I could not stop looking at the lady character and her pouting lips. Hrrrrrrrm. (It's not pouting, but I don't know the proper word for it either, so pouting will do)
Unskippable: Damnation
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This series is getting better. I'll admit I wasn't a fan at first but now this is one of my favorite shows on the escapist. Nice one.
I believe the joke wasn't supposed to make sense. It was just supposed to be a stupid answer, a completely untrue and stupid answer, which was the humor. It is why I laughed. *shrugged*Merteg said:
And for the record, I supposed I might have to check off become retarded on my to do list as I am mildly intrigued by the idea of faux history games. This game does seem to be crap though, too bad. Oh well... *puts pants on head*
Steampunk: Ok, here's the thing, Steampunk isn't ordinarily correctly used. The basic premise is that technology could have gone another way. Now, if the premise is, "People could have stuck with steampowered technology, because there was a lot of untapped potential there," then you have steampunk. (There is also clockpunk, in which steampower is replaced by clockworks.)
Nowadays, it's normally used to describe any kind of alternate path technology that looks cool and old-timey but can do the same stuff as advanced science fiction type stuff. Not technically correct, in other words. Incidentally, Kaja Foglio coined the term Gaslamp Fantasy to refer to Fantasy which is set in a steampunk world to differentiate it from steampunk style science fiction... but everyone but her and her husband (and a few pendantic nerds) still call everything steampunk.
For a real life example consider air travel. There were two ways air travel could have gone, heavier than air (airplanes, helicopters) or lighter than air (zepplins, baloons). By the 30's lighter than air "airships" had gotten to be pretty advanced. However, airships make terrible warships (note the commentary in the unskippable on how easy it is to bring down an airship) so during WWII heavier than air planes became the advanced technology. Also, the big airship country eventually got totally stomped in the war.
So, now planes, which waste tons of fuel getting hither and yon because they use it for lift as well as thrust are the main mode of international human transit, and airships are mostly seen in... steampunk.
Nowadays, it's normally used to describe any kind of alternate path technology that looks cool and old-timey but can do the same stuff as advanced science fiction type stuff. Not technically correct, in other words. Incidentally, Kaja Foglio coined the term Gaslamp Fantasy to refer to Fantasy which is set in a steampunk world to differentiate it from steampunk style science fiction... but everyone but her and her husband (and a few pendantic nerds) still call everything steampunk.
For a real life example consider air travel. There were two ways air travel could have gone, heavier than air (airplanes, helicopters) or lighter than air (zepplins, baloons). By the 30's lighter than air "airships" had gotten to be pretty advanced. However, airships make terrible warships (note the commentary in the unskippable on how easy it is to bring down an airship) so during WWII heavier than air planes became the advanced technology. Also, the big airship country eventually got totally stomped in the war.
So, now planes, which waste tons of fuel getting hither and yon because they use it for lift as well as thrust are the main mode of international human transit, and airships are mostly seen in... steampunk.
That's it right there, actually.DeathWyrmNexus said:
It's like saying "The Union wore blue because koala bears exist" or "...because Zimbabwe has a flag"
It isn't supposed to make sense, so don't worry about it to much.
