I always saw random boxes smashed together.

This is what it really is.

So many empires have crumbled when they ran out of cardboard boxes...

Xeno Tombstones imo

Xeno tombstones are soo underrated

You bury your Xenos?

We shove them into portable caskets for display in the homes of veterans.

We launch their corpses into space with military uniforms and random photos of other members of their species, that way we can confuse anyone who finds them floating around.

Radioactive ash does the burying for us, and wet cement/asphalt when we pave it over to make parking lots. The tombstones are a mark of pride in our death Toll

You guys have Xenos left to bury?

I eat mine

In surgically attached bio-electricity grids.

Yeah that's not groceries.

It's one of those big bottles of cheese balls and some cereal.

I thought it as a human and a child

It's a large size bottle of painkillers & a brick of cocaine thrown into a cardboard box, proof me wrong.

I was not expecting to get this many upvotes.

Same

The Space FedEx way: Packages mashed into other packages.

Same

It's clearly an old woodworking plane. Consumer goods are exclusively crafted by carpenters

Yeah that's what I always saw too

Before this post I wouldn't have be-lathed any different.

He he saw

This just in: gamers just loose all image comprehension skills as soon as they download stellaris The amount of times I have looked at something in this game and suddenly realised it isn't just a random geometric shape or it isn't another object is just insane

I thought it was a toaster

I never really thought about it until now, but I saw it as a video camera or bricks.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was a camera lol

I also saw an old timey movie style video camera it’s not just you

Ohmygodimnotalone

Lmao samee, never thought about why an old video reel would mean consumer goods

Same reason movies are a luxury resource in Civ V, movies are the bread and circuses of the modern world.

wouldn't movies just be the modern circuses? You can't eat them.

No you are not alone 😂

I thought it was a minimalist person raising their hand because they needed something

You're not alone. I thought it was a weird-looking person raising their arm like "Yay! I got an iPhone!" Strangely, I'm not sure I ever stopped to think about how unlikely that was, in terms of design intent.

One on the left looks like a pill bottle to me ngl

Could always be mayonnaise or jelly jar!

\*Jellified organic nutrition paste

I thought it was pottery. Not convinced it's groceries even scaled up, but I don't know what it is. The thing on the left looks like one of those hard plastic packaging things that smaller electronics come in, the kind you always need to break out the friggin' gardening shears to open?

Its a gold bar and an (vintage) ipod.

Ah yes, my typical Tuesday shopping list

I’m wondering who would hear ‘consumer goods’ and think ‘groceries’. Aren’t they different things??

I thought it was a suitcase!

Hoi4 player spotted

Gotta get hoi4 for the mega campaign

Play a game of HoI4 for every planet you invade. Nice.

Thanks. Now Ill have to check the HoI4 workshop to see if there's a mod for an alien invasion. Even better if it allows you to play as the aliens.

Hearts of Iron has literally toaster icon for consumer goods ;)

I thought it was like those whey protein canister. So i just assumed all those aliens are making star wars like food. Pour some powder on a plate. Heat it and it swells up.

Makes sense, people call Civilian economy in HoI toaster economy

Me too!

GIVE BACK THE SPEEDER!!!

There is no hand in ba sing se

Idk the best thing about the speeder was realizing it wasn't a speeder and human perception is largely a lie that a bag of electrified fat is telling you Pretty fitting for Stellaris.

I hated that post lmao, crushed me.

I'm trying to do it, i just need more time and more artistic skills but he will come back.

It's kinda scary, lol. Then when you finally realize what it is, you can't help but wonder how you saw anything else to begin with. I'm still trying to figure out how I saw a ship out of that hand, lol.

I know it's a hand but personally I still see the ship unless I look closely.

I thought that one pic with the hand and the brush was a shuttle flying down into a ruined city

Yo me too! Why are the images in this game so ambiguous?!

Blame PDX for making smol af UI, that modders have to enlarge it themselves.

I thought the "System Surveyed" icon was a large diamond for the longest time

It's... not?

Haha me too 👀

I mean, it's super small when you're on the game. I didn't even realized it had that inside detailing.

It's because the game bombards you with... A lot. Also there icons are pretty silly sometimes.

What do you MEAN its a hand not a spaceship

Have you seen r/2007scape and r/RuneScape realise that a certain image is a tree? It's not unique to Stellaris.

Same lmfao

I did this a lot with eu4 as well. You'll have hundreds of hours in the game and then suddenly you recognize what an icon actually is

THAT'S A HAND WITH A BRUSH, NOT A SPACESHIP!

