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

[mr.moon1488]

Troydan bought all of those UFC games and a modded original XBOX just to get a knockout in the video game.

> 40-minute video
EA has killed the sports video game industry and raped the corpse.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

Don't forget:
>Laptop stickers
>Gun stickers
>Phone stickers
>Stickers in general

You're not wrong. People love stickers and would even buy £2+ stickers of a popular character. Just go on Etsy and type [game, anime, TV show, etc] stickers and get lots of overpriced vinyl with a pretty picture on it.

The thing is with stickers is if you make it yourself at home, it costs around £10 for 20 sheets of vinyl (50p per sheet). Each sheet can hold around 18 6-7cm stickers. 50p÷20 (rounded up)=2.5p per sticker.
Sell the sticker for £1.50 (or more depending on demand) and that's an insane profit margin coupled with the high demand. It's serious business.

If you want quality, companies like StickerApp can get high quality stickers printed, with options for holographic effects for 35p-45p per sticker and that's still excellent profit.

 

[WULULULULU]

You're not wrong. People love stickers and would even buy £2+ stickers of a popular character. Just go on Etsy and type [game, anime, TV show, etc] stickers and get lots of overpriced vinyl with a pretty picture on it.

The thing is with stickers is if you make it yourself at home, it costs around £10 for 20 sheets of vinyl (50p per sheet). Each sheet can hold around 18 6-7cm stickers. 50p÷20 (rounded up)=2.5p per sticker.
Sell the sticker for £1.50 (or more depending on demand) and that's an insane profit margin coupled with the high demand. It's serious business.

If you want quality, companies like StickerApp can get high quality stickers printed, with options for holographic effects for 35p-45p per sticker and that's still excellent profit.

Thanks for reminding me of WaifuDynamics and the autistic gun sperg community that loves to buy colorful stickers into guns. Its like the people haven't learned from CS:GO's gun customization and decided to apply their fetishes in real life.

 

[TheBeanz]

Couponing also has elements of "winning" and gaming the system. It's the extreme version of people who'll but things they don't particularly want because they're deeply discounted and it makes them feel like they're getting one over on the shop. They've never heard the advice that 20% off is 80% on, you're not saving money unless it's something you were planning on buying anyway.

Couponing is almost the flipside to rampant consooming. Having met people absolutely obsessed with saving money and using a coupon for everything, I can imagine the MoneySavingExpert forum to be an absolute hive of untapped autism.

 

[Finder]

I'm not shocked at this point, but apparently even computer mice are consoom material to some people.

 

[Medicinal Molduga]

Some more adults collecting toys in rooms that are impossible to dust:

Kawaii insanity explosion

Harry Potter cave

Action figures hoarder

 

[Pissmaster]

Went to Target earlier, and:


Who buys these kinds of things? It's just the shapes on the face buttons.

Their lighting effect isn't even evenly lit around the thing. The build quality is terrible, too, it was all creaky and felt less rigid than most plastic packaging. And it's thirty bucks, Jeez.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Went to Target earlier, and:
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Who buys these kinds of things? It's just the shapes on the face buttons.

A legion of tards who think it’s gonna be so clever to use it “ironically”.

 

[Jones McCann]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collection...nster_energy_collection_47_different_cans_in/ - Monster cans?

Oh boy..

I once saw somebody's can collection was displayed by being hot glue gunned to their wall, doesn't harm the can or the wall and the glue from a hot glue gun just peels right off easily. It looked really cool, didn't use any shelf space, and you could see all of their cans. Also filled up some of that ugly blank wall. That's the thing that bothers me are blank walls. The worst is if you go to somebody's house and they have nothing hanging up on any of the walls at all, no pictures, no posters, no art, nothing. Nice collection by the way

Those damn ugly, blank walls. Better to spice them up by gluing empty drink cans on them.

 

[Something Awful]

A legion of tards who think it’s gonna be so clever to use it “ironically”.

How would one use it "ironically"?

They are iconic shapes that were part of a lot of people's childhoods. And since they're just basic shapes, it looks a lot less obnoxious and more tasteful that many other "gamer" accessories. I wouldn't buy it, but I think it's fine as a kind of ambient mood lighting thing.

 

[Pissmaster]

Oh boy..

Those damn ugly, blank walls. Better to spice them up by gluing empty drink cans on them.

The hot glue will leave residue and/or and pull paint off.

And speaking of can collecting, a Pissmaster Secret: I used to do that, but threw them out a while ago. Some of them were unopened and leaked, and several-year-old soda is not fun to clean off of a wooden shelf. And something creepy: I had a bunch of those Halo 3 Mountain Dew cans. Remember those?



I cracked one open and tried it before I threw them out. This was maybe around mid-late 2019, I think? So they were 12 years old, and, uh, they tasted... fine. Like, not as carbonated as they once were, of course, but the flavor was pretty much what it was when they were new. How many preservatives must they have been loaded with to stay good for that long?

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

I'm not shocked at this point, but apparently even computer mice are consoom material to some people.

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It is the same kind of autism that prevails amongst mechanical keyboard enthusiasts hoarders.

I can understand wanting to own a nice keyboard and/or mouse, and maybe a couple spares, but when you own over a dozen of those peripherals, maybe it's time to stop and think what you are doing, realistically speaking you won't need a dozen of mechanical keyboards, you just won't live long enough to use them all.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Look at all those gimped keyboards, they completely took the numpad off for no reason.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

And what do you gain from a mechanical keyboard anyways? They really aren't any better except for anoying the piss out of everyone else around/playing with you with the constant clicking that can be heard eve through voice coms.

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

It is the same kind of autism that prevails amongst mechanical keyboard enthusiasts hoarders.

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I can understand wanting to own a nice keyboard and/our mouse, and maybe a couple spares, but when you own over a dozen of those peripherals, maybe it's time to stop and think what you are doing, realistically speaking you won't need a dozen of mechanical keyboards, you just won't live long enough to use them all.

Keyboard collectors are some of the most frustrating consoomers to watch. At least for me. Like, the whole point of a keyboard is to be functional, yet these chucklefucks just want to buy more and more of them and then let them settle dust? And for what? They all perform identically and its not like these collectors really do much stuff that would wear out a keyboard quick.

 

[Crepidodera fulvicornis]

How many preservatives must they have been loaded with to stay good for that long?

Fallout series got it right I see.

 

[NoReturn]

And what do you gain from a mechanical keyboard anyways? They really aren't any better except for anoying the piss out of everyone else around/playing with you with the constant clicking that can be heard eve through voice coms.

Monkey brain like clicky clicky.

 

[Free the Pedos]

And what do you gain from a mechanical keyboard anyways? They really aren't any better except for anoying the piss out of everyone else around/playing with you with the constant clicking that can be heard eve through voice coms.

Apparently our brains like sensory feedback, so if we press down hard on something we want some effect. It's not normal for us to 'hit' something and for there to be no effect.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Apparently our brains like sensory feedback, so if we press down hard on something we want some effect. It's not normal for us to 'hit' something and for there to be no effect.

There is an effect though, the key moves down. This is legitimately autistic, in a medical sense, not a derogatory one.

 

[Free the Pedos]

There is an effect though, the key moves down. This is legitimately autistic, in a medical sense, not a derogatory one.

This was explained to me by a professor of technology studies or something similar, so you're probably right.