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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:42 pm
Okami Ameras I love unpredictability and never knowing what can happen. I love elements of mystery and such, complicated minglings of energies to create a desired result.
Magic it is for me.
Though, I can't say I don't love Technology. I do agree, watching a see though clock is fascinating with all it's gears and ticking and tocking. My second most favorite site (other then Gaia, which will always get the #1) is How it Works. I love both as well, but technology will always be my favorite. there is just something gratifying about putting a bunch of otherwise useless pieces together to create something that can move and fulfill a purpose. It really is magic in its own way
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:44 pm
Amossk Drew Zoe Zoe I'm more so of the mind that steam enhanced machinations with magical elements can work wonders. Also it adds the Applied Phlebotonium aspect. If it ever came down to it though, I'd pick magic. For one reason alone, to qoute Luke Crane: "There are limits to how destructive technology can be, however it just takes one wayward apprentice to "kaboom the world"." but wouldent that be a bad thing? To let such power be available to just anyone? I'd say that putting limits on power, or even THINKING of anything outside of a anarchist view-point, defeats the "punk" in steampunk.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:14 pm
Amossk Iseult Afire Another wonderful poem pertaining to my views on the subject.
(And a cookie to anyone who can tell me who wrote it.)
To Science
"Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?" mmm, very thought provoking as for who wrote it....I have no clue *steals the cookie anyway* ninja Edgar Allen Poe. Want me to tell you what I made that cookie with?
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:49 pm
fickle lamia Amossk Drew Zoe Zoe I'm more so of the mind that steam enhanced machinations with magical elements can work wonders. Also it adds the Applied Phlebotonium aspect. If it ever came down to it though, I'd pick magic. For one reason alone, to qoute Luke Crane: "There are limits to how destructive technology can be, however it just takes one wayward apprentice to "kaboom the world"." but wouldent that be a bad thing? To let such power be available to just anyone? I'd say that putting limits on power, or even THINKING of anything outside of a anarchist view-point, defeats the "punk" in steampunk. though ironically Steampunk has nothing to do with Punk
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:51 pm
Iseult Afire Amossk Iseult Afire Another wonderful poem pertaining to my views on the subject.
(And a cookie to anyone who can tell me who wrote it.)
To Science
"Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?" mmm, very thought provoking as for who wrote it....I have no clue *steals the cookie anyway* ninja Edgar Allen Poe. Want me to tell you what I made that cookie with? Lemme guess, it has peanuts and soap in it? oh no wait...thats the waffles xp
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:02 pm
Comparing the two, magic is nice but technology is cheaper, more reliable, and more efficient.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:27 pm
Mylian Comparing the two, magic is nice but technology is cheaper, more reliable, and more efficient. agreed. And you don't have to sell your soul to use it XP
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:11 am
I have to side with technology. When I try to imagine a steampunk scene ruled by magic...I fail to see much steam, and a few other things that make steampunk what it is.
Like cogs and gears and general things that I associate with the genre. Somehow magic seems more modern to me.
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:55 pm
Kite can fly I have to side with technology. When I try to imagine a steampunk scene ruled by magic...I fail to see much steam, and a few other things that make steampunk what it is.
Like cogs and gears and general things that I associate with the genre. Somehow magic seems more modern to me. ye, steampunk without steam is generic fantasy
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:24 pm
Amossk Kite can fly I have to side with technology. When I try to imagine a steampunk scene ruled by magic...I fail to see much steam, and a few other things that make steampunk what it is.
Like cogs and gears and general things that I associate with the genre. Somehow magic seems more modern to me. ye, steampunk without steam is generic fantasy What about war machines http://privateerpress.com/WARMACHINE/default.phpThe jacks are steamdrivin and controled by a warcaster by magic
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:40 pm
Freedom the wolf Amossk Kite can fly I have to side with technology. When I try to imagine a steampunk scene ruled by magic...I fail to see much steam, and a few other things that make steampunk what it is.
Like cogs and gears and general things that I associate with the genre. Somehow magic seems more modern to me. ye, steampunk without steam is generic fantasy What about war machines http://privateerpress.com/WARMACHINE/default.phpThe jacks are steamdrivin and controled by a warcaster by magic but they still have steam XD I'm saying that without steam or cogs, its not really steampunk. I guess it CAN be but it looses that steampunky feel
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:53 pm
I would have to go with technology, provided I couldn't fathom a way to unify the two aspects into one, delightful causality-rending paradox. Perhaps it's just the pseudo-scientist in me, but I like being able to spit in the eye of the divine and say "Ha! Serves you right, telling us to dance like puppets on your strings."
In that right, however, is my love of SteamPunk. I like having that unsettling middle ground between what should be and what is. I like to live somewhere around 'But wouldn't THIS be cool?'
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:20 am
I'm a Tech fan myself.
Perhaps my inventions will be so amazing that the simple people will think I am magic?
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:58 pm
Benjamin Bradt I would have to go with technology, provided I couldn't fathom a way to unify the two aspects into one, delightful causality-rending paradox. Perhaps it's just the pseudo-scientist in me, but I like being able to spit in the eye of the divine and say "Ha! Serves you right, telling us to dance like puppets on your strings." In that right, however, is my love of SteamPunk. I like having that unsettling middle ground between what should be and what is. I like to live somewhere around 'But wouldn't THIS be cool?' hmm. I see what you mean. And as I said I too prefer technology. Whal I like both magic and technology, I prefet technology, nd for the sake of the poll I wanted them to be separate
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:59 pm
Zahwomen I'm a Tech fan myself. Perhaps my inventions will be so amazing that the simple people will think I am magic? lol XD well as I said, the ability to make amazing clockwork devices out of simple brass pieces is magical in its own way
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