08f98f No.14359239
Remember the magic of malls? Of going into KB Toys and getting Pokemon Gold, Wario Land, and checking out the Digimon and Beast Wars toys?
Yeah…
14d5d5 No.14359253
Do I get nostalgic about my parents buying me shit when I was a little kid?
No, OP, I think that's just you.
ce48bf No.14359255
boy I sure do like video games
d2241a No.14359256
Malls are and were always shit. You're just nostalgic for being a kid.
9c517c No.14359262
I never actually went to a mall until I moved out. There's been one around me as I was growing up but we mostly just went to smaller stores or other department stores. Not sure why. So my only experiences with malls are seeing them mobbed with niggers and spics and not really being eager to return to them at any point.
I remember KB toys going out of business and getting a $4 copy of um jammer lammy, however. Great game.
08f98f No.14359269
>>14359253
Look at you, being all grown-up and bitter.
14d5d5 No.14359276
>>14359269
That's what it means, right?
08f98f No.14359284
>>14359276
Why let such bullshit plague your thoughts and emotions? It's probably why you can't lose weight.
87ef2a No.14359285
>>14359239
Mall arcades were the only reason I bothered going to the mall, but those stopped existing too. Standalone arcades are just part of rotting landscapes now. Even Nickelodeon Studios, the mecca of kid-stuff and videogames, is now a shopping plaza.
Those days are gone and they're never coming back.
996a66 No.14359286
>>14359239
Do I miss having to go to a store to get vidya rather than just ordering it online? Nope.
629bcf No.14359287
I remember the arcades in malls and Babbage's.
14d5d5 No.14359289
>>14359284
Now you're just reaching.
If anything, I'm bitter because I worked in a mall and I know how shitty and boring they can be.
8b6a41 No.14359292
>>14359239
No, the ones that were around me were and still are infested with subhuman spics. Malls always sucked ass.
89579a No.14359294
>Remember the magic of malls?
No, they were always shit, they simply got shittier.
I remember the magic of seeing top tier game artwork on good vidya though.
a14cbb No.14359298
>buying games at KB
I don't think I bought anything at that place, the prices always seemed cocked up. That's not entirely true though, because my parents got my NES there. What I mainly miss is shoplifting trash from Hot Topic. I had an absolute garbage bag full of pogs and shitty junk metal jewelry.
08f98f No.14359302
>>14359295
Sometimes it's good to reflect, lest we let the world swallow us up.
d07531 No.14359303
No, I hated being around normals even as a kid, and I truly despised malls from a young age.
996a66 No.14359304
I do miss Funcoland though. They had pretty good deals on used games.
4d3e65 No.14359309
The way I hear it malls are only dead in the northeast.
dd138c No.14359318
>>14359239
I kind of wish I had enough money to buy an abandoned mall and renovate it into some kind of weird-ass mansion or town.
dfae29 No.14359334
Yeah before huge online catalogues, going to those places when i was young and my world was small enough that giant malls where the ultimate place to see all kinds of products. Still some decent malls are good because there is stuff i'll never just buy online and also i like to help the local economy thrive.
a14cbb No.14359343
>>14359318
You know how anons occasionally get a hair up their ass to buy an island? How about turning an abandoned mall into a sort of enclave? Aside from that, I think it would be good for some /k/ tier fun, maybe at least some paintball.
6fd75a No.14359350
Not really, i remember toysrus more simply because it was the first and only time i ever saw a SEGA Saturn in real life during it's prime, and even then it was running fucking Sonic R.
cd1c1f No.14359351
Malls die because those places are just rumble pits for black people to gather in and fight.
I don't have any emotional attachment to malls, anyway, and I don't associate them with childhood. I don't remember anything about my childhood because I deliberately try to forget it in order to stop myself from involuntarily flashing back to unpleasant moments (it doesn't have to be a moment that should logically elicit sympathy, it could be a grudge over something petty or a moment where I got what I deserved for being a little shit but still feel I should smite the one who "wronged" me that I've nursed in my subconscious) but that only served to make me forget anything good that might have happened then (if it ever did).
But, anyway, malls could make a comeback if they start charging entry fees and issuing membership passes (after all, Niggers are cheapskates) but that won't do much good unless the malls have good marketing as well. Otherwise, malls can be turned into condominiums and people can renovate old stores into luxury apartments.
af9c55 No.14359354
>>14359292
That's what happened to the mall i used to hang out in as a kid, became infested with niggers until it became known as the ghetto mall and people stopped going even though it was within walking distance of a major university. Willing to bet that's what happened to most of the malls in the US, they're all infested with shitskins now so people just stay home.
As for specifically buying vidya that shit was ruined when GameStop developed a monopoly. Weirdest part is they seem to be half games half "nerd culture" stuff now, guess people don't buy as many games as they used to.
dd138c No.14359359
>>14359343
I think a mall would be even more expensive than just buying an island or some innawoods property.
14d5d5 No.14359360
>>14359351
Entry fees and membership passes? Nobody would go to those malls, anon.
cd85e6 No.14359363
>>14359343
Expensive to buy, expensive to maintain and you'd have to deal with bs from the city government.
cd1c1f No.14359366
>>14359360
That's why I mentioned the thing about good marketing. You can convince anybody to do anything as long as you tell them the right way.
6fd75a No.14359367
>>14359354
>As for specifically buying vidya that shit was ruined when GameStop developed a monopoly. Weirdest part is they seem to be half games half "nerd culture" stuff now, guess people don't buy as many games as they used to.
I've never once seen anyone buy the "nerd culture" shit either, the few times i've been there, to look for some cheap vita games, they'll HALF THE FUCKING STORE filled with those funco pops, and there is never a single pop out of place, ever.
5ddc3c No.14359368
>>14359255
I wish I still liked video games.
14d5d5 No.14359372
>>14359366
You sound like a kike.
5ddc3c No.14359376
>>14359292
I can second this. They just let their kids run around in a swarm around them… devouring and destroying everything within their fat little arm's reach.
120d1e No.14359383
>Remember the magic of malls?
what magic, malls were always a pain in the ass, even if you got a new toy or game you were still stuck in there for ages
cd1c1f No.14359385
>>14359372
Yes, well, I do run a chain of payday loan outlets.
a14cbb No.14359387
>>14359359
>>14359363
You're right, but there would be literal janitors. It's like pottery.
d8d20b No.14359393
>>14359284
Your thread is shit, fatass.
bcc874 No.14359396
>>14359239
no, because that's retarded
ce10d0 No.14359404
Screw malls.
I miss Blockbuster.
18e0e6 No.14359414
/r/ing the big Mall Planet concept screencap
5ddc3c No.14359418
>>14359385
>I run a chain of payday loan outlets.
28779d No.14359420
No I don't, I am not American so my head isn't clouded by consumerism nearly as bad yours. One thing I DO remember however are arcades and how shit they were.
6fd75a No.14359422
>>14359404
This, never rented there, but i always used to pop in every once in awhile to buy a game for my N64. it was great.
120d1e No.14359439
>>14359422
>>14359404
renting games on a whole was nice, there were a few times i'd rent the same game a few times to beat it. I assume it's such a pain to rent games these days because you can beat any fucking game in one weekend easy and that would drop sales
af9c55 No.14359441
>>14359367
Me neither, but with all the popular normalfag games these days are digital (PuBG, ASSFAGGOTS etc) and with the western vidya industry committing suicide i'm guessing they're trying out new shit to get people in the door. Or there's the more obvious idea that they can't compete with Amazon.
