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People have kept 35 year old boxes of Nintendo cereal with it's contents intact. So there's precedent, for preservation people will either freeze them or dip them in a plastic glaze.
Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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Art Kassul
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They weren't worth eating even when new, so keeping them sealed forever is the smart move.
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I'd argue that quite a few artfags are consoomers too. It's just their collection are exotic Artificial Eye special edition Blu-Rays or books they'll never read.
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Just the mental image of them watching Come and See and actually reading The Illiad would make me rate Optimistic™.
Instead, they just watch the Marvel Avengers movies, while lauding Cuties as a work of art.
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Anytime someone says diamonds, I think of this and the wonderful schadenfreude it produces.
Anyways, I really hate this ideal around Engagement rings and how they have to be in your face and PURE DIAMOND and shit. Even when you're rich it just seems like a pointless consooming excess. Diamonds and jewels are beautiful, especially when you get the right craftsman who can do complicated cuts on them. But to flash off to everyone on earth in all your ugly selfies that your ring is the size of a chicken turd is the height of low-class and tacky.
It also follows this pattern that women are materialistic harpies and your "man" ain't worth shit unless he gets you some ring with diamonds the size of Texas on it. Like, fuck off. You should be happy your fiancée can even afford a fucking ring and be grateful to even get one. Gloating how you need to drain his wallet is gross.
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That cereal probably tastes as "good" as it did BITD.
Get that ice or else no dice.
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John was taking the piss, I believe.
Weddings in total had been perverted into consumer extravaganza a long time ago. Consume a dress that will be worn only once. Consume a cake with ridiculous amounts of fondant. Consume a gaudy oversized ring. Take a loan to rent a restaurant for a day and to fund a honeymoon trip. Start married life with negative funds and pray there will be no divorce in a few years that will make it all look like a giant waste of money.
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Didn't they have an extremely brief re-run of this cereal like a decade or 2 ago, but under a different company? Could be a false memory but I'm absolutely sure something like that happened. Limited promo food has always been one of the really fucking strange things people keep ahold of, the consoomer corruption aspect of it in recent years thats led to it being scalped and preorder-able is a special hell. Before that time, the most you'd get is either hardcore collectors or people who eat expired food on video for fun buying the unused boxes off people.
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Someone gotta make blu ray remasters of obscure old films be worthwhile to release by buying them. Lord knows it ain't me, i love me some blu rays of old movies but always pirate that stuff.
Not if your religion is brand loyalty. Branded items are automatically made sacred and need to be treated with outmost reverence.
I grew up with vidya so is kinda deppresing that i no longer see it as a exciting new medium but distopian skinner boxes , i am pretty done with that industry and hope it crashes.
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Vidya enthusiasts are just as disappointed as you are in the uprising of skinner box gacha crap, and mobile gaming completely squandered all of its potential, thanks to being run by companies that don’t give a shit about games, and didn’t moderate their storefronts in any meaningful ways. Mobile platforms are as dystopian as they come, and they set terrible precedents for software ownership going forward, with no guarantee that you’ll be able to access anything you paid for, or even be able to download an older version of something in case an update messes it up.
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I feel like we're headed for a 1983-4 style video game crash, and in some ways it's the same reason - a proliferation of shit. I am tired of mobile game shovelware, not just on mobile but also on Nintendo's store and steam.
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The ever increasing development costs on AAA video games don't help either.
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1984 videogame crash was a fucking meme.
It affected zero of PC game development because Atari was nowhere near that sector.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was alive in well in Europe before the NES even came to market, continued to have games released for it all throughout the NES's lifespan (the NES never really took root there at all) and the ZX Spectrum lasted until 1993.
So you have multiple avenues that existed for games already that were not touched by Atari's gay bullshit at all. And if the NES was entirely absent you would have just gotten games from another source. You would either be importing shit from the UK to game or you would be gaming on a PC.
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At the rate that consoomerism in terms of the lunatic excesses, does it make people wish that their governments would switch to Socialism or Communism instead, to kill off consoomerism once and for all? Or would even that not stop it? I can't really see how consoomers in Venezuela or North Korea would be a thing.
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Thats like solving a roach problem by burning down your house. If it comes down to it , i'd take soyboys lining up for nintendo than everyone lining up for bread that might not even be available at all.
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I'll give the clickbait movie man this, at least he gets to the point and speaks quickly unlike 99% of these content mills. Other than that, get the hell out of my recommended.
As for saber's video, mobile games have been ruined from the start, or pretty close to it. There was a small time period when the iphone was new where cool webtoys and other nonsense made it's way onto mobiles but since a couple years after that it's been purely downhill and has only become more insane from random non-western developers just dumping crap onto the stores from a million fly by night corporations. Even one of the two in the thumbnail is Clash Of Clans, a notoriously money grubbing titan from a very successful studio in the indsutry that is just a grindfest, and to top it off it's basically the fault of why mobile gaming is almost entirely cookie cutter civbuilding shit.
More like solving the problem by nuking your entire neighborhood.
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Mobile games were fundamentally fucked right out the gate, because a one-time $0.99 payment is not a sustainable price for a game unless you’re a one-man team making games for fun in your free time, yet it’s the most many people are willing to pay up-front because it’s what we’ve been conditioned to accept as the “standard” price for an app, due to most apps being 99 cents when the App Store first rolled out.
With PC games, devs add microtransactions because they’re greedy. With mobile games, the microtransaction model was basically required to survive.
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It definitely happened in the USA and in Japan it was referred to as the "Atari shock" because of the company most responsible for the fuckery going on. Also after playing ZX Specturm games I'd rather the industry crash than have to play another shitty game on that thing. People played consoles, but hey, after the crash you could buy a bunch of games for cheap, so it wasn't bad on the consumer side. (There was also this little thing called the Commodore 64 that you got a discount on if you traded in a video game console in for it, which caused people to just buy new consoles for cheap and trade them in to get half off the price of a C64.) There were also some real stinkers like the Atari 5200 (consolized Atari 8 bit computer with controllers that tended to badly malfunction) - and publishers would publish their games on any number of consoles and computers at the same time, making it so that there weren't any real exclusives and you may as well just have a computer to play vidya on. Nintendo really did save the console industry in North America.
I wish I could consoom a lot of retro gaming crap but I don't have enough room for a poorly engineered Coleco Adam (itself a victim of the crash - instead of actually doing something useful with the console, Coleco used its Cabbage Patch and Colecovision money to make a shittily engineered computer), any number of glorified Pong consoles, or, hell, a Vectrex.