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Oglooger said:
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Imagine being the child of a consoomer, constantly surrounded by toys but unable to play with any of them.

When I was a little kid I was obsessed with those big fancy china dolls that you can get in beautiful period costume; they were basically my only concession to girliness. I had bratz and barbies (which tended to get wrecked/dismembered/shaved), but china dolls were special. I particularly loved the dolls with long curly hair and big silky dresses, and lots of accessories like shepherdess crooks and fans and bonnets and so on. For a few years I would get given a doll every year on Christmas, which would be named and introduced to the other dolls. I was generally a pretty careless child, but I treated these dolls like my babies, so they tended to get a little ragged and worn due to my constant attentions. I would take them down and brush their hair and smooth their dresses and talk to them all the time (until I reached about 12 and suddenly didn't care anymore).

So you can imagine my confusion when we went to relatives/elderly people's houses and I was forbidden from touching any of their lovely dolls or decorative dolls houses. I didn't get it, because surely dolls were meant to be played with? Drove me mental.
 
♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️ said:
Defunctland made a extremely well put-together video detailing how the revamp of the Fastpass system at Disney parks has created alot of problems- but it did strike me as odd that not only does there exist a number of people who make multiple trips to a Disney park a year, but apparently had become such reliable "whales" that Disney could cater several different services to them.
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Full doc for those that want it:
Also relevant, though I think I shared this one already, too:
At one point he does the math and figures out you can take a 20-day cruise from Hawaii to Australia with four people for less than the cost of one Disney trip.
Kyria the Great said:
If someone buys lots of lego sets and actually plays with him and puts them in rather fun diorama sets they change every now and again, are they a consoomer or just a massive autist?
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Autist, but honestly kind of an adorable autist in the same way model train guys are.
Finder said:
Every single gameboy game can be experienced better via an emulator on a smartphone, the old hardware is irrelevant.
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I was playing with a GBC recently and realized two things:
1. It does feel nice, honestly. They did a good job designing those things. I can understand the appeal of wanting to use it instead of an emulator just because of how it feels in your hands.
HOWEVER
2. The lack of a backlight sucks absolute dick and I understand why people refab old GBCs to include them.
 
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These people really need to read up on Virtual Boy Advance, DeSmuME, and the GPD XE. I still have both a GBA and a DS Lite and I love them, but I will readily admit that any one of those emulator systems is vastly superior. Get over yourselves, it isn't that bad.
 
Finder said:
Every single gameboy game can be experienced better via an emulator on a smartphone
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smartphone "buttons" a shit, you're better off trying to build a rasberry pi or use the new emulator machines the chinese are making.
I had one that was ok for 30 bucks but the buttons were awkward, emulation was iffy and it eventually died. I'm sure better models will come out soon that will even be as nigh indestructable as nintendium.
 
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I was contemplating buying broken consoles, repairing them and getting them back in the market, maybe even make a profit. I looked at 3DSs but even broken ones are £70+ which is pretty close to pre-owned value so repairing them will be at a loss.
I think I'll start with DS Lites because they cost only £10-£15 for a broken one.

I hate this current state of retro tech costing an arm thanks to scalpers and collectors. Time to get myself a Raspberry Pi and make myself an arcade machine.
 
♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️ said:
Defunctland made a extremely well put-together video detailing how the revamp of the Fastpass system at Disney parks has created alot of problems- but it did strike me as odd that not only does there exist a number of people who make multiple trips to a Disney park a year, but apparently had become such reliable "whales" that Disney could cater several different services to them.

I only ever went to Disneyworld once in my life when I was four years old and I barely remember any of it because I was so young- and even then it was a big undertaking for my parents because we had to travel halfway down the East Coast of the US. As of writing it's been about 10 years since the last vacation I took. If I could afford to travel multiple times in a single year without it interfering with my job I would be using that time to go different places for either business, pilgrimages, or the rare vacation. It's especially jarring to see Millennials or Gen Xers go to Disney multiple times in a year- especially if they don't have children of their own. "Disney Trips" are supposed to be for the kids- more or less (unless you're an executive, engineer, or actor of some kind hoping to get sloshed at Club 38
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i don't get it either. As someone who doesn't have kids you couldn't pay me to go to Disneyland. Going to Theme parks is one of the most exhausting ways to spend a vacation, it makes me tired just thinking about it. I get more when other millenials are traveling to conventions or music festivals which can also get be pretty energy draining with age but don't see any appeal for going to Disney regularly or more than once or twice in a lifetime unless you have a pass for the underground Adrenochrome harvesting farms.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
i don't get it either. As someone who doesn't have kids you couldn't pay me to go to Disneyland. Going to Theme parks is one of the most exhausting ways to spend a vacation, it makes me tired just thinking about it. I get more when other millenials are traveling to conventions or music festivals which can also get be pretty energy draining with age but don't see any appeal for going to Disney regularly or more than once or twice in a lifetime unless you have a pass for the underground Adrenochrome harvesting farms.
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I heard two female acquainances at uni talking about how much they love disney, how they go to disneyland as often as they can, and that they wish they could work there. Nostalgia and delusion are a powerful combination. Adult disney fans are always so weird, like they have brain slugs eating up their critical thinking skills.
 
admiral said:
I heard two female acquainances at uni talking about how much they love disney, how they go to disneyland as often as they can, and that they wish they could work there. Nostalgia and delusion are a powerful combination. Adult disney fans are always so weird, like they have brain slugs eating up their critical thinking skills.
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I honestly wouldn't care if someone liked the old traditionally animated disney movies and enjoyed rewatching them as a hit of nostalgia. Especially considering how garbage entertainment is now these days and some of the movies are artistically stunning - Sleeping Beauty's backgrounds come to mind. But going to the park as much as you can when it's clearly a money sink, wishing you could work there (You'd never be a "Cast Member", but the janitor, let's be real), and talking about it excessively to the point of obsession is something else.

