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Tic-Toc Men, Clockwork Dandies & Other Steampunk shenanigans.
ugh. Steampunk is literally the worst thing ever
>>14332408
No, Gundam is. Fucking Franchise hasn't been good in how many decades now?
>>14332429
The toys have been good. If you've been following the franchise for the show, you've been barking up the wrong tree.
>>14332459
this
robot toys > gluing metal shit to stupid crap
>>14332462
Well this thread is for art, not fucking cons or cosplay, not that I'd expect people so far removed from functioning society to be able to tell the difference.
>>14332473
The art is the same bullshit
>dude how many fucking gears and goggles and dials can I smear over this cocksucker lmao
Last Exile and the Leviathian series are good though.
>>14333820
I love Scythe, board game is almost here.
>>14335989
> Here's my contrarian posts telling you why your not-gundam thread is bad.
Okay.
>>14335998
Didn't the author posted something about making a video game now?
>Tic-Toc Men, Clockwork Dandies & Other Steampunk shenanigans.
One sentence that epitomizes how fucking insufferable steamshit is
>>14336604
Go back to pining over video games that will never be localized in your country you insufferably contrarian manchild.
>>14336604
Question: If they made a Steam Punk Gundam series would /m/ have to pretend that Steam Punk was suddenly acceptable?
>>14336627
>>14336644
Go back to Lebbit Steamcuck, not even /tg/ puts up with your garbage aesthetic
OP's hat.
>>14337474
Do Want
>>14337474
I would never lose my keys or watch again! unless I forget my hat.
>>14337694
>>14337697
Looks like we are entering dieselpunk territory.
Not that I mind, I loved Ring of Red.
>>14332429
and there has never been a good steam punk franchise. Or story. Or anything.
>>14337825
U mad son?
>>14337825
You're right, that entirely justifies Gundam having an entire board dedicated to sameposting Gundam circlejerk threads for something that arguably hasn't been good since the 90s if that.
>>14336270
>>14336644
>>14337851
whats with the gundam fixation?
>>14337866
His steam-powered robot company went out of business when Anahiem Electronics opened.
>>14337866
>>14337868
>>14337870
To be fair 90% of the threads on this board are literally Gundam.
>>14337839
No but he is
>>14337851
>>14337871
to be fair Gundam is literally one of the most popular and influential mecha series to come out of Japan so of course there's gonna be lots of discussion around it.
Meanwhile steampunk is a cringy as fuck "aesthetic" popularized by dorks who fetishize leather, brass, and dials.
>>14337871
No, it's 40% Gundam, 30% tokutrash and symphogear and other unrelated things, and 30%% other actual /m/ things
/m/ always takes the bait.
Fuck steampunk.
Since when did clocks become more important than valves? Anyone working with steam has to use a shitload of valves.
>>14337825
Steamboy
>>14337948
Since steampunk got overtaken by clockpunk.
Steampunk is definitely pipes, valves and pressure meters. Also a ton of analog computation.
Clockpunk is more ornate with the clock mechanism motif.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA
>Tic-Toc Men, Clockwork Dandies & Other Steampunk shenanigans
Is that some cringy convention panel from 2009?
>>14337825
Steam Detectives
>>14337896
Retro-futuristic would have been a better threadstarter. (anything)-punk always generates shitposts and trolling.
>>14337825
The Rocketeer
>>14338919
are you fucking retarded?
>>14339292
Nope, just not a supreme edgelord.
>>14338426
> Doesn't know about the short story "Reprent Harlequin said the Tick-tock Man"
Fucking pleb, read a fucking book once in a while.
>>14338919
yeah, the 1940s loved steam and clockwork
>>14340105
I think the franchise is a fair honorary consideration.
>>14340099
Do you even understand the words you're saying whatsoever?
>>14337809
Creepy
>>14340135
It's from Warmachine, it's a peculiar place.
>>14340132
Yes.
>>14340187
What is the equivalent of adult men who obsess over models, toys and video games that will never be released in their countries?
