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naem posted:Do people still purchase glossy magazines to display on their coffee table to pretend they are of a higher social class than they are or do we all just stare at our phones now If the books you've arranged on your coffee table to impress people have words in them you're doing it wrong
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BigBoss posted:Sometimes it's too easy. 
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Booblord Zagats posted:Up until 2010 we also had 5 Radioshacks in a town of 60k, with one that sold nothing but Cellphones and one who actually had really cool poo poo from the 1993 catalog still on the shelves. The other three sold batteries, cheap RC toys and lightbulbs. The cellphone one tanked the moment we got a Best Buy. The one that had all the old poo poo stayed open the longest because the franchise owner also started a comic shop/lovely pizzareia in half of the building that catered mostly to Warhammer and Magic players. Those parts just took over the Radioshack half slowly until he was let out of his franchise deal. RadioShack's obsession with selling cell phones and batteries just baffles me. Oldschool RS could've easily capitalized on the maker trends from a couple years back and made tons of money; sell Raspberry Pi and LEDs to arduino buffs who don't want to wait 2-5 days for shipping.
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Feb 7, 2016 03:43
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Aleph Null posted:*crackle pop hiss* My friend will sometimes switch over to playing records at parties and this is honestly the best part of it (as well as sort of making it inconvenient to just switch artists or tracks so you basically want to listen to the album)... Just like I enjoy watching movies on vhs sometimes still
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Feb 7, 2016 03:50
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I would say Star Citizen is quite close to the drain, but they still have a shitload of money. And yet, they'll probably be dead next year though Actually most video game companies, let's put them in the list
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Feb 7, 2016 06:11
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vyst posted:Blizzard carries the brand. I don't know why they bother with anything else. Blizzards are good though.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:32
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John Denver Hoxha posted:Just like I enjoy watching movies on vhs sometimes still What the gently caress is wrong with you?
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Feb 7, 2016 06:43
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Jonny 290 posted:how the gently caress is dairy queen still rolling all of their food tastes like it was fried in 10w40 I heard someone who ran a DQ one time say that the company no longer allowed new dessert-only franchises. You had to be a DQ Brazier-styled store. I believe they said the only reason they were allowed to run their store as a frozen only for so long was that they were grandfathered in before the policy changed. Granted, that was years ago, though, and the policies might have since changed. Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:I think records are a little different than magazines though. If you collect records you're just a sperg lord. If you collect magazines you're a hoarder You think you're going to be on the toilet for a while and want something to pass the time and not bring your tablet or phone with you, a magazine is a viable alternative: Once you're done with it, you just throw it out and it doesn't even matter if you got urine or feces on it or not.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:52
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That's what the backs of shampoo bottles were for. So I guess shampoo bottle writers are circling the drain!
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Feb 7, 2016 06:57
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Irradiation posted:What the gently caress is wrong with you? as cool as HD and perfect clarity is, not every movie needs or uses it... in some weird way the way colors smear out and a little bit of warpiness and glitches from video aging is kind of cool (so pretty much the same as why I like records)
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Feb 7, 2016 07:01
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John Denver Hoxha posted:as cool as HD and perfect clarity is, not every movie needs or uses it... in some weird way the way colors smear out and a little bit of warpiness and glitches from video aging is kind of cool (so pretty much the same as why I like records) I don't like you.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:22
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John Denver Hoxha posted:as cool as HD and perfect clarity is, not every movie needs or uses it... in some weird way the way colors smear out and a little bit of warpiness and glitches from video aging is kind of cool (so pretty much the same as why I like records)
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Feb 7, 2016 07:24
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Unguided posted:RadioShack's obsession with selling cell phones and batteries just baffles me. Oldschool RS could've easily capitalized on the maker trends from a couple years back and made tons of money; sell Raspberry Pi and LEDs to arduino buffs who don't want to wait 2-5 days for shipping. They had arduino kits at the last radio shack I went into. There's really no money in any of that poo poo though. Anyone with an actual project they want to do will have a specific parts list. Unless the store has everything you need in stock, it is just cheaper and easier to order it all online and wait the 1 or 2 days. If schools are buying stuff they aren't doing it at the mall. Mostly, though, arduino is a lot of startup companies hyping for venture capital and/or kickstarter money because Obama mentioned it in a speech once. People aren't really running out in droves to learn a dumb way how to make an led blink on and off with a lovely microcontroller. Cell phones and accessories and contracts are pure gravy that is why radio shack is big on it, the cell phone area is huge at wal-mart or best buy, there are cell phone kiosks everywhere in the mall. Cell phone bullshit is a 100 trillion dollar a week industry, that is why 99% of a shopping malls floor space is dedicated to it.
