New game: Create the most original or insane "something-punk" subgenre yet !
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Godzillapunk - Japan realizes it can use its giant metal monsters to conquer the world rather than just fight Godzilla
The only giant robots I recall from the Godzilla series are the various incarnations of Mechagodzilla and Jet Jaguar, who's too good an egg to go along with such sinister plots. Anyway, I doubt Mechagodzilla could protect Japan from a few hundred ICBM's, so MAD applies.
Bruce
Eugenics-Punk. A world in which Darwinism and Mendelian genetics were understood a thousand years earlier and humans are selectively bred like horses and dogs into many breeds to fill particular functions.
Tabloid-punk. Clones of Elvis roam the American west, Sasquatch march in Washington to protest deforestation, the flying saucer has replaced the airplane, and foreign relations classes normally dedicate at least two weeks a semester to Greys and Reptiloids.
Bat Boy has his own talk show, three world wars, two great depressions, and the Second Coming have been averted thanks to the prophecies of Notradamus [1], and gay aliens are settling in San Francisco.
Hideous mutants are common enough that there is no point in using doctored photographs in online IQ tests, and the CIA is holding Satan prisoner in an undisclosed location. The Moon landing was faked, but only to cover up the actual footage of Egyptian ruins on the Moon.
The Soviet Union is still around, and is led by the scientifically preserved brain of Nikita Kruschev, while the Chinese are still secretly building their invasion tunnel under the Pacific, while on the brighter side, the garlic, vinegar and potato chip diet plan has largely wiped out cancer.
And behind the scenes, the Rosicrucians, the Templars, the KGB, the Reptiloids, the Mole Men, the Masons, the Hidden Masters, the Voodoo priests, Jesus, and the preserved brain of Nixon continue to weave their evil plans - and only Michael Jackson, the Greys, and Dracula can stop the Final Prophecy of Notradamus from coming true...
Bruce
[1] Who, BTW, in this world died at a ripe old age. In a gold castle. On top of a pile of beautiful women.
Bat Boy has his own talk show, three world wars, two great depressions, and the Second Coming have been averted thanks to the prophecies of Notradamus [1], and gay aliens are settling in San Francisco.
Hideous mutants are common enough that there is no point in using doctored photographs in online IQ tests, and the CIA is holding Satan prisoner in an undisclosed location. The Moon landing was faked, but only to cover up the actual footage of Egyptian ruins on the Moon.
The Soviet Union is still around, and is led by the scientifically preserved brain of Nikita Kruschev, while the Chinese are still secretly building their invasion tunnel under the Pacific, while on the brighter side, the garlic, vinegar and potato chip diet plan has largely wiped out cancer.
And behind the scenes, the Rosicrucians, the Templars, the KGB, the Reptiloids, the Mole Men, the Masons, the Hidden Masters, the Voodoo priests, Jesus, and the preserved brain of Nixon continue to weave their evil plans - and only Michael Jackson, the Greys, and Dracula can stop the Final Prophecy of Notradamus from coming true...
Bruce
[1] Who, BTW, in this world died at a ripe old age. In a gold castle. On top of a pile of beautiful women.
That would make an awesome dystopic setting, actually. Like a Philip K. Dick type novel.
That is just freakin' wikkid-awesome.
Bat Boy for POTUS!!!
The only giant robots I recall from the Godzilla series are the various incarnations of Mechagodzilla and Jet Jaguar, who's too good an egg to go along with such sinister plots. Anyway, I doubt Mechagodzilla could protect Japan from a few hundred ICBM's, so MAD applies.
Bruce
If Japan can make Giant warrior robots, I don't think an ICBM shield would be too difficult, although Japan has trouble fighting a giant mutant butterfly(Mothra) so maybe the Japanese could be defeated
Geriatric Punk- Medicine advances to such a stage that a human can live well into 110. Yet as the population grows older society faces greater troubles of how to deal with the aging. For anyone can make a heart beat, but strength, or speed cannot be saved as one ages. So large hospitals are made to care for the growing elderly population. Some elderly try to escape to see their family, or enjoy the outside world one last time before they die. The orderlies bring them back every time however.
90's-punk: Technology and Culture all modeled on the early 90's. Pagers, Video Cassettes, Boom Boxes, and wacky haircuts.
