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

[Shaka Brah]

It looks like fucking star trek TNG instead of star wars. Star wars pre-disney had a very specific aesthetic to ship interiors that this does not match at all. Shits supposed to be glossy white, brightly lit, and sterile looking with a hint of grime. Some rooms were grey and matte but those rooms still had the same extremely simplistic "space station" look to them. All this matte finish greys with colored trims on walls and shit with unnecessary greebling literally looks like star trek.

For reference, here are two original Rebel/Republic ship interiors. Note the stark white and extremely minimalist panels.

 

[Duck Duck TUUURN]

For reference, here are two original Rebel/Republic ship interiors. Note the stark white and extremely minimalist panels.
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I was really excited when I booked my night for the Nostromo-themed hotel, but when I woke up I realized someone scammed me into sleeping in an oil refinery. 0/10

 

[An Account]

I was really excited when I booked my night for the Nostromo-themed hotel, but when I woke up I realized someone scammed me into sleeping in an oil refinery. 0/10

Did they at least put some meth heads in xenomorph costumes to recreate the experience of being stalked by a deranged predator?

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Disney has revealed the pricing of their two night "Immersive Star Wars™ Galactic Starcruiser" experience!

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Mind you this is "starting at" not the actual highest prices. And such luxury in these standard rooms!

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Enjoy such activities as "Unexpected Story Moment" occurring at exactly 7:30 PM!

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Dine on luxurious galactic fare, such as "Shrimp Dyed Blue"

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And remember, you are highly encouraged to visit our gift shop to further enhance profits immersion!

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https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser/overview/

This is awful. How could anyone be unironically not embarrassed to do this? Hell, I feel bad for the staff who have to humor the assholes who go to this thing. You spend hundreds to thousands of dollars for a shitty two-day Star Wars LARP at a sexed-up Disney hotel? What the fuck is this?

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Hell, I feel bad for the staff who have to humor the assholes who go this thing.

Thats my entire sentiment about theme parks. Cringe and second hand embarassament.

There's a booth in the Avatar theme park where they sell shitty overpriced action figures but the catch is that is supposed to be yourself as a Navi and the employees have a whole script made where they keep talking to the customer as if they are really bio-engineers and they pictures and look at screens and pretend the toy is gonna be truly, really them being transformed into an avatar by their computers even when the end result looks zero percent like the person.

Its absolute fucking cringe, it takes forever, Is literally you buying a generic toy but with half an hour of scripted play pretend and i feel bad for the employees having to do the same routine who knows how many times a day for probably minimum wage. I don't understand anyone sitting there like a retard all excited having the time of their lives and not realizing how embarassing the whole thing is, Maybe i am too cynical, i don't know, but i never liked this stuff even as a kid, i was born allergic.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

I don't understand anyone sitting there like a retard all excited having the time of their lives and not realizing how embarassing the whole thing is, Maybe i am too cynical, i don't know, but i never liked this stuff even as a kid, i was born allergic.

No, you're fine! I don't get it either. That video was painful to watch.

I will follow up your cringe with some more cringe:

Customer service is generally shitty, but I can only begin to imagine how it's tenfold worse doing it at a theme park.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Customer service is generally shitty, but I can only begin to imagine how it's tenfold worse at a theme park.

just imagine if it was the norm for your average retail employee to have to spend 10 minutes pretending to be a fantasy character in a stage play each time a smelly fat nerd wants to buy a Star Wars figurine. What a nightmare.

Gimmicks like that always ruined my suspension of disbelief, thats probably the reason i never got into star wars since the exposure to the merchandising, parodies and shitty brand deals predated any exposure i had to the actual fiction. There was never a single point i could just see Star Wars as the fantasy is supposed to be.

 

[Protistology]

No, you're fine! I don't get it either. That video was painful to watch.

I will follow up your cringe with some more cringe:

Customer service is generally shitty, but I can only begin to imagine how it's tenfold worse doing it at a theme park.

Jeez, look at those dead eyes. Talk about NPC.

Thats my entire sentiment about theme parks. Cringe and second hand embarassament.

There's a booth in the Avatar theme park where they sell shitty overpriced action figures but the catch is that is supposed to be yourself as a Navi and the employees have a whole script made where they keep talking to the customer as if they are really bio-engineers and they pictures and look at screens and pretend the toy is gonna be truly, really them being transformed into an avatar by their computers even when the end result looks zero percent like the person.

Its absolute fucking cringe, it takes forever, Is literally you buying a generic toy but with half an hour of scripted play pretend and i feel bad for the employees having to do the same routine who knows how many times a day for probably minimum wage. I don't understand anyone sitting there like a retard all excited having the time of their lives and not realizing how embarassing the whole thing is, Maybe i am too cynical, i don't know, but i never liked this stuff even as a kid, i was born allergic.

Here's a detailed explaination of how much Avatarland sucks.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

I would like to learn their trick. Assuming it could be switched off and on again at will, it'd be nice to shut my internal voice up once in a while. Guy's a pain in the arse.

Take up meditation.

