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

[Dangerhair]

I think the notion of "intellectual property" is (at least partly) to blame for consumer culture.

No trademarks --> no brand names --> no CWC-like brand loyalty?

I like how before "intellectual property" was a thing, stuff was just stuff and not brand name stuff. A hammer was just a hammer, not a STANLEY hammer. Salt was just salt, not MORTON salt. A pencil was just a pencil, not a DIXON TICONDEROGA pencil. Consumerism is the all-consuming "culture" of the modern world.

It's been going on a long time. "Kleenex" is practically generic for tissue, "Hoover" used to be for vacuums as "Simoniz" was for car wax and "Victrola" was for gramophones. "Coke" is even the generic term for carbonated soft drink in some parts of the American South.

So in the past before consumerism took off, "brands" were "made by artist" rather than "COMPANY NAME®"?

So there were brands in the past, but they were like artist signatures on paintings now - before they "became formal" when companies and trademarks in the modern sense became a thing?

The lines are a bit blurry with that. Artists? Yeah that has been going on for ages. For clothing, Levi's jeans put arcuate stitching on the back pockets of their "waist overalls" (jeans) since the 1870s, and the first brand symbol that went on the outside of clothing was the Lacoste crocodile in the 1920s.

This is actually a big problem in the Lionel Train community, for example. They're neat things, awesome if you're into model trains . . . but the only people who are buying them are superboomers and they're dying off. And for someone Gen X and under, they're too expensive and too much room is needed to set up a proper model train set.

Lionel stuff is also O-27 Gauge (1:48 scale but designed for "toy" standards rather than true "scale model" standards) with tighter curves than true O scale). The problem with it is that you need a garage or a basement to actually run any sort of appreciable layout, which is something only boomers have. HO, the most popular scale (1:87), you still need a "train room" for; N (1:160) and Z(1:220) scales you can do on a tabletop, but (especially with Z scale) there are fewer models and tiny stuff is way harder to work with.

 

[gaystoner]

The only good musical I’ve seen is the television show Galavant and it’s a musical about making fun of other musicals.

Live Lion King is pretty freaking cool.

Spoiler: dont click if you want to see it on broadway

They literally have the circle of life opening with a variety of animals coming near aisle seats. The animals are made of 'african architecture' using wood/reads/grass like you would see huts made out of. Its jaw dropping to see a giant Elephant the size of an elephant roll up next to you while you're watching fantastic singers on stage and out of the corner of your eye you're like O.o 'something came into my rear view and its totally dark wtf'...and then suddenly you look and BAM you're looking 8 ft up and looking at a well done elephant and then you look around and its like you're surrounded/in the animal crowd. Musicals when done right are kind of a 4D experience but I hate the 'DVD' rendition. Only live.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

I guess it's only natural that one of the biggest names behind modern nerd consoomerism gets his likeness embodied on the most consoomerist thing ever.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Was at the store the other day and they were clearancing piles of these things I'd never seen before.






Those are just some random ones from an image search, but it looks like they make hundreds of different ones for almost every media franchise ever. They're little mini funkopops that come with some sort of folding game board and dice to play with.

Was surprised they actually tried to create some sort of use for the figures, but they still come in stackable boxes and for something like $20 per set, it's obvious they're still aimed at the usual consoomer who will never open them.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

Was at the store the other day and they were clearancing piles of these things I'd never seen before.

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Those are just some random ones from an image search, but it looks like they make hundreds of different ones for almost every media franchise ever. They're little mini funkopops that come with some sort of folding game board and dice to play with.

Was surprised they actually tried to create some sort of use for the figures, but they still come in stackable boxes and for something like $20 per set, it's obvious they're still aimed at the usual consoomer who will never open them.

I've seen some these before, namely the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones ones. I think there's at least one Avengers one, as well. I don't play tabletop games, but having figures that big seems impractical. Wouldn't they just fall over constantly?

