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

I feel it's very telling that I see zero kids in any of these videos. Really hits home who this experience is for cuz it isn't kids. No kid would wanna eat half the shit on that menu. Goony adults-children 30 somethings that have fur babies and a two bed. Spent 5k on Disney instead of saving for a down-payment on a house.
What's a two-bed?
This is Disney's new demographic for the Disney Parks subsidiary in general. From a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense. You can grift maybe $1000 a day from a family of 6, and they are going be be price conscious (and thus low margin) about fucking everything, OR you can sell weird outlandish larp shit to non reproductive DINK couples for $6000 a day and as long as they can stuff their faces and get shitfaced while experiencing something novel, they are legitimately happy.

It's the easiest business decision anyone has ever made.
Not only that, but it removes the DINKs from the main parks and frees up just a little more space so they can keep milking families with kids.
If this is an actual success, I'd not be surprised if they made more like it.
GenX and down aren't really going on cruises since they don't have the time or the interest like the Boomers did, so a fake-cruise-weekend/"capsule experience" that costs the same as a cruise is a great way to recover that money.
 
I guess its true, money really cant buy taste. Jesus Christ those houses lol
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Anyone want some Squidward perfume for your perfect date night? (this is an official product).

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I found a this in the suggested combinations. Its... bewildering to say the least. I don't know who on the product team decided Spongebob and perfume mix but good god.

This is the sexy night perfume, you cant convince me otherwise (don't even ask me how you get it out, I have no idea and am slightly scared by it).
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That place looks uncomfortably sterile. And I dunno how else to describe this, but it just gives me that sense that it'll just crumble over time. Like, if I tripped and fell into a wall, I'd go right through it, causing way bigger cracks than I would in a sturdier house. Maybe it's that IKEA look, like @Vingle mentioned.
 
I have noticed it's trendy to teach the pleb how to consume "like rich people supposedly do",
a lot of bored housewifes are doing content teaching the plebs how to look rich.
It's like there's no horizon besides consooming and putting outside an certain image. No possibility for wealth redistribution, for greater justice, for another world. No desire to expand one's mind. Just the lie that all this stuff makes you look good, the lie that it's a great way to spend your money, that "you will get your money back" if you need to sell your Gucci bag later (more likely you won't)...
this is "their best life?" I just call that mindless consumption.
This is frankly evil that they are targeting women and LGBT+ with that discourse but if they are dumb enough to fall for it they deserve it...
I wouldn't want to live there but for so many unrealted reasons.
Do go on. The exteriors were mentioned earlier, but I'm not really a fan of those, either. The neighborhood is right off a main road and you can see cars driving by in some of the shots.
 
This is Disney's new demographic for the Disney Parks subsidiary in general. From a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense. You can grift maybe $1000 a day from a family of 6, and they are going be be price conscious (and thus low margin) about fucking everything, OR you can sell weird outlandish larp shit to non reproductive DINK couples for $6000 a day and as long as they can stuff their faces and get shitfaced while experiencing something novel, they are legitimately happy.
We have an annual SoCal pass (or at least we did before COVID) and this isn’t really a new park demographic so much as a secondary demographic. Disney’s parks have actually lowered their merchandise and food prices to be more in line with other theme parks like Six Flags or Busch Gardens (still expensive but not ‘’sneak your own food in” expensive). The parks themselves are still to appeal to the budget conscious family, whereas these are secondary attractions (Disney homes, Disney cruise, Disney island, etc) are things that Disney has historically done to try to get more money out of Disney super fans.
 





Do go on. The exteriors were mentioned earlier, but I'm not really a fan of those, either. The neighborhood is right off a main road and you can see cars driving by in some of the shots.
I didn't watch the "how to look rich/old money" videos because I know they're wrong. A lot of the people I've met who worked for a long time to attain wealth (like veteran lawyers, engineers, etc) shop at Target and Costco. They drive mid-priced cars. "Old money" people often get that way through investments. $5000 in a steady stock will increase its value in 10 years; a $5000 dress will not. They'll shell out for big homes in nice neighborhoods, sure, but just running into them on the street? You'd usually never be able to tell.

People who buy expensive casual clothes, ridiculous fashion, gaudy jewelry, and Lamborghinis are often either 20something celebrities who will go bankrupt five years after their careers end, or are trying to seem higher status than they actually are.
 
I didn't know this was a thing.

Disney cruise

A couple who sleep in separate beds.
Ah, gotcha.
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If you're over the age of 12 and paying even $5.00 for all-you-can-drink blue and green milk then you're legitimately retarded.
 
That place looks uncomfortably sterile. And I dunno how else to describe this, but it just gives me that sense that it'll just crumble over time. Like, if I tripped and fell into a wall, I'd go right through it, causing way bigger cracks than I would in a sturdier house. Maybe it's that IKEA look, like @Vingle mentioned.
It looks like the carpentry and set design team that works on the Disney TV show sets were hired to build these homes. They look like fake sitcom homes.
 
I do not understand the need to collect retro vidya in 2022 other than to signal to other neckbearded enthusiasts online.