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BigBoss posted:They had a new EIC come over from Vogue or something and try and push the magazine "upscale" and "millennial". She got shitcanned last month after a magazine that is given away for free saw declining circulation. That happens a lot with media and marketing. People in that industry get trapped in a bubble. They forget that 99% of their audience aren't trust fund Oberlin grads like them. They're bros from Iowa who work at Shoneys and love the UFC. isn't shoneys a company that circled the drain a decade and a half ago? i remember one or two existing around here before they entirely vanished from the area
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The Dairy Queen closest to me in college had a deal on dilly bars - buy 6 get 10 free - amazing.
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I still use my zune hd at the gym and it owns. Gonna use that fucker until it dies.
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Don Tacorleone posted:Actually most video game companies, let's put them in the list AAA gaming is reaching a point where something's gotta give, the question is who falls first and why. Personally, my money's on Ubisoft. Konami, as horrible as they are, have bailed on basically anything anybody actually cares about, and while Square-Enix have had a lot of smaller problems as of late they have enough profitable sections to keep going strong. Ubisoft's open world machine is starting to break down, though, and they don't really have anything to lean on when it does. They have strong brands they could be pushing further ahead to keep going with when Assassin's Creed inevitably crashes, but rather than elevate a completely different product for that--Rayman, Might and Magic, Prince of Persia, just as quick examples--they seem to be hedging their bets on Farcry and Watch_Dogs, the properties rear end Creed is most likely to take down with it.
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Melmac posted:Anyone upset that Quiznos barely exists any more, just know that their franchising scheme was so predatory, hosed up, and designed so the owners made no money to the point that a guy killed himself and wrote a two page essay about how evil Quiznos corporate is. gently caress, I loved Quiznos until just now when I decided to research this. Turkey ranch and Swiss was so drat good. 
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Dr. Capco posted:I still use my zune hd at the gym and it owns. Gonna use that fucker until it dies. I would've believed you if you said "gay bath house" instead of gym
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Dr. Capco posted:I still use my zune hd at the gym and it owns. Gonna use that fucker until it dies. You're probably still paying for it. Zunes were alright but the problem was everyone was trying to create a "cool brand" to compete with Apple on "brand coolness" instead of making better devices cheaper. What they need to do is just buy a "cool" company and run it from the shadows like how the vanity headphone industry works. So with all this talk technically superior but not as cool media players and tacky headphones and companies circling the drain, what's up with Creative Labs? Do people still put SoundBlaster Live cards in their computers?
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Homer J. Fong posted:The Dairy Queen closest to me in college had a deal on dilly bars - buy 6 get 10 free - amazing. Half will melt though
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Cleretic posted:AAA gaming is reaching a point where something's gotta give, the question is who falls first and why.
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Whatev posted:The video game industry is pretty confusing from a dumbass layman's point of view (me). Game development has gotten so unbelievably more resource intensive, yet the prices of games are, adjusted for inflation, much less expensive than in the good old days when dev teams were a handful of turkeys. I reckon it's because the market has absolutely exploded since then. don't games sell more than movies now?
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Whatev posted:The video game industry is pretty confusing from a dumbass layman's point of view (me). Game development has gotten so unbelievably more resource intensive, yet the prices of games are, adjusted for inflation, much less expensive than in the good old days when dev teams were a handful of turkeys. The popular games in like 1980whenever cost 2.99 and they sold them in far more places
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John Denver Hoxha posted:as cool as HD and perfect clarity is, not every movie needs or uses it... in some weird way the way colors smear out and a little bit of warpiness and glitches from video aging is kind of cool (so pretty much the same as why I like records) Yeah, HD porn does suck *sees terrible acne from meth use* *crystal clear bruises from where her boyfriend beat her up yesterday*
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Liquid Chicken posted:Linkdin - How low can their stock go today - http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/LNKD Whoa, they lost almost 50% of their stock price in a day. What the hell happened?
