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The Future.

Comrade PantsComrade Pants
edited November 2010 in General Chat
Guys, the future totally needs to be cyberpunk. I mean, it's just a thought; but it would be much better than a Mad Max style future. I doubt any one has any reasonable alternatives.

Yes, I'm on a Perfect Dark and Blade Runner binge, what of it?

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  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2010
    I prefer Ghost in the Shell's image of the future to Blade Runners if it must be cyberpunk. However, I'd prefer a mix of cyber and steampunk leaning toward steampunk. Something like, we have all the technology but we change the style of our architecture, vehicles, clothing, culture, etc. back to that of the 1800s-1950s, with a tasteful mix of styles. And lots and lots of Victorian streetlamps.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2010
    You just want to confuse the hell out of anyone attempting to travel forward in time, aren't you? "Oh, shit, we went the wrong way!"
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2010
    No, with a future like that nobody would ever need or want to time travel at all.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2010
    I meant anyone time traveling forward to that future.
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited November 2010
    Fawful's could work, actually. If it's Steampunk, though, can we have it be more like retropunk? I want to see art deco androids. Every home must have one.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited November 2010
    How about a mix of steampunk, retropunk, cyberpunk, biopunk, pulps, space opera, spaghetti western, gaslamp fantasy, and noir.
  • mgrantmgrant
    edited November 2010
    That sounds like a future of AWESOME.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2010
    I had a comic book idea once:

    In the future, one-third of the world will be Retropunk, with some subculture. There will no longer be Goths and Emos, but Bios and Cybers. Bios are people who use excessive recreational genetic engineering to their own bodies. They can range from change of skin tone to extra limbs. Cybers are those who enter the cyber-world directly with their brains, using built in USB ports they can get at the port parlor.

    A common conversation about them would be:
    Suzy: Mom, can I get a USB port for my head?
    Suzy's Mom: No, Suzy, you're too young.
    Suzy: But everyone in school's got one!

    Another one-third of the world will be Steampunk, with Dieselpunk and Clockpunk as their subculture. These people refuse the use of electricity, and religiously believe that its usage is blasphemous. Of course, the Steampunk people do not see eye to eye with the Retropunk people.

    The rest of the world blew up and is now Post-Apocalyptic. There be mutants and zombies in this one.

    Of course, by future, I mean December 2010, because this all takes place on an alternate Earth, where space-commies try to invade America-Earth.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited November 2010
    I'm getting excited for the future. :D
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2010
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
    How about a mix of steampunk, retropunk, cyberpunk, biopunk, pulps, space opera, spaghetti western, gaslamp fantasy, and noir.

    The only thing you just said that didn't inherently bug the crap out of me was noir.
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited November 2010
    tredlow wrote: »
    I had a comic book idea once:

    In the future, one-third of the world will be Retropunk, with some subculture. There will no longer be Goths and Emos, but Bios and Cybers. Bios are people who use excessive recreational genetic engineering to their own bodies. They can range from change of skin tone to extra limbs. Cybers are those who enter the cyber-world directly with their brains, using built in USB ports they can get at the port parlor.

    A common conversation about them would be:
    Suzy: Mom, can I get a USB port for my head?
    Suzy's Mom: No, Suzy, you're too young.
    Suzy: But everyone in school's got one!

    Another one-third of the world will be Steampunk, with Dieselpunk and Clockpunk as their subculture. These people refuse the use of electricity, and religiously believe that its usage is blasphemous. Of course, the Steampunk people do not see eye to eye with the Retropunk people.

    The rest of the world blew up and is now Post-Apocalyptic. There be mutants and zombies in this one.

    Of course, by future, I mean December 2010, because this all takes place on an alternate Earth, where space-commies try to invade America-Earth.

    Start drawing and writing. Get to it, man!
  • OrigamiOrigami
    edited November 2010
    Blade Runner future FTW. But it would mean that it would be always dark. =(
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited November 2010
    Origami wrote: »
    Blade Runner future FTW. But it would mean that it would be always dark. =(

    Sunlight: overrated? A surprising new study finds that it is! Incidentally, I think I might hang out with goths too much.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2010
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    I'm getting excited for the future. :D

    That's gross, man.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited November 2010
    tredlow wrote: »
    That's gross, man.

    1. Girl.
    2. You have a very dirty mind.

    :D
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2010
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    1. Girl.
    2. You have a very dirty mind.

    :D

    1. Oh, sorry. That's gross, girl.
    2. Yes.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited November 2010
    tredlow wrote: »
    1.Oh, sorry. That's gross, girl.

    Much better. :D
  • TheDummyTheDummy
    edited November 2010
    Bah, give me some teleportation devices, a device to generate food from topsoil (it has to be delicious, mind you), and x-ray glasses and I'll wear clothes or act the way you want me to.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited November 2010
    Zager and Evans.
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