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

[whitepumpkin]

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.

Yeah, I have the old handheld consoles and a few games because they're portable and you can buy a pack of 48 Double A batteries at Costco for cheap to power them. And when you live in an dodgy cell-service wasteland where it takes 9 hours just to get to your jobsite sometimes, they're worth it. But there's a big difference in owning these things and using them rather than displaying them with their original box and whatever to never be touched. Especially because you can get them for under $30.

Even the photo I dropped, if they use them then fine. Maybe she got a second PSP as a gift years ago. Yet the photo was still taken to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible - a pink humblebrag. Just like that Nintendo girl that was posted by @NoReturn where she dumped Zero Two for the new Anime Waifu of 2021 and her videos are just constantly her acquiring shit. It's definite FOMO triggers for impressionable young girls who probably think they need all that to be accepted into a community built on consumerism. To be a Gamer Girl uwu you need all the Games. In PINK.

Do you notice how these girls can't just have the normal switch? They have to buy skins for them and they replace them so often you wonder if they just tossed out that $40 Cherry Blossom skin just so they now can have a Pastel Galaxy one. No one would care if you saved up, bought a single skin for your consoles, and applied it and went on your way. But there's an insidious consoomerism with these tiktoks and the speed of replacement. Constantly change your Switch Sticker Skins. Replace your keyboard keys with Miku and Cherry Blossoms. Get the Cat Headphones. Get the Cardcaptor Headphones. Get every fucking Cherry Blossom Starbucks cup, then make sure to get the 2022 ones that will come.

It's an unsettling plastic pink cycle. I've never seen a kawaii tiktok post themselves actually using a handheld console outside their home. It's always on a charger and displayed - just differently than the Nintendo Guys who place them on shelves. But they still are used as props in these people's lives to show off how much of a fan they are and you aren't because you don't have that amount of stuff.

Someone using their items as intended isn't bad. Someone collecting them in every colour of the rainbow, all limited editions, with the original boxes and displaying them under a glass so you can't even play with them (or setting them up aesthetically on a desk to never be used unless in a tiktok) is a problem.

 

[NoReturn]

Unrelated to anything:

Spoiler: There's actually more

Get every fucking Cherry Blossom Starbucks cup, then make sure to get the 2022 ones that will come.

Spoiler: There's more here too

 

[whitepumpkin]

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I take it back. Buy the Japanese Cherry Blossom cups. At least those are different and cute and not just the same ugly fucking cup but in different colours.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

Is the one that have multiple cups of the same colors necessary?
if she's selling, kinda makes sense. If not, well...

 

[Czechem Republic]

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 answer that. There still isn't cycle-accurate emulation for anything newer than the SNES (not the MD, last I knew), and circuit-level emulation for (I think) anything newer than the Game Boy. The inaccuracies can range from micro-optimized speedrunner-level autism to literal unplayability (e.g. anything with Factor 5's name on it).

My collecting 'tism stops at original hardware, and that's because it's where anything that makes those systems interesting is happening. (And also, as Byuu showed us, the further you can stay away from the emulation scene, the more of your sanity you retain). I've got a decent hardware collection, but all of them are loaded with flash carts. Collecting games is pointless and absurdly expensive. As a bonus, most OG hardware has held up well over time, and with flash carts or optical drive emulators, there is no wear to speak of.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I can answer that. There still isn't cycle-accurate emulation for anything newer than the SNES (not the MD, last I knew), and circuit-level emulation for (I think) anything newer than the Game Boy. The inaccuracies can range from micro-optimized speedrunner-level autism to literal unplayability (e.g. anything with Factor 5's name on it).

My collecting 'tism stops at original hardware, and that's because it's where anything that makes those systems interesting is happening. (And also, as Byuu showed us, the further you can stay away from the emulation scene, the more of your sanity you retain). I've got a decent hardware collection, but all of them are loaded with flash carts. Collecting games is pointless and absurdly expensive. As a bonus, most OG hardware has held up well over time, and with flash carts or optical drive emulators, there is no wear to speak of.

The modded ps2 is a good console to have because you can play both pirated ps1 and ps2 games. You just burn the iso on a cheapo blank cd and play. Thats how latinamericans always played playstation games.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Almost all of the older portables have to be completely rebuilt though, this is especially true with the game boy. I just had to have a new screen put in on one I have, and I went ahead and had the battery mechanism replaced as well as the controller and button pads. The unmodified ones almost always have busted screens or are incredibly touchy, ie they will turn off mid-play if you bump the wrong way with your hand.

