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Malls aren't scary get the gently caress up and buy your own items This isn't Silent Hil the worst that's going to happen is someone bumps into you at the checkout line
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Treecko posted:Malls aren't scary get the gently caress up and buy your own items then make the mall stock five packs of cheap gym shorts and comfortable sneakers that don't look like they're for clowns or people into sports
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May 11, 2023 19:01
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Talk to Customer Service about it They're only half as scary as the Amazon drivers
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May 11, 2023 19:05
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Treecko posted:Talk to Customer Service about it the only people that can afford rent in a mall give precisely zero fucks about anything other than what the algorithm or some idiot at corporate hq says should be stocked this is the problem and it's why malls are on their way out. unless they're
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May 11, 2023 19:08
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Yeah malls suck but there not scary I use Amazon too
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May 11, 2023 19:11
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Japan still has stores that sell physical media like cassette tapes. Cassette tapes. You know how fuckin cool it'd be to rummage around a store that actually sells the hardware for the cassette tapes and vinyl records that apparently half of all the people buying that stuff don't even have? But no, all the stores that still sell that stuff got pushed to the strip malls, and even then it's usually garbage Crosley sets and the like. All the good poo poo is online now.
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May 11, 2023 19:19
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Doing anything mall related is a two hour investment, minimum. My time isn't worth much, but it's worth more than wasting it on the mall.
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May 11, 2023 19:26
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Just sleep in the mall there's bathrooms and everything you need all in one spot
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May 11, 2023 19:30
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Jelly posted:Doing anything mall related is a two hour investment, minimum. My time isn't worth much, but it's worth more than wasting it on the mall. If you have kids, maybe.
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May 11, 2023 19:31
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Heck after 8 pm you can use the massage chairs and nobody will bother you Dig the quarters out of the seat first
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May 11, 2023 19:32
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The mall is where you go when you want to go to Dave and Busters.
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May 11, 2023 19:33
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Treecko posted:Just sleep in the mall there's bathrooms and everything you need all in one spot Treecko posted:Heck after 8 pm you can use the massage chairs and nobody will bother you 
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Remember when you could go hang out at the mall as a teen lol. Now they got cops cruising around IDing you. In high school, two of my friends and I dressed up in banana costumes and went to go hang out at the local mall. We got escorted out of the mall by a cop and accused of being terrorists lol. This was circa... 2006 or 2007, I think? So still W. Bush era. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 01:54 on May 12, 2023 |
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May 12, 2023 01:52
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olives black posted:Should I make the drive out to Mall Of America from Michigan? I have a very lame bucket list and that monstrosity is on it, but I feel like I am going to regret it heavily MoA is deffo not worth a trip on it's own. If you're going to Minneapolis for other stuff like Valleyfair or to watch the Vikings lose, its kind of a convenient hub to get a hotel at since the light rail starts there and hotels in the area are cheap.
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May 12, 2023 01:59
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Deki posted:MoA is deffo not worth a trip on it's own. If you're going to Minneapolis for other stuff like Valleyfair or to watch the Vikings lose, its kind of a convenient hub to get a hotel at since the light rail starts there and hotels in the area are cheap. yeah that's kinda what i figured  urge to reinstall anarchy online and play the subway level rising
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Just looked at the MoA store list and it's pretty pathetic I really just need to hit up some flea markets I think
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Last time I went to the mall Sears was still open. That was a choice place to park because the parking lot outside was barren and you could walk through the store to get to the mall with no fuss. Man, Sears was loving drab and empty.
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You Are A Elf posted:Last time I went to the mall Sears was still open. revamp the HVAC system and turn the dead department stores into flea markets/sex dungeons
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May 12, 2023 04:14
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god how awesome would it be to have indoor mall sex dungeons
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olives black posted:Just looked at the MoA store list and it's pretty pathetic It used to have a lot more specialty stores and poo poo but the 2008 recession, rise of Ecommerce, and COVID killed most of them. Now there's really nothing it has that my local mall doesn't have. Except for the one burger restaurant and the Belgian waffle place. Those are kind of nice.
