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I really miss consumeproduct when it was on reddit. Even their .win was okay for the first few weeks before the glowies moved in. Lots of gardening tips, woodworking, basic self-reliance stuff. Got to the point where I felt like I was going to be put on a list for having an account. Maybe I'll check it out again someday
 
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Playstation games aren't actually "rare". You see hundreds if not thousands of listings for them at these insane prices lately because of this specific consoomer current year game collector "WOAH VALUABLE THING!!!!" mindset.
It pisses me off, especially with me being a guy who doesn't want to bother with just fucking emulating everything and would actually give people money for their used games if they werent' selling shit like megaman for 200 fucking dollars. The worst joke though? A lot of foreign/japanese release versions of the games run for dirt cheap. I was at a fucking game seller convention recently to see if I could buy shit, but they were all going by the post-covid online prices, so you had shit like Earthbound for TWO FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS and then a real, sealed, Mother 2 with a slightly dinged up corner on the box for 35 dollars. I fucking hate this shit so fucking much you would not believe.
Anyone who still thinks Earthbound is rare is an idiot or a speculator trying to sell it.

Video game collectors are some of the worst for this, but it amazes me how many people make their room look like a Gamestop used game shelf or Walmart toy isle and go "yeah this looks good". Congrats you made a micro big box store in your game room.

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Anyone who still thinks Earthbound is rare is an idiot or a speculator trying to sell it.

Video game collectors are some of the worst for this, but it amazes me how many people make their room look like a Gamestop used game shelf or Walmart toy isle and go "yeah this looks good". Congrats you made a micro big box store in your game room.

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rarity is a myth, these articles gain value based on hype first and foremost.
 
So Diablo Immortal was made for the Asian market. Mostly China. One of the devs said on Chinese Social Media that "the bear should step down". Bear being Pooh. And now the game is delayed to launch there. Maybe never releasing there. Good job on vetting devs Blizzard.

I bet that dev had the Cosby Suite reopened just for him, and hasn't left it since the tweet was posted. Imagine being Blizzard: getting progressively worse as time passes, pissing off your fanbase AND the idiotic professional ofendees on twitter (who barely play your games, but make a lot of noise) at every turn, selling your soul for a shot at the chink market, further pissing off the fanbase of one of your oldest, best-established PC franchises by making it a mobile gacha... and then you get cock-blocked out of billions of dollars because a sperg can't help but broadcast his opinions to the whole world.
 
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I bet that dev had the Cosby Suite reopened just for him, and hasn't left it since the tweet was posted. Imagine being Blizzard: getting progressively worse as time passes, pissing off your fanbase AND the idiotic professional ofendees on twitter (who barely play your games, but make a lot of noise) at every turn, selling your soul for a shot at the chink market, further pissing off the fanbase of one of your oldest, best-established PC franchises by making it a mobile gacha... and then you get cock-blocked out of billions of dollars because a sperg can't keep help but broadcast his opinions to the whole world.
I for one welcome our new chin chong overlords and hope they will take pity on me during the uprising of the new world order.
 
You would think that Disney would instead turn one of their cruise ships in that Star Wars Galaxy edge ship but no instead they stuff all the weird Soyboys and ham beasts into a windowless building with overpriced blue shrimp that probably stinks of stale farts.

Probably is best for the other guests that they don’t mingle with the young families
They could make bank if they did something like a pirates of the caribbean cruise ship, because that actually makes sense as a theme?? I'm pretty sure Disney execs are all complete retards at this point. Their business ventures must be decided by playing fucking mad libs.
 
So Diablo Immortal was made for the Asian market. Mostly China. One of the devs said on Chinese Social Media that "the bear should step down". Bear being Pooh. And now the game is delayed to launch there. Maybe never releasing there. Good job on vetting devs Blizzard.
Speaking of Diablo Immortal, it made over 24 million in 2 weeks with over 8 million downloads.
It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade your character fully. (Literal house money for a virtual character)
 
I honestly wonder if the guy did it on purpose because he was disgruntled at the company and wanted to royally fuck them over.
Yeah. He caused untold millions in damages ...but it's such a tiny, easily deniable "mistake" that it wouldn't affect his future work prospects.

It's genius really.
 
I honestly wonder if the guy did it on purpose because he was disgruntled at the company and wanted to royally fuck them over.
Yeah. He caused untold millions in damages ...but it's such a tiny, easily deniable "mistake" that it wouldn't affect his future work prospects.

It's genius really.
At this point i would believe he did it intentionally to screw over the company. Blizz already took heat from the great bear of the east before when people used Mei from Overwatch as the symbol for the Hong Kong independent protests and they had to take down any merchandise of her from the online store.

