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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
I have noticed it's trendy to teach the pleb how to consume "like rich people supposedly do",
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
a lot of bored housewifes are doing content teaching the plebs how to look rich.
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
It's like there's no horizon besides consooming and putting outside an certain image. No possibility for wealth redistribution, for greater justice, for another world. No desire to expand one's mind. Just the lie that all this stuff makes you look good, the lie that it's a great way to spend your money, that "you will get your money back" if you need to sell your Gucci bag later (more likely you won't)...
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
this is "their best life?" I just call that mindless consumption.
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
This is frankly evil that they are targeting women and LGBT+ with that discourse but if they are dumb enough to fall for it they deserve it...
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
I wouldn't want to live there but for so many unrealted reasons.
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Do go on. The exteriors were mentioned earlier, but I'm not really a fan of those, either. The neighborhood is right off a main road and you can see cars driving by in some of the shots.
 
Vivec said:
This is Disney's new demographic for the Disney Parks subsidiary in general. From a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense. You can grift maybe $1000 a day from a family of 6, and they are going be be price conscious (and thus low margin) about fucking everything, OR you can sell weird outlandish larp shit to non reproductive DINK couples for $6000 a day and as long as they can stuff their faces and get shitfaced while experiencing something novel, they are legitimately happy.
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We have an annual SoCal pass (or at least we did before COVID) and this isn’t really a new park demographic so much as a secondary demographic. Disney’s parks have actually lowered their merchandise and food prices to be more in line with other theme parks like Six Flags or Busch Gardens (still expensive but not ‘’sneak your own food in” expensive). The parks themselves are still to appeal to the budget conscious family, whereas these are secondary attractions (Disney homes, Disney cruise, Disney island, etc) are things that Disney has historically done to try to get more money out of Disney super fans.
 
NoReturn said:
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Do go on. The exteriors were mentioned earlier, but I'm not really a fan of those, either. The neighborhood is right off a main road and you can see cars driving by in some of the shots.
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I didn't watch the "how to look rich/old money" videos because I know they're wrong. A lot of the people I've met who worked for a long time to attain wealth (like veteran lawyers, engineers, etc) shop at Target and Costco. They drive mid-priced cars. "Old money" people often get that way through investments. $5000 in a steady stock will increase its value in 10 years; a $5000 dress will not. They'll shell out for big homes in nice neighborhoods, sure, but just running into them on the street? You'd usually never be able to tell.

People who buy expensive casual clothes, ridiculous fashion, gaudy jewelry, and Lamborghinis are often either 20something celebrities who will go bankrupt five years after their careers end, or are trying to seem higher status than they actually are.
 
proteus4994 said:
Disney island
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I didn't know this was a thing.

proteus4994 said:
Disney cruise
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
A couple who sleep in separate beds.
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Ah, gotcha.
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Mountain Gorilla said:
If you're over the age of 12 and paying even $5.00 for all-you-can-drink blue and green milk then you're legitimately retarded.
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Pissmaster said:
That place looks uncomfortably sterile. And I dunno how else to describe this, but it just gives me that sense that it'll just crumble over time. Like, if I tripped and fell into a wall, I'd go right through it, causing way bigger cracks than I would in a sturdier house. Maybe it's that IKEA look, like @Vingle mentioned.
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It looks like the carpentry and set design team that works on the Disney TV show sets were hired to build these homes. They look like fake sitcom homes.
 
mensch said:
I do not understand the need to collect retro vidya in 2022 other than to signal to other neckbearded enthusiasts online.

Most old videogames are a time bomb. Cartridge batteries die after a few decades which prevents save data being stored. This is fixable but requires soldering, which to the lay person is kryptonite. Just imagine needing to operate on your cartridge worth $200 which will be rendered worthless if you fuck up? Then you also have contact damage and erosion. Disc based media is not immune either as disc rot is starting to rear its ugly head for CDs made in the 80s/90s, and even DVDs. I already have several PS1 games destroyed by it. There is nothing you can do as it's believed to be a manufacturing defect.

Don't forget that to even get legitimate carts, you will also have to become your own appraiser. I had to follow a guide and cross reference product codes to see if a GBA game I bought was even legitimate. Who wants this hassle other than for pride or e-peen measurement? Just get an HDD/SD loader and custom firmware for your console of choice and download ROMS onto them, or even just use an emulator. Most are 95% accurate by now and improve every year.
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It'll be interesting to see how long blu-ray discs last. There's already 360 games prone to disc rot like Lost Odyssey's final disc. Even when that game was new, people had to do crazy things like boil it to make it work. You could just install the data onto your 360, too. Went with that instead of boiling a DVD.
 
Agent Abe Caprine said:
It'll be interesting to see how long blu-ray discs last. There's already 360 games prone to disc rot like Lost Odyssey's final disc. Even when that game was new, people had to do crazy things like boil it to make it work. You could just install the data onto your 360, too. Went with that instead of boiling a DVD.
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Just checked my copy, it looks fine. It probably didn't help matters that Lost Odyssey had its fourth disc shipped in a paper sleeve on top of the instruction manual:
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and the paper sleeve was too big for the case so they're all inevitably a little crumpled

From what I've read, disc rot tends to happen when discs are cheaply manufactured, and Sony's discs seem resistant to it, so I figure most Blu-rays will be fine for a long time. I haven't heard of any trouble with disc rot on PS1 games yet, and that's been kicking around since the end of '94. Meanwhile, a lot of HD-DVDs from specifically Warner are already rotting away, and I have a couple in my collection that show.

Apparently there are rotting problems with specifically MGS: The Twin Snakes on Gamecube too? But just that game?
 
