Stupid shit you love thread?

I just really like the idea of the gear. So much engineering can be accomplished through one.

So when i see it on steampunk, I get the idea of a culture surrounded by the gear. Like an engineering guild controlling everything, or something.

I just think it looks really cool too, but again, only in art and story.

I fucking love Dinosaurs. You throw in tameable, rideable dinosaurs into a setting and I will accept all kinds of absolute bullshit in it. Regardless of how ill-fitting it might be to the setting. I will ride a Dinosaur into battle in your engineer's paradise Hard Sci-Fi and only death itself will stop me.

What are your views on space-steampunk that treats the solar system much as 19th century astronomers would have imagined it?

So mars is covered in huge canal networks and ancient ruins; Venus is a tropical jungle planet and so-on.

yeah no
i mean a regular christian human
like
>90% of abtuctions are depicted in hick towns or straight up farmland
>abductees relinquish their past selves and become rational beings of logic and spess
i don't buy it

Does it have to be actual dinosaurs or will any massive reptile suffice?

Like, say, dinosaur-like alien life-forms, or post-apocalyptic mutant lizards the size of a bus?

Dunno, I've never read sci-fi with abductions, but I have seen regular christians (not fundamentalists, but regular people who believe in christian god) as part of spaceship crews or something.

Look into near-future military sci-fi written by American authors, there's plenty of christians there.

I like that too. Like Space 1889.

Check out Mutant Future. I mean, if you haven't already. I'd kill to run a Weird Future game in it.

Also, for me, goddamn do I love Raygun Gothic as an aesthetic. Similarly, I like Soma. The whole wheezing, breathing, living technology was very interesting to me.

youtu.be/w34fSnJNP-4
postan
THEY SAID CHRISTIAN SO IT'S RELEVANT

I also especially like steampunk that is in a different setting outside of historical earth.

Iron Kingdoms is a good setting (but I despise any of the games). It has a little too much magic for my taste, but cygnar's aesthetic I really dig.

Tephra is a decent setting, but the races and stuff are super weeb. But I bought the RPG book and I like it. I would just replace all the fantasy races with humans subtypes.

Actual Dinosaurs are ideal, but I'd totally play with mutant or aliens that sort of look like them too.

Villains with crazy overcomplicated hidden moves.

As boring as "It isn't even my final form" can be, I fucking love it when a major villain mid fight just goes "GOTCHA FUCKERS" and brings in something even more nuts.

The Mote in God's eye was pretty great.

It seems to me you didn't read a lot of sci-fi.

get of my touge faggot

There was a interesting short story I read where a group of scientists was sent to colonize a nearby planet, but it turned out to be crap so they headed back, but in the 10-15 years (can't remember exactly) years they'd been gone it looked like the Rapture happened (complete with left over newspapers with pictures of Jesus at the Grand Tetons), and as a group of Rational Agnostic scientists have to figure out what the hell they are going to do with themselves on an abandoned planet and a ship load of frozen embryos.

That is interesting. They are at a crossroads between religion and logic.

Do they accept Christianity as they try to rebuild the human race on earth?
Is there a point to Christianity now that the rapture is gone and done?
Do they raise the human race without religion, hoping it leads to a more enlightened future based on logic and reason?
However since everything they have found is pretty much definitive proof of creationism, will that shake their 'faith' in their proposed non-religious ideology?

Sounds delightfully complex. What story is this? Who is the author?

Mixing Fantasy and Sci-fi old school pulp style
You know where the Evil Wizard has deathray robots patrolling his tower or the dungeon turns out to be a crashed spaceship

I hate that the two genres have been so segregated that anytime you attempt to bring them together people look at you funny

I'm looking for it, it's in one of the "Wastelands" Anthologies. I think the first one. They are pretty good collection of Stories for the most part, though the second collection gets preachy at times.

Give me a few minutes to find it.

A fire upon the deep did it quite nicely.
Half of the book is about a spaceship stranded in a medieval world populated by a species of sentient psychic dogs where a person was actually a group of dogs telepathically linked into one consciousness.

It's called "Judgement Passed" by Jerry Oltion.

If I remember correctly the scientists all go different ways, based on their logic. A few figure they got left behind and at first try to contact God. Atleast one points out that it wasn't neseccarily Jesus; all the people are gone, not just the Christians for example. One goes pretty hardcore into trying to get God's attention, starting out shooting birds ("Yet not even a sparrow falls without him knowing") and working his way up. One of the other characters thinks they should keep their head low, because why would to leave the world when it's finally recovering and is practically a garden of eden on its own? The POV character can understand where everybody is coming from, but stays with the last character I mentioned with a sort of "Why not?" attitude.

