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the mall probably makes you sad because malls suck now OP come to think of it malls always did suck
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Applewhite posted:I'm standing here surrounded by a treasure trove of anything I could want and the smells of my childhood and I can barely see it all through the tears. Are your parents dead? If not, perhaps malls make you grieve for those candies and toys of your childhood which are no longer manufactured. Or grieve for the way, when you were little, you could sometimes talk a parent into buying you toys and treats. Whereas now you have to work to scare up the money for them. Hell, I feel like crying about that now. 
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Apr 19, 2023 04:34
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3 A.M. Radio posted:I went to a mall in Vienna, West Virginia in early December last year. It was like walking onto a mall in 1995 or something, it was so packed and busy. I have to imagine the internet just never made it to that part of the state and they're thriving. pretty much https://broadbandnow.com/West-Virginia
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Apr 19, 2023 04:48
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I’ve been binge watching this YouTuber’s videos because they are obviously archived decades of B-roll news footage that’s been digitized and uploaded of the most mundane things, but they are truly time machines to a different time. Some mall footage of yore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e78cPTqazEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J07a9rDkgGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHgrp3gUrgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwOgDckxxg Man, hearing those clicky-clacky beep-boop dot matrix receipt registers brings back a lot of memories 
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Apr 19, 2023 04:55
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:It's like when Paul Wall said "screenname chynadoll" paul drywall
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Apr 19, 2023 04:56
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Visiting the mall fills you with shame looking back at the mindless consumerism that we can no longer afford, longing for a time when things sucked a lot less and looked like things might actually get better, and twists the knife of despair because it shows just how worse everything is now and that there's no going back in time.
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Apr 19, 2023 05:03
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I'm the forlorn Sears employee staring out the door in contemplative shock. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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Apr 19, 2023 05:03
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I was at the mall jacking it. The police officer couldn't catch me. He thought the geometry sensible but the walls started to move, blocked him off. I heard him screaming somewhere in the distance. He'd likely be caught in that plane of existence for at least a few thousand years.
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Apr 19, 2023 05:08
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1989 edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYLBpBTFlI 2010 edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR9HfF6Agg8
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Apr 19, 2023 05:09
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Milo and POTUS posted:I wouldn't be surprised if the rent is still exorbitant either though I couldn't say for certain. If too many stores are going belly up, maybe your rent is too drat high. Nobody wants to shop at a mall with empty stores Commercial real estate - financing, laws, taxes, etc. - is all real weird. I dont really understand any of it, and its going to vary wildly from city/state/country, but at an extremely high level there is a certain  number for every commercial property, some $ per square foot, and unless its leased for that number+, than it makes more financial sense to let the building sit/rot. Ignoring that office buildings aren't built to support humans living in them, this is one of the big reasons that office space doesn't get converted instantly into housing.  I worked in a mall in 1996
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Apr 19, 2023 05:12
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deep dish peat moss posted:I'm the forlorn Sears employee staring out the door in contemplative shock. I’m the cameraman (reporter?)’s delayed soft “yes” to the woman’s, “Kind of a disaster day, isn’t it?”
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Apr 19, 2023 05:17
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Jelly posted:Quoting this in the hopes that I'll actually remember to do it this time If you mean Bellevue Square in WA, it’s still there and very busy. I don’t go there much but the Din Tai Fung is good and some of the stores are ok, but most of the stores are luxury and there are absurd furniture stores that charge thousands for ugly tables. The movie theater is great.
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Apr 19, 2023 05:21
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The dude who created the mall had the idea for them to also have apartments, schools, health care centres, an all encompassing community like the platzls in Austria he moved from to the US But then he got paid a lot to just design places with shops and not the community so he said gently caress it and made his bank
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Apr 19, 2023 05:51
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You know I personally hate the mail, it's constantly junk garbage and I really loving hate getting my mailbox completely filled because I don't check it often enough. The mailman probably hates me too cuz there's at least a hundred letters in there at any given time gently caress the mail. Truly wish that I could just remove it completely. I do however enjoy coupons now that I'm a little older LOL free pizza coupons are great for free pizza. Hoover most of my mail goes into the trash immediately. I really should just keep a trash can right next to my mailbox and put it from the mailbox to the trash can so that the garbage man can pick it up after the mailman delivers it. Otherwise it's kind of funny I still have mail going to my mother's house which I have to pick up in a giant loving pile every couple months, mostly random crap and credit card application/home mortgage refinance/jumbo loans and all this other stupid poo poo that I could have no loving business dealing with. What I do like about the post office is the passport services, but now that I have one I can just renew it online so I really don't use that anymore. I guess there's no point in the mail service in my eyes I understand that it does have a point many people use it daily and yes it's nice to get cards from Grandma but in general it feels like a waste of paper.
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Apr 19, 2023 06:01
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Apr 19, 2023 07:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHIAx4udcPk
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Apr 19, 2023 07:35
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I only really have mall memories from the early-mid Seventies, my mom would take me once a year to buy school clothes, and the mall seemed a very long drive from our house. But it was so cool, it had a two story aviary filled with brightly colored tropical birds, it had a little river that started at the fountain and wound around in front of the toy store, so you had to walk over a little arched bridge to look at the toys. Probably not real ADA-compliant, thinking back. But the best part was the basement - there was an actual small racetrack with little cars you could rent for like 15 minutes at a time and pretend to be Mario Andretti, along with pinball machines - it was too early for most arcade games, although some really primitive ones were there. I went back once in the late Nineties and it was a shithole, all the cool features were gone and it already felt like it was on life support. It’s still there, although I’m sure it’s hurting, as the empty Sears building is still empty.
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Apr 19, 2023 12:47
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Some of you feel bad for the decline of the American mall. That is because you're crazy. It has no feelings. And shopping online is much better.
