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

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/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.
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.
I am gonna powerlevel here but I am a keyboard consoomer but I've been in the "hobby" for like 7 years so way before reddit turned it into a consoomer trend. I only have 4 keyboards so take from that what you will since I don't have a huge ass shelf.

Different keyboards do sound and feel different, this is not placebo like headphones are but there are just simple changes like how a plate is mounted or switches. like Banging on a can full of sand vs Banging on a can without sand both are different.
It is a hobby that is built on creativity, at the surface level of course you have redditors who consoom but past that you have people who actually design and get custom keyboards made, same goes for keycaps and even switches for the keyboards.

There of course is the consoomery stuff, Reddit is full of this since its just people who jump onto shit and roll around on the surface, a huge popular thing lately is those Pastle pink bitches on tiktok that have been seen in this thread before getting into keyboards.
but its also got large comunties in China and Korea that are also good and bad, Chinese are quite big offenders of consooming, those shelves you see full of Alices and Janes boards that cost 3k+ on the after market are almost always owned by Chinese.

But yea at the end of the day they are just keyboards, I enjoy them, I'll join a group buy for a keycap set every so often or buy an artisan cap from a creator I like.
 
this is such a convoluted hustle there's no way he ends up making more than even minimum wage doing this after shipping, gas and unsold stuff. I'm also amazed that he posts almost daily, I guess most of his profit if there's any comes from that.
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Not sure why I haven't read this thread before, it's great, but I have to backtrack a dozen pages or so to the YA book consoomers. I’m not involved in “booktok” or book social media aside from a couple Facebook groups, one of which is for YA fantasy. I’m not really into YA, but I poke around sometimes for more mature or “New Adult” recommendations. Can confirm the consoomerism is strong. Nobody uses libraries, they just joke/complain about spending too much or trying to pick and choose what to buy within their budget. They buy books they already have just for new cover art or to match the rest of the series, buy books solely based on the cover with no idea of the content, buy special fan-made dust jackets because they’re “prettier,” and show off their bookshelves overflowing with "pretty" YA books and Funko Pops (which I've always loathed, the hatred here for them fuels me.) Some recent gems I recall include someone who, if she wants to try a book series, buys every single book in it right off the bat, and a woman who apparently reads only bottom-barrel YA because she didn’t know what third person was. I’m not a book snob but I was stunned. Her edit came after a bunch of comments, which were mixed - some politely informing her what third person was, some mocking her, some agreeing with her. I screenshotted it, but had nowhere to post it until now!

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I've always found the reading fandom to be extra obnoxious. There's always this weird superiority complex about preferring to read a book than watch a movie or play a video game, even if the book is trashy YA self insert bullshit and the movie or video game is beautiful, well-made and enriching.
You understand me. We're friends now.
Please enjoy some more dumb shit.
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They all look slightly inbred and like they've never left suburbia or ate anywhere fancier or more interesting than applebees
 
I've always found the reading fandom to be extra obnoxious. There's always this weird superiority complex about preferring to read a book than watch a movie or play a video game, even if the book is trashy YA self insert bullshit and the movie or video game is beautiful, well-made and enriching.
Most of them only have a lexile score in the 600-800 range and so they can't understand that what they're reading isn't actually any more advanced than other forms of media.
 
I've always found the reading fandom to be extra obnoxious. There's always this weird superiority complex about preferring to read a book than watch a movie or play a video game, even if the book is trashy YA self insert bullshit and the movie or video game is beautiful, well-made and enriching.

Agreed. I've said before that reading is my favorite thing to do, but I don't understand the people who think it's a virtue.

I read a lot because it's the laziest hobby a person can have. I lay in bed and stare at my phone and hallucinate all day to escape. Videos and audiobools/podcasts don't keep my brain distracted like books do.

