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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

>Not buying pump heads and using empty bottles for your dispensers
Get on my level.

>not just using dish soap bottles for everything since soap is soap
Get on my level.

 

[Vingle]

Found a funny video while looking through this shit.

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This is what animal crossing has turned into, millenial women who have loading screens give them "anxiety" and want the game to be worse off for it by advocating for keeping features from the previous installment removed in favor of the bullshit RNG mechanics.
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Lady fucking rambles NON-STOP for almost an hour. Vibe I get from this video, is tired af husbands which say "Yes, honey."

As somebody who started with Wild World this fucking confuses the hell out of me, to sound like a boomer, back in my day, you got the game and that was it, and you played it without needing or wanting anything else.

Started with WW myself, and it might be that their major customer base were kids at the time. Now we're more grown up and have dispensable income, that isn't managed by parents.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Hey, look what I found in recommended videos:

Spoiler: Beer cans and smurfs

What's going to happen to the "value" of collections/collecting when all the Boomers die?

Every now and then I watch Antiques Roadshow reruns, where they mark an amended modern value on the goods on a 20 year old show. Pop culture franchises from the early 20th century always go down, with a small exception for Wizard of Oz and sports shit.

One ep featured a little orphan Annie Halloween costume that I think went from $2000 down to $400. I think WOZ and most sports memorabilia will also go out with the boomers.

Yeah I noticed a lot of them had pretty nice drawing tablets in their setups as well, makes me curious as to whether or not they actually use them. To actually contribute to the thread for a change instead of just typing out a wall of text I present to you manga hoarders. I used to want a collection like these, but I could never justify it to myself. With the exception of rereading parts of JoJo part 3 and most of berserk I don't think I've extensively read any physical manga; any manga I've read has been digital.

A common theme among most of them is the fact that they haven't read a good portion of what they have on their shelves. "Oh I'm 5 volumes behind on this manga, on to the the next one! Oh I'm 3 volumes behind on this manga, on to the next one!" I don't know how they juggle so many storylines, it would be a bit more understandable if they were reading weekly serializations. If manga wasn't so easily and widely available online I could see a justification for owning a large collection like those depicted above, but it is, so owning 700 volumes of manga makes little practical sense. I suppose the one argument I could stomach for massive collections like these are that they prefer the book in their hands vs digital, I personally prefer actual books in my hand to ebooks, but manga are mostly pictures so I don't have the same issues.


I fucking hated Haruhi, specifically season 2; the time loop bullshit literally made me want to kms, and to this day I've never finished the show or bothered with the movie.

I wonder if these guys who spent thousands on newsprint books and Ikea cardboard bookshelves call in an exterminator every month, or if most of those books have silverfish damage to the edges.

Re: people spending thousands on bootleg designer goods. It reminds me of old livejournal buy/sell groups, and how there was always a scammer desperately trying to sell the used bootleg CDs/DVDs they had wasted a small fortune on. Once you've spent money on bootlegs, it's just gone. Nobody wants to buy a secondhand bootleg. If you don't have much money, don't buy anything, much less bootlegs.

 

[Elysian]

Re: people spending thousands on bootleg designer goods. It reminds me of old livejournal buy/sell groups, and how there was always a scammer desperately trying to sell the used bootleg CDs/DVDs they had wasted a small fortune on. Once you've spent money on bootlegs, it's just gone. Nobody wants to buy a secondhand bootleg. If you don't have much money, don't buy anything, much less bootlegs.

I agree with the sentiment that spending money you don’t have - especially on bootlegs - is retarded, but r/Repladies has a sister subreddit called r/RepladiesBST where people buy and sell these things secondhand that seems to be doing quite well for itself. Good quality fakes are still several hundos, meaning that there’s a market for secondhand ones that are slightly cheaper than buying them brand new. And if you buy something from a consoomer with a fuckload of bags it’s probably gonna be like new since they’ll have barely used the fucking thing.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Personally it feels like a lot of the popularity for things like cottagecore or similar are from people that don't have easy access to nature in their daily life, which I do think is quite sad. Feels like people get a bit wonky when they're in a location almost entirely disconnected from nature. That said, a lot of them also develop unrealistic expectations and seem really unprepared for actual nature when faced with it.

