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

[whitepumpkin]

I was bringing up pro gaming as most you guys have found it ridiculous.
I'm fine with it, I don't know if its lolcowlish if you play games for your career.
If you don't have any reason and just do it because you have nothing better to do its lolcow.
But when it comes to pro gaming I'd say its fine.

It depends on how you act and how much you consoom. I'd say the career of Pro Gaming in itself is ridiculous because I don't think it's healthy for people to be sitting in a chair all day staring at a computer screen. Same way I feel about office work at times and the culture of being glued to a screen really fucks up your eyes unless you're readjusting every 45 minutes. And a lot of people don't. But pro-gaming itself isn't Consoom, persay...

...Unless you drop thousands of dollars on pre-made setups or RGB lights and whatever despite not having the skills to be a pro player or even stream. See a lot of the E-Thots we've mentioned. Pretty pink displays, multiple Nintendo Switches, pink gaming chair, and they mostly just eat junk food, watch anime, and upload to tiktok. You can do all those things without putting yourself into debt, yet its encouraged to buy the Ditoo machines, the kawaii keyboard keys, the pink cat headphones, etc. All so you can take a few snapshots on Instagram or Tiktok and make other girls jealous you're such a Gamer Girl UwU.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Why'd she get it all then. Why. (I know she said for her subscribers but she barely knows half the shit she got. Just that it's from "amazon!")

I also now know what it's like to have a full-body shudder at viewing a video. That LOTR Museum was just... too much for me. It really sounds like the reason he's doing it is for the thrill of the find, you just have to ignore how much he's spent to get to that point of being surrounded by vinyl and plastic.

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Holy balls you could make this yourself with garden rocks, fake moss and dead sticks, and some $4 glowing paint and save yourself $495. I think I'm more impressed that you can sell shit like this for exuberant amounts of money than for the actual item itself.

That doesn't even look like it's well made.

 

[bigbombguy2222]

Guessing 'too much' isn't a thing for some people.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

and he said it was a ripoff of Nirvana

Yeah but Nirvana is shit though.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Making first memories with his firstborn.



Good thing the poor kid didn't start choking during an important boss battle...

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Consoomerism bothers a lot of us because I'd imagine a lot of us either used to be consoomers, or at least came damn close to it. I know I have.

It's mostly the shit I don't understand. The fuck is the point of Funko Pops?

I can understand stuff like spending a hilarious amount of money on retro gaming or modding your car or what have you. You do you.

My aunt straight up owns every A Christmas Story figurine ever made. This is basically what the fuck Funko Pops are except you're like a dude in his 30s and not an aging spinster. What's goin' on.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Making first memories with his firstborn.
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Good thing the poor kid didn't start choking during an important boss battle...

tbf, Earthbound is turn-based so you can’t actually get caught in the middle of a boss battle and not be able to leave.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I think the fact that it's Earthbound makes it even more cringe honestly.

 

[TheBeanz]

It's the same in any technical hobby.

Both the mechanical keyboard community and the hifi community hype up new products to shit. There are self-proclaimed community leaders on forums/reddit who make it their mission to shit on stuff they don't like. Many of these people seem more interested in consooming to own more things rather than actually using what they buy.

I've heard people in the hifi community say that a $3000 tube amp is "mid range".

Late to the party here I know but:

It's an interesting point about HiFi because when it gets down to it, good sound quality is good sound quality. When I was doing my setup, I checked some reviews and top 10 lists, bought some decent speakers and some decent wires and connected up to an amp and a turntable from 1990. It sounds great to me, would it sound better if I blew 12 grand on Bang and Olufsen? Maybe, but for the moment, it's good.

The enthusiast communities for anything, especially when it comes to Reddit, are always a fucking shitshow of one-upmanship on who can blow the most money trying to get something that looks cool. It's best to avoid them.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The enthusiast communities for anything, especially when it comes to Reddit, are always a fucking shitshow of one-upmanship on who can blow the most money trying to get something that looks cool. It's best to avoid them.

The problem is that they're focused on the concept of "better" at the cost of all else, "return on investment" is never factored in. Yes a 0.5% increase is better but paying 15% more for that increase is a completely different question altogether and the answer will vary person to person. I think once you throw that out the window you lay the initial groundwork for brand whoring and thoughtless consoomerism since it doesn't matter how much it costs, it only matters that you have "the best".

