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

[The Lawgiver]

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NFRB! NFRB!

I saw a scalper listing of shit that's not even a year old that unronically said NFRB recently and had to do a double take because MIB was the norm for saying an item was new in online shit the last 2 decades or so lmao.

The retro gaming market turning from people enjoying playing/repairing old games and consoles into these fucking parasitic "value speculators" the last few years really has been a disaster for people that would rather own physical media than be solely reliant on piracy and emulators to play older games.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

The retro gaming market turning from people enjoying playing/repairing old games and consoles into these fucking parasitic "value speculators" the last few years really has been a disaster for people that would rather own physical media than be solely reliant on piracy and emulators to play older games.

Sheeeit, it's been longer than that. I'd say almost going on a decade now. The enthusiasts like myself who got their foot in the door a decade ago, or branched out to Japanese games earlier than a couple years ago, are pretty much set, but I feel bad for anyone that's trying to START a collection now.

On the other hand, the increased attention has lead to some interesting developments, mostly in the realm of console mods. Especially with the Gamboys. Backlit GBA mods have existed for a while now, but now there's not only all sorts of options when it comes to making your gameboy more usable in 2024 that just straight up did not exist back in 2015. Not only that, a lot of them have been engineered such that laymen can perform them, so the mods are actually doable by the average person.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Sheeeit, it's been longer than that. I'd say almost going on a decade now. The enthusiasts like myself who got their foot in the door a decade ago, or branched out to Japanese games earlier than a couple years ago, are pretty much set, but I feel bad for anyone that's trying to START a collection now.

Difference is it used to be a few select games like earthbound, the blockbuster exclusive flintstones, or the US release of the n64 bomberman games. Now though post 2020? Anything that's the english/US release is scalped to absurd degrees with a few select exeptions.

There's a good few third party versions of old consoles now and repro carts are a thing so there's a slight dent in the unavailability caused by consoomers and scalpers but even then those aren't always up to the same standard as the official versions. Still really cool that shit exists though.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Difference is it used to be a few select games like earthbound, the blockbuster exclusive flintstones, or the US release of the n64 bomberman games. Now though post 2020? Anything that's the english/US release is scalped to absurd degrees with a few select exeptions.

There's another difference, and it's one we can see with SNES and NES games. For games like you've mentioned, the price-over-time chart is gonna look like a hockey stick (or at least stay on the uptrend) for a long time, but the less well known or very common games eventually hit a plateau. Take Super Mario World, for example: Its price has been between $20-$40 for over a decade. It's definitely more expensive than it used to be, when it could be had for pennies, but it's been years since the price rose significantly.

Another example: Mario Kart 64. Generally $40-60, and has been since about 2016.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

There's another difference, and it's one we can see with SNES and NES games. For games like you've mentioned, the price-over-time chart is gonna look like a hockey stick (or at least stay on the uptrend) for a long time, but the less well known or very common games eventually hit a plateau. Take Super Mario World, for example: Its price has been between $20-$40 for over a decade. It's definitely more expensive than it used to be, when it could be had for pennies, but it's been years since the price rose significantly.

Another example: Mario Kart 64. Generally $40-60, and has been since about 2016.

Interest in something is more of a factor than just rarity. It seems today people care a lot less about NES and SNEs than some years ago and those have been replaced in hype by n64, psx and ps2 games. People's interest in these games just doesn't grow exponentially over time indefinitely, the demographic willing to fork money on old stuff mostly cares about nostalgia and whatever they played in their own childhood.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Interest in something is more of a factor than just rarity. It seems today people care a lot less about NES and SNEs than some years ago and those have been replaced in hype by n64, psx and ps2 games. People's interest in these games just doesn't grow exponentially over time indefinitely, the demographic willing to fork money on old stuff mostly cares about nostalgia and whatever they played in their own childhood.

