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

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

sports games, IMO if you played one of them you played all of them

You mean you don't want to play the Madden games where Colin Kaepernick is a 30-something free agent but is one of the best quarterbacks in the game? I think he even kneels for racial justice just like IRL!

 

[Kosher Snake]

You mean you don't want to play the Madden games where Colin Kaepernick is a 30-something free agent but is one of the best quarterbacks in the game? I think he even kneels for racial justice just like IRL!

i just think that buying the same game every year is no better than whaling on microtransaction/lootbox/etc-filled games, is all

 

[MrAnnoyingDude]

I just noticed that this thread lacks the discussion a certain group of consoomers - the ones who say that they need a late-model iPhone, Macbook, brand-new car, etc. to live in the society, and that telling them that they should get something cheaper is basically classist oppression.

Sent from my $150 phone.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Behold! The funko God.

>I love Marvel stuff that's how it starts
Never has there been a better argument of why you shouldn't watch capefag movies.

 

[TheRetardKing]

 

[Jones McCann]

You mean you don't want to play the Madden games where Colin Kaepernick is a 30-something free agent but is one of the best quarterbacks in the game? I think he even kneels for racial justice just like IRL!

This is just like how all women in media are strong and natural leaders, niggers running around in 800 AD Scandinavia. These people are appealing to race grifters and it would be bad for business if the people who played those games weren't already braindead.

 

[Dark Edea]

sports games, IMO if you played one of them you played all of them

The craziest thing is that Tecmo Bowl is still really really great. And I bet not even one developer out there has even considered remaking that style of sports game. Keep the top down perspective, the sprites and the simple audio and video. Just make it HD or something.

And here's the part that will blow your fucking mind: keep the late 80s roster and don't include modern players.

That would be sick.

 

[Boss HM-2]

I just noticed that this thread lacks the discussion a certain group of consoomers - the ones who say that they need a late-model iPhone, Macbook, brand-new car, etc. to live in the society, and that telling them that they should get something cheaper is basically classist oppression.

Sent from my $150 phone.

The "consoomer" meme is nothing more than "people like what I don't like and that's (((their))) fault", always has been. Otherwise most of this thread wouldn't be trying to justify their massive gun/anime/Joker merch/tabletop figure collection as not consooming.

 

[Heavy Rainfall2]

The "consoomer" meme is nothing more that "people like what I don't like and that's (((their))) fault", always has been. Otherwise most of this thread wouldn't be trying to justify their massive gun/anime/Joker merch/tabletop figure collection as not consooming.

To me the difference is consoomers collect useless shit and a lot of it. Guns, anime, tabletop figures, and other hobby stuff at least has a use for entertainment. Like what the fuck are you gonna use a Funko pop for?

 

[Boss HM-2]

To me the difference is consoomers collect useless shit and a lot of it. Guns, anime, tabletop figures, and other hobby stuff at least has a use for entertainment. Like what the fuck are you gonna use a Funko pop for?

Disney IPs are mainly based in entertainment, but that just proves my point. Doesn't matter that there are people who own 30 guns but never use more than 3, that there's plenty of anime statues people buy (not to mention that Nendoroids are literal anime funko pops) and tabletop figures are collected just as often for the sake of collecting as not, people here like that shit, therefore it's not consoomption.

The "entertainment" argument also don't work when there's endless /v/ seething about how buying Nintendo products or enjoying Western video games qualifies as consooming.

 

[Heavy Rainfall2]

Disney IPs are mainly based in entertainment, but that just proves my point. Doesn't matter that there are people who own 30 guns but never use more than 3, that there's plenty of anime statues people buy (not to mention that Nendoroids are literal anime funko pops) and tabletop figures are collected just as often for the sake of collecting as not, people here like that shit, therefore it's not consoomption.

The "entertainment" argument also don't work when there's endless /v/ seething about how buying Nintendo products or enjoying Western video games qualifies as consooming.

