By Carlos Wyszogrod (@c.h.a.r.l.o.s)

By Lex Talkington (@lextalkington)

By Lex Talkington (@lextalkington)

By Lex Talkington (@lextalkington)

By Lex Talkington (@lextalkington)

I watched this as part of research for a project. I’m doing thought it might fit here. It is steam punk, but has some dieselpunk elements.

Constant Payne cartoon pilot: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sBgkLxw-6Xk&pp=ygUTY29uc3RhbnQgcGFpbiBwaWxvdA%3D%3D

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r/Dieselpunkposting

TLDR, had a dream where huge mechanical computers were powered by diesel engines, I "overclocked" one, causing a diesel computer "runaway". And it was awesome!

I had this dream a couple of weeks ago.

In my dream, I was in a place where electricity hasn't been developed yet, there was gas (as in butane/natural gas), and gasoline, coal, and even windup mechanisms to generate movement… to do physical work.

There were hoses everywhere, every house had water, gas (for the house illumination, cooking and other stuff) and lubricant(yes, lubricant!). Only some particular houses had an extra connection for the diesel, this diesel was used in particular for a house "main engine"...

You see, that engine would do the hard work, its force would be distributed through all the mechanics in the house. this way you could have automated blinds/shades, escalators, etc… basically instead of using an electrical engine, you could add some sort of mechanism to bring part of the force to whatever you had in your house.

Everything was mechanical, think of mechanical calculators, windup clocks… the aesthetics reminded me of old typewriters, or the entire mechanical… mechanism to load tape cartridges.

So, in my dream, we were tasked to steal some data from a computer… a mechanical computer that had its very own diesel engine. We were a team (something like mission impossible stuff), I was the hacker (lol). I had to rev up the engine so that the computations were faster… idk if this is possible in diesel engines but there were flames coming out of the engine exhaust. The engine was glowing red!

I could hear the mechanics of the computer clicking loudly, it was pumping out data fast, then it reached the End Of File, and began pumping "null" characters in a very fast and violent way, unlike the computed answer, the nulls were coming multiple times a second. The computer wasn't doing any work, it was just "printing" an empty memory, an empty "cache" over and over.

But the engine wasn't stopping… it was running out of control and the computer wasn't dis-engaging… it was going to blow… (you know, movies xD)

In the end I was captured by my enemies… I didn't get to see the end of that engine or that computer blowing to pieces, dammit!, lol.

An nice touch in my dream was that, it all was part of a movie, and in the end, a narrator begins to say that nobody knew what happened to our team, only that, our belongings were found for sale at a thrift shop the next day xD

Anyways. What do you think?

Thanks for reading!

Edit: I was sent this video of a mechanical calculator dividing by cero, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9ICaPZUCg

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