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

[Protistology]

I hate to break it to you but we all know why there's lotion on the table and it's not a female thing...

three large dog beds and lotion

not a female thing

You sweet summer child...

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Preferably DIY home automation by way of Arduinos or Raspberry Pis, though I'll watch people build just about anything.

Well I can't really help you there since that's not something I'm too interested in, but I can give you some building sugggestions.

>Colin Furze
>Primitive Technology
>That Works
>Boulder Creek Railroad/Luke Towan
>Grandpa Amu
>Grind Hard Plumbing Company
>Games Made of Cardboard
>Banjo Show
>Torbjörn Åhman

EDIT: Schurap is also pretty great

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

The part where she cuts up a book to make that awful garland for the tacky tree centerpiece made me moti

I think this is the same video where a lady cuts up a thrift store sweater to make a sad looking "stocking", cuts up vintage sheet music, and paints a fancy glaze vase basic white. I know America has an overabundance of stuff, but it's still sad to see people just wasting things instead of learning a real craft.

 

[Caligura]

https://twitter.com/bellaathoughts/status/1433037573622943746

Lmao. All of this to probably just look like a normal bitch.

The irony is that this was posted by some Muslim woman from Malaysia, lol.

Good luck with all those beauty products! But make sure skip on the hair products, you gotta cover it with that rag so it kinda defeats the purpose don't it? Oh who I am kidding, gonna hoard it anyways!

 

[DJ Grelle]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.

 

[Chris Mclean]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtcPS9v7kD4
The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.
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Im watching the video and apperntly they have to wash the parts first? Like excuse me if im paying an almost a months salary for a model i except it to be perfect and prepared for me.

Im gonna guess most of this stuff is resin 3d printed which makes this sort of thing unacceptable. There was a human that looked at this and said ehh its ok.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtcPS9v7kD4
The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.
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That lack of quality control is something I wouldn't be surprised to see in a cheap Chinese bootleg resin kit or one put out by a small team, but a big company that's charging $2300? Would be curious to see what the actually cost breakdown was behind them deciding that charging $2300 was okay and not them just pocketing a bunch of cash from big fans while putting in the bare minimum effort.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

That lack of quality control is something I wouldn't be surprised to see in a cheap Chinese bootleg resin kit or one put out by a small team, but a big company that's charging $2300? Would be curious to see what the actually cost breakdown was behind them deciding that charging $2300 was okay and not them just pocketing a bunch of cash from big fans while putting in the bare minimum effort.

The old joke regarding Games Workshop is that they abbreviate it GW all the time because that's how you're supposed to pronounce it: Jew.

Now the more serious, and less (maybe more depending on how you look at it) humorous, take is that this really isn't anything "new" for Games Workshop. GW is notorious, and has been for many years at this point, for acting in a way towards their customers and fans which could charitably be described as "disdainful" and uncharitably described as "openly malicious". Their minis are notoriously overpriced and the quality ranges from okay to sub-par, they love to curb stomp fan projects for using GW IPs, they constantly fuck over the people who play their games with powercreep and imbalanced codexes while simultaneously uppiing the prices on the newly buffed units, and they're trying to take fucking War Hammer forty god damned thousand of all things and trying to make it more "inclusive" and "palatable" to people of all ages.

I am not in the least bit surprised by this.

 

[Caligura]

The old joke regarding Games Workshop is that they abbreviate it GW all the time because that's how you're supposed to pronounce it: Jew.

Now the more serious, and less (maybe more depending on how you look at it) humorous, take is that this really isn't anything "new" for Games Workshop. GW is notorious, and has been for many years at this point, for acting in a way towards their customers and fans which could charitably be described as "disdainful" and uncharitably described as "openly malicious". Their minis are notoriously overpriced and the quality ranges from okay to sub-par, they love to curb stomp fan projects for using GW IPs, they constantly fuck over the people who play their games with powercreep and imbalanced codexes while simultaneously uppiing the prices on the newly buffed units, and they're trying to take fucking War Hammer forty god damned thousand of all things and trying to make it more "inclusive" and "palatable" to people of all ages.

I am not in the least bit surprised by this.

Didn't they make a Warhammer 40K kids book or something?

 

[celebrityskin]

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The irony is that this was posted by some Muslim woman from Malaysia, lol.

Good luck with all those beauty products! But make sure skip on the hair products, you gotta cover it with that rag so it kinda defeats the purpose don't it? Oh who I am kidding, gonna hoard it anyways!

This might be racist, but why is it always Asian women who are big on this type of thing?

I'm a guy and obviously couldn't care less about that shit, but occasionally I will for some reason see a video on instagram or tiktok about a woman hoarding an insane amount of beauty/skincare products, doing an incredibly lengthy beauty routine, doing some obscure skincare ritual etc. it will be an East/Southeast Asian woman every single time.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Didn't they make a Warhammer 40K kids book or something?

