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I rented VHS for longer than most (up until 2004 when I stopped renting altogether) because the cheapo DVD player I had refused to play scratched discs. Rental DVDs always looked like loving dog chew toys. I want to say my parents actually use Blockbuster's Netflix-like mail service to this day (they live in the stix and can only get stiffly-capped mobile broadband), but I might be mixing that up with another company (Amazon?)
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Not a town but all of NYC's five boroughs do not allow Wal-Marts to do business there. That's interesting. When I lived in Arlington, VA (basically urban DC, right across the river from the monument district) I noticed there were no Wal-Marts and after some digging on Ye Olde Mapquest, found that there were none inside the beltway (I-495, VA side) at all. I dunno what the reason is, but apparently this is still the case.
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blunt posted:the high street What does this mean?
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Brave New World posted:It's the english equivalent of that busy street in your town that has a bunch of strip malls, WalMart, Lowe's, McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, and Ye Olde Dildo Shoppe. Ah ok. I've heard these referred to as "<town>-Vegas" (as in the Las Vegas strip).
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uli2000 posted:Best and Service Merchandise. I distinctly remember seeing Ninja Gaiden for NES available in a Best catalog in 1989. It was one of the most expensive games at $44.99, but I asked for it and my wish was granted. I also remember seeing a building with its logo off I-95 in the Richmond, VA suburbs. I'm guessing that's the warehouse/storefront where the game was shipped from. Actually I got several video games from mail-order. UPS stopping at my house was a momentous occasion. Except that one time when it was just a pair of jeans for someone else and a slip that said "Zelda II - BACKORDERED". We also had a Service Merchandise storefront in my hometown, but it was an actual big-box store you could walk around and browse.
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Troy Queef posted:Chevy Cavalier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAKdyOUas8k I drive one of these, an '03 model. I think that's one of the last years they made them. The interior is cheap as gently caress (like, it's really lovely omg what how is it this bad) but it has been incredibly reliable and a huge upgrade over what I drove before - an '89 Mercury Tracer that I had for 14 years and was rotting from the inside out. I put a lot of work into it in '11 and '12 to keep it running but it needed a new gas tank and they told me I'd have to find one in a junkyard because Ford didn't make them anymore so I said gently caress it. The exterior design of that '96 looks exactly like my car, and it's 7 years older. I find that kind of disturbing. Way to iterate on design, GM. Ryoshi posted:I think the Saturn died because it just wasn't very good and people were already trying to strap poo poo to their Genesises like Sega CD and the 32x, then Sega came out with the Saturn and people were like 'what the gently caress is this poo poo i'm going to buy a Playstation'. Classic market oversaturation. This is a great joke post, and I completely agree with the idea presented in it, except for the system itself - the JP library is full of incredible arcade ports and actually it was Sega's first successful console to date in that region (the SG-1000, Mark III, Game Gear, and Mega Drive+addons were not popular). Western gamers don't care about arcade stuff and both NA/EU Sega and Sony were against 2D releases so yeah. Also, it launched 5 months early out of nowhere, pissing off retailers, and PS1 was 100 bucks cheaper. Ofecks has a new favorite as of 21:46 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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The_Franz posted:I had an '02 which left me stranded after the front subframe collapsed while I was slowing down at a tollbooth. The piece of junk was completely rotted and it wasn't even 10 years old. That thing was just unpleasant to be in. Between the road and wind noise at highway speeds you needed the radio cranked to 3/4 just to hear it over everything else and it started feeling a bit janky at any speeds over 65mph. Not shaking or anything dangerous, you were just very aware of how fast you were going because the car didn't really feel like it was meant to cruise at higher speeds. Hm, that's unfortunate. I should probably disclaim that mine has rather low mileage for its age. I'll confirm the highway noise, it's annoying, but it otherwise feels fine at high speeds. Sometimes something whistles/whines if I push it over 80, probably an airflow thing somewhere.
