40:56 Oh shit, that’s my local Goodwill! I live in New Tampa but don’t really like going to the Weasley Chapel store as I never find shit. The best thing I found was COD World at War for 360 but the case was completely broken, so I slipped the cover into a movie (The Lincoln Lawyer) and put the disk in the case so it was lose. The person at the register didn’t even notice and I got a game. I recommend you visit Community Thrift Store in Hillsborough county off Nebraska Avenue, you can actually find some good games there.
You're so tough on yourself. A nice thing to think is that 'work is never wasted' - we all learn by doing, even if we look back and are embarrassed by our previous efforts. Disliking your earlier videos is a good measure of how you've improved in your craft.
I think the reveal at the end was sort of like the ending of Super Metroid where you see samus for the first time when you 100% the game. Every battle takes place from behind max. But in the end he is acknowledging the player and saying, "Hey you, you got us here. Good job." Also, gong is with you from chapter one. You can have him clapping cheeks by the endgame if he is used as a fighter with healing rather than a healer who can fight.
My Mom was one of the the head store layout designers of the entire Sears company during the store’s peak in popularity. She left her job around 2002 to have and raise my older sister and I. And it was around this point that Eddie Lampert took over as CEO to ringlead the disastrous Kmart merger. The amount of debt that Sears incurred in acquiring Kmart in 2004 led to a rapid decline in the stores’ layout and design because of budget cuts and more and more layout designers like my Mom that worked in those golden years leaving the company.
There are reprints widely available. I have one, it's interesting to see what they used to sell. For a while Sears had mail order granite headstones ( delivered by train).
I remember shopping at the online store in Sebring FL before they lakeside mall. Whenever I had to go to Bay Pines VA hospital for an Appointment I stopped by Tyrone Square Mall to shop at Sears. Later after I moved to St. Petersburg FL I bought all my appliances and clothes from Sears. I missed the stores very much and I rather shopped at Sears and then Amazon.. They had the best clothes anywhere. I loved my Kenmore Appliances and had a refrigerator that was over 15 years when I sold my condo.
Covid really put everyone and everything out of business. Even after covid is over people still became shut out and too lazy to go to malls and stores like this they still just get everything online
Born in 1995 and my mom every damn Saturday would drag me to Sears by the mall. Sears had everything, they sold everything! Except freshfood. Mines even had the auto mechanic sears, it had 3 floors. Sears died cus they didnt change, they were the original amazon but ig the idiots in management couldnt figuire it out. Today that same mall my mom took me to is a closed down Sears and I see it everyday cus thers a Golds gym I go to thats next to it at the mall. Before watcging this vid I thought all Sears were gone but some are hanging on for dear life and it aint lookin good omg those old computers for the pos brought back memories
Actually Ultima3 on the NEST is much more hard than the PC version. Because you can power-game and get the best armor/weapon really soon. Also leveling does make some harder enemies spawn, but unlike U3-NES it does not spawn almost exclusively strong enemies. I agree it plays much slower and having a trail of followers on the map (with the tailing one being targetable for encounters) does not help. Extra ailments like "Cold" really blows. I never could finish it on the NES as any game that makes leveling pointless is an auto-fail game in my book. If only the tougher enemies gave great loot to offset difficulty (like dragon sword/armor from you know... dragons?). U4-NES I actually hated the entire soundtrack, but it was very nice playing thru it. Ultimately I'd rather just play the PC version tho. U5-NES is absolutely awful. The PC version is such a treat once you get used to the graphics.
There is a Sears still where I live in Burbank, CA. They had this whole thing where they closed for a reno and had a re-opening. It's...... grey and sad in there. I can't tell what was renovated or refreshed. It's all the same.
My local Sears was transformed into a Rural King, and I do have to say, Rural King has a gigantic inventory and variety of products, and they didn't even use the second floor of the Sears. Crazy...
I worked at a sears hardware store back in the early 90's. It was a small store like a mom snd pop type. We really had alot of customers all the time. Then Sears tried competing with big box stores. They did my store dirty. My manager found out that we were going to get fired after our store closed down. So he started giving us stuff, like really expensive stuff. The new sears hardware stores did'nt last very long. They really had a good thing going with those smaller stores. Its sad that they went under.
When they left Canada they burned so many people. It had been a solid job with a good pension for decades. And when they went belly up, not only did people lose their jobs, current and former employees lost their pensions. Really fucking sad
I like to take photos and post them to Google Maps. People post some great photos. Pick a place that you know is bad and read the reviews. I looked at the reviews for the church near my house and the lone review was about picking up prostitutes there.
34:33 damn dude you left stuntman for the ps2, fucking amazing game and one of the few that doesnt emulate well (last time i checked it didnt but it might now).
I worked at sears for a bit. I also think that their online sweepstakes took a part of their bankruptcy. I forgot the name of the sweepstakes, but they would give out a lot of expensive things away and not only that. They also let you choose what type of item you want from their online catalog. I won a GTX GPU from them before they closed down the giveaways. I was MPU (Merchandise pick up) employee, we would get a lot of stuff from the line hauls but I was surprised by how little customers I saw in the store. Maybe I wasn't paying much attention to that but I felt like we were busy and didn't expect Sears to close down.
I'm surprised Sears lasted as long as it did. They abandoned their customers in the late 1980s and the overall shopping experience just got worse every year. They deserved their bankruptcy.
