why do people even buy things anymore?

[skykiii]

No show in the last ten years has been good.

No game in the past ten years has been good.

No movie in the past ten years has been good.

No book in the past ten years has been good.

Every single industry has been plagued with controversy and people bitching about quality concerns.

In gaming there's even a thing now where you can pay extra to get a game early... in an age where its common for games on release to be a broken mess.

The various industries themselves know this, that's why they ride so hard on nostalgia and past successes.

Anyway, theories as to why this shit still sells? Like, if people just stopped buying it, that's problem solved right there.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

No game in the past ten years has been good.

Nier:Automata and Nier:Replicant begs to differ.

No movie in the past ten years has been good.

Idk. Oppenheimer was pretty good.

But in general, most people are retarded consumerist pigs. They'll eat the most boring, uninspired and genuinely shite piece of media out there just to keep up with the Jones' instead of appreciating the artistic merit of it. Even though you are being a bit hyperbolic in say "ALL MEDIA IN THE PAST DECADE HAS BEEN SHIT", you at the very least understand that there has been a definite and considerable dropoff in the artistic value of most media over the past decade. The average normalfaggot doesn't because they genuinely have shit taste. They will consume the most boring and brainless media ever and give these media giants record profits. At this point, you have to realize most media isn't made for the discerning viewer like you. It is made for the lowest common denominator and people that want to use media as a social signalling apparatus, not an artistic medium where someone's hopes, dreams, fears, victories, failures and philosophy can be communicated like it was in the yesteryear of the 90s - mid 2010s. You either have to make your own shit or go back, look into underground media that is brimming with artistic potential and/or find plenty of good shit to inspire or at the very least entertain you. It's sad but it's definitely better than waiting for the next capeshit or whatever movie.

 

[generic sauce]

I pirate everything first and buy later. If it's at a stupid price I don't bother to buy. Music usually comes from bandcamp or vinyl but I always have a FLAC copy. Most I will spend on a game is $40. I watch mostly weebshit and if it's not weebshit its still just pirated. Fuck jewish companies.

 

[Cougar Pump]

I assume I just aged out of pop culture rather than it being some fundamental failing in the industries. Nothing appeals to me, I figure it's not supposed to.

But these things appear to still do big numbers, video games especially. At least there it makes some sense to see people continuing to buy the latest games, subscribing, purchasing DLC. Chasing novelty.

The high street/town center is baffling though - They're all the same chains, selling the same brands. There is so little variety and the cost of everything new is absurdly high for goods that are far lower quality than they were in past decades. When it's needs, I get it. You have to take what's available. But optional, discretionary spending? Bit odd.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Because the average person is a high functioning retard.

 

[Pixy]

Just rent it instead or get it on a subscription plan. You'll own nothing and you will be happy.

 

[Book Thief]

Good shit still gets made, you just aren't looking hard enough.

Big-budget stuff is made by-committee for mass-market appeal, and is made strictly for-profit. Instead, you should be looking through smaller stuff. Things made by people with passion and a vision. Sure, you'll be sifting through a lot of junk, but every now and then you'll find a neat gem.

 

[The Hardest R]

Most people don’t actually own stuff, they just subscribe to various services like Netflix or Spotify.

 

[David Brown]

Based hates everything OP, he's our top nonenjoyer here on the forum

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I only buy physical things because my old shit gets worn out, I didn't think the thread title meant digital media.

Shows are extremely sporadic; there are still diamonds in the rough, however. Games are similar, but there is so much variety and volume in gaming that you can basically navigate around the crap ones pretty easily.

As for movies and books, yeah, I am afraid those are lost. The best books have already been written, and the best movies have yet to be made.

 

[Tablet County]

No game in the past ten years has been good.

No movie in the past ten years has been good.

I'm gonna assume from this that you either don't watch movies or play games that much in general, or you buy way too much into doomer brain poison. I'd buy it if you said the last five years but even then, 1917 came out in 2019 and so did Sekiro.

The truth of the matter is that most art sucks. It has been this way for generations, the only difference is that in the past the trash wasn't frontloaded and journos weren't yet sophisticated enough to constantly hype up every new helping of trash as the Next Big Thing™.

Think about all of the shit we consider classics nowadays and consider the amount of garbage that has been lost in the sands of time. Things don't suck now, they always have, which is why great pieces of art are celebrated and the detritus isn't remembered at all.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

I just mow the lawn and chop wood nowadays.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

No show in the last ten years has been good.

Fargo premiered in 2014 and it's one of the greatest shows ever aired my nigga.

 

[Fading puppy syndrome]

Bc fun

 

[gibbslets]

Fargo premiered in 2014 and it's one of the greatest shows ever aired my nigga.

>2014
>last 10 years
this better be bait bait-man...

 

[Lazy Printer]

I pirate everything, its way better.

. The average normalfaggot doesn't because they genuinely have shit taste

True, i remember hearing my classmates being all excited for the next marvel capeshit movie idk why, its the same shit over and over again but now with worse special effects and even worse script.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

I blame stuff like Record Store Day, Limited Run Games, Steelbooks and limited edition blu-rays/dvds making items seem rarer than they actually are.

 

[Grub]

Think about all of the shit we consider classics nowadays and consider the amount of garbage that has been lost in the sands of time. Things don't suck now, they always have, which is why great pieces of art are celebrated and the detritus isn't remembered at all.

I see this type of sentiment a lot but I don't think it's wholly true. Yes there was lots of garbage in the past and yes what we think of as the great classics are the gems amongst the trash, but, the difference between then and now is that the barrier for entry to creating media has been lowered, so you now have a lot more media being produced.

Just the sheer volume of stuff created today will inevitably mean that the volume of shit is going to be much higher and the ratio of shit to good stuff is going to be higher simply because there's a lot more low skilled people pumping this shit out because the tools and skills needed to produce media have gotten a lot more accessible.

 

[vomitusdeux]

I pirate everything first and buy later. If it's at a stupid price I don't bother to buy. Music usually comes from bandcamp or vinyl but I always have a FLAC copy. Most I will spend on a game is $40. I watch mostly weebshit and if it's not weebshit its still just pirated. Fuck jewish companies.

I'm shocked more people don't do this. My gaming is mostly emulated (A few modern games but not many were purchased normally.), my consoles are mostly all hacked, my watched content is either free on apps or obtained. Music comes from mostly youtube on PC with ublock origin (which weirdly works still) but bandcamp and soundcloud are also used by me. I can't imagine spending what little I have on entertainment when there's so much of it you can just OBTAIN.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

I pirate everything first and buy later. If it's at a stupid price I don't bother to buy. Music usually comes from bandcamp or vinyl but I always have a FLAC copy. Most I will spend on a game is $40. I watch mostly weebshit and if it's not weebshit its still just pirated. Fuck jewish companies.

I started doing this in the early 2000s. I always thought this to be the right approach to this shit.