the mark of fame & the meaning of steampunk: it call it a fail
In case you don't know, I adore randomly generated texts, bad Google translations, bizarre spell check suggestions, and unintended t9 word substitutions. It's really the only kind of poetry I like, aside from song lyrics. (In fact, I think it should be song lyrics -- see my "spam" tag.) Also, of course, I totally support Dylan and his awesome art.
So imagine my delight when I found out that
His rusted steampunk USB drives have been blogged all over the place
AND
The news has been dragged so far around the internet that it has begun to mutate into gibberish!
Behold (my favorite part is in bold):
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Steampunk mods are graceful preferably added prevailing these days because tech-addled creative types rebuff novel sensibilities and turn back to a non-existent, whimsical accomplished. The latest of the like kind evade is called “Rusted Steampunk USB Drive - none.2,” a follow-up to any earlier, scornfully less amount rusty butt; goal d’USB. It appears to exist built around a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer oblige, augmented with weathered, laser-cut niggard of metal. The curvy parade in succession the assurance says “You by appearance of truth shouldn’cheek by jowl steer this in your pouch,” under which circumstances the dueling swordfish upon the back judge “I survived a fault to Rapture and quite I got was this corroded thick slice of storage.” Yours concerning $40.
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I think the original text of this one came from here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/rusted-steampunk-usb-drive-offers-4gb-of-storage-free-tetanus-i/
They're wrong about the free tetanus, though; it's extra. The comments are funny. I know Dylan already posted about this, but he was too busy working on rusting USB drives to extract some of the choicest specimens for you:
First MuSew asks if someone would really buy it. CreepinJesus proclaims this question to be stupid, but I'll answer anyway: yes, several someones; that's why Dylan is too busy to make this post himself.
Inevitably, someone exhibits his or her abundance of knowledge and lack of wit by clarifying how you actually get tetanus.
Also inevitably, the steampunk label is disputed: is it really metalpunk? Rustpunk? Junk? Someone asserts authority with the use of mathematical notation: "rusted junk != Steampunk." I couldn't tell if "Deadpan" was being deadpan: "There aren't any gears, leather straps, shiny metal, or oversize goggles. It call it a fail." (That's my favorite.)
Someone calls it stupid, and then a steampunk fan waxes eloquent about the object's dire stupidity -- "I like Steampunk crap, but this is stupid. Really, really stupid" -- only to be topped later by someone who finds it ugly as well as stupid.
Dylan just said, "Your stuff seriously isn't worth anything unless someone calls it crap."
So imagine my delight when I found out that
His rusted steampunk USB drives have been blogged all over the place
AND
The news has been dragged so far around the internet that it has begun to mutate into gibberish!
Behold (my favorite part is in bold):
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Steampunk mods are graceful preferably added prevailing these days because tech-addled creative types rebuff novel sensibilities and turn back to a non-existent, whimsical accomplished. The latest of the like kind evade is called “Rusted Steampunk USB Drive - none.2,” a follow-up to any earlier, scornfully less amount rusty butt; goal d’USB. It appears to exist built around a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer oblige, augmented with weathered, laser-cut niggard of metal. The curvy parade in succession the assurance says “You by appearance of truth shouldn’cheek by jowl steer this in your pouch,” under which circumstances the dueling swordfish upon the back judge “I survived a fault to Rapture and quite I got was this corroded thick slice of storage.” Yours concerning $40.
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I think the original text of this one came from here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/rusted-steampunk-usb-drive-offers-4gb-of-storage-free-tetanus-i/
They're wrong about the free tetanus, though; it's extra. The comments are funny. I know Dylan already posted about this, but he was too busy working on rusting USB drives to extract some of the choicest specimens for you:
First MuSew asks if someone would really buy it. CreepinJesus proclaims this question to be stupid, but I'll answer anyway: yes, several someones; that's why Dylan is too busy to make this post himself.
Inevitably, someone exhibits his or her abundance of knowledge and lack of wit by clarifying how you actually get tetanus.
Also inevitably, the steampunk label is disputed: is it really metalpunk? Rustpunk? Junk? Someone asserts authority with the use of mathematical notation: "rusted junk != Steampunk." I couldn't tell if "Deadpan" was being deadpan: "There aren't any gears, leather straps, shiny metal, or oversize goggles. It call it a fail." (That's my favorite.)
Someone calls it stupid, and then a steampunk fan waxes eloquent about the object's dire stupidity -- "I like Steampunk crap, but this is stupid. Really, really stupid" -- only to be topped later by someone who finds it ugly as well as stupid.
Dylan just said, "Your stuff seriously isn't worth anything unless someone calls it crap."