>>14340187
> not deep and sophisticated like muh gundam and toku.
/a/ called. It wants its unwarranted false sense of superiority back.
>>14340192
Calm down man, no need to get steamed.
>>14340218
Hey hey hey hey, easy there fella! You're getting kind of rustled, it's only the internet dude.
>>14338472
>Retro-futuristic
>>14337825
Code Name Steam.
Ok fine it's honestly more an example of "good Lovecraft game (even if sticking it to the cosmic horrors and not going insane along the way is a bit too cheery and optimistic to really fit the Lovecraft mood)" that happens to utilize a steampunk visual motif (even the advances in steam superscience are said to come from arcane knowledge sourced from the Necronomicon itself).
But bootleg 19th century XCOM with steam superscience fighting ayylmaos who want to freeze the world over, the hype train doesn't stop, not even once.
>>14340368
> /m/ is neither autistic nor fedora wearing
Okay.
>>14340368
> If I throw enough buzzwords at something I don't need to have legitimate points!
How many /m/en played Bureau of Steam Engineering?
>>14340549
> Here! Have more baseless and unsubstantiated allegations! Why ignore a thread I don't like when I can just throw a tantrum in it!
Okay.
can we just make this a warmachine thread now?
>>14340997
How is being ignorant of con culture equivalent to being ignorant of classic science fiction literature?
Read your own post and tell me with a strait face you aren't grasping at straws here.
>>14341005
Your whole shtick relies on my post >>14338426 revealing my supposed lack of knowledge about science fiction. Now, in my post I simply said "Tic-Toc Men, Clockwork Dandies & Other Steampunk shenanigans" sounds like a cringy convention panel from 2009. So let's imagine two possibilities here:
1. I lack knowledge of classic science fiction. "Tic-Toc Men, Clockwork Dandies & Other Steampunk shenanigans" still sounds like a cringy convention panel from 2009.
2. I don't lack knowledge of classic science fiction. "Tic-Toc Men, Clockwork Dandies & Other Steampunk shenanigans" still sounds like a cringy convention panel from 2009.
My knowledge of classic science fiction is irrelevant and I have no idea why you brought it up. Seems to me that you desperately wanted to show off your own knowledge of genre fiction. Perhaps your taste in literature got ridiculed on /lit/, and you're desperate to vent your anger. It truly is bizarre, and only you know the real reason for your actions.
My chum, you have been outskilled in this discussion.
>>14341524
Not at all since your entire argument is nothing but self imposed supposition and ham-fisted baseless accusations.
"Repent Harlequin, said the Tick Tock Man" has been one of the most reprinted short stories in science fiction history and is considered a literary standard by most. To write it off as any sort of trivial obscure work only just further illustrates your ignorance of anything but the subject matter of conventions which you so claim to loathe.
Con culture, least of all Steam Punk Con culture which you allegedly despise yet seem to be quite the expert on, is superfluous in the context of this thread and the coincidence of the OP's post sounding like the name of a con panel doesn't prove or justify anything. It's nothing more than you tenuously trying to justify childish name calling and shit posting, nothing more.
Your entire presence in this thread has been nothing but goal post moving and hiding behind "It's obviously so obvious" to justify your baseless accusations and slander. And glancing back over the thread it would appear that the mods/janitors agree.
Check mate. The currency of your false bravado does not spend here friend.
>>14341524
>>14343250
Get a room, you pretentious loons.
Some of us are trying to glue gears onto stuff.
>>14343272
What kind of glue?
>>14343250
Die please.
I bet you can't even tell a globe and gate valve apart.
>>14343320
More basless slander. If this thread bothers you so then why do you persist in existing in it?
>>14332373
Since this is a steampunk thread, I gotta ask, anyone else here like Girl Genius?
>>14343589
Eh, I'm not a big fan of Foglio art in general.
Phil and Kaja were responsible for some of the dumbest and most out-of-place art for Magic: the Gathering. I mean sure it was funny, but it was tonally out of place in anything but Unglued/Unhinged.
