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

[Moguro Fukuzou]

I'm not shocked by older pokemon fans consooming despite the DS versions being completely playable. After Sun and Moon, I decided to stop buying the games because I found them to be incredibly lacking and terrible, yet those who knew I liked pokemon were shocked I wouldn't keep consooming the franchise. There's a lot of cope arguments they use to justify keeping up with the games, but most boils down to "Well, it's POKEMON!".

It's very bizarre now that I think of it. Everyone was so sure I'd be happy at the remakes and when I said I found the trailers so disappointing, I had no interest, they couldn't believe I was unwilling to "get hyped". Strange times we live in.

It's interesting to see with long time pokemon fans how they've dealt with the noticeable drop in quality the games have gone through. You have the ones that will constantly complain about it yet still buy everything pokemon related, the ones that became super defenders actively attacking anyone that dislikes it, and then the fans that just tapped out entirely. I know a big pokemon fan that has just stopped entirely and has no interest in the new games, though they told me their interest started going back with Sun/Moon where they didn't even finish it unlike all the previous ones they've gotten.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I had stepped away from Pokemon after Platinum, left it on a high point and I was losing interest in Pokemon at that time, so it was an amicable separation. I still play Platinum to this day if I'm stuck in an airport or something.

I made the mistake of buying Sword since it looked like it was taking full advantage of the Switch's hardware and I saw a ton of potential for the property to grow, I had stayed almost entirely out of the loop on Gamefreak after gen4 and so I didn't know about how they'd gotten worse. Needless to say i was disappointed and ended up selling on the game and console to a friend of mine at a loss. But as someone who had been with Pokemon since the late nineties and watched the original series religiously as a young child I felt sad to see something I had liked for most of my life take a hard nosedive like that. All this is to say that I can somewhat understand why some people would just defend Pokemon no matter what.

 

[Shig O'nella]

How is this any better than just carrying the cup? You still have to use one hand to carry the damn thing, plus it's now dangling which means splashes and leaks.

A (slightly) more practical gimmick solution would involve a harness attached to your body. Your upper arm (don't raise it too high or hilarity will ensue!) or your hip.

Still fucking retarded, but frees up a hand and helps prevent sloshing.

Cup holder on your hat and a flexistraw. That's where portable drinking is at.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Cup holder on your hat and a flexistraw. That's where portable drinking is at.

That makes much more sense.

Showed the original doo-dad to my husband, who agrees it's dumb, and he said it would be more useful if it carried two drinks. Which is a good point.

But obviously the point isn't to be useful.

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

How is this any better than just carrying the cup? You still have to use one hand to carry the damn thing, plus it's now dangling which means splashes and leaks.

A (slightly) more practical gimmick solution would involve a harness attached to your body. Your upper arm (don't raise it too high or hilarity will ensue!) or your hip.

Still fucking retarded, but frees up a hand and helps prevent sloshing.

Ya'll bustas ain't even carrying you beer in a bag. Sad.

 

[HexBawxUno]

I stand corrected regarding Sneak King guy, it also seems to be a joke here. It’s still on a far greater scale than the Shaq-Fu guys.

Re: Pokémon, I dipped out around Sun/Moon.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

I'm not shocked by older pokemon fans consooming despite the DS versions being completely playable. After Sun and Moon, I decided to stop buying the games because I found them to be incredibly lacking and terrible, yet those who knew I liked pokemon were shocked I wouldn't keep consooming the franchise. There's a lot of cope arguments they use to justify keeping up with the games, but most boils down to "Well, it's POKEMON!".

It's very bizarre now that I think of it. Everyone was so sure I'd be happy at the remakes and when I said I found the trailers so disappointing, I had no interest, they couldn't believe I was unwilling to "get hyped". Strange times we live in.

And people do wonder why Pokemon has gotten worse for the last few years and will most likely never get better, the people who care the least about the game's quality are the most loyal consoomers.

I've seen more than a few people here in the farms saying that "Pokemon doesn't need graphics like BoTW", "Pokemon doesn't need to be like other RPGs", "Pokemon is just comfort food to me".

I guess i could say that you either take pokemon for what it is, a childish, unpolished and below-average RPG, or you move on and go play other games, the thing is that 99% of people did the former, buying both versions of a game they no longer enjoy on a yearly basis.

Ya'll bustas ain't even carrying you beer in a bag. Sad.

Man, the memories, that's how they used to sell soda in my country when i was a kid.

 

[Finder]

I don't seem to understand. The person's post history didn't help either, mostly just youtube promotion.

 

[Solid Snek]

The kind of people with those bookshelves are the kind of people who have this quote on their dating profile:

Funny enough, usually people that read Ulysses or Pride & Prejudice always use that quote since they like to be self-important about reading literature and it’s always said by women

I don't really use social media, so this is first time I've ever seen this quote. Does anyone have any context for when and why he said it...?

Because it's John Waters.

John Waters is a man who misses the days of perverts having sex in public bathrooms, openly thirsted for Bieber when he was still underage, and made his career by filming an incestuous tranny eating dog shit off a Baltimore sidewalk.

