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also for the couple of people that didn't get it i was suggesting that the car obsessed spergs that can't shut up about how their suspension feels soft or hard or their favorite 30 year old car or whatever gently caress off to AI
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Xaris posted:what five cars are those NA Miata, NB Miata, NC Miata, Subaru BR-Z, Scion FR-S.
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Citizen Tayne posted:He's dead now. RIP. What four teams are those?
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Xaris posted:what five cars are those Toyota Corolla, Honda Accord, Bugatti Veyron, 1988 Volvos, any Lancia.
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Darth123123 posted:What four teams are those? NY Yankees, Chicago Cubs, San Fransisco Giants, Tokyo Dragons.
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Xaris posted:what five cars are those Miata, E30, NSX, and I don't know who cares.
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Lucktastic has started showing ads for its app on its app. Is this a warning sign?
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AI also had a magical morgellons saga.
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Free Market Mambo posted:AI also had a magical morgellons saga. Yeah but it turned out the dude was just doing shitloads of meth. But no it's okay guys I used to take adderall so this is pretty much the same thing. Then he bitches about how no one will prescribe him the Xanax or adderall he "needs". As a tweaker he also likes to buy dumb/lovely/oddball cars then bitch about how he can't find parts/that they constantly break. The AI circle jerk mafia delights in this.
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Cubey posted:this isn't an isis thing, old toyota trucks have been used by militias and poo poo for a real long time due to their reliability and ease of repair. Hell, Top Gear tried to kill a late 80's Toyota Hilux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPnIpjodA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnVZXQD5_k They could not kill it. In Sears and Kmart News: Kmart is closing some stores They are only closing 17 stores according to this article, but closing Mid Decemeber? Can't even let them get that full holiday money?
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two forty posted:NA Miata, NB Miata, NC Miata, Subaru BR-Z, Scion FR-S.  at the loving box car driven by those stupid cartoon hamsters.
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two forty posted:Yeah but it turned out the dude was just doing shitloads of meth. But no it's okay guys I used to take adderall so this is pretty much the same thing. Then he bitches about how no one will prescribe him the Xanax or adderall he "needs". in fairness to you, that first paragraph is pretty much spot on in fairness to 14, that second paragraph is pretty much the point. he's basically running a Japanese game show against himself.
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I live in upstate NY and there's a Kmart here that's been open about 20 years. It started as a super center with a restauarant. Then they killed the restaurant. 5 years ago a Walmart opened a quarter mile down the road and Kmart killed their groceries. So for the last 5 years it's been a giant store with half of its operating space barred off with tape where the groceries used to be. I was in there a few years ago during peak Christmas shopping hours and I'd say there were no more than 8 shoppers in the whole store. What I'm getting at is there must be some other rhyme or reason to Kmart's plans because this store must be hemorrhaging money every month by the truckload and yet it's STILL not on that loving closure list.
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A Kmart in my hometown recently closed after being open for 35+ years. I'm betting Sears throws in the towel after the holidays.
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A Fancy Bloke posted:I live in upstate NY and there's a Kmart here that's been open about 20 years. It started as a super center with a restauarant. Then they killed the restaurant. 5 years ago a Walmart opened a quarter mile down the road and Kmart killed their groceries. So for the last 5 years it's been a giant store with half of its operating space barred off with tape where the groceries used to be. I was in there a few years ago during peak Christmas shopping hours and I'd say there were no more than 8 shoppers in the whole store. We have a Sears closing in October after being open for 50+ years here. I'm really not sure how this company stays afloat. I will say that I went there yesterday and due to the closing sale it was busier than any other time including Christmas.
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Don't even get me started on my local Sears. It's an anchor store in my local mall, which is already dead and I think it somehow has even less visitors than the mall proper.
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Nothing is more depressing then a mall.
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Blacktoll posted:Nothing is more depressing then a mall. This man has never been to a renaissance fair.
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Blacktoll posted:Nothing is more depressing then a mall. Malls were the poo poo in the 80s too.
