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

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IsJoke said:

If you haven't seen the insanity that is Pikabellechu behold.

She's in her 40s. Lives with her elderly mother. Presumably unemployed other than crafting commissions. Brags about being a former Disney actress at the parks.

But her pride and joy is her "Chuseum" a hoard full of Pikachu Merch. She's been in Guinness and even drives a PikaBug that the Pokémon company used. (Though other PikaBug owners claim its fake.
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It looks like she got with a Henry the 8th cosplayer.
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On this week's episode of Talk About Games, the hosts go on a 9-minute long rant at the start of the show about consoomers in all but name, and it's pretty great:

They film in advance, so they're talking about Mario Day (March 10th), and they go on to rant about stupid corporate holidays, and other nonsense like Pi Day.
 
Spez said:
where do they get this kind of money.
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If you're not worried about building up savings and just spend all your non essential income on this kinda stuff it really wouldn't take that long to build up a hoard like this, especially if you've been buying like that for a couple years.

If you're just spending like the world's about to end it wouldn't be unreasonable to be able to buy 30 or 40 plushes a year, after five years that's 150-200 plushes.
 
Every nerd I've known who is really big into Pokémon (or hell, any) plushies is massively depressed. They crave that dopamine hit and don't realize, even after their 40th Pokémon Center store delivery, that this isn't doing it for them. But maybe the new "ditto as" plushie will do it this time?!

No they will not spend that money on therapy. Therapy should be free therefore spending whole income on merch instead is acceptable.

Spez said:
where do they get this kind of money.
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My experience says: your tax dollars.

At absolute best: from their part time retail job that is basically all fun money because they live with loving, enabling old parents/grandparents who make little to no demands of them. Like when you had a summer job as a teenager with parents who let you keep/spend your paychecks as you see fit, but now into your 30s and 40s.

At least they are working, I guess.
 
I think gacha gamers might be the ultimate consoomers, your paying in money to get a png in game when you can just look at them online.
 
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IsJoke said:

If you haven't seen the insanity that is Pikabellechu behold.

She's in her 40s. Lives with her elderly mother. Presumably unemployed other than crafting commissions. Brags about being a former Disney actress at the parks.

But her pride and joy is her "Chuseum" a hoard full of Pikachu Merch. She's been in Guinness and even drives a PikaBug that the Pokémon company used. (Though other PikaBug owners claim its fake.
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I knew people like her. they say they love Pokémon, anime, LOZ, and obsess over a character, but they hardly play the game or watch the shows. I think it's some weird personality they want to achieve. it's odd. I just hope no one wants her as a wife. or their wedding would look like this.
 
Frosty_Glass said:
I knew people like her. they say they love Pokémon, anime, LOZ, and obsess over a character, but they hardly play the game or watch the shows. I think it's some weird personality they want to achieve. it's odd. I just hope no one wants her as a wife. or their wedding would look like this.
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I bet it smells bad.
 
I'mma real anime gurl said:
Does she use the funko pop?
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Take a girl or guy on HRT, covered in tattoos, that advertise their favourite games/movies, then surround them with consumerist stuff. Wearing the latest promotional cosplay, and makeup, filiming dildoing themselves with a funkopop to finance their lifestyle. A corporate marketers dream? Is that the endgame?
 
Mister Uno said:
I have no clue why, I stopped caring after Sun and Moon. The gen 3 remakes where already a gigantic slap to the face for me, but I should of saw it coming. Now the newer games have even less features, and new/old existing features are behind a paywall. Fuck that.
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It's like Simpsons vs. Zombie Simpsons; or the different "eras" of South Park. It's the same IP, but not the same "thing". Pokémon Emerald was the last time Satoshi Tajiri was anything other than "Executive Producer" and was actually working on the games hands-on. You can see that reflected in the franchise writ large. It's no longer about the games. The games are just another kind of Pokémon merch.
I actually liked Detective Pikachu. It was dumb fun, but it was pretty, and strangely, it felt more like "old Pokémon" to me because it felt closer to the Pokémon world of the original games vs. the Pokémon world of modern games. Kanto in Red and Blue felt like "Japan, but a few steps removed", but Galar is fluffy woowoo theme-park-land.
 
NoReturn said:
It's like Simpsons vs. Zombie Simpsons; or the different "eras" of South Park. It's the same IP, but not the same "thing". Pokémon Emerald was the last time Satoshi Tajiri was anything other than "Executive Producer" and was actually working on the games hands-on. You can see that reflected in the franchise writ large. It's no longer about the games. The games are just another kind of Pokémon merch.
I actually liked Detective Pikachu. It was dumb fun, but it was pretty, and strangely, it felt more like "old Pokémon" to me because it felt closer to the Pokémon world of the original games vs. the Pokémon world of modern games. Kanto in Red and Blue felt like "Japan, but a few steps removed", but Galar is fluffy woowoo theme-park-land.
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Gen IV was still good but after that the creative differences between the teams really shows.
 
BipolarPon said:
I think gacha gamers might be the ultimate consoomers, your paying in money to get a png in game when you can just look at them online.
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Useless garbage that you paid way too much for is still useless garbage, whether it’s a PNG or a Funko Pop. Gacha games (and more generally speaking, skins in video games etc.) are stupid, but at least excess PNG’s only fill up your computer, not your house.
 
Gar For Archer said:
Useless garbage that you paid way too much for is still useless garbage, whether it’s a PNG or a Funko Pop. Gacha games (and more generally speaking, skins in video games etc.) are stupid, but at least excess PNG’s only fill up your computer, not your house.
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Funko Pops at least give me the fantasy that some day, someone will start a service where you can send in your Funko Pops and they'll melt them down and send them back as a coil of 3D printer filament
 
Gar For Archer said:
Useless garbage that you paid way too much for is still useless garbage, whether it’s a PNG or a Funko Pop. Gacha games (and more generally speaking, skins in video games etc.) are stupid, but at least excess PNG’s only fill up your computer, not your house.
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I consider them equals. A funko consoomer is no better than a gacha consoomer. To say that one is different than the other is a really low bar.
 
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