I know that Waters has a lot of "normie" fans nowadays, thanks to the success of Hairspray and the mainstreaming of deviant culture. But everything Waters says has to be filtered through layers of camp, irony, and sexual perversion, and I'm not sure I'd trust his advice on what men to fuck - at least not at face value, and certainly not enough to use that quote, unironically, on any kind of social media profile.

 

[Cripple]

I don't really use social media, so this is first time I've ever seen this quote. Does anyone have any context for when and why he said it...?

Because it's John Waters.

John Waters is a man who misses the days of perverts having sex in public bathrooms, openly thirsted for Bieber when he was still underage, and made his career by filming an incestuous tranny eating dog shit off a Baltimore sidewalk.

I know that Waters has a lot of "normie" fans nowadays, thanks to the success of Hairspray and the mainstreaming of deviant culture. But everything Waters says has to be filtered through layers of camp, irony, and sexual perversion, and I'm not sure I'd trust his advice on what men to fuck - at least not at face value, and certainly not enough to use that quote, unironically, on any kind of social media profile.

I'm a Waters fan, but I have been since the 90's before he became so mainstream. But yeah I don't think a lot of people get he often makes facetious remarks and likes to ruffle feathers. Maybe not as much as when he was younger, but this quote is from when he was younger. He gave it during an interview iirc.

In short people unfamiliar with him are using it without context. No big surprise there.

 

[Solid Snek]

I'm a Waters fan, but I have been since the 90's before he became so mainstream. But yeah I don't think a lot of people get he often makes facetious remarks and likes to ruffle feathers. Maybe not as much as when he was younger, but this quote is from when he was younger. He gave it during an interview iirc.

In short people unfamiliar with him are using it without context. No big surprise there.

Oh yeah, if it was young JW, then it's definitely not something you want to quote if you're in the dating game and love books.

If I had to guess, he was probably juxtaposing the (what was then) shocking practice of going over to a complete stranger's house to fuck him in the ass, with the (what has always been) basic bitch practice of making sure the people you date are cultured and literate. i.e. he's being a little sarcastic, and playfully taking the piss out of precisely the sort of people who'd have large bookshelves for show, and would use this quote, unironically, on a "hi stranger, let's fuck" dating app.

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

Man, the memories, that's how they used to sell soda in my country when i was a kid.

For real though why do they do this? Is it cause bags are easy to dispose of?

I don't seem to understand. The person's post history didn't help either, mostly just youtube promotion.

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Do you suppose he's made his money back on this scheme? Reddit awards aren't worth shit, but I guess the momentary attention was probably a highlight for him.
Also, his shirt has conspired to call him a simp

 

[Starved Artist]

I'm not shocked by older pokemon fans consooming despite the DS versions being completely playable. After Sun and Moon, I decided to stop buying the games because I found them to be incredibly lacking and terrible, yet those who knew I liked pokemon were shocked I wouldn't keep consooming the franchise. There's a lot of cope arguments they use to justify keeping up with the games, but most boils down to "Well, it's POKEMON!".

It's very bizarre now that I think of it. Everyone was so sure I'd be happy at the remakes and when I said I found the trailers so disappointing, I had no interest, they couldn't believe I was unwilling to "get hyped". Strange times we live in.

It's been down hill since the Alpha-Omega /Leaf-Fire remakes. Nintendo/Game Freak realized that their die-hards are functionally retarded and their hardcores will eat whatever shit they'll get fed while complaining.
For example. Sapphire remake removed an entire section of the game, but they made up to it with a brand new training mechanic for the hardcore players who wanted to maximize their pokemon.

Pearl is just disgustingly bland and it pretty much proves that Nintendo killed the 3DS to justify this shit.

 

[Pissmaster]

The Burger King collector made USA Today (archive), I like how they make sure to identify him as a redditor right off the bat, because he's certainly not a man.

I don't seem to understand. The person's post history didn't help either, mostly just youtube promotion.

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I've never seen that promo disc before. Better picture:


which came from this thread (a), which is full of people downvoting and shredding him for copy/pasting the same reply over and over. Everything else he says comes off super-guarded, which, well, it's Reddit and he's powerleveled his face, so I don't blame him:


I think it's an extremely stupid way to try and get rich, by trying to make himself into the WaCkY bUrGeR kInG cOlLeCtOr GuY!!!!!1, but even Reddit's not buying it. The only interesting thing here is the promo disc, and that's only interesting to game collectors. One later comment of his said it was just in one of 19 boxes of Sneak Kings he bought at some point, and he doesn't know anything else about it. I'd guess it was designed for in-store demonstrations, and was supposed to go back to BK corporate.

 

[seri0us]

I mentioned this on the Fat Acceptance thread, but I noticed a lot of fat people are also big consoomers with non-edible stuff as well. Infact, I do notice Torrid puts out a lot of clothes for shitty consoomer crap movies like this one cardigan for that Birds of Prey movie that looks like someone skinned a muppet for example.

