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

Whenever I feel that some of the things I've bought (especially odd kitchen equipment and specialized camera lenses) were truely frivolous purchases, I look at this thread to remind myself that at least my weird shit has purpose and use beyond taking up space in a decorative manner.
Collecting figurines as a hobby is really starting to give me the creeps - none of the people that do seem quite sane.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
Ya like Space jam?
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Okay, this hits peak consoomer for me more than someone who spends thousands of dollars on expensive models and statues (or, fuck, even Funko Pops) because even Funko Pops were at least designed to basically sit on a shelf forever. This guy’s getting excited over literal disposable children’s toys. For a movie that hadn’t even come out at the time, that he fully acknowledged he’d regret if the movie sucked (it did).
 
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roj said:
I don't blame the wife but what's with these fucking relationships. If I wanted to go buy something with my own money that I work for as an adult why should I need to convince my girlfriend to let me buy it. I understand that relationships are
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As of this year, one study by Wells Fargo looked at Millennial and GenX women who were in relationships and had either at least $250,000 in assets and/or where the total household income was above $100,000 and found that 32% of them were the "primary breadwinners" and 54% made the same amount or more than their husband. Anecdotally, this tracks with what I'm seeing in lower income groups, too.
I could completely see this being one of those situations where the wife is pulling in more money than the man, and then having it be a source of contention when the wife is using her salary to pay for things like rent and utilities, while the man gets to spend his on "fun" things.

Sorry to double post, but look at this:

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curbside said:
A redditor brags about their consumption den. Another redditor gives them the fatherly advice they aren't ready to accept.
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More like "real bad trolling, or, alternatively, a glance into a true horror", because the rhetoric of "drop everything you liked as you turn 18, now mortgage and dying are your hobbies" is among the primary reasons we are getting this shit now.

Also, I collect toys to an extent...
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...and I am never, whatsoever getting those people, or their cousins complete-ionists.
Why hoard shit for sake of hoarding shit, you can not possibly love it that much. I get anything that catches my eye if I have spare change at the moment, so I have about same amount of chinese fakes, other toyline stuff and varied odds and ends that take up a large cabinet and few bookshelves. I cannot imagine dedicating a spare room to gather an entire toyline.

Besides, these people never seem happy.

P.S.: by chance, does anyone reading this thread collect REALLY old magazines? I am talking Collier's national weekly from april 1st 1939-old.
 
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Jeff_the_Thriller said:
It's all Star Wars and Marvel. You have to like Star Wars and Marvel to be part of nerd culture. Can't they be obsessed with something different. 95% of the time its Pops and Legos. It's only those two franchises that can grant you the coveted validation and nerd street cred you desire. Liking stuff that's shat out by a multi-billion dollar multimedia empire is the only thing that will make you quirky and counter-culture.

I'm part of a MGS fan group on Facebook and some of them post some real consoomer shit with their MGS shrines but the statues or action figures are always very high quality and look very detailed. I'm a big George Romero fan. I got signed posters in nice frames and stuff like that up in my house. What I don't have is hundreds of cheap hunks of plastic, one of which being a quadriplegic with an evil monkey on his shoulder. Although if a Monkey Shines Pop existed I would probably get it just for the sheer absurdity.
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The "nerds are cool i fucking love science" shit was absolutely the worst mistake
Pissmaster said:
This would be a boring thread if it were just a loop of pictures of Star Wars hoards and then a bunch of replies like "lol what a RETARD!!" with no discussion over what makes these people do what they do.


lol ragequit


Fair enough argument, though they're still by and large sticking to Star Wars-branded sets, and to assemble a set, you read instructions designed for children.

Now if they were going to do their own designs with them? That'd be cool. Everyone likes seeing those enormous Lego sculptures made by pros. But that would make them an artist, not a consoomer, and consooming is like the antithesis of art. No personal growth, no leaving your comfort zone, no being introduced to anything new, whatsoever. Just a treadmill of Disney-owned trite to fill their homes. That's consooming.
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I tried using some craft-related subreddits once, but they're chock-full of consoomers, lame tv references, and pride flag/troon crap.