There never is a definite "This is what happened and why." answer, only that a being calling itself Jesus appeared, and humanity disappeared soon after.

Just found that album last week and now I keep seeing it everywhere. Not complaining - great music.

"Jayme Dawson was the captain of the Christian and her crew..."

I really need to check that out

Really I like a lot of the stuff said, real pulpy sort of kitchen sink settings that have everything you could ever want for making a character

Like you could have a young man whose village is destroyed by the Vulture Men flying robot murder machines that are under the control of the Evil Wizard in his floating Sky Fortress, so the boy takes his father's Magic Sword basically a lightsaber and charges off seeking vengeance. Along the way he meets a Knight in Shining Power Armor, a beautiful young Sorceress in Training, a Super Strong Mutant Barbarian, and a Comic Relief Robot

Babylon 5, season 1, episode 5, The Parliament of Dreams. Very, very end of the episode.

Absolutely nonsensical weapons. Just anything that would make a lover of realistic combat and weaponry cringe.

Similar but I always preferred dieselpunk. Steampunk just feels a little too clean.

>stupid shit you love thread

Straight up pulp cliches. Mystery men in trenchcoats, two-fisted heroes, experimental jetpacks, proto-Nazis in dirigibles...

I know those orange tips are supposed to be red-hot glowing, but I can't help but think of airsoft orange tips.

Like, sometime in the far future, a group of historical reenactors are doing WWI, but they've got some facts wrong.

I dig giant robots.

Psychic powers because [lazy pseudo scientific handwaving] and "Humanity is on the verge of extinction due to [threat]"

We dig giant robots.

Chicks dig giant robots

Creepy ass reverberating noises that aren't readily identifiable or familiar being used for weird stuff. Fuckin' dig that shit in movies or videogames, so I always try to put together a few for my roleplaying games. I was a little nervous of just sounding fucking stupid, but the reception has been surprisingly good. I have a couple of sound bites I play, but a few I do as mouth sounds. I felt invigorated when I was told my first attempt "sounded like a whale that got given the robocop treatment telling someone to hand over their driver's license through a fan"

YES

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>Steampunk just feels a little too clean.
That was cogflop

The SteamPUNK will dive into some low Victorian shit, like bad higene, pollution, plague, cthulhu's threat. I don't have any better example, but Dishonored universe done it right.

then again, dishonored waves a lot of stuff away 'cause whale magic

I like flashy, explosive magic, especially when it's wielded by a potbellied, excessively boisterous wizard.

>Clocks on her bicep and necklace
>Gears on earrings, necklace, bra
>Gears on clocks, gears on architectural trim in the background
>Pressure gaskets on a hookah for some reason
I honestly did not know I could hate an image this much

Pulp adventure, scifi and fantasy.

Blonde haired, square jawed space heroes and Conan style barbarians or grissled,rough and rugged whip wielding treasure hunters that always get the girl/s etc etc. I fucking love that shit.

the Covenant and Burning Legion

Nice.

Anything with science and fantasy in the style of He-Man or better yet Thundarr the Barbarian where it's the far future is just fucking awesome.

I like faceless characters, you know, the kind you never see take off their helmet. I also like militaristic societies, whether they're evil or good, as long as they're cautious and defensive as heck then I like them.

scarbacks in Killjoys

pretty much the entire reboot of BSG

Caprica

>T-34 was mass produced Soviet combat walker operated by one squatting Russian.

Badass/frightening characters that will defend a child no matter what.

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Any setting where I can become such a powerful cleric/chosen one that I can ascend to godhood and fuck the shit out of my patron goddess.

Ascending to godhood is one of my favorites too.

>as a group of Rational Agnostic scientists have to figure out what the hell they are going to do with themselves on an abandoned planet and a ship load of frozen embryos.

Almost sounds like a setup for a bad sci-fi porn movie. "Oh my, Dr. Venkman, what is a poor, nubile girl like me supposed to do with myself on an abandoned planet with a shipload of frozen embryos?"

... actually I think I need more sci-fi porn in my life, like right now.

>not having pressure gauges on your bong so you can determine with absolute certainty who smokes hardest

>laser wizard
I'd play that class

Ever heard of Jim Darkmagic?

>>Pressure gaskets on a hookah for some reason
It's clearly a vape-hookah

Check out Infinity. They even recreated Jeanne d'Arc and Saladin for more efficient space crusading against infidels and aliens.

People far enough in the future to have weirdly distorted views of contemporary 20th-21st century events, culture, technology, etc.