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Yahoo services are still really popular in Japan for some reason. I think I read somewhere that while they have the same name, they're no longer under the umbrella of the parent company, so I'm not sure if that counts. I registered with SA using a yahoo email account.  It's what I give out for forums and romsites and poo poo that I think will spam me.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:This was when they still their video games behind a closed counter and you bought them by grabbing a paper from the videogame wall that had the name of the game on it and turned it in at the counter (honestly, I thought that was a cool system). I thought so too. Do they not do this anymore?
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Mine's not closing, cool. I hardly ever buy clothes for myself, but they are my first stop and I've always found what I needed there.
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Argila posted:Kroger's slogan should be "an attendant has been notified to assist you" Ha. I've been shopping there for years and it took me a while to work out all the idiosyncrasies. I bring my own bags and it is absolutely imperative that you set them up in the bagging area before doing anything else (and confirm it on the panel). If you wait until after you scan your member card, or at any other point in the process, it will gently caress everything up. There is no indication anywhere that you should do this first. If I ever get that infamous message, it's always because a bag has partially slid off of their tiny lovely weight pads obviously meant for plastic and nothing else. Physically adjusting its position always fixes it. Also they overstock the plastic on hand so there's hardly any room for paper or BYO. Professor Shark posted:I refuse to use self checkouts and it angers me to see people using them when cashiers sit idle I'm sorry.  I have horrible social anxiety, it's embarrassing to use a SNAP card, and no one but me seems to know how to bag my groceries properly. Using self-checkouts reduce or eliminate all of those concerns. My town recently had a Wegman's open, and one of the reasons I do not shop there is because their self-checkouts are express-only.
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Mar 19, 2017 21:46
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WampaLord posted:I thought they had gained a second life by making very good fightsticks. I don't think they were considered "very good", just decent mid-range for those who couldn't afford the arcade-quality Japanese Hori sticks. But decent mid-range was certainly better than the garbage they put out in the first two Playstation eras, so yes they did improve.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I really don't understand how people can like playing with arcade sticks. Different strokes for different folks I guess. I'd always prefer a good D-pad over a stick, but that's just what I'm used to. An overwhelming majority of the elite players of any arcade-based game genre use sticks (JP-style ones with microswitches, at that).
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Apr 7, 2017 22:05
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JB50 posted:Norm MacDonalds news was god tier. Yeah, I've always liked Norm. I think he had a short-lived sitcom at some point. All I remember is him having a wiener dog named Wiener Dog.
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Apr 14, 2017 20:14
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shadowvine118 posted:The only reasons I can imagine going to one of those pet places is if you wanted to use their grooming/training services, they had a special cat and dog adoption day, or you wanted to buy one of the small animals/fish/spiders they sell. If you want your cat or dog to eat well, you have to go to a pet store, as supermarkets/wal-mart usually don't carry the good stuff. Speaking of, I went to Wal-Mart today and they were very busy... downsizing. Taking poo poo off the shelves, packing it up, and taking down the shelves in a bunch of spots. I asked an employee and they are "remodeling".
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Nope, this was 3pm EST. There were employees everywhere. The gal I talked to was brought in from another store.
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May 15, 2017 23:41
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That's quite the fancy building for a predatory payday loan place, they must be doing well.
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My local Popeyes is great and delicious and I love it. One of their main competitors (at least in the south), Bojangles, finally graced my town with their presence recently and holy poo poo is it bad. Really disappointing, because every other Bo I've been to has been excellent. I like North Carolina BBQ and its "slaw". It's not the typical white stuff, it's more red and spicy with pepper and vinegar. Turned me off as a kid, but I love it now. The real deal is attending a Pig Pickin, which I have done a couple times. Now that is some seriously good pork.
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Dexie posted:The best (worst?) part about stores that are still selling old WoW expansions is that all of them except the latest one are bundled into the vanilla game now. I may be misremembering, but I think Cataclysm was the first xpac that they made available digitally. With vanilla, TBC, and Lich King, you had to buy a physical copy to get product keys.