I can't even think of a good reason to go to a mall anyways anymore, all the stores i liked have been dead for years now. Arcades are dead, bookstores are dead, those cool science stores are dead, movie rental places are dead, etc. It's just overpriced basketball shoes, gold chains, and maybe a Sears now.
f6a7a8 No.14359444
The only thing malls are good for is ogling teenage girls.
4d3e65 No.14359453
>>14359360
Works for these guys.
14d5d5 No.14359454
>>14359444
That's true, but don't say that too loud.
14d5d5 No.14359456
>>14359453
Those are warehouses, not malls, you retard.
3f8ab2 No.14359458
4d3e65 No.14359474
>>14359456
>Says member only malls can't work
>Gets shown two examples of successful retail chains that operate on a members only model
>I-it's not the same concept because I said so!
It's okay to be wrong on the internet, Anon.
c1423a No.14359475
Even as a kid I hated the mall, it was too bright with fluorescent lighting, too many people, too loud with shit music and inane chatter everywhere, and it only got worse as I got older as stupid dipshits would go there to hang out for some reason. I did like checking out the toys and games sections because I wouldn't know what was available because no internet. This guy is right>>14359303
14d5d5 No.14359478
>>14359474
People go to those places because they need to purchase goods. That's not inherently true with a mall, lots of teenagers go there with no intention of buying anything and just hanging out there.
f6a7a8 No.14359483
>>14359454
Of course. Even when 14 was still legal here, it was verboten to admit you wanted to put your dick in a girl under 18. It seems like even girls around 18 is weird to a lot of people.
e2e5dc No.14359487
>>14359368
I wish I still liked anything.
3f8ab2 No.14359489
cd1c1f No.14359496
>>14359400
Hahaha, you are wrong. I run several businesses, including a trucking company, restaurants, fast-food franchises, a convenience store chain, a real estate construction business, and a property management business. But I have people do the grueling stuff like paperwork and management for me so I have plenty of free time, in fact, the most I ever really worked on that stuff was about 10 hours, cumulative, in one week.
7acd20 No.14359498
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Obligatory. Prepare for some feels
4d3e65 No.14359504
>>14359470
>Slut clothes
>Caked in makeup
>Ugly hair
>10/10
Dunno why you pedos and hebes have such low standards and eternal shit taste.
>>14359478
Who gives a shit about teenagers that just hang out and don't buy anything anyway? At most they'll spend money at the food court or go to the malls cinema if it has one.
6f3b11 No.14359510
>>14359404
>I miss Blockbuster.
Speaking of video rental places that also had vidya, I miss GameCrazy. It's funny, really. Occasionally I'll still come across an older game that was sold there at some point and which no one ever bothered to remove the old GC price sticker on. They peel off with zero hassle at all despite the years, unlike fucking Gamestop ones that might have been placed on a game a month or two back and either tear or leave gunk all over the place from already getting caked onto the casing.
14d5d5 No.14359520
>>14359504
>Who gives a shit about teenagers that just hang out and don't buy anything anyway?
The people who rent space in the malls to sell teenagers stupid shit, you retard. You draw them in with the allure of a public social setting, and then you have a bunch of shops and food chains and shit to capitalize on them being there. No chain store is going to set up at a mall with reduced customer volume and take the risk when malls are already failing financially.
Additionally, those warehouses you posted mostly sell their own shit at wholesale, but most stores in a mall depend on marking up their prices to pay rent.
In short: Eat a dick, retard.
cd1c1f No.14359523
>>14359506
Pretty much. I own it, though, and I use the profits to buy assets, like condos and stocks, that make me even more money.
dd138c No.14359527
>>14359475
I worked at a mall for damned near a decade, at one point being stuck working at one of those little shitty kiosk stores where you can't really sit down and just have to walk around in circles until someone actually buys something. Worked multiple holiday seasons and some of the worst black fridays ever. At one point, the stress and strain made me sicker than I've ever been.
I can't fathom how people can spend so much time in malls. Everything about them is awful.
b2c3bd No.14359537
>>14359368
i thought this for a few years too but since i illegally downloaded kc:d ive come to realize it isnt that i dislike videogames its just that almost all new games are absolute shit
12b49b No.14359541
>>14359524
Okay then post a ten that is 100% developed but somehow makes you a pedophile.
51b02c No.14359545
>>14359527
I legit saw an Indian guy at a phone repair kiosk watching hentai on his laptop in the middle of the mall
b2c3bd No.14359547
>>14359524
thats pretty autistic. why dont you organize your explorer with tags or make a subfolder for sets?
2f4062 No.14359548
>>14359239
I honestly don't know that feel, I don't even think I've been in a mall.
14d5d5 No.14359555
>>14359542
He's actually a kike. Good for him.
4d3e65 No.14359558
>>14359520
Malls are dying because of retards like you try to capitalize on demographics that just aren't there. All you see are numbers but you completely fail to take into account a lot of those people don't buy shit. Teenagers, niggers and spics generally don't buy a damned thing but food and maybe shoes or something.
>>14359524
Why would you number your images like that? The only of those that's appealing is second left but she's probably a dyke with the far left girl.
5ddc3c No.14359560
>>14359523
>assets like stocks
Get out of here with your faggy LARP. Stocks are not assets. Paper claims are not assets.
7acd20 No.14359567
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>tfw autists are busy arguing itt and not taking in the nostalgia
cd1c1f No.14359570
>>14359542
Actually, I make enough money through my investment portfolio that I can still live comfortably and work even less. But if one of my managers quit: I could replace him. And if one of my businesses fail (and believe me, they have) I can bounce back and build another. I'm resilient against anything the market can throw at me.
14d5d5 No.14359572
>>14359558
>All you see are numbers
That's all people who run stores at malls care about, you fucking numbskull.
Jesus christ.
af9c55 No.14359574
>>14359537
That's the real problem. I thought i was starting to hate video games too until i just started going back and playing all the old shit i missed. There are a handful of good things here and there but mostly new games are shit.
>>14359520
I hardly see teens at malls anymore anyways, it's mostly shitskins getting into trouble and still not buying things. If the current selling shit to teens plan isn't working maybe it's time to try something new.
c1423a No.14359579
>>14359527
Yes, the only place I hate more than the mall are airports
5e64c4 No.14359594
>>14359239
>Remember the magic of malls?
N-no?
4d3e65 No.14359598
>>14359572
And that's why malls are dead. Reread what I said you dumb asshole. It's no different than an old vidya series being simplified and pimped out to appeal to the wider demographics only for it to fail miserably because those cunts don't purchase games.
7acd20 No.14359599
>>14359579
>Yes, the only place I hate more than the mall are airports
The worst airports are the ones that try to be malls imo, like Denver International. Actually, I hate Denver International Airport in general more than any other airport. 50sq miles of nothing. It requires a metro to get from the car rentals to the terminal. There is no reason an airport that serves a city with a population of only 600 thousand should be so fucking huge
b2c3bd No.14359601
>>14359579
i like airports. havent had a bad experience at one yet
ce10d0 No.14359607
594e2a No.14359614
>>14359239
>Malls are dead
The 3 malls I near enough for me are actually doing alright and have expanded with more stores opening tuphen closing. Though thats obviously an outlier.
cd1c1f No.14359617
>>14359560
Good, you know that stocks, in general, are securities and not assets. However, I'm talking about myself and I have access to the financial statements of many companies so I know enough about them to pick out and maintain what I need from the stock markets so they are effectively assets for me.