Combustion-Hooligan: A fictional world within a fictional world. Basically the steampunk equivalent of the steampunk concept in our world. How Steampunk would possibly envision a world where technology took a different turn, away from steam-powered. Basically how they would envision a world like ours.
Kaijupunk: Jumping off of the idea based on Godzilla-ish movies and setting it in a world having to deal with giant monsters on a regular basis. King Kong, Godzilla, Gamera, etc.
Combustion-Hooligan: A fictional world within a fictional world. Basically the steampunk equivalent of the steampunk concept in our world. How Steampunk would possibly envision a world where technology took a different turn, away from steam-powered. Basically how they would envision a world like ours.
Kaijupunk: Jumping off of the idea based on Godzilla-ish movies and setting it in a world having to deal with giant monsters on a regular basis. King Kong, Godzilla, Gamera, etc.
suburbpunk
an elite corps of folks who gather on The Central Lawn of the townhouse development after work and plot on constructing their Death Ship out of vinyl siding and Other People's Camrys.
an elite corps of folks who gather on The Central Lawn of the townhouse development after work and plot on constructing their Death Ship out of vinyl siding and Other People's Camrys.
What ideas ! What a thread ! Keep it coming !
Oh, and here's another contribution of mine :
Rallypunk - rally racing is the most popular and praised sport and pastime. Rally drivers are the biggest celebrities around, considered the "knights of motorsport". McRae, Sainz, Loeb, Burns (RIP), etc. are like demigods or national heroes to their countries. The entire economy revolves around the sport, nearly every region on Earth has regular championships. The racing itself feels a bit overdramatic and exaggerated, tinted with Rule of Cool - making it look more like a typical semi-realistic (and slightly actiony) rally sim.
Oh, and here's another contribution of mine :
Rallypunk - rally racing is the most popular and praised sport and pastime. Rally drivers are the biggest celebrities around, considered the "knights of motorsport". McRae, Sainz, Loeb, Burns (RIP), etc. are like demigods or national heroes to their countries.
The entire economy revolves around the sport, nearly every region on Earth has regular championships. The racing itself feels a bit overdramatic and exaggerated, tinted with Rule of Cool - making it look more like a typical semi-realistic (and slightly actiony) rally sim.
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Afro-steampunk: in which it is the kingdoms of Africa (Ethiopia, Asante, Kongo, the Zulus...) which are modernizing, building railways and flying dirigibles and wearing those neato goggles. Europe is the Dark Continent, a dangerous place of black magic, savage warriors, and an all-powerful priesthood, whose religion is rumored to involve cannibalistic practices. Our brave heroes must travel there, to rescue passengers from an exploratory dirigible which has crashed in Darkest France, with only their wits, guns, and steam-powered robot sidekick to help them against the armor-clad barbarian hordes and the strange magics of their wizards and priests...
Bruce
Bruce
Biototalitarian dystopia- A totalitarian government almost fetishistically obsessed with physical perfection, led by corrupt voyeuristic elite . A government that regulates what we eat, when we relieve ourself, we we copulate with and when, to ensure that we are in the best physical shape. Everything is watched by the government, and nudity is enforced. There are human stud farms and each woman is required to meet the quota of ten offspring ostensibly for maintaining the current population level as only one out of 10 women are allowed to reproduce, with the ratio for men being as high as 1 out of 1000. And of course, the society is regimented into strata or caste on the basis of physical perfection.
Brilliant...
Alternately, they steam up the dark river Seine in search of the mysterious Kurtufu.
Another crazy idea:
Parrotpunk! The world according to Jimmy Buffet songs.
Azure-watered island party paradises filled with clueless tourists sipping daiquiris...while in the shadows intrigue abounds and exotic danger is only a Grumman Goose hop to a pirate town on a lonely cay! Cowboys, pirates, smugglers, shady pilots and boat captains, femme fatals, and modern day warrior-bards blend with clever and industrious natives. Cargo cults clash with drug-runners. Sport Fishermen uncover cursed Aztec gold. And everyone follows the unspoken rule that at sunset conflicts get put on hold and all observe a moment of silence and self-reflection with a Cuban cigar and an overproof Jamaican rum.Parrotpunk! The world according to Jimmy Buffet songs.
Win !
Brilliant.
Don't forget the worldwide free power harvested from the Ionosphere via huge Tesla Coils.