There's a lot of anime that focuses on interacting respectfully with nature that does help people actually go outside and experience it for themselves which I do think is nice, but you also have a number of people that attempt it and get pissy it isn't just like their animu. I think Yuru Camp is a good example where it did get people interested in camping and finding a new hobby, but it also lead to a number of people not understanding the realities of camping getting upset at the experience or in the more extreme causing forest fires.

Spoiler: Legendary /out/ thread

 

[Vingle]

Spoiler: Legendary /out/ thread

It's really bad, but at the same time. I hope it was him.
Its a mixed feeling situation

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I can't really see how consoomers in Venezuela or North Korea would be a thing

Why don't you ask the upper class there.

 

[whitepumpkin]

I think Yuru Camp is a good example where it did get people interested in camping and finding a new hobby, but it also lead to a number of people not understanding the realities of camping getting upset at the experience or in the more extreme causing forest fires.

People not understanding forest fires drives me a bit crazy because that's related to my job. But what drives me even crazier is those idiots who START them, either due to negligence or just plain ol' ignorance. Most fires I've logged in my career have been human-related. So cigarettes, campfires, ATVs (hot exhaust + grass = wildfire), burn barrels, etc. It goes on. And every single time it's been a pain in the ass to deal with. A couple hectares isn't too expensive, maybe about... $50,000+, but if gets way out of control?



1.4 million acres, baby. And $9.9 Billion.
Soak your campfire, stir the ashes with a stick, and soak it again. It takes a 2 second google search to know that.

Fun fact, though. Well, for my area. If you're convicted for starting a wildfire, you have to pay the full cost of the fire, which usually exceeds millions of dollars if it gets out of control. And I don't think anyone has a funko pop collection worth that much to cover it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Food & Lifestyle,

Lifestyle branding is the beginning of Consumer Culture.

God, the Devil and Bob was right. Martha Stewart is worse than Satan.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

People not understanding forest fires drives me a bit crazy because that's related to my job. But what drives me even crazier is those idiots who START them, either due to negligence or just plain ol' ignorance. Most fires I've logged in my career have been human-related. So cigarettes, campfires, ATVs (hot exhaust + grass = wildfire), burn barrels, etc. It goes on. And every single time it's been a pain in the ass to deal with. A couple hectares isn't too expensive, maybe about... $50,000+, but if gets way out of control?

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1.4 million acres, baby. And $9.9 Billion.
Soak your campfire, stir the ashes with a stick, and soak it again. It takes a 2 second google search to know that.

Fun fact, though. Well, for my area. If you're convicted for starting a wildfire, you have to pay the full cost of the fire, which usually exceeds millions of dollars if it gets out of control. And I don't think anyone has a funko pop collection worth that much to cover it.

The map you show is in Canada, so I assume this paying for the entire cost is regional Canadian thing? Since Canada is pretty liberal and loves identity politics more than it’s Southern Neighbor, if the fire is started by a gender reveal party, do you still have to pay or do you get a signed congratulations letter from Ottawa?

 

[whitepumpkin]

if the fire is started by a gender reveal party, do you still have to pay or do you get a signed congratulations letter from Ottawa?

You'd probably have to pay because you disrupted China's resource siphoning, and as we all know, that's who truly runs the country.

Better hide your Winnie the Pooh collections if you're canadian. They will not be tolerated.

 

[Haffhart]

The villagers were my favorite part of the old games and one of the reasons New Horizons was so dissapointing, not only were they just, better in the older games, but they had more than 5 lines of dialogue.

Also @whitepumpkin cuz no reply button

Some more good ol fashioned AC rudeness:

Spoiler

And this is just from Wild World, mind.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

That's why medium and above sized towns are unironically kino. You get the community element of a town where it's small enough for people to know you, have most of the perks of living in a city (fast broadband, delivery services etc.) and typically you're in a decent position to drive to somewhere scenic whenever you want. It's like when people go on holiday and their place is magical and decide they want to live there, but the longer you stay in a place the more the illusion breaks as you realise conveniences don't exist.

Personally I'd love to live the rest of my life in Prague but understand that there's a LOT of things I take for granted that would be lost if ever I moved there, and that's a European capital city, imagine trying to move to some Hawaiian island or some tropical beach resort?

