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

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Toolbox said:
It's not just games, anything uniquely Japanese right now is getting essentially stolen from the actual Japanese, by the Japs that can make good $$ doing so. 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, and it's only going to get worse. Something even worse, though not quite 'consoomer', just more malicious in general, is cheap Japanese land getting eaten up by retards from the west, which can probably at least partially be blamed on big names like Pewdiepie moving over there, though not entirely. The Japanese countryside was mostly fled from by people leaving for the cities, thus those areas are nearly abandoned and very cheap now. Not for long, and I'll bet this leads to a decimation of their remaining nature if their govt does nothing, which I fear it will seeing their population catastrophe.
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The JDM RHD market has like doubled in price the past year or two. A Prado that was going for 15k is now almost 30k. I just want a damn Hilux so I can do my Taliban larp in peace and afford to do so. Thanks Obama Trump Biden.
 
John Titor said:
Amusingly this caused a trend of people learning how to make their own cereal on the cheap.
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It is a grim sign for consumer-driven economies that people are reverting to making their food and other consumables, simply because it is cheaper.
I think it's a good thing. Consumer-driven economies are all bloated and I have to suffer the eyesore of Disney Adults.
Let all that nonsense implode on itself, please.

I'm making my pickles, relish, and strawberry jam this year because it's cheaper than buying off the shelf. The relish is not only delicious, but it keeps for up to 3 years without refrigeration and without preservatives that I can't pronounce.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
So now we have Happy Meals for rated R shows. I love #Adulting #takeallmymoney

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lol at the Grubhub collab. Out of all the delivery services apps (well, they all suck tbh unless you can reliably get a coupon that makes your food cost the same as picking it up in person) they just had to pick the absolute worst one and that's saying a whole lot. Grubhub is like the Chris Chan of delivery apps, and I'm not talking classic Chris either.

The app runs slow on a fully updated and 'new' flagship phone, bad UI, shitty deals and coupons, and to top it all off its only known for that fucking horrible piece of Corporate Memphis 'art' that was the Grubhub commercial from a few years ago. Now of course a forgotten meme.

But then again nothing suits this collab more than the shitty Toddslop TV show.

Now you can physically consume Toddslop rather than playing or watching it!
 
Uncle Tom's Condo said:
The JDM RHD market has like doubled in price the past year or two. A Prado that was going for 15k is now almost 30k. I just want a damn Hilux so I can do my Taliban larp in peace and afford to do so. Thanks Obama Trump Biden.
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The new Land Cruiser just came out. Might as well spend an extra 20k and get that since its starting price is actually reasonable for once. That is once the first model year is over and dealers stop marking them up.
 
FILTH Tourist said:
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.
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nowadays you don't even have to do stuff like this, just download free base game on ea app, pirate DLCs, then activate them with "ea unlocker". Every online function works.
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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It's still bad. From what I saw, most modders don't actually care about this EA policy to not paywall stuff. Some just put it on "early release", some paywall it infinitely.
I'd say EA simps are definitely the worst, because the DLCs are so cheaply made it's laughable. Can't imagine spending any money on this. Paying modders is just weird, there are tons of good cc available for free already, and I can't believe someone is so much invested into this bland game they really need THAT one furniture set and THAT one pink dress.
This game is literally peak consumerism to me. There's no gameplay, instead people spend hours and hours downloading 1 terabyte of cc, making ideal sims with 4 different outfits for every category, building houses, cities, taking screenshots with reshade and hq mod... just to play for 10 minutes and get bored.
 
I’ve noticed people ‘getting into streaming’ and buying typical streaming equipment like mics, DSLRs, lighting, etc. for their desks and then not doing any streaming.
 
George Lucas said:
I’ve noticed people ‘getting into streaming’ and buying typical streaming equipment like mics, DSLRs, lighting, etc. for their desks and then not doing any streaming.
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That's normal for any hobby that suddenly gets popular, like the time a bunch of japs suddenly "got into camping" or "got into music" because of some anime and spent shitloads on high grade equipment to use once and get rid of. (God I hope japs didn't "get into adoption" because of SpyXFamily)

I find it weird though, because nothing but expensive high end stuff is a poser red flag regardless of hobby. From my experience, a mark of a true enthusiast is that they have a few expensive stuff that is specialized and actually needed, and everything else is "good enough" and reasonable for their budget.
 
George Lucas said:
I’ve noticed people ‘getting into streaming’ and buying typical streaming equipment like mics, DSLRs, lighting, etc. for their desks and then not doing any streaming.
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Its almost better they don't rather than waste months streaming to no one and loose the time on top of the money.

There were some twitch stats floating around and its brutal. Like 95% of streamers have less than 5 viewers. And 99% less than 10 or something like that. Thats really terrible ROI.
 
George Lucas said:
I’ve noticed people ‘getting into streaming’ and buying typical streaming equipment like mics, DSLRs, lighting, etc. for their desks and then not doing any streaming.
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I don't know if I would call this consoomer at least in the way this thread is describing, it seems to be more of a "good gear makes a better product" fallacy. It's funny you mention this because a lot of popular streamers started out with whatever shitty equipment they have.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
So now we have Happy Meals for rated R shows. I love #Adulting #takeallmymoney

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Mmmmmmm... I love gambling with my food wondering if it's going to be the "Good Denny's" or the "Bad Denny's". I'm thinking this time it'll be the "Red Robbin" with the barely above a D food grade.
 
John Titor said:
I don't know if I would call this consoomer at least in the way this thread is describing, it seems to be more of a "good gear makes a better product" fallacy. It's funny you mention this because a lot of popular streamers started out with whatever shitty equipment they have.
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I think "buying the gear without putting the hours in and then letting it collect dust when a shiny new interest hoves into view" is definitely a subset of consoomer.
 
retard strength II said:
Yeah but that was still for kids.
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They kind of were. They were R-rated but we didn’t care about violence as much back then. The violence panic didn’t really start until Mortal Kombat because I guess video games were more interactive. Then Columbine happened and everyone talked about Doom (the graphics were laughably cartoonish by then).

But now we have a different moral panic and that’s Traditional Western Values like straight marriage and going to church, but I digress.
 
The Lawgiver said:
The sales expectations was a"theory" parroted as fact by "lego influencers" but those things were sold out everywhere by me and anyone else I knew constantly, as well as scalped like hell online. I remember hearing talks it might've been Disney tightening the vice they had on Lego to keep the star wars/marvel licenses since they started putting out star wars sets with the same building system and a higher price than the Bionicle g2 sets. I'm betting it's probably the latter because the star wars ones shelf warmed and the Rogue One Jyn Erso sets are still rotting in some discount stores 7 or 8 years later after the cancellation of Bionicle. They aren't making the star wars ones anymore, But they have Marvel ones now the last few years that are like a weird mix of system and Technic/Bionicle parts.
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Oh, great. Like I needed another reason to hate Disney.

You had your fucking chance with Galidor.
 
George Lucas said:
But now we have a different moral panic and that’s Traditional Western Values like straight marriage and going to church, but I digress.
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It's almost mind-bending to see the same kind of moral panic you hated in your own adolescence turning into the absolute opposite and yet it still sucks in exactly the same way.
 
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