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

You need to study history more and read all about the stupid kings, popes, and CEOs shooting themselves in the foot over petty bullshit. Literally no different.
Yes, they were still different. They had their dumb moments, but if someone comes over to them with an innovative answer to their prayers that can work, they actually will sit down and listen. They might even give the man a commission, a noble title, or a pay raise. Heck, the Renaissance and Industrial Eras were all about them paying attention to smart people who can do things for them. Renaissance artists and inventors of new machines were favorites of these guys for a reason.

"You can make X for me or make my job easier? Well congrats son, YOU'RE HIRED!"

Nowadays, you have to come from the right company in order to be recognized as palatable for the average man. Even if said "right company" usually sells the same shit with less features again and again.
 
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It's even funnier when you consider the fact that their idea of "real writers" write slop that would make 1980s GI Joe episodes look like Shakespeare meets the Ancient Greek Playwrights, while their idea of "professional game designers" churn out so-so games with shit game-testing that ensures the games are barely finished when they hit the store shelves, requiring entire GIGABYTES of patches to make the game run decently.Just look at modern Obsidian, Bioware, and CDPRed, for instance. Or look at Fallout 76's launch and how Bethesda handled that dumpster fire when it first came out.Of course, it's not like writers for fan mods like Fallout: Frontier do any better. But writing your own D&D campaign, fan fic, or original story shouldn't be discouraged, either.
In his hollow, soulless, robotic mind, the amount of money that goes into it and the size of the company that created it is directly proportionate to the quality of the PRODUCT. All artists are just machines, woodchippers that grind money, which is raw goodness, into art, which is goodness that's in a form that can be enjoyed by the masses. If it's expensive, it's good. No questions asked. That's why he worships professionals and scorns amateurs. Money isn't something you use to pay rent. It's magical energy that determines the objective worth of anything you create. A published writers is not superior because of his skill or experience, but because of the dollar aura that floats around him transmuting everything he touches into gold.I can tell you he would keep a billionaire's nail clippings on a pedestal while consigning the Hampton Throne to the flames. He doesn't have eyes or ears or a brain, all he has is a little money counter with an apple logo on it where his soul ought to be.If you paid me a million dollars to squeeze out a sloppy turd on his desk and I offered it for sale at a 300% markup price, you can bet my ass he'd snarf it down faster than a hot brownie.To be fair, they also consider people, who disregard their passion projects and would rather leave the room than to humour them, their friends, so, what are the chances they'd actually come up with a relatable world you can enjoyAssuming he ever had a concept of friendship to begin with. What a sad, materialistic little bugman he is. The feeling of being stomped on at the bottom of the hierarchy has been so deeply ingrained in im that he can't imagine a world without it. Just imagine him ingratiating himself to his fellow bugmen who can think of nothing more important than how their taste in entertainment looks to their corporate overlords.He distantly remembers a time when none of this mattered, the unbridled creativity of his halcyon childhood, the spirit of which he purged from his soul for just another inch of social status from those who would disrespect and discard him like a piece of trash. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't trying to drag everyone down with him. And for that crime alone, I afford him no sympathy.He's sacrificed his capacity to imagine... for what? Imagination, as far as he's concerned, is a privilege only reserved for those who have been permitted to do so by a sufficiently large orporation. The plebeians who dare seize these powers lack the sacred wisdom of Hasbro and the unparalleled sagacity of its Marketing Research Team, for the two gods combined understand the tastes of every sane human being who has ever lived. And thus those sacrilegious peasants only capable of bringing forth unsightly abominations which amuse only them.His very existence is a tragedy and comedy, and most of all, a walking insult to humanity.This asshole is a symptom of a larger problem in American society today: A hatred for imagination. Just having an imagination is stigmatized as weird. To people like this, you must be mentally ill and/or on drugs if you have an imagination. It's sad and makes me wonder why our society thinks like this.It's born from an obsession with being seen s ature by your peers and society at large. Anything that isn't sufficiently bitter and miserable enough is nothing but kid's stuff at best, or the ravings of a murderrapist at worst. For that reason, I have leagues more respect for those DeviantArt degenerates than the insects who lash out at any form of creativity that goes beyond their paradigm of acceptable rebellion.It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's bad. e should have learned this lesson when we wiped the floor with the Religious Right, but history repeats itself yet again. The west has yet to divest itself from the notion that art cannot be inherently evil. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll begin to stop blaming the things we make and the people who make them, but rather ourselves and the societies which made us.I could make this small souled bugman he antagonist of a children's book. Enter Mr. Everybody, a psychic demon hellbent on assimilating every last person on earth into his hive mind, so he can always be morally right by saying "Everybody knows that!", as if appeal to popularity and corporate cultural authority ever meant anything in the first place.In his hollow, soulless, robotic mind, the amount of money that goes into it and the size of the ompany that created it is directly proportionate to the quality of the PRODUCT.All artists are just machines, woodchippers that grind money, which is raw goodness, into art, which is goodness that's in a form that can be enjoyed by the masses. If it's expensive, it's good. No questions asked. That's why he worships professionals and scorns amateurs.Money isn't something you use to pay rent. It's magical nergy that determines the objective worth of anything you create. A published writers is not superior because of his skill or experience, but because of the dollar aura that floats around him transmuting everything he touches into gold.I can tell you he would keep a billionaire's nail clippings on a pedestal while consigning the Hampton Throne to the flames.He doesn't have eyes or ears or a brain, all he as is a little money counter with an apple logo on it where his soul ought to be.If you paid me a million dollars to squeeze out a sloppy turd on his desk and I offered it for sale at a 300% markup price, you can bet my ass he'd snarf it down faster than a hot brownie.I suppose in his mind, Rambo 3 is far superior to Terminator 1. Even though everyone knows which film was more iconic and ground-reaking.Assuming he ever had a concept of friendship to begin with. What a sad, materialistic little bugman he is.The feeling of being stomped on at the bottom of the hierarchy has been so deeply ingrained in him that he can't imagine a world without it. Just imagine him ingratiating himself to his fellow bugmen who can think of nothing more important than how their taste in entertainment looks to heir corporate overlords.He distantly remembers a time when none of this mattered, the unbridled creativity of his halcyon childhood, the spirit of which he purged from his soul for just another inch of social status from those who would disrespect and discard him like a piece of trash. