What kind of Punk world would you want to be in?

Our world is Post Cyber Punk, basically.

It appears the current writing project I'm working on is leaning toward the Post Cyber Punk mixed with Bio Punk, what with it being set in 20 Minutes into the Future with magics, Augmented Reality, Spider Tanks, wide usage of Artificial Limbs, brain surgery that gives you (in the realm of plausibility) enhancements, and all that.

edited 22nd Sep '11 1:57:21 AM by dRoy

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Cyberpunk. Drools.

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

Arcadic punk. Wildly idealized shepherds/shepherdesses lounging around in an idyllic countryside.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Probably a mix of dungeon, clock and steam punk.

If I had to pick just one, steam punk would win.

"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."

If I had to chose, Diesel Punk, maybe combined with Cyber.

Diesel mainly. However, I kind of like my long-range communications and internet. But...Tesla lives during Diesel Punk. And considerign it's in the future, I'd say he'd have the right stuff to make it.

...but seriously, no interwebz no deal.

....but yes, in the end, Diesel Punk with transistors and integrated circuits.

Pshhh, style over substance. How about... Heaven Punk? A bunch of cynical cherubim fucking around with mankind?

And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?

Preacher?

No, not Punk enough. They'd have to wear the get-up Loki and Bartleby wore at the end of Dogma, methinks.

edited 28th Oct '11 2:35:37 PM by kashchei

And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?

Ska punk. I'd put my saxophone playing skills to good use.

Diesel Punk. Just because I like that version of the "Punk Worlds"

Who watches the watchmen?

Do you feel lucky, Diesel Punk?

Vikingpunk.

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^Asterix and the Normans?

And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?

Not by a long shot.

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Actually, I always did like the idea of applying a Viking aesthetic to any later period in the history of technological development, including the present day.

An Information Age with a Viking aesthetic? That would be cool to see.

edited 28th Oct '11 6:02:18 PM by annebeeche

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I would like to live in an retro 80 glamour cyberpunk world.

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Anne:Techno Viking hears your heathen prayers

Diesel punk is cool because well it is like WWII stuff.

edited 28th Oct '11 7:40:36 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

I have heard about that dude, but never actually seen him. What is he?

EDIT: Why would anybody actually want to live in a Cyberpunk world? Part of the definition of Cyberpunk is that the society/economy/politics/whatnot has gone to shite. Snow Crash sees slums living in U-Stor-Its cooking their food over fires built on lottery tickets, tyrannical anarcho-capitalistic suburbs and neckbeards with the Metaverse strapped to their bodies, not to mention the snow crash virus itself and the linguistic abomination that is the ancient Sumerian language.

My 2040's (more of a post-cyberpunk than a classic cyberpunk) has crime businesses rising into power in the wake of paper money becoming illegitimate as currency in favor of digital *

who make their money off of the misfortunes of the poor, and of the immigrants (legal and illegal) who do not have access to digital cash or need paper money for whatever reason and must be dependent on the crime businesses for resources and income. (Earn paper money by working for the mobs, and pay paper money to use the services that the mobs provide them. Basically, a quasi-independent economy in which the poor is trapped and can't get out.)

I love Cyberpunk and all, but I wouldn't actually want to live in a cyberpunk world. They're written to be hell.

edited 28th Oct '11 8:47:11 PM by annebeeche

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Whatever Punk world includes Atomic Robo.

"If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!" — Ryoma Nagare, New Getter Robo

As the definition of Punk Punk is advanced technology through the lens of a past technological or historical aesthetic, I do not see where the concerns about having no internet are coming from...Batman The Animated Series, for example, has computers despite having a distinctive Diesel Punk flavour.

edited 29th Oct '11 3:08:00 AM by pagad

With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.

I wanna be a goof and say CM Punk, but I'mma be serious and say Steampunk.

"His eyes were the color of FEAR..." "Wait, what is that, YELLOW?"

@Anne: Hence Post-Cyberpunk: You get the technological benefits of Cyberpunk without the dystopia.

Viking punk? You know, I once read a story in which there wasn't any crazy-ass information technology, but just enough societal collapse (the Punk part of Cyberpunk) to make it worthy of discussion here. So, basically it was the classic idea of street gangs ruling the cities, but with a twist that they were made of historical reconstructionists, satanists, neo-Pagans and similar. Like, RennFaire folks proudly returning to their Raubritter tradition.

It also brings to mind The Diamond Age and its phyles. IIRC there was a minor Germanic phyle in there, even.

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"

Probably Dungeon Punk, with the idealism of Steampunk and Post Cyber Punk.

"I'll show you fear, there is no hell, only darkness." My twitter