Older non-Nintendo portables are even worse, Game Gears, Turbo Expresses (sound almost always bad), Atari Lynx 1 and 2, Sega Nomad (still no good screen mod for these sadly), all have issues.

As far as emulation goes, this is just my take from 30+ years of having a game boy since 1989, but none of them get the sound right. Even the newer GBA, none of the emulators sound 100% to my ears.

 

[Czechem Republic]

none of them get the sound right. Even the newer GBA, none of the emulators sound 100% to my ears.

SAME. I even ABX tested myself, it got to the point where I could tell with some accuracy which emulator was playing certain SNES games because they all fuck it up in unique ways.

IMO, nothing beats playing on the original hardware and form factor. I'm not some purist, it's not like fixing broken buttons and the like degrades the experience. I just want as close to originally intended as possible, free of bullshit and "enhancements".

Spoiler: Autism you didn't ask for

The opening of Super Mario RPG is my go-to emulation test, for timing and for sound. The bit where mario runs in place and dashes into the castle? Listen carefully to when the door opens and closes. If you're on a shitty emulator (so most of them), you'll hear a weird rising tone behind the noise channel. It's there on the real hardware too but EXTREMELY subtle. If you can pick it out without listening for it, you know that the sound emu isn't great.

 

[WULULULULU]

What is it with girls (or troons) associating themselves with anime characters? Are they that braindead shallow or lack any form of relatability.

On a sidenote: seeing these posts reaffirms my confirmation that anyone who likes DarliFra are indeed retards. Lowest of the low retards, even lower than Funko consoomers.

 

[The Lawgiver]

So, LEGO released another thing for the ""Lgbtq+ community"" That's a $150 dollar set of the reality show Queer eye. Not to be confused with the original Queer eye for the straight guy, this is a recent "reboot" of it apparently. Now, the reason I'm putting this in this thread instead of shit like the $800 millenium falcon is unlike that where though it's definitely not worth $800 you can see the designers put genuine effort into it, this looks as cash-grabby as the "everyone is awesome" set they put out for pride month. It's apperently done by the same designer too so that's kinda funny.

If you know lego and pricing, this set makes no god damn sense being as expensive as it is. It's almost entirely basic elements, the walls and floor are the most brain-dead basic construction method more suited to shit like the weird bootleg lego you can find in some places. Everything in the kitchen is a fucking sticker on a tiled brick. I could see a set like this going for like maybe $45 or $50 but $150 is pure undiluded consoomer BUY BRAND PRODUCT shit.

Compare this to another recent, currently available Lego set. Possibly the most perfect Lego "media thing replica" set to ever fucking exist, Seinfeld.

It's around the same size as the "queer eye" set, and $80, which while still damn pricey, actually makes sense with the amount of parts and funky building techniques it uses to get the look down as close as possible. There's also an extra part not shown in this fucking stock image that's just a replica of the stand up stage from the opening credits sequences. You can see the actual love and care the designer worked into this thing. The kitchen is an actual kitchen! Set's filled with stickers, but only where they're needed for budgetary reasons. The only stickers in the kitchen are the fridge magnets, and the stove has a really clever usage of a car grill piece. The floor tiles are actually there. It's packed with weird small references to specific scenes, as well as the people that made Seinfeld littered throughout the fucking thing. ( lego larry david on the fridge) The list goes on and on.

My point here, rambling aside, there's no damn reason a cheapass looking set like "queer eye" should be $150 damn dollars, but consoomers will defend it because "LGBT REP GUYSSSS! LEGO! WOW SO SEEN!"
EDIT: yeah, looked it up and that's exactly what they're fucking doing lmao, jesus christ.

 

[ditto]

Possibly the most perfect Lego "media thing replica" set to ever fucking exist, Seinfeld.

It's only missing the Macintosh.

 

[The Lawgiver]

It's only missing the Macintosh.

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It's there technically, but due to licensing it's a generic computer. The web page it's on is a reference as well.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Holy shit lol, it really DOES look like a bootleg.

Also for comparison, I present the Lego Friends apartment:

It’s $150 bucks for twice the size, and is actually fully enclosed (minus the “fourth wall” of course) and includes the TV set dressing to make it look more complete. The TV lighting does a lot to give the illusion of depth/thickness to the walls, and the different layers of color on the floor (unlike the Queer Eye floor which is uniformly grey through and through for… no good reason really, since it looks like they’re mostly built up from plates anyways) makes it more visually interesting, even if it’s not as nice as the fully tiled floor of the Seinfeld apartment.

