yeah there is another mall that did that near cleveland, but it was a kohl’s that didn’t get demolished. it was weird because the mall when i was a kid built an extension that had a food court, and then the kohl’s was built as an expansion to the food court, and now the kohl’s is all that is left. i mentioned the walmart one before because that one seems way less common in terms of mall-attached stores.
it’s incredibly weird that these places just stick around though.
one of the many aspects of canadian society / urban development / politics being like an ersatz version of america that actually works better half the time as like received first principles than the reality of america itself is that our malls are actually pretty nice and still doing really well and even the low-end malls have some of the best affordable retail for weird shops in the city, like, the mall I go to with the theatre that participates in film festival screenings here has a cat cafe and the food court is all independent vendors… but the surrounding block is all condo construction
the fanciest mall within an hour drive (this is the 3rd mall I’ve talked about in the last 3 posts btw) is on indigenous-owned land right by the ferry terminal and the border and it has a) a little known customs exemption if you can talk them into ordering stuff for you, b) the nicest public bathrooms I’ve ever used, and c) the only arby’s in BC
indoor shopping promenades are typically associated with calgary/ottawa/montreal moreso than vancouver/victoria because our weather is just grey and miserable rather than freezing but I really love our malls, they are a good time, neither inaccessible nor depressing. you don’t hear people say it as much as a decade ago but if your view of how society should feel is semi-stuck in the 90s, dealing with commerce here is a lot more comforting than dealing with housing
yeah, whereas in America, the smaller/weird shops opening in a mall is almost always a sign of the final bells tolling, because it means whoever was running the mall finally saw the writing on the wall to lower rents enough that smaller places can go in, but they most likely waited way too long to do that, and so the mall is already gone.
things being built near a mall is amazing to me because yeah, that is certainly not how the waves of flight work around here at all.
this might also be the case in parts of the usa where it actually gets cold in the winter (i don’t know myself bc i never lived there before) but in general malls seem way more common here just because a fully enclosed shopping center makes a lot more sense when it’s like 20 below half the year. but because of that there’s a much greater range of uh, “quality” from one mall to the next.
the wild thing to me is that there are a few newer places that are imitating that ‘outdoor mall’ vibe that is more common in southern california. just seems like a completely ridiculous plan when you consider the weather here.
a common and underdiscussed problem that is most salient when you move from one part of the world to another place that is in the process of committing suicide to be marginally more like the first part
half the world is going to destroy itself trying to become more like the worst parts of los angeles
See, you might think this, but the most recent “malls” in the Cleveland area (such as the one that replaced the one where the Kohls is) are all that “open air” shit, which makes no goddamn sense here, but here we are. In fact, we are already on our first wave of those starting to go downhill as well, which is amazing. I think we have three indoor malls left, one of which is the default Rich People mall in Beachwood, the others just being normal but trending down.
I guess techinically there is a fourth, the train station in downtown, but nobody really shops there and last time i was there, half the stores were empty, but it will remain open forever because train station and also being the bottom of the big historical skyscraper downtown.
a supermarket inside a shopping center is common enough in dublin but there’s one in the city center where it takes up the entirety of the basement level and is only accessible by a little nondescript escalator in the corner of the ground floor, and going down there always feels like the retail equivalent of travelling between dimensions
When I was around 18, after dropping from a prestigious school and becoming a total recluse, I played videogames with save states so much that, one day, for a brief 10 minutes or so, I forgot that you can’t load your save in real life, and I had to re-learn that time was linear
Haunting memory
oh yeah i did that too
i mean, not the school thing specifically but the rest of it
Photoshop did a similar thing to my brain. Sometimes I’ll be drawing with pen and paper, make a mistake, and break my brain for a second by trying to mentally execute an “Undo”.
Yeah I think I have instinctively put my fingers in the CTRL+Z position when I make an IRL mistake
I play some games with intrusively long loading screens sometimes, and when I die I will like spam the Skip Cutscene button instinctually.
when i first started playing emulators i remember talking to my friend about instinctively wanting to use save states irl
feel the same way about moon jump game genie codes
big same
One of the first malls around here has a supermarket in it, but it’s also not quite a true mall as folks think of probably in part due to being the first. It’s a sort of hybrid with a strip mall, two levels as it’s built on the top of the hill with the upper level facing out on the top of the hill and the lower level facing the opposite side downhill, the center section actually having some indoor space with some more shops and stairs/escalators.
Centerpiece used to be a Woolworth’s which occupied both levels but that closed in the 90s, I forget if it was before or after that a Harris Teeter moved in, that eventually being replaced by Kroger. In fact it’s got two supermarkets now, a Fresh Market sits in the upper side, the Kroger being the lower side, like an allegory or something. That the Kroger is also one of the dumpier ones just makes it stand out all the more.
Which game was it that had some weird bug that actually allowed this to speed up the loading?