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Annabel Pee
Dec 29, 2008
only flap that guy will see

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Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Microwaves Mom posted:

Thats poo poo you literally would have to pay to have thrown out in bulk. Its genius.

Can we get a politicrate that Jeb! can unload his quac bowls to?

I'd unironically buy this

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I'm pretty sure Karl Marx warned us of this

A great idea is the ideology box. For example you order the Trump box and every month the hottest Trump merch is delivered to your door!

Problem is the Jeb! box can only offer guac bowls.

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!
I have constructed my identity around the media I consume and I need the appropriate kitsch, that's why twenty dollars a month for throwaway nostalgic crap is the perfect use of my money.

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008
The only unboxing videos I can tolerate are Ashens' because he's not a mouth breathing idiot who gets an erection from soap on a rope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUKJwXMiHY

Dr. Lariat
Jul 1, 2004

by Lowtax
The fad is hilarious, nothing says a society gone too soft than people going "I'm too lazy to go buy lovely trinkets from Spencer's gifts and think geek I need someone to send me a box of useless bullshit every month"

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
Just thought I'd pop by to let you know that Ashens is actually a stupid piece of poo poo.

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
Someone tell me the goon "mystery box" story again it makes me smile everybody time.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Every time this topic comes up I will complain about these loving things. Hate them.

AutomaticPrince
Jun 14, 2013
That guy's hand movements are enraging. I hope he gets caught stealing from a market in Saudi Arabia.

Novo
May 13, 2003

Stercorem pro cerebro habes
Soiled Meat
gamers are apparently like those urban poors, spending all their money on bullshit (rims and sports attire vs bobbleheads and loot crates) that signals their group identity without a shred of self-awareness, irony, or shame

cool

Marketing New Brain
Apr 26, 2008
Imagine explaining to anyone over 35 that you job is taking videos of yourself opening up boxes and uploading them to Youtube. Then they slowly ask if what you do is some kind of fetish work, so they can at least wrap their mind around it, and the answer is somehow 'no'.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Blockade posted:

there needs to be a distinction drawn between the kid of games that appeal to people that buy these things and the old man video games i like.

Nobody makes 'loot crates' for people that play hearts of iron or orbiter or whatever

Say it with me: "they're not games, theyre simulations"

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Archer666 posted:

The only unboxing videos I can tolerate are Ashens' because he's not a mouth breathing idiot who gets an erection from soap on a rope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUKJwXMiHY

this guy GETS it

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Dreddout posted:

A great idea is the ideology box. For example you order the Trump box and every month the hottest Trump merch is delivered to your door!

Problem is the Jeb! box can only offer guac bowls.

I still want that guac bowl and am sad that they were probably sent to whereever they send the losingg teams superbowl merch instead of being sold off for cheap

Harrower
Nov 30, 2002
Would anyone like to fund my kick starter program similar to this? Instead of a bunch of worthless garbage I just mail a small caliber pistol with a single round of ammunition.

ArtIsResistance
May 19, 2007

QUEEN OF FRANCE, SAVIOR OF LOWTAX

reallivedinosaur posted:

Someone tell me the goon "mystery box" story again it makes me smile everybody time.

goon started a mystery box service on SA mart. Some goons posted how awesome this was and gave him their money. Other goons said it was a scam and that they'd be getting a bunch of plastic garbage. They were shut down as trolls and I'm sure one of them was probated at least. Boxes finally come in, they're filled with useless poo poo like plastic vampire teeth and bizzarely a bunch of LED light up t-shirts. Goons get creepy and look up all his info and found that OP had an LED t-shirt company that failed so he probably just stuffed his leftover stock into the boxes. Goons get more creepy and thread is shut down because of internet detective poo poo

AdolfHitler
Mar 21, 2009
the exchange of goods and services for currency is absolutely loving retarded.

ArtIsResistance
May 19, 2007

QUEEN OF FRANCE, SAVIOR OF LOWTAX
oh yeah and the grand prize in his mystery box was supposedly a boat. Like, a full-sized real life boat

Ben Murphy
Sep 9, 2001

I like him in spite of the fact that he's not me.

