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

Nothing better than greasy middle aged nerds
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reviewing cereal promoted by a cunny!

 
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UncleFuckAss said:
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Dude that's just Frankenberry just under a new name.

I have zero problems bringing old shit back like that, especially since it became seasonal about a decade ago and was only sold for 3 months in stores.
 
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Marshal Mannerheim said:
When Amazon benevolently extends such a privilege to its serfs, of course. Merry Corpomas!
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Speaking of Amazon, it seems like in the last couple of years, they really put you in a slow/shitlane for shipping if you aren't a Prime member. Obscene shipping costs (such as on cheap to ship items like bluray discs), 2+ weeks to ship the item, etc (which goes away the minute I decide to resub to Prime). It's like Amazon wants to make their 'normal' shopping experience as bad as possible so you feel you must sub to Prime. I go long periods where I don't buy anything on Amazon so I can't usually justify a Prime subscription, but since I have been on a movie buying streak I absolutely have had to.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
Speaking of Amazon, it seems like in the last couple of years, they really put you in a slow/shitlane for shipping if you aren't a Prime member. Obscene shipping costs (such as on cheap to ship items like bluray discs), 2+ weeks to ship the item, etc (which goes away the minute I decide to resub to Prime). It's like Amazon wants to make their 'normal' shopping experience as bad as possible so you feel you must sub to Prime. I go long periods where I don't buy anything on Amazon so I can't usually justify a Prime subscription, but since I have been on a movie buying streak I absolutely have had to.
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I'm sure it's intentional. Their free shipping used to be slow but somewhat reasonable. Now it's just like "well you'll get it when you get it."
 
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Truthboi said:
This video highlights a good problem with consoomer culture.

My only issue is that it seems to frame this as a Nintendo-exclusive thing when those sorts of consoomers are in other communities
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To be honest I think it's done on purpose because of the shit that Nintendo has done. Honestly most of the shit that consoomers buy more of is shit that's in the 80's/90's that they as children have found memories of. Which is you get shit like Funko Pops and shit that always seem to be made for fucking 80's/90's 'kids' .
 
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eternal dog mongler said:
I'm sure it's intentional. Their free shipping used to be slow but somewhat reasonable. Now it's just like "well you'll get it when you get it."
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It’s 100% intentional. Some of the best deals are reserved to Prime clients, which sucks for obvious reasons and because a lot of stuff on the platform is now Chinese crap.
 
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Truthboi said:
This video highlights a good problem with consoomer culture.

My only issue is that it seems to frame this as a Nintendo-exclusive thing when those sorts of consoomers are in other communities

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I thought I'd skim over this video, but I actually wound up watching the whole thing. The guy who made it seems a little too preoccupied with clapping back at people who disagreed with him on Twitter, but his basic point that if a fanbase/group allows others to take advantage of them, they will be taken advantage of still stands.
 
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NoReturn said:
This is from 2019, but I just found it today.
What Happened When I Told Marie Kondo I Have a Better, Higher-Tech Method of Tidying Up
Geoffrey A. Fowler
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Marie Kondo argues you should only keep what sparks joy, but The Post's Geoffrey A. Fowler says that using the cloud to keep all your things is life-changing. (Jhaan Elker, Geoffrey Fowler/The Washington Post)
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I’d like to tell you about the life-changing magic of not getting rid of things — and keeping them in the cloud.

Marie Kondo has inspired many of us to unstuff closets and discard piles of belongings banished to basements. But there’s a part of her decluttering process that feels out of sync with 21st-century tidying up. In her hit Netflix show, Kondo instructs people to sort through old photos and papers, and throw away the ones that don’t “spark joy.”

Throw them away? “By keeping less — documents, folders, files, emails, etc. — you create more space in your life,” Kondo told me. “Though digital clutter is not tangible like clutter in your home, I believe it carries the same weight.”

I don’t agree. Precious memories don’t need to go into dusty photo albums or the trash. They should go online.

With always-on Internet storage services known as the cloud, I store every photo I’ve taken — about 300,000 and counting. No, that wasn’t a typo. It costs $10 per month. Remember your birthday party in 2009? Okay, me neither, but with a few taps on my phone I can pull up memories from that day. Or here’s my favorite party trick: Tapping on the image of a friend’s face, I can pull up the first photo I ever took of him.

Kondo’s method is about making sure that you have a sensible place for everything. The cloud is where I keep not just photos but also contracts, receipts, children’s drawings, digital books, your Christmas cards, things I want to buy, awesome puns, home videos and music. I can access them anywhere there’s an Internet connection through my phone, laptop, tablet or even TV.