Most old videogames are a time bomb. Cartridge batteries die after a few decades which prevents save data being stored. This is fixable but requires soldering, which to the lay person is kryptonite. Just imagine needing to operate on your cartridge worth $200 which will be rendered worthless if you fuck up? Then you also have contact damage and erosion. Disc based media is not immune either as disc rot is starting to rear its ugly head for CDs made in the 80s/90s, and even DVDs. I already have several PS1 games destroyed by it. There is nothing you can do as it's believed to be a manufacturing defect.

Don't forget that to even get legitimate carts, you will also have to become your own appraiser. I had to follow a guide and cross reference product codes to see if a GBA game I bought was even legitimate. Who wants this hassle other than for pride or e-peen measurement? Just get an HDD/SD loader and custom firmware for your console of choice and download ROMS onto them, or even just use an emulator. Most are 95% accurate by now and improve every year.
It'll be interesting to see how long blu-ray discs last. There's already 360 games prone to disc rot like Lost Odyssey's final disc. Even when that game was new, people had to do crazy things like boil it to make it work. You could just install the data onto your 360, too. Went with that instead of boiling a DVD.
 
It'll be interesting to see how long blu-ray discs last. There's already 360 games prone to disc rot like Lost Odyssey's final disc. Even when that game was new, people had to do crazy things like boil it to make it work. You could just install the data onto your 360, too. Went with that instead of boiling a DVD.
Just checked my copy, it looks fine. It probably didn't help matters that Lost Odyssey had its fourth disc shipped in a paper sleeve on top of the instruction manual:
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and the paper sleeve was too big for the case so they're all inevitably a little crumpled

From what I've read, disc rot tends to happen when discs are cheaply manufactured, and Sony's discs seem resistant to it, so I figure most Blu-rays will be fine for a long time. I haven't heard of any trouble with disc rot on PS1 games yet, and that's been kicking around since the end of '94. Meanwhile, a lot of HD-DVDs from specifically Warner are already rotting away, and I have a couple in my collection that show.

Apparently there are rotting problems with specifically MGS: The Twin Snakes on Gamecube too? But just that game?
 
I didn't watch the "how to look rich/old money" videos because I know they're wrong. A lot of the people I've met who worked for a long time to attain wealth (like veteran lawyers, engineers, etc) shop at Target and Costco. They drive mid-priced cars. "Old money" people often get that way through investments. $5000 in a steady stock will increase its value in 10 years; a $5000 dress will not. They'll shell out for big homes in nice neighborhoods, sure, but just running into them on the street? You'd usually never be able to tell.

People who buy expensive casual clothes, ridiculous fashion, gaudy jewelry, and Lamborghinis are often either 20something celebrities who will go bankrupt five years after their careers end, or are trying to seem higher status than they actually are.
Believe it or not the video says the same thing. The whole narrative is basically "new richers have something to prove and buy blingy shit to impress, old richers are price conscious and don't give a shit what the unwashed masses think", except phrased in an insufferably pretentious way.
 
Just checked my copy, it looks fine. It probably didn't help matters that Lost Odyssey had its fourth disc shipped in a paper sleeve on top of the instruction manual:
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and the paper sleeve was too big for the case so they're all inevitably a little crumpled

From what I've read, disc rot tends to happen when discs are cheaply manufactured, and Sony's discs seem resistant to it, so I figure most Blu-rays will be fine for a long time. I haven't heard of any trouble with disc rot on PS1 games yet, and that's been kicking around since the end of '94. Meanwhile, a lot of HD-DVDs from specifically Warner are already rotting away, and I have a couple in my collection that show.

Apparently there are rotting problems with specifically MGS: The Twin Snakes on Gamecube too? But just that game?
The first time I saw the art on the fourth disc, I felt uncomfortable. After finding out they are prone to needing boiled, that feeling of being mocked by a disc was justified. If Yoko Taro was involved with the game, I'd assume this was intentional.
 
I actually like this company, but that doesn't give them a pass for how silly this is:
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Believe it or not the video says the same thing. The whole narrative is basically "new richers have something to prove and buy blingy shit to impress, old richers are price conscious and don't give a shit what the unwashed masses think", except phrased in an insufferably pretentious way.
Yeah, that's her whole schtick. She acts all "I'm a fancy lady." but then tells her clients to hang around known prostitution hotels, etc. if they want to find rich men to marry. (I learned that from you guys. I also learned from the Sugar Babies thread that she has a Tattle.life thread.)
 
Believe it or not the video says the same thing. The whole narrative is basically "new richers have something to prove and buy blingy shit to impress, old richers are price conscious and don't give a shit what the unwashed masses think", except phrased in an insufferably pretentious way.
Perhaps slightly OT: Friend of a friend worked at a dealership that sold Ferraris. According to him, the absolute, one hundred percent certain tell that a guy walking through the front door couldn't actually afford a Ferrari was 'he's wearing a suit and tie'. People who can afford high end stuff like that often dress in ugly golf shirts and flip flops when they're off the clock.
 
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