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

Crystal Coomer said:
You've heard of collectors of useless plastic valued $5-30, but have you heard of a useless $13,800 hand-painted polystone, pvc, abs plastic die cast statue of a fictional character that requires a down-payment?

Introducing the Final Fantasy VI 1/6 scale statue!

600 will be created to litter the planet with each uniquely numbered. Tell the wife you won't be able to get her that standard transition 2022 Nissan Versa, your childhood waifu is at stake here!

Has two interchangable kneeling Terra designs (the girl), one interchangable seated Terra, 3 moogles (the white teddy bear creatures), and a title plate of the video game the statue references.

My sister's hospital fees to give birth to her daughter were nearly $30,000 so this statue is worth half a living, healthy human being birthed into this world.

https://store.na.square-enix-games....x-masterline-final-fantasy-vi-16-scale-statue

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I've noticed the fucking prices of these kinds of statues fucking SPIKED within the last few years and you can't just pin it on "inflation". A vague few years back these kinds of things would be $200, $500, $899 in chronological order or whatever. If they were handmade I'd understand the expense but when it's a factory made product painted by hired artists to make each one look identical, yeah I can't see the fucking "value" in that. The way it used to go was the $30 ones were made of plastic but the ones in he hundreds were in that polystone ceramic stuff. Now though? a lot of the plastic ones are just as expensive as the polystone ones usted to be or CURRENTLY ARE. Only exception to this I've seen is the shit like the first4figures miniature sonic statues or the goodsmile pop up parade shit which all run like $34 or some shit but even that latter one is gradually increasing in price to the fucking 50 dollar range. Like yeah it looks cool but when you get to the point that literally the majority of people buying your product are people attempting to squat on it to sell it for a higher "value" you have a fucking problem.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Of the people who do buy the content I’d wager most of them are buying it digitally rather than physically, which allows them to more easily use expansion content with a virtual tabletop like Roll20, D&D Beyond or Foundry.
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It really depends on the player and the specific game you're playing. I buy physical copies since they just plain last longer as with a TTRPG you can play the same game for twenty or forty years so long as you still have the rules, it also can be slightly easier to transport physical print than to fuck with a laptop or tablet if you play physical sessions, especially if your group has a "no tech" rule at the table like mine tend to. The other thing is that if you play games other than D&D (specifically fifth edition D&D too, the older editions don't have the same online support), PF2E, or Shadowrun4E, a lot of VTTs will not have proper support for you and will require either custom macros or just a webcam and physical dice anyways. Grognards like me who play mainly older games and war games are better off just buying the physical books and meeting in person, Tabletop Simulator is nice but it lacks the same sort of good atmosphere that a physical game has.

EDIT: Spelling

Second edit: Something else that I just thought of is that there are some TTRPGs that even torrent and pirate sites will not host because their author and/or publisher is both very competent at finding illegal copies of their books and also super aggressive with effective take down demands. Chainmail and Zweihander are both really good examples of this since those books tend to get entire pirate sites nuked all on their own.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Yeah but with D&D, unless you’re a super ultra nerd you can just play for free, since all the resources are mirrored online. Of the people who do buy the content I’d wager most of them are buying it digitally rather than physically, which allows them to more easily use expansion content with a virtual tabletop like Roll20, D&D Beyond or Foundry.
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Oh I agree, but there are a lot of people who prefer to play with physical copies. And with 5e being mostly digital and SJW bait there are a lot of people moving to 3.5e

And several of my campaigns are online and it’s great, but I still like having my physical books to reference.
Gar For Archer said:
Paying $150-200 for one set of dice is already hardcore consoomer behavior, they’re fucking dice, there is literally zero functional difference between a $200 set of dice and the $5 pair I picked up at B&N, as long as they roll fair.
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To be fair the sets that carried that value were because they are incredibly gorgeous and rare, because it’s illegal to produce them any longer. The glitter used is a controlled substance in the EU where they are manufactured, as it’s now used as part of the anti-counterfeiting measures on the Euro bank notes. So dice nerds really love them and ngl they are gorgeous. But I paid $5 for my sets. Just nuts to look at your dice tray and know that some weirdos would give you 6k for just what’s there. I’d never sell em though.
 
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Dieter Laser said:
Sadly the speculators and investors are moving into the TTRPG sphere. I’ve seen multiple people asking about getting D&D books graded. And the worst part is they’ve already blown the market apart trying to buy up copies. 50-100$ titles are going for 500$+, same with dice… sets that sold for 150-200 are going for 1500-2000$ easily. Anything remotely nerdy that has any rare items is being hit by these idiots.
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Imagine the day when people begin scalping Varg's TTRPG game.
 
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Dieter Laser said:
None of them are actually selling to collectors, just from auction house to auction house, to generate a history of price increases.
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Just like the NFT bubble. Its all jew trickery

Crystal Coomer said:
My sister's hospital fees to give birth to her daughter were nearly $30,000
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Ok the statue is expensive but 30k for giving birth is also fucking insane.
 
