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quote:Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. Also, I don't really have a problem with the underlying gist of what this is saying but it's probably the most tumblr way of articulating it: stormingtheivory posted:Cyberpunk aesthetics are at their absolute least interesting when in the hands of white dudes. Liberate tech in the name of a less boring future. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:https://www.tumblr.com/search/solarpunk The dude talks like he came up with an idea the Schuiten brothers have been exploring for more than 30 years both in architecture and comic books. At least he has the decency to post the works of one of them.   
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Nov 30, 2014 18:18
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Does solarpunk involve building a gigantic bronze statue of Helios?
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Nov 30, 2014 18:20
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Please invest in my Original Concept Do Not Steal line of -punk settings: Fresco-punk, the future based on the aesthetic styling of mideval paintings. Everyone has a gold halo and impossible body geometry, and all technology is fueled by burning paintings of The Maddona. Nasa-punk, where everything is built around the space exploration concept art from the 70's to 80's and cars run on Nasa's budget that totally didn't get cut this time. May or may not include Reagan lasers and space-commies. Geno-punk, the society based on the Rwandan genocide where everyone rides airships fueled by child soldiers and malnourishment. Only 5000 dollars and I'll send you all a calendar of original -punk settings!
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Nov 30, 2014 18:44
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Already funded, but this project is just kinda irritatingly throwing poo poo at a wall to see what sticks. "Temple run meets Mega Man! We've got EGGORAPPER in are game you guyz!!!!" It doesn't look too terrible on its own and the soundtrack sounds good, but everything around it is kinda silly.
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Nov 30, 2014 20:20
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Noyemi K posted:Already funded, but this project is just kinda irritatingly throwing poo poo at a wall to see what sticks. "Temple run meets Mega Man! We've got EGGORAPPER in are game you guyz!!!!" Isn't this what Rockman XOver was and everyone hated it?
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Nov 30, 2014 20:25
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AutoArgus posted:Nasa-punk, where everything is built around the space exploration concept art from the 70's to 80's and cars run on Nasa's budget that totally didn't get cut this time. May or may not include Reagan lasers and space-commies. This is already a thing, it's retro future.
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Nov 30, 2014 20:25
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Noyemi K posted:Already funded, but this project is just kinda irritatingly throwing poo poo at a wall to see what sticks. "Temple run meets Mega Man! We've got EGGORAPPER in are game you guyz!!!!" Yay let's raise $200,000 to make a lovely freemium game. Infinite running and shooting!? Those are really difficult to come by these days. Waffleman_ posted:Isn't this what Rockman XOver was and everyone hated it? I think that was japan only, but yes it was horrible poo poo. But to be fair, that wasn't a good game even by lovely freemium standards. You could have basically made the same game in rpg maker.
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Nov 30, 2014 20:51
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lifg posted:This is already a thing, it's retro future. Retro-futurism seems to more stem from the 40's to mid 50's enthusiasm for the post-war future, 80's stuff seems more grounded in reality (but grounded by the demolition of NASAs budget). Jetsons versus SDI and things like the dual keel space station "Freedom". The promise of limitless resources through the magic of THE ATOM! versus limitless dollars to burn beating communists past orbit through the magic of Reaganomics. ...NOW TAKING PREORDERS FOR REAGAN-PUNK ADVENTURES.
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Nov 30, 2014 21:02
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AutoArgus posted:Retro-futurism seems to more stem from the 40's to mid 50's enthusiasm for the post-war future, 80's stuff seems more grounded in reality (but grounded by the demolition of NASAs budget). Jetsons versus SDI and things like the dual keel space station "Freedom". The promise of limitless resources through the magic of THE ATOM! versus limitless dollars to burn beating communists past orbit through the magic of Reaganomics. I recall years ago somebody was making a first-person survival-horror game that was pretty much this exact style of retro-futurism, where you were on an abandoned base on the moon that was haunted by ghosts and you had to collect cassette tapes, but I can't remember the name or if anything came of it
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I recall years ago somebody was making a first-person survival-horror game that was pretty much this exact style of retro-futurism, where you were on an abandoned base on the moon that was haunted by ghosts and you had to collect cassette tapes, but I can't remember the name or if anything came of it Routine, it's still vapourware.
