Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

NoReturn said:
Why watch YouTube recaps when you cat watch YouTube recaps with clickbait titles?

Saberspark is hit or miss, but this video decently covers the topic. Gatcha discussion starts around the 27 minute mark.
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I'll give the clickbait movie man this, at least he gets to the point and speaks quickly unlike 99% of these content mills. Other than that, get the hell out of my recommended.

As for saber's video, mobile games have been ruined from the start, or pretty close to it. There was a small time period when the iphone was new where cool webtoys and other nonsense made it's way onto mobiles but since a couple years after that it's been purely downhill and has only become more insane from random non-western developers just dumping crap onto the stores from a million fly by night corporations. Even one of the two in the thumbnail is Clash Of Clans, a notoriously money grubbing titan from a very successful studio in the indsutry that is just a grindfest, and to top it off it's basically the fault of why mobile gaming is almost entirely cookie cutter civbuilding shit.
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Thats like solving a roach problem by burning down your house. If it comes down to it , i'd take soyboys lining up for nintendo than everyone lining up for bread that might not even be available at all.
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More like solving the problem by nuking your entire neighborhood.
 
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Toolbox said:
I'll give the clickbait movie man this, at least he gets to the point and speaks quickly unlike 99% of these content mills. Other than that, get the hell out of my recommended.

As for saber's video, mobile games have been ruined from the start, or pretty close to it. There was a small time period when the iphone was new where cool webtoys and other nonsense made it's way onto mobiles but since a couple years after that it's been purely downhill and has only become more insane from random non-western developers just dumping crap onto the stores from a million fly by night corporations. Even one of the two in the thumbnail is Clash Of Clans, a notoriously money grubbing titan from a very successful studio in the indsutry that is just a grindfest, and to top it off it's basically the fault of why mobile gaming is almost entirely cookie cutter civbuilding shit.

More like solving the problem by nuking your entire neighborhood.
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Mobile games were fundamentally fucked right out the gate, because a one-time $0.99 payment is not a sustainable price for a game unless you’re a one-man team making games for fun in your free time, yet it’s the most many people are willing to pay up-front because it’s what we’ve been conditioned to accept as the “standard” price for an app, due to most apps being 99 cents when the App Store first rolled out.

With PC games, devs add microtransactions because they’re greedy. With mobile games, the microtransaction model was basically required to survive.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
1984 videogame crash was a fucking meme.

It affected zero of PC game development because Atari was nowhere near that sector.

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was alive in well in Europe before the NES even came to market, continued to have games released for it all throughout the NES's lifespan (the NES never really took root there at all) and the ZX Spectrum lasted until 1993.

So you have multiple avenues that existed for games already that were not touched by Atari's gay bullshit at all. And if the NES was entirely absent you would have just gotten games from another source. You would either be importing shit from the UK to game or you would be gaming on a PC.
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It definitely happened in the USA and in Japan it was referred to as the "Atari shock" because of the company most responsible for the fuckery going on. Also after playing ZX Specturm games I'd rather the industry crash than have to play another shitty game on that thing. People played consoles, but hey, after the crash you could buy a bunch of games for cheap, so it wasn't bad on the consumer side. (There was also this little thing called the Commodore 64 that you got a discount on if you traded in a video game console in for it, which caused people to just buy new consoles for cheap and trade them in to get half off the price of a C64.) There were also some real stinkers like the Atari 5200 (consolized Atari 8 bit computer with controllers that tended to badly malfunction) - and publishers would publish their games on any number of consoles and computers at the same time, making it so that there weren't any real exclusives and you may as well just have a computer to play vidya on. Nintendo really did save the console industry in North America.

I wish I could consoom a lot of retro gaming crap but I don't have enough room for a poorly engineered Coleco Adam (itself a victim of the crash - instead of actually doing something useful with the console, Coleco used its Cabbage Patch and Colecovision money to make a shittily engineered computer), any number of glorified Pong consoles, or, hell, a Vectrex.
 
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Itterasshai said:
Weddings in total had been perverted into consumer extravaganza a long time ago. Consume a dress that will be worn only once. Consume a cake with ridiculous amounts of fondant. Consume a gaudy oversized ring. Take a loan to rent a restaurant for a day and to fund a honeymoon trip. Start married life with negative funds and pray there will be no divorce in a few years that will make it all look like a giant waste of money.
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Well you've just described weddings in my country. Just subtract the cake, then add shitloads of BBQ and 500 guests into mix
 
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FUTUREMAN said:
Well you've just described weddings in my country. Just subtract the cake, then add shitloads of meat and 500 guests into mix
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You see that a lot in latin America. Quinceañeras and big extravagant weddings are how normally responsible people and very often super conservative types end up crippled finantially to the point that sometimes they never recover. They'd rather take the massive hit and even sell their cars or property if they have to because of some sense of duty to their family and their reputation. Is lunacy honestly, if you are gonna live like a monk to save money for years at least spend that shit in something worthwhile, not blowing it over a single day just to show off to other poorfags in a pathetic ego trip.
 
