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

[Pissmaster]

View attachment 2838317

I don’t blame that poor kid. Funko Pop faces look like alíen bugs, and she’s suddenly in a room with hundreds of them just staring at her. At that age, I’d be terrified too

 

[Autistic Joe]

I don’t blame that poor kid. Funko Pop faces look like alíen bugs, and she’s suddenly in a room with hundreds of them just staring at her. At that age, I’d be terrified too

Never mind "at that age", I'm fucking terrified right now just seeing it on my screen lol.

I'm happy that Logan Paul made something out of them. He looks genuinely pleased at the end and you can tell he had fun making it and took a great deal or care over it. He's a millionaire, he could have just bought a table or got someone to make him one, but he did it himself with his friends and to me that's way more valuable than a bunch of ancient consoles which would probably have just sat on a shelf in some consoomer's hoard acquiring dust.

That game boy table actually looks rather cool and would certainly be a conversation piece for years to come. Not to mention, you can still play Game Boy games on a Game Boy advanced and Game Boy and game boy replacement parts are easy to come by.

Agree with both of you, that table came out very cool, and I love that he made it himself. One of my friends is into "retro-gaming" and has some memorabilia, he would love something like that. Like you said, definitely a conversation piece!

 

[Finder]

Who even gives a shit about destroying a gameboy?

Manchildren, that's about it. No kid wants a GBC in 2021, the only people who do are a nostalgic 90s kids and even that's a small market.

Every single gameboy game can be experienced better via an emulator on a smartphone, the old hardware is irrelevant.

 

[185405]

I know some loser spends all their money on skins for shitty games or gatcha games.

 

[The Wicked Mitch]

View attachment 2838317

Kid is clearly imagining what all that fucking money invested in a retard proof ETF would've yielded by the time she turned 18, poor kid.

 

[admiral]

View attachment 2838317

Imagine being the child of a consoomer, constantly surrounded by toys but unable to play with any of them.

When I was a little kid I was obsessed with those big fancy china dolls that you can get in beautiful period costume; they were basically my only concession to girliness. I had bratz and barbies (which tended to get wrecked/dismembered/shaved), but china dolls were special. I particularly loved the dolls with long curly hair and big silky dresses, and lots of accessories like shepherdess crooks and fans and bonnets and so on. For a few years I would get given a doll every year on Christmas, which would be named and introduced to the other dolls. I was generally a pretty careless child, but I treated these dolls like my babies, so they tended to get a little ragged and worn due to my constant attentions. I would take them down and brush their hair and smooth their dresses and talk to them all the time (until I reached about 12 and suddenly didn't care anymore).

So you can imagine my confusion when we went to relatives/elderly people's houses and I was forbidden from touching any of their lovely dolls or decorative dolls houses. I didn't get it, because surely dolls were meant to be played with? Drove me mental.

 

[NoReturn]

Defunctland made a extremely well put-together video detailing how the revamp of the Fastpass system at Disney parks has created alot of problems- but it did strike me as odd that not only does there exist a number of people who make multiple trips to a Disney park a year, but apparently had become such reliable "whales" that Disney could cater several different services to them.

Full doc for those that want it:

Also relevant, though I think I shared this one already, too:

At one point he does the math and figures out you can take a 20-day cruise from Hawaii to Australia with four people for less than the cost of one Disney trip.

If someone buys lots of lego sets and actually plays with him and puts them in rather fun diorama sets they change every now and again, are they a consoomer or just a massive autist?

Autist, but honestly kind of an adorable autist in the same way model train guys are.

Every single gameboy game can be experienced better via an emulator on a smartphone, the old hardware is irrelevant.

I was playing with a GBC recently and realized two things:
1. It does feel nice, honestly. They did a good job designing those things. I can understand the appeal of wanting to use it instead of an emulator just because of how it feels in your hands.
HOWEVER
2. The lack of a backlight sucks absolute dick and I understand why people refab old GBCs to include them.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

These people really need to read up on Virtual Boy Advance, DeSmuME, and the GPD XE. I still have both a GBA and a DS Lite and I love them, but I will readily admit that any one of those emulator systems is vastly superior. Get over yourselves, it isn't that bad.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Every single gameboy game can be experienced better via an emulator on a smartphone

smartphone "buttons" a shit, you're better off trying to build a rasberry pi or use the new emulator machines the chinese are making.
I had one that was ok for 30 bucks but the buttons were awkward, emulation was iffy and it eventually died. I'm sure better models will come out soon that will even be as nigh indestructable as nintendium.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

I was contemplating buying broken consoles, repairing them and getting them back in the market, maybe even make a profit. I looked at 3DSs but even broken ones are £70+ which is pretty close to pre-owned value so repairing them will be at a loss.
I think I'll start with DS Lites because they cost only £10-£15 for a broken one.