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Nov 30, 2014 21:12
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AutoArgus posted:Retro-futurism seems to more stem from the 40's to mid 50's enthusiasm for the post-war future, 80's stuff seems more grounded in reality (but grounded by the demolition of NASAs budget). Jetsons versus SDI and things like the dual keel space station "Freedom". The promise of limitless resources through the magic of THE ATOM! versus limitless dollars to burn beating communists past orbit through the magic of Reaganomics. I wanted my future to be designed by Syd Mead and all I got is this lovely apple logo.
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Nov 30, 2014 22:06
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Also, I don't really have a problem with the underlying gist of what this is saying but it's probably the most tumblr way of articulating it: I agree with this. One of the great points of Elysium was that it's Earth-side art design was more cyber-vato or cyber-cholo than cyber-punk.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I recall years ago somebody was making a first-person survival-horror game that was pretty much this exact style of retro-futurism, where you were on an abandoned base on the moon that was haunted by ghosts and you had to collect cassette tapes, but I can't remember the name or if anything came of it You're looking for this.
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THE SOLARPUNKS HAVE A MANIFESTO!quote:We’re solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair. One of the comments described the author as a Luftmensch. This is the author:  Luftmensch Young Freud posted:I agree with this. One of the great points of Elysium was that it's Earth-side art design was more cyber-vato or cyber-cholo than cyber-punk. Yeah, definitely. I was thinking about it from the standpoint of all the lovely tropes you see in cyberpunk (the protagonist is a naked chick only she has some wires coming out of her and maybe, like, some headphones and all the dudes are covered in pouches) but you're right.
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Dec 1, 2014 02:10
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I'm just gonna drop this here and see what happens...
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Dec 1, 2014 02:13
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Never have I so badly wanted to give negative dollars to a Kickstarter.
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Dec 1, 2014 02:24
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Zoinker posted:I'm just gonna drop this here and see what happens... Due to a Bait and Switch the tvtropes Kickstarter has become a Scam Wow and this troper has Buyer's Remorse but will continue to Shut Up and Give Away Money to the Transparently Sketchy thus failing to subvert Once Bitten Twice Shy because He Only Hits Me Because He Loves Me
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Dec 1, 2014 02:25
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Zoinker posted:I'm just gonna drop this here and see what happens... Why isn't Lincoln wearing Le Grande
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Spaced God posted:Why isn't Lincoln wearing Le Grande He should do. He's part of Le Grande Old Party.
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Dec 1, 2014 07:32
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moerketid posted:Most UK keyboards don't have a euro symbol on them fwiw. None of mine have had. Which is a little inconvinient since I buy my keyboards from back home and use them in mainland Europe (but gently caress euro layout keyboards, can't live with the @ and the " switched up). Its a mac keyboard thing, they have the euro sign as well as the @ over the 2 instead of inverted commas, with no # labelled but accessible with alt-3 (despite the euro sign being alt-2 and labelled).
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Alan Smithee posted:Due to a Bait and Switch the tvtropes Kickstarter has become a Scam Wow and this troper has Buyer's Remorse but will continue to Shut Up and Give Away Money to the Transparently Sketchy thus failing to subvert Once Bitten Twice Shy because He Only Hits Me Because He Loves Me I'm a regular user of TV Tropes and this makes me cringe.
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Dec 1, 2014 15:16
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homewrecker posted:So this ring that was supposed to let you control everything through hand gestures: Oh wow. Apart from products that never get made, that looks like the worst resulting product from a technology kickstarter I've seen. $165 for that?!
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm a regular user of TV Tropes Is there a TCC thread?
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Does it take all that money to redesign a wiki that used to be a Buffy fansite? Surely it's a few hundred at most to hire a website designer/developer or something for a few days?
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Dec 1, 2014 22:23
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OldMemes posted:Does it take all that money to redesign a wiki that used to be a Buffy fansite? In all honesty, the site could probably be handled easily. It's primarily text and links with some pictures and much of the page building is done by users due to the wiki format, so as far as I know they've subsisted on their Google ads thus far.
