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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

You want to be sure I won’t ever buy your fast food again, MickeyD? Tell me how many steps I gotta take to burn it off and then mock me by counting each one.

You'll still buy it tubby tits, they didn't used to refer to their customers as "users" for no reason.

 

[Julie Newmar]

You'll still buy it tubby tits, they didn't used to refer to their customers as "users" for no reason

And you know why I’ll still buy it? Because I didn’t go through the fuck-you-to-your-face of buying a greasy burger and getting a fucking pedometer with it. The testicular fortitude to offer fatties pedometers...

edit: anyone else’s multi quote acting up?

 

[Education Lottery]

I can't fathom why they let in this horrendous crackwhore. The restaurant looks interesting, but this is exactly why I hate the brand. It attracts crack and other types of whores. I've seen pics from a hotel by Lous Vuitton, but it is so bland. It is literally the definition of minimalist Scandinavian style. Which I hate, but then again. I don't mind the look of Trump's penthouse. Aside from the beige, which is an overall awful colour.

I'm not rich by any means, but not poor either. Because I don't use money on this kind of shit. Because why pay for the experience, when you can get a just as good or better experience at home?

They still attract poors.

On the topic of designer restaurants, this one is actually a bit sad. It's just Gianni Versace's residency in Miami turned into a hotel/restaurant. I'm disappointed that they don't use Versace branded dishes, glasses and cutlery, the one pic with it is probably only for the pic. They do have themed hotels in Dubai, Australia and Italy too
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Is it safe to say they mosty cater to the poors who will save up for the experience of saying they went to a designer brand's restaurant? Judging from the shots, they look like they'd just serve to fill up an IG Influencer's timeline these days.

 

[Pissmaster]

McDonald's had adult happy meals in 2004. They came with a pedometer.

I actually got one of those

It was a piece of junk and didn't really work right, iirc it was oversensitive

From r/consoom.

Warehouse workers have a special hate for funkopop consoomers.

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I've never even heard of that kind of shit in video game collecting circles. What the fuck.

I want to go to someone's place that has a huge collection of pristine pops and just chuck a bunch of water on their whole shelf.

Now this is something I do not get even as a life long 'gamer':

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I did that guy's life's biggest achievement when I was a single-digit aged child with a Nintendo 64. Just with birthday money and the cash I scraped together from kid jobs, like mowing the lawn and helping my uncle clean his car. Even got Mario 64 along with it. And that guy looks like he might be older than I am! Holy shit, man.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

I did that guy's life's biggest achievement when I was a single-digit aged child with a Nintendo 64. Just with birthday money and the cash I scraped together from kid jobs, like mowing the lawn and helping my uncle clean his car. Even got Mario 64 along with it. And that guy looks like he might be older than I am! Holy shit, man.

To be fair PS5s are like, $1000 if you can even get them. You can then... play your PS4 games... play uprezzed PS4 games... play Demon's Souls remaster?

Is it safe to say they mosty cater to the poors who will save up for the experience of saying they went to a designer brand's restaurant? Judging from the shots, they look like they'd just serve to fill up an IG Influencer's timeline these days.

Yeah, like the Trump Tower restaurant.

 

[Pissmaster]

To be fair PS5s are like, $1000 if you can even get them. You can then... play your PS4 games... play uprezzed PS4 games... play Demon's Souls remaster?

I'd frankly be happy for him if he didn't say it was his life's greatest accomplishment and posted a picture of himself holding it like a baby. His greatest accomplishment in his entire life is buying a console on day one? I've done that several times. In fact, I don't think I've ever done that in my adult years, though I actually did preorder a PS4 - as in, went to Gamestop right when preorders went live and got one before they sold out the same day. I ended up deciding against picking it up because I wanted to put the money towards a car, so I sold it to a friend of mine who missed it for what I paid.

I am far, far from being a successful, exemplary person, but I've never seen a grown man claim his greatest accomplishment is something I did as a child. That's beyond sad. Maybe this guy hits too close to home for me, maybe I self-flagellate too much, but that makes me feel like I'm gazing into the fucking abyss.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Same, the best places don't give you a big menu with a lot of options but like 3 different multi course meals that you can pick from, and they don't really want you to make changes, unless it's some random expensive add on they casually suggest. But some places let you pick stuff too. They are always nice, and the dress code is more just don't be a slob than anything.

