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

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mr.moon1488 said:
Am I just imagining it, or does it look like the funko pops are getting more and more cheaply made?
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You are not imaging it. Even luxury bags are more cheaply made nowadays, compared to before.
Every corporation gets lazy with the quality, when it gets popular. That's why Mercedes still is a status symbol, even though they are shit cars.
Youtubers the moment they go over 1 mill subs? Instantly worse content.
 
Vingle said:
That's why Mercedes still is a status symbol, even though they are shit cars.
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I still find it funny when people buy the cheap Mercedes cars, as in the A-Class and CLA, and cheap luxury cars in general, just because it's a Mercedes, when you can get a fully loaded car from a regular brand, i.e. a Honda Civic, which is not only better, but lower in price too. It's also funny to see the entry level trims of luxury cars lacking in luxury features, i.e. not having leather seats.
 
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Vingle said:
You are not imaging it. Even luxury bags are more cheaply made nowadays, compared to before.
Every corporation gets lazy with the quality, when it gets popular. That's why Mercedes still is a status symbol, even though they are shit cars.
Youtubers the moment they go over 1 mill subs? Instantly worse content.
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You guys seem to be (wo)men of wealth and taste. What are some thing that are actually worth the money these days? Any new up-and-coming companies who still put in the effort?
I know of one or two coffee companies I can think of off the top of my head and that's about it.
 
NoReturn said:
What are some thing that are actually worth the money these days? Any new up-and-coming companies who still put in the effort?
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My Vitamix is pretty good, and I use it every day. Had problems with blenders actually smoking, and I didn't even give them something hard.
Dr. Martens have a Made in England-version, don't buy the Chinese-version. Solovairs is essentially the same shoe, but they were the ones who originally produced Dr. Martens
 
NoReturn said:
You guys seem to be (wo)men of wealth and taste. What are some thing that are actually worth the money these days? Any new up-and-coming companies who still put in the effort?
I know of one or two coffee companies I can think of off the top of my head and that's about it.
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I personally like archival and vintage, fashion. You can find lots of really unique and well made pieces if you look.
 
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus said:
I personally like archival and vintage, fashion. You can find lots of really unique and well made pieces if you look.
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Only looked at vintage Versace silk shirts, because they fucking almost don't make nice shirts anymore. And well, most of them are gorgeous.

I did see a clock they made in like 1995, and it was featured recently in a ad they made. So yea, vintage luxury brand stuff = good, and they will likely raise in worth. If you take good care of it, but yea. Please don't buy it in hopes of some worth in a few years.
 
Vingle said:
Only looked at vintage Versace silk shirts, because they fucking almost don't make nice shirts anymore. And well, most of them are gorgeous.

I did see a clock they made in like 1995, and it was featured recently in a ad they made. So yea, vintage luxury brand stuff = good, and they will likely raise in worth. If you take good care of it, but yea. Please don't buy it in hopes of some worth in a few years.
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I fully agree with you here mate. I’m not a Versace person, but I’ve got some other designers/labels that I like the vision of.
 
Pissmaster said:
Man, there are three different models of the Switch now, and they all suffer the same exact problems with absolutely no sign of any of this shit getting resolved. The consoomers need to quit consooming for two seconds and demand the head of the CEO of thumbsticks by now (in Minecraft™).
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Why would Nintendo fix their shitty product if the Nintendo hoard will just buy it up anyways? It’s unfortunate seeing the downfall of quality within modern day products as a result of CONSOOMERS. Such many cases!
 
qazzzz said:
Why would Nintendo fix their shitty product if the Nintendo hoard will just buy it up anyways? It’s unfortunate seeing the downfall of quality within modern day products as a result of CONSOOMERS. Such many cases!
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The strangest part about this is that the quality of Nintendo products was usually pretty far ahead of their competitors, even when they were lazy. The Wii and WiiU, despite being lacking in some respects when compared to contemporary offerings by Microsoft and Sony, were mechanically very sound machines. There was no Wii RROD or update that bricked the system, and Microsoft and Sony dealt with plenty of those kinds of things.

Even that "2DS" which was just a 3DS with the 3D removed was considered to be a well-made product. One that was worthless and served no purpose, but they all worked as intended.

But now we see Nintendo making consoles with huge hardware faults. Docks that scrape up the glass of the Switch, huge stick drift, fucky gamepad connections. This latest release has been a major mess.
 
Shaka Brah said:
The strangest part about this is that the quality of Nintendo products was usually pretty far ahead of their competitors, even when they were lazy. The Wii and WiiU, despite being lacking in some respects when compared to contemporary offerings by Microsoft and Sony, were mechanically very sound machines. There was no Wii RROD or update that bricked the system, and Microsoft and Sony dealt with plenty of those kinds of things.

Even that "2DS" which was just a 3DS with the 3D removed was considered to be a well-made product. One that was worthless and served no purpose, but they all worked as intended.