>T-shirts required for tea ceremony
>misquotes of Shakesipre

love that shit

The
>I'm so fucking amazing at magic that I can accomplish anything without using any of it
kind of wizard. He's just so wise that he has no need for flashy reality warping. He can already play the current reality like a fiddle.

youtube.com/watch?v=f_LMXmgAhLc&t=8s

use this for a creepy creature in my games, never announces its arrival just start the audio and they freak out

I adore good hearted lovable rouges who suceed with a mix of audacity and sheer luck.

>that one guy who carries the armory with him

Particularly if he gets to actually use all his stuff.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Earth is near the upper limit of gravity for chemical rockets to be feasible. Higher gravity would make space exploration difficult, so the average spacefaring civilization would be more likely to be from a planet with lower gravity compared to earth rather than higher.

I'm a fan of that kind of stuff in comics and cartoons but I can't get into it in RPGs. I like all of it, but my brain just can't handle that level of extravagance and I need some kind of visual support.

"always chaotic evil" races or groups that end up being neutral or good. It's not always that good because it's babby's first genre subversion, but when it works, it's great

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Nice.

What is this from?

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, it's an amazing animated film

I am a sucker for oversized weapons and bros fighting back to back, and since all campaigns I play in are with my best friend and my brother as DM I get plenty of that.

Sinbad: Legend of the Sea

An old Dreamworks movie from 2003 with pirates, high flying adventure, and a cool villain. It's a bit like the Road to Eldorado in that it was pretty fuckin' good, and then everyone forgot about it.

I love super-powers
I can't explain it, I love the idea of normal eople doing impossible things and the implication it have on their lives and the world they live in

I love needlessly ritualistic and proud space empires, albeit ones that aren't necessarily evil (or good), who spend a non-trivial amount of money on having aesthetic and good ships.

Chainsaws, monster trucks and industrial/post-industrial lanscapes.

A lot of sci-fi has a very spiritualist approach to religion. Not much for temporal power usually. I can think about two examples.

Okay, post-industrial landscape isn't retarded. Replace that with "needlessly gloomy post-industrial landscape".

Also gratuitously villainous villains vs. grizzled morally grey hero with a heart of gold buried under all the rust and angst.

If anything the first movie of Nolan's batman trilogy had a very good ambiance.

More like the book was about the vibrating dogs. The sci-fi intro felt kinda just tacked on and didn't really add anything to the story other than introduce the human characters.

I've been looking for downloads for this album for years and have never found it. can anyone help?

You might like the "Numeria, Land of Fallen Stars" Pathfinder premade adventure. There is also the "Technology Guide" for things like robots and lasers stat'd out for Pathfinder.

It's two separate stories that are intertwined.
One is about dog orgies and medieval intrigues. The other is about a ship tripulated by two humans and two sentient bonsais who are trying to scape a fleet of aggressive xenophobic insects.

I think the idea is that no matter where you go, it's same shit: new day. At the very edge of Fastness, and in thw very gutters of Slowness there are going to be malevolent assholes who just want to make everyone into their puppet, there are going to be so-called good and wise figures that move to oppose them but have their own hangups and failures, and then there are individuals somewhere in between just trying to make sense of it all and fuck.

Plus, cmon, that book had such a sweet 'an ancient evil awakens' hook going for it.

Green apocalypse post-apoc worlds, where people just fucked off and died without much fuss, leaving the world largely intact and unpolluted, to have their abandonded cities conquered by plants and trees and critters.

That really corny witch doctor stereotype. You know the one. Bag full of human bones, voodoo ceremonies, Caribbean accent that would offend the faint hearted. Great stuff.

Dragonstar was made for you.

I think my real complaint is that he introduced a lot of great ideas but didn't do enough with them. Instead of going into great detail about the dog politics and mating rituals, their society should have just been a stop along the adventure (or have had its own book).

Yeah it is
But it seems like that particular style has all but disappeared since the 80's

Oldschool space opera science fiction. Grizzled spacemen flying the triplanetary run, heroic space patrolmen exploring ancient ruins deep in the Venusian jungle (we all know Venus is a hot swampy world populated by gaitn reptiles, right?), atomic-powered rocketships with a baffle plate (whatever that is) that break at dramatic moments, forcing one of the aformentioned grizzled spacemen to sacrifice himself to safe his ship and crew by holding it in place with his bare hands...
I actually prefer it when it's played straight, though. Ironic self-referential parody of oldschool pulp SF can be fun, but when the stuff, even if silly and inaccurate to modern viewers, is still treated seriously by the characters in the story it's even better.

I feel like that about clockpunk. Not really as a setting, but as aesthetic. I just find clockwork machinery very aesthetically pleasing.

Characters actually having their theme music playing in universe.

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