On top of that, most miniatures have far more detail than these huge Funko Pops.

Also, Golden Girls? Really? Is that a thing millennials and younger have nostalgia for? So much so that you'd want to make a crappy tabletop game?

 

[trent]

Also, Golden Girls? Really? Is that a thing millennials and younger have nostalgia for? So much so that you'd want to make a crappy tabletop game?

There some frequently used Twitter reaction gifs with the Golden Girls in them.

No one who uses them has ever seen a single second of the show but will still claim to be a fan.

 

[Fetish Roulette]

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I guess it's only natural that one of the biggest names behind modern nerd consoomerism gets his likeness embodied on the most consoomerist thing ever.

Now that the people in charge of creating the consoomer bullshit are being put on different pieces of consoomer bullshit, how long do you think it is until we get a Funko Pop of a Funko Pop? At that point, I am willing to concede that we have reached peak consoomerism.

 

[NoReturn]

There some frequently used Twitter reaction gifs with the Golden Girls in them.

No one who uses them has ever seen a single second of the show but will still claim to be a fan.

The Twitteratti use Golden Girls gifs to avoid digital blackface.

Funko Pop of a Funko Pop?

We;re getting there

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[Fetish Roulette]

"Digital blackface"? The more of this I see, the more I realize that the movements descending from the civil rights groups of the '60s ran out of legitimate complaints years ago, and are now just making up problems to grift off of. At least it's entertaining.

To keep the thread on topic, here's an old Huffington Post article on a teacher who has decided to vicariously live out her fantasies of attending Hogwarts through her students.

Link | Archive

 

[AdmiralRenae]

Logging onto Tiktok, the Gen Z social media of the internet, I find:

General Shopping:

More:

The Video above is especially noteworthy because an hour later someone died in a shooting. Yet "We had a fun day shopping!"

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Funko Pops

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Was at the store the other day and they were clearancing piles of these things I'd never seen before.

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Those are just some random ones from an image search, but it looks like they make hundreds of different ones for almost every media franchise ever. They're little mini funkopops that come with some sort of folding game board and dice to play with.

Was surprised they actually tried to create some sort of use for the figures, but they still come in stackable boxes and for something like $20 per set, it's obvious they're still aimed at the usual consoomer who will never open them.

Hey now, I'm interested in the deep tabletop strategy involved in the Golden Girls Funko tabletop.

 

[NoReturn]

"Digital blackface"? The more of this I see, the more I realize that the movements descending from the civil rights groups of the '60s ran out of legitimate complaints years ago, and are now just making up problems to grift off of. At least it's entertaining.

To keep the thread on topic, here's an old Huffington Post article on a teacher who has decided to vicariously live out her fantasies of attending Hogwarts through her students.

Link | Archive

At first I was all "Aww. This is actually a pretty cute idea for little kids to help them enjoy school before life gets too serious."

but then I kept reading and realized:

9th grade?! I'm not advocating for anyone to go to a shitty sterile hellhole for high school, but come on there's a limit here.

Logging onto Tiktok, the Gen Z social media of the internet, I find:

Gotta admit though, tricking the zoomers into making their own version of the Home Shopping Network for free is a pretty good grift and-
WHAT THE FUCK
I was typing this while watching and the third video down is talking about her "haul" from a mall that just had a mass shooting in it that same day?!
Way to bury that lead, Dank.

 

[melty]

WHAT THE FUCK
I was typing this while watching and the third video down is talking about her "haul" from a mall that just had a mass shooting in it

That one got me too. The monologuing about the shooting overlayed on a montage of all the shit she bought.
"We went to the mall an hour before the shooting.. one person died.. so grateful we weren't there.. however we went shopping and he let me pick out whatever I wanted"

 

[AdmiralRenae]

At first I was all "Aww. This is actually a pretty cute idea for little kids to help them enjoy school before life gets too serious."
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but then I kept reading and realized:
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9th grade?! I'm not advocating for anyone to go to a shitty sterile hellhole for high school, but come on there's a limit here.