It's not so much about forcibly shutting up your internal voice, but learning to let thoughts drift in and out without getting hung up on them and slowly cultivating internal stillness that you can keep coming back to.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

While i understand how children and families could enjoy this kind of “experience”, I cannot help but cringe at the peculiar artificial Disney quality. It’s like their trademark. It’s almost sinisterly pricey and plastic like. Idk.

Anyone with enough of a brain to think about aesthetics isn't going to buy Disney cruises, it's for middle class suburbanites who need to escape reality even harder than they do on the couch every night. If I had that money to spend on a vacation I would go somewhere with interesting museums, scenery, history or culture that I haven't gotten to experience yet.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Anyone with enough of a brain to think about aesthetics isn't going to buy Disney cruises, it's for middle class suburbanites who need to escape reality even harder than they do on the couch every night. If I had that money to spend on a vacation I would go somewhere with interesting museums, scenery, history or culture that I haven't gotten to experience yet.

People who enjoy Disney cruises wouldn’t enjoy other cultures unless it’s exposed to them in a diluite, safe and woke version. Which is why all inclusive resorts are devastating former “tropical paradises”.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Anyone with enough of a brain to think about aesthetics isn't going to buy Disney cruises, it's for middle class suburbanites who need to escape reality even harder than they do on the couch every night. If I had that money to spend on a vacation I would go somewhere with interesting museums, scenery, history or culture that I haven't gotten to experience yet.

Cruises are like gacha, because they get a lot of middle class people in for cheap, companies hand cruise tickets out like candy to their upper management too, but once inside is like staying at a big arcade shopping mall with gambling and drinking and people go way over their head with spending. Might as well be less cheap and lazy and book the trip to Italy or wherever yourself and do actual tourism.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Cruises are like gacha, because they get a lot of middle class people in for cheap, companies hand cruise tickets out like candy to their upper management too, but once inside is like staying at a big arcade shopping mall with gambling and drinking and people go way over their head with spending. Might as well be less cheap and lazy and book the trip to Italy or wherever yourself and do actual tourism.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind going on one for free if someone offered, because it seems fun in the same surreal trashy way vegas is fun, but I would never spend my own money on one. Also yeah my dream trip is staying in some cheap shitty hotel in Florence, visiting the uffizi multiple times while I'm there, and subsisting entirely on local pasta dishes and cheap wine.

 

[NoReturn]

There's a booth in the Avatar theme park where they sell shitty overpriced action figures but the catch is that is supposed to be yourself as a Navi and the employees have a whole script made where they keep talking to the customer as if they are really bio-engineers and they pictures and look at screens and pretend the toy is gonna be truly, really them being transformed into an avatar by their computers even when the end result looks zero percent like the person.

OW! The fremdschämen! It's so bad! It hurts!
This too:

Jeez, look at those dead eyes. Talk about NPC.

Hailey here has something going on. She's excited about a spork.
An avatar of the god of consumerism maybe?

Anyone with enough of a brain to think about aesthetics isn't going to buy Disney cruises, it's for middle class suburbanites who need to escape reality even harder than they do on the couch every night.

Between the $5000 for three days mentioned earlier, and the $4000 for seven hours in the video above, I got curious and wanted to look into what you said.

Spoiler: NoReturn designs a vacation

I didn't want to PL by using my own location, so I went to MapCrunch, asked for two random locations in the US, and got Wisconsin and Oregon. So starting from Wisconsin, I'm going to pretend you have a partner with you and you guys have a friend to drive you to the airport.
Kayak says flight + hotel is going to run you ~$2k for a full week's stay. That gives you $3000 for just doing shit during that week. Kayak also quotes a week's car rental for ~$200. Then I just googled "Things to do in Portland" and found a bunch of tours and day trips.
Honestly it seems like you'd get bored before the week is up if you stayed in the one city.

 

[Protistology]

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OW! The fremdschämen! It's so bad! It hurts!

That's a great term. I think I feel it everyday.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Honestly, I wouldn't mind going on one for free if someone offered, because it seems fun in the same surreal trashy way vegas is fun, but I would never spend my own money on one. Also yeah my dream trip is staying in some cheap shitty hotel in Florence, visiting the uffizi multiple times while I'm there, and subsisting entirely on local pasta dishes and cheap wine.

If you just want an easy vacation and have a few days to get shitfaced and play slots, cruise ships are very convenient. I haven't been in one but i've also been informed by several people that cruise ships are premium places to get laid.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

. Also yeah my dream trip is staying in some cheap shitty hotel in Florence, visiting the uffizi multiple times while I'm there, and subsisting entirely on local pasta dishes and cheap wine.

I did it and I recommend it, 9/10.
Florence is a relatively small city and it’s filled with landmarks and such, it’s very easy to navigate. Just don’t go in the summer because it’s too hot.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

This is awful. How could anyone be unironically not embarrassed to do this? Hell, I feel bad for the staff who have to humor the assholes who go to this thing. You spend hundreds to thousands of dollars for a shitty two-day Star Wars LARP at a sexed-up Disney hotel? What the fuck is this?

Go and read some of the stories and testimonies from former or current Disney cast members. The work culture at Disney parks is very cult like and they get you to drink the kool aid early and often.

 

[Fentanyl Floyd]

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What the shit man?

That poor cat