I play at a local gaming store in Williamsburg Brooklyn, which is basically Hipster Jerusalem, and 5E is really popular. The place is jam packed full of people playing. Whether or not those people are "hipsters" I'll leave to various definitions, but they seem to be a pretty even spread of the local demographics and a diverse crowd.

I myself live in Bed Stuy.

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;851277I play at a local gaming store in Williamsburg Brooklyn...

Which one?

Quote from: S'mon;851102Agree - grognards & hipsters have this like of ironic detachment in common. This results in some hipstery grognard types like noisms (Monsters & Manuals) who arguably fit both categories.

None of my 4e group are SJWs, but yes there is some overlap, most obviously on rpgnet. I guess 4e & SJWs both Take Everything Very Seriously.

I'll have "Hipstery Grognard" put on my grave stone.

Quote from: noisms;851954I'll have "Hipstery Grognard" put on my grave stone.

I have a beard, but not a neck beard


Also Sprach Der HipsterGrog.

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;851277I play at a local gaming store in Williamsburg Brooklyn, which is basically Hipster Jerusalem, and 5E is really popular. The place is jam packed full of people playing. Whether or not those people are "hipsters" I'll leave to various definitions, but they seem to be a pretty even spread of the local demographics and a diverse crowd.

I myself live in Bed Stuy.

Glad we finally have someone who has seen some actual gaming hipsters, so we might know what some of them actually do play. Felt a little too much like Pooh and Tigger contemplating what a Heffalumps looked like.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;848775Oh no, you misunderstand, my actual thought process typically looks something like this:

Me: Oh wow, this old 2nd edition D&D guide on running a campaign in Celtic Gaul is kinda awesome! I'd love to try running a game like that.

*Then I'm reminded in the course of the day that there's countless video games/RPGs/books built on Euro-themed fantasy and Celtic themes are relatively common.*

Me: Oh... I guess this stuff is overexposed and too popular. I should really do something more original.

*Initial excitement dims*

A real hipster would then proclaim his game is a precise recreation of the Táin Bó Flidhais and will require a precise verbal understanding of the language.*







*there's an obscure and probably hipsterish joke here too

Quote from: S'mon;851084I'd say definitely not. Hipsters tend to go for Eurogames, IME they also play Munchkin. They like OSR which is rules-light and well suited to a mood of ironic detachment, they don't like mechanically complex stuff like 3e/PF or 4e, and incidentally they don't seem to like Indie Hippy Forgey Storygames either.

I always thought that FATE was pretty hipstery, mostly because the hipsters I know locally all seem to delight in it (while tearing down the classics).


EDIT: on second thought, I might be confusing my SJWs with my hipsters. Maybe the SJWs are the ones who prefer FATE because it's touchy-feely and everyone gets to win and contribute. The OSR/Hipster analogy works well, but I suspect only really succeeds if you like it ironically and also never touched the original.

Quote from: camazotz;852297EDIT: on second thought, I might be confusing my SJWs with my hipsters.

I'm not sure why people do this. SJWs tend to be fat pallid creatures Taking Everything Very Seriously. Hipsters are skinny and Never Take Anything Seriously. Hipsters are cool, SJWS are definitely un-cool.

In London SJWs generally work in the public sector in administrative roles, while hipsters work for Internet start ups, in coffee shops, organic cafes, and other non-manual-labour private sector fields. The two groups rarely interact, SJWs would like to reprogramme hipsters to make them SJWs but hipsters will avoid SJWs and their concerns.

I guess in the US hipsters will generally vote Democrat if they bother to vote, but in the UK hipsters are happy to vote for soft-right Conservatives like London mayor Boris Johnson and (I suspect) Zac Goldsmith. SJWS of course always vote Left.

Quote from: camazotz;852295*there's an obscure and probably hipsterish joke here too

What do you mean? I got the language directly from this really scruffy, bearded guy who told me he is an actual druid and is over a thousand years old. And that he was known as Merlin. Boy was he happy to finally get out of that cave.