But it's inherently a lazy man's hobby. I knit while I read a lot, but you can't do anything else. If you read fiction you aren't learning anything. It's not social, unlike movies or games can be. It's expensive as a whole, unless you use the library or a service like Kindle Unlimited and then you're limited to what you can read.

It's about equivalent as a hobby to playing a video game or watching a movie as far as productivity. At the end of each thing you've accomplished nothing. You don't need any special skills to partake in these hobbies (video games do require skills, but not like woodworking or fishing). You've not wasted your time, but you have nothing to really show for it either.

(I say that as a fan of all three things, but reading is my favorite)
 
I've always found the reading fandom to be extra obnoxious. There's always this weird superiority complex about preferring to read a book than watch a movie or play a video game, even if the book is trashy YA self insert bullshit and the movie or video game is beautiful, well-made and enriching.

They all look slightly inbred and like they've never left suburbia or ate anywhere fancier or more interesting than applebees
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You're giving these people way too much credit.
 
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It's about equivalent as a hobby to playing a video game or watching a movie as far as productivity. At the end of each thing you've accomplished nothing. You don't need any special skills to partake in these hobbies (video games do require skills, but not like woodworking or fishing). You've not wasted your time, but you have nothing to really show for it either.
Yeah except video media literally makes you dumber (not just by the content but by it's inherent properties) and it causes you to become more and more delusional as the video input tricks your brain into thinking video = reality/experience. This is possibly the biggest SCIENCE study that needs to be done, because technology is killing civilization. Reading causes your brain to work in a productive (read: conducive to physical reality) pattern without overwhelming it with noise and dopaminergic stimuli.

Also go to the library, are you nuts, it's free (and when it's not it's like $30 lifetime).
 
(I say that as a fan of all three things, but reading is my favorite)
Same. I also find these types of consoomers cringey. If they genuinely enjoy reading, gaming, and movies, then they should appreciate them for what they are. They should enjoy them because it's what they like to do, not because they want to prove anything. That can go for anything too.

Regarding reading, read because you want to immerse yourself in the story or learn something. I know you already know that, but I wish these consoomers did.
 
causes you to become more and more delusional as the video input tricks your brain into thinking video = reality/experience.
The quintesential boomer meme.
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ironically is the same argument that was directed at books for hundreds of years, already a thing in the middle ages , so present that the idea was parodied by one of the great characters in literature of all time, Don Quixote, a dude that read so much books that he became a mentally ill larper and it ruined all distinction between fiction reality. Of course, readers became more and more dellusional as the brain can't possibly make the distinction between imagining a thing happening from reading it in a book and it happening for real. Ancient people didn't had technology and still had stageplays and performances, were they unable to separate reality from fiction? someone mush have thought so, since theater was banned from many times in many places through history

Eventually we see it shifting in the XXth century as "newspapers, comics, pulp novels and magazines turn you stupid and dellusional, but not real books, real books smart", and in the TV and then internet age it shifts even more towards "all books are smart, is those pesky televisions that turns kids stupid and make them not be able to distinguish reality, turn off the tv and go read a book" then its "videogames are literally killing our children" to "phone bad book good"

In my opinion, is not the medium, is how you choose to interact with it, you also don't need books or movies or the internet to become a dellusional retard, thats very much a consequence of will. Is like blaming food for obesity when its really your responsibility what you eat and how. I also strongly believe that instead of media making people dumber is the other way around, people are already retarded and they force the media to become dumber, you see it happening exponentially faster as markets for entertainment grow in recent years , since the incentive is to hit a wider global demographic mainstream products have to lower the bar more and more else it doesn't appeal to the kind of niggers and third worlders that would be buying the product, the kind that could be scared away by even an inkling of a challenge to the viewer. The more 2deep4u something is the more niche it is, popular books are easy books, the more challenging they get the more they alienate most people. So smart media doesn't make the niggers smarter, it just makes niggers not buy it.
 