7acd20 No.14359620
>>14359601
If you travel a lot you eventually end up ranking airports based on your experience one way or another. The best airports have relatively lax TSA with minimal hassle getting through security. Ease of navigation, finding luggage, and even the smoothness of the runway on landing, all contribute. LAX I think is a great airport for example
6fd75a No.14359621
>>14359527
I was in a similar situation, i did janitorial work for a, relatively upscale mall in a upper class white suburbia kind of area during the holidays, and it was a fucking nightmare. Black friday is bad, but it does not hold a candle compared to the days leading up to Christmas when every faggot in the neighborhood decides it's time to stop procrastinating and make the rush out to their local store for fucking Christmas presents. It is fucking unbearable, you start to feel like Human cattle being led around by the other cows in the area the places are so fucking packed, and traffic? Fucking forget about it, it'll take about 3 hours to get home during the worst of it. Frankly the only positive experience throughout the whole thing was getting to play the Wii u display during an event nintendo held, wasn't too bad.
God i hate malls.
c1423a No.14359636
>>14359601
I've been traveling by air heavily since childhood and to me it's just a nightmare because it's even more intrusive than just being around so many other people
9c9c3b No.14359645
>>14359567
>>14359498
>Dan Bell
my niggah. Dead Mall Series is comfy as fuck
7acd20 No.14359657
>>14359632
Some pilots are definitely better than others at landing. Some pilots can land gently and perfectly to where you barely feel it. Some slam hard on the fucking runway. Last time I flew into LAX there was a lot of turbulence and the pilot had to make a lot of corrections before hitting the runway but it was otherwise smooth
c58b8c No.14359689
cdecb5 No.14359691
>>14359567
>$100
>Could have bought a mall for less than the price of two video games and used it as a fuckhuge mansion
120d1e No.14359696
>>14359691
property tax and utilities would probably be fucking bullshit though
12b49b No.14359704
>>14359583
What's wrong with cute girls.
cdecb5 No.14359705
>>14359696
Let me have my dreams, Anon.
882950 No.14359715
>>14359691
Wanna buy a bunch of houses in detroit for 1$? Just think what a bargain this is!
cdecb5 No.14359727
>>14359715
This went into forclosure because it was a retarded investment, not because the area became infested with basketball americans
882950 No.14359737
>>14359734
Right here >>>/cuckchan/. Why don't you stay there forever.
bb6f6b No.14359750
>>14359737
Sounds more up your alley, bud.
882950 No.14359759
>>14359750
nah, you're the one shitting up the thread
a14cbb No.14359766
>>14359404
I usually just went to local rental places, usually had better rental periods and the added bonus of a titty section in a back room to sneak into.
7acd20 No.14359784
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>>14359691
Too be fair, its actually 100 dollars PLUS the thousands of dollars in debt you'll inherit from the property you'd need to pay off and that's not even considering operating costs. The bank also wont sell these things to just a random pleb. You'd need to prove to the bank you have enough valuable assets to use as collateral
000000 No.14359806
>>14359483
I'm going to guess you live in Canada, because they raised their age of consent from 14 to 16 in 2008, and the general pattern of cuckoldry sounds like them.
As for malls, I only ever found one teenage girl to ogle at one, and she ogled me too, and that was gratifying even though nothing further was pursued. As for the intended purpose of malls, they were fun and had a good selection of products, but they weren't something I couldn't live without. The only feels I'm getting from this are feels associated with better times in general, which malls are only one small part of.
8a03be No.14359814
Had to meet some people for dinner at a restaurant that was adjacent to what used to be a really upscale mall, walking through it now it was full of beaners and niggers just sitting everywhere like a flea market.
557d38 No.14359838
>>14359239
I can't remember early mall days for me very well, but I do miss game stores feeling relevant. Amazon and occasional other online shops are making them less relevant with each passing year. I'm pretty aware it's just nostalgia and naivity when talking about it feeling whimsical, though.
>and checking out the Digimon and Beast Wars toys?
I just started getting into Digimon and feel a little bad that I missed its heyday, even if the dub of the anime is shit. Pokemon is still strong in presence today, but Digimon seems to have faded out of major consciousness in the US. I can't find V-mon plushies anywhere, and online is expensive as fuck from prices being jacked up by imports.
>>14359404
I used to rent Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog VHSes from Hollywood Video because I used to play Sonic games my grandpa pirated (this was the late 90s, I don't know what the common sources were at the time.) I about blew my fucking mind having a cartoon based on games I actually played that wasn't Pokemon, but now I see that show, like everything that Dic touched, was shit. I didn't learn about the Mario shows until many years later.
I'm not really a "90's kid" but I do miss the simplicity of the time.
2404dd No.14359850
>>14359285
What the fuck happened to color? It gets harder and harder to deny that golden age syndrome is bullshit when you see shit like pic 3. It's like looking through a desaturated lens.
04cbad No.14359852
>>14359838
Pokemon became the best selling game series in history in about 5 from its release. Digimon was never going to be able to compete. Not saying Digimon is bad but its not really fair to compare it to Pokemon
04cbad No.14359854
2404dd No.14359864
>>14359504
>Slut clothes
>Caked in makeup
>Ugly hair
>It's 2D
>10/10
Really makes you think.
087fff No.14359866
>>14359850
Soulless people create soulless environments.
6fd75a No.14359869
>>14359838
> I can't find V-mon plushies anywhere, and online is expensive as fuck from prices being jacked up by imports.
>Wanting a digimon plush
You just know that shit has been hot glued to hell, since the only people that gave a shit for longer than 5 seconds were furfags.
882950 No.14359871
>>14359850
It was an ugly building with the fucking colors that do not match turning it into an eye sore. It looks better now, but it doesn't change the fact that it's just uninspired paint job and architecture.
2e0e2e No.14359878
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Fuck you, OP. I came into this thread expecting porn or some sort of other shit because it was only vaguely vidya and now I'm walking away feeling old and sad.
I'm 33 and I had a lot of fond memories of malls as a kid. Up until the early 2000s, a lot of them were fun. Trips for new games at EB, clothes for school, minigolf, arcades, the food court.. all sorts of stuff. I was even the first kid in my mall to get a Dreamcast back in 99.
These days.. most are dead and the ones that are left are polluted with unruly minority kids, yuppie cunt stores, and those pitiful kiosks where some guy with more grease in his hair than I'd see when frying bacon is trying to sell me a fidget spinner. I'm not even 40 and I feel like I've been alive for a century.
And I've watched vidya go to shit in the twenty seven years I've been playing.
Nostalgia is a mean bitch.
Music is what was used in that Rolling Acres 'Dead Mall' vid.
341e38 No.14359882
>>14359285
>Those days are gone and they're never coming back.
Those days will return after the collapse.
2404dd No.14359887
>>14359871
>It was an ugly building with the fucking colors that do not match turning it into an eye sore
Speak for yourself. The style back then was at least something bold and eye grabbing. Who the fuck has fond memories of a building that looks like what it is now?
>it's just uninspired paint job and architecture.
It's much more inspired than what we have now. In 2030 I doubt people will be able to remember this decade over the 80-90's.
882950 No.14359896
>>14359887
Who the fuck has fond memories of a building that looks like a bollywood movie? If you make something colorful, it doesn't automatically make it good or memorable.
6fd75a No.14359905
>>14359882
>the collapse.
