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

[Gin-san]

Anime explaining the consoomer mindset.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The story of an adult black toy consumer.

 

[The Great Citracett]

 

[Shig O'nella]

Slowly over time, I kept finding better parts and wiring. Built the amp I use, too. Has only caught fire a couple times.
A couple of my childhood friends and band mates have passed away, so I took bits and pieces from theirs. A neck here off his dean, the humbuckers from the other guys' flying V. Bridge from another, etc...
The thing looks goofy. Sounds interesting, but pretty unique. More importantly, it's a reminder of being a poor little faggot in a podunk town spending school nights trying to get this stolen guitar to run so he could go be a rock star.

Sounds like my motorbike. Which is still somehow street legal (I'm not complaining).

 

[Spunt]

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God DAMN that post is Poe's law in action.

 

[PaladinBoo]

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This is funny given that Stan Lee has gone on record to saying that he found a lot of inspiration for Marvel comics by reading the Bible and would state its importance in helping writers understand mythology, morality and storytelling. Stan Lee was Jewish by the way but saw the importance that the Bible had in regards to what I listed above. I have many of the omnibuses of Marvel comics, most of them of Thor, and in the personal letters Stan Lee wrote that are published in the omnibuses, Lee talked about how important religion is to storytelling and that they both kind of go hand in hand as many peoples first stories are ones from their religion and people learn of storytelling from there.

This soyboy really speaks of the rot I see from pop culture and fanatics nowadays. Instead of being inspired by religion they want to replace the religions of the world with that of consumption and idolatry. Pop culture today is more or less the golden calf in todays day and age.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Stan Lee was Jewish by the way but saw the importance that the Bible had in regards to what I listed above

Maybe because the bible was written by Jews, fucking retarded.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Maybe because the bible was written by Jews, fucking retarded.

BUT... The New Testament was written by Christians, those that gave up Judaism and were persecuted/ killed for it. It's just a point of order I wanted to bring up

 

[glass_houses]

This is funny given that Stan Lee has gone on record to saying that he found a lot of inspiration for Marvel comics by reading the Bible and would state its importance in helping writers understand mythology, morality and storytelling. Stan Lee was Jewish by the way but saw the importance that the Bible had in regards to what I listed above. I have many of the omnibuses of Marvel comics, most of them of Thor, and in the personal letters Stan Lee wrote that are published in the omnibuses, Lee talked about how important religion is to storytelling and that they both kind of go hand in hand as many peoples first stories are ones from their religion and people learn of storytelling from there.

This soyboy really speaks of the rot I see from pop culture and fanatics nowadays. Instead of being inspired by religion they want to replace the religions of the world with that of consumption and idolatry. Pop culture today is more or less the golden calf in todays day and age.

If a story survives for thousands of years, across multiple continents and cultures, it's because it's a cracking great read. If a story is boring, it'll sink regardless of what it's about or how culturally important it is. The Song of Songs is one of the greatest pieces of erotic literature to survive to modern day... and it's in the fucking Bible. When you start to dig into the history of literature in any culture, there's a direct line from their religious texts all the way through to their modern works. The Bible is a great story... and so is the Koran, the Torah, the Gita... If a work survives centuries, it's because it's compelling, and if you want to be a good storyteller, you study the great storytellers who were there before you.

 

[NoReturn]

If a story survives for thousands of years, across multiple continents and cultures, it's because it's a cracking great read. If a story is boring, it'll sink regardless of what it's about or how culturally important it is. The Song of Songs is one of the greatest pieces of erotic literature to survive to modern day... and it's in the fucking Bible. When you start to dig into the history of literature in any culture, there's a direct line from their religious texts all the way through to their modern works. The Bible is a great story... and so is the Koran, the Torah, the Gita... If a work survives centuries, it's because it's compelling, and if you want to be a good storyteller, you study the great storytellers who were there before you.

Poetry, too. This is one of the oldest poems by a named author we have and it's still relatable:

Lament to the Spirit of War
You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy our land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like tempests,
thundering, raging, ranting, drumming,
whiplashing whirlwinds!

Men falter at your approaching footsteps.

Tortured dirges scream on your lyre of despair.

Like a fiery Salamander you poison the land:
growling over the earth like thunder,
vegetation collapsing before you,
blood gushing down mountainsides.

Spirit of hatred, greed and vengeance!

Dominatrix of heaven and earth!

Your ferocious fire consumes our land.

Whipping your stallion
with furious commands,
you impose our fates.

You triumph over all human rites and prayers.

Who can explain your tirade,
why you carry on so?

- Enheduanna, translation by Michael R. Burch

And back on topic, the play "The Frogs" contains one of the oldest known written jokes (dating to 405BC), but we use versions of it in media all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HJH6C0yp2I

 

[White Devil]

I have many of the omnibuses of Marvel comics, most of them of Thor, and in the personal letters Stan Lee wrote that are published in the omnibuses, Lee talked about how important religion is to storytelling and that they both kind of go hand in hand as many peoples first stories are ones from their religion and people learn of storytelling from there.

