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

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DrearyDoomguy said:
Coffee-wise, I never found drip all that inconvenient. It takes 10 minute tops to prep a pot of coffee and that's if you have to clean it up from a previous brewing. The leftover coffee can be stored in a mason jar and either enjoyed cold or reheated in a microwave. Hell, blend some cold leftover coffee with a bit of ice, a pinch of cinnamon, and a table spoon or two of creamer and you've got the perfect iced coffee for hot days.
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I cannot stand those pod machines. I don’t understand why people fall for it - ok, maybe there’s a valid use case in a hotel room or garage waiting room or something, but buying one for your own kitchen is just ridiculous. And then subscribing to monthly pod deliveries, FFS.

I don’t like drip coffee particularly, but years ago I bought a cheap espresso machine - the kind where you scoop a tablespoon of ground coffee into the little metal cup, and then clamp it on to the boiler thing and it chugs hot water through it. Just like a real barista!

Is it more work than the pod thing? Fractionally. Filling it with water is the same. Pouring the coffee in and emptying the used grounds into the compost bin maybe takes a few seconds extra and has the potential for mess, compared to a pod.

But it’s just much better coffee, of your choosing - grind it yourself if you want to get nerdy about it. At a fraction of the price. Without the embarrassing waste.
 
White Room said:
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I'm surprised fumo plushies haven't (as far as I know) been mentioned so far. They're plush toys Touhou manchildren pay upwards of 300 dollars for.
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More like tranchildren. These are like the funkos of trannies

HedgehogBoysVEVO said:
There will come a day when you'll start finding them by the boatload at Goodwill all priced at $1.99 and no one will want them.
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Its kinda happening as we speak. Recently Funko had to burn millions worth of merchandise they coulndn't sell.
 
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White Room said:
I'm surprised fumo plushies haven't (as far as I know) been mentioned so far. They're plush toys Touhou manchildren pay upwards of 300 dollars for.
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They have but it was a very brief discussion.
saintJogger said:
That price would be justified if those were something like 5 feet tall. They're not 5 feet tall, are they?
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Nah, they're like one foot tall, but 6000 anime dollars is 40 actual dollars.
 
My childhood friend at 35 still watches shit anime, and even has funko pops. He hid them all from me when I joked that I was going to steal and burn them.
 
White Room said:
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I'm surprised fumo plushies haven't (as far as I know) been mentioned so far. They're plush toys Touhou manchildren pay upwards of 300 dollars for.
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I googled them out of curiosity because I don't know if Fumo was a brand or something but those prices are gouged for some reason while the official site lists them at $40ish. Anyway, I think they're under the radar because they aren't as mainstream in comparison.
 
John Titor said:
I googled them out of curiosity because I don't know if Fumo was a brand or something but those prices are gouged for some reason while the official site lists them at $40ish. Anyway, I think they're under the radar because they aren't as mainstream in comparison.
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i dont know much about Fumos but from my limited familiarity with people who like them, it seems there's a very large, popular and even accepted bootleg scene that even "official" collectors respect
that's pretty uncommon in collector circles
 
The Dragon Quest Ambassador has left his house.

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At first I thought he was a consoomer, with his crown and such, but he seems to have made his own entire outfit so he's more like a cosplay sperg who seems to have actually put some effort in.
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
i dont know much about Fumos but from my limited familiarity with people who like them, it seems there's a very large, popular and even accepted bootleg scene that even "official" collectors respect
that's pretty uncommon in collector circles
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I think that's mostly because gift (the ones who manufacture the fumos) haven't made a plushie of all the characters from the games yet, so a lot of fans end up commissioning others to make bootleg fumo's of their favorite characters.
 
HedgehogBoysVEVO said:
Pretty sure this was the mindset behind the Beanie Babies craze of the late 90's and when the bottom fell out of that it crashed HARD. To this day I still see beanies pop up in thrift stores for literally a dollar or two apiece, some of them are even in those protective plastic cubes that were sold at a premium to collectors back in the day. The local video game store where I live has a shelf dedicated just to Funkos and a lot of them are in the $3-5 range because they just don't sell.
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The Great Citracett said:
Beanie Babies are pretty much worthless now. I was given a whole bunch of mint ones a few years back with "rare" tags, pellets, stitching errors, etc and tried ebaying them. Couldn't even get $5 each out of them.
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There are plenty of thrift stores out there who -- to this day -- still won't touch Beanie Babies. They refuse to buy them, accept them on consignment or sell them, new or used. They learned fast how worthless the fucking things were in the second-hand market and refused to get burned a second time.

I still can't believe game shops still bother stocking Funkos at all. Why waste the shelf space? They never move at full price and as mentioned above it's common to find them on sale at clearance prices. They can't possibly be making any money on the ugly things.
 
Camo Fox said:
I'm unsure if it has been discussed on here or not - I don't really want to look through 400 pages of funko to find out, but the YouTuber MaxMoeFoe is like the perfect embodiment of mentally stunted consoomer and he seems to be safe from this stigma due to his previous content with FF & Idubbbz

https://youtube.com/watch?v=t6Kq1DEN3uk
this one video in particular sums up pretty much everything I have to say about it. While being a bit old at this point, he has not ceased his consooming, spending tens of thousands on cardboard for his MaxMoeFoe Pokemon channel.

