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Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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Metamorpho
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Isn't he making red herring arguments?
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insane price increases to just get the parts to play a fucking game should not be responded to with "broke". I got into warhammer40k as a kid that was probably a little too young to be playing something as grimdark as it but even with the models being slightly pricier than other model kits they had impressive sculpt design and sometimes were made of metal. They were also like 30 to 40 dollars tops for a lot of the more expensive ones. Now the standard small troop builders are that much.
Cuntspiracy Man
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nah these are just fans having a shitpost i'd say
Lobster Cult High Priest
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It's the same deal with WNs buying books from Amtelope Hill / other racist publishers and then never reading the books but talking endlessly about them on Podcasts.
Metamorpho
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It's hard to tell these days considering how many retards use the internet.
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There is a verse from the Bible that encapsulates my feelings about consoomers.
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Alot of Consoomers are Godless or Lost Sheep. and they fill the void with whatever plastic shit makes them feel happy or fulfilled.
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Alot of Consoomers are Godless or Lost Sheep. and they fill the void with whatever plastic shit makes them feel happy or fulfilled.
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Ironically this quote seems like something some of these people would quote to try shutting down criticism lmao.
Jimjamflimflam
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They try. The use the one modified by C.S Lewis
Of course they miss the part that C.S Lewis didn't have fairy tale funko pops, dressed up fairy tales characters for conventions and didn't have a room full of chink made plastic fairy tale shit. They always miss the entire context of what he was saying
It's pretty obvious he's saying it's fine to enjoy childhood things. That the idea of "I must only enjoy adult things" is childish in its own self. You can see that mentality in the man-o-sphere consumerism of black rifle coffee, and manly beard oils, and whiskey scented soap with 5-11 outfits. If you enjoy this products because you think it's cool/good product then whatever but we have seen plenty of consumerism aspect of buying this shit for the sake if having trappings of "adult manly" items.
I'm sure theirs ladies equivalent to this but I'm a stranger in that world so no idea what it would be.
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Cuntspiracy Man
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With ladies the line is more blurred because women don't need to perform adulting quite as much as men, they're more permitted to be childish in liking things like toys and cute colorful nonsense.
But I think the female equivalent of "fake grown up" is everything to do with magic crap- tarot cards, crystal, witchy and Halloween aesthetics- they still play with them, their manner of consumption is akin to a game, but it's socially approved adult play.
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Thing is Funko pops and other consoomer shit seem like shittier "adult" things. Notice how the funko consoomers mainly only go for the mint in box funkos to cram into a wall. I've noticed there's a weird complex where a lot of them will belittle people for liking actionfigures or some shit, of course it's always the stuff that's not BRAND with"VALUE" that gets made into funko pops.
There's a weird dichotomy in "adult collectibles" where it's either shit like funko pops or high effort super articulated tiny figures. During the 2000s and early 2010s there was a trend where big companies started putting out lines of stuff secifcally targeting both kids and adults but somewhere along the line the kids shit got cheaper and the adult stuff turned into funko pops.
So we went from shit like this being the standard starting in the early 2000s
To THIS being the standard now.
Granted there's still some instances with the kid and adult collector thing, but it's now always priced in a way where kids can never afford it (SEE: TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS AND GI JOE CLASSIFIED) and it's never got the same level of gimmicks and engineering as years ago unless it's some kind of kamen rider esque shit. Even reissues of cheaply produced kids toys now are gimped and even more cheaped out on to try and preserve the "collector value" of the original which is like the polar opposite of what they used to do for anniversary or special reissues of figures. Used to be "make it look the same but add/improve things maybe" but now it's "make it shittier and charge more based on the "value" so you end up with shit like a 90 dollar technodrome "reissue" that's basically one of those chinese knockoffs in construction. People consoom it anyways to the point it sells out instantly and they never restock because it's now going for the same 200-500 that the OG one is being squatted on by scalpers for so it's now got "value"
Found a good quality side by side, you can probably immediately tell what one's the "newer" one.
The last few years I've been getting into kinda loosely following various independent small artist company's figures aimed at adults. Not gonna consoom/build a funko wall for them but I kinda wish I had the resources to put stuff out like this myself. Maybe I will someday, maybe I'll still be in this hell situation of barely any resources to make shit I want to I've been trapped in since like 2016.
This last image has some interesting stuff ted to it. The guys making these ones sold the rights for the characters they bought/owned to a larger company that's now making it something that doesn't even follow the lore of the original thing they were basing these off of. But hey now you can get FUNKO POPS of the robo force robots!
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You are describing an average nerd or girl who thinks she’s edgier than everyone around her. A lot of women would associate these things with teenagers. Women usually want to also appear professional and succeeding in life. I think the female “grown up” consumer equivalents would be the right type and brand of clothing, makeup/hair/nails, expensive versions of alcohol, certain books placed on the coffee table when people visit, that kind of thing. Apart from makeup and hair, not much different from men who want to look more grown up. Fine if you like it, sad if you’re just conforming against your personality. Even sadder when it’s purchased at the expense of actual grown up responsibilities.
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What I can't fathom is why some people spend hundreds on action figures with 10 gorillion points of articulation only to leave and display them inside their boxes. Unless you're a scalper intending to pawn it off, there's no reason to value the packaging over what actually comes inside.
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That shit's been the bane of my existence for my whole ass life. The ones that mark shit as "best offer" and then auto-reject any actual offer that's not their default asking price or higher have a special place in hell. I'm fine with paying a little over MSRP for a hard to get/long retired figure but when you start charging 2 to 5 times the initial asking price and go "oh well because it's accumulated value demand+inflation bluh bluh bluh" no fuck off.