The Poetic Eddas and what other few things we know about the Dane/Norse religion is cool because a lot of it is practical stuff centered on being a decent person and neighbor. When you hear about that kind of stuff, you automatically think vikings and raids and blah blah blah but they were an amazingly pragmatic people.

Just sucks that most of what we know today comes from (the biased) viewpoint of Christian monks in the Middle Ages because surprise surprise, the Norse religion was mostly oral and they wiped it out like they wiped out the Saxons original religion in England (which also happened to be the Norse religion).

 

[The Great Citracett]

Saw an ad for these the other day and thought it was a joke, but no. Totally serious.

There was Funkopops, then there was Funkopop keychains, now there's BITTY POPS.



These things are about the size of your thumbnail, and you get 4 for about $15. They seem to just be mini versions of already existing funkos and keychains. But now you can buy your favorite funkerinos a THIRD time! NOOOO! DON'T UNBOX THEM!

They come in tiny boxes too, so you'll need to protect them of course. Good thing funko sells teeny heckin' plastic cases for them!


But wait, they're still so tiny you might lose them... that means you'll just have to get more bitty pops and cases and turn your desk into a mini version of a funko room like you see on reddit, because the cases all stack together!


Just imagine. Now those redditors can build a scale model of their funko room, inside their funko room...

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Saw an ad for these the other day and thought it was a joke, but no. Totally serious.

There was Funkopops, then there was Funkopop keychains, now there's BITTY POPS.
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These things are about the size of your thumbnail, and you get 4 for about $15. They seem to just be mini versions of already existing funkos and keychains. But now you can buy your favorite funkerinos a THIRD time! NOOOO! DON'T UNBOX THEM!
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They come in tiny boxes too, so you'll need to protect them of course. Good thing funko sells teeny heckin' plastic cases for them!
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But wait, they're still so tiny you might lose them... that means you'll just have to get more bitty pops and cases and turn your desk into a mini version of a funko room like you see on reddit, because the cases all stack together!
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Just imagine. Now those redditors can build a scale model of their funko room, inside their funko room...
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Yay! More shit that will end up in the oceans

 

[NoReturn]

Saw an ad for these the other day and thought it was a joke, but no. Totally serious.

There was Funkopops, then there was Funkopop keychains, now there's BITTY POPS.
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These things are about the size of your thumbnail, and you get 4 for about $15. They seem to just be mini versions of already existing funkos and keychains. But now you can buy your favorite funkerinos a THIRD time! NOOOO! DON'T UNBOX THEM!
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They come in tiny boxes too, so you'll need to protect them of course. Good thing funko sells teeny heckin' plastic cases for them!
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But wait, they're still so tiny you might lose them... that means you'll just have to get more bitty pops and cases and turn your desk into a mini version of a funko room like you see on reddit, because the cases all stack together!
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Just imagine. Now those redditors can build a scale model of their funko room, inside their funko room...
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Those BittyPops are just expensive versions of the toys you could get out of candy machines in the 90s.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Well now seems to be the perfect time for an optimistic reminder that it's near impossible to "recycle" plastic.
The only way we can truly recycle it is by repurposing the already formed plastic we have, as in, either by reusing plastic containers like boxes and bottles, or by crashing it into smaller bits of plastic and spinning/compressing it into new forms, which are non sterile and impossible to create new larger forms out of. You can't re-melt it, you can't reshape it, and it's always bleeding and breaking down.

We should've predicted hell would be.... colorful...

 

[NoReturn]

We should've predicted hell would be.... colorful...

Plastic yes, colorful no.
I've seen several things pointing out that the world has become less colorful since 9/11 and now I can't un-notice it.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

the world has become less colorful

Apple ruined the world in more ways than just the iphone. Theirs and Goggle's corporate culture trickled down to pretty much every other industry. Muh bland and minimal equals smart

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Plastic yes, colorful no.
I've seen several things pointing out that the world has become less colorful since 9/11 and now I can't un-notice it.
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Something something Orwell's 1984.

Apple ruined the world in more ways than just the iphone. Theirs and Goggle's corporate culture trickled down to pretty much every other industry. Muh bland and minimal equals smart

They're a major reason I'm having trouble finding a new smartphone with an SD card slot.

 

[NoReturn]

Something something Orwell's 1984.

And The Giver.

 

[DavidS877]

They're a major reason I'm having trouble finding a new smartphone with an SD card slot.

Sony. I'm not fond of the aspect ratio, or the cost, but they have micro SD and headphone jacks.

And on the color/dark thing above. All modern tv and movies seem to try and be as dark as possible, and I hate it.