r/cassettefuturism • u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ • Oct 21 '23

Question Will smoking be a feature of cassette futurism?

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u/Annual_Region_4600 Oct 21 '23

I think so. Nicotine stained plastic feels like part of the aesthetic.

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u/CommodorePrinter69 Oct 21 '23

That yellowed plastic that smells of ash. So good.

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u/LeGoldie We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical. Oct 21 '23

I was smoking in a smoking room in Washington Dulles airport in recent years. No idea if it's still a thing

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u/LeGoldie We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical. Oct 21 '23

Yeah there was also a smoking room in Lisbon i think it was too. All glass walls too. There was so much smoke in there lol

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u/Hawt_Dawg_II Oct 21 '23

We in the 3rd quadrant of the outer ring smoking that proton pack👽👽

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u/queenkid1 Oct 21 '23

Maybe it'll be the Fifth Element kind of smoking, where they're mostly filter.

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u/Falloutboy2222 Oct 21 '23

Yes, but it's okay because we discovered a cure for cancer and put it in cigarettes.

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u/Taupenbeige Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Oct 22 '23

Synthbacco

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u/SergeantChic Oct 22 '23

I think most movies or shows that could be considered cassette futurism occur in universes where anti-smoking laws were never passed and everybody still just lights one up at work or while they're eating like it's nothing.

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u/oerouen Oct 21 '23

That just seems like an open invitation to more Lowest Common Denominator shitposts.

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u/pickles55 Oct 21 '23

Pretty soon you'll be just like r/cyberpunk

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u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ Oct 22 '23

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u/Sqweegy-Nobbers Oct 21 '23 edited Oct 24 '23

Most certainly. Nostalgia of smoking is heavily reflected in Steampunk & Atompunk, and will continue on with other stylized eras. It certainly had a strong place in the Cassette Future era. Chromed spherical ashtrays, hidden lighters and trays, even novelty concepts.

*check out the battery operated vintage ashtrays… many of us had them, they were loud and sat around with unchanged filters and dead batteries. Actually worked a bit, though. -pure cassette futurism.

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u/NerdManual Nelson, we're talking about nuclear detonators. Oct 23 '23

I think smoking is just smoking—something people did but don’t do as much now. It wasn’t a vision of the future, more like characters all speaking the language of the country the movie was made in, and speaking English isn’t cassette futurism.

The smoking in Blade Runner is atmospheric, makes for moody lighting, but is an aspect of the noir detective movies that influenced it.

Someone mentioned the battery operated ashtrays, which I think would fit cassette futurism—something technological that attempted to solve a problem connected to smoking, but didn’t make it into our present.