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Harold posted:Whoa, they lost almost 50% of their stock price in a day. What the hell happened? They announced that they don't really have any way of making money
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vyst posted:Blizzard carries the brand. Blizzards are loving great, DQ would be fine if it was just a Baskin Robbins that serves its ice cream flavors in soda cups. Also their chicken strips and flamethrower burgers/chicken sandwiches are alright  e: Also watching movies from the 80s on VHS is great because you get to see trailers for 80s movies before the feature. King Vidiot has a new favorite as of 15:15 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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King Vidiot posted:Blizzards are loving great, DQ would be fine if it was just a Baskin Robbins that serves its ice cream flavors in soda cups. Dq food is peetty good
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Liquid Chicken posted:The setup for failure. Bennington, Vermont has a strip mall with a Kmart, JcPenny's and a Radio Shack. Just need a hat trick of closures and all that will be left is a sad Hallmark, PayLess Shoes and Staples. The Wal-Mart is expanding into a Super Wal-Mart nearby so that should be the final nail in the coffin for this strip o' poo poo. I dunno about the Bennington one but the Radio Shack in Brattleboro is a privately-owned franchise and IIRC is somehow doing really well On the other hand the remaining Radio Shacks are probably freaking the gently caress out right now - corporate shoved the phone repair service down managers' throats so hard that it's now an important part of their business (despite the fact that they buy the cheapest, shittiest replacement parts out there). Apple's new iOS update disables the home button on iphones that have been repaired by non-apple techs. This will not end well.
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Un-l337-Pork posted:They announced that they don't really have any way of making money like... most other overvalued tech firms?
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Unguided posted:RadioShack's obsession with selling cell phones and batteries just baffles me. Oldschool RS could've easily capitalized on the maker trends from a couple years back and made tons of money; sell Raspberry Pi and LEDs to arduino buffs who don't want to wait 2-5 days for shipping. They did start carrying a fairly decent assortment of Arduino/Beaglebone/RPI/LittleBits stuff but they literally didn't advertise it at all, and at least in my store they had us set up that section in the Senior Citizens aisle (home phones, alarm clocks, etc.) so most people coming in didn't even know we had them. One time I was bored and we had an extra gondola display right at the entrance, so I made up a nice display for all that poo poo. We were #1 in sales in the district that week. The following Monday my district manager came in, gave me a bunch of poo poo for going off-plan and made me take it down. Our sales dropped. That was right about the time I started telling people that they should just go down the street to Microcenter and get those button-cell batteries for $0.49 instead of $5.99 (yes that's actually what we charged for a single battery).
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Do any of you business goons know if theres an instrument through which to short a university? Ty thanks
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John Denver Hoxha posted:My friend will sometimes switch over to playing records at parties and this is honestly the best part of it (as well as sort of making it inconvenient to just switch artists or tracks so you basically want to listen to the album)... Just like I enjoy watching movies on vhs sometimes still I still buy used records because not everything got reissued on CD. Particularly country artists who were popular back in the day but never got their catalog released on CD or only show up on compilatons.
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Unguided posted:RadioShack's obsession with selling cell phones and batteries just baffles me. Oldschool RS could've easily capitalized on the maker trends from a couple years back and made tons of money; sell Raspberry Pi and LEDs to arduino buffs who don't want to wait 2-5 days for shipping. All the Radio Shacks in Canada got bought out and replaced by The Source which was a Circuit City brand. When they went under Bell bought all the stores. Shopping there reminds me of what it's like to buy something at an airport. Selection is limited and overpriced.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I heard someone who ran a DQ one time say that the company no longer allowed new dessert-only franchises. You had to be a DQ Brazier-styled store. I believe they said the only reason they were allowed to run their store as a frozen only for so long was that they were grandfathered in before the policy changed. Granted, that was years ago, though, and the policies might have since changed. The local DQs are both frozen only, my guess is they continue to pull this off because they're both in buildings I can't see ever being set up properly for a grill or electric skillet thing
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Cleretic posted:AAA gaming is reaching a point where something's gotta give, the question is who falls first and why. My money is Ubisoft crashing and Rockstar having to cozy up to another brand like EA or Valve because of the massive amount of costs they endure in development cycles. Also I hear rumor that EA and Microsoft have open offers to just buy CIG, the "company" "amking" the "videogame" Star Citizen when it burns out
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Booblord Zagats posted:My money is Ubisoft crashing and Rockstar having to cozy up to another brand like EA or Valve because of the massive amount of costs they endure in development cycles. Square-Enix makes an assload of money off Final Fantasy XIV, the new Tomb Raider and Just Cause are selling very well, and of course any game with the words Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest they make will automatically sell a million copies, so I don't think it's going to be them.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Square-Enix makes an assload of money off Final Fantasy XIV, the new Tomb Raider and Just Cause are selling very well, and of course any game with the words Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest they make will automatically sell a million copies, so I don't think it's going to be them. Yeah, Square Enix has a license to print money with their RPG franchises, they're really in no place to be worried. Plus their porting of their older games to mobile platforms has been a really solid side bet for them
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:I reckon it's because the market has absolutely exploded since then. don't games sell more than movies now? Yep, and there is a lot more competition than there used to be. You can't afford to be the company that straight up increases your prices to $75 while everyone else sticks to the $40-$55 mark. Instead companies find other ways to squeeze money out via DLC/expansions/subscriptions/etc.
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