To Kondo, I might look like a digital hoarder, though she puts it in more polite terms. “My tidying method is not about accommodating the size of the space you have available — it’s about choosing what to keep because it sparks joy,” she said. “Just because the cloud has endless space available doesn’t mean you have to fill it!”

That’s true, but moving things to the cloud can also make it easier to part with sentimental items — and even to get more enjoyment out of things. Cloud providers are getting remarkably good at doing the organizing for us with artificial intelligence software. The Internet is evolving to a place where no folding is required.

Your phone alone won’t get rid of your bell-bottom museum or 27 mismatched reindeer mugs. But an online tweak to Kondo’s techniques could make it easier for you to become a minimalist. You just have to become a digital maximalist.
Snap, Goodbye

The power of Kondo’s message is its simplicity. Does an object bring you joy? If not, thank it and toss it. The problem is, this process can be torture.

On Kondo’s TV show, people sob in front of piles of possessions, feeling guilt about throwing away gifts or not wanting to say goodbye to the people in photos. It is possible this sorting process can ease the pain of the past and teach gratitude. Just as often, I suspect, it becomes a reason to stop cleaning.

But in a world where a smartphone rarely leaves your side, getting rid of material possessions doesn’t have to mean getting rid of memories. The digital camera is as powerful a cleaning tool as a Hefty 30-gallon trash bag.

Souvenirs: Snap, toss. Recipes: Snap, toss. I’ve even said goodbye to old clothes this way, such as my first concert T-shirt. (It was En Vogue, who surely would support freeing your mind of the clutter.)

The problem the cloud can most help solve is piles of photos and papers. You can buy a scanner, or Google has a free and simple Photo Scan app for phones. Easier yet: Try mail-away services that digitize photos for as little as 8 cents per photo, such as ScanMyPhotos.com and ScanCafe.com. Side benefit: Turning old photos digital keeps them safe from fire, floods and further yellowing.

If you do this, start by tidying your clothes and physical items first, suggests Kondo. “Through the process of tidying your home, you hone your decision-making skills and learn to identify what is really valuable to you," Kondo said. “Refining your sensitivity to joy is critical, because you cannot physically take digital items into your hands to assess their meaning to you.”

There are costs to my approach. You’ll become a renter of online storage. We’re not talking about a ton of money: Prices start at $1 per month, and you can always stop by downloading your stuff. Just beware of any service, like Facebook, that offers endless free photo or video storage — it likely wants your data for some other purpose.

Most of the big-name providers can do the job of storing your stuff and making it available on lots of devices, though each has quirks. The simplest are the ones designed to work with phone operating systems:

But you’ve got options. Microsoft includes 1 terabyte for subscribers to its Office 365 subscription, and Amazon offers unlimited photo storage for Prime members. (Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.) A final recommendation for shutterbugs: Adobe’s Creative Cloud feeds directly into its Photoshop Lightroom app that’s fantastic for sophisticated editing. Prices start at $10 per month for a terabyte.

Whichever cloud you pick, just promise you’ll keep your stuff secure by using a really, really good password — one you haven’t used anywhere else — and turning on the two-factor authentication option most services offer.

There’s another benefit to keeping things in the cloud: easier access to joy.

In the past two years, AI software has begun to make Harry Potter-level magic out of mountains of digital snaps. Photo apps that come with most cloud providers use location tags, time stamps and facial identification to let you pull specific photos out of the haystack, as well as automatically group them into related albums.

Google is the best at this. It not only knows faces but also is pretty good at recognizing objects such as sunsets and puppies — and even picking the most appealing shots to surface. Google also automates digital tidying: Pressing a button labeled “archive” moves snaps of receipts, screen shots and paperwork out of the main collection.

Algorithms are a perpetual work in progress, but to me watching them tidy my cloud brings the same pleasure as Kondo-folded clothes. Maybe more, because I don’t have to do the folding.

So what’s the downside of being a digital maximalist? For one, these cloud companies want more of our data — and to get their hooks into us with long-term subscriptions. Hackers and governments can try to snoop around digitized stuff, too, so you have to be extra vigilant about security and privacy. (For those reasons, some extra-cautious people run their own private cloud on hard drives they operate at home.)

And what about digital hoarding? Many of us are already overwhelmed by notifications, overflowing inboxes and social media feeds. Taming your apps — and checking your privacy settings — is always a good idea. But it isn’t inconsistent with using the cloud as your personal archive.

On this point, Kondo and I disagree most. “Are you holding on to digital items because of an attachment to the past? A fear of the future?” she said. “I encourage people to ask the same questions about their digital clutter that they would their physical clutter.”

