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Alan Smithee posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure Renfaire and Steampunk venn diagram is like 2 circles nearly eclipsing Yeah that's pretty straight up offensive in ways only clueless steampunks can be. I guess we should count ourselves lucky that none of them decided to pose in blackface!
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Cerony posted:I thought this was gonna be a cat maid cafe but no, it's a literal cat cafe. There was one of these in Seoul that me and a couple friends went to. The coffee sucked and my fingers smelled like cat food for the rest of the day. The cats were nice, though. Alan Smithee posted:You mean like maids with cat ears? You actually thought that would be better? Maybe not better, but would probably get funding quick.
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Wouldn't a cat cafe be a gigantic health code violation? The cats are going to be climbing and shedding and hacking up furballs everywhere.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The problem with self-proclaimed BBWs is that they forget the second B is supposed to stand for "beautiful" Yup. For real, I'm down with the chubbies but sorry to say these gals aren't going to sell a calendar. Who buys calendars anymore anyway? Most phones have a centuries worth of the things. Then again I guess the core audience for these things are the kinds of people who carry pocketwatches for the sake of being kind of person who carries a pocket watch.
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DStecks posted:Wouldn't a cat cafe be a gigantic health code violation? The cats are going to be climbing and shedding and hacking up furballs everywhere. Given some of the poo poo they get away with in Itaewon or the food carts around the rest of the city, I'm not really surprised they've ducked the health code violation. Don't get me wrong, I love Seoul. Had a blast while I was there, especially in Insadong, But there's some stuff that's best left alone.
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J.A.B.C. posted:There was one of these in Seoul that me and a couple friends went to. The coffee sucked and my fingers smelled like cat food for the rest of the day. The cats were nice, though. Aren't animal cafes in general fairly big in Japan and Korea? Something about giving a bunch of super urbanized office drones and all a place to 'interact with nature'?
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DStecks posted:Wouldn't a cat cafe be a gigantic health code violation? The cats are going to be climbing and shedding and hacking up furballs everywhere. The Japanese ones are more on the order of a bookstore type place with a small cafe also inside, and with the cats not allowed to go in the food prep/serving area.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Aren't animal cafes in general fairly big in Japan and Korea? Something about giving a bunch of super urbanized office drones and all a place to 'interact with nature'? I only saw the one that I went to, so I can't really talk on this. But it didn't really give off an 'interact with nature' vibe, just a place to feed some cats and have some coffee. Seoul has an amazing aquarium and zoo, anyways. Install Windows posted:The Japanese ones are more on the order of a bookstore type place with a small cafe also inside, and with the cats not allowed to go in the food prep/serving area. This, but without the books. The serving area was behind one of those baby fence things, the kitchen was in a separate room and the little cubby holes were on the other side of the cafe. Never been to Japan, though. Not lucky enough to get stationed there yet.
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J.A.B.C. posted:This, but without the books. The serving area was behind one of those baby fence things, the kitchen was in a separate room and the little cubby holes were on the other side of the cafe. Oh good, a baby fence. Good thing cats can't climb. 
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Alan Smithee posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure Renfaire and Steampunk venn diagram is like 2 circles nearly eclipsing Oh man, she's got goggles on her hat!
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I've never met a steampunk person in real life, can someone describe the smell?
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FrozenVent posted:I've never met a steampunk person in real life, can someone describe the smell? People like to theorize that the appeal of steampunk is for an era of visible craftsmanship in design or for the age of discovery. More cynically it's been posited that the appeal comes from nostalgia for outdated gender and racial norms. In reality it's nostalgia for a time without shampoo or regular bathing.
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Someone I know, coincidentally, just announced her wedding will be steampunk themed, and that everyone will have to dress accordingly. I don't think we can be friends anymore.
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Anoia posted:Someone I know, coincidentally, just announced her wedding will be steampunk themed, and that everyone will have to dress accordingly. She wasn't worth being friends with anyway.
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I was introduced to steampunk through Thief/Thief 2. I thought it was so cool and a unique idea. Then a few years later I went on the internet and found all of the awkward steampunk disasters and horrible people that you can smell through your monitor. A drat shame.
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Alan Smithee posted:show up dressed as a Dickensian street urchin YOUR MOVE BITCH The real steampunks are actually Communists.
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"I have given up on life" - The Outfit!
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It's like a snuggie made love with a speed suit and they had an extremely trashy baby!
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Aren't animal cafes in general fairly big in Japan and Korea? Something about giving a bunch of super urbanized office drones and all a place to 'interact with nature'? Yeah there's loads of them in Korea. They're actually pretty good fun if you remember to bring a laser pointer.
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That man is Justin Bieber in adulthood. Assuming JB doesn't snort his trust fund through both nostrils
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The Hoosie, for when putting on both sweatpants and a hoodie is simply too much work. With this revolutionary new energy-saving idea we can finally plumb new depths of sadness and self-loathing.
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Goddamn it, how do you go to the bathroom in one of those things? I mean, do you have to take it off completely in order to go to the shitter?
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Young Freud posted:Goddamn it, how do you go to the bathroom in one of those things? I mean, do you have to take it off completely in order to go to the shitter? Oh holy god, imagine being drunk and needing to completely remove it in order to poo poo.
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Young Freud posted:Goddamn it, how do you go to the bathroom in one of those things? I mean, do you have to take it off completely in order to go to the shitter? I really don't know which option would be funnier: if it had a flap in the back like a pair/set/whatever-they're-called of full-body long johns or if it didn't.
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Doctor Bishop posted:I really don't know which option would be funnier: if it had a flap in the back like a pair/set/whatever-they're-called of full-body long johns or if it didn't. flaps are for furries let's not pretend otherwise
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Rickycat posted:I was introduced to steampunk through Thief/Thief 2. I thought it was so cool and a unique idea. Then a few years later I went on the internet and found all of the awkward steampunk disasters and horrible people that you can smell through your monitor. I must be oddly lucky that the only irl Steampunk dressed folks I've met are well-groomed exceedingly gay men.
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Rickycat posted:I was introduced to steampunk through Thief/Thief 2. I thought it was so cool and a unique idea. Then a few years later I went on the internet and found all of the awkward steampunk disasters and horrible people that you can smell through your monitor. Much like anything pure and good, the internet quickly takes hold of it and runs it straight into the ground. The best pre-fad vision of steampunk is William Gibson/Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine.
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Great Rumbler posted:Much like anything pure and good, the internet quickly takes hold of it and runs it straight into the ground. There's still good steampunk out there. Dishonored was great because the whole point of the setting was that life was lovely as hell for anybody not on the top, and the people on top didn't give a drat about anybody but themselves. There were no romantic SCIENCE heroes who win the day through their brilliance, the two scientists of the story were dysfunctional, petty people; while still being the closest thing in that game to upright, moral people. (Dishonored has a stupid as hell plot, but that doesn't make the setting any worse, it just highlights how much better a story it deserved.)
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There too have been good Steam movies. For example Wild.... for example League of.... for example
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Alan Smithee posted:There too have been good Steam movies. For example Wild.... City of the Lost Children. So there.
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Tippis posted:City of the Lost Children. So there. Steamboy is pretty good, too. Well, it looks good, anyway.
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