Spurious Contraptions & Other Steampunk Oddities

Ev'ry self-respecting steampunk world must include a Scots engineer:

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The site also has such stock characters as the doctor firmly grounded in the quotidian, the swarthy & mysterious foreign scientist, and of course the dashing young captain.
 
Moosezilla said:
re:Vidocq- it has encryption??? don't know how to decryp! thanx in advance again!
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Not sure what you mean. Are you talking about the site I linked to? About getting the episodes in English?
 
Well, it's not exactly fun, but I don't know where else to put it. Perhaps the rl Carrington Event could provide a suitable part of a steampunk back story - something like what was done with the Wold Newton event. Be sure to follow the further links to the Space.com & SciAm articles for more usable details.
 
Whats a steampunk?
 
I'll take a crack at that: the term "punk" was coined to describe a dark, anarchistic style that developed in the 1970's around a music style by the same name. As an art form, it included such stylistic elements as exposed wires and pipes, and makeshift environments. In the 80's, the term "Cyber-punk" was coined to describe that style as applied to sci-fi and techno ("The Matrix" for instance). An awful lot of anime is in cyberpunk style. Sometime in the late 90's someone imagined what it would look like if cyberpunk had developed in the Victorian era of the 1800's and "steam-punk" was born. The movies "Steamboy" (an anime feature) and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and even "Wild Wild West" pushed the genre in different directions, but it has sorta settled into a techno-victorian groove which we hope to use to full advantage here. In particular, we've taken the idea used in LOEG of using the sci-fi and speculative fiction of the 1800's as a way to introduce impossible ("punked") technology to the victorians, including lasers, computers, and giant steam-driven mechanical spiders. It's alot of fun, once you get into it, and the mod will hopefully be a real romp when we get it done...right now, we're about halfway there....
 
Rather than let "this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife, ..." become a mantra, I decided to visit The Gatehouse. Where I saw a blog post about a movie in production called War of the Worlds: Goliath.

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