Objectively, the Queer Eye set is terrible value and poorly designed, especially when it’s clear from these other examples that Lego is capable of doing this concept well. But hey, if fags wanna spend $150 on a shitty overpriced Lego set, it’s no sweat off my back.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Holy shit lol, it really DOES look like a bootleg.

Also for comparison, I present the Lego Friends apartment:View attachment 2538226
It’s $150 bucks for twice the size, and is actually fully enclosed (minus the “fourth wall” of course) and includes the TV set dressing to make it look more complete.

Objectively, the Queer Eye set is terrible value and poorly designed, especially when it’s clear from these other examples that Lego is capable of doing this concept well. But hey, if fags wanna spend $150 on a shitty overpriced Lego set, it’s no sweat off my back.

It's so surreal. You can see a clear progression in the complexity of the TV studio apartment set style of lego sets with generally reasonable pricing for the size or complexity but then this new one just straight up does a nosedive into "the worst of lele's stolen LDD user files" territory and is somehow more expensive than pretty much all the rest.

 

[RandallBoggs]

On a sidenote: seeing these posts reaffirms my confirmation that anyone who likes DarliFra are indeed retards. Lowest of the low retards, even lower than Funko consoomers.

Spot the difference- oh wait.

 

[get_ur_gamon]

Just wanted to mention that if there is anything worse than being a "modern" videogame collector is being a "collector". By that I mean spending thousands on dollars on a "physical" game that is available online at a lower price. Limited Run Games is a clear example of this and they also know their fan-base (bearded manchildren) enough that they exploit the cumsoomer within them.

Something even more pathetic than being a modern video game collector are vidya item collectors. At the very least with the former you have a physical product. Something more pathetic are people who collect virtual items. The world of Warships is full of bizzare boomers who seek to own every set of naval themed pixels within the game, no matter how little effort Wargaming puts into each "unique" item.

The level of grind to "achieve" this requires literally years or unspeakable amounts of money. I hate when people talk about "buying" items in game, as if they are making an investment when it is more comparable rental, as we all know the servers for our favourite games will close at some point.

Making the temporary ownership of pixels as desireable as a real physical hobby is the only thing more sad than buying endless bobbleheads. Although it is easier to hide.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

It's so surreal. You can see a clear progression in the complexity of the TV studio apartment set style of lego sets with generally reasonable pricing for the size or complexity but then this new one just straight up does a nosedive into "the worst of lele's stolen LDD user files" territory and is somehow more expensive than pretty much all the rest.

The worst part about it is the straight man-child pandering. What kid is going to play with a Queer Eye set Lego 'toy'?

Adults have always collected children's toys - dolls, erector sets, whatever, but before they didn't imprint basement dweller tastes upon the toys themselves.

 

[Medicinal Molduga]

Something even more pathetic than being a video game collector. At the very least you have a physical product. Something more pathetic are people who collect virtual items. The world of Warships is full of bizzare boomers who seek to own every set of naval themed pixels within the game, no matter how little effor Wargaming puts into each "unique" item.
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The level of grind to "achieve" this requires literally years or unspeakable amounts of money. I hate when people talk about "buying" items in game, as if they are making an investment when it is more comparable rental, as we all know the servers for our favourite games will close at some point.

Making the temporary ownership of pixels as desireable as a real physical hobby is the only thing more sad than buying endless bobbleheads. Although it is easier to hide.

Reminds me of the people 'investing' money in digital land from scam videogame Earth 2

A good explanation of the scam:

 

[WULULULULU]

Something even more pathetic than being a modern video game collector are vidya item collectors. At the very least you have a physical product. Something more pathetic are people who collect virtual items. The world of Warships is full of bizzare boomers who seek to own every set of naval themed pixels within the game, no matter how little effor Wargaming puts into each "unique" item.
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The level of grind to "achieve" this requires literally years or unspeakable amounts of money. I hate when people talk about "buying" items in game, as if they are making an investment when it is more comparable rental, as we all know the servers for our favourite games will close at some point.

Making the temporary ownership of pixels as desireable as a real physical hobby is the only thing more sad than buying endless bobbleheads. Although it is easier to hide.

I don't even want to know how long it would take to grind every item in War Thunder now that I think about it.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

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've never seen that anime before and I've been hearing that it's a blantant Neon Genesis Evangelion ripoff.