But now we see Nintendo making consoles with huge hardware faults. Docks that scrape up the glass of the Switch, huge stick drift, fucky gamepad connections. This latest release has been a major mess.
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Both my old GBA that I've owned for probably close to twenty years, and my DSLite that I've owned for probably fifteen years still work flawlessly. The internal batteries on the GBA cartridges have all died, but the things still work flawlessly.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Both my old GBA that I've owned for probably close to twenty years, and my DSLite that I've owned for probably fifteen years still work flawlessly. The internal batteries on the GBA cartridges have all died, but the things still work flawlessly.
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It makes me wonder if the Nvidia Shield also had hardware issues. The Switch is basically a Shield 3.0, and (I think?) they're made by the same distributor. Cheaping out and having the same random Chinese fab make all of them may be the source of some of these issues.
Vingle said:
This is news to me, I thought GBA cartridges were just small motherboards powered by the GBA itself :thinking:
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Some games come with a coin cell battery to power volatile memory. Sort of like the CMOS battery on a motherboard. If the battery runs out you can't save data onto the cartridge until you replace it.
 
Vingle said:
This is news to me, I thought GBA cartridges were just small motherboards powered by the GBA itself :thinking:
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The cartridge has an internal battery which controls your in game clock, when the battery dies clock based events will no longer occur.

EDIT: I don't think that all GBA carts have this, but Pokemon does.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Both my old GBA that I've owned for probably close to twenty years, and my DSLite that I've owned for probably fifteen years still work flawlessly. The internal batteries on the GBA cartridges have all died, but the things still work flawlessly.
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Original GBA and original DS were kinda below average. The GBA was an invincible brick and I dropped it down a fight of wooden stairs several times as a kid, but the buttons and D-Pad got kind of jammed after thousands of hours and years of use. Original DS had an issue with the hinges that if you dropped it enough and played it enough (thousands of hours) it would detach and break in two. GBA SP and DS Lite fixed this.
Vingle said:
This is news to me, I thought GBA cartridges were just small motherboards powered by the GBA itself :thinking:
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The Gen 3 Pokemon games had this issue where the battery would die and time-based events in-game like berries stopped working.
 
Save the Loli said:
Original GBA and original DS were kinda below average. The GBA was an invincible brick and I dropped it down a fight of wooden stairs several times as a kid, but the buttons and D-Pad got kind of jammed after thousands of hours and years of use. Original DS had an issue with the hinges that if you dropped it enough and played it enough (thousands of hours) it would detach and break in two. GBA SP and DS Lite fixed this.
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DSLite has been rock solid for me ever since I bought it all that time ago, I never really liked the SP because it was too narrow, the original GBA was the perfect width for my fingers to not feel cramped.
 
Nintendo today is like the Simpsons on the 9th season, where they are just crossing that threshold from consistent quality to normalized mediocrity. Their franchises have gotten so huge they don't even have to make well rated games anymore to make trillions thanks to the mere exposure effect and thats probably going to be the trend in coming years, more nintendie theme parks, movies and adult sized mario kart themed beds for depressed manchilds while their games and hardware become increasingly lackluster

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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Nintendo today is like the Simpsons on the 9th season, where they are just crossing that threshold from consistent quality to normalized mediocrity. Their franchises have gotten so huge they don't even have to make well rated games anymore to make trillions thanks to the mere exposure effect and thats probably going to be the trend in coming years, more nintendie theme parks, movies and adult sized mario kart themed beds for depressed manchilds while their games and hardware become increasingly lackluster

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Not even a Nintendo sperg and I can tell you this is patently false, all of their mainline franchises are about as quality as they've ever been. I enjoyed mario odyssey way more than sunshine or galaxy, while I was never super high on BOTW after returning to it recently I have to say its by far one of the best open world games made in the last decade, Pokémon is Pokémon that's never changing, Smash bros was good I'm not a smash autist so I really can't even tell major differences between releases besides roster changes, Mario kart is still enjoyable, need I go on? Seriously I get that Nintendo are fucking retards on the corporate level but that doesn't mean their games are bad. As for the switch I really don't like the portability and wish there was an option to have an upgraded home console version, but nothing is perfect.
 
Vingle said:
Haven't seen anything posted about this, but about Nintendo.
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i was planning on getting a swtich until people on the internet and close friends of mine convince me otherwise (bad joy controllers, looking awful on a big-tv, paying for online service, games never go on discounts etc) so i thought, i wait for a the new version everyone keeps talking about. all it seems to add is a better screen on the switch and a new way to hold the tablet. no hardware improvements whatsoever.

meh, i be sitting this one out.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
i was planning on getting a swtich until people on the internet and close friends of mine convince me otherwise (bad joy controllers, looking awful on a big-tv, paying for online service, games never go on discounts etc) so i thought, i wait for a the new version everyone keeps talking about. all it seems to add is a better screen on the switch and a new way to hold the tablet. no hardware improvements whatsoever.

meh, i be sitting this one out.
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Got a Switch years ago, just to have it. Because le AC Horizon, but yea. It became boring fast and Nintendo has no plans on giving it just as much content as New Leaf, and I'm not planning on ever paying for online. My island is named after Pepe the frog, and I'm only paying for online. If I get to go other farmers and actual nazi islands. I don't bother exposing myself to the libtards playing it.
 
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