>>14343589
Most of his characters look inbred.
>>14343250
>this entire post
Is this supposed be satire mocking steampunk fans, or is this serious? Please spoonfeed so I can know whether or not I need to kill myself.
>>14337825
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
>>14343681
The Picture maybe, but everything else is pretty much correct, like it or not.
>>14337888
>30% tokutrash and symphogear and other unrelated things
All of those things together amounts to about 5-6 threads on the entire board at any given time, tops.
It's definitely 70 -80% Gundam (and around 70-80% of THAT is people complaining about it in some way), the remainder being non-Gundam mecha and tokushit
>>14344626
I remember for a brief time when /m/ was so much more, then season 2 of Gundam 00 came out and it all went to shit.
>>14344863
you're fucking insane
you all are permitted to make any thread that's not gundam.
don't blame us if no one discussing stuff in it
>>14344874
Actually that is the sort of thing that can be blamed on a boards current userbase.
You took a board that once frequently discussed things like western /m/ literature, obscure and little known mecha anime, retro sci-fi art dumps and discussion regarding real world military technology and then burned it all to a cinder with Gundam 00 autism and over the course of the past seven years subsequently turned it into chriss-chan's gundam emporium where we have six threads complaining about why the Gundams' arms in the newest series are blue. Fuck we used to have /m/ created original content, super rare scantilation dumps of obscure materials, uploads of rare or impossible to find /m/ OVAs and now we just have a catalog where any given thread has at least two others currently up virtually identical to it and any time someone tries to make a thread like this.
Yes I can blame you, and rightfully so you stagnation enabling malcontent. You came into this thread of your own volition, you've contributed nothing of value to it and then demand that you not be held accountable for this board being in the shape it is despite being more than content with the fact. Your entire existence here is nothing but a pathetic cry for agency in a world where you only want things to be "comfy".
>>14344963
You addressed nothing he said steamcuck.
You can still do all of that, there is no rule prohibiting you.
Everything else you said is autistic shitflinging.
>>14344963
>You took a board that once frequently discussed things like western /m/ literature, obscure and little known mecha anime, retro sci-fi art dumps and discussion regarding real world military technology
We still do, although each only happens once a month or two.
>Fuck we used to have /m/ created original content,
/m/ VN and the last couple drawfag threads were good
>super rare scantilation dumps of obscure materials,
Rarer now but it's also getting harder to find rare scans
>uploads of rare or impossible to find /m/ OVAs
Give no credit to our wonderful translators who've been hacking away at things from the entire Brave series to Ginguiser.
>Yes I can blame you, and rightfully so you stagnation enabling malcontent. You came into this thread of your own volition, you've contributed nothing of value to it and then demand that you not be held accountable for this board being in the shape it is despite being more than content with the fact. Your entire existence here is nothing but a pathetic cry for agency in a world where you only want things to be "comfy".
Those're some fucking strong assumptions you're making.
>>14345019
Actually I addressed everything he said since it was only like... three fucking sentences.
>>14345019
> You addressed nothing he said steamcuck.
You addressed nothing he said either.
> You can still do all of that, there is no rule prohibiting you.
You mean like this thread? Wow that sure turned out great. Love the unconditional shitposting that the thread got for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
> Everything else you said is autistic shitflinging.
The fact that you're here in this thread for no other reason than to stir the pot is pretty autistic itself.
demand that you not be held accountable for this board being in the shape it is despite being more than content with the fact.
Who the fuck cares?
It's 4chan, being a rancid cesspool devoid of all redeeming qualities is either a given or an eventuality. /m/ was just as shit several years ago, except you had IS spammers in place of the Valvrager and slightly less Gundam discussion.
>>14345068
>You mean like this thread?
The fact that everyone hates steampunk, and rightly so, has nothing inherently to do with /m/'s quality or lack thereof. If you posted this thread on /tg/ you'd get an even more vitriolic response.
i won't stop making gundam thread
what do you gonna do? report me? lol
>>14345087
> You have every right to make whatever thread you want so it's not our fault if no one posts in them.