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Deki posted:It used to have a lot more specialty stores and poo poo but the 2008 recession, rise of Ecommerce, and COVID killed most of them. they need stuff that can't really be done over the internet. selfie studios, mini-golf, small theaters, fetish dungeons - so many possibilities
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May 12, 2023 05:21
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we should turns the malls into houses and make all the houses the malls
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Private Cumshoe posted:we should turns the malls into houses this is what i've been saying
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My first and best experience of malls was the Blues brothers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI&t=175s As the blues brothers says the death of malls is something to be celebrated. Give out a $100,000 a day to the person or group who most creatively trashes a mall, and everyone can have a cathartic year of merriment far more merry than anything malls gave in their life. Then I don't know fill em with water and let gators take over as new management or something.
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dr_rat posted:My first and best experience of malls was the Blues brothers. https://youtu.be/FmYHh3lk_nU
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I went to Bellevue Square on Friday for the first time in decades and that mall has not been impacted at all by the death of malls. Absolutely hopping and a pretty cool experience. The LEGO store kicks rear end.
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Jelly posted:I went to Bellevue Square on Friday for the first time in decades and that mall has not been impacted at all by the death of malls. Absolutely hopping and a pretty cool experience. The LEGO store kicks rear end. Yeah, the places with LEGO stores are gonna do okay for a while longer yet. Great Lakes Crossing is always wall to wall people on the weekends.
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olives black posted:Yeah, the places with LEGO stores are gonna do okay for a while longer yet. Great Lakes Crossing is always wall to wall people on the weekends. It's more about Bellevue being a beautiful consumer epicenter with a very wealthy demographic, but the LEGO store definitely helps
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Here are some pics of the famous Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, PA. Uploading to imgur so soon they will be as dead as the mall.  
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May 14, 2023 03:32
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Nice busts. And the statue is cool too
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Haha imagine if some shmuck from the early 90's took a wrong turn in the mall and went through a temporal rift into the modern day, abandoned version of that mall. And he's afraid to go outside because every time he looks out a window he sees like a drone or a food delivery robot or something and thinks that robots took over because he just saw Terminator 2 in the mall theater right before he got sent. That would be a cool movie.
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May 14, 2023 07:04
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Think about if you could travel back in time to a vibrant bustling mall back in the 80's or early 90's just think how annoying it would be that you couldn't look at your phone constantly
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Think about if you could travel back in time to a vibrant bustling mall back in the 80's or early 90's just think how annoying it would be that you couldn't look at your phone constantly i'd be lost in the lush ocean of audio coming from my brand new Walkman so that'd be fine 
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im the disembodied hands raised in terror as they are turned to stone by George A Romero's dark spell
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Private Cumshoe posted:we should turns the malls into houses and make all the houses the malls A couple friends and I were just recently theorycrafting the best method to turn malls into lovely arcologies and what features should be retained or added. It's a neat thought.
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BlackIronHeart posted:A couple friends and I were just recently theorycrafting the best method to turn malls into lovely arcologies and what features should be retained or added. It's a neat thought.
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Amazon Dot Com
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The mall* and it's bastard offspring, the strip mall*, is the community hub reimagined by neoliberals as a 100% transactional experience. A trial run for what would befoul real city centers through the re-gentrification of the husks of the independent small businesses killed by the mall in the first place. That's why it sucks OP. *In the UK these are called the "Shopping Centre" and the "Retail Park" but it's the same thing.
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BlackIronHeart posted:A couple friends and I were just recently theorycrafting the best method to turn malls into lovely arcologies and what features should be retained or added. It's a neat thought. None, the mall form factor is fundamentally opposed to habitability, it would be cheaper and better for everybody to tear them down and build normal apartments in their place. Turning failed malls into apartments is one of those ideas that sometimes pop up like making houses out of shipping containers that just make no sense.
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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. What's actually sad is that a mall I frequented had a mall walking monthly pass that cost a few dollars. Now if they had mall walking group exercise they hired a coach for it would be stingy but more reasonable. As a permit to walk around while not shopping? It's not even a large or nice mall. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 17:35 on May 14, 2023 |
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