I hate steampunk.

[Lumpy]

I used to read http://www.boingboing.net untill every 2nd post was

"ZOMG I FOUND THIS REALLY COOL STEAMPUNK!!!1!!!11 MOUSEPAD
TODAY, i bought it immediately and rushed home so I could post about it"

a steam punk LAMP for christ sake

Ill give you a hint.. ITS POWERED BY STEAM !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/22/st ... lamps.html

Love these modded steampunk Nerf guns

its not cool... and its not special, and liking ( and advertising the fact that you do ) does not make you unique..

And who the hell is xanthi? wow you have white hair and pretend to like starwars and geeky stuff..

Watch this video post where I feign interest and glow with self satisfaction.

And you know what else I hate.. smug people who spend alot of time making stuff that is "unique" like knitting a scarf with a space invaders logo on it.. or some other rubbish.. and then posing with said object and a smug grin on said face.

Would these people spend all this time thinking of / making stuff if there was no blog for them to appear on..


Oooooh look at me ! I like stuff that you have never heard of..

NNNNNNNNnnnnnnnJealous ??

You should be

Im going to be doing some "guerilla knitting" this weekend..

http://craphound.com/images/knitconnies.jpg

I cant wait to bask in your envy.

[Machiosabre]

someone of no importance raging about something on the internet? that sounds nothing like a blog!

[Lumpy]

Just wait till I start posting pictures of me strutting around with my knitted goods.

[Muzic]

steampunk is alright

[Guessmyname]

When it's done well. That steampunk lamp is shite, and I actually like steampunk (it's fun to draw and model). I think I know why, too.

At least part of the allure of steampunk is working out how the hell all the cogs and whistles work together as one machine (ala Rule Goldberg, or however his name is spelt). In good steampunk, you have complexity, but you also have the sense that that complexity is there for a reason: it needs to be complex for the steam-thing to work, it serves a purpose.

That lamp is shite because the 'steampunky' bits serve no purpose. They're blatantly there for aesthetic purposes only. Probably because it is just a light-bulb, which is itself just a simple object you can't exactly overcomplicate with cogs and whistles.

[Elkvis]

Live and let live. When you get steampunk fanatics knocking at our door with panflets, then you have the right to hate it and tell us about it.

I don't mind it. I think it sort of cool. but the link you have provided are not good examples of the genre.

[ralphie]

uh-oh, something you don't agree with. To the blogmobile ASAP, people need to know what you dislike!

[Snipawolf]

Expand the blogosphere.

[rattle]

...till it bursts, then we have millions of dipshits floating about

[Elkvis]

that can only be better that the current concentrated status.

[PicassoCT]

I tried to combine Knitting and Steampunk, was nearly garroted -and got stonethrowing Grandmothers under my window stating that my Amoknittingmaschine is taking there Hobby away..

Return of Industrial Age the hard way... lets form a Union against Steampunk..

[Lumpy]

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[rattle]

Adolf is that you?

[rattle]

[Zoombie]

Steampunk is only cool if it has air pirates.

[Neddie]

I like steampunk. I hate steampunk fan-kiddies.