It's never going to happen.
ac5e7e No.14359906
>>14359284
People have trouble losing weight? Shit, I've lost 50 pounds through the simple trick of just not cramming my fucking maw with everything I can get my hands on.
c58b8c No.14359911
>>14359871
the older paint job is a product of the era. The 90s were more or less just an extension off the 80s only really finding it's own identity near the end of the era. Actually looking at the told paint job if they left the baby blue kept the pillars on the 2nd floor green and kept that eggshell white to the walls under the balcony roof it'd look pretty eye catching.
>Your other post
Because people grew up seeing it at the end of shows and going "that place is a place I want to go to". It was where the things people enjoyed came from and thus have good association with it, why do you act like a nigger?
Also whats more shameful is the time capsule they buried infront of the studio backk in the day got pulled up and planted someplace else and last I heard the place it was reburied at is being shut down so who the fuck knows whats going to happen with it.
ede9c7 No.14359962
Yeah, Malls are dead or dying. It's been said in this thread as well as in threads pertaining to malls before this one, but the main reason is the influx of shitskins coupled with how easy and convenient buying shit online has become.
I'm not sure exactly when malls started falling, but it had to have been recently. I went to woodfield mall a few months ago after not having been there for a long time and I couldn't stomach the state it was in. Yeah, it was quite busy when I went, but there were so many shitskins and fatties that I ended up leaving the mall without buying anything. Not like most of the shit there isnt fabricated in some third world country for mere pennies and them price marked up by over 400%.
Don't even mention the gypsy-like stalls that have ugly and annoying shitskins manning them constantly. You'd be lucky if one of them doesn't walk up to you and ask them to buy something. It's gotten so pathetic. A few years ago in some other mall in Texas this one stall selling pictures got so desperate they took a candid shot of me walking at some point and then they tried to sell me the picture. Unbelievable.
Anyway, as previously mentioned, I have no reason to go to malls anymore-much less any store- unless im eating at a restaurant or hanging out with colleagues. Like I said, you'd be hard pressed to find one piece of merchandise sold that is made in America or some other respectable country. I will admit though that there is this one store that sells lego sets for WW1 and WW2 planes/tanks/ships/etc which is real fuckin neato, but that may be the only saving grace of the particular mall i had in mind.
2404dd No.14359970
>>14359896
>Who the fuck has fond memories of a building that looks like a bollywood movie?
Again it comes down to preference. But at least you can make some sort of comparison to it. What the fuck is your source material for the latter?
549c4c No.14359971
>>14359444
I'll ogle those digits.
2404dd No.14359977
>>14359962
>but the main reason is the influx of shitskins coupled with how easy and convenient buying shit online has become.
Pretty sure supermarkets played a larger outcome. Why go to malls when Walmart sells everything they have but cheaper?
bab018 No.14360049
>>14359239
Never liked the mall tbh. Liked beach, playing in the street all day. going to the countryside to visit family and hunt/fish/ride horses and do other countryside stuff.
Malls? Nope.
6fd75a No.14360078
>>14360049
This. The only "malls" that were ever good are open strip malls.
6039f4 No.14360088
>>14359239
>There’s a mall near my house that is a ghost town as far as stores go. Just Sears, a hippie charm shop, a gun store, and a game store That doesn’t charge out the ass for older games, picked up a three PS2 gems for under fifteen bucks
6fd75a No.14360092
>>14360088
>That doesn’t charge out the ass for older games, picked up a three PS2 gems for under fifteen bucks
Neat, what games are they?
6039f4 No.14360093
>>14360088
>Subconsciously added meme arrows because I changed my mind about the tone mid-post.
At least I got dubs.
7ba4c7 No.14360104
>>14359285
>mfw my city has a fucking awesome arcade
>mfw my city is Portland, OR
57f68d No.14360125
>>14360104
I hope you're keeping Portland weird anon :^)
6039f4 No.14360132
>>14360092
Deus Ex, Silent Hill 2, and Final Fantasy 10
2e0e2e No.14360142
>>14360125
>keep it weird
Isn't that Austin's city slogan?
c181f3 No.14360165
the fuck are you talking bout /v/?
they're everywhere, where I live.
Indonesia btw
cf3ce7 No.14360179
>old places long past
Please just let sweet death embrace me.
21d127 No.14360192
>>14360142
No, it's a hipster motto that gets claimed by any city stupid enough to welcome them en masse. I visited Portland and had a goddamn awful time for a 6 hours train transfer.
The food stall block kicked ass though
fdfca3 No.14360211
>>14359322
But you can also make cool sand castles and tunnel systems then play with army men in them.
cee0bc No.14360263
>>14359285
>Third pic
Fuck, I don't know why it's making me feel melancholic.
e1ad34 No.14360279
>>14359239
>malls
>kb toys
I'm not an American so no.
8bd864 No.14360296
>>14359617
>LARPing as an insider trader now
8d7aa2 No.14360353
>>14360296
>We are all rootless cosmopolitan losers
Stop project anon, it's just you
e08e5c No.14360368
>>14359351
>I don't remember anything about my childhood because I deliberately try to forget it in order to stop myself from involuntarily flashing back to unpleasant moments
This is me
5ddc3c No.14360402
>>14359351
>>14360368
I do the same thing. Whenever I remember stuff from my past I start counting random numbers in my head until it goes away.
af736a No.14360411
>>14360104
You know Kurt Koller made up that bullshit story by now, right? Or are you just banting?
2ebd7b No.14360477
I go to my local mall regularly. It is still active.
88408c No.14360505
>>14359239
>Malls are dead
Not in my country it's not, granted its no longer a place to shop but rather as place to hang out, eat, and play arcades. I went to a lot of malls recently and i swear, it has twice as more restaurants / food kiosks / what have you compared to the storefronts. The high-end clothing stores that actually open in my malls are actually just a facade to put up an upper-class aura since 99% of the people that goes to the mall won't go there to buy expensive shit. That's why the mall management gave said stores a huge cut to their rent fee. I mean shit, i could probably say that my malls are better than the burger's malls.
There's also 'niche malls' in here that sell some specific type of shit (e.g. Computer parts, Airshit, hobby kits, etc) ran by different kind of owners, the neat thing here is that you could haggle with the merchants running said operations so you could LARP as a smooth-talking jew and get the best prices they've got to offer, or you know, just buy it online.
I guess that's why the malls in my country are relatively thriving, they changed their business practice as a place to meet-up rather than to buy stuff
>>14359351
>Malls die because those places are just rumble pits for black people to gather in and fight.
I thought they died because people are buying stuff online alot more
>>14359444
These trips don't lie
>>14359498
>>14359567
Thanks for sharing these anon, they're really comfy to watch (except when there;s buzzing sounds)
af736a No.14360519
>>14360402
>>14360368
Fucking hell, art thou me?
I swear I have mild Tourettes because when I remember something unpleasant or embarrassing I shake my head and sometimes utter a swear or "No" before reassuring myself that literally nobody on the face of the planet remembers it.
a6e7c2 No.14360540
>Remember the magic of malls?
No, they were always shit and ruined fucking everything. Family business were always cheaper, higher quality and more comfy. Malls were a fucking mistake and I want them all to burn to the fucking ground.
7580a4 No.14360566
>>14359239
Malls are magic, cinema is magic, television is magic, the media is magic, spending money is magic.
What's magic is pirating everything, having it for free and sharing it with as many strangers as you can.
dfae29 No.14360582
>>14360566
Do you ever get tired of making these "take everything for free, pay for nothing" posts.
85e637 No.14360588
Not vidya nigger, fuck off.