Yout won't get any 'community element' in fucking Prague, it's full of bugmen and green khmers. The best you could do is some neighborhood that's not been annexed for too long, but it's just a question of time till the bugmen and the retards that move there because they want to be in ~ the city ~ ruin it too. But only if your family already lived there for generations. If you're new you're scum and will only socialize with other new-scum. Property prices are already through the roof. Fuck this shit

 

[Medicinal Molduga]

Useless accumulation of stuff, pet edition:

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Useless accumulation of stuff, pet edition:

Why bother? The cat's just gonna love playing with the box and the packing material better anyways.

 

[melty]

(This once includes the Pokemon oreos, and "the aesthetic" at 2:52)

The all white cooking utensils made me cringe. Somebody has never cooked tomato sauce.

Useless accumulation of stuff, pet edition:

Most cats don't like clothes or being put in those stupid bubble backpacks. Stop pretending your cat is a dog and get a dog or a kid if you want something to dress up and take everywhere.

 

[Pirx]

Personally I'd love to live the rest of my life in Prague but understand that there's a LOT of things I take for granted that would be lost if ever I moved there, and that's a European capital city, imagine trying to move to some Hawaiian island or some tropical beach resort?

Out of curiosity, what do you have in mind in terms of things that you think you would miss out on in Prague?
I come from a city 1/4th the size of Prague in a "poor" par of Europe and I can not come up with anything it's "missing". From high speed Internet and Amazon prime, through higher education and entertainment (restaurants, theatres, full size concert/opera hall with really good local symphonic orchestra) up to and including a proper airport, everything seems to be here? Hell I picked up my yankee car from a local dealer. And it only took 30 mins on the (fantastic) public transport to reach the lot despite it being on the other side of the town.

Granted if you wanted to buy a Porsche or a Chanel bag in person then you'd need to drive to the next major city over which is about 3 hours... Or 2 hours if you can stand sitting with the proles on the high speed direct train (which in turn I heard a lot of the US is missing).

Circling back the topic, I've seen several tiktoks of people taking that 4hr round-trip by train just to film themselves *browsing* in the Chanel or Vuitton store... Sure they must know now one is believing they're buying bags worth their yearly salary but it must be that the ~~sugar baby aesthetic~~ has arrived here as well.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

For those unfamiliar:

See also, Liziqi:

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There it is again, that weird "This doesn't count" feeling.
I had to look it up (thanks Yandex) and found this thing is a "Diane Husson faux bois whirlwind chair" and it's made of concrete.
Here's how the artist herself describes her work: "In my world, each piece of furniture tells long forgotten tales of distant mountains, mysterious seas and secret gardens yet to be discovered."
Which, great, and I'll admit a lot of care clearly goes into her pieces, but there's this niggling feeling under my eyes that it's all wrong. There is no place where there exists a "real" version of that chair. The chair is a copy of an idea of a thing that doesn't exist, or never existed.

been reading Tolkien? yeah, her chair exists in færie, a platonic chair.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Out of curiosity, what do you have in mind in terms of things that you think you would miss out on in Prague?

Tbh I mean more in the way of moving entirely out of the country basically puts a nice red line between me and dozens of friend groups I've built up over the years because I can't just hop on a train to go meet them. Also as a britbong I'm actually kinda fond of the NHS and cheap prescriptions. Then there's the whole culture shock in the differences of wages between the pound and the krona. There's lots of first world things (sorry europoors) that I take for granted that would immediately be cut the moment I moved there and the effects wouldn't come into play for a few months.

If I won the lottery and was fully 100% autistic and didn't care about anyone but myself I'd be on a plane there before you could say Dobry den.

 

[NoReturn]

Most cats don't like clothes or being put in those stupid bubble backpacks. Stop pretending your cat is a dog and get a dog or a kid if you want something to dress up and take everywhere.

Holy christ yes. The people who think cats are like some weird variation of a dog drive me up the wall. That goes for people who like cats, and those that don't. If you don't like cats on their own merits that's fine, just a matter of personal opinion; but if you don't like cats because you compare them to dogs, that's dumb.

Spoiler: Cat product sperg

Most cats will not enjoy the bubble backpacks because they feel trapped and exposed. If you really want to get your cat a bubble backpack, get the ones with a porthole.

It's still not ideal, but I do know some cats who prefer them to a normal carrier if they just need to go to the vet or something. They're softer than a plastic carrier, and because they're taller than they are wide, it can make the kitty feel like s/he has the option of standing up or lying down.

been reading Tolkien? yeah, her chair exists in færie, a platonic chair.