Steam user reviews aren't worth a fuck anymore

I'd make fun of you for not realizing, but today is a day of celebration

yesterday I was trying to be productive and I went straight from that to bed, totally forgot

woke up at noon today and jumped in this thread first thing

Steam's always been a bullshit way of determining what's good and isn't good.
Hell, the internet has always been a bullshit way of determining that. Especially with all the shill threads and paid viral advertising going on.

You know what the worst thing about shill threads is?

YOU'RE IN ONE

“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself.

It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker.

Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own).

You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you.

The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings.

Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.

tl;dr: if you believe hipsters exist, you are a pleb.

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I hate people that wear scarves year-round and thick black rim glasses. How's that?

are you hoping someone will screencap your epic reply