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

[NoReturn]

This gets crossposted here:
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Full credit to @GenociderSyo for finding this, and for those of you haven't been following her thread. She just bought two Christmas trees from Walmart because she didn't like her existing one and had them dashed to her house like a pizza delivery.

And now, current day rappers have replaced them with huge man purses, excessive nail polish and dyed hair styles with absurd looking dread locks.

Don't forget this thing:

https://twitter.com/bellaathoughts/status/1433037573622943746

Lmao. All of this to probably just look like a normal bitch.

 

[Pissmaster]

This gets crossposted here:
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Full credit to @GenociderSyo for finding this, and for those of you haven't been following her thread. She just bought two Christmas trees from Walmart because she didn't like her existing one and had them dashed to her house like a pizza delivery.

Don't forget this thing:
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Is literally every single new rapper mandated to have their stage name start with "Lil"? It's like they're all pumped out of the same factory with a random set of variables that are all a little different but effectively the same person over and over and over

 

[whogoesthere]

Would you say there's overlap with audiophiles in terms of audio woo like using gold cables or incredibly specific sorts of amps/pedals, the "listening to the speaker" rather than what comes out of it?

Have any examples of boomers filling rooms with guitars by any chance?

Yeah my cousin does. And its not just a wall of guitars, its triple rec, jcms, a selection of solid state amps, and a HUGE fucking pedal board with his 20 or some boxes. Not to mention preamps, strobe tuners. You name it, that daft cunt has bought it.

Then I just shred the fucking shit out of him with my 15 year old mid range guitar, plugged into some fucking amp from a brand I have never heard of, and 3 boxes. Oh and my tuner is the one I got 20 years ago for my birthday from my granny, works fine, cost 10 squid.

Guitarists are really bad for being gear sluts as some others have said. A lot of what they buy is not cheap either, some of those amps I mentioned run up past a grand in price, and thats for each part.

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

It has three large dog beds and lotion on the table.

I hate to break it to you but we all know why there's lotion on the table and it's not a female thing...

 

[Protistology]

I hate to break it to you but we all know why there's lotion on the table and it's not a female thing...

three large dog beds and lotion

not a female thing

You sweet summer child...

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Preferably DIY home automation by way of Arduinos or Raspberry Pis, though I'll watch people build just about anything.

Well I can't really help you there since that's not something I'm too interested in, but I can give you some building sugggestions.

>Colin Furze
>Primitive Technology
>That Works
>Boulder Creek Railroad/Luke Towan
>Grandpa Amu
>Grind Hard Plumbing Company
>Games Made of Cardboard
>Banjo Show
>Torbjörn Åhman

EDIT: Schurap is also pretty great

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

The part where she cuts up a book to make that awful garland for the tacky tree centerpiece made me moti

I think this is the same video where a lady cuts up a thrift store sweater to make a sad looking "stocking", cuts up vintage sheet music, and paints a fancy glaze vase basic white. I know America has an overabundance of stuff, but it's still sad to see people just wasting things instead of learning a real craft.

 

[Caligura]

https://twitter.com/bellaathoughts/status/1433037573622943746

Lmao. All of this to probably just look like a normal bitch.

The irony is that this was posted by some Muslim woman from Malaysia, lol.

Good luck with all those beauty products! But make sure skip on the hair products, you gotta cover it with that rag so it kinda defeats the purpose don't it? Oh who I am kidding, gonna hoard it anyways!

 

[DJ Grelle]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.

 

[Chris Mclean]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.
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Im watching the video and apperntly they have to wash the parts first? Like excuse me if im paying an almost a months salary for a model i except it to be perfect and prepared for me.

Im gonna guess most of this stuff is resin 3d printed which makes this sort of thing unacceptable. There was a human that looked at this and said ehh its ok.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.
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That lack of quality control is something I wouldn't be surprised to see in a cheap Chinese bootleg resin kit or one put out by a small team, but a big company that's charging $2300? Would be curious to see what the actually cost breakdown was behind them deciding that charging $2300 was okay and not them just pocketing a bunch of cash from big fans while putting in the bare minimum effort.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

That lack of quality control is something I wouldn't be surprised to see in a cheap Chinese bootleg resin kit or one put out by a small team, but a big company that's charging $2300? Would be curious to see what the actually cost breakdown was behind them deciding that charging $2300 was okay and not them just pocketing a bunch of cash from big fans while putting in the bare minimum effort.

The old joke regarding Games Workshop is that they abbreviate it GW all the time because that's how you're supposed to pronounce it: Jew.

