Yes, as long as you like it. But hoarding gaming consoles seems different than just liking it. I highly doubt they play them all, so they could buy just cases. It's not like they do anything with them, other than having it as decor.
Anime girl is Zero Two from Darling in the FranXX, on of those fucking mainstream anime that could be described as "I'm 13 and this is so deep"
I'm not anti-consumerism, by all means. It's not like I don't collect certain things. What gets me is blowing thousands of dollars on something for social media clot. That anime girl neon sign I think is from that infamous Nintendo girl @NoReturn posts, and it's no longer in her videos. Instead it's some other anime girl. Where did that one go? Did she give it away or did she just shove it in a closet while continuing to consoom more trendy pink anime shit?
So at the end of the day, what do you have if you don't go viral? A bunch of pink plastic items you might not even like when you hit your 30s. Or 40s. Or 50s. I guess in 10 years if you're a dumpster diver, you'll probably find a lot of cool shit. But until then, I feel sad that girls are being lured by this just to fit in with strangers.
Your tastes change over time. I'm sure the me of 10 years ago would be surprised by some of the things I have and enjoy now. The trick is not to do what these people are doing.
Get things you enjoy, but don't develop this consumer/hoarder mentality.
Don't spend all your money. Always set some aside for your future self. Not just for emergencies, but maybe she's gonna have a shitty day and need $5 for a ridiculous fancy coffee or something.
Take care of your things so when you do let them go someone else can enjoy them. It feels shitty being a "thrift-store kid" who can never find anything nice. Donations bins =/= trash cans.
As long as you get one for a reasonable price. I recall in 2004 Neon signs used to be hip and you could buy them for cheap and Coca-Cola isn't exactly on E-thot radar. I'm just astounded that girls are dropping over $1,000 for Sailor Moon/UWU designed neon signs that don't even look good. Especially when all those rooms have to be purple/pink tinted.
I'm not anti-consumerism, by all means. It's not like I don't collect certain things. What gets me is blowing thousands of dollars on something for social media clot. That anime girl neon sign I think is from that infamous Nintendo girl @NoReturn posts, and it's no longer in her videos. Instead it's some other anime girl. Where did that one go? Did she give it away or did she just shove it in a closet while continuing to consoom more trendy pink anime shit?
And this is where the worry lies. I'm sure that girl can get away with it to an extent if she gets sponsors, but what about girls who don't and get hit with the FOMO?
Did you really need the Limited Edition Animal Crossing switch? Or two.. idk if those are PSP's or PS Vita's, but did you need them? Do you HAVE to have a pink keyboard that lights up and sparkles? I got my black wireless keyboard for $20 in 2013. It's not cute but even back then I was like "$20??? Eurghhhhh." I'm not any less of a girl for having it. Yet these aesthetic Kawaii uwu uguu Instagram Tiktok Influencers are driving girls to buying overpriced items just to fit a lifestyle and it cannot be healthy. Especially since aesthetic accounts are niche and the chances of you getting over a million views is really low.
So at the end of the day, what do you have if you don't go viral? A bunch of pink plastic items you might not even like when you hit your 30s. Or 40s. Or 50s. I guess in 10 years if you're a dumpster diver, you'll probably find a lot of cool shit. But until then, I feel sad that girls are being lured by this just to fit in with strangers.
Collecting video games consoles are fucking cringe. I can emulate everything up to the 360/PS3 generation at their native specs/resolution without breaking a sweat and it's so easy to do some tiny tweaks that make things look as good as my nostalgia remembers it looking.
Like congratulations buddy, you have an original gameboy in your collection. The average calculator has a more intensive processor than that. It's just junk for the sake of junk and I implore anyone to tell me why they'd set up a mega drive to play Streets of Rage when for like £3 you can buy the entire trilogy digitally and play it on any console you have.
Collecting video games consoles are fucking cringe. I can emulate everything up to the 360/PS3 generation at their native specs/resolution without breaking a sweat and it's so easy to do some tiny tweaks that make things look as good as my nostalgia remembers it looking.
Like congratulations buddy, you have an original gameboy in your collection. The average calculator has a more intensive processor than that. It's just junk for the sake of junk and I implore anyone to tell me why they'd set up a mega drive to play Streets of Rage when for like £3 you can buy the entire trilogy digitally and play it on any console you have.
