You're right. I really don't have a problem with them either- until they start to turn their nose up at me. My posts only reflect my feelings toward those.

My best buddy is a hipster (not if you ask him) and he's the best kind.

Like all stereotyped groups, it's the extremes that get focused on.

The more pinball fans, the better!

I think I may be a hipster in some ways. I do collect old things that everyone has forgotten. I have an enormous vinyl collection, but think cd's obviously have better sound. And I restore pinball machines and EM games. Upon reading this thread I see people are under the delusion that pinball is the new 'in' thing right now, but it's not. It's only 'in' with all of us pin addicts, but 99.8% of the rest of the world hasn't seen a pinball machine in 20 years, or if under 30 has never played one unless someone like us introduced them to it. It may be a novelty to them, where it's a religion to us.
I don't know, I just never liked what everyone else likes. When everyone was into disco, I liked hard rock. When everyone went sugar-free, I preferred real sugar. I always went against the grain. You can be that way and not be a douche about it. There are douches in every walk of life, in every hobby, in every field. It's just that now the internet has made a million times more know-it-all douches than ever before.
I truly don't get the mustache/tight pants thing though.

I feel like you're not a true hipster until you take on/express a condescending/elitist attitude about it. Which seems to me like it got more recently stirred up with the indie music scene where people looked down on you for liking a band after they got a record deal and started making money. Or they would talk about bands no one had heard of and pride themselves on listening to them because they were so un-mainstream.

Hating everything that's modern and in-style is fine until it becomes the modern and in-style thing to do. At that point the real hipster starts liking the Jonas brothers because it's counter to the counter culture. An identity based on not being a mirror image has no identity when there's nothing to not be a reflection of. Nothing wrong with liking what you like, even if it happens to be against the grain.