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

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Quality above quantity when it comes to sharp pointy things, every time. The steel in most of those is gonna be shit. Just look at how mall ninja they look. They'll dull or even snap after only a short while

but those flimsy ass,"cool" fold knives who would break their point if you shoved then too hard in a cardboard is cringe

I disagree for a pocket knife, any relatively sharp piece of metal will do 98% of the tasks people regularly throw at it. I used to carry a 50 year old piece of shit my grandad got for free from work that had never been sharpened, the only reason I got a newer knife is because it struggled to sharpen pencils.

Let's be real all they're going to be used for is cutting Sellotape, cellophane, PET strapping, cardboard and maybe the occasional plastic blister pack. most of which can adequality be done with a normal Yale key. If you're encountering more specialised tasks you're gonna be getting a more specialised knife or other tools.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Knife guys are probably the worst for this imo
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A pocket knife is handy, having a spare isn't a terrible idea, having one for everyday of the week is a bit weird but whatever. having 60 is just daft.

You can I get that Paragon and those Midgards Messers?

 

[Mac Monster]

One type of consoomer that is particularly brain-dead are those that buy toys (and other useless junk) and decide to display them inside the box. This moron has an entire shelf in his home dedicated to Transfomers boxes and he even has multiple versions of the same fucking toy.

Spoiler: More pics

Why even buy all this shit if you're not going to display it properly?

 

[74164978231]

Don't forget the gun hoarders.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J0QymWB7RZY
The comments are indistinguishable from the ones left on videos where idiots show off their Funkopop rooms.

This guy is a retard who spent a hilarious amount of money to chase social media clout. Literally 95%+ of his firearms are absolute dogshit considering the money he has dumped onto this "hobby".

I cant imagine bragging about how awesome my firearms collection is and how much ive spent on it and yet have a wall full of braced firearms.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

One type of consoomer that is particularly brain-dead are those that buy toys (and other useless junk) and decide to display them inside the box. This moron has an entire shelf in his home dedicated to Transfomers boxes and he even has multiple versions of the same fucking toy.

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Spoiler: More pics

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Why even buy all this shit if you're not going to display it properly?

we need @Optimus Prime here for a rough price estimate but he has a lot of the high end products and multiples of them

 

[grimacefetishist]

these look like some kinda artsy fartsy stuff, i can see there being a market for this and it being a (somewhat) legit thing
the designs aren't particularly attractive to me but they're certainly not generic, it seems like the opposite of something like squishmallows that tries to be as simple as possible to avoid going out of style, instead it revels in how unusual and artsy it is, and that at least i can respect

I can't imagine what it's like to buy objects that everyone knows you cum all over, but maybe I'm just too girlbrained.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

This guy is a retard who spent a hilarious amount of money to chase social media clout. Literally 95%+ of his firearms are absolute dogshit considering the money he has dumped onto this "hobby".

I cant imagine bragging about how awesome my firearms collection is and how much ive spent on it and yet have a wall full of braced firearms.

He says in another video that a local gun store calls him up whenever they need to get rid of some weird piece of junk that is gathering dust on their shelf, and sometimes he buys guns over the phone without even looking at them. He was so proud of being a mark who's been ripped off for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and his viewers manage to be even more pathetic because it's their dream to be the guy singlehandedly keeping a gun store afloat with frivolous purchases.

 

[Otterly]

I wonder how archeologists from the future will interpret that.

‘Religious object or toy’seems to be the set phrasing..

 

[Optimus Prime]

we need @Optimus Prime here for a rough price estimate but he has a lot of the high end products and multiples of them

*smashes through the wall Kool-Aid man style*

From what I can tell of the pics, everything in that collection is Masterpiece grade, but pricing them is difficult because he has multiple versions of the same guys which did NOT retail for the same price (I.E. there's what looks like the original Masterpiece Megatron in the Electrum Pool 'gold' coating and IIRC that one was much more expensive than the regular version, which itself was a headache in of itself to acquire thanks to the fact it turned into a fairly realistic looking hand pistol).

In a very simplified way to envision how much has been spent here, imagine all the smaller boxes cost about $100 and the larger ones (both out of box and in them) are $200. That'll average out with price differences and give a general idea, since that's easily over a hundred thousand dollars worth in that room.

 

[Mac Monster]

*smashes through the wall Kool-Aid man style*

From what I can tell of the pics, everything in that collection is Masterpiece grade, but pricing them is difficult because he has multiple versions of the same guys which did NOT retail for the same price (I.E. there's what looks like the original Masterpiece Megatron in the Electrum Pool 'gold' coating and IIRC that one was much more expensive than the regular version, which itself was a headache in of itself to acquire thanks to the fact it turned into a fairly realistic looking hand pistol).

In a very simplified way to envision how much has been spent here, imagine all the smaller boxes cost about $100 and the larger ones (both out of box and in them) are $200. That'll average out with price differences and give a general idea, since that's easily over a hundred thousand dollars worth in that room.

The pictures I posted weren't even his entire collection. He has some other shelves with the Transformers displayed properly. I just didn't feel the need to post them, since it wasn't as baffling as his box shrine.

Spoiler: Cont

 

[Hyperbolic Steroids]

Knife guys are probably the worst for this imo
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A pocket knife is handy, having a spare isn't a terrible idea, having one for everyday of the week is a bit weird but whatever. having 60 is just daft.

