actually this is a really good clarification of what I meant to say; my “hipstery” in this context was an attempt to signify “flighty and high functioning and non-commital,” which is exactly why I’m normally much more interested in a self-contained social game than actually committing to an RPG. I don’t think there’s necessarily a better way to signal “high engagement, low commitment” like that – “games for people with jobs” or “games with people with families” both have inflections I’m not crazy about (and if we conclude on this basis that SU&SD have become successful in part by demographically resembling the people in this hobby who have money, that should be held against them at least a bit), but it’s nonetheless squarely inside of my tastes and some distance from yours (which is also I think at least part of why we reacted differently to Sekiro). though we already agree that SU&SD have been really undermining their credibility even so.
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