AnimalPunk:
It all started on the former Manor Farm, where Snowball the Pig was able (unlike his counterpart from another universe), to outwit the Berkshire Boer Napoleon in their power struggle. Now unchallenged in his leadership of Animal Farm, Snowball decided to put his effort squarely into promoting the spread of the Animal Revolution, a message carried to every Human-inhabited continent on the air currents by his Bird messengers, “Beasts of England” on their tongues, as well as a call to arms.
Conveniently, this was smack dab in the middle of World War II, when Mankind was too busy fighting one another to recognize the new danger until, in many quarters, it was too late…
Now, the current year is 1984, and the world is divided into hostile Animalist and Human camps, though on closer inspection, things are a tad less straight forward than that. The Human Bloc, dominated by the United States of America, and allied with the (Canada based) Commonwealth of Nations, India, the Republic of China, Algiers-based Free France, and the (rump) Empire of Japan, among others, stare down the Animalist superpowers, all while keeping most of their own Animals either locked behind vast fenced off "nature preserves", or else under lock and key (excepting those whose ancestors remained loyal during the Great Animal Revolution). As in the DoolittlePunk universe, technology has changed dramatically since the discovery of Animal sentience—for loyalist Animals, there are now industries which cater to their needs for instance—and it has spurred many new technological and social changes. Overall, the Human powers are a curious mixture of atompunk and biopunk technologically; socially, Human societies tend to be rather paranoid and self-censoring—you never know who might be listening in on your conversation, be they rodents, birds, insects, or even your own pets!
Across the Atlantic, and covering much of Eurasia, are the Animalist powers, who suffer from ideological divisions of their own: on one side is the Snowballist Bloc, led by the Animal Republic of Greater Britain, covering the British Isles, along with their strongest friend, the Animal’s Farming Commonwealth (comprising most of former Germany and Poland), along with many smaller such entities. Largely led by Pigs, all Animals in these nations are equal (certainly compared those trapped under the United Animalist Association). Thanks to the technological improvements made according to the example set by the Animal Republic’s own Comrade Snowball, Animals of these nations now have much idle time—time spent attaining new knowledge, or else at leisure. In accordance with the Seven Commandments, the only trade conducted is done within their own communities. Those Humans who haven’t fled are left alone on their own small plots of land (and kept to a stringent vegan diet).
For the Snowballist powers, their vilest enemy is the United Animalist Association (UAA), a sprawling totalitarian empire stretching roughly from the ruins of Brest-Litovsk to the ruins of Beijing, and run by “First Comrade Alexander” (though the Animal defectors from the UAA have speculated that their First Comrade actually died a long time ago with a junta of Pigs running the place instead). Based in the largest and most luxurious of the New Collective Farms, the Pigs who rule the UAA have long since spurned the ideals of Old Major and Snowball; the Animals of the UAA work far longer than their counterparts in the Snowballist nations, and eat far less. The ruling Pigs, in another major difference with their enemies to the West, get along quite fine with the large Human minority of their nation (as part of their “Animalism with a Pragmatic Face”)—the largely intact Stalinist bureaucracy that fell into their hands after their own Revolution was absolutely vital for the initiatives of First Comrade Alexander (and the sycophantic offers of help from one Lavrenti Beria didn’t hurt the place of Mankind under the new regime either). The Humans of the UAA are largely employed in the echelons of the Pig-run bureaucracy, and (along with the Dogs), are quite handy in maintaining the Secret Police…”Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better!” and “All Animals are Equal/But Some Animals are More Equal Than Others!” are the most often repeated slogans in the UAA. On the other hand, they’re more than happy to trade with the Human bloc, for vital machinery and weapons systems, of course…
Now, as April dawns, a major disarmament conference regarding the world’s atomic arsenals is scheduled to be held between the major Human and Animalist powers on the original Animal Farm (the Pigs proved, once they’d been educated, very adept at physics). The Snowballist powers are desperate to stop the weapons trade between the Human Bloc and the UAA, and are even willing to entertain the idea of removing all trade barriers with the Human powers. The UAA, naturally, will not be sending a representative; they have unrest from their own Animal population to worry about, and besides, First Comrade Alexander has no time to waste with “Unacceptable Deviationists from the True and Proper Spirit of Animalism with a Pragmatic Face!”