Skipjack said:
I didn't watch the "how to look rich/old money" videos because I know they're wrong. A lot of the people I've met who worked for a long time to attain wealth (like veteran lawyers, engineers, etc) shop at Target and Costco. They drive mid-priced cars. "Old money" people often get that way through investments. $5000 in a steady stock will increase its value in 10 years; a $5000 dress will not. They'll shell out for big homes in nice neighborhoods, sure, but just running into them on the street? You'd usually never be able to tell.

People who buy expensive casual clothes, ridiculous fashion, gaudy jewelry, and Lamborghinis are often either 20something celebrities who will go bankrupt five years after their careers end, or are trying to seem higher status than they actually are.
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Believe it or not the video says the same thing. The whole narrative is basically "new richers have something to prove and buy blingy shit to impress, old richers are price conscious and don't give a shit what the unwashed masses think", except phrased in an insufferably pretentious way.
 
Pissmaster said:
Just checked my copy, it looks fine. It probably didn't help matters that Lost Odyssey had its fourth disc shipped in a paper sleeve on top of the instruction manual:
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and the paper sleeve was too big for the case so they're all inevitably a little crumpled

From what I've read, disc rot tends to happen when discs are cheaply manufactured, and Sony's discs seem resistant to it, so I figure most Blu-rays will be fine for a long time. I haven't heard of any trouble with disc rot on PS1 games yet, and that's been kicking around since the end of '94. Meanwhile, a lot of HD-DVDs from specifically Warner are already rotting away, and I have a couple in my collection that show.

Apparently there are rotting problems with specifically MGS: The Twin Snakes on Gamecube too? But just that game?
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The first time I saw the art on the fourth disc, I felt uncomfortable. After finding out they are prone to needing boiled, that feeling of being mocked by a disc was justified. If Yoko Taro was involved with the game, I'd assume this was intentional.
 
I actually like this company, but that doesn't give them a pass for how silly this is:
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Vivec said:
Believe it or not the video says the same thing. The whole narrative is basically "new richers have something to prove and buy blingy shit to impress, old richers are price conscious and don't give a shit what the unwashed masses think", except phrased in an insufferably pretentious way.
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Yeah, that's her whole schtick. She acts all "I'm a fancy lady." but then tells her clients to hang around known prostitution hotels, etc. if they want to find rich men to marry. (I learned that from you guys. I also learned from the Sugar Babies thread that she has a Tattle.life thread.)
 
Vivec said:
Believe it or not the video says the same thing. The whole narrative is basically "new richers have something to prove and buy blingy shit to impress, old richers are price conscious and don't give a shit what the unwashed masses think", except phrased in an insufferably pretentious way.
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Perhaps slightly OT: Friend of a friend worked at a dealership that sold Ferraris. According to him, the absolute, one hundred percent certain tell that a guy walking through the front door couldn't actually afford a Ferrari was 'he's wearing a suit and tie'. People who can afford high end stuff like that often dress in ugly golf shirts and flip flops when they're off the clock.
 
Helium Bubble said:
Perhaps slightly OT: Friend of a friend worked at a dealership that sold Ferraris. According to him, the absolute, one hundred percent certain tell that a guy walking through the front door couldn't actually afford a Ferrari was 'he's wearing a suit and tie'. People who can afford high end stuff like that often dress in ugly golf shirts and flip flops when they're off the clock.
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I knew someone who worked at an auction house. She said you could spot old money because they’d be wearing a sweater with a hole in it and a frayed baseball cap.
 
Anyone up for a discussion about the kinds of small businesses that pop up on TikTok?
Some of the most common ones seem to be:
  • Polymer clay (this comes up in the Fat Girlcows thread as well, why is it so attractive to them?)
  • Lipgloss
  • Candy resale
  • Resin things
  • Jewelry (wirewrap, plastic things, etc.)
  • Fake nails and eyelashes
  • Resale of shit from China/Dropshipping general
Of all of the above, there's literally one category of item I'd buy personally, but also, how is there a large enough market to make these viable? These are all side-hobbies, right?
 
NoReturn said:
Some of the most common ones seem to be:
  • Polymer clay (this comes up in the Fat Girlcows thread as well, why is it so attractive to them?)
  • Lipgloss
  • Candy resale
  • Resin things
  • Jewelry (wirewrap, plastic things, etc.)
  • Fake nails and eyelashes
  • Resale of shit from China/Dropshipping general
Of all of the above, there's literally one category of item I'd buy personally, but also, how is there a large enough market to make these viable? These are all side-hobbies, right?
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Something you'll notice about all of these is that they're both low skill floor and low investment cost, I'm also sure these people either work at least a part time job on top of doing this. I actually know quite a few people who do this kind of shit as a side job or as their full time job and it's as much luck as it is business acumen, and yes there is a nearly inexhaustible supply of people who don't mind dropping 10-50 dollars on kitschy stuff to "support a small business".
 
NoReturn said:
Anyone up for a discussion about the kinds of small businesses that pop up on TikTok?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sgi_LVGgGCAhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Vzo1Ekp9BU4Some of the most common ones seem to be:
  • Polymer clay (this comes up in the Fat Girlcows thread as well, why is it so attractive to them?)
  • Lipgloss
  • Candy resale
  • Resin things
  • Jewelry (wirewrap, plastic things, etc.)
  • Fake nails and eyelashes
  • Resale of shit from China/Dropshipping general
Of all of the above, there's literally one category of item I'd buy personally, but also, how is there a large enough market to make these viable? These are all side-hobbies, right?
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It's Amway/MLM stuff for zoomers.
 
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