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

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Cowboy Kim said:
I'd argue the price of Nintendo shit is almost entirely the "Disney of vidya" effect.
My other guess on why PS1/2 & Xbox is cheaper would be how much easier it is to pirate games on real hardware for the others:
  • PS1 can use tonyhax to run CD-Rs without a modchip, along with the swap-trick.
  • PS2 Has FreeMcBoot with either DVD-Rs or ISOs off a local file server.
  • Xbox can be softmodded into booting DVD-Rs or straight from the internal hard drive (this one had the biggest drop in price, IMO.)
In comparison, the GC either requires a custom game save, action replay, or modchip, along with special DVD-Rs

The N64 and Saturn have poor emulation due to special hardware, so the best (and sometimes only) way is to buy the real thing.
Neither have a cheap way to run ROMs either.
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There's a generous population of people out there where softmodding is far beyond their abilities. Games for Nintendo consoles tend to hold value more due to, well, consoomers and their brand loyalty. It's probably worth mentioning that Nintendo hardware holds up over the years better than anyone else's, too.

Pirated Gamecube games can be played on a softmodded Wii, and it's easy to softmod a Wii. From there, games can be loaded onto a USB drive, or burned to normal, full-sized DVD-Rs and played in a Wii. You can also play pirated Gamecube games on a Gamecube by way of... some kinda network boot thing through the (obscenely expensive) broadband adapter and a copy of Phantasy Star Online 1+2 Plus. The Gamecube & Wii emulator, Dolphin, also runs well on anything even remotely recent, including Android phones.

Xbox is an oddball. It's sort of an open secret that Xbox games tend to be way less valuable than their contemporaries, and I figure it's because Xbox doesn't have that same exotic mystique the foreign consoles do. And that's perfectly fine by me, it means I can recommend games to others and point out a way they can buy them without selling a kidney:
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(prices are loose disc / complete in box / sealed)
 
Blackhole said:
"omg u guiz this political event is (insert capeshit/fiction novel here)!!!! just like muh movies!!!"
these creatures are subhuman and they need to be exterminated off the face of the fucking earth
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Yes, because Republicans in Congress are like a wizard who was corrupted by an ancient evil spirit to launch a war of conquest across Middle Earth slaughtering thousands of innocent people. It also makes no sense because the Battle of Helm's Deep and attack on Isengard (all of the battles in the War of the Ring, really) were a diversion to allow Frodo and Sam to get into Mordor.

I'm pretty sure that ass clown has never read LoTR.
 
Elbow Greased Strength said:
Yes, because Republicans in Congress are like a wizard who was corrupted by an ancient evil spirit to launch a war of conquest across Middle Earth slaughtering thousands of innocent people. It also makes no sense because the Battle of Helm's Deep and attack on Isengard (all of the battles in the War of the Ring, really) were a diversion to allow Frodo and Sam to get into Mordor.

I'm pretty sure that ass clown has never read LoTR.
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Except that Republicans are corrupted by an (((Ancient Evil))) originating from the Middle East.

Also have they realized that LOTR is the Men and other free people of the west fighting against Goblin Hordes and Corrupted men from the South and East.
 
Pissmaster said:
George Takei is every negative trait a lefty can have all rolled up into one person. He’s a hypocrite, a pedophile, has some five-star Trump Derangement Syndrome, and posts shit like that all the time.
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Don’t forget how he STILL has a giant hateboner for William Shatner, mostly because Shat was the star of the show that Takei was a glorified extra in, like 60 years ago.
 
Little Duck said:
I believe that building Lego sets or your own creations is like reading comics, playing video games or watching cartoons. It's not only for children but for adults as well. Everybody can enjoy the building process of a set, kind of like assembling a puzzle or a model airplane, and making something creative and personal can always be fun. And you're going to build something very complex, you would be glad for being so easy. I can see why many people like Lego, but I still fail to see why some feel like they have to get every new set as soon as they released, even if the set is actually bad and no matter the cost. It's just plastic bricks, so why the rush and the complains that "they're too expensive"? If you feel like something is overpriced, don't buy it. Or at least not yet. Wait until the prices are down. It's not bread. It's not gonna get mold or something. Just relax and wait.

I've seen this mentality of "I have to buy it now and I don't care how expensive it is" again and I still don't understand why. Maybe I'm just such a big idiot.
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Building a Lego kit takes no more skill than a typical third-grader. At least do something that requires a modicum of mastery, like model planes or wooden ships.
 
Anyone who is jealous of the Boomer TV Advertisement Whore of Hollywood William Shatner probably should talk to their therapist over their confidence issues.
 
The Ugly One said:
Building a Lego kit takes no more skill than a typical third-grader. At least do something that requires a modicum of mastery, like model planes or wooden ships.
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Model fag here.

If you’re just going by the instructions, then yeah. LEGO doesn’t take much skill.

But if you’re building something bigger and more ambitious out of scratch, it’s not as easy. Especially repurposing blocks as something completely different.

Is it as hard as some other hobbies? It’s as hard as you make it. But for many people it’s about relaxation as well as skill.
 
Fapcop said:
Model fag here.

If you’re just going by the instructions, then yeah. LEGO doesn’t take much skill.

But if you’re building something bigger and more ambitious out of scratch, it’s not as easy. Especially repurposing blocks as something completely different.

Is it as hard as some other hobbies? It’s as hard as you make it. But for many people it’s about relaxation as well as skill.
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Making your own model is at least something.
 
Pissmaster said:
George Takei is every negative trait a lefty can have all rolled up into one person. He’s a hypocrite, a pedophile, has some five-star Trump Derangement Syndrome, and posts shit like that all the time.
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He's also a 85 year old man that acts like a 35 year old millennial. The dude is as old as my grandma and yet treats Twitter as if it's the most important thing in the world.
 
albert the programmer said:
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So much money to get the same style/same amount of shoes.
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I enjoy obtaining the occasional pair of aesthetically pleasing sneakers to wear but female sneaker hoarders are particularly dumb. If she’s not just hoarding them as an “””investment””” and is doing it to actually wear them and be really fashionable, she’s gonna have a pretty big wake-up call if she ever decides to have kids - your feet go up a shoe size because the pregnancy hormones loosen up the connective tissue between all your joints to make room for the baby to grow. She’s gonna have like 5000 pairs of shoes that don’t fit her anymore.
 
The Ugly One said:
Making your own model is at least something.
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True, but again. You can do it the 12 year old way, and slap a cheap model together and never paint it.

Or… You can modify the model, add rivets and drill holes, modify it so it’s more accurate and of course a lot of skill goes into painting and weathering.

I reckon the same kinda applies to LEGOs. (Minus the painting.)


Speaking of… There is an incredibly amount of autism and cashgrabs going on in the modelling community.

For example: Companies buying up pallets of acrylic paint dust, marking it up by 500% and selling it as X CONPANY weathering powder.

(Yep, model fags LOOOVE their particular brands.)

Or getting some regular oil colors, thinning it massively with white spirit and selling it in tiny 8$ Tins of “panel liner” or “brown color model wash”.

A lot of companies have also started selling metal or resin extras for a model kit, so your fancy 100$ ship/plane/tank suddenly end up costing 3-400$ with all the extras.

Would anyone be interested in a write up?
 
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