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Pissmaster said:
That burger one reminds me of:
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Isn't the lid going to fall off and the ice cream start to drip out the end?
Raging Capybara said:
Kids are another over-expensive shit that's definitely not worth the asking price nowadays, but whatever.
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>Kids are another over-expensive shit that's definitely not worth the asking price nowadays, but whatever.
 
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BroccoliBrain said:
Watching the lashes being applied to her eyelids made my skin crawl, they remind me of insect legs or a whole hairy caterpillar on her eye when she blinks. Looks ugly as fuck and she should have spent her money fixing her awful skin. All that cash can't buy you class.
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This is why the “clean beauty” freaks, annoying as they are bragging about dropping cash on Glossier and brands like Westman Atelier, get points from me for pissing off the high-maintenance, fake lashes, fake hair, fake nails crowd. There’s an incredible amount of elitism, and probably racism, in the “My skin is perfect, I just need a tiny bit of ethically-produced, sustainably-packaged lip gloss and eye cream” approach, and it pisses off the beauty comsoomers no end.

And speaking of beauty consoomers, this is not a recent link, but I have seen little indication that things are pulling back from glorifying this level of makeup hoarding. I mean, all the drama killing off the Beautuber trend is probably helping, but companies just started pumping out insane amounts of products during the pandemic. The number of subscription beauty boxes exploded. Sephora is now in Kohl’s and Ulta is in Target. Say what you will about the YA book and Lego hoarders, at least they’re not buying stuff that might go bad 6 months after they first open it.
 
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Frog-Chomping Bat said:
This is why the “clean beauty” freaks, annoying as they are bragging about dropping cash on Glossier and brands like Westman Atelier, get points from me for pissing off the high-maintenance, fake lashes, fake hair, fake nails crowd. There’s an incredible amount of elitism, and probably racism, in the “My skin is perfect, I just need a tiny bit of ethically-produced, sustainably-packaged lip gloss and eye cream” approach, and it pisses off the beauty comsoomers no end.
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Frog-Chomping Bat said:
And speaking of beauty consoomers, this is not a recent link, but I have seen little indication that things are pulling back from glorifying this level of makeup hoarding. I mean, all the drama killing off the Beautuber trend is probably helping, but companies just started pumping out insane amounts of products during the pandemic. The number of subscription beauty boxes exploded. Sephora is now in Kohl’s and Ulta is in Target. Say what you will about the YA book and Lego hoarders, at least they’re not buying stuff that might go bad 6 months after they first open it.
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You seen this yet?
Apparently a bunch of Targets across the US are getting remodeled at the same time. So it's not just shit-from-Ulta. It's that they're redoing the beauty sections entirely.
 
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NoReturn said:
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You don't actually pay that much, that's the starting price for insurance companies. If you dont have insurance you'll only pay a fraction of that. Also with insurance there's a maximum to how much you'll have to pay out of pocket. It's definitely bad still but it's not as bad as it looks.
 
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Frog-Chomping Bat said:
This is why the “clean beauty” freaks, annoying as they are bragging about dropping cash on Glossier and brands like Westman Atelier, get points from me for pissing off the high-maintenance, fake lashes, fake hair, fake nails crowd. There’s an incredible amount of elitism, and probably racism, in the “My skin is perfect, I just need a tiny bit of ethically-produced, sustainably-packaged lip gloss and eye cream” approach, and it pisses off the beauty consoomers no end.
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I'm not really keen about clean beauty, as synthetic ingredients in skincare are mostly safer in skincare. As natural ingredients have thousand of compounds, meanwhile in the synthetics you can pick and choose what compound you need.
As an example. Citrus oils are phototoxic (they make your skin burn easily in the sun), but in the synthetic citrus oils. They take out the components that are phototoxic.

As a regular in the skincare-thread here, I'm certainly very elitist about skincare and make-up. Make-up looks fake af and is trashy no matter what, it even looks bad on people with flawless skin.
Sunscreen with some whitecast should be the only thing you need. Maybe some mascara, since Dr, Dray use it.

So my take is, both sides are retarded.

And its wild that applying foundation with your fingers is considered a hack now. Beauty blenders hasn't been here that long, but people seem to have forgotten what they did before beauty blenders came on the market. Brushes were still a thing, but it seems like barehanded applying got forgotten when it got released.
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Vingle said:
I'm not really keen about clean beauty, as synthetic ingredients in skincare are mostly safer in skincare. As natural ingredients have thousand of compounds, meanwhile in the synthetics you can pick and choose what compound you need.
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You can't take my lanolin, Vingle! It's mine! Mine!
Vingle said:
And its wild that applying foundation with your fingers is considered a hack now. Beauty blenders hasn't been here that long, but people seem to have forgotten what they did before beauty blenders came on the market. Brushes were still a thing, but it seems like barehanded applying got forgotten when it got released.
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Well now you have to see this, too:
 
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