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

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I think this thread is the only thing ive ever had in my life that's surpassed 1M views, great job to me I guess
 
Pissmaster said:
If that sounds like a completely unrelatable, bugfuck insane notion, then you've never even come close to becoming a consoomer.
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Unironically Nintendo caused me to grow out of being a consoomer. Had a 3ds with a billion carts, and thousands of hours. Loved it because you could buy desirable games for it used for $15-25 easy on ebay or elsewhere. Bought a switch in 2017, some months after launch. Yeah there are some good games; but 95% of it's library are stale ports and indie titles that can be had for a fraction of the cost for other platforms, and buying used or waiting for a sale is pointless. And nothing has changed last i looked.

Didn't buy another game after Mario odyssey and breath of the wild, sold it in 2019, and just emulate botw when i wanted to replay it some time after. I just don't care about consoles anymore, buying anything anymore that looks pretty in its box on a shelf. Better for it.
 
Spez said:
I think this thread is the only thing ive ever had in my life that's surpassed 1M views, great job to me I guess
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Nothing to be proud of tbh
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Anyway, here's one of my favorite scenes from American Psycho:
Consooming over business cards of all things, enough for Bateman to kill his associates. Almost like that one guy who bashed his wife over the head with a Nintendo Switch, and only feeling concerned about all the data lost on said Switch.
 
Pickle Dick said:
Consooming over business cards of all things, enough for Bateman to kill his associates. Almost like that one guy who bashed his wife over the head with a Nintendo Switch, and only feeling concerned about all the data lost on said Switch.
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Let's see Paul Allen's sandwich
 
Vingle said:
You're not really exercising anymore, when you do that many. Time to add in some weights.

You're not supposed to exfoliate with scrubs everyday.

Mint on face is a bad ingredient and offer no benefits.

Aftershave is redundant when you got moisturiser.

I would prefer anti-aging ingredients on my whole face and not just around the eyes. Only difference from eye cream and regular face cream, is that the eye cream is specifically tested for the eye area. That does not mean the face cream is bad around the eyes, and it is cheaper because of not being tested.

I see no SPF either, so this guy is going to look old soon anyway.
It's not meant seriously, but they never get the stuff right.
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i thought the point of that scene was too show how obsessed Patrick was with his own image, how other people saw him as and how he turns to brands and beauty products as a cope for his insecurities of getting old.
 
Vingle said:
You're not really exercising anymore, when you do that many. Time to add in some weights.

You're not supposed to exfoliate with scrubs everyday.

Mint on face is a bad ingredient and offer no benefits.

Aftershave is redundant when you got moisturiser.

I would prefer anti-aging ingredients on my whole face and not just around the eyes. Only difference from eye cream and regular face cream, is that the eye cream is specifically tested for the eye area. That does not mean the face cream is bad around the eyes, and it is cheaper because of not being tested.

I see no SPF either, so this guy is going to look old soon anyway.
It's not meant seriously, but they never get the stuff right.
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Vingle, do you need to return some tapes?
HerrKlicks said:
I guess this falls under consoomer culture as well?
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What a lovely zoo to live in.
HerrKlicks said:
consoom.mp4
It's amazing how they all have the same format, same monotone voiceover, same empty lifestyle portrayed...
...is this some kind of "recruitment campaign" by big tech or just bugpeople being bugpeople?
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From that first video:
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Those prices. Dude what the fuck. "Try a half-day fast for $30". What the shit.
HerrKlicks said:
That's what I figured.
All show, no substance.
Weird flex tbh - going broke for the Insta/TikTok likes
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I thought I was just being bitter and they're all super well-off and this is "fun spending" for them.
quaawaa said:
Both of those companies have large portions of their compensation as stock or bonuses. These people in the video are literally spending more than their salary on daily life and relying on getting a good bonus or their company’s stock doing well to not go bankrupt. If they got promoted they’d make more money, but I’m sure their spending would rise to match. This is what “living paycheck to paycheck” looks like for a lot of people.
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Holy fuck.
Save the Loli said:
Eating local fast food is a way to actually experience a country more than the sanitized tourist traps. If you think about it, it's surprisingly authentic experience.
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It's kind of like the "tourists" vs. "authentic tourist" thing. Like, who the fuck they think is working the souvenir stands and working at the food places?
Oh you'd rather live "among them" in their homes? Fucking weirdo. You wouldn't put up with that in your own home would you?
Just buy the trinket so the lady's kids can go to school, goddamn.
MT Foxtrot said:
Is there a hard line standard, dollar value, or percentage for officially a "Consoomer"? I've been referred to as one simply for having my old Game Boy I've had since I got it as a Christmas present in 89 and a miniature Joust arcade cabinet game I won in a White Elephant game at a party.
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Vingle said:
I seriously don't know what you meant with this:\
But welcome back, I haven't seen you in a while here.
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I was just making a joke that you knew enough to out-skincare Patrick Bateman.

