Poll: Steampunk or cyberpunk?
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so between something that looks like Cyberpunk:
http://knesya.deviantart.com/art/2028-City-130299239?q=favby
rcus35/34937204&qo=18
http://sc4v3ng3r.deviantart.com/art/Cyber-SHop-57232982?qj=2&q=boostopular+cyberpunk&qo=480
or Steampunk:
http://gamefan84.deviantart.com/art/City-concept-commission-164466850?q=boostopular+steampunk+town&qo=42
http://nigelhimself.deviantart.com/art/run-down-sci-town-177899668?q=boostopular+steampunk+town&qo=41
hmmm i'll stick with cyberpunk... steampunk is too much traditionalistic for me.
http://knesya.deviantart.com/art/2028-City-130299239?q=favby
rcus35/34937204&qo=18http://sc4v3ng3r.deviantart.com/art/Cyber-SHop-57232982?qj=2&q=boost
opular+cyberpunk&qo=480or Steampunk:
http://gamefan84.deviantart.com/art/City-concept-commission-164466850?q=boost
opular+steampunk+town&qo=42http://nigelhimself.deviantart.com/art/run-down-sci-town-177899668?q=boost
opular+steampunk+town&qo=41hmmm i'll stick with cyberpunk... steampunk is too much traditionalistic for me.
I'm taking this opportunity to vent, so yeah...
I take exceptions to steampunk and its followups for one thing... they're almost always a purely visual aesthetic.
Cyberpunk got it's name from combining the futuristic science fiction element with the conceits of the Punk movement (power of youth, mistrust of authority and anti-establishment mentality, unrestrained freedom of expression and thought versus corporate and government mandates, etc). It was that use of science fiction to play allegory with society that gave it an edge as a sub-genre.
Steampunk, Dieselpunk, and the others almost always lose out on the PUNK aspect... they stick gears and vents and a monocle on it and say "Look, Steampunk". Worst offenders are the ones that have no business trying to separate themselves into their own little private genre islands... "I'm all about bio-engineering and genetic manipulation, I'm biopunk!" "I'm all about gears and springs and difference engines, I'm Clockpunk".
You're barely a sub-sub-sub genre, you don't need to be split off that far, it's not necessary. And it's pointless to tack "Punk" on the end of your name if you're riding on the coattails of sub-genre's that don't even do the "punk" aspect right to begin with.
I take exceptions to steampunk and its followups for one thing... they're almost always a purely visual aesthetic.
Cyberpunk got it's name from combining the futuristic science fiction element with the conceits of the Punk movement (power of youth, mistrust of authority and anti-establishment mentality, unrestrained freedom of expression and thought versus corporate and government mandates, etc). It was that use of science fiction to play allegory with society that gave it an edge as a sub-genre.
Steampunk, Dieselpunk, and the others almost always lose out on the PUNK aspect... they stick gears and vents and a monocle on it and say "Look, Steampunk". Worst offenders are the ones that have no business trying to separate themselves into their own little private genre islands... "I'm all about bio-engineering and genetic manipulation, I'm biopunk!" "I'm all about gears and springs and difference engines, I'm Clockpunk".
You're barely a sub-sub-sub genre, you don't need to be split off that far, it's not necessary. And it's pointless to tack "Punk" on the end of your name if you're riding on the coattails of sub-genre's that don't even do the "punk" aspect right to begin with.
Based on a quick Google Image search, I'm gonna have to say "Steam Punk".
Bioshock, ftw!
I'm going to go kill myself for using the phrase "ftw", now. Goodbye.
Bioshock, ftw!
I'm going to go kill myself for using the phrase "ftw", now. Goodbye.