Fake fancy places put more emphasis on providing a "show" for people, with flamboyant dishes or some kind of gimmick. The gimmick is more important than the food. And food at places like those branded cafes is more what they think people think fancy food is, and it's ultimately just pretty average food that an average person wouldn't turn their nose up at, like steak and potatoes or that tortellini. Disney restaurants suffer from this, no matter what the theme or price point they all seem to have generic stuff with slight variations. They also let you change anything and bastardize the dish because you decided last week you're gluten free and allergic to pomegranate and coriander. Good places might give you some thing the chef came up with that you've never seen or thought of, that may have unusual ingredients. Also less emphasis on dessert at real places. Fake fancy places have a lot more and bigger, more elaborate desserts because people are fat and want to post them on Instagram. At real places it feels a little awkward to take a photo.

Have the places you've been to ever been worth the cost? The best foods I've had have come almost exclusively from obscure cheap-ish holes in the wall run by people with a passion for their craft.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Have the places you've been to ever been worth the cost? The best foods I've had have come almost exclusively from obscure cheap-ish holes in the wall run by people with a passion for their craft.

Ethnic restaurants where you're the only white person there are the best places to eat.

Perceived value is everything though. Look at Grey Goose. Someone just had the crazy idea of marketing it as this expensive luxury product and it's a wild success. Sobieski is much cheaper and the same quality, and if you were willing to pay Grey Goose prices you could just get Chopin instead (which is much better.)

Marketing is some crazy shit.

 

[Nazz]

hey y'all, care for some insights on the production of Funko's?

Spoiler: Funko Pop Modeler

About 5 years ago, I had the chance to meet a 3D modeler for Funko. We were not friends, and the meeting included many other people, so this is not a powerlevel in the slightest.

She told us what the job entailed and what her overall duties were. Essentially, she would be assigned a character in the morning, and be expected to have that character modeled and ready for prototyping/production by the end of the day. For larger funkos (any of the ones that don't fit in the standard box, really) she might have an extra day or two.

Now, with any kind of toy company/production, you can expect that these models would not be final, that there would be an iterative process, and that maybe if it wasn't her job to do the iterations there would likely be some other artists who would handle that.

Still, though, she was not the only 3D modeler there that was employed to do exactly that, just make a new model every day. Even with just 2 or three artists, excluding weekends/days off, thats almost 800 new Funkos a year. This was back in 2016, and that means if she had stayed at the company until today, she alone would have made over 1,000 Funkos by the end of her tenure. The artists are just constantly expected to churn out a new "design" everyday, which I think explains why in 2016 it seems most Funkos were at least of popular characters at the time, and now they're just throwing anything at the wall and doing recolors, special/limited editions, and different poses to give a sense of variety to their bloated lineup.

 

[Ctrl+Alt+Rt]

Disney "fine dining" establishments

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TikTok has gifted me with the knowledge that the type of people who are hyped about these sorts of places are the kinds of people I thought they were.
To wealthy Kiwis: I probably don't even own clothes nice enough to get in the door, but what are real nice restaurants like? Like, places the rich-rich go to.

I didn't know that Be Our Guest changed to prix fixe for $62. That's very greedy of Disney since eating at BOG is the only way to go inside the castle. I suppose Iger saw dollar signs when he realized people vie for bookings. It used to be considered the best value on the dining plan, but now they've designated it a 'signature' table service so it takes 2 table service credits if you purchase a package with a meal plan (previously, it was 1 counter service credit), meaning it's no longer recommended to use your dining credits to eat there. So basically, pay Disney more for a meal plan, then pay out of pocket to eat.

I was there for lunch before the change. The inside is pretty cool and some things are animated (a wall painting, the rose...) but it's a bit tacky for a 'signature table service'. It was also very loud – cafeteria-like. You would hope that they'd limit the seating to create a better atmosphere now that they're charging $62 instead of the $13 I paid for my entree, but I doubt they did. You know you're not in fine dining when you can get a coke zero with your entree.