Interest is also dying down due to the constant hiking prices. Piracy is being cracked down on for long dead games without official re-releases because it's gotten that big in the wake of the prices ballooning unnaturally.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Interest is also dying down due to the constant hiking prices. Piracy is being cracked down on for long dead games without official re-releases because it's gotten that big in the wake of the prices ballooning unnaturally.

the kind of youtuber that sits in front of a wall of old games and physical media really is mostly a gen x and millenial thing, even younger people that do video essays nowadays don't really care as much about recording emulator footage on PC and i feel retro game youtubers is what really spiked the interest in retro games in the first place.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

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I hate the fast food building apartments so much it's unreal. That last one looks like they slapped the tile interior of a public toilet on the front of their building.

Of course they miss the part that C.S Lewis didn't have fairy tale funko pops, dressed up fairy tales characters for conventions and didn't have a room full of chink made plastic fairy tale shit. They always miss the entire context of what he was saying

I can never succinctly articulate to normal people why I don't like seeing cosplay. At least with furries you can just say that they all look at cartoon dog porn and have sex in the suits and that's the end of it. "At least a quarter of the people in this group photo work minimum wage jobs and don't own a car, but they do own more than $1000 in blue wigs, and spent $200 each just to attend this event. It's a gateway to filming porn, and more than half have a personality disorder."

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

I can never succinctly articulate to normal people why I don't like seeing cosplay. At least with furries you can just say that they all look at cartoon dog porn and have sex in the suits and that's the end of it. "At least a quarter of the people in this group photo work minimum wage jobs and don't own a car, but they do own more than $1000 in blue wigs, and spent $200 each just to attend this event. It's a gateway to filming porn, and more than half have a personality disorder."

Ol' Clive would probably have a fit, seeing people "playing with costumes" about his characters. Even as a form of tribute, without it being in a form of theatre or a special presentation. Probably beat them up and tell them to get a job (or find something fulfilling in their lives). Especially seeing the stuff related to tranime.

 

[crowabunga]

One manifestation of the performativeness of consoomer influencer culture is how they present their things: consoomers will unironically display their shit like in RLM's Nerd Crew skit, spread out behind them where they don't constantly see it, but the people watching them can.

If I have a shelf of anything, be it sentimental trinkets, books, or (yeah, part of the reason why this thread is plagued) even toys, I generally position it for my own ease of access & appreciation, not the appreciation of an audience.

It's so unnatural, and I can't stop noticing it: set design pretending to be home decoration.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

If I have a shelf of anything, be it sentimental trinkets, books, or (yeah, part of the reason why this thread is plagued) even toys, I generally position it for my own ease of access & appreciation, not the appreciation of an audience.

I'm plagued, I realized. I thought I was perfect. Unpozzed by the invisible hand but I have certainly walked from shelf to door and from door to shelf numerous times to make sure shit sits at a good angle to catch an eye.

 

[The Lawgiver]

One manifestation of the performativeness of consoomer influencer culture is how they present their things: consoomers will unironically display their shit like in RLM's Nerd Crew skit, spread out behind them where they don't constantly see it, but the people watching them can.

If I have a shelf of anything, be it sentimental trinkets, books, or (yeah, part of the reason why this thread is plagued) even toys, I generally position it for my own ease of access & appreciation, not the appreciation of an audience.

It's so unnatural, and I can't stop noticing it: set design pretending to be home decoration.

The occasional rare ones where they're just filming in their room and there's a shelf nearby where you can see some stuff isn't set up in that way are a blessing. I too have notced this phenomenon and 'm just chalking it up to being another symptom of how fake everything's gotten the last few years.

I'm plagued, I realized. I thought I was perfect. Unpozzed by the invisible hand but I have certainly walked from shelf to door and from door to shelf numerous times to make sure shit sits at a good angle to catch an eye.