Yep, sure did.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

This might be racist, but why is it always Asian women who are big on this type of thing?

I'm a guy and obviously couldn't care less about that shit, but occasionally I will for some reason see a video on instagram or tiktok about a woman hoarding an insane amount of beauty/skincare products, doing an incredibly lengthy beauty routine, doing some obscure skincare ritual etc. it will be an East/Southeast Asian woman every single time.

Absurdly long skincare routines are just a thing in Asia, it might just be a cultural difference at this point rather than a trend but even that is partually due to the brands there and what they manage to convince you to buy. They tend to focus on skincare and then do very light, almost watercolour style makeup, Western styles tend to focus on heavier makeup, which happens to be a look you can achieve in fewer steps but you still get hoarders there.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Saw a car this afternoon that I wish I could have gotten a picture of for this thread. (By the time I thought about this thread we were two blocks away. My husband doesn’t really approve of the farms (lame), so I wasn't going to ask him to drive back around to take a picture for mocking here (I'm also lame))

White, Chevy something - that car they make that vaguely looks like those PT Cruisers? It had a giant Nintendo NES light gun decal stretched across the two doors on the side (each side) and an orange Nintendo logo on the back window.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Saw a car this afternoon that I wish I could have gotten a picture of for this thread. (By the time I thought about this thread we were two blocks away. My husband doesn’t really approve of the farms (lame), so I wasn't going to ask him to drive back around to take a picture for mocking here (I'm also lame))

White, Chevy something - that car they make that vaguely looks like those PT Cruisers? It had a giant Nintendo NES light gun decal stretched across the two doors on the side (each side) and an orange Nintendo logo on the back window.

This used to be a pretty common advertising tactic. People would get paid to cover their cars in a company logo for X amount of time and there's been people paid to get a brand logo tatoo but now you can never tell because a lot of people would just do it for free and would rather pay themselves to be living ads. Kinda like what you see on heavily botted sites, eventually real users will start behaving like the shill bots, for free.

Spoiler: Edit: cursed

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

This used to be a pretty common advertising tactic. People would get paid to cover their cars in a company logo for X amount of time and there's been people paid to get a brand logo tatoo but now you can never tell because a lot of people would just do it for free and would rather pay themselves to be living ads. Kinda like what you see on heavily botted sites, eventually real users will start behaving like the shill bots, for free.

Spoiler: Edit: cursed

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I've seen a couple wrapped cars around town that look like they are doing the advertising sponsorship thing. This was a car parked in someone's driveway which made me think fan boy rather than billboard. I'd think an adwrap would have a switch on it rather than an accessory for a 35-ish year old console.

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

I have defended warhammer40k as not really being "consooming" in this thread before. I hereby retract that statement.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtcPS9v7kD4
The Tau Manta is probably one of the most expensive wh40k model kits you can buy. It's about 1700$ for just the manta itself and the kit the youtubers bought is far more (2300$)
And yet GW cannot seem to make the parts fit. And not just a bit, like a half mm slit in between two parts, but major warping that requires some serious work to rectify. And the e-celebs are just slopping it up, not seeing any problem with it. If that isn't consooming, I don't know what is.
Luckily, the comments are more normal.
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Midwinter Minis had a problem with his titan weapon and GW sent a replacement to him, hell there's always making your own out of sprues, buying second hand, or use the chinaman.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

That’s a lot of Blu-Rays and DVDs for a man that loves cartoons so much.

 

[D.Angus]

Saw a car this afternoon that I wish I could have gotten a picture of for this thread. (By the time I thought about this thread we were two blocks away. My husband doesn’t really approve of the farms (lame), so I wasn't going to ask him to drive back around to take a picture for mocking here (I'm also lame))

White, Chevy something - that car they make that vaguely looks like those PT Cruisers? It had a giant Nintendo NES light gun decal stretched across the two doors on the side (each side) and an orange Nintendo logo on the back window.

Probably a Chevy HHR



We got quite a few around here, but none of them ever look what you described. The worst around here is that one car that is just loaded with political stickers everywhere.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Probably a Chevy HHR

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We got quite a few around here, but none of them ever look what you described. The worst around here is that one car that is just loaded with political stickers everywhere.

That's it. I see them everywhere here too. Most of them don't have anything on them, the political stickers are saved for the big trucks that are also everywhere - always Trump.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Probably a Chevy HHR

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We got quite a few around here, but none of them ever look what you described. The worst around here is that one car that is just loaded with political stickers everywhere.

That's it. I see them everywhere here too. Most of them don't have anything on them, the political stickers are saved for the big trucks that are also everywhere - always Trump.

What kind of cars would be full of Bernie and Biden stickers then?