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KiteAuraan posted:Hot Topic is 90% nerdy blind box tat and Funko Pops these days. i have no idea what the gently caress this sentence says
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kumba posted:i have no idea what the gently caress this sentence says It's ok, I'm now an old as I don't understand rap music anymore 
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Aug 29, 2017 16:04
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kumba posted:I remember Babbage's, they were all over the place around here. We had a mall that had both a Babbage's and an EB that both turned into Gamestop a few months apart Same thing happened at one of my local malls, made better by the fact that the two stores were literally on top of each other, Babbages on the first floor, EB on top of them on the second.
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Aug 29, 2017 16:57
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EB Games/Gamestop isn't going anywhere soon. They get pretty advanced knowledge of where the market is going from Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony and would probably have enough time to pivot if there was a an all-digital generation of video games. I don't know how it is in the states, but in Canada they didn't over-saturate with stores either so they are in a not-awful position.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:00
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It's possible they turn to become a retro / accessories store but i think we're still some ways away from an All Digital Future (conceivably we'll hit a subscription-based subsidized console around the same time). What should really happen is Hot Topic should absorb GameStop
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Aug 29, 2017 17:08
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Would be the other way around, Gamestop is worth just over 2 billion and Hot Topic is around 250 million
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Aug 29, 2017 17:11
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Choco1980 posted:Anyways, I also think the market plan first started by Skylanders and now dominated by Amiibos and Lego Dimensions, where you need to buy physical components for your video games is going to hold strong for some time. Kids eat that stuff up, and I've noticed the electronics sections of stores slowly getting bigger and bigger sections devoted to that kind of toy. There's actually been quite a slowdown in the "Toys to Life" genre. Disney Infinity is gone, Skylanders is "taking a break", and LEGO Dimensions is about to release the last sets they've announced. As for Amiibo, they're still coming out regularly, but I feel like their main market is collectors rather than kids. Ubisoft is doing a new spaceship game, but that's about it.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:17
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Physical video games aren't going away until absolutely every one of their customers can be guaranteed to have fast, reliable internet and credit cards. The market definitely is shrinking into dedicated stores, but they're going to be around until then.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:22
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Inescapable Duck posted:Physical video games aren't going away until absolutely every one of their customers can be guaranteed to have fast, reliable internet and credit cards. This is already more people than it should be, though.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:26
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I have no idea how LUSH is in business, it feels like something that should have quickly opened and closed as the fad died out
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Aug 29, 2017 17:27
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DariusLikewise posted:Would be the other way around, Gamestop is worth just over 2 billion and Hot Topic is around 250 million
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Aug 29, 2017 17:29
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Professor Shark posted:I have no idea how LUSH is in business, it feels like something that should have quickly opened and closed as the fad died out The products make an excellent treat for yourself. I only see them in pretty upscale areas: the expensive mall, not the middle-class one.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:32
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Professor Shark posted:I have no idea how LUSH is in business *very borat voice* MY WIFE
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Aug 29, 2017 17:34
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Dennis McClaren posted:There is a travel agency down the street from my neighborhood that has been in business at the same location for at least 20 years. It's a pretty nice piece of real estate they are on, the rent must be expensive. They have one of those sign's out front that you write with the letters yourself, and they're always advertising Costa Rica and Puerto Rico trips. If you work at a university you have to go through whatever travel agency they have a contract with. When I had a conference in Santiago Chile, they booked my flight to Lima, Peru because I guess those countries border or something so they must be nearby? It's only a 3300 km drive between the two after all.
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Aug 29, 2017 17:44
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kumba posted:i have no idea what the gently caress this sentence says Nerdy: Look in the mirror lol Blind Box: Windowless container (usually a bag, actually) that doesn't let you know which collectible of a set you're buying. Kind of like how trading cards are sold Tat: British for "useless landfill-bound crap" Funko Pops: The worst of all the blind box tats, a toy line that asks "What if every character you know from pop culture were an unrecognizable lump of vinyl?" They all have square heads and "minimalist" details that mean you basically have to go by color to guess what character it's supposed to be. They are this era's beanie babies and litter this earth to such a degree that future archaeologists will probably refer to us as the Expressionless Cubehead Doll People. Professor Shark posted:I have no idea how LUSH is in business, it feels like something that should have quickly opened and closed as the fad died out
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Aug 29, 2017 17:58
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Wintermutant posted:The only good thing I can say about Windstream is that at least they're not Frontier. I've always been confused by this but I know Frontier is over 1/2 the country and probably has lovely DSL there instead of sweet fiber to my door like I get here in the Portland metro area...least in certain spots.
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Aug 29, 2017 18:06
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:, but I personally will continue not buying dye-and-gllitter bath bombs that make my tub look like it robbed a bank and visited a strip club simultaneously.   I, for one, am grieving mightily.
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Aug 29, 2017 18:50
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The bath bombs almost never glitter nowadays. There's a fast-growing trend of glittery face masks you might enjoy then I personally stick with the animal face masks that make it look like I'm wearing someone else's skin.
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Aug 29, 2017 19:07
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kumba posted:*very borat voice* MY WIFE Ding ding ding
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Aug 29, 2017 19:11
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My wife actually got me using one of the body washes from them and I like it  By now there's probably a regular brand out there that works just as well without the ridiculous markup but I'd rather just shell out a couple extra bucks a month instead of going out and experimenting with a bunch of other brands to find another one as good.
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Aug 29, 2017 19:24
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Straight White Shark posted:My wife actually got me using one of the body washes from them and I like it Yeah, full disclosure I don't dislike Lush for being more expensive than drugstore brands, but for marketing itself as a luxury brand despite not having any of the qualities I happily let better brands gouge me for.
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Aug 29, 2017 19:53
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Thing is, I think dye is fun. And the purple Daddy-O shampoo is awesome for my grey hair.
