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

[UERISIMILITUDO]

But I always wonder if these people have any retirement savings. Or do they just have an eternal child mentality and think they'll never grow up?

Older generations were able to retire with savings because most of them didn't regularly buy knickknacks and media. Even $25 wasted every week is $1,300 at the end of a year.

I'll play Devil's advocate and argue at least some of these people understand perfectly well how they will never be able to retire comfortably, since they didn't get in on the ponzi scheme as early as the older generations and money was also worth a lot more back then, so they may as well not have savings that are only going to decrease in value. If their parents leave them a house, that's realistically the only house they'll be able to have, regardless of what else they do, so why bother working in a vain attempt to get ahead a little?

 

[FILTH Tourist]

$10k on newsprint that is probably mostly unread.
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Hoarding paperback books you don't reread is completely pointless. If a book is just going to deteriorate on a shelf for the next decade, let it deteriorate on a shelf at the public library for free.

10k spent in a year and a half is absolutely absurd. I will never understand people who treat collecting like its a speed run. To me a collection should grow slowly and have a personal meaning, like a garden.

Look I get liking manga. I bought a small three layer shelf from Walmart for my collection of shit that I REGULARLY collect and read. If I stop reading it, fall out of love, etc, there's a store in my area that buys manga so I can keep said shelf clear. This is ridiculous. The floor has been color coded, the box sets on top neatly arranged- this is a fucking project that will never get finished.

Yeah, thats the idea. Books proudly displayed on your shelf should act like a stamp of approval, why waste shelf space on something you don't care about? I got into manga a few years ago and had to settle on building a digital library due to space and budget. But there are a few series I really enjoyed that I would like a physical set so I can share with friends.

 

[WelperHelper99]

10k spent in a year and a half is absolutely absurd. I will never understand people who treat collecting like its a speed run. To me a collection should grow slowly and have a personal meaning, like a garden.


Yeah, thats the idea. Books proudly displayed on your shelf should act like a stamp of approval, why waste shelf space on something you don't care about? I got into manga a few years ago and had to settle on building a digital library due to space and budget. But there are a few series I really enjoyed that I would like a physical set so I can share with friends.

Exactly my point. I'm not putting a series that I barely read or got bored of on my shelf. You don't get 10k of manga on a shelf if some of that doesn't interest you anymore. Heck most of what I've read is still digital and hasn't been printed yet. I choose to buy a series if I respect it. If anything this horde shows a lack of respect.

 

[Trapped Under Rice]

I'll play Devil's advocate and argue at least some of these people understand perfectly well how they will never be able to retire comfortably, since they didn't get in on the ponzi scheme as early as the older generations and money was also worth a lot more back then, so they may as well not have savings that are only going to decrease in value. If their parents leave them a house, that's realistically the only house they'll be able to have, regardless of what else they do, so why bother working in a vain attempt to get ahead a little?

In a sense I agree, but it's still a bad decision on their part. Younger people will definitely have to work harder to achieve the same level of material success as their parents. There is surely a sense of demoralization about the future here. However, anyone who seriously believes that broad-based investments will decease in value on a fourty-year time horizon should be buying ammunition instead of toys.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I'll play Devil's advocate and argue at least some of these people understand perfectly well how they will never be able to retire comfortably, since they didn't get in on the ponzi scheme as early as the older generations and money was also worth a lot more back then, so they may as well not have savings that are only going to decrease in value. If their parents leave them a house, that's realistically the only house they'll be able to have, regardless of what else they do, so why bother working in a vain attempt to get ahead a little?

Or he could simply have a high enough salary or return from investments that he can afford it. There's still people who just make that much money, specially if he is american but if i had to be prejudiced i'd assume credit card debt or a trust fund was involved because that tends to be more of the trend. Is all just implications though.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Here's a video I got recommended recently:

Not only does he have multiple copies of the "rare and expensive version" of Japanese Tetris, and not only does he have multiple BOXED copies of various "versions" (you'll see how slight the differences are in the video), this fully grown man gasps like a woman who just witnessed a car accident when he sees that there is a missing hyphen in a game manual/box.

That's it. That's the whole difference. He's excited about that. He has at least 10 copies of fucking Tetris.

The Lego spergs are the same way. The collector types who spend hours tracking the prices of each type of brick by color go apeshit ooga booga over misprinted boxes of sets. It could be a decal in the cgi box art gone wrong or some typo, they'll try and collect it like it's some aboriginal talisman.

 

[John Titor]

$10k on newsprint that is probably mostly unread.
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Hoarding paperback books you don't reread is completely pointless. If a book is just going to deteriorate on a shelf for the next decade, let it deteriorate on a shelf at the public library for free.

I didn't think much of it until they said they spent $10k within a year. Like, my bro, did you even like them to begin with?

Here's a video I got recommended recently:

Not only does he have multiple copies of the "rare and expensive version" of Japanese Tetris, and not only does he have multiple BOXED copies of various "versions" (you'll see how slight the differences are in the video), this fully grown man gasps like a woman who just witnessed a car accident when he sees that there is a missing hyphen in a game manual/box.

That's it. That's the whole difference. He's excited about that. He has at least 10 copies of fucking Tetris.

You ever seen the old sitcom "Third Rock from the Sun"? They did an episode about the Beanie Babies boom and the main character was sperging over a doll that had a messed up nostril because there were only 5 in existence. That episode is this thread in a nutshell come to think of it.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5v0d46

Here's the full episode in question, if you never seen an episode before, the only context you need is they're aliens pretending to be human to study Earth.

 

[The Lawgiver]

The Lego spergs are the same way. The collector types who spend hours tracking the prices of each type of brick by color go apeshit ooga booga over misprinted boxes of sets. It could be a decal in the cgi box art gone wrong or some typo, they'll try and collect it like it's some aboriginal talisman.

