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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

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.

The boomer is going to put 1,500 miles on that car in four years and drive it in a couple of parades before he parks it for ten years and then sells it for way more than it's worth and a bullshit "Drive it every day" story to some guy my age who wants a nice mechanically simple car that I can fix myself and this piece of shit is barely running because it's been stored improperly for so long. I've seen that song and dance way more than once, hell I've danced that dance more than once.

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.

That is an incredibly common story for people who were involved in Pokemon and Yugioh cards when they first got popular due to as you said, the actually rare cards aren't all that rare. I used to have like seven of the first print holo Blue Eyes and Dark Magician cards because those were so common in 2005 or so that you were practically tripping over the things. Turns out those are worth money these days but I honestly couldn't bring myself to care.

 

[Safir]

There's nothing quite like clicking on the Steam profile of someone who has clearly spent too much on worthless Humble bundles and seeing their game completion rate is below 15%.

IIRC game completion rate works off achievements. Achievement completionism is by itself an ultra consoom, whether you go for likely shit games with easy achievements, or autistically play a decent game to 100% competion long past the point it stops being fun, or edit them in.

As for badges, I go out of my way to avoid accidentally implying I care about any of that shit. Never engaged with that system except to look at the cards I got from playing. Also, "years of service"? Fucking gross, I hope gaben chokes on tranny dick and dies.

The plot is bad: the main characters are trying to find a map to Luke Skywalker for reasons

Like 10 years late but map to Luke Skywalker. My brain hurts. People fucking move around in a space opera and even planets travel through space, on occasions unpredictably. Making a quest item out of a map to a living person, broken into parts no less, is so intellectually offensive it only gets beaten by the dagger from Rise of Palpatine (don't judge, I watched that on movie night). It's a shitty "in spaaaaaace" reskin of a generic high fantasy b movie script. It's Todd.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

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).

It happens with feminine hobbies too, but more with woke than loser incel nerds. BP has a whole thread about fiber arts drama. For the past decade or so, the community has become full of incredibly woke lunacy to the point where Ravelry (a knitting pattern database with forums etc) made mainstream news for literally banning any expression of support for Trump. Quillette even has an article about this shit.

 

[Raging Capybara]

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).

Not today, bro

 

[Colonel Gaddafi]

I get wanting to collect the standout hits, cult classics, and games with just good box art. But outside of extracting data for media preservation, there isn't much reason to hold on to most of those titles. Also, disk rot is supposed to be setting in for ps1 and ps2 games about now. I wonder how it will impact the price when they are too deteriorated to even run properly? Do game collectors even play the games they collect or will that decrease the game's value?

I’m sort of a physical media sperg, I’ve got a decent library of old tech and media formats. I collect it for a couple of different reasons, firstly I don’t like the concept of having a streaming service decide my library is ‘problematic’ and deleting some titles. Secondly, many albums and titles are out of print. The only way you can see some rare films is on VHS, and some cassette / CD compilations had exclusive remixes, so I like to try and preserve that (one of these days I’ll get around to sharing those files). I would like to give these people the benefit of the doubt by saying they have similar concerns, but I have a hard time doing so. It seems more about the concept that it’s PS rather than an actual drive to preserve the media. None of the stuff in these videos even looks like it gets used.

As far as disk rot? That’s not really a thing unless there was a default or poor quality in the manufacturing of the disk itself. If stored properly most optical disks should last indefinitely, I’ve got laserdiscs and CDs that are decades old and still play like a charm. Magnetic tape does degrade, and some more than others (my childhood 8-tracks are looking pretty dodgy), but that largely depends on how it’s stored and how often it’s been used.

 

[NoReturn]

More on that new Disney cruiseliner.

This collection was found by @GenociderSyo

 

[Vingle]

Thank you @NoReturn, now I watch this on the regular. Even if I have no plans on going to any Disney this or that.
It's a clear trend that the most tacky items with Swarowski crystals, do sell for sky-high prices. Disguised as something luxurious and avant gardè.

 

[GenociderSyo]

As far as disk rot? That’s not really a thing unless there was a default or poor quality in the manufacturing of the disk itself. If stored properly most optical disks should last indefinitely, I’ve got laserdiscs and CDs that are decades old and still play like a charm. Magnetic tape does degrade, and some more than others (my childhood 8-tracks are looking pretty dodgy), but that largely depends on how it’s stored and how often it’s been used.

The only disk I ever heard of being an actual issue was the game Sanitarium whose discs would shatter if you put its disc in a newer drive it due to poor workmanship. Can't find the write up on it, but found some anecdotes.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

The only disk I ever heard of being an actual issue was the game Sanitarium whose discs would shatter if you put its disc in a newer drive it due to poor workmanship. Can't find the write up on it, but found some anecdotes.

