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Common elements of steampunk are steam and gear-driven mechanics, Victorian clothing style and a Victorian value model, a certain do-it-yourself mentality and adventure romance. Elements of steampunk can be found in many areas of popular culture, from film and television to board games and music projects. There are also variants of steampunk that introduce or omit or vary various other elements.Steampunk thus also falls into the area of retro-futurism, which refers to views of the future that prevailed in the past, but must be considered obsolete today. Ultimately, steampunk can be roughly described with the term retrofuturistic alternative world stories.