Modern lego "collectors" are a fucking plague that result in shit like the uncommon or unlisted varieties of the blind boxed bionicle mask parts (or even the completely non-rare silver nuva masks) spiking in price to over 100 fucking dollars each a few years ago. shit that'd cost you like maybe a few dollars back in the day is suddenly breaching 100 and the normal actually listed ones are being charged for 20 to 30 dollars. There was that spurt when the lego star wars game and the obi wan show came out where prices shot up to $2000 on some minifigures for a while and though the prices have SLIGHTLY gone back down it's still kinda fucked for some of the little dudes. I think I ranted about this before around when it started happening but the fact it's still happening fucking astounds me.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Oh boy, I've always wanted to pay 9 dollars for an empty mini-DVD case with bootleg art printed off the internet that makes it look like a brand new copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Who the fuck actually pays for this shit? If for whatever reason I needed to show off my copy of SSBM, I'd be proud of every last dent, scratch, and fade in the print it had from 20 years of use.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Oh boy, I've always wanted to pay 9 dollars for an empty mini-DVD case with bootleg art printed off the internet that makes it look like a brand new copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Who the fuck actually pays for this shit? If for whatever reason I needed to show off my copy of SSBM, I'd be proud of every last dent, scratch, and fade in the print it had from 20 years of use.

I'm guessing it's for people that lost their case or bought it used without the case. For instance a few years ago I got a used copy of the EU version of Tingle's rupeeland for $20 from some polish guy on ebay but it didn't have the case. Due to DS games being region free it works on any system and it was cheaper than the US listings with the case that were charging out the ass for a zelda game that never released in america. I still gotta get around to playing it in full. Unlike the tingle game though smash melee is a game thats now scalped to hell and almost always has the box so yeah only thing i could think that this would be useful for is if the one you had got something growing in it.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Oh boy, I've always wanted to pay 9 dollars for an empty mini-DVD case with bootleg art printed off the internet that makes it look like a brand new copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Who the fuck actually pays for this shit? If for whatever reason I needed to show off my copy of SSBM, I'd be proud of every last dent, scratch, and fade in the print it had from 20 years of use.

For 10$ bucks that guy must be making a good profit margin. With 10$ you could buy like a dozen cases. He has sold a good ammount too, good for him finding a decent hustle.

 

[The Lawgiver]

For 10$ bucks that guy must be making a good profit margin. With 10$ you could buy like a dozen cases. He has sold a good ammount too, good for him finding a decent hustle.

it really is a convenience based hustle. Sure you could go through the process of printing all that shit and buying replacement dvd cases in bulk for games you own without actual proper cases, or you could just outright buy the shit for a small bit more off someone who does.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

Oh boy, I've always wanted to pay 9 dollars for an empty mini-DVD case with bootleg art printed off the internet that makes it look like a brand new copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Who the fuck actually pays for this shit? If for whatever reason I needed to show off my copy of SSBM, I'd be proud of every last dent, scratch, and fade in the print it had from 20 years of use.

Oh man maybe it’s time for me to sell my game cube games. I’ve still got that game and it’s original case.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

To be fair, A lot of libraries don't even accept book donations nowadays
Bit of a powerlevel, but I had a bunch of unread college textbooks thanks to a relative, and the librarian literally told me they only accept blu-ray donations.
The place seems to be more a daycare type place, considering they got rid of a ton of bookshelf's to put a play area and more computers I saw kids only using to play Roblox.
I wonder if other libraries are suffering this fate?

The decent library where I grew up doesn't take any book donations, but you can request that they carry certain titles, which is what I think is most sensible for genre fiction. Just outsource everything to the public library, and the books can be read until they fall apart.

The public library nearest to me now is basically a free movie rental store on the first floor, all computer lab on the second floor, and the actual books are just pushed into odd corners.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Most public libraries won't take book donations. Would take far too much time processing them and infrastructure. Library problems aren't funding for books, it's being defacto front line social workers/daycare for the homeless.

At least in my area, kids do use it, some for books, but most for TF2/Roblox on the PC's. They did recently move into a new building, and added stuff like a 3d printer, presumably to draw people in

 

[Fungible penis]

The public library nearest to me now is basically a free movie rental store on the first floor, all computer lab on the second floor, and the actual books are just pushed into odd corners.

A lot of big fiction collections can be dealt with by the libraries via digital systems now, so less need for shelf space there.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Could be worse, you could have been left a giant box of magic cards. Its such a pain in the ass to catalog, price and publish to sell every individual card that is not uncommon to see people just dumping the whole folders as is for a flat price rather than waste so much time on it.

I saw so much of that when i was younger. All that collecting and it just amounts to nothing, usually an older guy would leave the hobby and the corpse of his collection was passed down for bigger fatties to scrap for the morsels until they inevitably end up doing exactly the same.

Oh god, that was last year! When I was in college years ago I tried tackling that project to no avail. Decades later I found a store that has an easy way to look up your cards, see how many they'll purchase and at what price. Kingdom something or other. Was a lifesaver.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

The public library nearest to me now is basically a free movie rental store on the first floor, all computer lab on the second floor, and the actual books are just pushed into odd corners.

My local libraries are a mixture of either really old ones that mostly DO have books, or half-and-half books and computer labs.

They're an absolute miracle for all the people around who do not have the storage space for a personal library. (An explanation: incomes are plummeting and people whose parents could afford a house can barely afford a 2-bedroom apartment themselves.)

 

[byuu]

Do you guys not have public book crates where you can just drop books off or take some?

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Do you guys not have public book crates where you can just drop books off or take some?

They're so tiny you can barely fit a couple dozen books, less if you toss in a full sized hardback or two.