> EXCEPT IF ITS SOMETHING WE HATE!!! AND I DECIDE WHAT EVERYONE LIKES!
>>14345114
post-Valvrager /m/, ever more the hotbed of I AM THE LAW.
>>14345114
Are you seriously trying to imply 4chan should censor people from commenting on what they do or don't like? Ever consider you should take your steamshit back to Lebbit? Oh wait even they dislike it. I guess it's DeviantART for you buddy.
>>14345124
Behold a guy with a steam punk prosthetic tatoo gun arm
>>14332373
>Oh Cedric you ain't heard? I'm steampunk now
>>14345182
fo sho
>>14343477
Okay then, tell me how to spot the difference between a globe and gate valve from a distance.
Even plumbers know this.
>>14347177
One has a single bulb shape while the other as an almost segmented appearance as the two paths lay one on top of the other where the two pipes meet at the valve.
I really don't see what this proves. It's just you trying to manufacture some artificial standard of knowledge on a subject you don't even like.
>>14347177
Because anyone with google couldn't give you the answer in less than five minutes. What exactly does this prove?
>>14347177
Steampunk is an aesthetic, not a practical knowledge of plumbing or fictional steam works. It's like harassing a cyberpunk fan because they don't know how to actually know how to use linux.
>>14347251
And you're forbidden from liking synthwave unless you lived in the 80s AND played synthesizers during that period.
>>14343250
jesus christ
>>14347239
Actually, gate valves are more likely to have a curved bonnet. It's a design choice that a lot of manufacturers go with so engineers and operators can identify them from a distance.
Nice try though. The presence of a spindle would've been worth a half mark, since it does identify a globe valve (and its position) from a distance. But that's not necessarily true since cheap-ass plants will likely still throttle with gate (and even ball) valves because they're cheaper to order/replace.
>>14343250
How can you type this out and post that picture and not feel deep, deep shame?
>>14347565
Again, what would it have proven if I did know the recognizeable tells in the first place? Steampunk is an aesthetic, not a practical knowledge of piping or fictional steamworks. You don't have to know how linux works to like Cyberpunk. You don't have to know how a hypothetical ion engine works to watch Star Wars. I can't help but feel you were trying to make a point, but didn't have the settup or context to do so.
>>14347830
Because I knew the image would rustle the ever so sensitive jimmies of the people complaining about an otherwise perfectly fine thread. In fact I might just make these threads a regular thing until you guys like them. Wouldn't that just be honorific?
>>14348953
>ion engine
>hypothetical
Anon, those have existed for a literal century.
>>14348985
In the context of star wars they haven't and even if you could make the argument that it does, that still doesn't negate the point that was being made.
>>14348953
>honorific
>>14348994
Yeah I was waiting for that to tickle someone's trousers.
>>14332429
Turn A and 00 was good, well S1 of 00 I haven't seen S2. Also Build Fighters was great. Build Fighters was fairly recent.
>>14349021
This reminds me of a ring I got once. It was pretty cool looking, but it was encased so the mechanism didn't work.
I have a fondness for mechanical watches. I still carry a pocket watch when I wear a suit.
>>14340270
Awwh, That was my favorite ride as a kid. I didn't need these feels.
Steampunk you ask? Post Sakura Taisen shit everyone!
>>14348953
>what would it have proven if I did know the recognizeable tells in the first place?
That maybe one steampunkfag in a thousand has enough interest in steam to know an elementary trivia question?
And someone interested in cyberpunk should have some rudimentary experience with coding.
>>14350026
there's apparently some 3d CG VR simulation of it on the onlines, and there's also Martin's Ultimate Tribute for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjVEe-DAxjI
>>14350149
You're that sperg who was going off about people having to watched a series to jerk it to rule34 of characters from it aren't you?
>>14350149
You realize not everyone who is into steampunk has outfits and goes to cons. Some of us just have an art folder on our computers and if that doesn't constitute being "into" steampunk then I don't see why the grief over a thread like this in the first place.
