@FirePuff
Hey, we sorta traded places, almost. I moved here from Oklahoma City about five years ago. I've wanted to move to Austin for a couple years now. One of these days.
You're right about the gaming industry here. It's mostly local indie folks that are making arthaus games; nothing at all like Bioware or anything. I used to live across the street from that Leftbank studio just before the Broadway Bridge, and when I would go out to smoke, I'd talk to a really nice couple that were talking about starting up an indie gaming company to reinvigorate the adventure game genre (like Monkey's Island and shit). This was pre-Telltale Games Walking Dead, so I don't know what happened with that.
That mentality does kinda get into you a bit, though. Like I've even come to start having a knee-jerk reaction if someone with California plates pulls in front of me, like FUCKING CARPETBAGGERS, GO HOME. There's a really good exploration of that mentality in a book called Wiser (and the author was recently interviewed on the Daily Show) about how groupthink can affect your logic in certain situations.
@Luna -- Some of the things in Portlandia aren't too out of bounds. Obviously the mayor doesn't have random citizens helping him out with day-to-day business, but nuggets of truth. I dated this waitress over the summer (who was hardcore into indie music, had full sleeve tattoos and 2" gauged ears, naturally) who did have customers asking about how the animals were treated and whether they lived a good life.
There are a collection of RL peeves for me illustrated in the above. I hate the terms liberal or conservative (in reference to the book that I mentioned) because it's a limiting factor and drives an ideological wedge into your thought processes on how you react to things; I really hate it when people apparently try to make themselves feel better by eating "cruelty-free" food, because there's a good chance they'll eat it regardless and you don't know if someone's lying, plus dying isn't particularly humane; and I'm not a fan of artist collectives that charge an exorbitant fee for the sake of you living among them in a shitty loft.