Rawma, this is humor. Pay no attention.

Quote from: S'mon;852363I'm not sure why people do this. SJWs tend to be fat pallid creatures Taking Everything Very Seriously. Hipsters are skinny and Never Take Anything Seriously. Hipsters are cool, SJWS are definitely un-cool.

In London SJWs generally work in the public sector in administrative roles, while hipsters work for Internet start ups, in coffee shops, organic cafes, and other non-manual-labour private sector fields. The two groups rarely interact, SJWs would like to reprogramme hipsters to make them SJWs but hipsters will avoid SJWs and their concerns.

I guess in the US hipsters will generally vote Democrat if they bother to vote, but in the UK hipsters are happy to vote for soft-right Conservatives like London mayor Boris Johnson and (I suspect) Zac Goldsmith. SJWS of course always vote Left.

Interesting. I'll have to pass this along to the gun-totin', redneck, inbred, Tea Party salutin', war mongerin', big gass guzzlin' truck drivin', Trump-dick-sucking, Fox-News-Watchin', racist, fat-ass, white bread, tough-talkin'-but-actually-a-pussy Conservatives in my neck of the woods. They been asking for some examples of "sweeping generalization." I think between the two of us, we have it somewhat covered. :-)

Quote from: cranebump;852537Interesting. I'll have to pass this along to the gun-totin', redneck, inbred, Tea Party salutin', war mongerin', big gass guzzlin' truck drivin', Trump-dick-sucking, Fox-News-Watchin', racist, fat-ass, white bread, tough-talkin'-but-actually-a-pussy Conservatives in my neck of the woods. They been asking for some examples of "sweeping generalization." I think between the two of us, we have it somewhat covered. :-)

He's British, not a 'Murican. The only parts of that spiel that are likely to resonate for him are the words "inbred", "Tea", which should be spelled without a capital-T, the misspelled hyphenate "war-mongerin", "white bread", which is part of a full-English, and "woods". Also in Britain, Conservative is spelled T-o-r-y.

Quote from: Bren;852546He's British, not a 'Murican. The only parts of that spiel that are likely to resonate for him are the words "inbred", "Tea", which should be spelled without a capital-T, the misspelled hyphenate "war-mongerin", "white bread", which is part of a full-English, and "woods". Also in Britain, Conservative is spelled T-o-r-y.

Goddamnit! I wasted all that (stereo) typing!:-)

Quote from: S'mon;852363I'm not sure why people do this. SJWs tend to be fat pallid creatures Taking Everything Very Seriously. Hipsters are skinny and Never Take Anything Seriously. Hipsters are cool, SJWS are definitely un-cool.

In London SJWs generally work in the public sector in administrative roles, while hipsters work for Internet start ups, in coffee shops, organic cafes, and other non-manual-labour private sector fields. The two groups rarely interact, SJWs would like to reprogramme hipsters to make them SJWs but hipsters will avoid SJWs and their concerns.

I guess in the US hipsters will generally vote Democrat if they bother to vote, but in the UK hipsters are happy to vote for soft-right Conservatives like London mayor Boris Johnson and (I suspect) Zac Goldsmith. SJWS of course always vote Left.

Good points. Another thing to keep in mind is that SJWs want everyone to be exactly like them. They are forcefully evangelical.

Hipsters want to be cooler than everyone else. They need to stay one step ahead of the mainstream, so they idea of actively trying to make everyone act the same as them is an anathema.

That's OK. I'm sure wants to say thank you to 'Murica for saving his country's butt back in double you, double you, eye, eye.

Don't hate him because he has better beer than we do. He also lives in the place that gave the world One Direction. So really he deserves our pity.

Quote from: cranebump;852550Goddamnit! I wasted all that (stereo) typing!:-)

Stereo typing? You mean like this?