If you work at Blizz and you don't know you have to bow down to Xi Jinping, you are retarded or new.
 
At this point i would believe he did it intentionally to screw over the company. Blizz already took heat from the great bear of the east before when people used Mei from Overwatch as the symbol for the Hong Kong independent protests and they had to take down any merchandise of her from the online store.

If you work at Blizz and you don't know you have to bow down to Xi Jinping, you are retarded or new.

Blizzard also banned Blitzchung for saying "FREE HONG KONG" during a Hearthstone tournament, and fired the casters that interviewed him. The Blitzchung ban was only temporary, due to massive outcry against Blizzard for the ban. I don't remember if the casters were re-hired, or they had to find work elsewhere.

Also, Mitsubishi Motors dropped their sponsorship for Hearthstone, shortly after the Blitzchung ban.
 

Anyone notice that the nerd-loser segment of the population eventually ruins all hobbies?

I was into 'retrogaming' in the mid 90s and for a long time, the reaction I got was 'lol just use an emulator'. But then sometime (maybe after gamergate?) retrogaming started to fill up with 1) trannies 2) furries 3) consoomers (often all at once). We had bad apples before this, alot of conmen ripping people off, and our own share of smelly nerds, but it absolutely exploded at some point without me realizing it (until it was complete). Eventually it got taken over by autists like speedrunners and all their loser hangers on.

I also noticed that the nerd loser consoomer retrogamers buy games they never play. You think that dumbass plays half of those? Complete set of NES games with all the tennis games collecting dust on a shelf? You betcha he has them, driving up the prices for people who may actually want to play them (hey I am sure there are some people).
 
Hey, at least he looks better than Moviebob in his Mario outfit.
They could make bank if they did something like a pirates of the caribbean cruise ship, because that actually makes sense as a theme?? I'm pretty sure Disney execs are all complete retards at this point. Their business ventures must be decided by playing fucking mad libs.
Problem is Disney are the biggest bunch of cheapskates in the world, that's why their boss Bob Chapek is called "Cheapek". Someone probably came up with this idea at some point and Cheapek or someone who thinks like him looked at the costs and vetoed it. The mindset at Disney is to churn out schlock and take zero risks and expect people will buy it anyway that you'll make almost as much profit, that's why Cheapek was the one who made all the really bad direct-to-video sequels in the 90s/00s. You can also see that mindset at work in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge where cost is cut at all corners, including the very concept which deliberately minimizes references to pre-Disney Star Wars because that means paying George Lucas more royalties (this is super common in all things Disney Star Wars BTW).
 
Anyone notice that the nerd-loser segment of the population eventually ruins all hobbies?

I was into 'retrogaming' in the mid 90s and for a long time, the reaction I got was 'lol just use an emulator'. But then sometime (maybe after gamergate?) retrogaming started to fill up with 1) trannies 2) furries 3) consoomers (often all at once). We had bad apples before this, alot of conmen ripping people off, and our own share of smelly nerds, but it absolutely exploded at some point without me realizing it (until it was complete). Eventually it got taken over by autists like speedrunners and all their loser hangers on.

I also noticed that the nerd loser consoomer retrogamers buy games they never play. You think that dumbass plays half of those? Complete set of NES games with all the tennis games collecting dust on a shelf? You betcha he has them, driving up the prices for people who may actually want to play them (hey I am sure there are some people).
when hipsters touch something its over. Those are the nerds that increase their interest once they see there's validation. They notice news outlets talking about a craze for pohkemanz cards or retro games or comics or a franchise thats being memed on reddit and they flock to it like flies to shit so they can take pictures with the thing and make quotes and self deprecating jokes about how "nerdy" they are.
 
when hipsters touch something its over. Those are the nerds that increase their interest once they see there's validation. They notice news outlets talking about a craze for pohkemanz cards or retro games or comics or a franchise thats being memed on reddit and they flock to it like flies to shit so they can take pictures with the thing and make quotes and self deprecating jokes about how "nerdy" they are.

Considering they managed to do this with knitting nothing surprises me at this point.

Fewer people getting married and having family lives but instead extended bachelor life into their late 30s and therefore having more disposable income to become good consoomers I think is a large part of it. Corporate America of course loves this it's the same reason they like homosexuals (no offense meant fag kiwis).
 
Pretty much. The hardware inside both the NES and SNES Classics were the same, and even had enough spare drive space to store almost the entire US NES rom library.


