Professor Cat's Steampunk Spergtime Gallery

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This thread is dumb. It's just people sperging about antiques and how steampunks don't appreciate real gears. Who the hell cares? Where's the funny?
 
Indeed. Is there a significant upsurge of steampunks happening anywhere at the moment, or was this more of a speculative "aren't these people weird" sort of thread?
 
The Knife's Husbando said:
Gluing gears on a hat isn't steampunk.

This is steampunk:

A fully functional 9mm. MP-5 submachine gun, with the exhaust gases from each shot powering an automatic clockwork magazine ejector. Also note the fucking fantastic engravings the gunsmith put on it.

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A steam-powered stainless steel vibrator. Powered by a fucking Tesla turbine drive. Easily achieves no-load speeds of 10,000 RPM with a normal kitchen pressure cooker or shop compressed air system.
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A custom PC keyboard rebuild. Most of the parts are stripped off a vintage Atlas typewriter. Pretty and fully functional.

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That keyboard, man...it's really a shame that Richard "Datamancer" Nagy (guy who built this, he did a lot of other kickass PC rebuilds like this) is no longer with us.

You know who I would count as pretty damn steampunk, moreso than actual steampunks?

Beware; here be train-sperging.
O'Connor Engineering Laboratories. They're a company in California that builds large machinery, most notably the two fully-functioning, steam-driven replica locomotives at the Golden Spike NHS, where the world's first transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
The fact that a sizable chunk of the steampunks out there don't know about these guys who built two full-size 1860s steam locomotives from scratch? Or any steam engine clubs across the country for that matter?
*sigh*
(I'm on a phone so I can't add images yet. Sorry.)

Also, I see @The Knife's Husbando's MP5 and raise this.
/sperg
 
While it goes without saying, I think steampunk’s done more harm than good to art, mostly because it limits creativity. If you want to juxtapose advanced tech with the aesthetics of a historical period it has to be the Victorian era. I don’t see artwork of this kind for say the Bronze or Iron Ages, The Medieval Era, The Renaissance, the Wild West, etc. even though I think those would be fun challenges. I think this speaks that the subculture is more interested in having a weird sci-fi adventure while wearing dandy clothes.
 
This thread has been off topic since the second post. Locking it, and requesting it be moved to off-topic, so people can sperg about steampunk to their hearts content.

(The MP5 and keyboard were pretty dank)
 
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