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

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Noble Redditor said:
The virgin sleeping on the ground because it's comfortable and good for your back VS the Chad sleeping on the ground because some weird slut might let you hit.

Either way floormaxers stay winning.
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We out here Abomaxxing by sleeping on the dirt roads of the Australian outback.
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
I honestly don't think it's inherently bad if children/tweens take an interest in hygiene and skincare products rather than, say, tanning beds and drag makeup. It probably is good for tweens who are in the sun all day playing sports or whatever to wear a face lotion with SPF. The majority of sun damage, which can lead to skin cancer, comes from our childhood years. Acne can also cause lifelong scaring and self-image issues in tweens, so I don't see anything wrong with anti-acne products aimed towards them.

But fancy serums... retinol creams....? Just a waste of money, with a small chance of skin damage if some 10 year old overdoes it with something strong.
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Yea, it's the "fancy" stuff that's going to be prioritised, I assume kids don't understand the purpose of "boring" sunscreen + sunscreens aren't really cosmetically elegant in the west and those meant for the face are in very small packaging and you need at least 1 teaspoon worth for your face alone. So to be using sunscreen regularly, you have to be dedicated.

Add that with the potential damage of overusing acids, like glycolic acid. The potential for damage is immense. The retinol won't do shit btw, over the counter retinols are way way too weak to do anything drastic. Differin don't require an prescription in Murica at least, it's on prescription most places. So it isn't useless. But I don't have experience with it.
That alone won't make skin sensitive for the sun, it's a myth based on the process called retinization, where your skin adapts to it. As the skin tends to peel and feel a bit sensitive then.

But overall, sun sensitivity from a retinoid does not make sense. As retinoids speeds up the renewal of skin cells. There's really no point in using retinoids, if you don't protect your skin. As going raw into the sun will make the damage happen faster than it can be repaired.



Don't really know if this fits the thread, as it runs deeper than consoom feels.
 
Not sure where to put this but this is the only thread I can think off

It's got everything a good consoomer would want
>racial ambitious
>not eating healthy
>shouting brands
I hate this gay earth
 
Johnny Salami said:
Not sure where to put this but this is the only thread I can think off
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It's got everything a good consoomer would want
>racial ambitious
>not eating healthy
>shouting brands
I hate this gay earth
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Ah, cereal dinner. Code for "I'm too tired to make something good".
Then I got reminded of a shock(?*) video I saw where two high niggers are eating cereal on the roof and one of them disappeared and probably fell off.

*It's not graphic and it's never revealed what happened to the other guy)
 
Johnny Salami said:
Not sure where to put this but this is the only thread I can think off
SSvuojqjlNP_AcaW.mp4
It's got everything a good consoomer would want
>racial ambitious
>not eating healthy
>shouting brands
I hate this gay earth
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Kellog's came under fire when the CEO told poor people to eat their cereal for dinner. I thought this video started that but it seems it was uploaded a year earlier. Amusingly this caused a trend of people learning how to make their own cereal on the cheap.
 
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I Know 孤独のせい said:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-we-realistically-make-rebirth-more-of-a-success.843993/

Unfortunately, I don't believe this is a troll. You have also seen this kind of behavior when people defend Nintendo against piracy. Completely brainwashed, must defend a corporation, otherwise my life has no meaning.
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Like Twitter trending, buying it again once it is discounted, double dipping once it is on pc... This game deserves to be lighting thr charts on fire. It's a dream, everything one could want in a modern FF but it's sinking like a rock... We collectively begged for this... For 15+ years and then shrugged our shoulders. Shit is so weird to me.
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I can understand wanting a game you like to succeed but it's not a life or death situation. Seriously, "a dream"? Get a fucking grip. At least a few people in that thread have enough self awareness.
 