42cd14 No.14360617
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
This thread is too American for me.
bb6f6b No.14360619
>>14360566
I love piracy too.
d658ff No.14360634
>>14360368
>>14360402
>>14360519
I flinch several times a day thanks to this, it's gotten me weird looks
18e0e6 No.14360655
>no mall planet screencap
weh.
96b3f3 No.14360721
>>14360660
>mall of america
I've been there a couple times, and its so shit. its just the same store 10x over. They could at least literally have it be mall of america and have a store from each state that is popular in it fuck dude. I live in the state and think its shit. I miss snoopy land.
Did you notice all the blacks, and ninjas in the video too? Thats also a reason as to why i moved away from the city and into the country in western wisconsin. No nigs there thankfully.
21d127 No.14360769
>>14360721
>I miss snoopy land.
Goddamnit anon, I didn't need this.
a15cd6 No.14360806
>>14360660
Why are there so many brown people there?
Itsn't Minnesota white as fuck?
96b3f3 No.14360816
>>14360788
It was when i was an early teen
>>14360806
It was, but something happened, I dont know what but more and more nigs started showing up and alot of ninjas too. Maybe I didnt notice or what. But if you go to central minnesota its basically a shit pile. While everything around it gets better the farther you go away from the center to a point.
a6fa57 No.14360827
Why did people go to the mall? No niggers.
Why do people don't go to the mall anymore? Niggers.
486ff6 No.14360842
>>14360806
Refugee resettlement programs and section 8 housing both target 'least diverse areas'. In this case they got Somalians, lots and lots of Somalians.
f0b38b No.14360843
Once I actually got a gig seting up a new Forever 21 location at a mall. It's there that I realized except for the food court, every store is just selling the same cheaply-made shit from Asia that came in boxes and plastic bags, marked-up to a ridiculous degree.
I enjoy going there to buy discount clothing, play at the arcade or just having somewhere to walk when the weather is bad but with the convenience of online shopping there's no way malls will survive. Since the mall owners can't possibly pay the property taxes on them maybe they'll be torn down. I won't shed a tear, it's not like the stores within aren't everywhere else anyway.
d2241a No.14360844
>>14360825
Why is there a webcam in the back of his mouth?
485917 No.14360851
>>14359599
>There is no reason an airport that serves a city with a population of only 600 thousand should be so fucking huge.
Really makes you think.
b927b9 No.14360853
>no mallquest itt
and you say, you play videogames
ed55c9 No.14360854
I do miss the experience of going to a store and browsing what's on display, maybe seeing something that you'd never heard of, and deciding to give it a shot because it looked cool. It was also fun to build a rapport with the staff working there and just sit around and shoot the shit. I managed to score a couple of collector's editions that were never sold/picked up because the manager of my local EB Games liked me.
bb6f6b No.14360864
>>14360853
>earthbound sprites
>muh vaporwave cga visuals
*pukes behind you and vanishes*
pssst
4d2a2e No.14360900
>>14359487
>>14359368
My tastes haven't changed, it's just everything sucks now.
776907 No.14360908
>>14360806
>>14360816
>>14360825
>>14360842
>Itsn't Minnesota white as fuck?
Not anymore thanks to me citizen! Just remember it ain't just ladies I like to grope around here.
a15cd6 No.14360912
>>14360825
I guess it really is getting bad down in the lower 48.
1d3961 No.14360921
>>14359871
clearly never saw it in person
1d3961 No.14360933
>>14360825
>go to nigger hang out
>surprised there's a lot of niggers
ba0431 No.14360934
>>14359315
I hope you read the manga and then watched trust and betrayal after watching that messy adaptation
bb902a No.14360942
Most of the kiosks at my local mall are owned by literal Jews who immigrated from Israel and try to sell products made in Israel.
020a6c No.14360961
>>14359285
I stopped by a local mall a few days ago and saw that they had just turned one of the anchor stores into a bowling alley/arcade. I checked it out expecting it to be crap and for some reason they had a lot of Jap cabinets of varying genre. I was pleasantly surprised.
085705 No.14361069
>>14360961
This bowling alley / arcade wouldn't happen to be a Round 1, would it?
734b62 No.14361095
>>14360961
That place looks kinda comfy.
3700e2 No.14361131
>>14360961
Looks like it. There's a Round 1 where I am, looks pretty similar.
42cd14 No.14361143
>>14360908
Thanks for making me hate jews a little bit more.
c71b32 No.14361147
>>14361069
a round1? there only appears to be one outside philly.
763035 No.14361159
>>14359368
after years of playing them, I've finally come to the point i become bored with them more and more frequently. Then i come to realize i've wasted hours of my life on nothing and have no talent but i still have some good memories
763035 No.14361160
94ded9 No.14361171
>pokeymons
into the trash it goes.
7e8ce9 No.14361217
>>14359239
I remember retail video game stores tried to sell me the empty display box twice. As in, I was a little kid and my parents paid money for a video game, and when I opened the box there was no fucking video game inside. We had to go back and complain. Two times. Fuck malls.
6c3d7e No.14361219
Only thing I miss about malls was when during the late 90s and early 2000s when sears still had nice sized vidya selection. Snes , ps1 and n64 kiosks still up , unsold snes games still on display. Grabbed a still sealed breath of fire 2 that way.
4c6227 No.14361250
>>14359420
>consumerism
What do you have against America's great religion?
88408c No.14361256
>>14361217
>grabbing an empty display box and buying it
You're the retard here anon, you fell for their jewish tricks and didn't even put a single doubt about the product. kinda like whats happening with the U.S Military hardware procurement right now
>>14360660
That's alot of niggers
>>14361159
>Then i come to realize i've wasted hours of my life on nothing and have no talent
Well? What are you waiting for? Fucking do something!
You know its your fault, no need to wallow in it, always strive to git gud and work on those skills that you feel confidence in.
>i have no talent
This is a lie
>>14361250
The Jews
-t. anon
f9d12b No.14361270
>>14359444
>The only thing malls are good for is ogling teenage girls.
This. Facebook and Instagram are good for collecting slut photos. But it’s not the same. In malls you can take creepshots if clearly virginal girls. You can walk up to sluts and smell them without them noticing. Young boys think they have it good. Fapping to Instagram pics will never be good as smelling passing by sluts.
7e8ce9 No.14361272
>>14361256
>You're the retard here anon
No shit, I was like 8.Taught me pretty early not to trust stores.
fb5733 No.14361315
>>14359256
This.
Unless you live in a 100% White region, malls are shit.
>>14359334
Support the small businesses only. Not brands that infest malls.
c5d67b No.14361346
>>14360078
>strip malls
>good
Even if strip malls had actual strippers, it would barely make up for the sheer boredom and lack of variety those places have. It gets even worse when nigger friday comes around where the already small stores get even smaller when they turn into moshpits filled with the worst the world has to offer. No mall of any kind has ever been good.
ee60ab No.14361361
I lovs going to malls just to steal shit from niggers, especially toys from shit eating nigglets
326f9c No.14361386
>>14359621
>Human cattle
What do you Burgers think Malls were suppose to do?
Malls are an enclosed space, where you are constantly surrounded by (((commercials))) that audio-visually tell you what to like and what to think.
And who do you think the people in the (((commercial))) departments are? The same social science retards that push for feminism, diversity and all the other progressive dreck, because they went to the same school as these idiots.
Many people here are fans of the 80s, but if you look what kind of media was pushed on people in these places when the VHS format was still popular you can see the beginning of today's pozz culture.
