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IIRC I wore morning dress, the CURRENT standard here. Joel Send a noteboard - 20/04/2011 05:08:26 AM
You'd have to ask my wife, since it was by her preference, which is probably for the best since a) I'm a very casual and informal person and b) she's far more familiar with the European standard. She did not, however, wear a petticoat and hoop skirt, and we weren't pretending to get married in a non-existent land regardless. Most significantly, I did not refer to anything as "the definition of trying too hard". I don't have a problem with steampunk; I simply prefer the forms of it that offer more than idle entertainment, as I do with most books. That's also not to say there's anything wrong with idly entertaining books (there's not much depth to Tom Sawyer, and I've enjoyed that since I was five), that's just not normally my taste.
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The Sprawl Trilogy and Thoughts Thereof (or What Ever Happened to Cyberpunk?) - 19/04/2011 10:50:26 PM 2580 Views
Why I prefer cyberpunk in near future settings to (most) of the steampunk sub-genre. - 19/04/2011 10:55:57 PM 1412 Views
The difference is that steampunk, by and large, is very aware of its implausibility. - 20/04/2011 01:32:57 AM 971 Views
You keep giving steampunk backhanded compliments like that and you'll start to confuse me. - 20/04/2011 02:12:53 AM 1034 Views
Being entertaining is not a backhanded compliment. - 20/04/2011 02:34:15 AM 1098 Views
It is when asserting something is better than a source containing more than entertainment. - 20/04/2011 03:26:50 AM 1182 Views
...didn't you wear a top hat to your wedding? *NM* - 20/04/2011 04:04:42 AM 489 Views
IIRC I wore morning dress, the CURRENT standard here. - 20/04/2011 05:08:26 AM 1042 Views
IMO, cyberpunk has become somewhat dated. - 20/04/2011 04:46:55 AM 1212 Views
Actually, I can live with that, though terms like "dated" invite trouble. - 20/04/2011 07:01:50 AM 1058 Views
Re: Actually, I can live with that, though terms like "dated" invite trouble. - 22/04/2011 04:12:20 AM 1130 Views
No, I took your point. - 22/04/2011 03:43:18 PM 1220 Views
so...is bladerunner cyberpunk - 20/04/2011 09:48:15 PM 911 Views
It's usually seen as the archetypal cyberpunk film, yeah. - 21/04/2011 10:50:44 AM 1250 Views
so cyber is the time and punk is the attitude? - 21/04/2011 12:57:01 PM 1041 Views
I don't think the portmanteau is that precisely defined. - 21/04/2011 08:31:34 PM 1160 Views
I am amazed that no one has referenced this TVTropes page yet... - 23/04/2011 07:45:14 PM 1421 Views
Playing with fire; I should've known TVTropes would exhaustively cover the derivatives. - 24/04/2011 03:11:56 AM 1338 Views
It's always hard to pigeonhole things, especially as they become more specific - 24/04/2011 06:27:28 PM 998 Views
Precisely. - 26/04/2011 03:04:54 AM 1354 Views
The "dated" idea is interesting. - 23/04/2011 08:08:26 PM 1073 Views
PS the Takeshi Kovacs books are great, and you should all go read them *NM* - 23/04/2011 08:09:54 PM 457 Views
I'll add it to the list then, thanks. *MN* - 24/04/2011 03:19:09 AM 938 Views

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