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

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This is all pretty sad. Old people I knew/know weren't having a fun time jet-setting around the world blowing every penny and laughing as they sell their home just to leave some old plates behind to the family, they are being turbo-fucked by retarded medical/high COL expenses. Adult children aren't able or won't move back to the house, so they have to sell it. I can't even blame shitty retirement planning because a lot of them were widowed, got a cancer, or lost an adult child unexpectedly which ate up more money than they planned. I don't know if that makes me lucky, to not encounter the more greedy situations. Usually the greed is from all the useless extended family right as the elderly passes but before the body is cold. It sucks to know the elderly tbh.

e: On a positive note, old tools are one of the cooler small things to inherit alongside coins, guns, and cast iron.
 
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retard strength II said:
This is all pretty sad. Old people I knew/know weren't having a fun time jet-setting around the world blowing every penny and laughing as they sell their home just to leave some old plates behind to the family, they are being turbo-fucked by retarded medical/high COL expenses.
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retard strength II said:
Usually the greed is from all the useless extended family right as the elderly passes but before the body is cold. It sucks to know the elderly tbh.
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How old were they? I say this because I've had the opportunity to know the elderly as well, and as I've aged it's been pretty wild to see the differences between the WWII-generation, the Silents, and now the Boomers.
The WWII women were the strangest to me. I can think of two distinct cases where women had a complete personality shift after their husbands died. Even if it was just the two of them, it's weird it happened twice.
 
NoReturn said:
I can think of two distinct cases where women had a complete personality shift after their husbands died. Even if it was just the two of them, it's weird it happened twice.
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Lol this happened with my Grandma. When Grandpa died, Grandma became more fun.

Literally up until his death he was trying to buy himself a legacy
 
NoReturn said:
How old were they? I say this because I've had the opportunity to know the elderly as well, and as I've aged it's been pretty wild to see the differences between the WWII-generation, the Silents, and now the Boomers.
The WWII women were the strangest to me. I can think of two distinct cases where women had a complete personality shift after their husbands died. Even if it was just the two of them, it's weird it happened twice.
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Widows bloom, widowers rot

-Japanese proverb
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Back to consooming at hand, some people's consooming habits go as far as filling their room right up to the ceiling with merch, as this example room filled to the brim with Love Live! merch:

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How far do these people go, just to see what their room fills up to be, and only then realizing what they could have gotten with all of the money spent on merchandise? I'm sure that you could get a used car, had this not happened. Or are these diehard consoomers too far into denial to think anything else but to make their collections bigger?
 
Thiletonomics said:
Back to consooming at hand, some people's consooming habits go as far as filling their room right up to the ceiling with merch, as this example room filled to the brim with Love Live! merch:

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How far do these people go, just to see what their room fills up to be, and only then realizing what they could have gotten with all of the money spent on merchandise? I'm sure that you could get a used car, had this not happened. Or are these diehard consoomers too far into denial to think anything else but to make their collections bigger?
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I saw a poll of female anime fans in Japan about what they were looking for in a man. "Not a Love Live fan" was a common response.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Back to consooming at hand, some people's consooming habits go as far as filling their room right up to the ceiling with merch, as this example room filled to the brim with Love Live! merch:

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How far do these people go, just to see what their room fills up to be, and only then realizing what they could have gotten with all of the money spent on merchandise? I'm sure that you could get a used car, had this not happened. Or are these diehard consoomers too far into denial to think anything else but to make their collections bigger?
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One of the biggest issues Consoomers have is that most of the time, it isn't one big purchase but a long string of impulsive purchases. It's difficult to pull the trigger on buying a $10,000 car, but it's easy to spend around $200 a month on a hobby and blow $10k over the course of a few years. It also doesn't help that they get a small dopamine hit from adding to their collection that you don't get from buying boring important things like a used car, or work clothes.

Protistology said:
I saw a poll of female anime fans in Japan about what they were looking for in a man. "Not a Love Live fan" was a common response.
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GuP Chads keep winning!
 
mr_negativity said:
When my grandma died I inherited her fry pan.

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Actually it is a very awesome fry pan and one of my prized possessions. They used ultra fine grain sand on the cooking surface. It's practically smooth as glass. They also took care to make it as thin as possible without cracking. It will outlive me if I take care of it. The modern Lodge brand pans use coarse sand. Today you'd have to buy one of those CNC machined pans and polish it down to equal to what I got.

I have the dishes from most of the years of my childhood. I've lost quite a few of them to breakage, only to buy replacement patterns on ebay. It's not fine china, but the everyday dishes.

Cookware and chinaware passed down does have an emotional connection. Fine china doesn't have much value to Gen X beyond because it was the forbidden dishes only rarely used. However, the bowls that held our alpha bits while we watched Saturday morning cartoons is what we would value, not the expensive stuff locked away in the China cabinet.
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Ah memories - any little pavement ape caught drinking from the wrong water fountain back then got a taste of that bad boy on the back of the head. That ol'gal sure had one MEAN frying pan swinging arm.
 
