Does the term "punk" mean anythingpunk or is itpunk just pretentiouspunk hypepunk?

SunBoy · February 28, 2009, 06:23:03 AM

Wayddaminnit, ain't those the dudes with the wacky hairdos?

Melan · February 28, 2009, 07:18:30 AM

Xpunk = X with 'tude, usually in a way that people in their late teens find edgy, original and mature.

Age of Fable · February 28, 2009, 11:59:00 AM

I'm taking steampunk and adding corporate sponsorship and self-pity. I call it 'stemo'.

KrakaJak · February 28, 2009, 02:49:59 PM

Quote from: Age of Fable;286411I'm taking steampunk and adding corporate sponsorship and self-pity. I call it 'stemo'.

Goddammit!!!!! Someone get this guy outta here with excellent jokes like that. If I was drinking something, I certainly would have spit it out all over my laptop!

peteramthor · February 28, 2009, 08:10:14 PM

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb;286335Yeah, but if enough gamers use the term incorrectly, then they eventually co-opt the language, and thus use it correctly.

Ron Edwards seems to be a master at this with his followers. Especially with things like the term 'ashcan' which has had a specific meaning for decades in other industries long before gaming came around.

Quote from: Age of Fable;286411I'm taking steampunk and adding corporate sponsorship and self-pity. I call it 'stemo'.

Damn. That was one of the funniest things I've heard lately. I am going to have to repeat that at the local shop this next weekend. Bravo on some brilliant play with words there Age of Fable, Bravo.

Insufficient Metal · March 01, 2009, 12:47:46 AM

Man, what isn't pretentious around here?

Age of Fable · March 01, 2009, 06:50:35 AM

Thanks both of you

SunBoy · March 02, 2009, 01:07:32 PM

Quote from: ticopelp;286481Man, what isn't pretentious around here?

Me, you punk.

GrimJesta · March 02, 2009, 01:17:25 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;286332So it seems that no one can even seem to agree on what "punk" means in the context of an RPG, much less what should or should not fall under that category.

RPGPundit

I guess that kinda answers your question about whether or not is has any sort of unified meaning.

-=Grim=-

kregmosier · March 02, 2009, 01:23:37 PM

Victorian "memento mori" photographs wherin the baby is suspended in a jar of brine with electrodes and tesla coils attached is so totally "Steamo".

Also imagining Frankenstein with flat-ironed hair...haha.

edit: the pickled punk should also have an ear trumpet-type speaker device that spits out "i hate you, mother and father" for full effect.

vomitbrown · March 02, 2009, 10:21:32 PM

Quote from: Premier;286269"Dungeonpunk", meaning a style best represented by recent D&D editions, however, is pretentios bullshit. True Dungeonpunk would be alternate (17th+ century) history based on the assumption that megadungeons exist. So it would be, I don't know, the British Empire and the Spaniards duking it out with muskets and pikes in the depths of the Cimmerian Chasm; or Shermans getting blown up by Tiger tanks during the Great Cavern War of 1939-45, or somesuch.

You should create a setting for this idea... now!

vomitbrown · March 02, 2009, 10:24:04 PM

Quote from: ticopelp;286481Man, what isn't pretentious around here?

There's nothing unpretentious about this hobby. Even Old School games are pretentious because of the attempt to not be pretentious.

Yes, I upset with everything...