I've never got the appeal of collecting modern Spyderco-style knives and shit like that, it's literally just different form factors or colors of a knife. If they were at least different styles or historically significant I could understand it.

Quality above quantity when it comes to sharp pointy things, every time. The steel in most of those is gonna be shit. Just look at how mall ninja they look. They'll dull or even snap after only a short while

I think there's probably some from reputable companies in there. They're all the "tactical" style that YouTuber gun and gear guys 10 years ago would shill. I think Spyderco was the most egregious shilled followed closely by Benchmade and Kershaw. They were like the Ridge Wallet you see everywhere now but on gearqueer content.

I cant imagine bragging about how awesome my firearms collection is and how much ive spent on it and yet have a wall full of braced firearms.

The worst part about this is that a LOT of the setups look exactly the same too. It's like M&P 15 x50 with the same attachments. He also has a few with no sights or optics which is funny as they're borderline useless.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I think there's probably some from reputable companies in there. They're all the "tactical" style that YouTuber gun and gear guys 10 years ago would shill. I think Spyderco was the most egregious shilled followed closely by Benchmade and Kershaw. They were like the Ridge Wallet you see everywhere now but on gearqueer content

It's not just the construction I'm talking about. It's the steel itself. It can look like a good knife. Hell it might come from a good company. Even good companies have budget models. The blades will be chinesium steel, the worst alloy of steel money can buy. Yeah it can poke a hole. You're gonna be sharpening it a lot. If you're buying that many knives, most likely, most of those are going to be bargain bin finds. In other words, shit.

 

[Elysian]

All it shows is that you're a giant faggot willing to blow thousands on a piece of junk.

These Apple headset things cost like 4 grand. I’m surprised none of them have had the stolen off their head by a passerby that wanted to sell it.

 

[RX-78]

Don't forget the gun hoarders.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J0QymWB7RZY
The comments are indistinguishable from the ones left on videos where idiots show off their Funkopop rooms.

As a rule, the type of fuckers who doomsday prep have about enough canned food and ammunition to last roughly two years.

Their diabetes meds last thirty days.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

These Apple headset things cost like 4 grand.

Subtract five hundred from that.

I’m surprised none of them have had the stolen off their head by a passerby that wanted to sell it.

From what I understand, they link to the user's eyeballs to prevent this.

Apple Computer's draconian control over its hardware makes sense when one is reminded about where that hardware is manufactured. Apple Computer is one of the few companies, of which I'm aware, that manufactures in China without being screwed over; it's able to do this because each part is cryptographically self-identifying, which prevents the so-called third shift, when a Chinese factory simply continues to produce parts and product well past the contract with the Western company. I believe I've read somewhere that some of its security co-processors are manufactured in the United States. Anyway, if Apple Computer only gives so many cryptographic secrets for so many parts, and all parts are authorized over the Internet by Apple Computer, then extra parts can't very well be manufactured like this.

Apple Computer controls the magic software, and that's the special edge it has which other companies lack.

 

[RX-78]

Subtract five hundred from that.

From what I understand, they link to the user's eyeballs to prevent this.

Apple Computer's draconian control over its hardware makes sense when one is reminded about where that hardware is manufactured. Apple Computer is one of the few companies, of which I'm aware, that manufactures in China without being screwed over; it's able to do this because each part is cryptographically self-identifying, which prevents the so-called third shift, when a Chinese factory simply continues to produce parts and product well past the contract with the Western company. I believe I've read somewhere that some of its security co-processors are manufactured in the United States. Anyway, if Apple Computer only gives so many cryptographic secrets for so many parts, and all parts are authorized over the Internet by Apple Computer, then extra parts can't very well be manufactured like this.

Apple Computer controls the magic software, and that's the special edge it has which other companies lack.

Why don't other companies copy that security method, is it just too expensive or has the ship already sailed?

 

[Twinkie]

(2) toy wolves for (1) juvenile piece of shit

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Why don't other companies copy that security method, is it just too expensive or has the ship already sailed?

I don't know. Some certainly do. Unlike computers, security isn't usually an all-or-nothing affair. Keurig, as an example, I've read uses a single bit in the coffee pods as its DRM scheme; United States law allows this disgusting company to stomp out competitors who produce pods with the same bit set; for Keurig, this is likely good enough.

Nintendo controls the system software of the Switch, and I believe it cryptographically signs games. Nintendo may not be too concerned, considering it makes money on the hardware and software, and seems to be satisfied with using the legal system against counterfeits.

MicroSoft is in a position where it can't do this, because the only reason people use MicroSoft Windows is the large amount of software that already runs on it.

Texas Instruments used cryptographic signing for its calculator series, and someone realized that the private key was so small it could be found by brute-force, which is exactly what happened.

Google Chromebooks accept cryptographically-signed software changes over the Internet, and the hardware tied into this is in the same block as power management, meaning it can't be physically disabled.

So, these examples show that several other companies are using similar methods, more or less, but either prefer to lean on the legal system, care less, or even have their schemes fall to incompetence. The less software present, the fewer options present.

 

[John Titor]

(2) toy wolves for (1) juvenile piece of shit
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> It's real.
> makes joke products sometimes mocking the buyer
> obviously has a toy collection himself
> has the sheer audacity of selling an empty box called "Deadbeat Dad" for $20
How many layers of irony is this?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I wondered how long it took to make this Nintendo consoomer joke