I can actually understand it for portable consoles, like the gameboy, because as autistic as it is, you can't really recreate the experience of playing a gameboy with a stupid fucking light clipped on it or just general nostalgia for stuff like taking a DS on a car trip.
I can understand home consoles for nostalgia as well, especially if it's a console somebody grew up with, even though I agree emulators are usually better in every way for a console experience (there are edge cases like saturn emulation still being fucking dogshit and n64 being hit or miss)
Of course when I say this. I mean like a person who picks up a few consoles from their childhood and some old favorite games that they might have sold or something between then and now. I don't mean the weird 30 year olds who try to grab every single console in existence and stuff them into their room already full of funko pops whilst spending thousands of dollars on games. There's a lot that can be said about this demographic, but there's a ton of them on youtube and it's nuts, they don't just have like one shelf with games they've accumulated over time and from rebuying old favorites, their entire room is fucking covered in games and consoles and shit like funko pops and various other garbage.
In other words, stuff like this is what I mean in terms of massive consumerism:
(archive doesn't fit the size limits because it's three fucking hours long actually almost 4 hours long what the fuck, can somebody else grab it and try to shrink down the filesize?)
Collecting video games consoles are fucking cringe. I can emulate everything up to the 360/PS3 generation at their native specs/resolution without breaking a sweat and it's so easy to do some tiny tweaks that make things look as good as my nostalgia remembers it looking.
Like congratulations buddy, you have an original gameboy in your collection. The average calculator has a more intensive processor than that. It's just junk for the sake of junk and I implore anyone to tell me why they'd set up a mega drive to play Streets of Rage when for like £3 you can buy the entire trilogy digitally and play it on any console you have.
I always hear this but thats only an issue if you are into things like speedrunning which also means you have at least aspergers and an hrt prescription. Emulation feels like an improved and more practical experience in every way but i understand owning the console, more for the nostalgia angle than anything else.
The interesting part is until a few years retro gaming was pretty lowkey anyways. It was more about hoarding than consooming because retro games were cheap as fuck, cheaper than buying recent games but them the amerijews had to step in and make it into yet another bubble. Now even common as fuck games that realistically should not cost more than 10$ are running in the hundreds and even thousands due to speculation. A poorfag hobby now became hipster garbage and apparently all was needed was a couple bad actors to manipulate the market.
The thing is, you don't need more than one GameBoy to recreate the feeling, and it's highly unlikely any "collector" actually takes the time to plug in and play with one of his 20 or 40 old consoles enough to make them worth the expenditure. They mainly get them for the sake of commodity fetishism: to look at them and show them off. That's why their pride and joy are always the useless 'limited editions' that companies come out with precisely to pressure consoomers out of their money. Of course that doesn't mean the expenditure and lunacy of average 'collectors' is as out of control as the hoarders' (like that Nintendo room guy), but it's still a massive waste of money in my eyes.
I get the idea of getting nostalgic over the feel of a SNES/PS2 controller or whatever, but I cannot understand anyone who keeps them around for the sake of nostalgia when anyone who has played an old console for more than 5 minutes knows how terrible things are without the nostalgia filter in your brain. It's just hoarding for hoarding sake.
Like do people legit get nostalgic over memory cards? wired controllers? loading times that take 2 minutes? slowdown as the console cannot handle what is happening on the screen at all?
Oh yes. People on retro gaming boards are even spending thousands on crt sets so their games can look as shitty as possible. All for the *purest* retro experience.
I like the design on the second one. Generic anime shit but whatever im a weeb at times. But i cant imagine how uncomfortable it would be to have garish neon lights in front of you while on the computer.
Yes, all you have to do is turn it off but then what's the point in getting it if you keep it off?
I like the design on the second one. Generic anime shit but whatever im a weeb at times. But i cant imagine how uncomfortable it would be to have garish neon lights in front of you while on the computer.
Yes, all you have to do is turn it off but then what's the point in getting it if you keep it off?
Oh yes. People on retro gaming boards are even spending thousands on crt sets so their games can look as shitty as possible. All for the *purest* retro experience.
hey buddy leave them guys alone they're paying for my race car at the moment LOL every time I see a free or $5 CRT on marketplace I pick it up it'll be sold for a fiddy in hours.