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't trying to drag everyone down with him. And for that crime alone, I afford im o sympathy.He's sacrificed his capacity to imagine... for what? Imagination, as far as he's concerned, is a privilege only reserved for those who have been permitted to do so by a sufficiently large corporation. The plebeians who dare seize these powers lack the sacred wisdom of Hasbro and the unparalleled sagacity of its Marketing Research Team, for the two gods combined understand the tastes of very sane human being who has ever lived. And thus those sacrilegious peasants only capable of bringing forth unsightly abominations which amuse only them.His very existence is a tragedy and a comedy, and most of all, a walking insult to humanity.This is what happens when ironically enough, the politically correct trade freedom for a political hierarchy with no honor or grit when compared to lder systems. Back then, the king/pope/business owner would give you capital based on how innovative and creative your solutions are to their problems. Now, you're not even allowed to think outside the box unless you have the right level of social authority. We're making our journey from humans with creative minds to drones in a factory with every passing day. And people like him are pushing us own that road even faster.It's born from an obsession with being seen as mature by your peers and society at large. Anything that isn't sufficiently bitter and miserable enough is nothing but kid's stuff at best, or the ravings of a murderrapist at worst. For that reason, I have leagues more respect for those DeviantArt degenerates than the insects who lash out at any form of creativity that goes beyond their aradigm of acceptable rebellion.It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's bad. We should have learned this lesson when we wiped the floor with the Religious Right, but history repeats itself yet again. The west has yet to divest itself from the notion that art cannot be inherently evil. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll begin to stop blaming the things we make and the people who make them, but rather urselves nd the societies which made us.I could make this small souled bugman the antagonist of a children's book. Enter Mr. Everybody, a psychic demon hellbent on assimilating every last person on earth into his hive mind, so he can always be morally right by saying "Everybody knows that!", as if appeal to popularity and corporate cultural authority ever meant anything in the first place.From where I'm oming from, "mature" doesn't always mean "better". I mean, have you seen series like GI Joe? The original cartoon is seen as childish in comparison to the later series and films that are more "mature", but the former was far more creative, with plots ranging from Cobra threatening the world with a mass teleportation device that they use to shanghai the Red Army and throw them all into a oncentration amp, to them burning up all the paper money in America and replacing the "worthless green paper" with a gold-backed currency to gain the people's support. The old show had the range to be creative without making things too grimdark, meaning that they could get mature ideas to kids without scaring the parents.Art, like all forms of creation, is not inherently evil, but rather, good unless used for vil. he Religious Right failed to understand this, but even they had the sense to back off when people disagreed with them. And yes, those Deviantart degenerates are ten times more respectable than these censor-happy bugmen, because at least half the time they make something worth looking at.But I don't think we can divert ourselves from blaming art. It's just human nature to point fingers and blame ings when shit hits the fan and something bad happens. Whether Christians or atheists or pagans are ruling the world, they will always find something to blame when things go wrong.
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I'm going to give it one more try. In today's lesson:

It's even funnier when you consider the fact that their idea of "real writers" write slop that would make 1980s GI Joe episodes look like Shakespeare meets the Ancient Greek Playwrights, while their idea of "professional game designers" churn out so-so games with shit game-testing that ensures the games are barely finished when they hit the store shelves, requiring entire GIGABYTES of patches to make the game run decently.Just look at modern Obsidian, Bioware, and CDPRed, for instance. Or look at Fallout 76's launch and how Bethesda handled that dumpster fire when it first came out.Of course, it's not like writers for fan mods like Fallout: Frontier do any better. But writing your own D&D campaign, fan fic, or original story shouldn't be discouraged, either.
In his hollow, soulless, robotic mind, the amount of money that goes into it and the size of the company that created it is directly proportionate to the quality of the PRODUCT. All artists are just machines, woodchippers that grind money, which is raw goodness, into art, which is goodness that's in a form that can be enjoyed by the masses. If it's expensive, it's good. No questions asked. That's why he worships professionals and scorns amateurs. Money isn't something you use to pay rent. It's magical energy that determines the objective worth of anything you create. A published writers is not superior because of his skill or experience, but because of the dollar aura that floats around him transmuting everything he touches into gold.I can tell you he would keep a billionaire's nail clippings on a pedestal while consigning the Hampton Throne to the flames. He doesn't have eyes or ears or a brain, all he has is a little money counter with an apple logo on it where his soul ought to be.If you paid me a million dollars to squeeze out a sloppy turd on his desk and I offered it for sale at a 300% markup price, you can bet my ass he'd snarf it down faster than a hot brownie.To be fair, they also consider people, who disregard their passion projects and would rather leave the room than to humour them, their friends, so, what are the chances they'd actually come up with a relatable world you can enjoyAssuming he ever had a concept of friendship to begin with. What a sad, materialistic little bugman he is. The feeling of being stomped on at the bottom of the hierarchy has been so deeply ingrained in im that he can't imagine a world without it. Just imagine him ingratiating himself to his fellow bugmen who can think of nothing more important than how their taste in entertainment looks to their corporate overlords.He distantly remembers a time when none of this mattered, the unbridled creativity of his halcyon childhood, the spirit of which he purged from his soul for just another inch of social status from those who would disrespect and discard him like a piece of trash. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't trying to drag everyone down with him. And for that crime alone, I afford him no sympathy.He's sacrificed his capacity to imagine... for what? Imagination, as far as he's concerned, is a privilege only reserved for those who have been permitted to do so by a sufficiently large orporation. The plebeians who dare seize these powers lack the sacred wisdom of Hasbro and the unparalleled sagacity of its Marketing Research Team, for the two gods combined understand the tastes of every sane human being who has ever lived. And thus those sacrilegious peasants only capable of bringing forth unsightly abominations which amuse only them.His very existence is a tragedy and comedy, and most of all, a walking insult to humanity.This asshole is a symptom of a larger problem in American society today: A hatred for imagination. Just having an imagination is stigmatized as weird. To people like this, you must be mentally ill and/or on drugs if you have an imagination. It's sad and makes me wonder why our society thinks like this.It's born from an obsession with being seen s ature by your peers and society at large. Anything that isn't sufficiently bitter and miserable enough is nothing but kid's stuff at best, or the ravings of a murderrapist at worst. For that reason, I have leagues more respect for those DeviantArt degenerates than the insects who lash out at any form of creativity that goes beyond their paradigm of acceptable rebellion.It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's bad. e should have learned this lesson when we wiped the floor with the Religious Right, but history repeats itself yet again. The west has yet to divest itself from the notion that art cannot be inherently evil. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll begin to stop blaming the things we make and the people who make them, but rather ourselves and the societies which made us.I could make this small souled bugman he antagonist of a children's book. Enter Mr. Everybody, a psychic demon hellbent on assimilating every last person on earth into his hive mind, so he can always be morally right by saying "Everybody knows that!", as if appeal to popularity and corporate cultural authority ever meant anything in the first place.In his hollow, soulless, robotic mind, the amount of money that goes into it and the size of the ompany that created it is directly proportionate to the quality of the PRODUCT.All artists are just machines, woodchippers that grind money, which is raw goodness, into art, which is goodness that's in a form that can be enjoyed by the masses. If it's expensive, it's good. No questions asked. That's why he worships professionals and scorns amateurs.Money isn't