What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?

[GreatBlue Swirlof99]

100 posts achieved! Raffle time!

You mean the Splatterhouse raffle?

[GreatBlue Swirlof99]

100 posts achieved! Raffle time!

You mean the Splatterhouse raffle?

Yes, all of em'!

Whoo cool so can you enter me?

[Dicer]

[TR0N]

[Sadler]

This is super cool! I know it says chatroulette, but I promise it's penis free.

Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version)

[esteban]

This is super cool! I know it says chatroulette, but I promise it's penis free.

Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version)

So friggin' awesome.

[HailingTheThings]

This guy scares me, a lot. The comments for this video are pretty hilarious, though. Enjoy.

[Opethian]

patreon lol

[HailingTheThings]

Probably the best. Probably.

[SuperPlay]

Flashing red lights. I pulled the kerb
License and registration, sobriety check...
There is a crack rock in my throat
I will be the best-dressed man in prison!
I should not be driving this car

:-)

[esteban]

PeePee Gayhouse was surprisingly entertaining.

[jeffhlewis]

PeePee Gayhouse was surprisingly entertaining. 

I lost it at "Playboy the Sequel"

[NightWolve]

The Karate Kid: Daniel is the REAL Bully
A different take on the original The Karate Kid movie. ;)

[Dicer]

The Karate Kid: Daniel is the REAL Bully
A different take on the original The Karate Kid movie. ;)

Most excellent...

[NightWolve]

Heh, awesome, that video is now trending on Facebook and it made Kotaku.

http://kotaku.com/proof-that-daniel-was-the-real-bully-in-the-karate-kid-1726074110

[BigusSchmuck]

Shameless plug of my cat doing tricks?

[esteban]

The Karate Kid: Daniel is the REAL Bully
A different take on the original The Karate Kid movie. ;)

I will watch this when I get home, but I fear it. I fear it.

This is Kobra Kai Propaganda, I know it. I smell the workings of FEKA, too.

Shameless plug of my cat doing tricks?

I love that his name is Baldrick!

[HailingTheThings]

Also this (NSFW - TOO MUCH GOTH):

[Sarumaru]

[esteban]

Pingu!

[HailingTheThings]

Absolute best. Absolute.

[Digi.k]

one of the best gaming adverts I have ever seen !

[TR0N]

[kosko99]

aww yish

[BigusSchmuck]

[geise]

aww yish

lol...

here is something for ya.

BTW Rob Scallon is great.

hehe and the bass player is wearing a Megadeath shirt.

[NightWolve]

NO Whammies, ALL the money, STOP!!!!

https://vine.co/v/eU360TKMhbJ


I like her facial expressions, the enthusiasm, the win-win aggression at first and then the look of failure!

[NecroPhile]

Strangely, that's also her O face.

[NightWolve]

Strangely, that's also her O face.

Ha, that's what it was, I found her cute myself, but now that you said that it made me think of Meg Ryan back from "When Harry Met Sally" given her fake O scene. She's almost got the same look to her, especially with the hairdo and color.

[DragonmasterDan]

I've been watching a series of videos where a guy walks through dead shopping malls.

[kosko99]

[NightWolve]

I thought they were gonna overdo it for a second but that did get funny once the beat kicked in. ;)

[esteban]

I thought they were gonna overdo it for a second but that did get funny once the beat kicked in. ;)

Agreed.

I loved how he pushed the window open with his head.

[esteban]

I've been watching a series of videos where a guy walks through dead shopping malls.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ

That sounds intriguing. I've been in only a few *nearly dead* shopping malls (economically depressed areas...like near Rochester, NY back in the 90's, visiting my family).

[DragonmasterDan]

I've been watching a series of videos where a guy walks through dead shopping malls.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ

That sounds intriguing. I've been in only a few *nearly dead* shopping malls (economically depressed areas...like near Rochester, NY back in the 90's, visiting my family).

One basically dead mall a little ways from me got turned into a South of the Border style indoor flea market.

[geise]

Holy shit!  Rolling Acres mall is in that guys series!  I used to frequent that place as a kid in the 80's.  It was a really good mall.  Up untill the late 80's early 90's it starting having gang problems really bad.  We started to go to Great Northern near the Cleveland Hopkins airport instead.  I wonder how Great Northern mall is now?  Arkhan would probably know.