There are some companies that released poorly pressed DVD or blurays - some Sony blus from 2008-10 are known to have this problem - but its not bitrot, its a problem in the manufacturing process. I used to have the problem more often with DVDs, blurays have an extra protective layer so these kinds of problems are rarer.

 

[Flaming Carrot]

So maybe someone more into rich people things can explain this to me but why are cruise ships all about the ships these days? If I'm going on a cruise to wild tropical paradise I'm probably going to want to get off the ship and head down to the beach or into town and drink and mingle with the locals a bit, eat some good local grub and drink some dog ass local brew, then hopefully stumble back to the ship without getting mugged. The cruise ship is basically just Disneyland but shittier and I can go to Disneyland or Disneyworld much cheaper than I can go on the cruise and get to ride roller coasters.

Am I too poor to understand cruise ships?

Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, I'd want to be on board a state of the art ocean liner, or at least a nice ship, to actually go to these nice tropical places. But miss me with that "staying on the ship the entire time" bullshit.

Cruising can really cheap way to go on a vacation. If you just want to get on a boat, go to some beaches, and eat some decent food for a week, a cruise is a great way to do that for not a whole lot of money. Obviously , there are the really fancy cruise ships, but for something like Royal Caribbean or Princess, it's not as expensive as an all-inclusive resort.

However, the ships make up for that low initial cost by selling all sorts of crap to make up for the people are aren't dropping money in the casino, spa treatments, or paying out the ass for alcohol. Also, cruise ships are stereotypically an older person thing, so in order to attract the younger crowd, they need to have something that kids would like. so now you have ships with water slides and ice skating rinks.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

Thanks youtube

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Thanks youtube
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Sigh.

 

[moocow]

More on that new Disney cruiseliner.
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That's it? That was their idea of an exciting christening ceremony? JFC even Carnival launches new ships with more fanfare.

 

[AverageQuarianEnjoyer]

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When you have to shoot BLM rioters at 10 and film a Game Overthinker at 11

 

[IsJoke]

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.

I would agree to a point but those classic car shows filled with boomers towing in multiple old cars to sit in front of them and show off makes me think even cars are fair game at this point.

I went to a local amusement park that was hosting a car show a year or so ago. They had tons of cars being hauled in on trailers because they had restored them but didn't want to drive them.

Granted that may be because some of them have not been restored to the point of road worthiness yet

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I would agree to a point but those classic car shows filled with boomers towing in multiple old cars to sit in front of them and show off makes me think even cars are fair game at this point.

I went to a local amusement park that was hosting a car show a year or so ago. They had tons of cars being hauled in on trailers because they had restored them but didn't want to drive them.

Granted that may be because some of them have not been restored to the point of road worthiness yet

I fucking hate boomers who sit in front of their corvettes yelling shit like "one-of-a-kind!" and "only year in this color!". You're supposed to look at other people's cars not fish for compliments. Also, people who put mirrors under their cars. Why would I want to see your oil pan.

 

[glass_houses]

I went to a local amusement park that was hosting a car show a year or so ago. They had tons of cars being hauled in on trailers because they had restored them but didn't want to drive them.

I'm not sure what it's like in your country, but in Australia at least the road and insurance laws for classic cars can be highly restrictive, limiting the cars to only being driving to a certain speed limit, on certain roads, and to a total of maybe a hundred kilometres (if that) a year. If it's the same in your country, many/most of the cars being hauled in on trailers simply couldn't be driven very far because of insurance restrictions. Also, a lot of classic cars (other than muscle cars) just don't have the engine power to safely keep up with modern traffic on the roads.

 

[Coolio55]

I'm not sure what it's like in your country, but in Australia at least the road and insurance laws for classic cars can be highly restrictive, limiting the cars to only being driving to a certain speed limit, on certain roads, and to a total of maybe a hundred kilometres (if that) a year. If it's the same in your country, many/most of the cars being hauled in on trailers simply couldn't be driven very far because of insurance restrictions. Also, a lot of classic cars (other than muscle cars) just don't have the engine power to safely keep up with modern traffic on the roads.

That's totally weird man.
Where I live they don't even hide the fact that they want cars for the chosen only and they don't have wacko rules like that. Classic cars are actually the affordable option!

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

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.

In defense of the boomer buying older cars, some of the older stuff, while being less efficient, would do well in a Ukraine scenario (No DEF and could run off cooking oil in a pinch better than newer vehicles).

 

[glass_houses]

In defense of the boomer buying older cars, some of the older stuff, while being less efficient, would do well in a Ukraine scenario (No DEF and could run off cooking oil in a pinch better than newer vehicles).

Consider some of the high end models that have come out in the past couple of years; they're completely bricked if their routine computer update glitches, to the point that they have to be towed back to the dealership for reprogramming. I'm not a car person but I can completely understand the attraction of a car that has no computer at all, and will run on virtually any hydrocarbon you feed it. Personally I couldn't do without air con, power steering and power windows, but I do get the appeal of the cars my father grew up with.