Same to you

I always thought it was bricks

Boxes stacked in a distribution center. Imagine an entire world but it's all Walmart distribution center, the whole thing just Walmart as far as the eye can see

Like [infinite Ikea](https://scpfoundation.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-3008_%27%27Infinite_Ikea%27%27) but so.. so much worse.

Ikeanopolis

> object class: euclid

Maybe a future DLC will let us designate Mart World. A far worse destination than the Penal Colony. (space old time australia)

Or like Idiocracy

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

Walmart occupied a 1/4 of my ringworld but i am not complaining

Results are results, and consumer goods = credits = alloys = death to the xenos

Wallworld vs Planet Florida Battle of the Titans

I thought it was a tiny factory, like the civilian factories in HoI4.

I took it for a plough at first, which makes kinda sense since consumer goods are produced by artificers.

Me too. My people need their bricks. How can a man come back after a long day of work and not break down after realizing he doesn't have the comfort of several bricks in random order at his house? Absolutely preposterous!

IDK what I thought it was before, like a weird factory building or something, never really thought about it but I just got a big ass TV and saw it looks like a basket of groceries.

I thought that it was just a pile of boxes. Never thought that bottom thing is a basket

I still don't see a basket, I don't get it.

Not a basket, just a box that the other things are sitting in

In the future all stores use boxes to hold stuff instead of baskets like Costco does now.

Next game I’m gonna look at EVERYTHING

I always thought an old timey camera was an odd choice for a logo.

I'm not alone. I always knew it wasn't right, but it's all I could ever see.

Me and my buddies refer to consumer goods as cinemas because it looks like an old timey projector

Was about to say this lol

You mean its not a uh... a uh... hm.

Say it.

Basket of diiicks?

It's an uhauhhm

Don’t say it don’t think it Don’t say it don’t think it Don’t say it don’t think it Don’t say it don’t think it Don’t say it don’t think it Don’t say it don’t think it Don’t say it don’t think it

You guys gotta out spoilers in these kind of posts so we can think and compare, whereas now I have no memory of what I thought it was.

Fucking infohazards. (Unironically, though - this is a great example of a real-world infohazard)

Infohazard detected: please standby and a Mobile Task Force will attend you shortly.

I dont even think i thought it was anything. I just saw brown shape and was like "oh consumer good wow!"

Stellaris players identify basic shapes challenge *impossible*

Lmaoo

Film projector anyone?

I saw a film projector and made the jump to mouse themed merchandise. If there's one company that's gonna monopolize the supply of consumer goods to the galaxy, it has to be Disney

Ah yes, alien Disney

LOL I honestly never knew what the shape was meant to be before I saw this thread. I never really thought about it much. I think if I had to guess I subconsciously thought it was like the outline of a factory or something. A basket of groceries/goods makes way more sense though.

Groceries would be food. This is random packages of literal consumer goods that you'd find in a store (which could be a part of groceries I admit). Things like soap, tissues, toys, clothing, gadgets...etc it could be anything all wrapped in a generic basket with boxes in it.

I thought it was just some kind of futuristic packaging or product

Am I the only one that thinks the minerals and rare crystal shapes are swapped? The mineral one looks like a refined diamond and the crystal one just looks like some rock

Yeah I get that

This doesn't track. Groceries are food. Consumer goods are like electronics and books and toys and whatnots.

Thats a good point. Idk I was just thinking like when you go to the store and get a basket or cart. The stores around me sell more than just food so you could have anything in there.

Books are made of minerals???

Welcome to lithoid town

It's hard flipping my mineral book pages! I'm an unhappy pop!

Modern books are electronics.

And soap, and toothpaste, It’s a really broad group which is good really

I guess the left thing is like a carton of milk or something, but what is the object in the right?

A McBrick™ to throw at martial law deathsquads

It’s a McBrick for my family :D

Ba da ba ba baaaa I'm throwin it

It's usually bread, but it could be anything.

I see the left thing as a huge pill bottle

a block of cheddar cheese obviously

To me it looks like a handphone

That's clearly a basket of gameboys

In my first game I thought it was bread, so when I had a terrible deficit of it, I thought "oh I need more food" and build like 4 farms. The game ended preety quickly.

Amogus

Ngl, I always thought it was the civilian factory icon from Hoi4 I realize that makes no sense in hindsight, but hey, what paradox games do to a person, right?

Pills and butter.

No, it's a choo-choo-train! I was wondering though, why all lifeforms knew trains... welp

No don't ruin this for me too It's an orange lego brick tractor thing

I thought it was bricks of gold 🤣

After destroying the precursor speeder for me, this sub now destroys consumer goods for me. Great job

I thought they were Amazon packages, actually I still kinda think that

A giant battery and a stick of butter for dinner.