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I'm not in the beauty scene at all but remember when some L.A based makeup artist got the 'Korean glass skin routine' trending (as if the getting the perfect complexion wasn't almost entirely up to the genetic lottery anyways).
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People were 100% sure their sweaty American ass could get this totally not photoshopped flawless no pore having skin and were out in droves spending hundreds on this 10 step routine.
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Amazing, their pores are just gone!

Now Korean skin clinics want in on this and are selling glass skin facials called 'Chanel injections' for $300 - $600 which has 53 different "skin-loving" ingredients. It takes two weeks to see results and depending on your skin they pressure most to come back and get multiple follow up procedures so $300 is just the base value.
 
Agreed. I've said before that reading is my favorite thing to do, but I don't understand the people who think it's a virtue.
I'm a lifelong bookworm, but the readers who make me go WTF, mate? are the ones who think listening to audiobooks is inherently inferior to reading text.

Maybe for kids, who are at crucial stages of brain development when it comes to learning how to process written language, that's true. But for adults who have other shit to do, who would like to be educated and/or entertained while they commute, do housework, or even while on the job, audiobooks fill an important niche. Not to mention people who have disabilities (visual impairment; dyslexia) for whom audiobooks are a godsend.

It's such a strange form of snobbery, and it usually comes from people who are in no position to be such snobs. The most curious, literate people I know consume a lot of audiobooks as well as dead-tree or digital texts, because they know that what matters is the contents of a book, not the format.

I read a lot because it's the laziest hobby a person can have. I lay in bed and stare at my phone and hallucinate all day to escape. Videos and audiobools/podcasts don't keep my brain distracted like books do.
I do read, but as someone with ADHD, audiobooks work for me as long as I have some sort of manual labor to perform as I listen—the body has to be occupied for the brain to calm the fuck down and hear what's being said. Keeping at least my hands occupied while I listen helps me focus. If I have absolutely nothing else to do, I'll do some hand sewing, or crochet stupid cat toys, and it makes all the difference.
 
I'm a lifelong bookworm, but the readers who make me go WTF, mate? are the ones who think listening to audiobooks is inherently inferior to reading text.

Maybe for kids, who are at crucial stages of brain development when it comes to learning how to process written language, that's true. But for adults who have other shit to do, who would like to be educated and/or entertained while they commute, do housework, or even while on the job, audiobooks fill an important niche. Not to mention people who have disabilities (visual impairment; dyslexia) for whom audiobooks are a godsend.

It's such a strange form of snobbery, and it usually comes from people who are in no position to be such snobs. The most curious, literate people I know consume a lot of audiobooks as well as dead-tree or digital texts, because they know that what matters is the contents of a book, not the format.

Oh, hell yes. Audiobooks are books! If I had a long commute or a job where I could focus on listening while I worked I'd be a big audiobook listener. I also hate the dead tree only snobs. I find ebooks for everything but reference books a far superior format, because I can carry millions of them on my phone and never be without a book. There's no need for a bookmark or a light if you wake up at three am and don't want to disturb your partner. Nothing wrong with paper books either, but they aren't inherently superior.

I do read, but as someone with ADHD, audiobooks work for me as long as I have some sort of manual labor to perform as I listen—the body has to be occupied for the brain to calm the fuck down and hear what's being said. Keeping at least my hands occupied while I listen helps me focus. If I have absolutely nothing else to do, I'll do some hand sewing, or crochet stupid cat toys, and it makes all the difference.

I have adhd too and I can't do audiobooks. Even if I knit. I can read and knit though.
 
Oh, hell yes. Audiobooks are books! If I had a long commute or a job where I could focus on listening while I worked I'd be a big audiobook listener. I also hate the dead tree only snobs. I find ebooks for everything but reference books a far superior format, because I can carry millions of them on my phone and never be without a book. There's no need for a bookmark or a light if you wake up at three am and don't want to disturb your partner. Nothing wrong with paper books either, but they aren't inherently superior.