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shadowvine118 posted:I don't have many memories of going to Toys R Us as a kid. Same, my town didn't get one until the mid-90s, and I was long-done with toys by then. I bought a couple SNES games from them but that's it.
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Irradiation posted:SNES games topped out at $70 at TRU. I paid $80 for Chrono Trigger in 1996. It was at one of those multi-media stores like Sam Goody or Musicland, but I can't imagine bulk stores like TRU/Walmart would have been much less than a $5 difference. RPGs were just expensive. Probably for good reason - much larger ROM chips were needed to store the game + more intensive localizations.
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Fenarisk posted:I you still have it, it regularly goes for $200 that I've seen people shell out without a second thought. Nope, sold off my remaining retro game stuff in 2007, several years before the bubble started inflating. Additionally, I got far less for it than it was worth because it was in a lot with all my other SNES games (all the FFs, Secret of Mana, Mario RPG, both Lufias, etc.). Ebaying is a pain in the rear end and I needed the money. I played the CT DS remake when it came out, it was pretty good, much better than the ho-hum PS1 port. e: as an afterthought, I find it absurd that people would shell out insane amounts of money for individual games when flash carts (or even repros) exist. Collectors, man. 
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Krispy Wafer posted:We ended up getting a monster Frigidaire with two icemakers that produces enough ice to keep a dead body cold for days. 
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Control Volume posted:Isn't Samsung still the only good SSD manufacturer? I built a new PC back in March and the SH/SC threads all unanimously praised their current NVMe's (the little stick of gum SSDs you plug directly into the motherboard). Can confirm the 960 EVO is pretty dang fast and I've had zero problems with it as an OS drive. I think Intel's SATA SSDs were recommended at some point as well. Not as the fastest on the market, but as the most resilient. I don't believe that's the case anymore.
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Haifisch posted:Basically give me that system but for anything I buy online using any shipping company, and you've obliterated my(and probably a lot of other people's) biggest obstacle to buying most of my/their stuff online. Isn't this just a PO box? I've never had one so I don't know exactly how they work, though.
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Vegetable posted:You guys dunking on fast food but Mcdonalds has been doing very well of late. They did their research and found that most of the customers they lost went to places like Wendy’s and Burger King. Price, as it turns out, was the key and they’ve bounced back very well by leaning heavily into some discounts. I let myself get fast food once a month and McD's is a once-in-a-long-while thing. Their food has a certain unique taste to it but I think other places do it a lot better. I usually alternate between BK and Popeye's. We have lots of other good places (Wendy's, Hardee's, etc.) but those are much less convenient locations for me. I still call phone apps "programs" because 
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I only stopped eating there when I started finding nasty meat in my food. Stuff with veins or weird glands. I did a similar thing as Randaconda and one of my favorite places to go was a chinese buffet that eventually had allegations of serving dog/cat meat. If I ever ate you, Mr. Kitty, I'm very sorry. I didn't know.
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Rough Lobster posted:Until they invent a robot chair that won't accidentally decapitate you, barbers and hair stylists will always be in business. I'm immediately reminded of that Donald Duck cartoon where he visits some Museum of Mechanical Wonders and the autobarber hot towels, trims, and styles his butt. ladron posted:so I can huff that sweet glorious nippon air that's trapped inside. I'm not sure because I haven't bought a physical video game in years, but I imagine they, like every other piece of tech, are now made in China or SE Asia.
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Just checked my LL Bean winter boots... China. All the footwear I have currently (New Balance sneakers, slippers, flip-flops, the aformentioned boots) are China, except my dress shoes. I haven't worn them in years, but they are from Italy. They were decently expensive things I bought from a Hechts in '99 or '00.
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My awake schedule is pretty off compared to most people, sometimes it's really off. This happened at one point last year and I couldn't put off shopping any longer so I went to my usual Kroger (which is 24hr) at 2am. It was weird. No other customers in the store, night crew and their pallets strewn about, no lights on in the fridge/freezer sections. The muzak might not have been on, either, but I don't recall. They had one cashier working but I always do self-checkout. Maybe I should have gone to the cashier to give them something to do.