something you use to pay rent. It's magical nergy that determines the objective worth of anything you create. A published writers is not superior because of his skill or experience, but because of the dollar aura that floats around him transmuting everything he touches into gold.I can tell you he would keep a billionaire's nail clippings on a pedestal while consigning the Hampton Throne to the flames.He doesn't have eyes or ears or a brain, all he as is a little money counter with an apple logo on it where his soul ought to be.If you paid me a million dollars to squeeze out a sloppy turd on his desk and I offered it for sale at a 300% markup price, you can bet my ass he'd snarf it down faster than a hot brownie.I suppose in his mind, Rambo 3 is far superior to Terminator 1. Even though everyone knows which film was more iconic and ground-reaking.Assuming he ever had a concept of friendship to begin with. What a sad, materialistic little bugman he is.The feeling of being stomped on at the bottom of the hierarchy has been so deeply ingrained in him that he can't imagine a world without it. Just imagine him ingratiating himself to his fellow bugmen who can think of nothing more important than how their taste in entertainment looks to heir corporate overlords.He distantly remembers a time when none of this mattered, the unbridled creativity of his halcyon childhood, the spirit of which he purged from his soul for just another inch of social status from those who would disrespect and discard him like a piece of trash. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't trying to drag everyone down with him. And for that crime alone, I afford im o sympathy.He's sacrificed his capacity to imagine... for what? Imagination, as far as he's concerned, is a privilege only reserved for those who have been permitted to do so by a sufficiently large corporation. The plebeians who dare seize these powers lack the sacred wisdom of Hasbro and the unparalleled sagacity of its Marketing Research Team, for the two gods combined understand the tastes of very sane human being who has ever lived. And thus those sacrilegious peasants only capable of bringing forth unsightly abominations which amuse only them.His very existence is a tragedy and a comedy, and most of all, a walking insult to humanity.This is what happens when ironically enough, the politically correct trade freedom for a political hierarchy with no honor or grit when compared to lder systems. Back then, the king/pope/business owner would give you capital based on how innovative and creative your solutions are to their problems. Now, you're not even allowed to think outside the box unless you have the right level of social authority. We're making our journey from humans with creative minds to drones in a factory with every passing day. And people like him are pushing us own that road even faster.It's born from an obsession with being seen as mature by your peers and society at large. Anything that isn't sufficiently bitter and miserable enough is nothing but kid's stuff at best, or the ravings of a murderrapist at worst. For that reason, I have leagues more respect for those DeviantArt degenerates than the insects who lash out at any form of creativity that goes beyond their aradigm of acceptable rebellion.It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's bad. We should have learned this lesson when we wiped the floor with the Religious Right, but history repeats itself yet again. The west has yet to divest itself from the notion that art cannot be inherently evil. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll begin to stop blaming the things we make and the people who make them, but rather urselves nd the societies which made us.I could make this small souled bugman the antagonist of a children's book. Enter Mr. Everybody, a psychic demon hellbent on assimilating every last person on earth into his hive mind, so he can always be morally right by saying "Everybody knows that!", as if appeal to popularity and corporate cultural authority ever meant anything in the first place.From where I'm oming from, "mature" doesn't always mean "better". I mean, have you seen series like GI Joe? The original cartoon is seen as childish in comparison to the later series and films that are more "mature", but the former was far more creative, with plots ranging from Cobra threatening the world with a mass teleportation device that they use to shanghai the Red Army and throw them all into a oncentration amp, to them burning up all the paper money in America and replacing the "worthless green paper" with a gold-backed currency to gain the people's support. The old show had the range to be creative without making things too grimdark, meaning that they could get mature ideas to kids without scaring the parents.Art, like all forms of creation, is not inherently evil, but rather, good unless used for vil. he Religious Right failed to understand this, but even they had the sense to back off when people disagreed with them. And yes, those Deviantart degenerates are ten times more respectable than these censor-happy bugmen, because at least half the time they make something worth looking at.But I don't think we can divert ourselves from blaming art. It's just human nature to point fingers and blame ings when shit hits the fan and something bad happens. Whether Christians or atheists or pagans are ruling the world, they will always find something to blame when things go wrong.
hth
Well, excuse me for pointing out how the consumer culture of today is screwed up compared to yesteryear's.
 