To make up for my absence, please enjoy some horrors, all of which include some element relating to skincare:

And also, just for you, Ving:
 
Lobster Cult High Priest said:
I’m guessing that food truck would be somewhere in the Galveston area?
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I've been trying to remember where the fuck it was. Definitely not Galveston, I've never been there even on a passthrough. It was most likely Austin but I'm not 100%, could have been Waco - spent the summer of '06 bouncing around from base to base in Tx/NC and those two places were the nearest cities to have a night out in most of the time.
 
NoReturn said:
I was just making a joke that you knew enough to out-skincare Patrick Bateman.
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I haven't watched the movie, and like. Is he known for something? He's not known to me at least.
NoReturn said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=u6F_rJpZ2Tk
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Well, expensive foundation won't make this hambeast any nicer looking.
NoReturn said:
And also, just for you, Ving:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HCWPJou9cy8
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It's just Gucci, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hermès and ONE Yves Saint Laurent. And of course, the most logoflashing print Dior has.
NoReturn said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=z7et-YAkHYU
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Welp, it's in my country and yes. I hate it. Just because you have some tiles and wallpaper from Versace, does NOT make it inspired from the brand. And lol, the Versace-style is inspired from the Victorian/Baroque era. And yes, they only had tiles and wallpaper from the brand, nothing else.
 
Kung Pow Cream said:
Slightly powerleveling it's actually quite varied. The only thing that's important is that you have long sleeves, closed toed shoes, and hair tied. Often there is a jacket or sweater on because labs tend to be cold. There's many different styles when it comes to lab people but that's kind of the common thing.

This of course is actual professional labs and not academic labs but during my academics, it was quite the same.
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Academic labs are basically the same, some labs can actually be boiling hot due to airflow and so it's just t-shirt + trousers/jeans you can go in with, t-shirt you can get away with because you're wearing a lab coat regardless. People tend to walk in with what they prefer anyways so you get a variety of "looks homeless" to "classic old man lecturer" looks.

I'm just impressed that these people have made some blatant poser "aesthetic" out of the clothes I'd probably find from one of the near-retirement lecturers I know (plus stuff probably taken from a clothes donation bin). It's like looking at a skinwalker trying to impersonate something you recognize, it's uncanny.
 
evrae said:
Academic labs are basically the same, some labs can actually be boiling hot due to airflow and so it's just t-shirt + trousers/jeans you can go in with, t-shirt you can get away with because you're wearing a lab coat regardless. People tend to walk in with what they prefer anyways so you get a variety of "looks homeless" to "classic old man lecturer" looks.

I'm just impressed that these people have made some blatant poser "aesthetic" out of the clothes I'd probably find from one of the near-retirement lecturers I know (plus stuff probably taken from a clothes donation bin). It's like looking at a skinwalker trying to impersonate something you recognize, it's uncanny.
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Reminds me of the “entrepreneur” bros who go everywhere dressed in a suit and tie, when anyone actually worth their salt is probably wearing jeans and a hoodie because they’re thinking about their next big pitch, not what they’re wearing.

Also reminds me of the tranny mindset where they’re constantly obsessing over how to most look like a woman, when actual women don’t spend every waking moment making a conscious effort to act and dress in a “womanly” manner.
 
NoReturn said:
I was just making a joke that you knew enough to out-skincare Patrick Bateman.

To make up for my absence, please enjoy some horrors, all of which include some element relating to skincare:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NEE4jUY3Vvshttps://youtube.com/watch?v=u6F_rJpZ2Tkhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=5gFWrZw8BM8
And also, just for you, Ving:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HCWPJou9cy8https://youtube.com/watch?v=z7et-YAkHYUhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=ZTIQHOfQKuM
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Skincare consooming has to be the most useless endeavor on Youtube. Yes, of course the magic cream works - because you're under 30. Everything 'works' if you're under 30.
 
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