Let's hope as they get older, their tastes will change and they'll leave that behind. Scrapbook your memories and photos, sell those damned Disney pins, and use your Disney movies as a once-a-year nostalgia rewatch.
 
This is making me want to take a black pill or a shotgun to the face
Can we have some nice examples of people collecting that isn't consooming?
Just to stay sane.

I want to say its cool. But I feel its consooming.
Seriously where do we call halts on consooming?
You can't just have blank walls and nothing
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GAYSE WHATS THE EQUATION FOR CONSOOOMING?

I LOOOKED AT SCIENCE SUBREDDITS AND CAME WITH SOMETHING LIKE
(AGE/NUMBER OF FUNKOS OWNED) * AMOUNT SPENT ON ONLYFANS
IF ITS GREATER THAN AN 100 HECK YOU'RE CONSOOOMING.


No but seriously call me a fag but Italeri mdoels are fucking art and I wish I could visit their factory one of these days.
 
I guess we never discussed diecasts, I think a lot of car enthusiasts have them.
So I'll run through a few of them.

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Some are excessive to me others not.
So you may want to pick out the ones that aren't and the ones that are fine
 
NoReturn said:
Archive of the above:
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  • Show dryer
  • Slipper keeper (Does it keep them warm?)
  • Automatic soap dispenser
  • Microfiber towel and paper towel dispenser
  • ??? Some kind of ionizer
  • Vacuum sealer
  • Egg keeper
  • Fridge ionizer
  • Rice box
  • Rice cooker with shitty touchscreen
  • Plastic cutting boards
  • Pop-out trash bin
  • Cutting board holder which apparently also sanitizes things
  • Lazy Susan and spice holders
  • Hotplate
  • Gloves
  • Mini-washer x 2
  • Medium-washer
  • Vacuum cleaner x 2
  • Wet dust mop
  • Phone charger light/sanitizer
  • Collapsible foot bath
  • Automatic trash can
  • Tissue box phone holder
  • Humidifier
  • Iron
  • Depiller
  • Sock organizer
  • Air freshener
  • Vacuum sanitizer
  • Wall charger station
  • Mirror cleaner squeegie
  • Silicone toilet scrubber
  • Bathroom trashcan
  • Bathroom shoes holder
  • The most retarded fucking thing that I keep seeing every damn where when is a toothpaste dispenser fucking hell I get it in you have one hand or something but goddamn
  • Toothbrush sanitizer
  • Shaver
  • Cosmetics fridge with facemask-warmer
  • Cosmetics box
  • Dumb phone-charger dog table
  • Humidifier
  • Projector
  • One more humidifier
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This is totally CCP propaganda, right?

These are all from #asianskincare and #skincarecollection
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(It's a skincare case)
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Tiktok is a mistake
 
Consumption is an assumed form of group identity that cements itself through financial investment. What is it you are collecting? Tokens of personal significance? Trophies of your own achievements? Or mere signifiers of your consumption?
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What personal significance does this collection have? Were these even "earned"? In truth anyone with sufficient money could acquire an equivalent collection, so what value is being presented here? The value of money spent? Valuable only to those with a compatible consumption based identity.


BangBingBongalo said:
This is making me want to take a black pill or a shotgun to the face
Can we have some nice examples of people collecting that isn't consooming?
Just to stay sane.
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Are you seeking validation for your own habits? If what you have bought is truly valuable to you then you should not feel the need to seek validation for it, but if your purchases were merely meant to cement your identity then it is only natural that you now find yourself here seeking validation for them.

Seek to build an identity not of ownership, but of your own.


There is more nobility in the 50yo weird uncle train autist than there is in any compulsive collector.
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Look at him in his attic —away from the concerned eyes of family— he has found personal value in his autistic pursuit. He builds his little model not to seek prestige in a tiny subculture, but rather for his own personal satisfaction. The value of his model is created not purchased, and it relies upon no external validation.

Consumer behavior is not found in the material or quantity consumed, but rather in the motivations —or rather values— underlying the purchase. For what do you purchase? the utility inherent to the object? the personal value found in it? or merely to impress other consumers?
 
777Flux said:
I have a 170 wpm typing speed and I've been using a 2014 Razer blackwidow keyboard that I bought from walmart open box for $45 6 1/2 years ago.
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I have a 700 wpm typing speed and I use a 35-year-old Melmer-Sordo marlin XT-5 keyboard that I bought for $2.
BangBingBongalo said:
I guess we never discussed diecasts, I think a lot of car enthusiasts have them.
So I'll run through a few of them.

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Some are excessive to me others not.
So you may want to pick out the ones that aren't and the ones that are fine
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I think, for a lot of these, you really have to see the rest of the room. If it's a semi-normal house with one startlingly large display case full of toys, that's one thing. If it's a house that is either A) totally full of toys or B) half full of toys and otherwise totally lacking personal touches, that's something else.
 
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