I get the idea of getting nostalgic over the feel of a SNES/PS2 controller or whatever, but I cannot understand anyone who keeps them around for the sake of nostalgia when anyone who has played an old console for more than 5 minutes knows how terrible things are without the nostalgia filter in your brain. It's just hoarding for hoarding sake.
Like do people legit get nostalgic over memory cards? wired controllers? loading times that take 2 minutes? slowdown as the console cannot handle what is happening on the screen at all?
I mean nostalgia is a big reason for a lot of collectors and isn't bad in itself, just like most things in this thread it becomes a problem when it becomes an addiction to consume for the sake of it. Someone hanging on to an old console they got when they were a kid or even going out to re-buy a console they had a lot of fun memories with is fine in my books because they have an actual reason to do so. I'm a big believer in the whole Marie Kondo approach where it's entirely okay to keep what others my ascribe as worthless crap as long as it brings joy to the owner. The big * on that is when you get into the problem of unable to let anything go that leads into hoarding which is where it becomes more a mental disorder.
I feel like a lot of these consoomers don't really stop much to actually go over the long process of sitting down with their whole collection and really think about what it means to them. Part of collecting responsibly is also the art of knowing when to let go of something and giving that something a new home where it can spark joy for someone else. For all the Disney addicts I'm surprised that the Toy Story series (especially 3 while completely ignore 4 like the cash grab it felt like) didn't teach them that.
I always hear this but thats only an issue if you are into things like speedrunning which also means you have at least aspergers and an hrt prescription. Emulation feels like an improved and more practical experience in every way but i understand owning the console, more for the nostalgia angle than anything else.
The interesting part is until a few years retro gaming was pretty lowkey anyways. It was more about hoarding than consooming because retro games were cheap as fuck, cheaper than buying recent games but them the amerijews had to step in and make it into yet another bubble. Now even common as fuck games that realistically should not cost more than 10$ are running in the hundreds and even thousands due to speculation. A poorfag hobby now became hipster garbage and apparently all was needed was a couple bad actors to manipulate the market.
It's generally not much of an issue if you're playing games you've not played before or don't know well but can be irritating when your muscle memory of a game you already know is suddenly wrong. I emulate everything anyway just because it's convenient but I can see why someone wouldn't want to.
It'd be more sensible to buy a MiSTer FPGA than a pile of retro consoles anyway. Probably even cheaper and definitely more reliable.
That's called your memory betraying you. You find a bunch of people who mastered F-Zero GX back in the day to play it again without having played it for years and watch how much they fuck up. Stop confusing rustiness with the game betraying you.
I mean nostalgia is a big reason for a lot of collectors and isn't bad in itself, just like most things in this thread it becomes a problem when it becomes an addiction to consume for the sake of it. Someone hanging on to an old console they got when they were a kid or even going out to re-buy a console they had a lot of fun memories with is fine in my books because they have an actual reason to do so. I'm a big believer in the whole Marie Kondo approach where it's entirely okay to keep what others my ascribe as worthless crap as long as it brings joy to the owner. The big * on that is when you get into the problem of unable to let anything go that leads into hoarding which is where it becomes more a mental disorder.
I feel like a lot of these consoomers don't really stop much to actually go over the long process of sitting down with their whole collection and really think about what it means to them. Part of collecting responsibly is also the art of knowing when to let go of something and giving that something a new home where it can spark joy for someone else. For all the Disney addicts I'm surprised that the Toy Story series (especially 3 while completely ignore 4 like the cash grab it felt like) didn't teach them that.
Collecting video games consoles are fucking cringe. I can emulate everything up to the 360/PS3 generation at their native specs/resolution without breaking a sweat and it's so easy to do some tiny tweaks that make things look as good as my nostalgia remembers it looking.
Like congratulations buddy, you have an original gameboy in your collection. The average calculator has a more intensive processor than that. It's just junk for the sake of junk and I implore anyone to tell me why they'd set up a mega drive to play Streets of Rage when for like £3 you can buy the entire trilogy digitally and play it on any console you have.
When you're on a seven hour plane ride that old DS you have stashed away with a copy of Pokemon Platinum still in it from over a decade ago quickly becomes your best friend in a way that emulation simply can't unless you buy one of those nice handheld emulator consoles.
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