Professions like bouncer or Rosie (as in Rosie the riveter given that it fights you with a rivet gun) and why the weapons they fight you with could also be used for practical purposes like drilling or fixing holes.
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Also as for my view for steampunk died; I feel like society tends to nostalgize the eras 2 generations ago as well as a century ago. 80s and 90s nostalgia is very popular right now as well as dieselpunk as Tristan said because they both offer kindalike mirrors to current society as well escapism
dec 13, 2024, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
Because the 80s and 90s can be viewed as a simpler, more “ optimistic” time for those who grew up in it as well as for those an “escape from the current issues of the day” like how apprently gen alpha seems to think that the 00s was a great and happy time to grow up in. The last century tends to…
dec 13, 2024, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
Reflect the trajectory that people’s hopes & fears.The cold, harsh, metal mechanization of dieselpunk invoking similar sentiments of the 1920s (for all the good & bad),both world wars & the immediate aftermath of mass industrialization in society not unlike today’s technology & political realities
dec 13, 2024, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
Where as steampunk tends to air on the more whimsical and optimistic side of innovation and part of the reason why you think to see it associated with magic as a counterpoint or even as a reason why it works with media especially video games like arcanum, dishonored & sovereign society is because
dec 13, 2024, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
They represent the two extremes; magic being the mystical and fantastic ways of the old world that’s going away and steampunk science even counting magical alchemy in a lot of these stories as the logical reality and mastery of the world. The magic goes away because we learned how the world works.
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