Not what's being talked about It's like stuff set up like a studio background from a magazine ad pretending to be a room rather than an actual room. Flat and directly facing the camera head on i a way that the person filming will not naturally see or be able to easily access the stuff on the shelf.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

I'm plagued, I realized. I thought I was perfect. Unpozzed by the invisible hand but I have certainly walked from shelf to door and from door to shelf numerous times to make sure shit sits at a good angle to catch an eye.

since i firmly believe the biggest fault of consumerism is constant obsession with how one is perceived as opposed to fostering an environment that genuinely makes you happy if you were to live in it without worrying about the eyes of others
i think an extreme and self defeating aversion to consuming anything at all is no better, since it stems from the same issue but just presents itself in an outwardly opposite manner

this mindset is exactly what creates an obsession with aesthetic minimalism, and we all know even though those people own very little, they consume a lot

 

[KMFDM Sucks]

One manifestation of the performativeness of consoomer influencer culture is how they present their things: consoomers will unironically display their shit like in RLM's Nerd Crew skit, spread out behind them where they don't constantly see it, but the people watching them can.

If I have a shelf of anything, be it sentimental trinkets, books, or (yeah, part of the reason why this thread is plagued) even toys, I generally position it for my own ease of access & appreciation, not the appreciation of an audience.

It's so unnatural, and I can't stop noticing it: set design pretending to be home decoration.

There's nothing inherently flawed about this, it's set design because they are on a set. They have justifiable business need and profit margins reliant on acting "consumerist", this isn't true consumerism. The sinful aspect is selling consumerism to the viewer.

 

[John Titor]

I don't often watch RLM but isn't their gimmick making fun of consoomers who refuse to criticize the media they consume? It's literally where that meme came from.

 

[PunkinMan]

This entire type of thinking is the reason I buy unbranded clothing at all times, I don't need some fucking sweaterneck and kahkis from some stupid outlet store that overcharge shit I can get secondhand for a quarter of its og value, hell sometimes the secondhand shit is better than the new stuff because the new shit is all polyester.

 

[LifeAlert]

Consoomers are the most infuriatingly pathetic wastes of oxygen on the planet. They are professional corporate cum guzzlers who take whatever shitslop the AI drones drop in their mouths with the giddiest enthusiasm. Case in point, over at the Blu-ray.com forums there's some controversy over the new 4K release of the original Terminator because it looks like shit is an AI upscale botch job instead of a proper remaster. Quite a few members agree it looks terrible and this is after similarly botched releases of other James Cameron films, but some consoomers can't help but consoom:

Spoiler: cucksumerism

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TLDR: "*slurp slurp slurp*"

Some members exhibit beaten wife/stockholm/stepford wives syndrome, and are willing to bend the knee get on their knees and guzzle the slopshit as long as there's a little sprinkles on top:

Spoiler: consoomer cope

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It's worth pointing out this "mono track" they keep bringing up can be found on $5 DVDs of the film from 20+ years ago

Like other consoomers and simps, there's this weird parasocial idol worship they have with notable figures. They feel like if they keep throwing money at these hacks, eventually they will give the consoomers what they want. It's the same mentality behind nintendofaggots throwing money at them in the hopes they'll make another F-Zero or some shit

Spoiler: consoomer mental gymnastics

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These consoomers appear to cum themselves at the thought of their idol acknowledging that non-tampered versions of his movie existed at one point as they pay premium prices for a half-assed, tampered version of the movie thus solidifying that they will continue to get half-assed tampered versions of his movies. Consoomers are a walking contradiction.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

I don't often watch RLM but isn't their gimmick making fun of consoomers who refuse to criticize the media they consume? It's literally where that meme came from.

I think you are referring to this quote.

But its done by RLM which were parodying shows like collider and screen junkies podcasts basically being sell outs to Disney during the new trilogy

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

hey feel like if they keep throwing money at these hacks, eventually they will give the consoomers what they want

next year they'll do a re-release special edition with enhanced audio and 1% less AI and they'll buy it again and congratulate James Cameron for listening to the audience.

 

[YouTube Autist]

I think you are referring to this quote.
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But its done by RLM which were parodying shows like collider and screen junkies podcasts basically being sell outs to Disney during the new trilogy

The set for the Nerd Crew is so marvelous. The slapdash agglomeration of cheap IKEA furniture, the strip lights, the heaps of consumerist nerd junk. I particularly like the R2-D2 leaping through the wall.