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Kujo Jotaro said:
So are YA books just as generic and predictable as Harem anime? That's what I'm getting from these tik toks, they even come with their own paragraph long subtitles too!
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Pretty much, except atleast these YA books tend to not develop a retarded fanbase unlike harem anime. Though that may be because nobody wants to read said books because they're probably shit.
BootlegPopeye said:
I feel like we're headed for a 1983-4 style video game crash, and in some ways it's the same reason - a proliferation of shit. I am tired of mobile game shovelware, not just on mobile but also on Nintendo's store and steam.
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We've been long overdue for a video game crash, honestly.
 
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RainbowStarlight said:
OK, rate me MOTI but those over the top reactions to plastic shit like that make me irrationally irritated.
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They're going to be thrown in a drawer and never used again.

The reactions have to be put on for the camera, the high of consooming diminishes just like any other drug and your 500th flea market tier plastic trinket isn't going to have the same effect as the first. The dopamine hit becomes barely a blip, then a necessity just to feel normal for a brief moment.
 
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Lapis Lazuli said:
Pretty much, except atleast these YA books tend to not develop a retarded fanbase unlike harem anime. Though that may be because nobody wants to read said books because they're probably shit.
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Not really, it's just that the YA/female brand of autism is marginally different (if not YA books since let's be honest that's fallen out of style ages ago, then generally fictional media that appeals to teen/YA girls and rarely if ever men.) Fangirls will mostly contain themselves in their own spaces (or at least they used to, IDK what the kids consider normal fangirl behavior now but back in my day you'd keep that shit to yourself because you knew it's weird.) Sure they'll write and draw smut, heaps of it, but it's not nearly as degenerate as the hentai dudebros.
 
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Lapis Lazuli said:
Pretty much, except atleast these YA books tend to not develop a retarded fanbase unlike harem anime. Though that may be because nobody wants to read said books because they're probably shit.
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Here's an 81 page thread documenting the batshit insane fanbase YA books attracted. There's not actually a lot of young adults, it's late 20s-30s cat ladies. I wouldn't really call most of them consoomer even if they read (or claim to) most new YA releases, they're of a different sort of batshit insane.
RandallBoggs said:
Fangirls will mostly contain themselves in their own spaces (or at least they used to, IDK what the kids consider normal fangirl behavior now but back in my day you'd keep that shit to yourself because you knew it's weird.) Sure they'll write and draw smut, heaps of it, but it's not nearly as degenerate as the hentai dudebros.
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Really? Back in the day the fangirls were the chicks who brought "yaoi paddles" to anime conventions, sexually harassed men (or women) dressed as their favorite character, demanded voice actors sign their favorite R18 yaoi pictures, and drew all sorts of mpreg art.
Lapis Lazuli said:
Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are classified as children's books.
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Harry Potter started as children's books but Book 4 onwards are like 700-800 pages and deal with YA themes like romance angst and have more violence. Sounds pretty YA to me.
 
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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
You see that a lot in latin America. Quinceañeras and big extravagant weddings are how normally responsible people and very often super conservative types end up crippled finantially to the point that sometimes they never recover. They'd rather take the massive hit and even sell their cars or property if they have to because of some sense of duty to their family and their reputation. Is lunacy honestly, if you are gonna live like a monk to save money for years at least spend that shit in something worthwhile, not blowing it over a single day just to show off to other poorfags in a pathetic ego trip.
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This is a real show:
Save the Loli said:
Really? Back in the day the fangirls were the chicks who brought "yaoi paddles" to anime conventions, sexually harassed men (or women) dressed as their favorite character, demanded voice actors sign their favorite R18 yaoi pictures, and drew all sorts of mpreg art.
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IIRC there was a story a long time ago about either the voice actor for Zim or for Gir being harassed in a restaurant after being on Invader Zim by crazy fangirls. It was kind of a cultural turning point because before that people only really thought of live-action actors as being subjected to that shit, but seeing it happen to a VA was the canary in the coal mine.
Toolbox said:
I was wondering how it worked for a second and then realized she puts a magnet under her shirt. Is that really it? Watch her use this thing just for this video then it just sits on a shelf for the rest of her life.
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and on that same note:
 
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Lapis Lazuli said:
Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are classified as children's books.
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I see them often classified as "middle grade" but is like talking about grindcore and deathcore.

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MTV Latam used to run that exact same show in late 00s but was called "quiero mis 15 (i want my 15)" ". It generated massive ammount of butthurt because everyone hated the rich girls they choosed, i think getting people to hatewatch was the intention in classic reality tv style . There was at least one episode that i know off that took place in my city (Caracas), i actually knew people who went to that party.
 
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I was looking up shit related to 3DS piracy and came across this redditor on /r/3ds:

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If you aren't aware, each Pokemon game comes in 2 versions that only differ by a few exclusive pokemons to encourage trading, so he essentially bought the same game (that he won't play since he wants it sealed) twice multiple times.
The guy then said that he hasn't enjoyed a Pokemon game since Platinum.

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So yeah, this guy bought sealed duplicate copies of a dozen games he doesn't even enjoy and received 1142 upvotes and a Reddit Gold™ for it.

Link.
 
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