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sweet thursday posted:Yeah but this ain't it OP lmao  
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Sep 8, 2019 09:33
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remember the forum Hot Topic: Michael Moore
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Sep 8, 2019 10:47
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*in Jim Gaffigan’s voice when he says Hot Pockeeets for his Hot Pockets routine* Hot Topiiic
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Sep 8, 2019 11:10
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N. Senada posted:If you know a better place to pick up scene girls, I’d like to hear it OP I’m confused, if you are into teenage scene girls I would assume you are already the vocalist for a successful pop punk band?
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Yea OP, you can get some sweet Funko Pops there! Which is basically beanie babies for millennials. Pretty sure beanie babies were beanie babies for millennials tbh.
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Sep 8, 2019 12:55
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All of the 2005 scene girls are single moms now, just get on tinder
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Yea it exists and you're invited to Chridtiana Mall in Delaware (the State) to hang out to browse the Hot Topic and smoke cigarettes outside then we can go watch a movie Angry Birds 2 Sounds good, but can we go see the Dora movie instead. Checking for show times
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Sep 8, 2019 13:32
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Schlong Connery posted:Sounds good, but can we go see the Dora movie instead. Checking for show times Yea
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Sep 8, 2019 13:33
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Literally A Person posted:....the pot is thusly sweetened. I don't think anyone's ever been murdered in DE. Everyone just dies of old age or off's themselves either purposefully or accidentally
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Schlong Connery posted:I don't think anyone's ever been murdered in DE. Everyone just dies of old age or off's themselves either purposefully or accidentally Actually people get murdered in Wilmington nonstop
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Actually people get murdered in Wilmington nonstop Nothing in the circle bulge counts as Delaware it’s just philly
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:Nothing in the circle bulge counts as Delaware it’s just philly But that only makes the murder more???
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Sep 8, 2019 13:43
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Is murder in Delaware a Hot Topic?
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Literally A Person posted:Is murder in Delaware a Hot Topic? Asking for directions in Wilmington was a learning experience.
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Sep 8, 2019 15:36
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yeah they still exist, they're basically the only B&M that sells merch for a lot of nerd poo poo so I pop in there every now and then (my fiancee got this dope Evangelion shirt there a little while back)
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:yeah they still exist, they're basically the only B&M that sells merch for a lot of nerd poo poo so I pop in there every now and then So wait, is nerd crap counter-culture now? I thought even the good looking and non-socially maladjusted where nerding it up these days.
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Literally A Person posted:So wait, is nerd crap counter-culture now? I thought even the good looking and non-socially maladjusted where nerding it up these days. non-commital handwavey motion? nerd crap with a huge marketing budget (the MCU, Gears of War, DBZ, that kind of thing) is absolutely not counter-culture but stuff that's more on the fringes of it fits OK with their vibe e: like, to keep going with anime as examples, I can pop into like four separate stores at the mall for a DBZ or One Punch Man shirt (I actually have one of the latter I grabbed at Gamestop of all loving places), but I'm pretty sure HT is the only B&M carrying Junji Ito merch or stuff like that Eva shirt WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Literally A Person posted:So wait, is nerd crap counter-culture now? I thought even the good looking and non-socially maladjusted where nerding it up these days. No it's hip
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Sep 8, 2019 15:52
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:No it's hip Is it hip to be square?
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Literally A Person posted:Is it hip to be square? Yea
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Sep 8, 2019 15:54
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Oh juice. Finally my oddly shaped head is paying off in spades!!!!
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Sep 8, 2019 15:55
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Literally A Person posted:Oh juice. 
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Sep 8, 2019 15:57
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Edgar posted:Are other hot topics super cramp and half the people inside are employees? Yeah, they're all like this. Every location is smaller than a Cinnabon stand and has like 3 employees just milling around near the Funko Pops for whatever bizarre reason.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Yeah, they're all like this. Every location is smaller than a Cinnabon stand and has like 3 employees just milling around near the Funko Pops for whatever bizarre reason. The funk-poops is what give them their radical powers.
