• wombatula@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wtf is “atompunk” and why does every single sci fi genre have to be called somethingpunk now? Cyberpunk had a reason to be called that, I really don’t see the reasoning behind every other somethingpunk moniker.

    • GARG@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Atompunk is the dark version of 50’s era astro-futurism, like in the Fallout games.

      The “punk” moniker suffixed onto genres generally implies tones and/or themes one would associate with the punk movement, e.g. anger at a corrupt system, anti-authoritarianism, anarchist ideals, etc.

      I’ll agree the usage is oversaturated, though, and is sometimes only used to convey “dystopian”

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      1 year ago

      Atompunk is like a specific esthetic. Imagine cold war era, but with the what they thought looked futuristic made real. Think themes around nuclear annihilation, global espionage, alternate-history and retrofuturism.

      If you know the Fallout videogames, like that.