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plastic funko pop shit, retro consoles, all sorts of meaningless "collectibles" and so on
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I'm planning on retiring on the money I get when I flip my copy of Slam City with Scottie Pippen for the Sega CD. That's a four fuckin disc basketball FMV game. Gonna be worth a fortune. We'll see who's laughing in 30 years, buddy.
 
Barry Williams said:
I'm planning on retiring on the money I get when I flip my copy of Slam City with Scottie Pippen for the Sega CD. That's a four fuckin disc basketball FMV game. Gonna be worth a fortune. We'll see who's laughing in 30 years, buddy.
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But is it the 32X version? That's where the real money is. And of course you have to play (aka post pics/videos of the opening demo loop) it on all original model 1 hardware otherwise it's not legit.

Fuck I hate the retro gaming scene nowadays. Went the emulator route. Just play the games you wanna play.
 
Has anyone in this thread mentioned Character.ai/c.ai? It's the go-to site for younger Gen Z girls to have a parasocial relationship with fictional characters from consoomer culture. If a character exists, someone has taken the effort and dedication to make a language model out of it. Some are addicted to that website.
 
Troydan is back with the fast food consooming. This time, he’s eating everything he could find from the Dairy Queen menu:


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Those eyes look like he‘s seen a lot before trying this “challenge” of a video.
 
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Summertime said:
Has anyone in this thread mentioned Character.ai/c.ai? It's the go-to site for younger Gen Z girls to have a parasocial relationship with fictional characters from consoomer culture. If a character exists, someone has taken the effort and dedication to make a language model out of it. Some are addicted to that website.
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No but those people are genuinely brain-rotted that it is not even funny anymore, society is on the line.
 
Summertime said:
Has anyone in this thread mentioned Character.ai/c.ai? It's the go-to site for younger Gen Z girls to have a parasocial relationship with fictional characters from consoomer culture. If a character exists, someone has taken the effort and dedication to make a language model out of it. Some are addicted to that website.
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In market logic issues are not meant to be fixed but serviced. Instead of finding what is the root cause of so many people being isolated and alienated you make it into an industry for chatbot gfs/bfs to profit from it and forget about it.

another thing is witchtok and the massive boom in new age Mcspirituality crap. I guess the retardation of tumblr witches has been covered on the farms but there's a consoomer aspect that is absolutely insane and is an industry that keeps growing. Wherever you look now you have people (mostly women) spending thousands on crystals, custom spells on etsy and wellness seminars. It is consoom as a religion in the most literal sense.

Sometimes these things overlap with stuff like kinnies who used to be extremely niche but now you have a whole lot of these kids posting online about astral traveling to hogwarts or My hero academia or something
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Sometimes these things overlap with stuff like kinnies who used to be extremely niche but now you have a whole lot of these kids posting online about astral traveling to hogwarts or My hero academia or something
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That's not kinnies, that's the "Subliminal" community which was a clickbait genre on youtube for years people occasionally found and made jokes about till tiktok got it, made a "reality shifting" bootleg ofit that was tied to imagining shit instead of actually being teleported by a video, and it went nightmarishly mainstream for a while a few years ago. Otherkin are the people that want others to think they're like wolves or dogs or the reincarnation of hitler or some fictional guy for some reason. There's some overlap though because there's "subliminals" to become fictional characters or other people too.

Mildly unrelated and it's been brought up before, but the attack helicopter copypasta was about otherkin, not trannies. That's how bad otherkin were for a while back in the early 2010s era. I'm never going to forgive "trans and trans ally influencers" for gaslight subverting it to being about troons.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
That's not kinnies, that's the "Subliminal" community which was a clicckbait genre on youtube for years people occasionally found and made jokes about till tiktok got it, made a "reality shifting" bootleg ofit that was tied to imagining shit instead of actually being teleported by a video, and it went nightmarishly mainstream for a while a few years ago. Otherkin are the people that want others to think they're like wolves or dogs or the reincarnation of hitler or some fictional guy for some reason.

Mildly unrelated and it's been brought up before, but the attack helicopter copypasta was about otherkin, not trannies. That's how bad otherkin were for a while back in the early 2010s era. I'm never going to forgive "trans and trans ally influencers" for gaslight subverting it to being about troons.
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Chris Chan once again becomes the canary in the coalmine of what lunacy will become trends in the near future. He was into believing cartoons are real before it was cool.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Chris Chan once again becomes the canary in the coalmine of what lunacy will become trends in the near future. He was into believing cartoons are real before it was cool.
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Chris actually got sucked into the YT clickbait subliminal rabbit hole post trooning.
Also I grossly underestimated how much overlap there has been the last few years since the subliminal shit crossed over into tiktok. Looked up some kewords out of morbid curiosity on YT and there was a result that said "kinnie"
Triple crossover because it's fucking homestuck shit too. TRIPLE CANCER!
It's literally just some fucking tiktok format zoomer editing slideshow video of fan art from further back in the day lmao. Probably has some rapid fire illegible quiet text to speech but I'm not hearing it like most of these vids.
Oh yeah, this is the consoomer thread. I guess idiots consoom these kinda? Specifically the mcspirituality kind.
 
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