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

[Neet Tokusatsu]

It gets more insane than that. At least with mechanical keyboards you can have different feels between key types, layouts, switches, whether or not you lubricate the mechanics of the former, but the mentality that expensive=better has lead to expensive usb cords. Yes, the plug that just connects the keyboard to the pc.

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$70 bucks for a cheap cord, yeah i think i'll stick to my $40 dollar mechanical keyboard.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

We talk about the many Nintendo consoomers, but I do wish we talked about the PlayStation consoomers more:

There’s more videos that I can find on this one, but I know for a fact that most of these games are so rare, that even the prices are somewhere in the $150-$200 range on eBay. Either that, or I can find ROMs for the games, but they (probably) won’t run right the appropriate emulator for it.

 

[The Lawgiver]

There’s more videos that I can find on this one, but I know for a fact that most of these games are so rare, that even the prices are somewhere in the $150-$200 range on eBay. Either that, or I can find ROMs for the games, but they (probably) won’t run right the appropriate emulator for it.

Playstation games aren't actually "rare". You see hundreds if not thousands of listings for them at these insane prices lately because of this specific consoomer current year game collector "WOAH VALUABLE THING!!!!" mindset.
It pisses me off, especially with me being a guy who doesn't want to bother with just fucking emulating everything and would actually give people money for their used games if they werent' selling shit like megaman for 200 fucking dollars. The worst joke though? A lot of foreign/japanese release versions of the games run for dirt cheap. I was at a fucking game seller convention recently to see if I could buy shit, but they were all going by the post-covid online prices, so you had shit like Earthbound for TWO FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS and then a real, sealed, Mother 2 with a slightly dinged up corner on the box for 35 dollars. I fucking hate this shit so fucking much you would not believe.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I was driving around today running errands and a few houses had signs in the yard for a vacation bible school at the church this summer.

The theme this year is Star Wars

 

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I was driving around today running errands and a few houses had signs in the yard for a vacation bible school at the church this summer.

The theme this year is Star Wars

Given Disney hates Christianity and loves money, they would never allow any church to use Star Wars as the theme for their vacation Bible school stuff. The only reason that church won't get sued is because Disney is in such hot political water now they wouldn't be kicking the hornet's nest by C&Ding that church like when they sued that random daycare years ago.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Given Disney hates Christianity and loves money, they would never allow any church to use Star Wars as the theme for their vacation Bible school stuff. The only reason that church won't get sued is because Disney is in such hot political water now they wouldn't be kicking the hornet's nest by C&Ding that church like when they sued that random daycare years ago.

Don't forget the time they sued a family for wanting to put spiderman on their kids grave or whatever the fuck like only a year or 2 after they bought marvel where they as they usually do with buyouts refer to the character like they always owned it.

 

[NoReturn]

So the whole Disney cruise thing is an absolute shit show. They sent out invitations to people and families like these two sloppy fatties who have less than 6k subscribers. Anna ain't that special after all if people like these two got invites, with a whopping 371 views on their video.

Spoiler: *fingers crossed* battle royale with Anna for the buffet!

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What pisses me off though is that Disney canceled two free test cruises for Disney employees and their families to focus on the "Christening" and "media" cruises. A fancy cruise they'd likely never be able to afford otherwise a quick google says disney cast member and cruise line employees make around $30k a year, canceled, so that tards like Anna can lumber around taking pictures of her 600 pounds of lard hanging out in bikinis and chinese polyester little mermaid outfits, for FREE. Despicable.

Quoting you over to this thread because I had no idea this was a thing.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

We talk about the many Nintendo consoomers, but I do wish we talked about the PlayStation consoomers more:

There’s more videos that I can find on this one, but I know for a fact that most of these games are so rare, that even the prices are somewhere in the $150-$200 range on eBay. Either that, or I can find ROMs for the games, but they (probably) won’t run right the appropriate emulator for it.

I get wanting to collect the standout hits, cult classics, and games with just good box art. But outside of extracting data for media preservation, there isn't much reason to hold on to most of those titles. Also, disk rot is supposed to be setting in for ps1 and ps2 games about now. I wonder how it will impact the price when they are too deteriorated to even run properly? Do game collectors even play the games they collect or will that decrease the game's value?

 

[The Lawgiver]

I get wanting to collect the standout hits, cult classics, and games with just good box art. But outside of extracting data for media preservation, there isn't much reason to hold on to most of those titles. Also, disk rot is supposed to be setting in for ps1 and ps2 games about now. I wonder how it will impact the price when they are too deteriorated to even run properly? Do game collectors even play the games they collect or will that decrease the game's value?

current year value speculator "collectors" don't play or even open the games, so no. Disc rot also is a thing that only happens sometimes as far as I'm aware and is caused by a number of factors like fucking mold somehow finding it's way INTO the fucking cases. I'm scared to open my old ps1/ps2 games due to this but I did it with my gamecube games a few years ago and they played fine thank fucking god.
PS2 games had a problem specific to them where if you played them a lot they'd become unplayable, but it was less a disc rot thing and more a weird defect of another kind involving some models of the console somehow managing to burn the data OUT of the discs from reading them too much.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I am a bit behind on the thread so not sure if it was mentioned but i pulled this one straight from the cursed image thread.