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Iron Crowned posted:Like everything else that millennials are killing, malls are something boomers hold dear. GenXers love malls too (see Mallrats ). I'm too old to be a millenial, and too young to be a GenXer, but I always liked going to malls up through my teenage and early adult years. The one in my hometown was weird - there was no food court, eateries were spread throughout the building, and they all had seating. A couple were full-service resturants. Apparently it's still going and vastly expanded now, I should take a trip up there sometime as it's only an hour away and I haven't been there since the late 90s.Sometimes I have dreams about it. Also I distinctly remember how it smelled down the arm where the pizzaria was located. Thanks, brain.
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quote:Generation Catalano Haha, is this what I think it is? e: watching My So Called Life as a teenager?
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fizzymercy posted:I'd forgotten just how drat stupid late 90s/early 00's fashion was. I feel like that's a fashion era that's never gonna have a comeback. We (grunge kids) were saying this about the 80s in the mid-90s. Lo and behold, 20 years later skinny jeans for men and momjeans for women are back. I had to hide my fondness of 80s pop music from my peers.
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there wolf posted:Also the nineties comeback is in pretty full swing. It's just not the grunge parts...yet. Smashing Pumpkins are touring this year with their original lineup minus Darcy Some more of the obscure altrock bands from the 90's have done reunion shows/new albums in recent years - Failure, Slowdive, MBV, Hum, etc. Rotten Red Rod posted:Nothing will ever be more 90s than this I'm pretty sure this was very early 90s only. The gangsta/thug culture explosion that happened, in a distant but Ofecks has a new favorite as of 03:40 on Feb 28, 2018 |
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Ok, internet press, you can stop that poo poo now. A more accurate word would be "harassed", "bothered", "annoyed", not loving tortured jesus. The mental image this headline gave me wasn't pretty. 
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Wait a vacuum called Kirby? Apparently it's not the case but I want to believe the Nintendo employees had one in the office when designing that first game. It's a pretty funny coincidence.
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Kid Fenris posted:This is mostly correct, though Ren and Stimpy was garbage. R&S was an insane show made by insane people for insane children. I was pretty fond of it. It was the only Nicktoon of the original 3 that I found watchable. Apparently news has come out that John K. was a bit of a scumbag, harassing teenagers and whatnot. And let's not talk about the god-awful reboot they tried in the early naughties. Weatherman posted:Not in the US, anyway. Here in Glorious Nippon that poo poo's been sorted out for years and years. Speaking of Japan, I found out recently that if you order something from there and have it shipped EMS (and you should), the USPS takes over when it gets here and it's then treated as Priority Mail Express. I had to pick it up at the post office because they needed a signature and no one was home when they attempted delivery. Last time I used ebay for anything was 2013 to sell my Nintendo DS and all the games I had for it. Pretty sure it ended up in the hands of a reseller who made some profit by separately relisting everything, but I've done that before and I wasn't about to go through that hassle again. I've got a box of more video games under my bed that I'd like to sell but ebaying poo poo is a lot of work and, as people have said, you run a substantial risk of getting hosed over by the buyer (although that's not happened to me).
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Unfortunately your colleagues and superiors who work this part of my state (all the way down to the drooling imbeciles that deliver to my apartment complex) are completely failing at their jobs and should all be fired. poo poo takes forever even just to get to the other side of town, and I have had numerous incoming pieces mis-delivered that wind up RTS. I receive a lot of official correspondence via mail and if an important notification fails to get to me on time, the ramifications could be severe for me. I will never select the USPS option until they get their act together. Brown and FedEx have yet to gently caress up. Ofecks has a new favorite as of 17:24 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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FilthyImp posted:Angmar Datanalysis has a nice ring. That's a cool word, I like it.
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I only ever use self-checkout if I can. One pain in the rear end, though, is my cold bag for groceries (a nice Rachel Ray thermal tote) is too heavy to be considered a bring-from-home bag by Kroger's system . Every time I shop there I have to call the employee over to zero the scale for me.
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