I have adhd too and I can't do audiobooks. Even if I knit. I can read and knit though.
Audiobooks also have an extra dimension to them, in that you get another person's interpretation of and performance of the text. The reader's performance can make it twice as enjoyable.
 
These aren't "poors" these are... something else.
The truly poor I've known aren't people with the time to do shit like this.
These people are somehow time-wealthy and I don't get it. Are they just living off welfare? That has to be it, right?
When I was in retail 9/10 times these types were bored housewives, usually with military husbands. Nothing better to do when the kids are at school but do shit like that.
 
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I'm a lifelong bookworm, but the readers who make me go WTF, mate? are the ones who think listening to audiobooks is inherently inferior to reading text.
There is truth to this as reading is much more active than listening, thus you are more likely to remember and understand what you've read. Of course this only matters if you are reading something of worth, if it's YA fluff you might as well just listen to it. Perhaps I'm a little biased as I don't read for fun.

As to the book supremacy argument you sometimes see, I really don't get it, I much prefer pdfs for their portability and convenience. But muh book feel!
 
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Oh, hell yes. Audiobooks are books! If I had a long commute or a job where I could focus on listening while I worked I'd be a big audiobook listener. I also hate the dead tree only snobs. I find ebooks for everything but reference books a far superior format, because I can carry millions of them on my phone and never be without a book. There's no need for a bookmark or a light if you wake up at three am and don't want to disturb your partner. Nothing wrong with paper books either, but they aren't inherently superior.
I'd say paper books are superior in that once you have them, you own them and can keep them forever. With ebooks and audiobooks you're only buying a licence and they can be removed or revised at any time. It's the same as the argument for having physical copies of albums instead of relying on streaming services.

I have an ereader and it's a great little thing, especially for places like airports where you don't want to carry around whole books, but I still prefer hard copies of books that are important to me in one way or another. They're not going to disappear if it's decided they're politically incorrect in a few years or the service just shuts down.
 
I'd say paper books are superior in that once you have them, you own them and can keep them forever. With ebooks and audiobooks you're only buying a licence and they can be removed or revised at any time. It's the same as the argument for having physical copies of albums instead of relying on streaming services.

I have an ereader and it's a great little thing, especially for places like airports where you don't want to carry around whole books, but I still prefer hard copies of books that are important to me in one way or another. They're not going to disappear if it's decided they're politically incorrect in a few years or the service just shuts down.
You can get audiobooks on tapes and CDs, and they're an interesting thing to collect with how their packaging was never standardized, so you get a whole gamut of cases. Shorter books tend to be like 5 CDs, while longer ones can be dozens. There's one New International Version of the Bible that comes on 64 discs, and it comes in its own CD wallet. A lot of older ones never even got released outside of their cassette tape copies, so a collection of audiobooks really actually means something.

Also, if ever you get audiobooks with DRM, rip that shit right out. They're just audio files.
 
I'd say paper books are superior in that once you have them, you own them and can keep them forever. With ebooks and audiobooks you're only buying a licence and they can be removed or revised at any time.
Library Genesis solves that problem. Once the bits land on hardware I control, that shit stays mine. No grab-backs for the rent seekers, and they can cram their "licenses" right up their ass.
 
I think the whole Book - Ebook - Audiobook thing is really personal preference. I don't like Audiobooks because I don't like someone reading me a story. It makes me feel like I'm 3 years old needing an adult to read to me when I can do it myself (and faster). However, a lot of people love them because you can finish a book off when going to work or doing chores. Personal preference. Same with eBooks. You can easily find "Free" ebooks on the internet and eReader's are pretty handy. But some people can't get over not holding the physical bound paper version and turning pages. I don't think it matters in the end.

I'll still judge you for having an entire bookcase full of YA books with candles/plushes/funko pops and for using hastags like #bookstagram. Have fun getting pennies for this trash 10 years from now because you'll never get your full money back.

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