2cc737 No.14361410
>>14359239
>Remember the magic of malls?
I remember EB Games / Babbages / Gamestop encouraging you to trade in games for store credit and barely giving you anything credit at all. I remember going into Spencers Giftts to look at lewd and rude things. I remember trying to find some nice suede "skater" shoes at the Shoe Show and getting clothes on sale at Old Navy. Plus the food court being full of either old people or freaks depending on what time you went there.
Now U.S. malls are full of smelly, aggressive, thieving, shitskinned subhumans so no actual human being wants to go there anymore.
70c881 No.14361450
>>14361446
>They actually look more civilized than basketball americans.
That's not saying much.
406414 No.14361457
>>14361446
>shit from today is fresher than the shit from yesterday
7e1671 No.14361458
>>14359295
>malls never existed
>KB toys never existed
>I was an "accident" child
tippity toppity jej
681c2d No.14361464
>American culture in the 90s: Going to the movies
>American culture in the 00s: Going to the mall
>American culture in the 10s: Looking at the dumbphone
>American culture in the 20s: pic related
cbaff5 No.14361465
>>14360660
Mall of 56% American
42cd14 No.14361466
>>14361464
La Negacion De Dios
070c68 No.14361467
>>14359239
>Remember the magic of malls?
Malls were never worth the markup you paid.
Toys R Us was where everyone got their games in the Atari - SNES generations.
>>14361386
Shopping malls were developed by an Austria-born Jew as seedbed communities for socialism in America. It's no surprise that our physiocratic cargo cult mentality would seep in given how closely related it is to socialism.
c30c69 No.14361498
>>14361315
how are white retard normalfag teen better than black ones you racist fucking horror kys
2f4062 No.14361532
>>14360806
Minnesota is filled with swedes, take a guess what they did.
fb5733 No.14361807
>>14361498
Because niggers and other slave apes aren't people, and thus, everything that they touch gets worse.
600be0 No.14361974
>it's another Round 1 shill thread
We get it dude. Malls kinda suck nowadays because they're 90% clothing stores instead of 60%. As it turns out that's all that fucking sells.
000000 No.14362011
>>14359239
>12 hours ago
>200 posts
>absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with video games in any capacity
>thread still up
>meanwhile in a thread discussing the legal ramifications of a video game company breaking the Constitution, you get banned if you discuss the topic of the thread
Really makes you think.
c58b8c No.14362043
>>14361467
>Toys R us
>Not Funco land
>>14361464
Mall culture is actually more a 70s and 80s thing. good job on outting yourself as a millennial shitter
>>14361270
>Caring about 3DPD
I'm convinced most of the faggots in here screeching about how malls are bad are redditors who were born in the late 90s (97, being generous here) and the only time they set foot in a mall is the 2000s when most malls were overrun with niggers and gangbangers using the places.
>>14361219
>Go to Sears
>Yoshi's island on demo
>Owned a Genesis at the time
>Didn't give a fuck because it was more vidya and tried it
>Enjoyed the shit out of it
5e94b4 No.14362263
>>14361410
that mall looks like a modern day bizarre
270df5 No.14362339
>>14359239
Good, those fucking concrete monstrosities have wrecked so many communities and local markets it isn't funny.
926a52 No.14362423
>>14359420
>implying malls only exist in the US
7ff25d No.14362427
>>14360634
Same, but mostly when I'm alone and have the unwanted time to think. Gotta' stay distracted. Bad memories are like a deep rut in a trail. You have to wear new trails in the wilderness of memory, and wear them deeper than those painful recollections. The hard part is actively suppressing the bad memories so you can feel not-shit enough to actually build decent memories. Then you realize it's too late.
d559f6 No.14362441
7ea421 No.14362548
Malls were only good pre-internet for getting lesser known/specialty goods and services, post internet for whale watching. But, there's hardly a point is going all the way to a mall to mock fat people lumbering between the food court and various shops because you can just go to WalMart and see even more spectacular views of the fall of western civilization.
>Malls
>Expecting Americans to actually walk around and buy shit all day like it was some kind of primitive middle eastern bazaar.
cbaff5 No.14362895
Why was >>14360660 deleted? I just came back to download the video.
4a0ba6 No.14362930
>>14361467
> developed by an Austria-born Jew as seedbed communities for socialism in America
How are multi-million-dollar altars to consumerism "seedbeds for socialism"?
3cdd1b No.14362931
>>14360942
>immigrated
Since when do they immigrate when selling their shitty Dead Sea products? They just head there as "art students" for the sake of a temporary scam and head back to give the money to their crime bosses and datamining to their government.
aa7aea No.14362955
>>14360851
>the UK and Ireland happily joining together to throw away weapons
The two countries were damn near at war just 20 years ago and there's still a lot of tension between them, who drew this?
c3fce9 No.14362992
>>14362955
Someone who's not shooting his own countrymen at least.
8c58a1 No.14363004
>>14359285
It's not a shopping plaza, it's now a venue for Blue Man Group performances.
abb301 No.14363040
Really sad both the arcade and non Gamestop store closed down in the Colonial Commons mall but at least The East Mall had both an arcade and a retro enthusiast store the last time I visited Harrisburg with my father. Got Oni, Toy Commander, and a VMU in the latter, wish I had the money to get a Saturn and mod it there too. The malls there bring back memories of getting some of my earliest games and the former is where I received my Gamecube. One of the few things I miss from living in that part of Pennsylvania; anyone ever went there?
c8cc2b No.14363107
I used to work at a mall in San Diego for a few years. Or as I like to call it, "the ass parade". It's a bunch of jailbait walking around, mallrats, cinnabon. The good ol' days.
61894d No.14363165
It's easy to blame Amazon when this is just another symptom of the Jewish popcult and civic nationalism destroying another relic of Americana. I literally vacation to more white areas to enjoy the atmosphere which used to be everywhere.
000000 No.14363220
e95c04 No.14363302
>>14360179
This looks like the setting of a Scooby Doo episode.
>>14361974
But nobody mentioned the fact that they're mostly clothing stores before you. I was going to though. So I'm gonna reiterate your point. Every fucking store is just hipster clothing, completely ignoring any audience that isn't teenage girls. All the malls around me are nice looking and I've never experienced this hotbed of niggers, making me think that what you guys are describing as malls are what I would call flea markets. But it's a moot point because there's no reason for me to go to a mall unless I want a new blouse or whatever the fuck women buy.
8bd864 No.14363356
>>14360540
>Family business were always cheaper, higher quality and more comfy.
But…Malls had family businesses in them?
42a0f0 No.14363506
b2140c No.14363521
No, but i miss video-game stores. Simply because that you could find games you never heard of before or games you liked but with local discount-prices and whatnot.
cd1c1f No.14363602
>>14361467
>physiocratic cargo cult mentality
c0d88c No.14363639
>>14359239
I fucking hated malls
5783d8 No.14363744
>>14359239
The local mall near me still has an arcade but %80 of the cabinets are just prize games.
9180d9 No.14363755
>>14359527
>I can't fathom how people can spend so much time in malls. Everything about them is awful.
Malls sell cool merchandise, unhealthy but delicious food, look neat as fuck, and serve as social gathering places. If you don't at least understand why malls were popular then you probably have autism. Now of course society has decayed to the point that people are too anti-social to appreciate the gathering place aspect and too lazy to physically shop for things they can buy an Amazon.