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Apr 19, 2023 12:53
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Applewhite posted:I'm standing here surrounded by a treasure trove of anything I could want and the smells of my childhood and I can barely see it all through the tears. A mall should make anyone sane feel bad.
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Apr 19, 2023 13:04
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I was at the mall jacking it. The police officer couldn't catch me. He thought the geometry sensible but the walls started to move, blocked him off. I heard him screaming somewhere in the distance. He'd likely be caught in that plane of existence for at least a few thousand years. how dare you compare our beloved Mall to the Backrooms  the Mall has very stable geometry and will never die tyvm
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Apr 19, 2023 13:08
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AcidCat posted:Uh yeah that's life, get with the program and distract yourself fool. I guess that's why malls are so horrible. They make it so obvious that's what happening that I can't distract myself from the rapidly approaching death train going "choo choo all aboard". Going into a mall is like putting on those glasses from They Live.
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Apr 19, 2023 13:12
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I grew up somewhere with actual wilderness. A few highways intersected nearby, but it was over swampland and a historic slave cemetery, so the area didn't really get developed. Then around the year 2000 they built a giant 4 story mall right on that swamp, paving over everything for parking lots, completely loving the local ecosystem. They just kind of built "around" the cemetery. This coincided with a housing boom in which the surrounding forest got bulldozed to build McMansions. It's the most cursed haunted place
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Apr 19, 2023 13:26
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Several malls still thrive in St Louis. What's coming back into style is outdoor outlet malls
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Apr 19, 2023 13:32
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Same op. Malls give me a nice hit of nostalgia which is most definitely romanticized. But at the same time leave me with a weird feeling of melancholy that things will never get better.
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Apr 19, 2023 13:35
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lol at people doomering itt. Malls being dead and mostly gone is a good thing. They're inefficient wastes of land and despite the fact that we had good memories there, malls always sucked. Now, as suburbia starts to collapse under its own weight maybe we'll see the resurgence of the mall but probably more like a blend of the Asian malls with the tiny storefronts and old marketplaces.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:22
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At this point calling someone a doomer is akin to telling someone to stop screaming because the wings coming off the airplane we're currently sitting in doesn't necessarily mean we're about to die in a plane crash.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:29
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I miss mall fountains. That's the real crime. No more extravagant public fountains.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:31
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I can go to the store that has tiny khaki pants, or I can go to the store that has slightly tinier khaki pants, or i can go to spencers.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:38
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My only happy childhood memory is strangers joining in and helping me beat Revolution X
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I've heard a few of the smarter malls are moving away from retail and converting themselves into indoor theme parks and recreation areas. Things you can't get online.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:48
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Applewhite posted:I've heard a few of the smarter malls are moving away from retail and converting themselves into indoor theme parks and recreation areas. Things you can't get online. There's a minigolf setup in the mall nearby with glow in the dark everything, like some 90s space dream. It's a cool use of what used to be a clothing store.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:51
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EvilJoven posted:At this point calling someone a doomer is akin to telling someone to stop screaming because the wings coming off the airplane we're currently sitting in doesn't necessarily mean we're about to die in a plane crash. The wings have always been coming off the airplane, we've always had issues. Unless you're going to be an activist or do something about whatever upsets you, you may as well just stay informed and live as best you can with what you're given. Falling into your fainting chair about some hypothetical future and over-hyped past doesn't help anyone.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:53
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Imagine ordering poo poo from Amazon to be delivered in a day or two in a wasteful cardboard box three sizes too big to save a dollar when you can just go the mall and get it now, shaking my drat head
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I would suck off jeff bezos as he stabs to death the last mall. God I love him.
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I recently went to that giant mall in Florida, and I ate some tres leches cake at a restaurant there that was so good that it nearly brought a tear to my eye  Otherwise, according to my many diary entries about the subject, going to the mall = flirting with cute boys at the music store, buying '00s nu metal CDs at the music store, and...yeah.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I recently went to that giant mall in Florida, and I ate some tres leches cake at a restaurant there that was so good that it nearly brought a tear to my eye One of my favorite mall memories is the following exchange a friend's brother had with an employee at FYE. -Excuse me, do you have anything by Dying Fetus? -Um...... no. -WHY NOT?!? My high school was directly across from the mall. We'd sprint across a highway. Senior year they built a pedestrian overpass. It sucks compared to what it was but that's also the death of american society. I blame private equity and home consoles as much as Bezos but the mall itself is relatively healthy. Once the arcades left the movie theaters, every flag in the country should have been burned and the experiment declared over. gently caress U USA!!!
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kntfkr posted:One of my favorite mall memories is the following exchange a friend's brother had with an employee at FYE.   I wasn't quite there yet during the music store era, I still had my nu metal training wheels on
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Ralph Hurley posted:Do malls still have old folks that congregate early in the morning when the mall first opens but the stores are still closed so they can get exercise by slowly shuffling around and around in bright colored sweatsuits? I witnessed that once in the early 90s and found it incredibly funny. I figure boomers are that age now. lol yes. The last time I went to the mall they were the only ones there. It's a way of "getting out" when it's cold outside. Everything at the mall was just shittier than I remembered. Even the corner stores all had massive empty sections like they were having a going out of business sale. The pretzel stands didn't even have brown pretzels and slushes. Just weird folded bread in a pretzel shape and the same arctic ice blue/red poo poo as everywhere else.
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Tarkus posted:lol at people doomering itt. Malls being dead and mostly gone is a good thing. They're inefficient wastes of land and despite the fact that we had good memories there, malls always sucked.  i can be a much more efficient consumer when I'm not SWEATING MY drat BALLS OFF BECAUSE EVERY WALKWAY IS OUTSIDE
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