I agree with a lot of that, particularly the anime figures, but I guess the difference to me is if you use the shit. Collecting Disney movies you actually watch I wouldn't count, although buying a shitload of Disney stuff you can't use would. /v/ misuses every meme cause everyone is behind 90 layers of irony and trying to bait myself so I wouldn't take anything they say into account myself

 

[Boss HM-2]

I agree with a lot of that, particularly the anime figures, but I guess the difference to me is if you use the shit. Collecting Disney movies you actually watch I wouldn't count, although buying a shitload of Disney stuff you can't use would. /v/ misuses every meme cause everyone is behind 90 layers of irony and trying to bait myself so I wouldn't take anything they say into account myself

Again. "Disney, Disney, Disney" It always comes back to Disney. Being anti-Disney is entry-level anti-consumerism, and it doesn't mean much when the same people doing it also have no problem basing their entire ideologies off of the legal intellectual property of TimeWarner.
People have collected dumb shit forever and you're mad that people brag about collecting the wrong dumb shit in front of a webcam.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Obviously it’s kind of a blurry line, but I’d say the main difference is, do you buy stuff because you actually LIKE it, or because you’re chasing the dopamine hit of getting new shit? My personal line is how much thought you’re putting into a purchase.

If you’re constantly buying shit without actually putting thought into WHY you’re buying it, you’re almost certainly a consoomer regardless of WHAT you’re consooming. If you research something before you buy and you’re not getting new packages on your doorstep every week filled with cheap trash, then you’re probably not. A collector is more likely to have a (relatively) smaller collection of more expensive stuff, whereas a consoomer is more likely to have a large sprawling collection of cheaper items.

The one thing most likely to push a collector into consoomer territory is the “completionist” mindset, where you’re no longer collecting just stuff that you like, but collecting purely for the sake of completing a “set”, even if it means buying shit you don’t actually want or care about.

Some normie who owns a couple Funko pops of characters from some property they like is not a consoomer, just a dumb normie. The people showcased in this thread are... not that. They’re man-children whose lives and homes are shrines to cheap, mass-produced garbage.

Of course it’s also possible to be a consoomer of guns and anime figures, and if you wanna highlight some examples for us to point and laugh at you’re more than welcome to do so.

 

[Bastard_Call]

What the fuck is the logic in guns and anime not being consoomer because they have a purpose? Anime especially is basically held up by chronic consumerism, their entire business model relies on selling useless tat to virgins with nothing better to spend their money on. There's no more intrinsic value in endlessly consuming entertainment to fill a void in your life or buying dozens of guns you don't need and will probably never use compared to collecting Funko Pops. One is not more of a hobby than the other, they are both incredibly passive and uncreative hobbies, not to mention potentially very expensive.

Being a consoomer has nothing to do with what useless shit you buy, because everyone buys useless shit. It's about how much useless shit you buy. There's nothing inherently consumerist about drinking alcohol, but when whiskey gets blown out of proportion, prices inflate and soyboys on reddit blow hundreds of dollars on a single bottle of liquor it becomes consumerist.

 

[Ikvion]

Personally, I think it's less about the consoomerism and more about the consoomer. The reason making fun of consoomers comes back to the same Star Wars/Marvel/Nintendo/Funko Pop shit is because seemingly every person who likes these things looks, behaves, talks, and thinks exactly the same. And they're insufferable. Lord knows I have a bunch of useless South Park shit everywhere, but South Park fans aren't known for saying things like "Don't kill yourself! Think of all the South Park episodes you'll miss!"

 

[MrAnnoyingDude]

The "consoomer" meme is nothing more than "people like what I don't like and that's (((their))) fault", always has been. Otherwise most of this thread wouldn't be trying to justify their massive gun/anime/Joker merch/tabletop figure collection as not consooming.

In the case I presented it's not about liking or not, it's about thinking quite high-end goods are absolute necessities for satisfaction.