Imagine spending hours crocheting a fucking baby yoda plushie for internet brownie points. I can't tell whether I hate it more or less than funkos. On one hand, it actually takes effort, unlike buying some plastic shit; on the other, you're wasting time and skills on something that is still utterly useless. Crochet a sweater or something instead.
 
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So Buzzfeed is always fun in a "I'm going to the human zoo!" sort of way, but for those of you who don't know, they have an entire section of the website (on equal footing in the nav bar alongside "TV & Movies", "Videos", and "News") dedicated just to compilations of affiliate links. These are often themed around a specific shop, brand, or topic.
Here's an example:
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This has lead me to learn of the existence of Toynk.com, which is a look into the mind of madness:
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I'm still surprised that Valve games haven't been talked about that much here, since the cosmetic microtransactions makes it prime for players to go all-out consoomer mode. Here's one person's DOTA 2 Shrine:

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While it doesn't look bad on the surface, the Aegises on the wall, are the big bucks purchases. Basically, the Aegis of Champions is the trophy that Valve awards to the winning team of The International, which is DOTA 2's World Championship. Starting in 2015, Valve started making miniature collector's edition Aegises, which require a player to reach Level 1001 or higher in the DOTA 2 The International Battle Pass, which also serves as a crowdfunding method for The International, as 25% of BP sales are added to the prize pool. And it's virtually impossible to reach that level in the Battle Pass just by playing the game, so players will have to fork over a lot of money to level their Battle Passes up, to reach the 1001+ mark, if they want an Aegis, as seen in this picture.

Also, Valve has been putting cosmetics behind loot boxes, with the current Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache as an example, and calling them things like treasures, instead of loot boxes. You have to pay $2.49 to randomly get one of the 13 item sets. All of the item sets, except for the Morphling one, cannot be traded or sold, meaning that there's the additional FOMO factor, since the item set you get is random, and you can't buy an item set outright. Also, there is no duplicate protection at all, although you can choose to recycle sets that you don't want, for 2 additional Battle Pass levels, but it's still scummy nonetheless.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
I'm still surprised that Valve games haven't been talked about that much here, since the cosmetic microtransactions makes it prime for players to go all-out consoomer mode. Here's one person's DOTA 2 Shrine:

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While it doesn't look bad on the surface, the Aegises on the wall, are the big bucks purchases. Basically, the Aegis of Champions is the trophy that Valve awards to the winning team of The International, which is DOTA 2's World Championship. Starting in 2015, Valve started making miniature collector's edition Aegises, which require a player to reach Level 1001 or higher in the DOTA 2 The International Battle Pass, which also serves as a crowdfunding method for The International, as 25% of BP sales are added to the prize pool. And it's virtually impossible to reach that level in the Battle Pass just by playing the game, so players will have to fork over a lot of money to level their Battle Passes up, to reach the 1001+ mark, if they want an Aegis, as seen in this picture.

Also, Valve has been putting cosmetics behind loot boxes, with the current Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache as an example, and calling them things like treasures, instead of loot boxes. You have to pay $2.49 to randomly get one of the 13 item sets. All of the item sets, except for the Morphling one, cannot be traded or sold, meaning that there's the additional FOMO factor, since the item set you get is random, and you can't buy an item set outright. Also, there is no duplicate protection at all, although you can choose to recycle sets that you don't want, for 2 additional Battle Pass levels, but it's still scummy nonetheless.
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They also have their own line of Funko knockoff vinyl figures that are tied to ingame cosmetics.
 
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Earlier on they had "microplushes" which were this but cloth, and little keychains and stickers and other tat. Even weirder, they sell these in gacha boxes just like their ingame items. You don't get to pick which you're buying. So it's even more manipulative than funkos since it's gambling.
 
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