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Sep 8, 2019 15:58
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The disaffected tough guy house style of 2000s GBS posting only instead of talking about making GBS threads your pants or how you blackmailed your uncle because you found out he was gay it's about being vaguely unsettled by the existence of a thing that targets young people even after you yourself are no longer young.Literally A Person posted:So wait, is nerd crap counter-culture now? I thought even the good looking and non-socially maladjusted where nerding it up these days. Hot Topic was never counterculture simply by wont of being a national chain store, you were just a dumb teenage who thought people laughed at you because you were different but you laughed at them because they were all the same just like millions of other teens. It was founded by a retail executive who coldly calculated the whole thing based off of how popular MTV was.  quote:Hot Topic was founded by Orv Madden in 1989, after the executive became aware of the marketing opportunities which had been created by MTV and other popular forms of alternative youth culture. Previous to starting Hot Topic, Madden had spent the entirety of his working life in the retail industry. A native of Alton, Iowa, Madden earned his MBA from the prestigious University of Chicago and eventually earned a position as vice-president of the Federated Department Stores' Children's Place and Accessory Place divisions, a title he held for six years. While Madden's retail experience well prepared him to strike out on his own, it was his personal drive and lifelong devotion to contemporary music that allowed him to see the market niche Hot Topic would eventually fill. Their corporate run history page conveniently doesn't mention that but you can clearly see that even from day one it was selling merch of network TV sketch shows, Disney movies, and South Park. If Funko Pops existed back then they would have been selling them too.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUiiT84Ubg
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Sleeveless posted:Hot Topic was never counterculture simply by wont of being a national chain store, you were just a dumb teenage who thought people laughed at you because you were different but you laughed at them because they were all the same just like millions of other teens. It was founded by a retail executive who coldly calculated the whole thing based off of how popular MTV was. Um, bro. I never shopped at the Hot Topic. But it seems like you must have spent a lot of time there.
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Orv Madden is responsible for all the mom and pop alternative clothing stores going out of business in the early 90s
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A huge floating silver sphere appears over the football stadium, the crowd begins to panic, scream and stampede as the vast shadow of the sphere slowly travels over them. As the immense shining ball hovers above the field a cacophonous pronouncement is made. "I AM ORB MADDEN. I HAVE KILLED JOHN MADDEN AND ABSORBED HIM. WE ARE ORB MADDEN. COME TO THE MALL AND SHOP AT MY NEW STORE HOT TOPIC. THIS HAS BEEN ORB MADDEN."
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:A huge floating silver sphere appears over the football stadium, the crowd begins to panic, scream and stampede as the vast shadow of the sphere slowly travels over them. As the immense shining ball hovers above the field a cacophonous pronouncement is made. The new arena event for the Something Awful Hunger Games is looking good.
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Sep 8, 2019 16:30
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When I was at the mall, I saw a store like hot topic but it was called boxlunch. Same stuff but it had more light inside and more "remember the 90's" theme.
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My gang hangs out in the nature store
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When will Funko Pops go away??? Can someone give me like an approximate year so I have something to look forward to?? I just don't understand them at all I don't understand how that's a thing people buy that it's a thing so many stores sell I look at them like a gorilla looks at a pressure cooker.
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I do support the Christiana Mall though their California Pizza Kitchen is on point and the movie theater has some awesome seating and there's a Shake Shack and a Container Store in the outer ring shopping centers these days.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:When will Funko Pops go away??? Can someone give me like an approximate year so I have something to look forward to?? They won't go away until the great Funko-War of 2379. It'll be a bloody day but humanity, in the end, will push back the tide of funkles and reclaim the planet for ourselves once again.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I do support the Christiana Mall though their California Pizza Kitchen is on point and the movie theater has some awesome seating and there's a Shake Shack and a Container Store in the outer ring shopping centers these days. Thank you for coming to this thread to endorse Christiana Mall and give further evidence for goons that it is a cool place to hang out and visit Hot Topic
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Sep 8, 2019 16:46
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I miss malls. There, I said it
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Sep 8, 2019 16:50
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EorayMel posted:The new arena event for the Something Awful Hunger Games is looking good. OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! 
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Shaq fu part two.
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