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Re:Retrofuturism by paypalcust83 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:29PM (#23087643)
What then is the converse of retrofuturism where the present or future is represented with a mix of obsolete technologies along with contemporary and/or hypothetical future ones?
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Re:Retrofuturism by magicsmoke on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:35PM (#23087682)
A post-apocalypic present with ancient and highly advanced technologies unearthed from ruins that humanity no longer has the skill to remake. Miyazaki's Nausicaa comes to mind.

Or maybe a world where technology is futuristic but the societal structure is from the past. Warhammer 40k, the Roman empire but in space.

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Re:Retrofuturism by _Microft on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:12AM (#23088582)
RPGs are often like that. Powerful items are never something like the optimized, advanced light sabre of performance but always something like the ancient rusty sword of the primordial elders.
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Re:Retrofuturism by jacobush on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:39AM (#23088731)
Also Castle in the Sky
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Re:Retrofuturism by pm90 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:05AM (#23089386)
Fallout series.
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Re:Retrofuturism by ccozan on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:29AM (#23089469)
Dune, perhaps?
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Re:Retrofuturism by heyitsguay on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:33PM (#23087671)
Steampunk?
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Re:Retrofuturism by remarkEon on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:25AM (#23088653)
Probably Blade Runner or the Alien universe (which is the same universe, depending on who you ask).
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Re:Retrofuturism by throw_m239339 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:09AM (#23090049)
They certainly share a common aesthetic. Same universe? No.
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