I watched Glengarry Glen Ross back in the 1990s some time and never gone back to it, because it's grim business watching a bunch of middle-aged cis guys try to eat each other, or escape being eaten. I've never myself worked a sales job and I am glad for that.
I'd like to revisit this unpleasant movie, however, because it reminds me so much of Spamton G. Spamton. Insofar as it's at all possible to determine anything about a character so thinly sketched, Spamton is a failed salesman much reminiscent of Shelley "The Machine" Levene from Glengarry Glen Ross, a relic of a bygone era of salesmanship. In his glory days as an actor, Jack Lemmon often played fast-talking salesmen and public-relations agents, so he's exquisitely suited to this role. He tries to project breezy sincerity and enthusiasm for the opportunity he's offering, as if he could outtalk both his victims' sales resistance and his own desperation. Meanwhile the film's representative of successful salesmanship, Richard Roma, played by Al Pacino, wins his victims over through insinuation and seduction. When we see Roma with his latest sales victim (Jonathan Pryce) it's almost like a romantic tryst. There's no room in this underhanded world for Levene's high-pressure gladhandling.
It seems, in Deltarune, that Spamton used to be a car salesman of the fast-talking sort, still proud of his status as the best salesman of 1997. That's two decades in the past, if we accept the premise that Deltarune takes place in approximately the same year it was released. It's implied that Spamton belongs to the television era; one can easily imagine him (in human form) haranguing TV audiences about his great deals, Cal Worthington style. The modern world of Internet sales and viral marketing has clearly passed him by, and now he needs your genorisity [sic]. How did he get pulled into "Cyber World"? Presumably he used the Hometown library computer lab to run some sort of scam. He's reminiscent of that awkward 1990s era when web pages were still a novelty and Internet commerce hadn't figured out how best to exploit the technology. Older-fashioned Internet sales tended to be maximally obnoxious, as if attempting to replicate the methods of high-pressure car salesmanship online: lots of colorful signs and slogans everywhere, overeager sales pitches full of exclamation points, autoplayed music and irritating animations. But now Spamton's living out of dumpsters and cardboard boxes. Queenie, who surely represents the guileful methods of contemporary Internet sales with their anthropomorphized brand representatives and invasive "personalized" approach based on surveillance, now rules this domain.
How "Spamton NEO" fits into this, I haven't the faintest idea.
~Chara of Pnictogen