Apparently Diablo Immortal really jumped the shark with that gatcha shit.

 

[Valkorion]

I am a bit behind on the thread so not sure if it was mentioned but i pulled this one straight from the cursed image thread.

Apparently Diablo Immortal really jumped the shark with that gatcha shit.


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Man I hate that whole "Games as a service" bullshit. You just pay and pay and pay.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Man I hate that whole "Games as a service" bullshit. You just pay and pay and pay.

The cursed thing is not that a AAA dev try to milk those shekels but that they seem to be doing well and as far as i've heard the game is making serious bank.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I am a bit behind on the thread so not sure if it was mentioned but i pulled this one straight from the cursed image thread.

Apparently Diablo Immortal really jumped the shark with that gatcha shit.


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A game series like Diablo falling victim to the micro transactions scam, too? That’s even more bizarre than still supporting Blizzard Games in current day.

 

[tehpope]

So Diablo Immortal was made for the Asian market. Mostly China. One of the devs said on Chinese Social Media that "the bear should step down". Bear being Pooh. And now the game is delayed to launch there. Maybe never releasing there. Good job on vetting devs Blizzard.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Quoting you over to this thread because I had no idea this was a thing.
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So maybe someone more into rich people things can explain this to me but why are cruise ships all about the ships these days? If I'm going on a cruise to wild tropical paradise I'm probably going to want to get off the ship and head down to the beach or into town and drink and mingle with the locals a bit, eat some good local grub and drink some dog ass local brew, then hopefully stumble back to the ship without getting mugged. The cruise ship is basically just Disneyland but shittier and I can go to Disneyland or Disneyworld much cheaper than I can go on the cruise and get to ride roller coasters.

Am I too poor to understand cruise ships?

Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, I'd want to be on board a state of the art ocean liner, or at least a nice ship, to actually go to these nice tropical places. But miss me with that "staying on the ship the entire time" bullshit.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

So maybe someone more into rich people things can explain this to me but why are cruise ships all about the ships these days? If I'm going on a cruise to wild tropical paradise I'm probably going to want to get off the ship and head down to the beach or into town and drink and mingle with the locals a bit, eat some good local grub and drink some dog ass local brew, then hopefully stumble back to the ship without getting mugged. The cruise ship is basically just Disneyland but shittier and I can go to Disneyland or Disneyworld much cheaper than I can go on the cruise and get to ride roller coasters.

Am I too poor to understand cruise ships?

Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, I'd want to be on board a state of the art ocean liner, or at least a nice ship, to actually go to these nice tropical places. But miss me with that "staying on the ship the entire time" bullshit.

You would think that Disney would instead turn one of their cruise ships in that Star Wars Galaxy edge ship but no instead they stuff all the weird Soyboys and ham beasts into a windowless building with overpriced blue shrimp that probably stinks of stale farts.

Probably is best for the other guests that they don’t mingle with the young families

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

A game series like Diablo falling victim to the micro transactions scam, too? That’s even more bizarre than still supporting Blizzard Games in current day.

A shame, Blizzard used to be cool before activision and now they are bought by microsoft, is like a shallow husk of their former self.

 

[Vingle]

So maybe someone more into rich people things can explain this to me but why are cruise ships all about the ships these days? If I'm going on a cruise to wild tropical paradise I'm probably going to want to get off the ship and head down to the beach or into town and drink and mingle with the locals a bit, eat some good local grub and drink some dog ass local brew, then hopefully stumble back to the ship without getting mugged. The cruise ship is basically just Disneyland but shittier and I can go to Disneyland or Disneyworld much cheaper than I can go on the cruise and get to ride roller coasters.

Am I too poor to understand cruise ships?

Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, I'd want to be on board a state of the art ocean liner, or at least a nice ship, to actually go to these nice tropical places. But miss me with that "staying on the ship the entire time" bullshit.

People disappearing from ships are happening on the Disney ones too. It's more like you are gambling with your life, if you go onto one.

But the answer you are seeking is probably convenience. Mingling among the locals is too much work and risky.
But actual rich people probably have a yacht, or they could rent one.

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

Given Disney hates Christianity and loves money,

Lol all companies love money. Wtf was that

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

So Diablo Immortal was made for the Asian market. Mostly China.

Dunno if it was said here, but there are radical differences between people that play videogames in the west and the east. And you are right that the game is mostly made for China. Because studies also revealed that while pretty much most gamers in the west hated P2W and microtransactions, in Asia (and manly China), they actually liked them and they wanted to be able to pay in order to be better or powerful than others.

Games marketed to China will have as many microtransactions as possible in order to fleece the chinamen of all their yuans. And they will happily part with their money as long as their e-dick is longer than others. The fact that the game was delayed in China and it will very likely be banned is hilarious enough. Blizz cannot stop taking heat even for a second and this will probably make the game bomb.