There's a movie called Steamboy whose premise is the creation of a device that can store steam at nearly infinite pressure
So with a device like that, you might not need coal for your flying machine =)
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At that point just call it magic no? Magic that works in metal pipes and spheres.
Seems sufficiently advanced enough 👍
I feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure
That's actually covered in the movie as well! They needed to find special water to make infinitely-pressurizable steam =)
I think It's, like, a Bag of Holding, but for steam.
where do you think you get the steam from in the first place
Coal, but the fantastical flying contraption in this thought exercise uses a container of pre-pressurized steam, so it wouldn't "run out of coal" like the one in the post. It'd just run out of steam
Ah, I loved that movie but had forgotten the name.
I expect in 120 years, kids will re-invent what they think is 1990's cyberpunk by gluing CDs and bits of broken DVD players onto their hats.
In the 1990s all internet data was transported by snails using these things called AOL CD-ROM packets.
With the TC-AOL-CD-ROM protocol, you had to keep on gluing a copy of the same CD to another snail every day and sending it off to the recipient, until you get one back confirming the reciept.
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Wouldn't technically nuclear power also be considered Steampunk?
Meaning there is no difference between Steampunk and Atompunk?
Nah, key difference is that in atompunk, the energy is typically converted into electricity.
A big part of steampunk is the pipes moving steam to the contraptions, compared to wires moving electricity.
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I remember playing flash game years ago that was about WW1 dog fights in nuclear powered steam biplanes.
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I absolutely love that GIF. So appropriate.
I get "failed to load Media 🥲" on my Lemmy :(
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I’m confused as to the order im supposed to be reading these in.
I speak Tumblr, I can help.
copywriteddad wrote a post about a character feeling like a fantastical steampunk machine out of coal. Someone reblogged it making fun of them saying a steampunk machine is out of coal (instead of steam, I suppose) in the tags. Imagine quote tweeting but just adding tags. However tags on Tumblr doesn't readily show up so copywriteddad screenshoted it in order to reply. The other user doubles down, publicly this time, so copywriteddad have to point out coal is needed to boil water in steampunk.
Oh Great Tumbling Sage, I have long sought out one of your ilk!
Tell me, should I, a humble gay, get into tumbler? It seems scary, but also fun. I saw what they did to poor John Green.
Tumblr is one of the gayest places on the internet. You should go for it. The etiquette is arcane and there is no algorithm to guide you, but so long as your shoelaces were stolen from the President and you enjoy getting important news via Supernatural memes, the community will embrace you with open arms.
Search some hastags that you like, follow some people that post stuff you like, and before long, seeing a 15 year old post cross your dashboard will be like seeing an old friend again.
How do I learn the arcane etiquette, though?
I recommend this primer video by Strange Æons, who also has tons of great videos on all kinds of Tumblr Icebergs and drama and all kinds of good stuff.
Thank you!
Also, frickin love your username!
Thanks, it was actually largely inspired by the vibe of Tumblr and people like Strange Æons when I made the account.
I live by the saying "become unmarketable" nowadays, and it seemed fitting to that vibe.
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Top to bottom. The bit with the white background is a screenshot of tags that other people have attached to the first post
Steampunk is powered by magical non-heated water vapor motors rule.
Steampunk implies extremely polluting industrialized and unbathed Victorian slave labor rule.
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I mean...a steam engine is a heat engine that uses steam to transfer heat. So you can make a steam engine by getting basically anything "really hot" and running steam through it. This is the working principle behind solar thermal power plants (but not solar panels!). I.e., you don't necessarily need coal or even a fossil fuel to build a steam engine.
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Dayumn, they doubled down on that shit. Thats a rough lookout for humanity.
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Space 1889 gets its steam from solar thermal generators which power its steampunk space ships (ether vessels).
It gets its punk from it being about colonialism.
Colonialism is punk. TIL teehee
Resistance to colonialism is punk =)
lol Yeah! That's how I associate it but the comment made it seem the opposite so I had a little chuckle.
I mean, the players can make imperialist characters if they want to, the same as how you can make an asshole character in a DnD campaign.
I say that its punk because the setting and rules don't depict this as something that's good or neutral. The sourcebooks give a description of how the colonial economy operates, and some of the monstrous things that are done to maintain it.
Cyberpunk depicts a techno-integrated capitalist hellscape in the same way. They essentially take ideas to extreme conclusions to show how hellish things will get.
Steampunk's alittle different, but the satirical depiction of colonialism is pretty punk.
IDK what is the coal doing to the water!? My mom didn't let me watch those videos, the stork just brings the baby right?!
:P
it runs on nuclear, silly!
spoiler
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