Now the more serious, and less (maybe more depending on how you look at it) humorous, take is that this really isn't anything "new" for Games Workshop. GW is notorious, and has been for many years at this point, for acting in a way towards their customers and fans which could charitably be described as "disdainful" and uncharitably described as "openly malicious". Their minis are notoriously overpriced and the quality ranges from okay to sub-par, they love to curb stomp fan projects for using GW IPs, they constantly fuck over the people who play their games with powercreep and imbalanced codexes while simultaneously uppiing the prices on the newly buffed units, and they're trying to take fucking War Hammer forty god damned thousand of all things and trying to make it more "inclusive" and "palatable" to people of all ages.

I am not in the least bit surprised by this.

 

[Caligura]

The old joke regarding Games Workshop is that they abbreviate it GW all the time because that's how you're supposed to pronounce it: Jew.

Now the more serious, and less (maybe more depending on how you look at it) humorous, take is that this really isn't anything "new" for Games Workshop. GW is notorious, and has been for many years at this point, for acting in a way towards their customers and fans which could charitably be described as "disdainful" and uncharitably described as "openly malicious". Their minis are notoriously overpriced and the quality ranges from okay to sub-par, they love to curb stomp fan projects for using GW IPs, they constantly fuck over the people who play their games with powercreep and imbalanced codexes while simultaneously uppiing the prices on the newly buffed units, and they're trying to take fucking War Hammer forty god damned thousand of all things and trying to make it more "inclusive" and "palatable" to people of all ages.

I am not in the least bit surprised by this.

Didn't they make a Warhammer 40K kids book or something?

 

[celebrityskin]

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The irony is that this was posted by some Muslim woman from Malaysia, lol.

Good luck with all those beauty products! But make sure skip on the hair products, you gotta cover it with that rag so it kinda defeats the purpose don't it? Oh who I am kidding, gonna hoard it anyways!

This might be racist, but why is it always Asian women who are big on this type of thing?

I'm a guy and obviously couldn't care less about that shit, but occasionally I will for some reason see a video on instagram or tiktok about a woman hoarding an insane amount of beauty/skincare products, doing an incredibly lengthy beauty routine, doing some obscure skincare ritual etc. it will be an East/Southeast Asian woman every single time.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Didn't they make a Warhammer 40K kids book or something?

Yep, sure did.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

This might be racist, but why is it always Asian women who are big on this type of thing?

I'm a guy and obviously couldn't care less about that shit, but occasionally I will for some reason see a video on instagram or tiktok about a woman hoarding an insane amount of beauty/skincare products, doing an incredibly lengthy beauty routine, doing some obscure skincare ritual etc. it will be an East/Southeast Asian woman every single time.

Absurdly long skincare routines are just a thing in Asia, it might just be a cultural difference at this point rather than a trend but even that is partually due to the brands there and what they manage to convince you to buy. They tend to focus on skincare and then do very light, almost watercolour style makeup, Western styles tend to focus on heavier makeup, which happens to be a look you can achieve in fewer steps but you still get hoarders there.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Saw a car this afternoon that I wish I could have gotten a picture of for this thread. (By the time I thought about this thread we were two blocks away. My husband doesn’t really approve of the farms (lame), so I wasn't going to ask him to drive back around to take a picture for mocking here (I'm also lame))

White, Chevy something - that car they make that vaguely looks like those PT Cruisers? It had a giant Nintendo NES light gun decal stretched across the two doors on the side (each side) and an orange Nintendo logo on the back window.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Saw a car this afternoon that I wish I could have gotten a picture of for this thread. (By the time I thought about this thread we were two blocks away. My husband doesn’t really approve of the farms (lame), so I wasn't going to ask him to drive back around to take a picture for mocking here (I'm also lame))

White, Chevy something - that car they make that vaguely looks like those PT Cruisers? It had a giant Nintendo NES light gun decal stretched across the two doors on the side (each side) and an orange Nintendo logo on the back window.

This used to be a pretty common advertising tactic. People would get paid to cover their cars in a company logo for X amount of time and there's been people paid to get a brand logo tatoo but now you can never tell because a lot of people would just do it for free and would rather pay themselves to be living ads. Kinda like what you see on heavily botted sites, eventually real users will start behaving like the shill bots, for free.

Spoiler: Edit: cursed

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

This used to be a pretty common advertising tactic. People would get paid to cover their cars in a company logo for X amount of time and there's been people paid to get a brand logo tatoo but now you can never tell because a lot of people would just do it for free and would rather pay themselves to be living ads. Kinda like what you see on heavily botted sites, eventually real users will start behaving like the shill bots, for free.

Spoiler: Edit: cursed

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I've seen a couple wrapped cars around town that look like they are doing the advertising sponsorship thing. This was a car parked in someone's driveway which made me think fan boy rather than billboard. I'd think an adwrap would have a switch on it rather than an accessory for a 35-ish year old console.

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.
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Midwinter Minis had a problem with his titan weapon and GW sent a replacement to him, hell there's always making your own out of sprues, buying second hand, or use the chinaman.