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Currently he's on a streak of being flagged as "for kids" by YouTube which is pretty funny - if he stopped saying bad words it would literally be indistinguishable from the type of content aimed at preteens. The guy is harmless and all, I just think it's interesting that he has avoided being soyjakified while being one of the biggest forces in consoomer content.
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>It was a decent investment
I've never really seen anything that was specifically designed to be collectable not turn out to be basically worthless at some point because the market collapsed on them.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
And that what it comes down to, dependence. They don't want you to drive to the store, just use Amazon for everything peasant. You'll have to depend on the underpaid delivery driver for groceries. Anything faster and you'll need Grubhub, like a fucking bug, instead of, you know, just picking it up. You must Consoom EVERYTHING. Not even for a hobby, no, for every aspect of your life. It's spooky man.
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Glad I'm not the only one who hates these delivery grocieries and shit. Of all the modern consoomer/service economy shit, this trend is the worst thing to come out of WuFlu simply because too many people are lazy niggers.

Also because around my area it is always third worlders who barely speak English who do these gigs and inevitably pester me and anyone around them with questions on where mayo, icing, or literally anything is.
HedgehogBoysVEVO said:
The local video game store where I live has a shelf dedicated just to Funkos and a lot of them are in the $3-5 range because they just don't sell.
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Funkos are getting so worthless that they're getting stored in warehouses now in hopes the demand grows again. Literal tons of toxic plastic garbage that can't be recycled or turned into anything useful for human society. In 10,000 years when humanity has wiped itself out, aliens will unearth these fucking things and think they were out gods or some shit.
 
Corpun said:
Glad I'm not the only one who hates these delivery grocieries and shit. Of all the modern consoomer/service economy shit, this trend is the worst thing to come out of WuFlu simply because too many people are lazy niggers.

Also because around my area it is always third worlders who barely speak English who do these gigs and inevitably pester me and anyone around them with questions on where mayo, icing, or literally anything is.

Funkos are getting so worthless that they're getting stored in warehouses now in hopes the demand grows again. Literal tons of toxic plastic garbage that can't be recycled or turned into anything useful for human society. In 10,000 years when humanity has wiped itself out, aliens will unearth these fucking things and think they were out gods or some shit.
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Amazon turned Whole Foods from a premier grocery brand to trash with their grocery delivery shit. I won't step foot in one anymore.
 
For the sake of discussion and for anyone who might be in this thread trying to tame their own consoomerism, has anyone tried "no spend days" aka spending fasts or spending freezes?

The concept is simple: you just don't spend money for whatever period of time. Exceptions are typically your bills, and if you're doing a longer one, groceries. Of course you can come up with endless reasons to spend money: "What if I need to buy OTC medication/there's a really good deal on clearance/I need to buy someone a present???" but you can decide your own restrictions.

I've seen arguments for and against it.
The obvious "for" is that you'll spend less money and break mindless habits of buying things all the time or centering your life on spending money.

The argument against "spending fasts" is that people will just wait until it's over to "binge-spend", and that a spending fast won't make up for someone who over-spends the rest of the week or month.
However, take someone with the habit of buying a coffee everyday before work. If they abstain from getting a coffee one day, will they really buy TWO coffees the next day? I don't think so.
Although, if that person is still buying 4 coffees a week instead of 5, that's not really much of an improvement over, you know, 0.

Another reason I've seen spending fasts promoted is for the type of person who wants to spend money as soon as it hits their account. So you do a spending fast on payday and/or the day after, to prevent that impulse spending. The longer someone sees that money in their account, and the less likely people are willing to burn away the entire paycheck.
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
For the sake of discussion and for anyone who might be in this thread trying to tame their own consoomerism, has anyone tried "no spend days" aka spending fasts or spending freezes?

The concept is simple: you just don't spend money for whatever period of time. Exceptions are typically your bills, and if you're doing a longer one, groceries. Of course you can come up with endless reasons to spend money: "What if I need to buy OTC medication/there's a really good deal on clearance/I need to buy someone a present???" but you can decide your own restrictions.

I've seen arguments for and against it.
The obvious "for" is that you'll spend less money and break mindless habits of buying things all the time or centering your life on spending money.

The argument against "spending fasts" is that people will just wait until it's over to "binge-spend", and that a spending fast won't make up for someone who over-spends the rest of the week or month.
However, take someone with the habit of buying a coffee everyday before work. If they abstain from getting a coffee one day, will they really buy TWO coffees the next day? I don't think so.
Although, if that person is still buying 4 coffees a week instead of 5, that's not really much of an improvement over, you know, 0.

Another reason I've seen spending fasts promoted is for the type of person who wants to spend money as soon as it hits their account. So you do a spending fast on payday and/or the day after, to prevent that impulse spending. The longer someone sees that money in their account, and the less likely people are willing to burn away the entire paycheck.
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It’s wise to wait at least 24 hours before any unnecessary purchase. The amount of salespeople I’ve told ‘All right, thanks. See you later’ is enough to get me in hell.
 
I'd recommend trying it, even if you aren't a big spender. I got into a nasty habit of going to the dollar store before work, and getting fast food every other day. I cut that out and manage to spend 0 dollars a day during the work week. The amount of money I've been able to save is incredible. You would think "it's only five bucks" but it adds up.
 
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