[xcrement5x]

It's pretty interesting to see the trend away from traditional malls to strip malls now.  I can only assume they are cheaper to maintain since you are not paying to heat/cool/clean entire corridors between stores really. 

I would like to think it is because people are healthier and want to walk more, but I bet it is really because you can now drive to store X, buy what you want, get back in your car, and then drive to store Z on the other of the mall faster and without having to go by Claire's/Forever Jailbait/etc or whatever other store you can't stand. 

[DragonmasterDan]

It's pretty interesting to see the trend away from traditional malls to strip malls now.  I can only assume they are cheaper to maintain since you are not paying to heat/cool/clean entire corridors between stores really. 

I would like to think it is because people are healthier and want to walk more, but I bet it is really because you can now drive to store X, buy what you want, get back in your car, and then drive to store Z on the other of the mall faster and without having to go by Claire's/Forever Jailbait/etc or whatever other store you can't stand. 

First off how often do you go to traditional indoor fortress style mall anchor stores?

I mean places like Sears, JC Penny, Macy's, Von Maur, Dillards, Nordstroms?

Those stores have lost a lot of their market share and luster over the past 15-20 years due to discount stores like Wal-Mart and Target eating away market share.

The indoor specialty shops in malls have taken even more of a hit with a lot of stores specializing in hard to find at big box items like specialty scented candles, offensive t-shirts , lingerie, specialty movies and music, all of these things can be conveniently shopped for and even price checked online. This is really what's killed indoor malls.

[johnnykonami]

Glen Burnie Mall, Owings Mills Mall and Security Square are all really close to me and I'm familiar with all of them.  I have plenty of memories of playing arcade games, eating Hot Sams cheese drenched pretzels, and buying Turbob there from the Toys R' Us.  In fact, I am pretty sure the Glen Burnie Mall TRU was my primary source for Turbob items.  I remember buying Vasteel there among others.

Glen Burnie Mall just got trumped by Marley Station Mall, which is like 8 times the size.  That happened some time in the 90s.  It's very tiny.  Then we got Arundel Mills Mall a couple years back which made Marley Station seem small in comparison.

[DragonmasterDan]

Then we got Arundel Mills Mall a couple years back which made Marley Station seem small in comparison.

A couple years ago? From my understanding they haven't built any big indoor fortress style malls in the US in the past 10 or so years.

[geise]

Watching that Rolling Acres Mall vid made me sad.  I used to go to Aladin's Castle and play arcade games all  the time.  I used to have birthdays there.  Across the street from the mall was Toys R US.  I used to get all my games there in the late 80's and early 90's.  That was after a stop from the next door McDonalds.  I think online shopping is part of what is killing these huge malls, and people being lazy as all hell now.

[NecroPhile]

The internet is often blamed for the decline of indoor malls, but that doesn't make much sense when you see outdoor malls of equal or larger combined square footage being built all over the place.  Online shopping has hurt 'em some, of course, but the demand for in person shopping is still strong.

[johnnykonami]

Then we got Arundel Mills Mall a couple years back which made Marley Station seem small in comparison.

A couple years ago? From my understanding they haven't built any big indoor fortress style malls in the US in the past 10 or so years.

You're right, it doesn't seem like it's been that long but according to the wikipedia page it opened in 2000.  I guess thats a few more than a couple!  As a resident it still seems kinda new to me.  Still, the place is busy as hell.  Parking is damn near impossible and they did add a casino on making it even worse.

[DragonmasterDan]

The internet is often blamed for the decline of indoor malls, but that doesn't make much sense when you see outdoor malls of equal or larger combined square footage being built all over the place.  Online shopping has hurt 'em some, of course, but the demand for in person shopping is still strong.

I think the thing to take into account is the internet is responsible for not the death of the big department anchor stores but a lot of the weird specialty stores in malls.

For example, if I wanted to buy a movie(on VHS or Laserdisc being the popular formats at the time)  or CD not stocked at big box chains 20 years ago, I generally had to go to a specialty store (example Sam Goody, Musicland, Suncoast) and have them special order it. A lot of those specialty stores were predominantly but certainly not solely located in malls. These are the kinds of businesses (ones that were not price competitive to compete with big boxes, but carved out a niche selling specialty items) that the internet has really made obsolete outside of impulse purchases.