I ain't gonna search this thread high and low to see if anyone cared to ask what I am about to. Let's cut to the chase-what is the one thing you cannot buy?
Simple as shit, it is time.
Now little ol' me, I've lurked this thread for awhile and while I appreciate the hoards of collections you all seem to find, allow me to shake things up a bit.
I found this rather entertaining, a collection-a shrine to a life lived digitally.
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"Keeping my two sons alive"-very eloquent
Let us see how this little Collector has spent her Time on her Collection, shall we?
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You see it now-that digital shrine? A monument to time spent, and for what? To post about the Sims as if it were a Facebook page for old mom and dad to see? What a collection indeed, the consumption of a lifetime of achievements, digitally done over the span of a year...
 
Higgs said:
I ain't gonna search this thread high and low to see if anyone cared to ask what I am about to. Let's cut to the chase-what is the one thing you cannot buy?
Simple as shit, it is time.
Now little ol' me, I've lurked this thread for awhile and while I appreciate the hoards of collections you all seem to find, allow me to shake things up a bit.
I found this rather entertaining, a collection-a shrine to a life lived digitally.
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"Keeping my two sons alive"-very eloquent
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You see it now-that digital shrine? A monument to time spent, and for what? To post about the Sims as if it were a Facebook page for old mom and dad to see? What a collection indeed, the consumption of a lifetime of achievements, digitally done over the span of a year...
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Isn't that shit done automatically by the game, though?

I was into a particular game for a while, and it had an option for your results to be posted on social media. That's how multiple friends and family ended up knowing all about my repeated campaigns to exterminate humanity.
 
glass_houses said:
Isn't that shit done automatically by the game, though?

I was into a particular game for a while, and it had an option for your results to be posted on social media. That's how multiple friends and family ended up knowing all about my repeated campaigns to exterminate humanity.
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Sounds like Plague, Inc.
 
Rich Evans Simp said:
We did this kind of annoying teen girl shit 30 years ago. The difference is that staff used to have real authority. I cannot imagine a mall retail store employee kicking out a group of tweens/teens/young adults for making a ruckus in 2024. My friends and I would hurry to finish our drinks while walking around the mall before entering a store, because we knew we could and would be asked to leave. And our doting parents would absolutely have backed them up on that.
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i think kids also used to have a bit more shame in the past than they do now, because going to the store to play around with stuff was seen as something kinda naughty that you're not supposed to do, not #goals that are being encouraged by their social media

honestly, i think that's generally one of the many reasons why kids now are suffering so much more from things that they always did. you'll hear this all the time- kids aaaaalways watched adult movies and played adult games and looked at their older brother's porn collection, they always misbehaved, they always acted out in public or were a nuisance to people... but it was also never acceptable, it was never pushed onto them, and so they internally knew this wasn't ok and did it subtly, and much less as a result, they hid it, they didn't let it overtake them. they were ashamed. it wasn't... a god, forgive me for uttering such a lame term... "normalized"
 
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A new species of ant was found. What should we name them? Voldermort because Harry Potter.

Cuntspiracy Man said:
i think kids also used to have a bit more shame in the past than they do now, because going to the store to play around with stuff was seen as something kinda naughty that you're not supposed to do, not #goals that are being encouraged by their social media
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I don't think it's shame so much as barriers. In the real world, there was always a degree of what kids these days would call "fuck around and find out". Be it a kid that was bigger than you, or a grown up who would give you a clip around the ear. That doesn't really exist any more.

Back in the early days of camera phones there was a trend called "happy slapping" where chavs would run up behind people and hit them on the back of the head. But there was always a percentage of videos where they do it to some pro fighter or a plain clothes cop and "find out", usually with a broken arm, a broken nose, or an assault charge. Recently was a clip I saw of a kid taking food from other people's plates. No one did anything, and when one person does leave their seat and raise their voice, there's obviously some handlers/body guards/muscle stepping in to protect the kid, but the clip ends at that point. There are various prank influencers that go to far, but their victim gets hit with a jail sentence.