Yeah, and those people seem to have a goldfish memory. Nintendo will release something like this back in late 2020:
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and then you'll see idiots saying "OMG the nostalgia I'll finally get to play Super Mario Brothers again like I did with my dad and brother, who are both fuckin' dead and gay now and I miss them dearly and only you Nintendo can make me happy xoxoxo"... despite Nintendo releasing SMB so many times, the consoles without it is a shorter list than with:
  • Nintendo 64
  • Game Boy (DMG)
  • Virtual Boy
  • Nintendo DS (albeit. older DSes can run the GBA version)
and that's seriously it


Man, that shit is gay as hell. If you're setting out on an adventure to find a high-end CRT for a good deal, have fun. But if you're planning on just straight dropping a small fortune, just stick to emulation. The chase is better than the catch, and skipping the chase just makes you feel unfulfilled and gluttonous. There's no adventure to be had or story to be told when you just drop a pile of money on a thing to have shipped to you.

The right retro setup is whatever you grew up playing on. Unless you were a rich kid with very tech-savvy parents, you probably didn't grow up with a super nice Sony Trinitron, so it'll never feel quite right to you. I was fortunate enough to still have my last childhood CRT working into adulthood that my mom was happy to let me take with, and, yeah, it feels better to me than the ever-desired Trinitrons I've seen at conventions.

They later did a Zelda one of these but at least it had A. more than one game (Zelda 1, 2, and Link's Awakening) and more important B. The original 1993 version of Link's Awakening, which Nintendo had explicitly memory-holed for decades in favor of pushing the revised Game Boy color DX version (which is the only version they sold for the Virtual Console).
 
Considering they managed to do this with knitting nothing surprises me at this point.

Fewer people getting married and having family lives but instead extended bachelor life into their late 30s and therefore having more disposable income to become good consoomers I think is a large part of it. Corporate America of course loves this it's the same reason they like homosexuals (no offense meant fag kiwis).
Some of this phenomena I think isn't too different than how boomers will spend 6 figures on a 50-60 year old car. Boomers are probably doing it because they saw that car a lot growing up and thought it was badass but couldn't afford it until they were retired. In this same way your 30-something consoomer loved Pokemon cards and vidya growing up but until he put in a few years in the Big Tech bug hive he could never afford it. But now that he has a decent apartment and disposable income he can buy all the Pokemon cards and vidya he ever wanted, which is all of them.
 
Some of this phenomena I think isn't too different than how boomers will spend 6 figures on a 50-60 year old car. Boomers are probably doing it because they saw that car a lot growing up and thought it was badass but couldn't afford it until they were retired. In this same way your 30-something consoomer loved Pokemon cards and vidya growing up but until he put in a few years in the Big Tech bug hive he could never afford it. But now that he has a decent apartment and disposable income he can buy all the Pokemon cards and vidya he ever wanted, which is all of them.

I guess so, but I also think that it's somewhat different because the Boomer is going to drive the car he's not going to buy 10 cars and never drive nine of them, but will take pictures of him standing in front of these other nine cars just to show off. I agree at its root it's the same consoomerist mentality but obviously with modern debauchery it's 10 times worse.
 
Some of this phenomena I think isn't too different than how boomers will spend 6 figures on a 50-60 year old car. Boomers are probably doing it because they saw that car a lot growing up and thought it was badass but couldn't afford it until they were retired. In this same way your 30-something consoomer loved Pokemon cards and vidya growing up but until he put in a few years in the Big Tech bug hive he could never afford it. But now that he has a decent apartment and disposable income he can buy all the Pokemon cards and vidya he ever wanted, which is all of them.
Pokemon cards were 3-4 dollars a pack and a lot of the old ones ran cheap till current year scalper-er i mean VALUE EVALUATORS decidedthey were worth thousands and proceeded to hoard both old and new ones and getinto fistfights in walmart over the things tothe point it made national news and they temporarily pulled them from shelves as a result.
current year trading card price inflation is a special hell and I'm glad I don't involve myselfin that world. I am howeverstill pissed that one kid that was my friend back in middleschool did a heel turn and stole every one of my rare holographic yugioh cards back then. Guy had the most common ass name around so even if I mentioned him by name nobody would know who he was,so once more, fuck you malcom for taking my fucking blue eyes.
I actually have like 3 or some shit of the second-most rare card of the og pokemon card run back in the day causeI never sold or gifted off any of my trading cards but I have no idea where the fuck they are. Unfortunately, ACTUAL rarity has fucking nothing to do with "value" these days so my mewtwos still aint worth shit compared to more common stuff like the starters. For years charizard was THE ONLY one people would pay insane prices for and my friend that had one gave it away and got really pissed when he found out later it could have netted him money.

This shit came out a lot more rambling than usual again, my ass is out of it and multitasking typing about fucking POKEMON CARD SCALPERS.
 
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