“Real Steampunkery Tech: True Contraptions of the Steam and Diesel Eras.” An inventor I stumbled upon while researching that book would have readily answered that ponderation in my post title.
The british in the 30s and during most of the war made good decisions and made mostly no-nonsense designs, certainly better than the masters of steampunk, the french. But by war's end they were already getting nuttier, probably influnced by the crazier german...
Before the beads of sweat on our foreheads start to drip too much, we exit the blast-furnace warehouse down a long ramp. “Hands on the rail, please!” Midebjörk says. I stop and look back at the furnace building—part Burning Man, part steampunk in its multistory glory of rusted ...
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick obscura remains a fascinating, excellent role-playing game which celebrated its 20th birthday in August of 2021. While it can be a bit tricky to make it run on modern systems, if you do you’ll be thrown into a stea...
Sucker Punch took the audience to a steampunk-style sci-fi world to meet Babydoll (Emily Browning), a young woman who, after accidentally killing her sister while defending her from their abusive stepfather, is committed to a mental institution....
“fantasy console” approach, to constrain developers to those limits. There isn’t really a word for it — I guess retro is it — but if you can imagine what Steampunk did for science fiction based on an 1890s world, I’d like AtariBox to do for videogames based on a 1980s world...
The fashion of The Hunger Games is all about extremes: You've got the the ornate, Jeff Koons–meets-steampunk excess of the Capitol and the Dust Bowl–era normcore garb of District 12. Sure, it makes for some great runway-style set-pieces and action figures, but it can also make the...
Corvo uses them to sneak around steampunk castles in a decaying, dystopian kingdom, but I would use them to become the world’s greatest soccer player. Sure, I don’t have the foot skills to compete at an elite level, but with Corvo’s powers, I wouldn’t need them. Even Lionel ...
the current state of popular music. I was also rather outraged that domestic abuse not only DOESN’T hurt your chances of winning music’s highest award, but it actually seems to help your odds. Despicable motherfuckers should be treated as the pariahs they are and not like aspirational ...