The Portland pinball scene used to have a reputation for hard drinking (back when they were leading the pinball-in-bars revival, as vs. the midlife engineer w/cargo shorts and 8 machines in his basement then regnant), but that’s faded

Tourney that brought people from out of town this weekend though, and wow are the SF and Seattle scenes cocainey

Not in a yuppie or hipster or “I have this great idea for a screenplay” way, more scumbag “If this van’s a-rockin’ I’m listening to Dokken” aesthetics, though I’m sure there’s tech money behind it all