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Ryoshi posted:This man has never been to a renaissance fair.
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A Fancy Bloke posted:Don't even get me started on my local Sears. It's an anchor store in my local mall, which is already dead and I think it somehow has even less visitors than the mall proper. Same here. Well was. The closed it and within a year the mall owners bulldozed it even though it was attached to the mall. No one wanted to rent old Sears space.
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There's a pretty big dead mall in Oak Ridge TN, a town which is itself circling the drain. I think the only thing open is a JC Penney and a movie theater in an outbuilding. When your country stops needing radioactive poo poo and closes down the only major employer in the city, it goes downhill pretty fast even by East TN standards. There is a Kmart across the street from a Walmart, or at least there was as of this spring, the Kmart might be gone now.
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Darth123123 posted:Same here. Well was. The closed it and within a year the mall owners bulldozed it even though it was attached to the mall. No one wanted to rent old Sears space. The funny thing is that this Sears predates the mall.
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A Fancy Bloke posted:Malls were the poo poo in the 80s too. early 80s malls were awesome because you had arcades and independent record stores. Stores back then had good back catalogs, knowledge staff, and half the store wasn't devoted to movies, cartoons, and over stock from ThinkGeek. Even better if your mall had a movie theater. The opening scene in Fast Times At Ridgemont High is a perfect example of how things used to look. I don't know what happened in the late 80s but all the malls in my town got sketchier and more run down. They all remodeled by tearing out the theater and replacing it with at department store. All the restaurants were shut down and a lovely food courts were added but it was too late. Arcade games were on their way out and most machines now cost 50 cents to play unless you could find a Galaga stuck all the way in the back.
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two forty posted:There's a pretty big dead mall in Oak Ridge TN, a town which is itself circling the drain. I think the only thing open is a JC Penney and a movie theater in an outbuilding. When your country stops needing radioactive poo poo and closes down the only major employer in the city, it goes downhill pretty fast even by East TN standards. There is a Kmart across the street from a Walmart, or at least there was as of this spring, the Kmart might be gone now. Sears was the second to last standing store in that mall. I went a few times during their months long "going out of business sale" and the store was full of poo poo marked down like 1%. I went in that K-Mart a couple times and literally didn't see anyone, staff or customer.
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Bonzo posted:early 80s malls were awesome because you had arcades and independent record stores. Stores back then had good back catalogs, knowledge staff, and half the store wasn't devoted to movies, cartoons, and over stock from ThinkGeek. Interesting that you bring this up wrt the staff. I remember being in a game store ~15 years ago and the employees actually having experience with the products being sold. No pushy bullshit like trying to sell you warranties or pre order upcoming products. I would say this is one of the things that turns people off from going to the store vs ordering online (at least when the prices are similar).
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Ryoshi posted:This man has never been to a renaissance fair. Yeah. I just GIS'D ren fair and it was worse than I expected. Woe to anyone who has to interact with one of those glorified carnies.
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Eames36 posted:Interesting that you bring this up wrt the staff. I remember being in a game store ~15 years ago and the employees actually having experience with the products being sold. No pushy bullshit like trying to sell you warranties or pre order upcoming products. I would say this is one of the things that turns people off from going to the store vs ordering online (at least when the prices are similar).
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Eames36 posted:Interesting that you bring this up wrt the staff. I remember being in a game store ~15 years ago and the employees actually having experience with the products being sold. No pushy bullshit like trying to sell you warranties or pre order upcoming products. I would say this is one of the things that turns people off from going to the store vs ordering online (at least when the prices are similar). Not to toot my own horn but when I ran a video rental store, I would give kids tips for how to get past certain levels in SNES and Genesis games. On the flip side I would have people asking me all the time about which porn movie was good. Like I'm supposed to watch 500 porn films and be able to recite the "plot" to each one.