I don’t feel the same weight from my digital collection as I might from their physical manifestations — I feel empowered by having so much information at my fingertips. Digital abundance is not the same as mental clutter. What matters more than culling and organizing photos and files into folders is having the tools to get to the stuff you want with minimal stress. It’s like how Gmail shifted thinking away from “inbox zero” toward “inbox infinity,” where search and automatic sorting let us stop wasting time trying to stay on top of messages. But if you’re firmly on team inbox zero, my plan isn’t for you.

The cloud can also bring you closer to another lesson from Kondo: gratitude. This week on Chinese New Year, my Google collection remembered when the holiday fell two years ago — and presented me an awesome photo collection of my family stuffing ourselves with dumplings, plucked from my archive of 300,000 images. That’s way more joy than I could have gotten out of any album in the basement.

Geoffrey A. Fowler is The Washington Post’s technology columnist based in San Francisco. He joined The Post in 2017 after 16 years with the Wall Street Journal writing about consumer technology, Silicon Valley, national affairs and China.
TL;DR: Techbro jagoff completely misunderstands the concept of "letting go" in favor of cloud-based solutions.

Bonus: Selections from the author's twitter:
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So glad i have an e-bike, wow , overcomplicating things is awesome!
Wait, now there's no new firmware for my e-bike!? its only been a few months and now my bike drivers won't let me change speeds, well i get to experience the joy of getting my yearly new e-bike delivered.
 
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Truthboi said:
This video highlights a good problem with consoomer culture.

My only issue is that it seems to frame this as a Nintendo-exclusive thing when those sorts of consoomers are in other communities

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I think it wasn't a bad idea for him to zoom into Nintendo as a specific example because it's one of the best examples of braindead consoomers.

mind you, i say this as a ninty fan myself. the fucking ninty zombies are annoying.
 
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King Koalemos said:
I think it wasn't a bad idea for him to zoom into Nintendo as a specific example because it's one of the best examples of braindead consoomers.

mind you, i say this as a ninty fan myself. the fucking ninty zombies are annoying.
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Exactly. While other brands have people have passing interests in them as kids or look back at them fondly as adults, Nintendo came onto the gaming scene at the right time to hook a major part of game buyers in, mostly children at the time, during a void in the industry at least in the US which allowed them to grow an army of manchildren in the future. Other successes with the gameboy and Pokemon, the ds, the wii, and now the switch created an endless feedback loop that wrapped a lot of early onset consoomer types in across multiple generations. Not even other gaming brands manage to keep people this invested for so long. There's mirrors of the level of fanboyism Nintendo enjoys with the Xbox and the PlayStation, along with the whole personal computer 'identity', but there just doesn't seem to be as much of a specific to one brand cult mentality connected to any of them. You rarely see this kind of fascination with a singular brand outside of Vidya other than with Weebs and Marvel consumers.
 
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I don't know about that because Nintendo has had so many bombs it seems like every other thing they put out ends up being a flop. Virtual boy, the N64 falling below expectations compared to the PlayStation, the GameCube similar, the Wii u.. it's just a matter of time for Nintendo to do it again it seems to be something they always have a knack for doing.

But absolutely the consoomerism with the switch is probably the worst it's ever been with Nintendo.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I don't know about that because Nintendo has had so many bombs it seems like every other thing they put out ends up being a flop. Virtual boy, the N64 falling below expectations compared to the PlayStation, the GameCube similar, the Wii u.. it's just a matter of time for Nintendo to do it again it seems to be something they always have a knack for doing.

But absolutely the consoomerism with the switch is probably the worst it's ever been with Nintendo.
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But their successes are usually so large that they give them a massive boost every time. Even the lulls of the virtual boy and n64 were blown out of the water by the success of the gameboy. And even most of their lulls, like with the gamecube and wii u somehow gained cult followings.
 
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I think it wasn't a bad idea for him to zoom into Nintendo as a specific example because it's one of the best examples of braindead consoomers.

mind you, i say this as a ninty fan myself. the fucking ninty zombies are annoying.
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I mean I absolutely agree Nintendo fans deserve it, it's just the way he frames Nintendo fans is as though every other gamer outside of Nintendo fans are more "grown up and mature" and doing the whole "WAKE UP NINTENDO SHEEPLE" bit when this is a deep rooted problem in consoomer culture
 
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Truthboi said:
I mean I absolutely agree Nintendo fans deserve it, it's just the way he frames Nintendo fans is as though every other gamer outside of Nintendo fans are more "grown up and mature" and doing the whole "WAKE UP NINTENDO SHEEPLE" bit when this is a deep rooted problem in consoomer culture
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At least other gamers will show their displeasure towards a game company, even if it amounts to nothing. If people just rolled over and took it we would be light years ahead in loot box technology by now. I pretty much agreed with most of what he said in the video, its not even a maturity thing its a bias problem. These people know what they\re doing they just feel so strongly about nintendo that they'll gladly be their little consumer whipping boys.
 
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