 

[Staffy]

sports games, IMO if you played one of them you played all of them

When I was lurking the nba subreddit another reason they told why they kept buying the yearly release is because of online playing with their friends or people online. The servers get shut down for older games. Unsure if that's legit, but I say it isn't much of a good reason. But the fanbase of that series seems to be not as savvy as most other communities where if it was a different community people would've developed a way to play online with older games even if the server's shut down.

And I'm pretty sure there's a way to play offline, 2 player with your friend IRL. If 2k made that impossible then that means they should really ditch the game and force these greedy developers a bit, and stop playing for a while which is the best solution, bar none.

Being a consoomer has nothing to do with what useless shit you buy, because everyone buys useless shit. It's about how much useless shit you buy. There's nothing inherently consumerist about drinking alcohol, but when whiskey gets blown out of proportion, prices inflate and soyboys on reddit blow hundreds of dollars on a single bottle of liquor it becomes consumerist.

IMO detecting a consoomer is pretty easy to know. A.) Overlapping w/ what some people usually call normies. They're the ones who mostly follow the same stint, without thinking for themselves or buying crap because it's the most trendy thing to do or the most popular thing on the market. Or they buy the product for the sake of clout, brand name but doesn't really care about the things it offers (like those apple drones or nintendo switch soyboys)
B.) they do their hobby without any legit passion and love for it, desperate to make it an identity for themselves.

 

[Gar For Archer]

When I was lurking the nba subreddit another reason they told why they kept buying the yearly release is because of online playing with their friends or people online. The servers get shut down for older games. Unsure if that's legit, but I say it isn't much of a good reason. But the fanbase of that series seems to be not as savvy as most other communities where if it was a different community people would've developed a way to play online with older games even if the server's shut down.

And I'm pretty sure there's a way to play offline, 2 player with your friend IRL. If 2k made that impossible then that means they should really ditch the game and force these greedy developers a bit, and stop playing for a while which is the best solution, bar none.


IMO detecting a consoomer is pretty easy to know. A.) Overlapping w/ what some people usually call normies. They're the ones who mostly follow the same stint, without thinking for themselves or buying crap because it's the most trendy thing to do or the most popular thing on the market. Or they buy the product for the sake of clout, brand name but doesn't really care about the things it offers (like those apple drones or nintendo switch soyboys)
B.) they do their hobby without any legit passion and love for it, desperate to make it an identity for themselves.

That’s what it circles back to for me.

Are you doing something because it’s something you genuinely enjoy doing?

Or are you doing it to satisfy an addiction or to follow a trend or to try to fit in or to try and build an identity?

If your hobby is just something you do for fun because you enjoy it, it’s probably not going to be the core defining feature of your personality, it’ll just be one aspect of it. It’s like the difference between being gay and being a fag. Normal gay people don’t go around talking about how gay they are and how they love taking it up the ass, and you wouldn’t know it unless it casually came up in conversation. Fags on the other hand will take every opportunity to tell you about how gross and degenerate they are because they use gay stereotypes as a substitute for actually having a personality.

 

[Vingle]

Before I began reading this thread, I were pretty bastant about all collection is coonsumerism. But yea, it isn't coonsumerism if you like the item. It is when you collect it to just have it. A normal collector would just not buy a character they don't like from the same line with their favourite character, but the coon gotta coonsum. So it has similarities to hoarding.

If your room is looking completely fine otherwise, got some nice furniture and stuff. I'm surprised to not seen anyone make a couch or table out of Funko Pops boxes yet.

 

[Doinker Marmalade]

If they own a Star Wars or Marvel pop then its straight to the no-suffrage zone but just to protect the poor souls who got them as a gift or just thought one of them was kinda cool or looked funny, we left it at three.

Marvel in general has become a perfect litmus test for spotting brain dead retards. I'd use the term NPC, but NPCs are still characters.