Novo posted:

gamers are apparently like those urban poors, spending all their money on bullshit (rims and sports attire vs bobbleheads and loot crates) that signals their group identity without a shred of self-awareness, irony, or shame

cool

this is why SA-Mart is one of those hidden gem forums to check into once in a while

tons of mega-gamer threads selling off thousands of dollars for worth games, console, etc all because the person can't make rent this month, hilarious

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

a friend of the friendly atom

Soiled Meat
that reminds me, does anyone have a link to the YCS secret santa thread wherre some goon got a dreamcast or a gamecube or whatever and it was filled with bugs

like, deliberately fillled with hundreds of cockroach corpses

thats the funniest thing to happen on these forums in the last like 4 years except caro coming back from the dead

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
I actually tried one of the naturebox things for a few months and restricted my snacks to just what I received in said box.

They were terrible and I cancelled after like three months. On the good side, my cat really really loves the box design for some reason so now he just sits in those boxes at different points in the house. Money well spent for 3 quality cat boxes.

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





It's fuckin' genius tbh. Sell $5 worth of crap from China to nerds with too much money for quadruple the price!

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD

ArtIsResistance posted:

goon started a mystery box service on SA mart. Some goons posted how awesome this was and gave him their money. Other goons said it was a scam and that they'd be getting a bunch of plastic garbage. They were shut down as trolls and I'm sure one of them was probated at least. Boxes finally come in, they're filled with useless poo poo like plastic vampire teeth and bizzarely a bunch of LED light up t-shirts. Goons get creepy and look up all his info and found that OP had an LED t-shirt company that failed so he probably just stuffed his leftover stock into the boxes. Goons get more creepy and thread is shut down because of internet detective poo poo

tell the part where a FYADer went in there and pretended that his mystery box had the title to a boat and the thread lost its poo poo

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

I feel like we just had this thread. Deja vu? Maybe try to make it funny this time.

Someone's paying to post these

One of the lessons of onion labs is that making fun of something still inexplicably gets people to buy it

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7TcdabUiE

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


Imp zone has some really funny unboxing videos.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

doubtful

Hrist
Feb 21, 2011


Lipstick Apathy
The one time I ever watched one of these Kevin Smith and some almost equally fat manchild sat there and tried to hype up how "you can't get this batman shirt anywhere else! Buy it now before the 29th to get this specific shirt and maybe a bobble head!" As if you can't just go to any local store and print the same shirt for $5.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
So, could I go up the local auction and load up with tables of stuff for a dollar, then turn around and sell boxes of " Flea Market Finds" for 20?

Dr. Lariat
Jul 1, 2004

by Lowtax
probably. Wouldnt hurt to throw a few sponsored facebook posts out, seems to be where I see most of this random crap being shilled. And podcast ads.

green chicken feet
Nov 5, 2015

spray-paint the vegetables
dog food stalls
with the beefcake pantyhose
Grimey Drawer

ghetto wormhole posted:

I tried Naturebox for a few months and the last one I got before cancelling was filled with ants. I got home late, got the mail, went in my room and sat down on my bed to open it and ANTS EVERYWHERE.

naturebox - now with 200% more nature

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

green chicken feet posted:

naturebox - now with 200% more nature

Lol

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
What's the appeal of buying a box that may have some things you want rather than just buying the things you know you want directly

jscolon2.0
Jul 9, 2001

With great payroll, comes great disappointment.
The Marvel one gives you stuff that's not otherwise for sale, so that I guess.

4outof5
Nov 10, 2003

Leader of the ULT Right.
Grabbing pussy since April 2, 1994
My box comes with a hatchet to murder people zombies with

https://www.battlbox.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBX9hiIbn3g

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

AdolfHitler posted:

the exchange of goods and services for currency is absolutely loving retarded.

This, but unironically.

Rasta_Al
Jul 14, 2001

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
Fun Shoe

Shaquin posted:

ya tho gamer cairns are where its at idk how they do it but every month on the full moon i awake to a fifteen foot cairn chock full of gamin' swag and several skulls


I been gigglin' at this for about 5 minutes.

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Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
ahaha Jesus Christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTs-ufPRFYA

"oh dear my car is broken down BETTER GO HUNT RABBITS IN THE WOODS FOR FOOD"

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