Guys, The Onion wrote a piece about Patrick

http://www.theonion.com/articles/dude-with-knit-hat-at-party-calls-beer-libations,32433/

I'm never sure how much I have to write here to avoid the thread getting locked. Is this enough? How about now? I really feel like the link and thread title are sufficient to kick off the discussion, but I know you can't just post links by themselves, so I'll keep typing.

Seriously though, for anyone who has watched Spookin' with Scoops, I think you'll understand why I brought this to everyone's attention.

What?

Oh. its a hipster article. I understand. I'll allow it.

I also like beer.

Sometimes, I wonder if I spend too much time reading this website.

Then I read a forum topic like this, and I think "Oh okay, whew. Still in jokes I don't know about."

I don't....

What?

uhhhhh......what?

@crosstheatlantic said:

The joke is that Patrick is a hipster and The Onion wrote a short piece mocking hipsters.

Not very inside baseball.

Well, I was giving it the benefit of the doubt that there was something in the article that referenced something Scoops directly said/did/whatever.

Now that's just disappointing.

Okay, sure. Someone tell me that the I.D. photo on Patrick's wiki page is real.

Boooooooo

That ID photo looks like he's the lead singer of a Streetheart covers bamd.

This is what I'm truly interested in.

Ditto.

kill me

Has no one else noticed that at the beginning of like every Spookin' with Scoops, Patrick makes a big deal out of pointing out that he is drinking some beer and refers to it as a libation? It's a pretty consistent pattern.

Come on, guys, I wouldn't post this if the only link were "Durr hurr hurr, they're both hipsters". I have standards.

*makes the sound of Jeff laughing when he makes a shit pun*

No.

Also, my boss likes to call alcoholic beverages Libations. Dude is not a hipster.

The id with that photo was shown in the Iceland video, no?

@c0l0nelp0c0rn1 said:

Your boss may not be a hipster, but Patrick 'Scoops' Klepek sure is.

Patrick must seem like a hipster to people who have never actually seen a hipster. Patrick lacks any large amount of irony about anything he does, and totally lacks the necessary eye-rolling cynical nihilism to be a hipster.

@toowalrus said:

I'm glad I wasn't the only one!

Boo.

Well, you get an F for trying at least.

Not everybody watches the feature. Hell, I'm not even sure when the last update on it was.

hipster is used all the time around here to describe just about everything

u wot

@video_game_king: Fair point. While the connection was immediately obvious to me because Patrick is the only person under 60 I've heard repeatedly say "libation", evidently people in this thread either don't watch that feature (it came back when a user sent Patrick a full PC a month or two back) or must not think "libation" is as rarely used as I think it is.

good one

I was expecting a headline along the lines of "First time ever: Disgruntled Giant Bomb community member makes thread about hating Patrick Klepek".

That's exactly what a Hipster would say!

@oraknabo said:

I totally don't hate Patrick at all!

But c'mon, he totally says libation(s) like every time he does a livestream of scary games.

slow news day, huh?

Booo-urns!

This.

I get the joke of the thread, but I guess I just also see the fun in using obscure words. Sure, I don't say "libation" specifically, but I cultivate my own idiosyncratic diction. Alright, maybe I'm laying it on a little thick there, but what Patrick does is no worse than Ryan's deliberately awkward pronunciations. I'm sure you've heard how that guy says "sword".

I got blocked from his twitter because he corrected some guys spelling of some word and then I called him on his weird "schvords" thing.
He also uses "fake/Incorrect/nonstandard" words like Irregardless for some reason.

But it's all fun and games.

@zeforgotten said:

I still believe that Ryan mispronouncing words as an affectation is 100% a smokescreen that Ryan thinks will distract from the fact that he is legitimately terrible at pronouncing most foreign words, and some more obscure English words. Not to pick on just Ryan, as Jeff isn't exactly Hemmingway either, but Jeff seems honest about situations where he doesn't know something, and I totally respect that, compared to what I perceive as Ryan trying to seem more knowledgeable than he really is.

I get it. Coloradi part made me laugh.

@bisonhero: Ryan is God. Best watch it here PLAYAH.

Nope, don't get it.

I'm stupid though so that might be on me

Huh, never actually thought of it that way.
Now that you mention it that would make at least more sense than him just doing it for the fun of it and all the laughs it gets.

@zeforgotten said:

No one said it couldn't be both. :P

I have a question: What is the definition for the word "hipster"?

@joey: Someone you get mad at because they appear to be having more fun than you are.

Its todays "emo". Those guys with jelly arms that walk around listening to pop indie music and wear ugly clothes and bad hair on purpose. They tend to crowd around random garbage hot glued together into "art" and consume large amounts of the weakest hot sauce ever invented.

I'm not a subscriber so I've never seen Spookin with Scoops so I didn't get the joke at all.

Yep, this thread could be locked and no one would be missing anything.

Good stuff.