What are all the cool gamers wearing?

[Storm Wolf]

This is what I will be wearing, however, I do not consider myself to be cool, wargamer or otherwise???

[Easy E]

I live in the West, so mostly flannels and cowboy hats in these here parts.......

[Rick]

Hmm. Socks, yes. Sandals, yes. But socks with sandals? No, one simply has to draw a line somewhere.

[HerbertTarkel]

I live in the West, so mostly flannels and cowboy hats in these here parts.......

Ever been to Calgary during Stampede? Halloween in July! Cosplay cowboys and cowgirls everywhere! Two weeks of the worst debauchery that you can imagine.

[Rick]

Ever been to Calgary during Stampede? Halloween in July! Cosplay cowboys and cowgirls everywhere! Two weeks of the worst debauchery that you can imagine.

Oh I don't know, I think I can imagine a whole load of debauch! 

[Storm Wolf]

Hmm. Socks, yes. Sandals, yes. But socks with sandals? No, one simply has to draw a line somewhere.

no, no and no, never together 

[Rick]

no, no and no, never together 

See, that's my point. Now you go and tell Herbert Tarkel that! 

[Storm Wolf]

See, that's my point. Now you go and tell Herbert Tarkel that! 

You can't help some people 

[Easy E]

Ever been to Calgary during Stampede? Halloween in July! Cosplay cowboys and cowgirls everywhere! Two weeks of the worst debauchery that you can imagine.

Out here, it is only half the people who are cos-playing.  The other half are actual cowboys........

However, we have similar festivals out here with similar results.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

All boots and hat but no cattle…

[Khusru2]

Snapchase wins it by a Sharpe length

[HerbertTarkel]

Out here, it is only half the people who are cos-playing.  The other half are actual cowboys........

However, we have similar festivals out here with similar results.

Yeah, there’s REAL cowboys and cattle here; and then there’s the O&G bros who never will get mud on their boots. None. Or their lifted monster trucks. It’s … embarrassing.

I used to live downtown, a walk from Stampede grounds, and one morning I see this dude - full mullet, chaps, vest (vintage!), boots (a cosplayer) - drinking a 1L bottle of milk on his way to the grounds. I got the most epic photo of him doing a gunslinger pose 

Dude’s day was just getting started. The milk was to coat the stomach from the night before 

[carlos marighela]

It seems we are to mourn the passing of the standard gamer uniform from years gone by. No sense of tradition. Where are the Metallica T-shirts worn with a West German parka or Luftwaffe greatcoat, the greasy hair and acne? Did the protective layer of chip grease and sauce stains break down under the constant attrition of years of unwashed body odour? If one was to wander near a GW shop, how would you be able to confidently spot a potential customer of their wares before they entered?

It was a fine uniform, emblematic of the wearer's disdain for convential norms of hygiene or diet, their complete lack of fine motor skills (passed off as a dislike of all sporting endeavours, particularly football) and a somewhat dank and sickly pallor that announced to the world 'I am an incel'. To those outside this band of illuminati it bore a warning not to closely approach them from down wind and certainly not to get within range of casual conversation. It was the very duffel coat and clipboard of the gaming world but with lower standards of personal grooming.

I suppose they have discovered the fine offerings of C&A, Target and Kmart these days. The only clue might be the slightly ridiculous pony tail stub that adorns what remains of their receding follicular glory atop their otherwise balding bonces.

By the by, I believe there is a UN convention that proscribes the wearing of socks with sandals by anyone other than an American on their holidays. Don't do it! It's an invitation to a well deserved mugging or worse. 

[Cory]

Ever been to Calgary during Stampede? Halloween in July! Cosplay cowboys and cowgirls everywhere! Two weeks of the worst debauchery that you can imagine.

They film the Yellowstone series where I am, so many fauxboys. Real catttle men wear Carhart.

[Cubs]

I don't really game or attend conventions, but I did pop round to the Penarth 'Crusade' show one year since it was a quick drive away. I was on my way to training after the show and wore one of my fancy shrink-wrap rugby tops that squeezes in all the embarrassing bits. I met Guy from WS&S for the first time (after having done a couple of articles for the magazine) and he said he was shocked because I looked nothing like he expected. I declined to mention the flattering effect of lycra sportswear on a squishy torso and took the win. And the room did smell like 2 week old warm pasties.