Toolbox said:
An obvious one I came across recently is Japanese cars older than 25 years (read up on U.S. import law, foreign vehicles can only be brought in if they're older than 25 years since the 80s'). Any half interesting car that's in their domestic market is getting exported by people who will hoard RHD vehicles as a status symbol
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Maybe I'm the problem.

Joking aside, I think a lot of it is simple pragmatism. Cars made after 2008 or so are almost completely worthless. Can't be repaired without taking it to the dealer, computer gadgets that are basically locked down and unsupported, while newer cars have remote killswitches and tracking devices.

Power level, an in-law has a van. One day, the battery died, I don't know why. They changed the battery and nothing happened. A string of phone calls later, and they had to pay £250 for a man from the dealer to come around and reset the computer.
 
Higgs said:
You see it now-that digital shrine? A monument to time spent, and for what? To post about the Sims as if it were a Facebook page for old mom and dad to see? What a collection indeed, the consumption of a lifetime of achievements, digitally done over the span of a year...
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I wish this chick was the exception rather than the rule. I follow quite a lot of Sims creators on tumblr and x for cc and mods, and it's disheartening to see so much time and energy put into documenting 100 years of your Sims legacy in meticulous detail.

Sims 4 consoomerism is particularly disturbing. The game must be at or near 70 DLC, and for every one, there's a large contingent of players who say, "I have no interest in the theme of the upcoming DLC. I'll be buying it, but I don't see myself playing with it much." God forbid you not have all the couches, I suppose.
 
Judge Dredd said:
I don't think it's shame so much as barriers. In the real world, there was always a degree of what kids these days would call "fuck around and find out". Be it a kid that was bigger than you, or a grown up who would give you a clip around the ear. That doesn't really exist any more.

Back in the early days of camera phones there was a trend called "happy slapping" where chavs would run up behind people and hit them on the back of the head. But there was always a percentage of videos where they do it to some pro fighter or a plain clothes cop and "find out", usually with a broken arm, a broken nose, or an assault charge. Recently was a clip I saw of a kid taking food from other people's plates. No one did anything, and when one person does leave their seat and raise their voice, there's obviously some handlers/body guards/muscle stepping in to protect the kid, but the clip ends at that point. There are various prank influencers that go to far, but their victim gets hit with a jail sentence.
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there was a time when it was socially acceptable, expected even, for strangers to discipline strangers kids
kids would grow up in the outside world, and any ol random grandma who didn't know em could catch em misbehaving and tell them off

Donut Coma said:
I wish this chick was the exception rather than the rule. I follow quite a lot of Sims creators on tumblr and x for cc and mods, and it's disheartening to see so much time and energy put into documenting 100 years of your Sims legacy in meticulous detail.

Sims 4 consoomerism is particularly disturbing. The game must be at or near 70 DLC, and for every one, there's a large contingent of players who say, "I have no interest in the theme of the upcoming DLC. I'll be buying it, but I don't see myself playing with it much." God forbid you not have all the couches, I suppose.
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the sims is one of the easiest games to pirate, there's absolutely nothing stopping you from doing it, it's infinitely moddable, and there's no real online functions except the gallery, which, who gives a shit?
and i have to admit also not very playable if you don't have every DLC as those aren't additions to a completed game, but rather missing puzzle pieces sold separately, so i can see the incentive to need to own everything- though that's just more of a reason to pirate, not buy
it's also, maybe just for me at least, a game you kinda get sick of quick, and that's largely the reason i haven't updated it in ages, that and the fact that every new update is just them adding more pride flags or whatever and i don't give two shits about that
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
there's no real online functions except the gallery, which, who gives a shit?
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There are some really good lots on there. Idk if it still works because it's been years since I played, but I used script monkey to download gallery files from the gallary website and just toss them into game folder.

Also there are full sized stuff packs made by fans that are even better than than the EA one that you can get for free. Speaking of which, the mod scene for the Sims 4 used to be so bad with paywalled content that EA had to crack down. Which is worse, EA simps paying for DLC or mod consoomers that were paying the same amount to random modders?
 
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