Steampunk: the new LARP

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I actually am building some steampunk stuff... for LARP. Steampunk + Cthulhu what could go wrong?

[hooplala]

The tenuous grip on your sanity?

[AFK]

Abney Park should team up with AKlokwerkKaos and do a statewide Karaoke-club tour.  Seems like they are each others' speed. 

[Faust]

I would really like to see steampunk take off, I find it far more elegant then emo goth etc.



plus when black people do it it looks awesome.

I would like to be able to wear a  zoot suit and spats in public more often and I think this would increase my oppertunities to.

will post some of the cool pictures tonight... and the really REALLY bad ones.

also Kianne was not a steampunk, he was more tank girl then anything else he got the wrong word. and its not fair to rip into him a year after he left. He asked me if he ever came up in conversation again, to tell you all he is sorry, he knew he acted like an ass and he has actually learned from his mistake.

[LMNO]

1. Faust is right.  Kaienne wasn't what I would call a steampunk.

2. I don't have time to listen to the music.  If anyone could tell me, what classifies a music as Steampunk, which is a fashion?

If I were doing it, it would involve Rube Goldberg-type effects, like distortion via a series of torn speaker cones, exposed spring reverbs, and hand-crank-powered electronic equipment (or even better, steam powered!)

The music itself would be bastardized adoptions of secular Victorian-era songs.  Or Rasputina.

[Cramulus]

I'm confused, OP. Is your complaint with steampunk or people that are doing it wrong?


I dig it, even done poorly. If there are people out there that want to feel like they're from a grander, crazier, more nonexistant period of history, more power to em

even if they fuck it up


world needs less abercrombie clones
moar crazy

[hooplala]

True.

Why is this in "Or Kill Me" though?

[Cainad (dec.)]

Because the OP is saying, "Do yuor Steampunk properly, Or Kill Me."

And I too dig Steampunk, for two reasons: I look awesome in that kind of outfit (even if it's just regular Victorian), and I see too many of my friends wearing Hollister.

HOLLISTER!

[hooplala]

Is it just me, or does the bloke in the red jacket look like Hugh?

[e]

plus when black people do it it looks awesome.

Yeah, that's what I thought, too, at first.

BUT THEN I SAW THAT BALD MOTHERFUCKER WEARING A TOP HAT WITH MOTHERFUCKING BLUEJEANS.



NO you asshole.  NO.


Steampunk taking off is all good, but the problem is that then jack-asses like the people in those pictures in the first thread get involved.

[e]

2. I don't have time to listen to the music.  If anyone could tell me, what classifies a music as Steampunk, which is a fashion?

If I were doing it, it would involve Rube Goldberg-type effects, like distortion via a series of torn speaker cones, exposed spring reverbs, and hand-crank-powered electronic equipment (or even better, steam powered!)

The music itself would be bastardized adoptions of secular Victorian-era songs.  Or Rasputina.

Basically in the case of "Abney Park" what classifies them as Steampunk is that they go out of their way to tell people that's what they are.

A neat band/artist who doesn't actively classify himself as steampunk is Dr. Steel.  But he sounds very steampunk-esque.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0YT_J5HRsIY

I'm confused, OP. Is your complaint with steampunk or people that are doing it wrong?

I dig it, even done poorly. If there are people out there that want to feel like they're from a grander, crazier, more nonexistant period of history, more power to em

even if they fuck it up

world needs less abercrombie clones
moar crazy

Really the thing that got me so annoyed was those Abney Park jack-asses, though I didn't talk about them much.  They just piss me off because they're one of those "jump on the bandwagon to sell our shitty music" bands.  The bad LARPers are just typical social reject shenanigans, which I should really be used to by now.

newsflash: Just because nobody in society likes you does not mean you can go around claiming you are "better" than them for not taking part in their society.  I used to work in a game store (board games et al.) and would sometimes hear people talking about "Gamers are so much smarter than normal people."  This was especially laughable coming from some of these people, with their "I've been living in my parents basement since I was 18 and now I'm 36 and work as a grocery stocker" backgrounds.

Really I was just in a grouchy mood and Steampunk horrormirth exposed its ugly head.

[Cramulus]

newsflash: Just because nobody in society likes you does not mean you can go around claiming you are "better" than them for not taking part in their society.

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt, disagree!


These are the Strange Times
better get used to wacky shit, regardless of quality

People assemble their identiy from the shrapnel that's all around them
if most of that shrapnel is crap, they're not going to have a good eye for quality

but for every 10 of those spags that are doing it wrong
there's at least one Dr. Steel, so I think it kind of balances out

[LMNO]

Holy shit... that guy's real?


Sauce, plz.

[Cramulus]

http://www.worlddominationtoys.com/drsteel/

Dr. Steel has more style in his goggles than most people do in their entire wardrobe.

[hooplala]

Wasn't he felix's avvie for a while?