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[The Ugly One]

It's been down hill since the Alpha-Omega /Leaf-Fire remakes. Nintendo/Game Freak realized that their die-hards are functionally retarded and their hardcores will eat whatever shit they'll get fed while complaining.
For example. Sapphire remake removed an entire section of the game, but they made up to it with a brand new training mechanic for the hardcore players who wanted to maximize their pokemon.

Nintendo isn't making Pokemon games for 35-year-olds who don't care that the series has barely changed since 1996; they're making them for children who have no memories of their own existence before maybe 2014 and neither know nor care about Pokemon's existence prior to them entering the second grade. Pokemon Ruby is almost twenty years old. If you are old enough to remember it, then neither Nintendo nor Game Freak care what you want. By continuing to cater to children, rather than getting into the death spiral of extracting more and more money from a smaller and smaller, aging fan base, they continue to keep their property commercially relevant.

 

[Pissmaster]

Nintendo isn't making Pokemon games for 35-year-olds who don't care that the series has barely changed since 1996; they're making them for children who have no memories of their own existence before maybe 2014 and neither know nor care about Pokemon's existence prior to them entering the second grade. Pokemon Ruby is almost twenty years old. If you are old enough to remember it, then neither Nintendo nor Game Freak care what you want. By continuing to cater to children, rather than getting into the death spiral of extracting more and more money from a smaller and smaller, aging fan base, they continue to keep their property commercially relevant.

Yeah, that's something I've thought about with things like Pokémon and its aging playerbase - it's a franchise specifically for children, yet has a lot of adults who can't bear to ever admit that. I figure it goes back to the days when the whole "Video games are for children" idea was seriously batted around, with pearl-clutching boomers treating the existence of games like Doom as though they were slipping The Satanic Bible into every Happy Meal, not even stopping to consider that those games were designed with adults in mind. So here we are, 30 years later, with an extreme overcorrection. Boomers couldn't see video games as anything but entertainment for children, and now Millenials can't see any form of entertainment as something designed specifically for children. Same deal with My Little Pony, like, they can't even conceive the concept that where you are in life dictates what entertainment will really work for you. It's fun to find unfamiliar, new things to enjoy.

Unless you're severely autistic enough to be mentally stuck at the age where Pokémon most appeals to you.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Unless you're severely autistic enough to be mentally stuck at the age where Pokémon most appeals to you.

In all fairness to Pokemon, and I can't believe I'm about to defend sweaty motherfuckers on the Farms like this, is that it hits that perfect sweet spot in the "easy to grasp, difficult to master" range. Pokemon is a game for children, you're right about that, but look at competitive Pokemon in a tournament setting or some of the guys who are really into Pokemon Showdown. Pokemon has over twenty years and eight generations of meta to sift through and it keeps getting new toys to play around with every generation and remake, and it can be a very deep game of numbers, strategy, meta and counter meta, reads and predictions, and strats to minimze the need for luck far above and beyond just the simplistic roshambo type game that people who only play the single player know it as. Pokemon can be a surprisingly deep game, and it's also a great time waster for handhelds since the older generations had lots of exploration and side activities beyond just the main story.

That is no excuse for the steaming shit piles that Game Freak has churned out for the past three generations or so or the diehard faggots who refuse to demand to be treated better as customers though.

 

[whitepumpkin]

Nintendo isn't making Pokemon games for 35-year-olds who don't care that the series has barely changed since 1996; they're making them for children who have no memories of their own existence before maybe 2014 and neither know nor care about Pokemon's existence prior to them entering the second grade.

That's true, but kids don't have $80 to fling around for a video game unless they're spoiled. You probably have to get your parents to buy the game for you, and even then some parents aren't willing to pay that much money for a game that's maybe... 15 hours of playtime before your kid gets bored and wants another $80 game.

So you could argue that they do try and pull in the adult market along with kids. They've remade the first generation... how many times? Get some Twitch Streamers to play it - Who hype it up as the Best Pokemon Game Ever so they can collect those bits and subs - have game journalists gush how it's just like your childhood, and if you're lucky those adult nostalgiafags may buy both copies. And if anyone finds the game lacking, then you don't care, you got their money and they'll probably be told by some other 35 year old to Let People Enjoy Things!!

Either way, Game Freak gets paid and they'll churn out another game in a year or two to grab that market along with the Kids Christmas Present spending.

 

[Starved Artist]

That's true, but kids don't have $80 to fling around for a video game unless they're spoiled. You probably have to get your parents to buy the game for you, and even then some parents aren't willing to pay that much money for a game that's maybe... 15 hours of playtime before your kid gets bored and wants another $80 game.

My brother in law just slammed down 200 on pokemon shit. and I just dropped 500 dollerydoos for my wife and daughter's pokemon shit. (Two Switches and several pokemon games)
There's just no escaping it. I sort of get how my parents felt when they bought me pokemon Blue.. Except they had no idea what kind of monster this shit was going to become.

I went from the Consoomer to the Provider of Consoomuption. I'd say kill me now, but I wanna see how this rollercoast of autism crashes.