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

[NoReturn]

Her whole shtick is to blend all variations of something into a franken-something. So I expect a video on mixing hotel shampoos together.

In the videos (second one below) she mentions one of the upcoming videos will be about celebrity chef restaurants.

 

[Slideshow Bill]

It is! In the video I include in the spoiler, the guy goes into how it works.
TL;DW: Temu ships from China using "developing country" rates, so it's literally cheaper to ship things from China than within the US, so there is literally no way for a local producer to be able to ship for less than China pays to ship internationally, but the USPS still has to process all that stuff, so every time you buy from Temu you're basically screwing over your own country if you're in the "developed country" block because you are still paying for shipping, just indirectly.
Put another way, China has a way to exhaust our postal service's resources/tax funding because Americans order cheap shit like this:
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A bunch of cheap, carcinogenic, Chinesium to satisfy fried dopamine receptors? The way TikTok melts brains is impressive and terrifying.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

It's the same psychological trap where people will spend money on something just because it's on sale, but if it were not on sale, would they have even purchased it in the first place? How many people truly have shit like this on their shopping lists or wish lists?

Shit on Amazon stays in my wish list for MONTHS before I settle on it. Sales definitely help (decent bargains do happen occasionally) but I suspect that most consumers lack typical self-control. Companies depend and capitalize on that behavior.

As one gets older one realizes that you get what you pay for (generally), and it’s better to spend MORE on quality products that last many years instead of buying a new cheap one every year.

Exception: our first set of pots and pans (a house-warming gift from family for our first apartment) were super cheap ones from Walmart or Zellers (plastic handles, etc). They’ve lasted 20 years. Shrug.

 

[David Glowie]

As one gets older one realizes that you get what you pay for (generally), and it’s better to spend MORE on quality products that last many years instead of buying a new cheap one every year.

Exception: our first set of pots and pans (a house-warming gift from family for our first apartment) were super cheap ones from Walmart or Zellers (plastic handles, etc). They’ve lasted 20 years. Shrug.

The lowest level of super cheap products now comes at a much lower quality level than it did when you got those pots and pans. I got heavily into sewing and mending when I realised just how much better-made the old stuff was, and how the mended old clothes last better than brand-new ones.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Shit on Amazon stays in my wish list for MONTHS before I settle on it. Sales definitely help (decent bargains do happen occasionally) but I suspect that most consumers lack typical self-control. Companies depend and capitalize on that behavior.

As one gets older one realizes that you get what you pay for (generally), and it’s better to spend MORE on quality products that last many years instead of buying a new cheap one every year.

Exception: our first set of pots and pans (a house-warming gift from family for our first apartment) were super cheap ones from Walmart or Zellers (plastic handles, etc). They’ve lasted 20 years. Shrug.

I feel that with the Amazon wish list. Sometimes I'm just waiting for my pay check, other times I'm looking for sales, and Sometimes I keep stuff there that I want but I'll use it to boost a order into the free shipping bracket. These tactics helped me not bleed like a sive this Christmas. My nephews were very happy

 

[Mad Mamba]

These people ruin retro gaming. So what if the case is a little mangled, you're lucky to have it and the hardware to play it. I buy games for my OG Xbox to play them, thinking of it as an investment when emulators have already digitized pretty much all of it is stupid.

Good lord, this. I recently accquired a GameCube, as there's some great games on there and I just love the silly little purple autism block so much, but the prices for games on the aftermarket are insane. Also my particular console seems to have an issue with the controller not working properly (the game works fine at first but after a particular point it just stops accepting input) so that's fun.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Good lord, this. I recently accquired a GameCube, as there's some great games on there and I just love the silly little purple autism block so much, but the prices for games on the aftermarket are insane. Also my particular console seems to have an issue with the controller not working properly (the game works fine at first but after a particular point it just stops accepting input) so that's fun.

It's so sad. Sometimes I just want to play on my old black Xbox these old games, but you got some in the 30's and 60s, and those are just from local stores! There's enough games out there for everyone, lord knows they sold shit tons of copies of super Mario Sunshine (I remember playing that as a kid) but people have horded those games AND speculated the prices of them, driving a once common game through the roof.

 

[byuu]

Just mod your console and pirate the games.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Reading up on the French revolution and it hit me. There are so many parallels between adult Disney fans and the pre-French Revolution aristocracy. Consoomers culture, people behave like the European aristocracy but without political power or status. The aristocracy is famous for not wanting to marry, grow up or have children. In fact, modern LGBT culture in the west can be traced to the aristocracy.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Just mod your console and pirate the games.

The point is I shouldn't have to. The games used to be dirt cheap, barring one or two really rare ones. There is enough out there for anyone that owns these old consoles, but when these Consoomers buy 50 copies of Forza, suddenly the price doubles.

 

[retard strength]

What do consoomers do when they eventually run out of space to store their junk? I've heard that some buy storage units, but do others eventually sell off their old stuff, throw it away, or stop consooming?