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Bonzo posted:Not to toot my own horn but when I ran a video rental store, I would give kids tips for how to get past certain levels in SNES and Genesis games. you just have that look about you, like someone who would know
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Eames36 posted:Interesting that you bring this up wrt the staff. I remember being in a game store ~15 years ago and the employees actually having experience with the products being sold. No pushy bullshit like trying to sell you warranties or pre order upcoming products. I would say this is one of the things that turns people off from going to the store vs ordering online (at least when the prices are similar). I had a (not particularly good) reason to go into a Gamestop this past weekend, and I genuinely felt bad for the employees there; the one guy they had roaming the (primarily populated by game- and cartoon-related junk) floor was having a pretty fun conversation with a customer about games they both liked, and after getting a clear look of disapproval from his manager, he sighed, pulled a big wad of fliers out of his pocket, and started reciting a sales pitch for whatever cell phone company they're partnered with now. I think he even started with a brief, "I'm sorry but I have to ask this."
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Blacktoll posted:Nothing is more depressing then a mall. Malls are just tax havens for real estate which is why there is way too many
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Bonzo posted:Not to toot my own horn but when I ran a video rental store, I would give kids tips for how to get past certain levels in SNES and Genesis games. It was pretty cool to talk to the people about whatever was hot at the time and get opinions from people who were genuinely interested -- I think this was around when StarCraft Broodwar had just come out and everyone was flipping their poo poo over it. Contrast this with the experience now, I walked into a gamestop to buy my brother a gift and I'm immediately met with someone trying to sell me a membership card or to pre order whatever COD is coming out next month. I mean I guess it's not the clerks fault this is being passed down by the corporate overlords but jesus you give someone the choice to physically go someone or just get the game off amazon prime, what do you think they are going to do.
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Segmentation Fox posted:I had a (not particularly good) reason to go into a Gamestop this past weekend, and I genuinely felt bad for the employees there; the one guy they had roaming the (primarily populated by game- and cartoon-related junk) floor was having a pretty fun conversation with a customer about games they both liked, and after getting a clear look of disapproval from his manager, he sighed, pulled a big wad of fliers out of his pocket, and started reciting a sales pitch for whatever cell phone company they're partnered with now. I think he even started with a brief, "I'm sorry but I have to ask this." gently caress I did not see them trying to do anything with cell phones at the one I was at. this is even worse.
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The only thing GameStop has done right in well over a decade has been to finally stop using those lovely circle stickers directly on the cases of used games. You could never, ever remove all of the adhesive, and then eventually as time went by the adhesive would collect dust and grime until your game looked like someone tried to use it to wipe their rear end.
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Bonzo posted:early 80s malls were awesome because you had arcades and independent record stores. Stores back then had good back catalogs, knowledge staff, and half the store wasn't devoted to movies, cartoons, and over stock from ThinkGeek. Remember when Software Etc. actually had a pile of poo poo you'd never heard of and you could play Russian Roulette with your 60 dollar computer game after a long day going deaf in the Arcade playing Killer Instinct while sucking down Orange Julius? Also if you were an older grognard the bookstore would have about a billion AD&D books and supplements to read through.
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Every Gamestop I have been in lately, even the newer ones in nice malls or nicer parts of town are the same. Dingy, run down, with dim lighting and crowded displays and almost no games kept in original packaging, everything used is just slapped into one of their lovely packages, or worse still, if it is in the original box it was a price sticker put on the loving cover fold itself, not just the box and the games themselves also all look dingy. It is not anywhere I want to be in long enough to browse for a game, or gently caress, even go into to buy a game.
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Pretty sure gamestop always sucked. You were just 13.
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PassTheRemote posted:Hell, Top Gear tried to kill a late 80's Toyota Hilux: This is one of the coolest things I've ever watched on Youtube, holy poo poo I'm guessing current Toyota trucks would not do as well, right?
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Blacktoll posted:Pretty sure gamestop always sucked. You were just 13. That is true, it's more that I just wonder how they stay in business looking a Troll's lair.
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