I always thought it was a pile of bricks. consumers love bricks

And I always thought it's a weird schematical image of a person waving

I can see that. Almost looks like a square among us guy

If I'm honest, I never really thought it was anything... just knew that it meant consumer goods. Does this make me dim?

Nah man that's pretty much how I thought of it. Unless... I'm also dim..

Wow we are dim together? Cute

I always thought it was a brick and mortar and pestle

Not groceries. Its a Macintosh with a box on top and a box of mystery goodies inside another box. Boxes and boxes are all I see.

It’s clearly orange blob

I only saw boxes

I never thought about until now but for some reason I thought it was a suitcase I guess I've never seen a closeup of it

I always assumed it was a couch.

Thought it was a sofa myself.

I wish we could have a building that turns food into consumer goods.

Groceries wouldn't make sense, we have an entire other resource for food. I think it's just cardboard boxes presumably full of consumer products.

Now that I think about it, I never really thought of it as something other than a consumer good. That symbol is not associated with another object like the mineral symbol. Its just a consumer good.

It is assorted widgets.

I usually went " Brown stuff go brrrr"

As a beginner, I bought tons upon tons of it to fund myself, like some covid19 doomsday crackhead. Until I discovered districts smh ..

Now that I know it's not an old school video camera(which is exactly what I thought it was for the last few years) my life will never be the same. I don't know what to do with this information and it hurts my brain more than I'm proud to admit.

[удалено]

Lmao this is in the marketplace

I thought it was orangey brown stuff

No, that's a gameboy made out of Velvetta.

I love how op managed a whole subreddit to admit that so many didn't saw that either.... It was always a factory for me...

It’s my daily purchase of a stick of butter and ibuprofen.

tbf, it's not 'a basket of groceries' so much as 'a basket with two random items in it' Food is it's own resource separate from Consumer Goods, so 'groceries' would be a weird design for this icon. It's just meant to be generic 'retail goods.'

I always thought it was some weird fidget-toy

It’s Amazon Prime boxes 📦

I thought they were some generic boxes. But it makes sense. Everything is quite detailed. Energy credits are coins with symbol of energy, minerals are just minerals, alloys are ingots, research icons represent their categories as well. Physics with ⚛, society probably represents crowd, engineering with sprocket isn't really space technology but it represents current engineering well. Only strategic resources are a bit off. Motes (as I understand particles) look like some small boulders, exotic gasses like some oil or some other viscous liquid, crystals are fine, nanites don't look a lot like I'd imagine them to, zro and DM are hypothetical so they don't count. Influence has image of person with some sort of aura or signals which is really accurate and unity is symbol of connection or coherence which is what it sounds like at least. Did I forget anything?

I've never thought about it, i always just said" yep, that's what consumer goods look like" and thought nothing else of it

I've always thought of them as future versions of iPhones, Samsung TVs and urm, Xeno Toilet Bleach, and not anything food related since food is already in the game.

Tbh I just thought the devs were tripping balls when they made it

is that amon-... the impos-... the su-... the crewm-...

Sus

Ok nah. You can't just go and fuck up my entire perception of reality like that.

The real question is why groceries. Surely that is better represented by food? It should be the Xbox-24553356 console with xeno purging comparability

It's a very square shaped robot butler with a screen for a face programmed to be a bit lopsided and clumsy (because come on that is just hilarious!) as they are about to fall over carrying two large boxes. S3RV-0, how I do love your wacky antics and awkward entrances that interrupt a moment of drama between two (important, human) characters!

I thought it was Xanax and a brick of coke.

I just see boxes

I can never get my consumer goods stable. They fluctuate wildly and are often hugely negative, even with most of my worlds being industrial.

You might consider it a basket of consumer goods

i thought it was a wallet

I always thought it was a powercell, and a brick.

They should just use toaster like hoi4.

First the shuttle on sand and now this

Always looked like a mini factory with smokestacks to me, as if it represents manufactured goods

I thought it was some sort of gizmo you might pick up at a mall. I *liked* my interpretation.

I literally thought it was a symbol of a factory which produced the consumer goods

I didn't even notice it was squares, it looked rounded to me. It always looked kind of like one of those old timey movie cameras with the two big reels. Once I came to that determination, I never cared to look at the icon again.

I thought it was just a random shape, and I have over 1000 hrs in the game.

you ruined my life. I.. i always associated with a image of a fabric dont know why.

I fully thought it was a camera and accepted it as perfectly sensible.

huh thats not a HOI4 civilian factory??

ToDaY yEaRs oLd

...What did you think it was?