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

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Shit on Amazon stays in my wish list for MONTHS before I settle on it. Sales definitely help (decent bargains do happen occasionally) but I suspect that most consumers lack typical self-control. Companies depend and capitalize on that behavior.

As one gets older one realizes that you get what you pay for (generally), and it’s better to spend MORE on quality products that last many years instead of buying a new cheap one every year.

Exception: our first set of pots and pans (a house-warming gift from family for our first apartment) were super cheap ones from Walmart or Zellers (plastic handles, etc). They’ve lasted 20 years. Shrug.
I feel that with the Amazon wish list. Sometimes I'm just waiting for my pay check, other times I'm looking for sales, and Sometimes I keep stuff there that I want but I'll use it to boost a order into the free shipping bracket. These tactics helped me not bleed like a sive this Christmas. My nephews were very happy :)
 
These people ruin retro gaming. So what if the case is a little mangled, you're lucky to have it and the hardware to play it. I buy games for my OG Xbox to play them, thinking of it as an investment when emulators have already digitized pretty much all of it is stupid.
Good lord, this. I recently accquired a GameCube, as there's some great games on there and I just love the silly little purple autism block so much, but the prices for games on the aftermarket are insane. Also my particular console seems to have an issue with the controller not working properly (the game works fine at first but after a particular point it just stops accepting input) so that's fun.
 
Good lord, this. I recently accquired a GameCube, as there's some great games on there and I just love the silly little purple autism block so much, but the prices for games on the aftermarket are insane. Also my particular console seems to have an issue with the controller not working properly (the game works fine at first but after a particular point it just stops accepting input) so that's fun.
It's so sad. Sometimes I just want to play on my old black Xbox these old games, but you got some in the 30's and 60s, and those are just from local stores! There's enough games out there for everyone, lord knows they sold shit tons of copies of super Mario Sunshine (I remember playing that as a kid) but people have horded those games AND speculated the prices of them, driving a once common game through the roof.
 
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Reading up on the French revolution and it hit me. There are so many parallels between adult Disney fans and the pre-French Revolution aristocracy. Consoomers culture, people behave like the European aristocracy but without political power or status. The aristocracy is famous for not wanting to marry, grow up or have children. In fact, modern LGBT culture in the west can be traced to the aristocracy.
 
Just mod your console and pirate the games.
The point is I shouldn't have to. The games used to be dirt cheap, barring one or two really rare ones. There is enough out there for anyone that owns these old consoles, but when these Consoomers buy 50 copies of Forza, suddenly the price doubles.
 
What do consoomers do when they eventually run out of space to store their junk? I've heard that some buy storage units, but do others eventually sell off their old stuff, throw it away, or stop consooming?
My experience is when they have absolutely zero space left in their own home they will try to dump storage bins on family, and when the family runs out of space or get sick of dealing with 20+ large storage bins they will get a storage unit even if they "can't afford it". I haven't ever known them to resell personally, but clearly a few have to at some point.

(Straight hoarders will flee and leave their hoard when they absolutely have to (eviction), then start anew).
 




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Reading up on the French revolution and it hit me. There are so many parallels between adult Disney fans and the pre-French Revolution aristocracy. Consoomers culture, people behave like the European aristocracy but without political power or status. The aristocracy is famous for not wanting to marry, grow up or have children. In fact, modern LGBT culture in the west can be traced to the aristocracy.
The sentiment is mirrored all the way down to the food.
Go to Disney and eat wagyu.

My experience is when they have absolutely zero space left in their own home they will try to dump storage bins on family, and when the family runs out of space or get sick of dealing with 20+ large storage bins they will get a storage unit even if they "can't afford it". I haven't ever known them to resell personally, but clearly a few have to at some point.

(Straight hoarders will flee and leave their hoard when they absolutely have to (eviction), then start anew).
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Basically, self-storage as an industry seems to be growing. I'd personally chalk it up to boomers downsizing, but another factor could also be younger generations needing a place to store things while moving around.
 
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The sentiment is mirrored all the way down to the food.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x9AUhsT95BAGo to Disney and eat wagyu.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GOnJb1tm_cQ

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Basically, self-storage as an industry seems to be growing. I'd personally chalk it up to boomers downsizing, but another factor could also be younger generations needing a place to store things while moving around.
As a zoomer, moving out is most likely a factor. You build up a lot of shit in 18-20 years, most of which you can't cram into your shoe close- I mean, economy sized apartment.
 
and it’s better to spend MORE on quality products that last many years instead of buying a new cheap one every year.
Problem is when that option is taken away with more and more planned obsolence and lack of alternatives. Now the push is for "smart" crap that will sell your data and can easily be made obsolete via software.

