Are there other hobbyists that literally go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot every chance they get? It’s legit baffling.
If whatever crypto people have been for the last few years count as consumers, I nominate them.
the continued existence of pre-ordering for digital games is a very stark example of just how mindless and stupid gamers are
Gamers have the same mentality as anti vegans. I remember when I told my coworkers I went veg one said “I’m going to eat twice as much meat to make up for you” and I just said “cool bro you’re going to die really early”
Same thing as when I said I wasn’t going to buy wizard game “dw I bought a copy for a friend just to spite you” like okay dawg stay winnin I guess
The worst toxic fandoms are all about spite purchasing.
Star Citizen is loaded with big spenders that announce they will buy more thousand-plus dollar spaceship jpegs to trigger the critics. :cryptocurrency: :dumpster-fire:
Imagine a world where Steve Bannon was beheaded at the age of like 13 or something, video games would probably not be a bigoted bootlicking money siphon.
The average gamer is 35, there’s about a 50/50 chance they’re a woman, and they’re probably playing fairly casual games on their smartphone.
That’s just someone who plays games. Gamer has almost become a more specific identity based around consuming. I’m not calling my grandpa playing solitaire a gamer.
I’m going to eat twice as much meat to make up for you
That’s just a misquoted maddox joke from like 2004. Sounds like a cool person :yikes:
LOL Maddox.
His piece on how adventure games committed suicide is a legit internet hall of fame classic. I remember reading the lady’s bio who wrote the puzzle he ridiculed and she wrote her entire Wikipedia bio as a lawyerly defense against that 20 year old column.
Nintendo went to court in Europe to prevent people from cancelling digital preorders and :freeze-gamer:s will still lick their boots
One of those things that was “fine” in principle, back when the idea of a finished game as actualy a serious concept and not just a scam.
Capitalists broke one of their own legitimate good ways to ensure smooth launches and smoother capital flow because they are both stupid and too greedy.
Honestly, they’re just the most stupid you hear about most often online. But normie consumers are just as bad if not worse. Pissing away money into ridiculous beauty products that are desperately trying to stop you from looking human, worse because it props up toxic beauty standards in society, and there’s literally hundreds of them. Same with people who think they’re above others for buying designer brands or brands in general. Walking around being a free billboard for your favourite companies, and you spent $300 on it? How cool! Then there’s people who neeeeeeeeeeed the newest iPhone so badly that it makes me lose respect for them in real time.
Sneakerheads
100% sneakerheads.
Audiophiles.
Analog audiophiles are literally just the same kind of people who judge the taste of wine by the price tag.
“I can hear the difference!” They keep saying despite falling for a dozen different “analog only” vinyl companies that use digital somewhere cause its literally just objectively more efficient and indistinguishable.
They recently sued one of these companies who invented a process that makes less vinyls for more money, but has less in-between steps between master and finished vinyl. Then it turned out they actually made a digital recording of the master tapes because otherwise they were gonna start harming them due to fucking with them all the time.
But no, this ruined their value, both due to using digital and cause it meant that the supply wasn’t going to be limited by the tapes disintegrating eventually.