[Mathius]

Since I was little I have always had dreams about huge, weird indoor malls. With secret passages and crap. I even had one dream where I took shelter from Godzilla in a mall.


I'm weird.

[OldMan]

I wonder how Great Northern mall is now?

Come to CCAG next year and see for yourself. It's not that far away.

[xcrement5x]

Then we got Arundel Mills Mall a couple years back which made Marley Station seem small in comparison.

A couple years ago? From my understanding they haven't built any big indoor fortress style malls in the US in the past 10 or so years.

You're right, it doesn't seem like it's been that long but according to the wikipedia page it opened in 2000.  I guess thats a few more than a couple!  As a resident it still seems kinda new to me.  Still, the place is busy as hell.  Parking is damn near impossible and they did add a casino on making it even worse.

I had to google this place based on your description of the size, it sounds nuts!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Mills

Also, from Wiki:

It is the first enclosed mall to feature a Medieval Times dinner theater.[1] In addition to 17 large anchor stores, Arundel Mills also features a Dave & Buster's, Maryland Live! Casino, and an Egyptian-themed 24-screen megaplex theater.

WAT?!  Medieval times in a mall!

[johnnykonami]

I had to google this place based on your description of the size, it sounds nuts!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Mills

Also, from Wiki:

It is the first enclosed mall to feature a Medieval Times dinner theater.[1] In addition to 17 large anchor stores, Arundel Mills also features a Dave & Buster's, Maryland Live! Casino, and an Egyptian-themed 24-screen megaplex theater.

WAT?!  Medieval times in a mall!

Yeah, it's pretty big.  Not as big as say, Mall of America, I don't think, but I haven't been there yet myself.  My lady wants to go to that sometime.  I think there's another crazy huge mall in Canada somewhere which is also something we've discussed visiting.

I spent a decent amount of time in the D&B at Arundel Mills, I even tried to work there but I quit after like two weeks of being ticket restock monkey.  It was actually a Jillian's before D&B took it over but it was essentially the same games before and after.  The D&B in Rockville, MD was way better game wise in my mind - they had a pretty awesome shooting gallery (all physical targets), one of those giant Galaxian 3rd 6 person deals which I am glad I got the chance to play before it got taken apart, and a Quick N' Crash by Namco which I had a lot of good times going back and forth with a friend on trying to beat each other's times.

Never actually been inside of the Medieval Times myself, but I have walked past it a bunch!  Nowadays I try to avoid that place like the plague.  Parking is a nightmare.

[Mathius]

I had to google this place based on your description of the size, it sounds nuts!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Mills

Also, from Wiki:

It is the first enclosed mall to feature a Medieval Times dinner theater.[1] In addition to 17 large anchor stores, Arundel Mills also features a Dave & Buster's, Maryland Live! Casino, and an Egyptian-themed 24-screen megaplex theater.

WAT?!  Medieval times in a mall!

Yeah, it's pretty big.  Not as big as say, Mall of America, I don't think, but I haven't been there yet myself.  My lady wants to go to that sometime.  I think there's another crazy huge mall in Canada somewhere which is also something we've discussed visiting.

I spent a decent amount of time in the D&B at Arundel Mills, I even tried to work there but I quit after like two weeks of being ticket restock monkey.  It was actually a Jillian's before D&B took it over but it was essentially the same games before and after.  The D&B in Rockville, MD was way better game wise in my mind - they had a pretty awesome shooting gallery (all physical targets), one of those giant Galaxian 3rd 6 person deals which I am glad I got the chance to play before it got taken apart, and a Quick N' Crash by Namco which I had a lot of good times going back and forth with a friend on trying to beat each other's times.

Never actually been inside of the Medieval Times myself, but I have walked past it a bunch!  Nowadays I try to avoid that place like the plague.  Parking is a nightmare.

I've never even seen a Galaxian 3. Me jelly.

Cherish those memories.

[esteban]

Since I was little I have always had dreams about huge, weird indoor malls. With secret passages and crap. I even had one dream where I took shelter from Godzilla in a mall.


I'm weird.

Don't worry. The trauma from watching Dawn of the Dead at an early age affects everyone differently.

Personally, I want to land a helicopter on top of a mall. If only I knew how to fly one of those things.