If you want an actual great dining experience, the best restaurant in Disneyworld is Sanaa. The Indian-style Bread Service appetizer can easily feed 2 people for a light lunch and it's really good. It's worth waiting for a seat by a window because the view is real wild african animals chillin right there on the other side of the glass. This way you get the premium Animal Kingdom villa experience for only $20 instead of the cost of actually staying at that hotel. Eating indian food amongst african decor while watching exotic birds and zebras and giraffes just outside your window, you'll feel like a proper colonist.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I was there for lunch before the change. The inside is pretty cool and some things are animated (a wall painting, the rose...) but it's a bit tacky for a 'signature table service'. It was also very loud – cafeteria-like. You would hope that they'd limit the seating to create a better atmosphere now that they're charging $62 instead of the $13 I paid for my entree, but I doubt they did. You know you're not in fine dining when you can get a coke zero with your entree.

BOG is always super fucking crowded and it feels like a meat market. Sanaa is good and usually deserted since white people apparently don't like Indian or African food.

Any restaurant that has people walking around wearing animal costumes is not exactly going to be fine dining.

 

[Ctrl+Alt+Rt]

Is it safe to say they mosty cater to the poors who will save up for the experience of saying they went to a designer brand's restaurant? Judging from the shots, they look like they'd just serve to fill up an IG Influencer's timeline these days.

$40 entree is not an expensive restaurant. These designer restaurants exist for the same reason as designer accessories or car brand merch exists: you may not be able to afford a $20k dress or a $150k supercar, but you can buy a Ferrari snapback cap, a Chanel keychain, and a Vuitton cappuccino.

When the entrees start at $80 and go over 100, you then get into the hyper-attentive waiters and snooty maitre d who won't let in the riffraff.

 

[Julie Newmar]

$40 entree is not an expensive restaurant. These designer restaurants exist for the same reason as designer accessories or car brand merch exists: you may not be able to afford a $20k dress or a $150k supercar, but you can buy a Ferrari snapback cap, a Chanel keychain, and a Vuitton cappuccino.

When the entrees start at $80 and go over 100, you then get into the hyper-attentive waiters and snooty maitre d who won't let in the riffraff.

Seriously. Minor PL but I used to be a sous chef in a $30-$50 entree place. You know what that gets you? $12 worth of food and a junkie for a waiter. Everyone who works there hates you and is blasted on at least one substance. Those places are for middle class losers who want to feel upper middle class twice a month and tip like shit.
And we absolutely did spit in your food.

 

[Education Lottery]

So, basically... They exist to fill a IG Influencers timeline these days. "Middle class losers who want to feel upper middle class twice a month and tip like shit" is practically peak Influencer. Makes me think about:

Instagram model mocked for pretending to fly business while in economy

Oceane El Himer, an Instagram influencer from from Bordeaux, France has reportedly been exposed as a business class fraudster on an Emirates flight.

nypost.com

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Spoiler: Article

A French Instagram influencer has reportedly been exposed as a business class fraudster on an Emirates flight.

“Next Stop – Monaco. Je fly toute la night” — or “I fly all night” — Oceane El Himer wrote her roughly 847,000 followers last week.

The 27-year-old model from Bordeaux posted a photo of herself striking a pose while wearing a light green top and purple sweats – midriff exposed – in business class, according to Newsweek.

The image received almost 103,000 likes as of Thursday afternoon.

But another photo, shared on Twitter, appears to show the brunette crammed into an economy seat along with the huddled masses, wearing the same outfit.

“Dubai model exposed by co-passengers after she posed in business class cabin & posted photos online then returned to her seat in economy before takeoff,” the caption reads, according to the mag.

Her Instagram account lists her as living in the United Arab Emirates city.

Oceane’s post received a sea of comments about influencer culture.

“Been saying social media an illness. Got people lying for attention and others wanting to make a career out of it,” Twitter user @ Thisguyhere88 wrote.

It’s actually a mental illness pic.twitter.com/XYwvZtJ62l
— Kev-Prince Kombi (@KevKombi) June 1, 2021

“If you’ve ever been out this way, this sums up the culture,” @lLexxLugger wrote. “A bunch of people pretending to either be rich, a model, or an entrepreneur. 90% of the people in that city pretending.”

And @teria224 added: “Crazy how ppl go to hell and back to impress people they don’t know people who apply nothing to their life.”

