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

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Borderline example, I get that in the miniature painting hobby people will get multiple bottles of color because they're basically 3d coloring books. This crosses over into consoomer territory because the guy bought similar colors through multiple brands. But I'm a buy what you need person so what do I know?
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This is my paint setup right now. It can be put away, as there are 19 identical shelving units which live on a bookself. Because I use the desk for work during the day. During the night I set it up like this to paint.
For those who are interested in what paint i have:
  • citadel full range of dry, layer, base, contrast and shade and most of technicals as well
  • vallejo: full range of game color, model color including transparents and inks but only some of the metallics and washes
  • scale 75: full range of scalecolor and fantasy and games and inktensity but excluding metallics and speed paint
  • warcolour: full range of their regular paints, gems, pearlescent, transparents and galzes, exluding antithesis and metallics and inks
  • pro acrylic: complete range including transparents but excluding metallics
  • i have no air paint whatsoever, i usually add some airbrush thinner for airbrushing
Yes, i do make an effort to utilize them all, but there are bottles which are not touched yet.
I do like colors a loty so even just looking at all the colors makes me happy.
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Truthfully, I actually wanted to share this soy fueled rage in the comments.
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What is it with these types getting angry over something stupid? The thread maker wasn't even mad.
 
John Titor said:
because the guy bought similar colors through multiple brands. But I'm a buy what you need person so what do I know?
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They are legitimately different colors and different brands of paint tend to look different when dry in terms of things like texture and gloss. Certain brands of paint work better for certain types of minis or dioramas.

The answer to soy rage is autism though.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
They are legitimately different colors and different brands of paint tend to look different when dry in terms of things like texture and gloss. Certain brands of paint work better for certain types of minis or dioramas.

The answer to soy rage is autism though.
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Isn't all this shit just crappy low quality craft acrylic? With artist grade paints you can get numerous different types of colorless acrylic medium that you mix into paints to achieve different textures and finishes while keeping the same base set of colors. They cost more for a bottle than these but it beats out buying 12 different fucking brands of burnt sienna or whatever these tards call reddish brown.

Like why buy a whole new set of paints just to make something more glossy or matte when you could get two small bottles of gloss and matte medium to mix with what you have and achieve the same effect?
 
𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔 said:
Isn't all this shit just crappy low quality craft acrylic? With artist grade paints you can get numerous different types of colorless acrylic medium that you mix into paints to achieve different textures and finishes while keeping the same base set of colors. They cost more for a bottle than these but it beats out buying 12 different fucking brands of burnt sienna or whatever these tards call reddish brown.

Like why buy a whole new set of paints just to make something more glossy or matte when you could get two small bottles of gloss and matte medium to mix with what you have and achieve the same effect?
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Not quite, these paints are of similar quality to artist grade. Not all painters are artists and would probably want to pick specific ones because most of them probably don't know how to mix paints, which is fine (of course, Citadel has a reputation for being pricey for no real reason). I just think doing pic related is excessive.
 
Shig O'nella said:
OK. There's posts ITT that make me go meh. There's posts ITT that make me go WTF. This is the first post that got me saying out loud, to the immense confusion of the others here "That is fucking pathetic."
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It was so lame even other redditors called him out on it. He deleted the thread, user and comments.

I feel bad for these guys sometimes but come on man, at this point you are asking for it.

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𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔 said:
Isn't all this shit just crappy low quality craft acrylic? With artist grade paints you can get numerous different types of colorless acrylic medium that you mix into paints to achieve different textures and finishes while keeping the same base set of colors.
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Most of these would be waterbased acrylic but not comparable to cheap craft paint, the pigment is ground very finely and is a lot more concentrated. They're intended to be significantly thinned to preserve fine detail on the surface of the models/miniatures. Mediums do exist in the hobby space but are not particularly popular, buying pre-mixed bottles for different applications is the standard.

Still, there's no excuse to have an entire games store worth of inventory in your home paint rack, it's pure flexing.
 
John Titor said:
Apparently that didn't happen, they just had a normal conversation but Guiness twisted it to be more negative. He didn't like that he was only known for being on SW though.
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I don't agree, all that we know is that Guinness and the boy remember their conversation differently, and the boy's recollection of it is filtered through his admiration for one of the lead actors in his favorite film (unless you want to jump in your time machine). Guinness was right to tell the boy to stop re-watching Star Wars, he was keeping himself from living his life by isolating himself in a fictional world. I think people who do this to themselves always regret it, because they can look back after ten years and find that they still have all their old problems, but now have ten years less to deal with them that they wasted wrapping themselves in a security blanket.

For a long time people mischaracterised what Guinness said as that he hated Star Wars. By describing it as "second-hand childish banalities" he's not really saying he hates it, he's saying that Star Wars is derivative, for children, and not very deep, which I agree with, even though I like the film. One example of this was unintentionally pointed out by Timothy McVeigh, that nobody cares about all the people blown up when the Death Star explodes, because they're the baddies.

However, against Guinness's view, attempts to re-do or prolong Star Wars have faltered, so making an engaging escapist film out of second-hand childish banalities isn't as easy as it seems. Sometimes one only sees how well-made something is after seeing somebody else try to do it and completely fuck it sideways.
 
