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If MAL was a physical city, what would it be like?

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Oct 4, 7:21 AM
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Discuss what it would be like. How it's governed, what the entertainment industry in it is like, crime rate, etc.
Oct 4, 7:42 AM
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MAL forums? Most accurately it'd prob be a cemetery with a small town nearby.

Say, like this



In Deltarune terms, I would obviously be Ralsei (idk where I was going with this).
Oct 4, 7:49 AM
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Somewhere there must be a mental asylum for the nutjobs.
Oct 4, 7:51 AM
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It would be like just another episode of Gintama or kochikame..I love idea the Mal community living in their own gated city away from the society
Oct 4, 8:10 AM
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It will be a total war zone, of course (nothing personal). Not to mention that I won't be able to sleep peacefully with pro-capitalists present in the city.

Oct 4, 8:31 AM
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FG would be that one neighborhood that refuses to pay the tax

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Oct 4, 8:47 AM
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FG would be that one neighborhood that refuses to pay the tax
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refuses to pay the tax

Based, FG could build an FGC-9 to boogaloo.
Oct 4, 11:22 PM
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MAL is a privatized city. Residents don't vote for who is the mayor. Instead, there is a city board of directors voted in by major share holders to the city. Crime peaked very recently, but after investors were concerned this would lead to increased out migration that would impact the bottom line, the police force was expanded and law and order has been effectively brought to the streets. Much more responsive than democratic governance if you ask me.

It's a bit of a declining city. Shitpost manufacturing jobs were lost to much bigger mega cities like Redditopolis, and many people left to there as result, but the city is still managing to get by. Sadly, the education system doesn't appear to be very functional in this city. Instead of teachers teaching things like math, here they teach you about waifus.
Oct 4, 11:27 PM
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Waifu pillows around every corner I would imagine. Actually that doesn't sound like a bad idea. 🤔
Oct 18, 9:37 AM

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Just a big psych ward ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Oct 18, 10:15 AM

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Probably everything will be drive-through so they can get back to watch anime quicker
Oct 18, 1:33 PM

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Would there be a brothel in the city? And would it be staffed by anime girls or (god forbid) MAL members?

I need a place to hide out from the city's Gestapo.


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Oct 18, 3:35 PM

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Knowing what this place has been through over the years...

Detroit
Oct 18, 3:52 PM
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Freshell said:
the police force was expanded and law and order has been effectively brought to the streets


Leftists were right, community policing works :') And it helps that our officers are so kind and personable~

Freshell said:
Sadly, the education system doesn't appear to be very functional in this city. Instead of teachers teaching things like math, here they teach you about waifus.


This city's education has gone to the dogs! Our single math teacher is out and philosophy lecturers are a mixed bag, to put it mildly. The ethics education has particularly suffered. Polsci courses have been terminated since a couple of years, I heard only certain social clubs can take it as an elective...
Oct 18, 4:50 PM
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@x_scolopendra_x either a huge psych ward, or there would be loads of sex clubs and love hotels all over
Oct 18, 4:52 PM
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I hope it's not a medieval setting again.


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Knowing what this place has been through over the years...

Detroit
@Konradikon You took the words right out of my mouth 😭 I was also going to say Detroit, MI.
Oct 18, 6:42 PM

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I read that as "If MAL was a physical kitty, what would it be like" and there is no going back for me now.

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I’d probably be a teacher? I mean I do have degrees in chemical engineering.
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Oct 18, 9:29 PM
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An idyllic small town with dark secrets waiting for an unsuspecting outsider to expose in a 2000s mystery thriller. I'd be either the middle-aged, seemingly kind mayor but with a murky past or the brot... bar owner, I haven't yet decided.

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Would there be a brothel in the city?


It's a bar, okay?
Oct 19, 12:17 AM

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This town would have:

5 adult stores
3 cat lounges
3 crisis centers
2 therapy clinics
2 vinyl record stores

1 cemetery (an extremely large one)
1 Kinokuniya store (an extremely large one)
1 independent bookstore (a large one)
1 police station
1 strip club
1 plant shop
1 coffee house
1 pub
1 video game store
1 smaller-scale newspaper headquarters of sorts

• A good number of food places
• A place where pro-wrestling fans get together
• Lots of vacant houses as well as tumbleweed
• Murals of cats and waifu characters dressed skimpily
Oct 19, 12:21 AM

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I read that as "If MAL was a physical kitty, what would it be like" and there is no going back for me now.

@Soverign Kawaii
Always liked this kind of cats
Oct 19, 7:42 AM

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@Konradikon You took the words right out of my mouth 😭 I was also going to say Detroit, MI.
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Oct 19, 7:48 AM

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That's literally one of the most interesting questions i've never read here lmao, but idk tho😭
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New York
You can see people randomly from all sides of the spectrum from the diligent salary men to doomed to fail druggies
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It depends on the forum category, some I could categorize as the Animal Crossing city, others like this:
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who,
in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality"

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MAL is a privatized city. Residents don't vote for who is the mayor. Instead, there is a city board of directors voted in by major share holders to the city. Crime peaked very recently, but after investors were concerned this would lead to increased out migration that would impact the bottom line, the police force was expanded and law and order has been effectively brought to the streets. Much more responsive than democratic governance if you ask me.

It's a bit of a declining city. Shitpost manufacturing jobs were lost to much bigger mega cities like Redditopolis, and many people left to there as result, but the city is still managing to get by. Sadly, the education system doesn't appear to be very functional in this city. Instead of teachers teaching things like math, here they teach you about waifus.
@Freshell

I've even heard that some use waifus as weapons of war to fight each other...
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who,
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Something as close and same as New York City, but 10 times larger. Almost as like a cyberpunk settings, but less futuristic. Modern, but still as our current time.

I hate this imagination. Leave me out of this. Let me live in simple times like 1998.
Oct 20, 7:07 PM

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My first thought is the city would definitely be stink as hell.
Okay seriously, someone already mentioned NY, and I think it fits quiet literally to my imagination.
Oct 20, 7:27 PM

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The city would be arguing with some sane people who are ratonal beings.
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San Francisco lmao. And the OP is one of the naked people running around dangling the goods
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Duado said:
@Freshell

I've even heard that some use waifus as weapons of war to fight each other...

What a twisted city. Waifus are for love, not for wars. Who would ever come up with waifus and wars being paired together?!
Oct 26, 10:03 AM

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This town would have:

5 adult stores
3 cat lounges
3 crisis centers
2 therapy clinics
2 vinyl record stores

1 cemetery (an extremely large one)
1 Kinokuniya store (an extremely large one)
1 independent bookstore (a large one)
1 police station
1 strip club
1 plant shop
1 coffee house
1 pub
1 video game store
1 smaller-scale newspaper headquarters of sorts

• A good number of food places
• A place where pro-wrestling fans get together
• Lots of vacant houses as well as tumbleweed
• Murals of cats and waifu characters dressed skimpily
@RunariNoctis

ChatGPT says that Celadon City is the closest match in Pokemon.
Oct 26, 8:04 PM

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@RunariNoctis

ChatGPT says that Celadon City is the closest match in Pokemon.
@IpreferEcchi I do see some similarities between Celadon City and a MAL physical city haha. I imagine a MAL city looking like some mix between Lavender Town and Celadon City.

I wonder who the Erika of MAL would be as well lol

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