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Started by e, May 15, 2008, 04:45:16 AM

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e

May 15, 2008, 04:45:16 AM
So a friend of mine just told me about this "awesome steampunk band" called Abney Park.

They.
Are.
Shit.

NEWSFLASH: Synthesizer and Electric Guitar are very "NOT STEAMPUNK", your singer sucks, and your pretend steampunk clothes FAIL.  JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE PRETENDING TO BE FROM VICTORIAN ENGLAND DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN WEAR HORRIBLE OUTFITS.  IT'S ABOUT STYLE PEOPLE, NOT LOLOL I GOT THIS FROM A PICTURE IN A MAGAZINE AND MIKSED IT WITH LIEK A TOP HAT AND GLASSES LOLOL.

Nobody would listen to your shitty music if you didn't go out of your way to ostentatiously label yourselves as "Steampunk." 

Quote from: AsshatsWe rehearse deep in the Belly of the HMS Ophelia, in our Post Apocalypse Studio. Its a Steampunk thing, you wouldn't understand...or would you?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-WrPWFn7e2c NOW STOP IT.  Or at least hire someone who can fucking sing!

Oh and COMMA FUCKING SPLICE.

Now steampunk is RUINTE for me forever.  I always liked the idea, the, I don't know, primal urge to invent and explore that's at the essence (I always thought) of steampunk.   

But now it's just a bunch of fucking idiots dressed up in what they think is fancy weird clothing that looks like they went to a thrift store, pulled out everything they could find that didn't match and looked kind of old, put it all on with some goggles and a motherfucking KEYRING, and called it "steampunk."


NO.  Just, NO.

Thanks to you assholes, steampunk is now the new LARP.  It's filled (for the most part) with social rejects who think that being a vampire--or in this case, somebody from the 1800s where, by the way, you would have been shot, murdered, and raped for having such horrible fashion sense and for being some kind of horrible fucking society-spurning jack-ass--makes them COOL.

Guess what.


IT DOESN'T.

Links for the suicidally curious:
http://abneypark.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/fashion/08PUNK.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

hooplala

#1
May 15, 2008, 04:53:09 AM
We had a steampunk fucker from Toronto on here close to a year ago.

He was more ... something ... than these twits.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
May 15, 2008, 04:54:12 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 15, 2008, 04:53:09 AM
We had a steampunk fucker from Toronto on here close to a year ago.

Oh, Jebus.   :lulz:

Still, goggles are cool.

IF YOU'RE OPERATING A CUTTING TORCH.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#3
May 15, 2008, 04:54:37 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 15, 2008, 04:53:09 AM
He was more ... something ... than these twits.

Brain damaged?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

e

#4
May 15, 2008, 04:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 15, 2008, 04:54:37 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 15, 2008, 04:53:09 AM
He was more ... something ... than these twits.

Brain damaged?

More brain damaged?

I don't think they'd have let him out of the fucking home.

The Good Reverend Roger

#5
May 15, 2008, 05:01:33 AM
Quote from: TheStripèdOne on May 15, 2008, 04:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 15, 2008, 04:54:37 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on May 15, 2008, 04:53:09 AM
He was more ... something ... than these twits.

Brain damaged?

More brain damaged?

I don't think they'd have let him out of the fucking home.

Oh, shit.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13916.msg445326#msg445326

And you should have seen his "chain dance".
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

e

#6
May 15, 2008, 05:40:23 AM
 :x :x :x :x :x

e

#7
May 15, 2008, 05:41:49 AM
Quote from: LMNO on September 25, 2007, 03:10:21 PM
I All of the above (including the ags mask) are previous innovations first worn by rivetheads, industrial goths, ravers, and bike messengers.

:lulz:

The Good Reverend Roger

#8
May 15, 2008, 05:48:06 AM
Quote from: TheStripèdOne on May 15, 2008, 05:40:23 AM
:x :x :x :x :x

No, really.  His "chain dance" was EPIC.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Sir Squid Diddimus

#9
May 15, 2008, 05:55:32 AM
my first thought was "wait... these are just goth kids... wearing colors"



goggles=still cool

e

#10
May 15, 2008, 05:57:06 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 15, 2008, 05:48:06 AM
Quote from: TheStripèdOne on May 15, 2008, 05:40:23 AM
:x :x :x :x :x

No, really.  His "chain dance" was EPIC.

I'm going to take your word for it because I looked at that thread and cried inside, and died inside.

Cain

#11
May 15, 2008, 11:57:55 AM
Yeah, steampunk is the new emo.

Or will be, given three years and some quasi-mainstream exposure with bands like the above.

The question, as always, is how to profit from it now. 

hooplala

#12
May 15, 2008, 12:28:15 PM
Quote from: TheStripèdOne on May 15, 2008, 05:57:06 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 15, 2008, 05:48:06 AM
Quote from: TheStripèdOne on May 15, 2008, 05:40:23 AM
:x :x :x :x :x

No, really.  His "chain dance" was EPIC.

I'm going to take your word for it because I looked at that thread and cried inside, and died inside.

It's on YouTube somewhere... I try to find that little fuck every time I go to Kensington Market, but alas, he is always chain dancing somewhere else...
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

hooplala

#13
May 15, 2008, 12:28:50 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 15, 2008, 11:57:55 AM
Yeah, steampunk is the new emo.

Or will be, given three years and some quasi-mainstream exposure with bands like the above.

The question, as always, is how to profit from it now. 

Invest now in Wild Wild West II?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Richter

#14
May 15, 2008, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: Squid on May 15, 2008, 05:55:32 AM
my first thought was "wait... these are just goth kids... wearing colors"



goggles=still cool
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 15, 2008, 04:54:12 AM
Oh, Jebus.   :lulz:

Still, goggles are cool.

IF YOU'RE OPERATING A CUTTING TORCH.

:lulz:

Also:  I want to piss Earl Grey on these people.
Sad part is if I'm weaing a top hat they may be into it.

Quote from: TheStripèdOne on May 15, 2008, 04:45:16 AM

NO.  Just, NO.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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