RadioShack, and it's not even close.
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Can we do radio shack from the 80s early 90s over the cellphone retailer they turned into before death.
Just before they flatlined, they started stocking more modern hobbyist stuff. Arduinos, shields, Parallax Propeller, and Vex, but stupid expensive.
I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.
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Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.
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None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.
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RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah. Also, not to mention, fuck corporations and chain stores and consumerism.
And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.
No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan.
I mean, if we're bringing like Bible Jesus back, I'd agree. But if we were to bring back the actual Jesus, he'd probably just be some religious lefty with a podcast and no one would care.
I'm not sure how a socialist jew half way around the world from me is going to help me find a specific value capacitor that I need immediately to fix an AV reciever I just picked up from goodwill.
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Not to mention the absolute melt down that would happen with the worst of Americans if he came back the same race he was when he died.
Oh man the amount of evangelical Christians in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.
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The same old 555 timers, opamps, and LED PCB xmas trees they've been selling for 30 years are nice but...there's much more interesting shit now and they didnt seem to catch on to that until the very end when they suddenly rushed out all the Arduino shit.
Around here, Micro Center replaced Radio Shack for my component impulse buy needs, and they even have Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff, and several aisles of a variety of other hobby electronics stuff. It's RadioShack x100.
Jesus.
Only because I want to see how Right wing "Christians" would react to being faced with their messiah being a middle-eastern globalist communist that preaches love and acceptance.
Honestly this time, instead of crucifying him, we really should strap him down to a table and put him in a lab to see if we can figure out some more medical modern miracles before he rage quits to heaven again.
Not like anyone on this Earth is going to gain anything from listening to his actual teachings or anything.
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Either RadioShack or Toys R Us. The other two, one is useless in this day and age, and the other is Blockbuster
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RadioShack had everything you were looking for and absolutely nothing at the same time. It was glorious.
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I'd say Jesus. Either to prove everything written in the bible is fake or to watch some sweet miracles happen. Either way, I win.
"You didn't bring back the real Jesus. This is a false flag. Jesus was a Soros plant and not the same savior mentioned in the Bible." Is probably what people will say if you did the former.
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Isn't rapture supposed to happen upon his return? Idk your life, but I'm personally not rooting for that lol.
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I would choose Jesus and I'm not even Cristian 🤣🤣🤣
You monster. You know the modern Christians would just kill him again. And he wouldn't fare any better if he came back in a Muslim country either.
That is the point, then we can finally lay Christianity to rest. It is clear the majority of Christians are not followers of Christ. Killing off or ignoring their own prophet would force them to recognize they are just authoritarian assholes.
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Radioshack fs, bring back the idea of repairing your shit to the public mind
1980s-90s RadioShack, yes.
They really went off the rails during their decline. They became a cellphone store, and not at all a good one.. Their pricing on EVERYTHING was not only non-competitive, it was ludicrously expensive.
RadioShack.
I remember going as a kid, once. I was 5 I think. It was....unique. A shit ton of red I remember. And cheap cell phone cords. Wish I could've experienced it more. Especially during the 90s. But that's before my time.
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I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.
Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.
Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.
80s RadioShack for sure. I miss that place so much.
I’d like to bring back the market environment that made Radio Shack profitable - when the “right to repair” was a given, and not something that needed to be fought for in court.
Jesus. Imagine how much of the world would react if
1: jesus literally proved he existed to faiths that say he's a hoax (im agnostic btw)
2: He reforms the groups that use his name as a pretext to exclude & marginalize others.
3: Dude turned out to have been gaming like a boss in heaven, like dude comes down & faces the pope in Dungeons & Dragons or Pokemon lmfaooo
Plot twist: he gets crucified, again.
- World Christian churches split into at least 2 additional factions per each existing faction (Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, whatever orthodox, and whatever else exists). Each having a slightly different view on the new Jesus dude.
Nevermind if Jesus turns up to be non binary I expect a meltdown then.
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Jesus. He is slated to return one day anyway but we need him now to show republicans what christianity is all about
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As a non-American I'm not familiar with any of these things. That dude looks kinda familiar though, wasn't he one of the Beatles? The one that got shot? Bring him back please!
I miss having knowing there's a Radio Shack around the corner if I need an obscure component or an exotic battery for a project.
Yeah, you can find anything online now, but you have to wait for it to ship, hope it doesn't get lost or stolen, and hope they actually sent the right part.
Edit to add: Basically 80-90s RS, not the husk that it was more recently that sold mostly phones and crap toys around the holidays.
Definitely Jesus. I want to eat popcorn while I watch Christo-fascists and the prosperity gospel crowd hysterically calling Jesus a terrorist because he took a flamethrower to their vile McChurches.
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RadioShack was great when every electronic was analog and you needed some random VGA to RCA adapter at 9pm on a weekday
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RadioShack, the real thing but modernised, like Fry's and microcenter but way more hardcore. It's not even a contest
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RadioShack. Without a doubt.
As someone who worked at RadioShack, I would only want to bring it back if we could have owners who care about electronics and technology more and making profits less. I got to live the decline as they tried to become a cell phone store, and then got destroyed by big box stores and provider stores in that market. RadioShack would need to stay in its lane. Electronics, home theater, computers.
If you have a MicroCenter in your area, it will have all this for you, tho, so I honestly would pick ToysRUs. There just isn't a real "fun focused" retailer anymore. Even adults could feel like kids at ToysRUs.
Jesus but only if He's vibing with His roommate the Buddha in some small apartment like in that one manga
I live in a crazy ancient backwards land where Toys R’ Us still exists.
So the obvious choice is RadioShack.
Surprisingly, I might pick Blockbuster. Having even just one streaming service costs the same as like 8 rentals per month. Idk about the rest of you, but I think I watch more movies than most and it's still not 8 per month. And remember video game rentals?! Game Pass and PS+ Extra are amazing, but the selection is far from endless.
And it's kinda win-win. I'd bet anything that revenue for these media companies would rise since it would be cheap enough and convenient enough to curb some amount of piracy. It's just not worth the effort and risk for lots of people if they can just pop in for a rental while they're already out for groceries. Redbox should be more successful, but there's something about browsing in person through aisle after aisle and seeing what jumps out, and it saddens me that my generation may be the last to have had that experience.
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Jesus, that way he can end the world before global warming kills us all.
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...are there other choices?
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