Dambusters' Dog II said:
I don't agree, all that we know is that Guinness and the boy remember their conversation differently, and the boy's recollection of it is filtered through his admiration for one of the lead actors in his favorite film (unless you want to jump in your time machine). Guinness was right to tell the boy to stop re-watching Star Wars, he was keeping himself from living his life by isolating himself in a fictional world. I think people who do this to themselves always regret it, because they can look back after ten years and find that they still have all their old problems, but now have ten years less to deal with them that they wasted wrapping themselves in a security blanket.

For a long time people mischaracterised what Guinness said as that he hated Star Wars. By describing it as "second-hand childish banalities" he's not really saying he hates it, he's saying that Star Wars is derivative, for children, and not very deep, which I agree with, even though I like the film. One example of this was unintentionally pointed out by Timothy McVeigh, that nobody cares about all the people blown up when the Death Star explodes, because they're the baddies.

However, against Guinness's view, attempts to re-do or prolong Star Wars have faltered, so making an engaging escapist film out of second-hand childish banalities isn't as easy as it seems. Sometimes one only sees how well-made something is after seeing somebody else try to do it and completely fuck it sideways.
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The only cool thing star wars had going was some of the eviroments aesthetics. I really like the look of futuristic looking sci fi that still looks clunky and all fucked up from wear and tear. That was one of the good influences the original trilogy had, everything else is kinda shit.

Here's another boomer take on it

A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies.
Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad-lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to.

But enough about my opinions; what about "Fanboys"? Its primary flaw is that it's not critical. It is a celebration of an idiotic lifestyle, and I don't think it knows it. If you want to get in a car and drive to California, fine. So do I. So did Jack Kerouac. But if your first stop involves a rumble at a "Star Trek" convention in Iowa, dude, beam your ass down to Route 66.
The movie, set in 1999, involves four "Star Wars" fanatics and, eventually, their gal pal, who have the notion of driving to Marin County, breaking into the Skywalker Ranch, and stealing a copy of a print of "Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace" so they can see it before anyone else. This is about as plausible as breaking into the U.S. Mint and stealing some money so you can spend it before anyone else.
"Fanboys" follows in the footsteps of "Sex Drive" by allowing one of its heroes to plan a rendezvous with an Internet sex goddess. To avoid revealing any plot secrets in this film, I will recycle my earlier warning: In a chat room, don't be too hasty to believe Ms. Tasty.
This plot is given gravitas because one of the friends, Linus (Christopher Marquette), is dying of cancer. His buddy Eric (Sam Huntington) is in favor of the trip because, I dunno, it will give Linus something to live for, I guess. The other fanboys are Hutch (Dan Fogler), who lives in his mother's garage coach house, and Windows (Jay Baruchel), who changed his name from MacOS. Just kidding. Windows, Hutch and Linus work in a comic bookstore, where their favorite customer is Zoe (Kristen Bell). She's sexy and a "Star Wars" fan. How cool is that? She's almost better than the date who turns into a pizza and a six-pack when the deed is done.
The question of Linus' cancer became the subject of a celebrated Internet flame war last summer, with supporters of "Fanboys" director Kyle Newman running Anti-Harvey Web sites opposing Harvey Weinstein's alleged scheme to cut the subplot out of the movie. The subplot survived, but it's one of those movie diseases that is mentioned occasionally so everyone can look solemn and then dropped when the ailing Linus dons a matching black camouflage outfit and scales the Skywalker Ranch walls with a grappling hook.

"Fanboys" is an amiable but disjointed movie that identifies too closely with its heroes. Poking a little more fun at them would have been a great idea. They are tragically hurtling into a cultural dead end, mastering knowledge which has no purpose other than being mastered, and too smart to be wasting their time. When a movie's opening day finally comes, and fanboys leave their sidewalk tents for a mad dash into the theater, I wonder who retrieves their tents, sleeping bags, portable heaters and iPod speakers. Warning: Mom isn't always going to be there to clean up after you.
 
BasedCentrist said:
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Can anyone make a template out of the pic on the top? Normally I wouldn't have given a shit but his passive-aggressive-aggressive (or whatever you want to call a message written in a dismissive tone but still threatening violence) rant over a single word makes me want to give him a brief bout of e-fame just to really piss him off further.

Also Docs are lesbo shoes. There's a rule I've come up with; if your boot can be worn by a dangerhair dyke or a hot scene girl (i.e. Demonias, New Rocks etc.), then you're a fag. If you're a male goth, get some actual rated police/military boots that are built to last.
 
Becky McDonald said:
Can anyone make a template out of the pic on the top? Normally I wouldn't have given a shit but his passive-aggressive-aggressive (or whatever you want to call a message written in a dismissive tone but still threatening violence) rant over a single word makes me want to give him a brief bout of e-fame just to really piss him off further.
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Cool kitties club said:
Art from One piece one of the most famous manga of all time

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Page from Justice League

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I'll take "C" for consistency. You're telling me I can open a random DC page and get the same art as this?

Because you can literally open any page of one punch man volumes across its entire run and 99% of the time you're going to run into what I linked above.

Say what you want about manga but they are consistent. As pointed out above, the same comic (sandman) has wildly different artstyles of varying quality by multiple different artists, whereas the manga one stays consistent with itself and its artstyle.

Also, the shittiest example of manga art you could find is still better than the sandman panels I linked lmao.
 
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