Binders are just hipster clerics

[Innis Cabal]

They're doing it ironically.

[candycorn]

The only thing I never got about hipster jokes was why they use Apple products and go to Starbucks. That's way too mainstream.

It's part of the founding ethos. Hipsters hung out in coffee shops and used Macs before either was really big.

Go back 15 years, and you won't see a coffee bar on every street corner. Back then, apple was used by people who scoffed at those IBM-compatible fools with their viruses and their plethora of different programs and games.

[Eldan]

Don't they use Linux now? I mean, they should. Now Linux is the thing with no programs and games on it.

[Tengu_temp]

Don't they use Linux now? I mean, they should. Now Linux is the thing with no programs and games on it.

Only now?

[Eldan]

I mean now that Apple products got a bit better in that regard.

[Cespenar]

In case a few people missed it.

[Yora]

The only thing I never got about hipster jokes was why they use Apple products and go to Starbucks. That's way too mainstream.

Havn't you seen the apple ads? Apple is for individualists who refuse to bow to the monopoly of microsoft.

[Tyndmyr]

Sell out.

Well, I don't like to use the phrase "sell out". I mean, I used it before it was cool, but it's kind of gone public now. It's sold out.

[Eldan]

Hating things for selling out is so early 00s.

[Natael]

Hating things for selling out is so early 00s.

Now I hate bands before they even form, just to be sure.

[Darth Stabber]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTbwCsjN4Ek

Hits most of the tropes.

[Gullintanni]

Havn't you seen the apple ads? Apple is for individualists who refuse to bow to the monopoly of microsoft.

Mainstream lite. For the Hipster with commitment issues.

[Doc Roc]

Sell out.

Mammon is always hip.

[Gametime]

The only thing I never got about hipster jokes was why they use Apple products and go to Starbucks. That's way too mainstream.

Because hipsters are nothing if not hilariously self-unaware.

[stainboy]

If binders are hipsters, warlocks are mall goths. Tell me this outfit was not purchased at Hot Topic.

Binder: "Yeah, I'm into black magic. Nothing you've heard of though."

Warlock: "Dude, me too! Have you heard of Eldritch Blast???"

[electricbee]

I want to be a hipster bard whose music only has power so long as no one listening has heard it before.

[SPoD]

"Oh, you know. He's not from here, he actually lives out side the multiverse. So, yeah. He doesn't really have worshippers right now, so I let him crash in my soul, but he's totally cool."

See, now this just makes me think that the binder is like the guy in high school who claims he has a totally hot girlfriend who lives in Canada, so no, you don't know her.

[Darth Stabber]

The hornrimmed glasses give a +2 bonus to be seen (or scene as the case may be)

[Gettles]

I want to be a hipster bard whose music only has power so long as no one listening has heard it before.

What, will you refuse to listen to (and thus gain any benefits from) any other bard who doesn't have max ranks in Profession(Waiter)

[Ormur]

I was making hipster jokes before you even knew what a hipster was.

[Eldan]

Hmm. If I ever found a band (unlikely), I'll sell out ironically.

I think I'll also buy a totally sarcastic 27 room villa and an ironic private jet.

[tiercel]

Oh yeah, I used to think about playing a binder, but that was before they got all popular. Now I just play this obscure Truenamer PrC, you've probably never heard of it, I got it at my local gaming store as part of a limited run of Dragon mags that got recalled and then reprinted, but I got one, and, man, it's like even more outside the tier system than Truenamer, and....

[SiuiS]

The only thing I never got about hipster jokes was why they use Apple products and go to Starbucks. That's way too mainstream.

Which is sort of the point. Who has time to self evaluate, when there are people who are making decisions for themselves and are going un-mocked?

Mammon is always hip.

Zing!

[mabriss lethe]

I'm just going to point out that the warlock pic looks more like a member of Judas Priest.

[AslanCross]

Do they also drink Pabst's Azure Cordon potions?

[Knaight]

Cleric: "You siphon power from a water spirit?"

Binder: "I was into tributaries before they were mainstream."

[The-Mage-King]

Knaight, I am going to punch you for that.

Hold still.

[Knaight]

Knaight, I am going to punch you for that.

Hold still.

[IthroZada]

Cleric: "You siphon power from a water spirit?"

Binder: "I was into tributaries before they were mainstream."

Oh god, win.

[gomipile]

"Oh, you know. He's not from here, he actually lives out side the multiverse. So, yeah. He doesn't really have worshippers right now, so I let him crash in my soul, but he's totally cool."

That would be a bohemian cleric.