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Commented on Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
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guthrie commented on
Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
I was about to quote the OED re. origin and definition of 'punk' but the NLS link to it isn't working properly. So anyway, I seem to recall that here in the UK it has an old meaning, of old rottten and brittle wood, or can also mean small bits of wood used to start a fire....
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Allen Thomson commented on
Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
old rottten and brittle wood, or can also mean small bits of wood used to start a fire That's the only meaning of punk, aside from the pejorative one, that I ever encountered. Actually, both together: dry rotten wood used as tinder. (USA AZ middle C20)...
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Allen Thomson commented on
Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
Here we go on punk wood: https://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2013/02/more-on-punk-wood.html...
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Pigeon commented on
Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
That's the "proper" meaning I know for it too. But viscerally it still carries the meaning under which I first encountered it, ie. someone with their hair in big luminous spikes and safety pins through their nose, and so while I quite understand the disintegration of the ship off the coast of Fourecks, it still feels peculiar to read it. Never have I ever heard of it being used to mean "semen". We put an S in front of it for that, and nobody ever confuses the four-letter word with the five-letter one....
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genomematt commented on
Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
Having got to this article after watching Dark Matter and reading the five thirty eight piece on Vin Diesel films as character based RPG I think the centrality of the character study is a major defining feature of the genre. It's also a major feature of all the other good *punk like early Gibson and ribopunk like Holy Fire. I also think that single books from other arcs that are more clearly space opera or military sci fi reinforce this. Eg winning colours is clearly military sci fi but with a junior main character and a single ship small world...
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