My fridge is older than me and still going, crossing my fingers for it to last a lot longer still because i've seen people who bough fridges in the last few years already having issues with them or having to replace them, even if you buy the same tier of product from the same brand you notice the drop in durability even though pricing remains the same or higher.
 
y fridge is older than me and still going, crossing my fingers for it to last a lot longer still because i've seen people who bough fridges in the last few years already having issues with them or having to replace them, even if you buy the same tier of product from the same brand you notice the drop in durability even though pricing remains the same or higher.
Most modern appliances last 10 years tops by design. Best thing to do is buy stuff with as little bells and whistles as possible;

 
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I have a morbid fascination with physical media collectors. There's a whole community of people on YouTube who obsessively collect every blu-ray they can get their hands on. Doesn't matter if they dislike the movie or if they haven't even seen it. Doesn't matter if they already own it, as long as it has a pretty cover. Just mindless movie consooming to fill the void.

Some of my personal favorite physical media YouTubers:

Movies&Sue
A 40-something permanently single gig delivery driver with perpetual soy face who lives in her parent's basement. Clearly going through a midlife crisis and is coping by obsessively collecting blu-rays.


MovieBuffPaynes
An obese married couple who have packed their entire home with movies. This channel is dead because the wife came out as bisexual and left her husband for some other obese man.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FuW-z7MHY38
I feel claustrophobic watching this. Can't imagine being surround by so much junk all of the time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bc_1jMMPiGQ

Cinema Sickness
Truly one of the most off-putting people I have ever seen. There's something seriously wrong with him.

 
wow I'm shocked. So shocked, wow.
Meh, BBB is a protection racket[1]. I'm not surprised a Chinese-adjacent company completely ignores their asses. Everyone should.

[1] A business can literally pay an annual fee and offer a few token refunds here and there to raise their standing automatically to an "A+" rating. Companies who are approached by BBB sales staff and refuse to play along find their ratings dropped to "F" pretty quickly.

I'm not sure if I'd classify the video itself as consoom, but holy shit Vegas is horrifying.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0e8woEkKmG8
How the fuck can she afford that?!?! What a goddamn waste of (a lot of) money.
 
Have you ever looked at your computer room and wondered what an armenian man in his 30s thinks about it? Or do you just want to look at how people arrange thousands of dollars of chinese electronic tat? I have just the youtube channel for you.

I'm pretty sure you can buy a very nice used car for what some of these "battlestations" cost.
 
Have you ever looked at your computer room and wondered what an armenian man in his 30s thinks about it? Or do you just want to look at how people arrange thousands of dollars of chinese electronic tat? I have just the youtube channel for you.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-pW0liKCtUI'm pretty sure you can buy a very nice used car for what some of these "battlestations" cost.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=28W0RBcQQS8
All that just to play over watch 2
 
Something else weird with Temu: They share a lot of content on their channel that's in different styles; this includes reshares, videos with actors, etc.
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This means a video from the official Temu account could show up on someone's page, and unless they're paying attention to the username, they'll think it's just "natural" suggested content, or some other account, rather than a single company spamming content.

E.g. Unless you were paying attention, could you tell these videos were all from the same account?
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wow I'm shocked. So shocked, wow.


Part of Temu's selling point is that you get shit faster than other Chinese apps, but that just means you're buying something that's in the US being stored in a shipping container at some depot somewhere. Anything not already in the states is going to be shipped same as any other Chinese plasticrap, which explains the wildly different reported arrival times.


“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.​
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.​
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.​
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”​

Unfortunately, the Vimes Boots Theory does not hold when people are buying cheap, breakable shit they don't need.
I understand the logic behind this woman buying cheap, potentially-dangerous shoes for her kids when she has limited funds, but she also purchased things like a plastic phone stand and an empty hand sanitizer bottle.


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First word is "Doomsday" (lol) but what's "sugro"?
A bit late I guess, but "sugro" means "great". So it's basically a "great doomsday", according to that weeb consoomer. It's Indonesian btw, which has a fair amount of consoomers. I know some of them, especially those geek twats working in creative industries. Sadly I don't have any documentation right now.

I don't want to waste my time looking at their collection of comics they imported at 10 dollar each, when you can buy the Indonesian translated version for around 3-4 bucks each at local stores.
 
I'm stretching the definition of consoomer here but I think it's kind of hilarious that they are telling people to watch football instead of going on a nature hike. That said, their issue is legitimate and it's a shame shitty (most likely "influencer" types) people had to ruin it.
 
Have you ever looked at your computer room and wondered what an armenian man in his 30s thinks about it? Or do you just want to look at how people arrange thousands of dollars of chinese electronic tat? I have just the youtube channel for you.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-pW0liKCtUI'm pretty sure you can buy a very nice used car for what some of these "battlestations" cost.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=28W0RBcQQS8
Good god ... that kind of obnoxious indirect backlighting has got to be absolute murder on the eyes. These stupid "battlestations" won't see more than an hour of use per day, unless they just keep those lights turned off until it's photo op time.

Also lol @ those rotated monitors. As if these faggots do anything whatsoever with these machines that justifies having a vertical screen (much less two).
 
How the fuck can she afford that?!?! What a goddamn waste of (a lot of) money.
I was actually surprised how cheap it was. I had been under the impression that rooms in Vegas were all $500/night minimum, but only the Four Seasons was the price I expected it to be at.
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