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Aug 29, 2017 20:12
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I like Lush, they make great Christmas Boxes for my cousins and they have a kind of deoderant powder that doesn't cause my skin to go to gently caress, so it's all to the good. That and I like the fact that they pay their staff quite well.
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Aug 29, 2017 20:47
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Here's an idea of what the Funko Pop wall looks like at my nearest EBGames: Also the PC section is literally Blizzard game cards and steam gift cards. Speaking of Blizzard games, I love finding the random WoW expansions for $29.99 in random rear end grocery stores. Usually it's Cataclysm as well, not even the most recent one.
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Aug 29, 2017 21:25
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Yeah the 'PC gaming' section has just been a bunch of those Steam cards for some time now
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I loving hate those things because the makers hedge their bets by having figurines of every fictional-character ever. Remember that video-game Evolve? They have figurines of the playable cast of Evolve, despite the fact only ten people played that game. It reminds me of how often Ubisoft makes "Iconic" merchandising-crap.
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DariusLikewise posted:EB Games/Gamestop isn't going anywhere soon. They get pretty advanced knowledge of where the market is going from Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony and would probably have enough time to pivot if there was a an all-digital generation of video games. I don't know how it is in the states, but in Canada they didn't over-saturate with stores either so they are in a not-awful position.  Professor Shark posted:I have no idea how LUSH is in business, it feels like something that should have quickly opened and closed as the fad died out Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah, full disclosure I don't dislike Lush for being more expensive than drugstore brands, but for marketing itself as a luxury brand despite not having any of the qualities I happily let better brands gouge me for.  Hell, some of their stuff is full-on worse than the cheapest poo poo you could buy at a big box store. Their solid shampoos built up on my hair and left it a greasy-looking mess. But it's all natural & not tested on animals so that's fine, right?  Meanwhile Body Shop's slowly imploding despite being what I really tried Lush for in the first place(nice body care stuff a step above B&BW). Haifisch has a new favorite as of 21:38 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I loving hate those things because the makers hedge their bets by having figurines of every fictional-character ever. Remember that video-game Evolve? They have figurines of the playable cast of Evolve, despite the fact only ten people played that game. It reminds me of how often Ubisoft makes "Iconic" merchandising-crap. Totally agreed. They really shouldn't make merch on games unless they've established it's a franchise. I saw Evolve action figures gathering dust at a local record store on Sunday and those things are gonna be there forever.
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Irradiation posted:If you work at a university you have to go through whatever travel agency they have a contract with. When I had a conference in Santiago Chile, they booked my flight to Lima, Peru because I guess those countries border or something so they must be nearby? It's only a 3300 km drive between the two after all. I work at a university. We have two travel coordinators in just my department that do all our arrangements directly. We travel A LOT though. e: Also I've never even heard of Lush and feel like I've slipped dimensions since you're all talking about it like it's a thing. disclaimer: I don't know the last time I actually went to a mall, and whenever it was I likely went to whatever entrance was closest to the place I needed to go and went straight to it without paying attention to whatever else was around ReidRansom has a new favorite as of 22:30 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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Haifisch posted:Hell, some of their stuff is full-on worse than the cheapest poo poo you could buy at a big box store. Their solid shampoos built up on my hair and left it a greasy-looking mess. But it's all natural & not tested on animals so that's fine, right?
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Nerdy: Look in the mirror lol Funko Pops are certainly tat but they're not generally (or ever?) blind boxes as far as I know.
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kumba posted:I remember Babbage's, they were all over the place around here. We had a mall that had both a Babbage's and an EB that both turned into Gamestop a few months apart You from Maryland by any chance? Same thing with my local mall. e: I guess it was common sharknado slashfic has a new favorite as of 00:20 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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ReidRansom posted:e: Also I've never even heard of Lush and feel like I've slipped dimensions since you're all talking about it like it's a thing. Oh yeah if you don't go to malls you'll never see Lush. They're kind of a dinosaur that way, it's interesting. Almost all other pricier-than-drugstore cosmetics/toiletries brands are either trying to get stocked in Sephora/Ulta or selling online and marketing through beauty bloggers, but Lush is still chugging along like it's the 90s. I mean, more power to them, I just hate cleaning my bathtub so anything from them is an instant regift as far as I'm concerned.
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sharknado slashfic posted:You from Maryland by any chance? Same thing with my local mall. Babbage's was nationwide. I used to go to one in Oklahoma.
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sharknado slashfic posted:You from Maryland by any chance? Same thing with my local mall. Nope, Florida here. I feel like I remember Babbage's in Michigan too
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kumba posted:Nope, Florida here. I feel like I remember Babbage's in Michigan too And Georgia, Babbage's was my first job.
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Okay but if you haven't already try a Lush face mask. It's probably one of the cheaper things in the store and your face has never been happier/
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Bean posted:Okay but if you haven't already try a Lush face mask. It's probably one of the cheaper things in the store and your face has never been happier/ Neat - are they the goopy kind or the paper kind?
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Sir Lemming posted:This is already more people than it should be, though. Regional America, Australia, and pretty much the whole emerging developed world beg to differ. And of course, children whose parents don't let them have the credit card. The Xbox One's online-only DRM got rightly laughed out of the room because it shut them out of entire markets.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Oh yeah if you don't go to malls you'll never see Lush. They're kind of a dinosaur that way, it's interesting. Almost all other pricier-than-drugstore cosmetics/toiletries brands are either trying to get stocked in Sephora/Ulta or selling online and marketing through beauty bloggers, but Lush is still chugging along like it's the 90s. I mean, more power to them, I just hate cleaning my bathtub so anything from them is an instant regift as far as I'm concerned. But like a hotel or something where it's someone else's problem .... hmmm...
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