world.

Also tag me, I'd subscribe.

The irony is intentional :)

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