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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Golf With Grandma - Fuck You, Let's Golf. Golf Games. All of Them.
 
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NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009

GrandmaParty posted:

God I hate steampunk so much.
There's a reason you can find it sometimes referred to as "cogservatism". Merely parroting the aesthetic without engaging the underlying issues is naive as hell and oh so common.

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NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009

Solitair posted:

Even this game is an aesthetic shitshow compared to something like... I dunno, Girl Genius? I don't actually know of that many steampunk properties.
To be fair, Girl Genius instead bills itself as "gaslamp fantasy" - very much about fooling around with the ethos of adventure and pulp fiction.

If you're looking for actual steampunk properties, try China Mieville's Bas-Lag trilogy or his goofball YA novel Railsea. I've also heard that The Difference Engine was appropriate but I've only seen the plot summary. :shrug:

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NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009

Solitair posted:

The social downsides of the early industrial revolution era like robber barons, colonialism and child labor, probably. Compare steampunk to cyberpunk, the latter of which had a better track record of extrapolating corporation-friendly politics into a dismal future before it also fell into the trap of being enamored with its aesthetics in the mid-90s.
This. A lot of the aesthetic is about glorifying, intentionally or otherwise, those who sat atop the hierarchy of an imagined bygone era. And I do mean "imagined" - the actual Victorians and other Europeans of the time didn't have this hangup about rejecting function for form. Sometimes a given work will merely be clueless; other times it might attempt to justify some White Man's Burden bullshit.

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