 

[The Lawgiver]

tbf, Earthbound is turn-based so you can’t actually get caught in the middle of a boss battle and not be able to leave.

In a weird way, it's one of those perfect kind of games for if you might need to do some shit but also don't have any immediate priorities.

I think the fact that it's Earthbound makes it even more cringe honestly.

What makes it cringe is he's posting to reddit about it instead of just playing the fucking game while waiting for his baby like a normal human being. prioritizing reddit clout before you own child is the sign of a fucking bad parent. reminds me of the twitter THOTS that take posed selfies in designer clothes at funrerals.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

What makes it cringe is he's posting to reddit about it instead of just playing the fucking game while waiting for his baby like a normal human being. prioritizing reddit clout before you own child is the sign of a fucking bad parent. reminds me of the twitter THOTS that take posed selfies in designer clothes at funrerals.

In my experience Earthbound is popular because people love the idea of loving Earthbound, rather than loving Earthbound.

 

[Hijaboholic]

Of course they have a physical cartage. Use an emulator and rom like a normal person to save money.

 

[The Lawgiver]

In my experience Earthbound is popular because people love the idea of loving Earthbound, rather than loving Earthbound.

it's kind of got that status now, especially amongst reddit and "WOAH!!! RETRO>!!" types but for a good while it was just a funny rpg game with a dedicated following. I think the rise of the redditbrain shit was the fucking scalpers hoarding the game making it suddenly artificially "rare" though at the start the responses were just people bitching about earthbound hoarders/scalpers over the last decade or so it's kind of turned into a "UHH ACHUALLY IT'S WORTH 500 DOLLARS BECAUSE BLUH BLUH CIRCULATION/PRIDUCTION NUMBERS ALSO VINTAGE COLLECTIBLE BLUH BLUH" type shit. I'm frankly pissed Nintendo never re-released it in a physical format in the US because if they did we wouldn't be dealing with this horseshit.

Of course they have a physical cartage. Use an emulator and rom like a normal person to save money.

could be a repro, could be from a garage sale for a decent price, but knowing reddit they probably paid a scalper and considered it a "steal" like a typical consoomer.

 

[whitepumpkin]

prioritizing reddit clout before you own child is the sign of a fucking bad parent.

Yeah, but then how are complete strangers on reddit able to see you have an accumulation of Internet points, therefore giving you a sense of worth? You need to show off to everyone that you're playing an 'underrated' video game while also being a parent and describing how hard it is to now be said parent. But don't worry, video game got you through it.

Let the upvotes commence for more sweet, meaningless internet clout.

 

[Fetish Roulette]

In my experience Earthbound is popular because people love the idea of loving Earthbound, rather than loving Earthbound.

I think what really fucked it up was the inclusion of Earthbound characters in the Super Smash Bros. franchise. I know that was my first introduction to the franchise, and while I never played the games myself, I can definitely see that exposure bringing in some of the insufferable types we see on this thread.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Of course they have a physical cartage. Use an emulator and rom like a normal person to save money.

Yeah I've played and beaten it on an emulator. I do have the cart, but it's a $13 repro.

Not something I'm going to throw $200+ at like lots of these guys do.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

This meme is probably relevant to this thread, considering how deep into the rabbit hole of cosoomerism most audiophiles are.

Of course they have a physical cartage. Use an emulator and rom like a normal person to save money.

Yeah, playing with a physical cart on some kind of portable SNES is probably the most cumbersome and impractical way to play a SNES game on the go, he could easily emulate the game on his phone or use a modded PSP/3DS or even a Chinese handheld if he wanted. But the top priority was to show off his Earthbound cart it seems.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

"I love sound fidelity" says the audiophile as he buys more vinyl records, the recording medium with the dirtiest sound quality known to man.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

"I love sound fidelity" says the audiophile as he buys more vinyl records, the recording medium with the dirtiest sound quality known to man.

There’s definitely a nostalgic quality to records. Back in the 80s/90s, my dad had a collection and it was a blast interacting with them. But I’m no fool: modern tech is so much convenient and cheap. I think I’ll just get some decent Bluetooth speakers rather than spend 100$s on albums that I already own in mp3 or CD.