It all started on the former Manor Farm, where Snowball the Pig was able (unlike his counterpart from another universe), to outwit the Berkshire Boer Napoleon in their power struggle. Now unchallenged in his leadership of Animal Farm, Snowball decided to put his effort squarely into promoting the spread of the Animal Revolution, a message carried to every Human-inhabited continent on the air currents by his Bird messengers, “Beasts of England” on their tongues, as well as a call to arms.
Conveniently, this was smack dab in the middle of World War II, when Mankind was too busy fighting one another to recognize the new danger until, in many quarters, it was too late…
Now, the current year is 1984, and the world is divided into hostile Animalist and Human camps, though on closer inspection, things are a tad less straight forward than that. The Human Bloc, dominated by the United States of America, and allied with the (Canada based) Commonwealth of Nations, India, the Republic of China, Algiers-based Free France, and the (rump) Empire of Japan, among others, stare down the Animalist superpowers, all while keeping most of their own Animals either locked behind vast fenced off "nature preserves", or else under lock and key (excepting those whose ancestors remained loyal during the Great Animal Revolution). As in the DoolittlePunk universe, technology has changed dramatically since the discovery of Animal sentience—for loyalist Animals, there are now industries which cater to their needs for instance—and it has spurred many new technological and social changes. Overall, the Human powers are a curious mixture of atompunk and biopunk technologically; socially, Human societies tend to be rather paranoid and self-censoring—you never know who might be listening in on your conversation, be they rodents, birds, insects, or even your own pets!
Across the Atlantic, and covering much of Eurasia, are the Animalist powers, who suffer from ideological divisions of their own: on one side is the Snowballist Bloc, led by the Animal Republic of Greater Britain, covering the British Isles, along with their strongest friend, the Animal’s Farming Commonwealth (comprising most of former Germany and Poland), along with many smaller such entities. Largely led by Pigs, all Animals in these nations are equal (certainly compared those trapped under the United Animalist Association). Thanks to the technological improvements made according to the example set by the Animal Republic’s own Comrade Snowball, Animals of these nations now have much idle time—time spent attaining new knowledge, or else at leisure. In accordance with the Seven Commandments, the only trade conducted is done within their own communities. Those Humans who haven’t fled are left alone on their own small plots of land (and kept to a stringent vegan diet).
For the Snowballist powers, their vilest enemy is the United Animalist Association (UAA), a sprawling totalitarian empire stretching roughly from the ruins of Brest-Litovsk to the ruins of Beijing, and run by “First Comrade Alexander” (though the Animal defectors from the UAA have speculated that their First Comrade actually died a long time ago with a junta of Pigs running the place instead). Based in the largest and most luxurious of the New Collective Farms, the Pigs who rule the UAA have long since spurned the ideals of Old Major and Snowball; the Animals of the UAA work far longer than their counterparts in the Snowballist nations, and eat far less. The ruling Pigs, in another major difference with their enemies to the West, get along quite fine with the large Human minority of their nation (as part of their “Animalism with a Pragmatic Face”)—the largely intact Stalinist bureaucracy that fell into their hands after their own Revolution was absolutely vital for the initiatives of First Comrade Alexander (and the sycophantic offers of help from one Lavrenti Beria didn’t hurt the place of Mankind under the new regime either). The Humans of the UAA are largely employed in the echelons of the Pig-run bureaucracy, and (along with the Dogs), are quite handy in maintaining the Secret Police…”Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better!” and “All Animals are Equal/But Some Animals are More Equal Than Others!” are the most often repeated slogans in the UAA. On the other hand, they’re more than happy to trade with the Human bloc, for vital machinery and weapons systems, of course…
Now, as April dawns, a major disarmament conference regarding the world’s atomic arsenals is scheduled to be held between the major Human and Animalist powers on the original Animal Farm (the Pigs proved, once they’d been educated, very adept at physics). The Snowballist powers are desperate to stop the weapons trade between the Human Bloc and the UAA, and are even willing to entertain the idea of removing all trade barriers with the Human powers. The UAA, naturally, will not be sending a representative; they have unrest from their own Animal population to worry about, and besides, First Comrade Alexander has no time to waste with “Unacceptable Deviationists from the True and Proper Spirit of Animalism with a Pragmatic Face!”
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