–– ADVERTISEMENT ––

Himer defended her post on Snapchat, where she said there’s “no shame in traveling in eco class,” Newsweek reported.

“I took several flights to arrive in the south, including one in eco class,” she wrote. “Took a picture and I accepted. I fully assume the fact of traveling in eco class, I’m not the type of girl who likes to show her money… Yes I traveled in eco and in business. And so?”

She added that “much more serious things are happening in life.”

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Seriously. Minor PL but I used to be a sous chef in a $30-$50 entree place. You know what that gets you? $12 worth of food and a junkie for a waiter. Everyone who works there hates you and is blasted on at least one substance.

That's just every restaurant though.

If back of house doesn't even remember working their shift that's how you know the food is good.

 

[melty]

Have the places you've been to ever been worth the cost? The best foods I've had have come almost exclusively from obscure cheap-ish holes in the wall run by people with a passion for their craft.

It depends, I'm not rich either so I could just be full of it, but it's at least places I've been with rich people or know they go to. I like them, but I wouldn't go to a place just because it's expensive, but if it looks interesting and has good reviews. The most expensive place I went didn't have better food than other expensive places, it just had crazier service, which isn't worth it to me. But some of the best food I've ever had was from expensive/"fancy" places, and it's things that you would never think of or would really struggle to make well yourself. I like them and keep going so I guess it's worth it to me, but I can see why other people wouldn't think it's worth it. Also I don't drink, drinking really runs up the bill at those places, so that helps.

Foodieism could be it's own thread, there is a lot of woo and pretention there and unfortunately I have some of those habits myself.

Ethnic restaurants where you're the only white person there are the best places to eat.

This is also true.

I didn't know that Be Our Guest changed to prix fixe for $62. That's very greedy of Disney since eating at BOG is the only way to go inside the castle. I suppose Iger saw dollar signs when he realized people vie for bookings. It used to be considered the best value on the dining plan, but now they've designated it a 'signature' table service so it takes 2 table service credits if you purchase a package with a meal plan (previously, it was 1 counter service credit), meaning it's no longer recommended to use your dining credits to eat there. So basically, pay Disney more for

It's just annoying how much stuff you have to do to go to a "good" place at Disney that's maybe not even good. I don't plan going to Disney a year ahead or have any of their magic signature 5 star platinum VIP exclusive pass bullshit. I would pay more if they had some good place that you didn't have to plan way ahead for but instead you have to do both? But I'm obviously not their market I guess.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

It's just annoying how much stuff you have to do to go to a "good" place at Disney that's maybe not even good. I don't plan going to Disney a year ahead or have any of their magic signature 5 star platinum VIP exclusive pass bullshit. I would pay more if they had some good place that you didn't have to plan way ahead for but instead you have to do both? But I'm obviously not their market I guess.

There's some places that are great. Disney Hong Kong's main street corner cafe comes to mind-- it doesn't look fancy but the coke themed food is fantastic.

I assume there's places like that at every park, you just need to know where they are.

 

[NoReturn]

you may not be able to afford a $20k dress or a $150k supercar, but you can buy a Ferrari snapback cap, a Chanel keychain, and a Vuitton cappuccino.

It hurts my brain so bad that people buy the match of things for which they don't also own the "thing". Why would you wear a Ferrari hat if you don't own a Ferrari?

Foodieism could be it's own thread, there is a lot of woo and pretention there and unfortunately I have some of those habits myself.

Is happily join you there if someone starts a thread. Having those same tendencies just means we can call out the word shit because we recognize what we're talking about.

 

[biiguy]

I guess I'm not counted in that.
I don't buy B&J ice cream ( I stick with local brands), never went to Starbucks, and don't buy Brand Names... certainly not clothing.
My big extravagance is forays to second-hand book stores.

 

[biiguy]

Expensive food is literallt the biggest waste. What youre really paying for is the knowledge that comes with the food. If you know local butchers/markets and can cook restaurants are such a waste.

Alfredo sauce costs like 3 dollars to make but throw some of that on some pasta and a 6 oz chicken cutlet and you've got a 25$ dish

Alfredo sauce is OK on pasta, but I'd NEVER have it with chicken.