Imagine apartments built into what used to be department stores, (Oh, you’re JC Penny 203? I’m at Sears 106). Get those old arcades up and running. Set up meal stations at the food court. Once people actually live there, stores will start to move back in.

If I’m unable to finish my life in my own home, that doesn’t sound like a terrible option.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    983 months ago

    Those are also the “mall rat” generations, so it’d be pretty fitting lol.

    • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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      313 months ago

      We can watch the original Fast and Furious, recreate a mockup of HTML eBay and put 5hp stickers on our mobility scooters with RGB under glow lighting, and sub’s around our nitrous bottles.

      I live my life one quarter footprint store front at a time…

      • Admiral Patrick
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        193 months ago

        And, naturally, we’d be hauling boomboxes blasting gangsta rap in the baskets of our mobility scooters. lol.

        Our generation’s old-folks home gonna be lit

        • Thassodar
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          73 months ago

          I’m thinking this leads to MegaCity 1 type situations like in Dredd.

            • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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              43 months ago

              It’s worth watching bc it will become our new reality. A bit of a… different take on the future than Star Trek shows, think more what led up to the Bell Riots rather than what happened afterwards.

      • @CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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        33 months ago

        mobility scooters with RGB under glow lighting

        This but unironically. I think I need to find someone willing to let me do this to their scooter or wheelchair; I’ve got parts to spare and if it gets even a few chuckles it will be worth doing.