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=== Pod People: ===

This term was originally an insult, though many of its practitioners have co-opted the term as their own. Pod People aesthetic includes a sleek, refined look, usually in all-white or some other solid color, with rounded edges, a "finished" appearance (in contrast to the rough appearance of many wonders), and a user-friendly interface with as few buttons, gadgets, and doo-dads as possible. (A one-panel comic in Alloy Blend shows the standard Pod People ray gun: a smooth-cornered hand-held white rectangle with a single black button labeled "Kill.") This aesthetic also favors small, elegant devices, and practitioners often try to make handheld wonders as small and unobtrusive as possible. Pod People aesthetic is sometimes held in low regard, especially by Steampunks and Functionals; its adherents are thought to spend too much time polishing their devices to look pretty, and not enough time working out the bugs. The style is most popular among Directors and some Progenitors; it is extremely rare in Lemuria.