Gotta admit though, tricking the zoomers into making their own version of the Home Shopping Network for free is a pretty good grift and-
WHAT THE FUCK
I was typing this while watching and the third video down is talking about her "haul" from a mall that just had a mass shooting in it that same day?!
Way to bury that lead, Dank.

I have watched all of those, yet I am astonished that those Tiktokers were able to bury a tragedy under "Oh a shooting happened and someone died, now consoom product."

What a society we live in.

 

[need shoeonhead nudes]

That one got me too. The monologuing about the shooting overlayed on a montage of all the shit she bought.
"We went to the mall an hour before the shooting.. one person died.. so grateful we weren't there.. however we went shopping and he let me pick out whatever I wanted"

kinda cool though, just enjoys her hobby and doesn't care about the feds doing their anti-gun psyops. she could have went the complete opposite and milked it for sympathy.
reminds me of that picture of the blonde stacy smiling in the mall ignoring all the BLM muds protesting laying around.

 

[Vida]

Was at the store the other day and they were clearancing piles of these things I'd never seen before.

Those are just some random ones from an image search, but it looks like they make hundreds of different ones for almost every media franchise ever. They're little mini funkopops that come with some sort of folding game board and dice to play with.

Was surprised they actually tried to create some sort of use for the figures, but they still come in stackable boxes and for something like $20 per set, it's obvious they're still aimed at the usual consoomer who will never open them.

It's actually a nice easy entry level board game

Funkoverse Strategy Game

Mix and match your favorite IPs to wage battle in a variety of epic game modes!

boardgamegeek.com

 

[NoReturn]

kinda cool though, just enjoys her hobby and doesn't care about the feds doing their anti-gun psyops. she could have went the complete opposite and milked it for sympathy.
reminds me of that picture of the blonde stacy smiling in the mall ignoring all the BLM muds protesting laying around.

It's actually a nice easy entry level board game

Funkoverse Strategy Game

Mix and match your favorite IPs to wage battle in a variety of epic game modes!

boardgamegeek.com

Question for you: Why do I hate board games so much? You'd think it's be something that I'd be able to explain, because most people can explain why they like or dislike things, but there are some things with the whole board game deal that I just cannot properly grok both in terms to what I'm recoiling from and in terms of why other people like them so much.

 

[Catboi]

The kind of money people will piss away on games they have no intention of playing or reselling just for the sake of completionism is astounding.
Hundreds of dollars at a time sometimes on the same game just on different consoles.
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Why pay that for the basic ass game?! Just buy it digitally.

 

[Vida]

Question for you: Why do I hate board games so much? You'd think it's be something that I'd be able to explain, because most people can explain why they like or dislike things, but there are some things with the whole board game deal that I just cannot properly grok both in terms to what I'm recoiling from and in terms of why other people like them so much.

Some people dislike boardgames because you have to spend 5 to 20 minutes, depending on complexity, reading the manual to learn how to play and even then, it is only after 2 or 3 games that you can fully play it without making mistakes. (This is why most weebs hate HunterxHunter’s greed island)

Another reason is that some games don't really connect the mechanics with the theme, so you end up with an unnatural an unintuitive experience.

Maybe you feel that the whole thing is just cheap and plastic. Why waste money, time and scheduling in order to just play one game, that you may never get to play again, when you can easily play any video game, which feels more real?

If you really want to get into the hobby star by looking for a good group of players and try a new game each time. Alternatively, you can play solo games or video game versions of board games.

 

[need shoeonhead nudes]

@NoReturn you don't even like simple games like Risk or Monopoly?
i feel you, i always wanted to get into boardgames but didn't think i'd get along with the people who play them at the shops.
though i have good memories creating my own boardgames with friends. coming up with the gameplay itself was more fun to me than playing. haha sperg