76d2a5 No.14363784
>>14361131
>>14361069
>>14361147
I just checked the mall's website, it's a Round 1. So there's one in michigan at great lakes crossing. Now to scrape together what friends I have and drag them out there for fighting games and cheap beer.
89e47b No.14363792
fb5733 No.14363800
>>14363755
We can gather in pleasant places without stores.
7acd20 No.14363801
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>people itt can't understand why Malls were once popular
Because they're from a time in American history at the absolute peak of our decadence and consumerist culture. It was during the retail boom, and consumer spending was at an alltime-high. Driven by newfound confidence in the capitalist system brought upon by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was during a time when children still actually went outside still. Before 9/11 happened driving this country into destructive hysteria. They're a product of a bygone age.
9180d9 No.14363809
>>14363800
>We can gather in pleasant places without stores.
>without stores.
POLICE, ARREST THIS MAN
7acd20 No.14363841
>>14363809
>>14363800
The irony is the modern public spaces movement is one of the most kike-driven movements of the modern age. Products of Marxist urban planning of the mid 20th century. Turning our cities and nature into a gigantic Disneyland attraction to keep us in line. Make no mistake, all these public playgrounds are part of the movement sucking the very soul from our culture
14d5d5 No.14363857
>>14363841
What kind of an asshole do you have to be to get mad at people reading books outside?
7acd20 No.14363860
>>14363857
I'm not mad at the fatasses reading books lad, I feel pity for them more than anything. They have nowhere else to go but some cosmopolitan setup
d241fe No.14363888
>>14363857
An asshole who is correct. You have before you the collected library of mankind. You can find countless films, numberless musical compositions, and nigh-infinite written works. Yet these people go outside, away from this source of wisdom and knowledge, and revert back to the primitiveness of paper, the barbarism of the softcover. And they do it in a public place too.
7ea421 No.14363896
>>14363841
You know, I was going to make some kind of a snide remark about how all those books would be ruined by the next pop-up shower… but then I realized that the surest means of destroying anything is to open it up for public use.
Thank Christ nobody goes to libraries, or all they'd be left with is a bunch of shredded pages stuck together in their worn binding with human feces.
14d5d5 No.14363899
>>14363860
What about a fucking library?
d241fe No.14363924
>>14363899
Libraries ought to be scoured for books to be scanned and copied into a digital format, so that they may be immortal, rotless, beautiful. As it stands, there's still some knowledge rotting on shelves across the world.
8bd864 No.14363931
>>14363506
Yes nigga.
>>14363529
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but literally the entire point of malls was having a centralized shopping center anyone could rent a space in. Malls are dead BECAUSE the only people left in them are big brand names. Only department stores have survived there, although there's also a locally owned hipster places like a tea shop in mine.
d241fe No.14363976
>>14363961
Totally free digital books at that. If there was a button to put everything ever created into the public domain, I would push that button.
cd1c1f No.14363991
>>14363841
What happens when it rains?
14d5d5 No.14363996
>>14363991
Have you heard of tarps?
d2d3dd No.14363997
>>14359404
I used to borrow movies from the library back in the day. Some libraries even offered PC games which was heaven especially if the game didn't require the disc so you can play even after it was due.
>>14359510
>GameCrazy
I forgot that store existed. Last time I went there was to get a Wii back in 2008. Much better than the cancer that is GameStop.
14d5d5 No.14364001
>>14363997
Man, my library had some good shit to check out. I found a lot of gems that way.
7ea421 No.14364016
>>14363996
>Have you heard of tarps?
Tarps are gay, anon.
50eb48 No.14364035
ab97fc No.14364047
>>14359285
There's still a few mall arcades here in California. It's still not worth living here.
>>14359404
Mine didn't close until 2012. Everyone was surprised it lasted so long, but I'd ride by it on my way home from school for years and always saw people in there up until they closed. Even I'd sometimes pick up gift cards there because it was a convenient location.
>>14363997
I tried to rent from the library back when I was maybe 10-13 but my local one said only my parents could rent movies. No idea what the age restriction was. (My college has movie rentals surprisingly. They've even had Pokemon movies since before Pokemon X/Go came out, so it pre-dates the recent craze.)
e7c301 No.14364098
>>14359734
sleep tight pupper
ab97fc No.14364286
>>14359734
thank mr skeltal
7acd20 No.14364298
>>14363899
You intentionally misundertand me m8. Libraries are dedicated buildings like schools or churches. These public spaces on the other hand are taints to once natural landscapes. They're signs of our contribed need to break free of urban jungles
000000 No.14364318
>>14359444
That's what I do whenever my friends or family feel like dragging me to a mall. I'm really glad I look young and don't have to be subtle about staring at teens. Occasionally they'll notice me checking them out and make conversation. I just pretend I'm still a senior at the high school I graduated from. I remember enough of my teachers to make it believable. I just realized I've been out of high school for almost 9 years now. I turned 27 today.
123c62 No.14364446
>>14360263
Something colorful and fun, probably from your childhood, has been reduced to a boring grey structure. Its literally your life (And ours too)
1bcd51 No.14364458
>>14359285
>Mall arcades were the only reason I bothered going to the mall
Mine were unleaded water and leaded fuel.
854f0c No.14364469
>>14359400
Stop sharing the vision your jew masters implanted in you and you will realize, it's not necessary to actually work yourself to have money…What i am saying is:
"Study hard for you to have a good job and earn money"
This is jewery that "they" brainwashed you to think as correct, this is not truth, see the world with your own eyes, not the world they made you think is the real one…
a05643 No.14364526
>>14361159
>hours
lol what a casual
394bf9 No.14364568
>>14359285
>3rd pic
everytiem
89cb5b No.14364577
all this depressing shit makes me want America to reform into a proper fucking empire.
too bad there's no Justinian to save us (yet)
maybe we need a Rudolf to fucking murder people
ef1fc6 No.14364591
>>14359239
I prefer the magic of market streets to the magic of a mall by far. There's one right around the corner where I live. Also, most anons here are men, and as such, do not have interest in shopping or window shopping.
Unless that mall shit had an arcade, a bowling alley, or a pool table, I was not interested.
>>14360900
Ain't that the fuckin' truth.
ab97fc No.14364600
>>14364318
>I'm really glad I look young
I hate it. I'm finishing up my degree, but outside of class I still get asked what college I plan to attend after high school. I turn 25 next month.
fb5733 No.14364630
>>14363841
But i did not meant those.
Send time with family and friends, on someone's house or some natural landscape, if you can find one.
Avoid urban public spaces at all costs.
17728b No.14364644
>>14359239
do you actually miss them ?
c5d67b No.14364665
>>14364318
>>14364600
Whenever I try to ask a girl out, they always laugh and say "wait until you're older and get out of high school, kid." I'll be 23 this year.
The same thing still happens with my older sister and she's 34, but at least she has someone.
03497e No.14364693
>>14364665
Don't know how to help you there laddy. I stay clean shaven, people still think I'm 30. I'm only 25. Are your parents 100% european, or are they mutts?
5db00d No.14364829
>>14364665
It could be worse. A friend asked a girl out on a date and then she tried to invite some other guy as a third wheel. It was fucking retarded.
d2d3dd No.14364979
>>14359285
My mall never had an arcade even when arcades were still relevant.
394bf9 No.14365026
89cb5b No.14365890
>>14364829
>she tried to invite some other guy as a third wheel
don't
t. was third wheel once
5db00d No.14366271
>>14365890
When did you catch on, anon? Honestly though, I think the girl was super ghetto.