Thank you Darth Disney for enlightening the thread. Now please post things we can laugh at or go back to reddit.
I thought "CONSOOMERS BAD" was the whole point of this thread. If you don't want to hear about CONSOOMERS being bad, there are other threads out there, you know. I'm pretty sure you can look at something Moviebob-related for a quick laugh.
 
Imagine having so much expendable income as some of these people, imagine what you would do with the money they have spent in their 'hobbies'.
Let's not fool ourselves, many of us would probably spend it on our own "hobbies". Whether it be buying a yacht, building a magnificent palace, or collecting a shit ton of toys and memorabilia we like. Few people would dump all that money into charity or just use it to buy only the necessities.
 
God, guys. It was funny when it started, but at this point discussing the inherent nature of art and your perceptions of history might be more something to discuss in private or an appropriate thread, don't you think? That's more the issue than the topic
You're right and I'm sorry for my part in that.

Let me help with getting us back on track. Here's a man who loves the MCU way too much:


This guy reeks of consoomer to me. I don't fault him for loving the Marvel characters and so on, but he clearly has the urge to buy as much MCU related merchandise as possible. It makes me wonder if he's just addicted buying/owning the merchandise more than appreciating the Marvel characters themselves.
 
I thought "CONSOOMERS BAD" was the whole point of this thread. If you don't want to hear about CONSOOMERS being bad, there are other threads out there, you know. I'm pretty sure you can look at something Moviebob-related for a quick laugh.
Nah people just want to laugh at retarded consoomers and don't want to read your page-long middle school essays about how consoomers are terrible, retard

On topic but jesus christ how embarrassing is it to buy this many action figures

 
Nah people just want to laugh at retarded consoomers and don't want to read your page-long middle school essays about how consoomers are terrible, retard

On topic but jesus christ how embarrassing is it to buy this many action figures

People collect action figures as a hobby. That's different from CONSOOMING unless they're only buying figures that are recent. If you're that retarded that you can't tell a CONSOOMER from a collector or a hobbyist, you don't know what a CONSOOMER is.

Also, it's his money. He has every right to spend it on whatever he wants. We don't live in a Communist shithole where all you can afford are rags and stale bread.
 
It's born from an obsession with being seen as mature by your peers and society at large. Anything that isn't sufficiently bitter and miserable enough is nothing but kid's stuff at best, or the ravings of a murderrapist at worst. For that reason, I have leagues more respect for those DeviantArt degenerates than the insects who lash out at any form of creativity that goes beyond their paradigm of acceptable rebellion.

It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's bad. We should have learned this lesson when we wiped the floor with the Religious Right, but history repeats itself yet again. The west has yet to divest itself from the notion that art cannot be inherently evil. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll begin to stop blaming the things we make and the people who make them, but rather ourselves and the societies which made us.

I could make this small souled bugman the antagonist of a children's book. Enter Mr. Everybody, a psychic demon hellbent on assimilating every last person on earth into his hive mind, so he can always be morally right by saying "Everybody knows that!", as if appeal to popularity and corporate cultural authority ever meant anything in the first place.
Time to break out that CS Lewis quote.
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Shame this quote is frequently misused by Pokemon fans.
 
Time to break out that CS Lewis quote.

Shame this quote is frequently misused by Pokemon fans.
Basically, it's the same as kids treating something "mature" as something that is automatically "cooler." Which used to be a marketing tactic back in the 90s and early 2000s, where new versions of things are marketed as more mature than previous iterations since the kids would see the stuff the teens and young adults are into as "cooler" and "more fun" than the stuff aimed at their age range.
 
People collect action figures as a hobby. That's different from CONSOOMING unless they're only buying figures that are recent. If you're that retarded that you can't tell a CONSOOMER from a collector or a hobbyist, you don't know what a CONSOOMER is.

Also, it's his money. He has every right to spend it on whatever he wants. We don't live in a Communist shithole where all you can afford are rags and stale bread.
I just picked a random spot in that video and he immediately started talking about how he bought a bunch of crappy figures he didn't like because they were $3. It's consooming.

I made a thread for philosophical discussion of consooming: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/consoomers.86126/
 
I just picked a random spot in that video and he immediately started talking about how he bought a bunch of crappy figures he didn't like because they were $3. It's consooming.

I made a thread for philosophical discussion of consooming: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/consoomers.86126/
Maybe. Or maybe he just grabbed them because they were cheap and he was going to sell them off at a higher price somewhere. That's less consooming and more scalping.

Or, he just wanted a complete set of something.
 
Not sure if it’s been mentioned but that consoomer video from the OP reminds me of “Still Life (betamale).”

Vimeo is fat and I would not have sex with it. Here's a mirror but imo it's not worth watching.
 
As much as I like laughing at people who are unquestionably Consoomers, there is kind of a gray line between being one and being someone who collects bullshit but is otherwise normal. Plus I can't help but feel sad for a lot of them because I feel that there's a lot of people who get caught up in the mentality that all they need is one more purchase and they can be happy. A lot of people buy into that and they're not necessarily the kind of person who gets a gazillion views breaking down watching a Star Wars trailer or a repugnant oaf like MovieBob.

Oh well, either I laugh or I cry.

Incidentally, we should probably keep an eye on anti-consoomers or people who are adamantly miserable about people enjoying things. I don't think there's really an organized enough community of them but when I see them, they definitely exhibit lolcow tendencies.
 
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