were Mallgoths just misunderstood? could something good have come out of this technology if we allowed it develop instead of mocking it?

Mallgoths?

>>63917369
>it's not a phase, mom

>>63917332 (OP)
The embarrassing mall sword shop is a precious lost third space.

>>63917332 (OP)
Absolutely. Mallninjas, fantasy larpers, etc, all have the right fundamental idea: an interest in weapons and how to use them. The problem is that they aren't aware that the products they're consooming are silly trash. If their interests were accepted then these people could be educated into being interested in real weapons, or learning practical skills to make fantasy weapons that are worthy of being called art.

Looking at it a different way, suppose there's some kid who is interested in swords. If people accepted this and took the kid to museums to look at real swords, pointed them to resources to learn about historical swords and sword-making, etc, they'd have a much better outlet for their interests vs hanging out with the loser kids & consooming chinesium slop.

I wish there was more diversity in what people carry. We need to normalize the carry of every weapon instead of what may be most effective.

>>63917497
>a precious lost third space.
fuck why was this taken away from us
why are all third spaces gone? everyone feels so isolated, no community.

>>63917803
Capitalism + the Internet.
Meatspace square footage is expensive to own and maintain, and limits the clientele to "anyone close enough to drive who knows about and wants to buy things the store sells". That's fine when you're talking about things with broad appeal and/or dense urban areas, but get too niche and there's a solid chance you simply won't have enough clients to make ends meet. Much simpler (and cheaper) to just own a warehouse and website and advertise on third-party forums that already self-select for people who would want to buy your product.

>>63917536
damn is this a story about you as a kid, anon? if your parents just took you to the Met you wouldn't have turned out the way you are?

>>63917862
Nah, bladed weapons aren't my jam, and I was taken to museums & such all the time as a kid. I just recognize the core issue.

>>63917369
Girls could just choose to be goth and they don't, bizarre.

>>63917369
Uh, that's Tractor Goth, not a mallgoth. Her name is Val, I think.

>>63917704
Selective pressures favor Glocks and Glock-likes. Eventually something will replace Glock forms, just as the rapier was replaced by the small sword and saber.

>>63917803
> why are all third spaces gone?
Kill give you a hint, it rhymes with biggers

>>63917803
more profitable to just bulldoze everything into warehouses and block housing. get everyone living alone so everyone has to buy one of everything. then you just ship it to them using cheap labor that costs a fraction of what manning a store would have cost. 'community' doesn't pay leases.

>>63917332 (OP)
Long slide+comp 1911 are based. Too bad those are toys.

>>63917332 (OP)
1911 with compensators is a real thing. You just have to reign in the aestetic to something reasonable.

>>63917332 (OP)
And real guns have engravings and emblems of historical figures.

>>63918076
Problem is construction doesn't even want to make block housing, the real money is in McMansions and "doomsday proof" bunkers for dipshits.

>>63917855
In terms of nerd stuff, I visited the factory and warehouse of Reaper Miniatures which makes those little minis for tabletop RPGs, and had they had a game room and store in the factory which was located near some glass and metal fab manufacturers and the county emergency management building. Of course it's hard to replicate outside of one location.

I'm just saying we can make stuff in this country.

I'm saying: we if we did fantasy larping and mallninja stuff *inside* factories and warehouses. Think about how kino that would be.

>>63917332 (OP)
>mall goth
that's dante's dmc1 loadout anon

>>63918614
Are you implying it would be out of character to see this guy chowing down on cheap food court pizza outside of the Hot Topic?

>>63918464
But they do make cardboard suburban apartment complexes. Also, fuck malls. Malls were always shit.

>>63918954
Construction firms don't WANT to make Peach Trees, anon. There's no money to bilk from making houses for poor assholes.

>>63917369
soul vs soulless

>>63919781
no u

>>63918614
DMC3 onward, anon. That's the Rebellion, not Alastor.

>>63917803
Goyim are not allowed to have anything at all in the 21st century
Enough of your nostalgia, it's time for your daily demoralization propaganda

>>63918954
>fuck malls. Malls were always shit.
Kill yourself, r/fuckcars nigger