For small run stuff or stuff really like the box art of, I try saving the box in some manner but that's not the same as keeping the stuff in package forever waiting for some shmuck to buy it for inflated prices. Noticed there's a second method scalpers do where they split up a figure into it's individual parts and charge like 40 to 100 each depending on if it's a current thing or a several decade old thing from the 70s/80s. Not talking about the people that sell stuff split apart like that for like 1-10 dollars, those guys are usually doing that so that hobbyists can get parts without having to pay for the whole price of what it comes from usually. I'm talking "80 dollars for the gun for a transformer" type listings.
A good example of "speculation" getting backed by companies which then destroys a line is how the "25th anniversary" line of gi joe figures. That shit went on for over a decade under different names to suit the various times and years it was going on, but like the last 6 years or so of it most of the significant releases were locked behind convention exclusives or a subscription service store. Walmart got some exclusive ones under a "retro" line like back when corona first hit, but they were ones that were already readily available a few years prior save for a few select ones that had weird QC issues and bad distribution. I actually recently got one of the "sub service store exclusives" from someone selling a bunch of them off because they actually responded to the best offer with something that wasn't a fucking auto-decline or counteroffer for one cent off their listing price. I'm pretty sure I paid less than what I'd pay if I did the subscription thing when it was available since I'd have to pay for the shop access and then the actual fucking thing itself. It's missing an accessory or 2 but it's the cool looking super articulated tiny figure itself I wanted and I didn't pay an insane 100-200 dollar price for it like some people seem to be just squatting on these things for for the last 5 years since they came out.
I'm going to have to make approximations of other figures I found interesting myself using resin casted repro parts because there's no way in hell I'm paying 70-80 dollars minimum for a 4 inch figure. Want to set shit up to do it myself as a side hobby sometime but till then I found out about a few different people that already have things set up for that and they have a VASTLY better selection of parts to choose from in terms of recasting stuff.
I'm going to have to make approximations of other figures I found interesting myself using resin casted repro parts because there's no way in hell I'm paying 70-80 dollars minimum for a 4 inch figure. Want to set shit up to do it myself as a side hobby sometime but till then I found out about a few different people that already have things set up for that and they have a VASTLY better selection of parts to choose from in terms of recasting stuff.
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I looked into old DS pokemon games on ebay and noticed how crazy the market for Soulsilver/Heartgold is.
Old, sticky cartridge? 100 Dollar. Inlay for the box? 20 Dollar. Box itself? 30-40 Dollar. The little gadget that the game was sold with you can buy for 50-60 dollar.
If you want the full box youd even look at crazier prices.
I think the game retailed 50 Dollar back then?
What the fuck? I can't imagine this game being in particular rare or anything, but then I remember these collectors lamenting how they can't find a fully boxed game to catch dust in their Gaming Shelf together with 100 other unplayed DS Games.
Seems like Pearl/Diamond (same generation) go for more reasonable prices however, which doesn't mean much, since they appear to be less popular, but still sell for a similar price as retail.
Old, sticky cartridge? 100 Dollar. Inlay for the box? 20 Dollar. Box itself? 30-40 Dollar. The little gadget that the game was sold with you can buy for 50-60 dollar.
If you want the full box youd even look at crazier prices.
I think the game retailed 50 Dollar back then?
What the fuck? I can't imagine this game being in particular rare or anything, but then I remember these collectors lamenting how they can't find a fully boxed game to catch dust in their Gaming Shelf together with 100 other unplayed DS Games.
Seems like Pearl/Diamond (same generation) go for more reasonable prices however, which doesn't mean much, since they appear to be less popular, but still sell for a similar price as retail.
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Jimjamflimflam
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I saw a scalper listing of shit that's not even a year old that unronically said NFRB recently and had to do a double take because MIB was the norm for saying an item was new in online shit the last 2 decades or so lmao.
The retro gaming market turning from people enjoying playing/repairing old games and consoles into these fucking parasitic "value speculators" the last few years really has been a disaster for people that would rather own physical media than be solely reliant on piracy and emulators to play older games.
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Sheeeit, it's been longer than that. I'd say almost going on a decade now. The enthusiasts like myself who got their foot in the door a decade ago, or branched out to Japanese games earlier than a couple years ago, are pretty much set, but I feel bad for anyone that's trying to START a collection now.
On the other hand, the increased attention has lead to some interesting developments, mostly in the realm of console mods. Especially with the Gamboys. Backlit GBA mods have existed for a while now, but now there's not only all sorts of options when it comes to making your gameboy more usable in 2024 that just straight up did not exist back in 2015. Not only that, a lot of them have been engineered such that laymen can perform them, so the mods are actually doable by the average person.
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Difference is it used to be a few select games like earthbound, the blockbuster exclusive flintstones, or the US release of the n64 bomberman games. Now though post 2020? Anything that's the english/US release is scalped to absurd degrees with a few select exeptions.
There's a good few third party versions of old consoles now and repro carts are a thing so there's a slight dent in the unavailability caused by consoomers and scalpers but even then those aren't always up to the same standard as the official versions. Still really cool that shit exists though.
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There's another difference, and it's one we can see with SNES and NES games. For games like you've mentioned, the price-over-time chart is gonna look like a hockey stick (or at least stay on the uptrend) for a long time, but the less well known or very common games eventually hit a plateau. Take Super Mario World, for example: Its price has been between $20-$40 for over a decade. It's definitely more expensive than it used to be, when it could be had for pennies, but it's been years since the price rose significantly.
Another example: Mario Kart 64. Generally $40-60, and has been since about 2016.