Darrow Brand Substitutes

Pups in Darrow might encounter several brands that seem...familiar but remain unique to the city. These can be businesses, chain restaurants, or film franchises and include but are not limited to the ones below.

Businesses

• 88 Park Mart: An Asian specialty grocery similar to 99 Ranch Mart, Park to Shop, or H-Mart. May or may not have affiliations with the Seo Family.
• Little Yellow Cab Co.: The Little Yellow Cab Co. offers convenient, reliable, and safe transportation in the Darrow area.
• Peter's Sporting Goods: Similar to Dick's Sporting Goods, Peter's is a large retail sporting goods store carrying everything from scuba gear to hunting rifles to outdoor sportswear.
• Whenever Fitness: Similar to Anytime Fitness or 24-Hour Fitness, Whenever Fitness is an upscale fitness center open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Objective: A mid-priced discount retailer with a red bullseye logo. Some Objectives have Ahab's coffee franchises within the store.
• Super Shop: Your electronics superstore, stocking everything from media to washers and dryers. The logo is a big green price tag.
• IntelliPet: A pet store with smart deals.
• Törgt: An upscale offshoot of Objective, Törgt is labyrinthine furniture store with flat-pack, assemble-at-home options. It is also notable for its one-dollar section and the fact that shopping list is pretty much useless. Shoppers WILL leave with more knickknacks than they ever planned to get. Comparable to the unholy offspring of a Target and an Ikea.
• Create-a-Cub: A store in High Gate Mall that sells customizable stuffed animals, allowing someone to, perhaps, build a bear or other cuddly creature.

Online Services

• Bluit: Darrow's equivalent of Reddit: a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Posts can be voted up or down by other members.
• BurnBox: Snapchat/Line substitute. Created in July 2014 by Cameron Winklevoss, BurnBox is a social media app intended to facilitate private exchanges.
• Chalkboard: An online academic platform utilized by Darrow institutions of higher learning where professors can communicate with their students and post files, assignments, and grades. It's always running slowly and everyone wonders why they have to use it.
• Catsunami: Everyone's favorite new cell phone game about cats. Despite being in Japanese, players of all languages have gotten hooked on this game where the object is to fill a virtual garden with toys. Grateful kitties leave behind gray and gold sardines so that players can get more toys and furniture in the game. Comparable to Neko Atsume.
• Chirper: A microblogging platform and phone app where Darrowites can 'chirp' messages of 140 characters or less.
• dBay: Darrow's online marketplace.
• Filmfix: Online streaming to watch TV and movies while you chill.
• Gregslist: An online bulletin board like Craigslist. It's used for everything from job postings to hook up notices.
• Ivy: A social media platform of short-form, looping videos.
• Kindling and Poundr: Darrow's top location-based, networking/dating apps. Kindling users present a small bio and photo, and are given the opportunity to anonymously swipe to like or dislike user profiles, exchanging messages only after users have "matched" their interest. Poundr's interface is similar, but geared towards an LGBTQ+ userbase.
• Lease the Lookbook: Provides high-end fashion and accessory rentals for that special night out.
• MeTube: Darrow's largest video platform, just for you! Or me. Post and share videos with your friends: everything from music, fashion, makeup, and art to crafting, DIY, video game let's plays, and hilarious cat videos. Home of the popular MeTube star, Calamity James, who posts dangerous videos testing the durability of popular retail products against explosives of many varieties.
• Nile: Equivalent to Amazon, Nile is Darrow's largest online retailer of books and other goods.
• PunchBeginner: Like KickStarter, a crowd-funding website and smartphone app that allows independent artists and producers to gain support from small or large contributions from fans.
• Ryde: Darrow's most popular rideshare app.
• StoopRunner: A restaurant delivery service.
• Stumblr Allows you to "stumble" on to interesting posts, gifs, and of course, memes.
• Suddengram: Darrow's version of Instagram, a photosharing social media app.
• Welp: Like Yelp, a crowd-sourced review website for restaurants and other businesses. Except Welp is connected to your bank account and tells you what you can and can't afford right now.

Food and Restaurant Chains

• Adam & Steve's: A popular ice cream brand in Darrow that stocks their product in most grocery stores in addition to its scoop shops. Popular flavors include Cocoa Counselling and Darrow Double Chocolate Dough. Sorbets are also available and recently they introduced a dairy free range.
• Ahab's Coffee: A coffee chain found on corners all over the city, specializing in flavored and blended beverages with a small bakery and sandwich selection. Like Starbucks, it is named after a character from Moby Dick. Or some other novel about whaling.
• Big Nero's Pizza: Just like Little Caesar's, this is pizza chain of middling quality. Its main selling points are the Hot-n-Ready cheese and pepperoni pizzas and cheesy breads.
• Burgerpit: A fast food chain of burger joints with several locations throughout the city, all of which have playground areas that include ballpits.
• Co-Go Cola: The alternative to Coke and Pepsi in Darrow. It also makes other to-go meal items like breakfast cereals.
• D'Arrow Croissant: A small chain of bakeries similar to Paris Baguette; pastries and sweet and savoury treats and desserts abound.
• El Pollo Diablo: A small chain restaurant famous for their chicken.
• IPOP: It's a pool! It's an IHOP! It's a combination pool and IHOP!
• Slothburger: A gourmet burger chain with several locations throughout Darrow, both storefronts and in mall food courts.

Media (Films, TV, etc.)

• Gyrate Gyrate Overthrow The Oppressors: A rhythm game found in arcades. Players dance. Dance, to revolution. One might say.
• The Exterminator: A hugely popular science fiction movie about a Cyborg pest controller from Austria. Apparently there is a sequel in the works, so he'll be back!
• Kiddies and Crowns: Welcome to the competitive world of child pageants. Viewers may well see toddlers wearing tiaras. Starring the darling of the show, Honey Bee Bee.
• Legitimate Homespouses of Darrow: Rich spouses of Darrow and their drama. Very addictive.
• Moonlight: Equivalent to the Twilight franchise. A breakaway hit film franchise about the star-crossed love between a pack of were-hyenas and chupacabras and the humans caught in the middle.
• Please Affirm The Gown: Reality series similar to Say Yes to the Dress. Brides search for their perfect wedding dress. Spoiler alert: she affirms the gown.
• PUMA Squad!: A popular tweens and teens show about super-powered young teens who fight crime in the fictional town of Bell's Hollow. What's your SPARK?
• Space Hospital: A soap opera. About a hospital. In space.
• Space Kitchen: A spinoff culinary competition on the set of Space Hospital, hosted by celebrity chef Elton Green. Four chefs are given $25,000 and must use it judiciously to bid on sabotages for other contestants. Classics include forcibly swapping out ingredients, tying two chefs together, and cooking in a miniature kitchen scaled for children. Catch an episode of Food Network's Cutthroat Kitchen.
• Darrow What The Fuck: Two chaotic idiots investigate Darrow's unsolved urban legends and talk a lot of shit in the process. It's on MeTube.

Products

• Maul: A line of men's hygiene products for boys and men who don't know what smells are.
• CrocoCooler: A popular brand of flavored sports drink, packed with electrolytes to keep you going during your game, or whatever else you're doing that makes you sweat. Named after a now-defunct local sports team, the Crocs, whose coach needed a beverage that would cool his team down to keep them going.
• Bumper: An iconic guitar maker.
• D.H. Wealthy: An equally iconic guitar maker, specializing in '80s metal looking pieces.