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OldMemes posted:Does it take all that money to redesign a wiki that used to be a Buffy fansite? It takes all that money to do that and produce and ship a bunch of dumb items to backers.
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chitoryu12 posted:In all honesty, the site could probably be handled easily. It's primarily text and links with some pictures and much of the page building is done by users due to the wiki format, so as far as I know they've subsisted on their Google ads thus far. They took a big hit to their ad revenue a few years ago when Google caught on to the fact that most of their traffic was from people talking about wanting to have sex with little girls and they never really recovered even after they split all that off onto its own site.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:They took a big hit to their ad revenue a few years ago when Google caught on to the fact that most of their traffic was from people talking about wanting to have sex with little girls and they never really recovered even after they split all that off onto its own site. I thought they got their ad revenue back after they went on a porn purge?
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chitoryu12 posted:I thought they got their ad revenue back after they went on a porn purge? Wait, what do you mean "porn purge?" I'm really curious.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:They took a big hit to their ad revenue a few years ago when Google caught on to the fact that most of their traffic was from people talking about wanting to have sex with little girls and they never really recovered even after they split all that off onto its own site. Is the pedo slum what "Darth Wiki" is, where for some stupid reasons some pages have a black background? And is that much of the site's traffic really from forum users, and not just people who just casually peruse the site and don't care about behind the scenes bullshit? I mean, I love Wikipedia, and while I am perfectly aware there's a whole galaxy of sperglord editor politics and wars raging right beneath the surface, I don't ever need to see any of that.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Is the pedo slum what "Darth Wiki" is, where for some stupid reasons some pages have a black background? From what I remember: they had assloads of pages which were basically just categorizing wank material for various fetishists (I want to say they were all even tagged "Fetish Fuel") and these got into some extremely skeezy territory. Google was tipped off to this and pulled their Adsense stuff. As a result, there was a massive purge of any pages that might be considered "adult", to get back on their good side. Splinter wikis were created by others to rehost the deleted pages, because clearly the problem was with Google, not the content. I also think it came out that the coders assumed they were safe from this because ads weren't supposed to show on 'adult' pages, but this code had been broken for YEARS. The "darth wiki" and some other cheerful cousin to that were just pages where you were 'allowed' to be negative and/or supercheerfulawesomeHYPERFUNWOOOOOO because the rest of the site needed to have "a consistent tone" or something.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Wait, what do you mean "porn purge?" Basically, Google pulled their ad revenue after finding that TV Tropes had a lot of content relating to hentai, other questionable materials like lolicon, and the tropes therein (as well as tropes regarding rape, including metaphorical kinds); adult content is a violation of the Google terms of service, and they interpreted discussing such content to be a violation. In a panic, Fast Eddie and the rest of the admin team started purging any perceptibly adult content to try and get Google to relent. They suffered a lot of criticism for it, such as accusations of purging stuff that wasn't actually porn but just seemed too sketchy or close to the line.
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*edit* it was already posted, sorry everyone
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chitoryu12 posted:Basically, Google pulled their ad revenue after finding that TV Tropes had a lot of content relating to hentai, other questionable materials like lolicon, and the tropes therein (as well as tropes regarding rape, including metaphorical kinds); adult content is a violation of the Google terms of service, and they interpreted discussing such content to be a violation. i remember this happening and it was great because "stuff that wasn't actually porn but just seemed too sketchy or close to the line" almost always turned out to be "an anime for pedophiles"
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RottenK posted:i remember this happening and it was great because "stuff that wasn't actually porn but just seemed too sketchy or close to the line" almost always turned out to be "an anime for pedophiles" Or Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
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Is there even a good kickstarter thread anymore?
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pathetic little tramp posted:Is there even a good kickstarter thread anymore? the one in games?
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pathetic little tramp posted:Is there even a good kickstarter thread anymore? There's one for video games and another for tabletop games. Dunno if there are any for other kinds of kickstarters.
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wa27 posted:Oh wow. Apart from products that never get made, that looks like the worst resulting product from a technology kickstarter I've seen. $165 for that?! I think it was $269. Makes the Leap look useful by comparison. Gesture interfaces may be coming someday, but certainly not with Ring.
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