I hate this current state of retro tech costing an arm thanks to scalpers and collectors. Time to get myself a Raspberry Pi and make myself an arcade machine.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Defunctland made a extremely well put-together video detailing how the revamp of the Fastpass system at Disney parks has created alot of problems- but it did strike me as odd that not only does there exist a number of people who make multiple trips to a Disney park a year, but apparently had become such reliable "whales" that Disney could cater several different services to them.

I only ever went to Disneyworld once in my life when I was four years old and I barely remember any of it because I was so young- and even then it was a big undertaking for my parents because we had to travel halfway down the East Coast of the US. As of writing it's been about 10 years since the last vacation I took. If I could afford to travel multiple times in a single year without it interfering with my job I would be using that time to go different places for either business, pilgrimages, or the rare vacation. It's especially jarring to see Millennials or Gen Xers go to Disney multiple times in a year- especially if they don't have children of their own. "Disney Trips" are supposed to be for the kids- more or less (unless you're an executive, engineer, or actor of some kind hoping to get sloshed at Club 38

i don't get it either. As someone who doesn't have kids you couldn't pay me to go to Disneyland. Going to Theme parks is one of the most exhausting ways to spend a vacation, it makes me tired just thinking about it. I get more when other millenials are traveling to conventions or music festivals which can also get be pretty energy draining with age but don't see any appeal for going to Disney regularly or more than once or twice in a lifetime unless you have a pass for the underground Adrenochrome harvesting farms.

 

[admiral]

i don't get it either. As someone who doesn't have kids you couldn't pay me to go to Disneyland. Going to Theme parks is one of the most exhausting ways to spend a vacation, it makes me tired just thinking about it. I get more when other millenials are traveling to conventions or music festivals which can also get be pretty energy draining with age but don't see any appeal for going to Disney regularly or more than once or twice in a lifetime unless you have a pass for the underground Adrenochrome harvesting farms.

I heard two female acquainances at uni talking about how much they love disney, how they go to disneyland as often as they can, and that they wish they could work there. Nostalgia and delusion are a powerful combination. Adult disney fans are always so weird, like they have brain slugs eating up their critical thinking skills.

 

[whitepumpkin]

I heard two female acquainances at uni talking about how much they love disney, how they go to disneyland as often as they can, and that they wish they could work there. Nostalgia and delusion are a powerful combination. Adult disney fans are always so weird, like they have brain slugs eating up their critical thinking skills.

I honestly wouldn't care if someone liked the old traditionally animated disney movies and enjoyed rewatching them as a hit of nostalgia. Especially considering how garbage entertainment is now these days and some of the movies are artistically stunning - Sleeping Beauty's backgrounds come to mind. But going to the park as much as you can when it's clearly a money sink, wishing you could work there (You'd never be a "Cast Member", but the janitor, let's be real), and talking about it excessively to the point of obsession is something else.

Let's hope as they get older, their tastes will change and they'll leave that behind. Scrapbook your memories and photos, sell those damned Disney pins, and use your Disney movies as a once-a-year nostalgia rewatch.

 

[BangBingBongalo]

This is making me want to take a black pill or a shotgun to the face
Can we have some nice examples of people collecting that isn't consooming?
Just to stay sane.

I want to say its cool. But I feel its consooming.
Seriously where do we call halts on consooming?
You can't just have blank walls and nothing

 

[moocow]

Can we have some nice examples of people collecting that isn't consooming?

I've always had a lot of respect for people who've worked hard to build collections like these (and earn the right to display them):



Always adds a bit of class to a place imho.

 

[Protistology]

Seriously where do we call halts on consooming?

Does it mean something to you? Does it have emotional value? Did you make/earn it?

 

[BangBingBongalo]

Thread made

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/good-collections-that-are-not-consooming.109072/

Hopefully after looking at rooms of funko pops you can ease yourself knowing you can look at these nice collections.

 

[Montalbane]

GAYSE WHATS THE EQUATION FOR CONSOOOMING?

I LOOOKED AT SCIENCE SUBREDDITS AND CAME WITH SOMETHING LIKE
(AGE/NUMBER OF FUNKOS OWNED) * AMOUNT SPENT ON ONLYFANS
IF ITS GREATER THAN AN 100 HECK YOU'RE CONSOOOMING.


No but seriously call me a fag but Italeri mdoels are fucking art and I wish I could visit their factory one of these days.

 

[BangBingBongalo]

What do we think?
Consooming or are these ok?
I think these are fine, they are clean, not excessive and don't fill up the entire room.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

What do we think?
Consooming or are these ok?
I think these are fine, they are clean, not excessive and don't fill up the entire room.
View attachment 2844514View attachment 2844515View attachment 2844516View attachment 2844517

They're both well organized and they have a single unifying theme. They're also unobtrusive, I have no issue with them.