My experience is when they have absolutely zero space left in their own home they will try to dump storage bins on family, and when the family runs out of space or get sick of dealing with 20+ large storage bins they will get a storage unit even if they "can't afford it". I haven't ever known them to resell personally, but clearly a few have to at some point.

(Straight hoarders will flee and leave their hoard when they absolutely have to (eviction), then start anew).

 

[NoReturn]

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Reading up on the French revolution and it hit me. There are so many parallels between adult Disney fans and the pre-French Revolution aristocracy. Consoomers culture, people behave like the European aristocracy but without political power or status. The aristocracy is famous for not wanting to marry, grow up or have children. In fact, modern LGBT culture in the west can be traced to the aristocracy.

The sentiment is mirrored all the way down to the food.

Go to Disney and eat wagyu.

My experience is when they have absolutely zero space left in their own home they will try to dump storage bins on family, and when the family runs out of space or get sick of dealing with 20+ large storage bins they will get a storage unit even if they "can't afford it". I haven't ever known them to resell personally, but clearly a few have to at some point.

(Straight hoarders will flee and leave their hoard when they absolutely have to (eviction), then start anew).

Check this out:

Basically, self-storage as an industry seems to be growing. I'd personally chalk it up to boomers downsizing, but another factor could also be younger generations needing a place to store things while moving around.

 

[WelperHelper99]

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The sentiment is mirrored all the way down to the food.

Go to Disney and eat wagyu.

Check this out:
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Basically, self-storage as an industry seems to be growing. I'd personally chalk it up to boomers downsizing, but another factor could also be younger generations needing a place to store things while moving around.

As a zoomer, moving out is most likely a factor. You build up a lot of shit in 18-20 years, most of which you can't cram into your shoe close- I mean, economy sized apartment.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

and it’s better to spend MORE on quality products that last many years instead of buying a new cheap one every year.

Problem is when that option is taken away with more and more planned obsolence and lack of alternatives. Now the push is for "smart" crap that will sell your data and can easily be made obsolete via software.

My fridge is older than me and still going, crossing my fingers for it to last a lot longer still because i've seen people who bough fridges in the last few years already having issues with them or having to replace them, even if you buy the same tier of product from the same brand you notice the drop in durability even though pricing remains the same or higher.

 

[74164978231]

y fridge is older than me and still going, crossing my fingers for it to last a lot longer still because i've seen people who bough fridges in the last few years already having issues with them or having to replace them, even if you buy the same tier of product from the same brand you notice the drop in durability even though pricing remains the same or higher.

Most modern appliances last 10 years tops by design. Best thing to do is buy stuff with as little bells and whistles as possible;

https://youtu.be/cRgbfxJ8MTQ

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I miss when things like this used to be recommended to you when search up for collections like this.

 

[Criterion Rat]

I have a morbid fascination with physical media collectors. There's a whole community of people on YouTube who obsessively collect every blu-ray they can get their hands on. Doesn't matter if they dislike the movie or if they haven't even seen it. Doesn't matter if they already own it, as long as it has a pretty cover. Just mindless movie consooming to fill the void.

Some of my personal favorite physical media YouTubers:

Movies&Sue
A 40-something permanently single gig delivery driver with perpetual soy face who lives in her parent's basement. Clearly going through a midlife crisis and is coping by obsessively collecting blu-rays.

Tour of her basement home:

MovieBuffPaynes
An obese married couple who have packed their entire home with movies. This channel is dead because the wife came out as bisexual and left her husband for some other obese man.

I feel claustrophobic watching this. Can't imagine being surround by so much junk all of the time.

Cinema Sickness
Truly one of the most off-putting people I have ever seen. There's something seriously wrong with him.

 

[moocow]

wow I'm shocked. So shocked, wow.

Meh, BBB is a protection racket[1]. I'm not surprised a Chinese-adjacent company completely ignores their asses. Everyone should.

[1] A business can literally pay an annual fee and offer a few token refunds here and there to raise their standing automatically to an "A+" rating. Companies who are approached by BBB sales staff and refuse to play along find their ratings dropped to "F" pretty quickly.

I'm not sure if I'd classify the video itself as consoom, but holy shit Vegas is horrifying.

How the fuck can she afford that?!?! What a goddamn waste of (a lot of) money.

 

[Kikkoman]

Have you ever looked at your computer room and wondered what an armenian man in his 30s thinks about it? Or do you just want to look at how people arrange thousands of dollars of chinese electronic tat? I have just the youtube channel for you.

https://www.youtube.com/@TechSource/videos

I'm pretty sure you can buy a very nice used car for what some of these "battlestations" cost.

 

[xXEddie.DurellXx]

Have you ever looked at your computer room and wondered what an armenian man in his 30s thinks about it? Or do you just want to look at how people arrange thousands of dollars of chinese electronic tat? I have just the youtube channel for you.

https://www.youtube.com/@TechSource/videos

I'm pretty sure you can buy a very nice used car for what some of these "battlestations" cost.

All that just to play over watch 2