394bf9 No.14366335
>>14359474
>retail
except these places sell wholesale
8c4b3b No.14366344
>>14364318
Happy birthday. Mine was on Valentine's Day. I just wanted to be alone and play video games. I turned 29.
c9d10b No.14367649
>>14360368
>>14360402
>>14360519
>>14360634
Don't worry anon you are not alone. When I think about my past, things probably no one else remembers, I flinch and think about self harm until I get distracted.
89cb5b No.14367944
>>14366271
It just sorta happened, but I resigned myself and really thought about tfw no gf for a while afterwards.
394bf9 No.14370197
>>14360519
>remember some horrible child hood moment
>immediately squint and start groaning out loud like some autist
>tfw at work
>everyone around stares
>causes massive shitstorm of inquiry
>say I have a really bad headache
>I now pretend I have frequent migraines
394bf9 No.14370213
>>14360721
>remodel MOA and camp snoopy in vidya
>convince ebin scott adams to lend his dilbert license since he loves charles schulz and the peanuts
>have a dilbert land as a stand in as camp snoopy
5f1606 No.14370246
I remember going to the mall to walk and the magic of finding a bookstore that wasn't just Barnes and Noble and one of the first acts of independence was asking your parents to stay at this play while they shop around for clothes while you can read to your heart's content. And I remember when malls weren't just fucking clothes only. They had more variety. Now imagine yourself as an adult who witness their favorite bookstore or childhood store filled with toys and electronics replaced by another fucking women's clothings store.
5f18eb No.14371503
300th post
thread now in freefall
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
394bf9 No.14371534
>>14370246
in the 1980s, there were a bunch of crappy businesses that built "family entertainment centers" (lava links, boomers, malibu grand prix etc etc) which were places that had like giant arcades, miniature golf, a playground, and a go kart track or a small waterpark, the vast majority of these places went insolvent and bellyup for a variety of reasons and ended up being torn down, many older anons grew up to watch a sentimental tacky arcade be physically ripped apart
517fc9 No.14371537
>>14363800
Malls are such pleasant space. It is actually epitome of pedestrian entertainment/leisure street
>no bad weather, no cold, no hot
>no towering buildings around that unconsciously frighten people
>restaurants and water closets in the immediate reach
>no cars threatening to run over and deafening you with their 120+db noise
>place is public but security is minute away to stop crime
"Public spaces" >>14363841 pushed by urbanism are joke comparing to the mall. Only US lost to the "diversity" turning safe place into crime spots.
517fc9 No.14371586
>>14359478
That is similar concepts. These warehouses cut off by membership barrier consumers that bring more expenses than revenues.
5fa786 No.14371856
>>14370246
>that one store in the mall that would sell shitty swords and katanas
>the owner was fat and always wear his hair in a pony tail or wearing a fedora
>you would visit every chance you got because you were an autist and thought swords were cool
cc5e1d No.14378496
>get talked into going to a mall
>decide to go because fuck it, remember there was a weapons store I liked back in middle school even though I know they well models that aren't for actual SCA shit.
>memer beaner kids everywhere
>employess smiling while looking dead inside and hoping someone actually buys something instead of windowshopping
>passed a few 12 year old kids with their fat token memer beaner friend, all wearing guy fawkes T-shirts that said "never forgive never forget, expect us**
>obese furries that wore their furry ears and tails in public
>dangerhairs and tumblrinas gawking over their hipster shit in the barnes and noble
the only good thing about it was going to the Movie Trade and getting some Red Sonja comics and talking to a guy about Ideon.
1ba80e No.14378506
>>14361498
lower violent crime rate
a71dc5 No.14378548
>>14361315
>unless you live in a 100% white region
you do realise that was a reality for many of us
so no, malls weren't always shit
diversity just killed the magic
c7864e No.14378990
>>14359439
>he doesnt rent games for free from his local library
what the fuck is wrong with you?
ef1fc6 No.14379137
>>14360104
Doesn't surprise me. It's a hipster place with a 90s nostalgiaboner. At least you have a good arcade. Count your blessings anon.
88f736 No.14379667
>>14378990
using your hand like that is perfectly reasonable, since its faster than putting on sunnies or pivoting your cap around.
24aa4c No.14379923
>>14359527
I worked in the receiving department of a mall and would see the same fucking old people going in there at like 7am through the one entrance unlocked for us. They would just walk around and wait for stores to open.
fb5733 No.14380087
>>14371537
What shithole do you live in to have all this happening outside and to malls being a preferable option?
>>14378548
That is what is said. If you live in any place were there aren't 100% White People, malls will be shit.
7b7a32 No.14385775
>>14359414
heh I ended up building a level of that in cryengine with a few custom blender assets
7b7a32 No.14385778
>>14360655
I don't have any screencaps but I do have a text file left from the final thread.
Setting and Mechanics
>Planetoid with a Mall spanning the surface
>built during a financial boom the malls were later abandoned during a financial crash
>The malls were built along hyperspace trade routes
>have to abandon your ship
>Escape pod crash lands in the Mall
>Minimalist interface. Think Dead Space.
>Must scavenge supplies to survive and establish a safe house while awaiting rescue
>Psychological based fear. Things seen out of the corner of the eye, unexplained noises, etc.
>You are never given concrete evidence that you are alone/not alone.
>Maps only in fixed locations
>Ordinary pre-recorded announcements are played over the intercom
>The announcements grow stranger or more specific to your current task/location
>no sounds except for occasional mall music which only plays in certain sections
>Area's fucked up as a result of a "Seeding" malfunction. Pits straight down, no gravity etc.
>power cells can be found to temporarily restore power to a store. Allowing you to have lighting and closing the shutters for security while you sleep.
Objectives
>construct some sort of distress beacon or such to call for help.
>repair an old damaged ship in docking bay
>Repairing solar panels to restore power to sections of the Mall (would need some sort of space suit)
>Reapiring generators in maintenance levels to restore power to elevators lighting etc
>clearing flooded sections or finding equipment to pass through it
Intro
>Alarms blaring onboard a freighter/cargo ship
>PC seen running towards the escape pods
>once inside the pod he begins to search for the nearest habitable location
>only thing nearby is an old abandoned Planet Mall
>He sets a course and launches
>an explosion from the ship as he's launching damages his pod
>he crashlands in the mall
Antagonist
>The Announcer
>Has control over the security camera's, doors, and elevators of the Mall
>controls "The Janitors"
>Is not defined as to what it actually is
>Wants to keep the PC within the Mall
>Tries to kill the PC when he attempts to leave the Mall
>The Janitors
>robotic mannequins
>they are inert until activated by The Announcer
>They perform tasks for the Announcer
>never seen to be moving by the player
>have a tendency to show up in areas where there shouldn't be Mannequins
Lore
>Malls were built during a financial boom.
>Planetoids get 'seeded' by manufacturing machines and the surface gets covered automatically, a fractal mall.
>Sometimes there are mistakes, rarely but they happen. Odd geometry. Scale mistakes. Open spaces with a drop down into miles of blackness.
>Some time after, there was a financial crash and the malls were abandoned.
>The mall planet's were just left to rot away. They are self sustaining enough to maintain an atmosphere and gravity. But there are malfunctions.
>this would be conveyed through a newspaper or magazine article.
>While also throwing in some small hints that that might have just been a cover story.
>the idea being to keep it vague to allow for player interpretation
6c618f No.14388510
I never went to malls. And I got my toys from toys r us and no I dont miss that since video games are better.