>Zoomers will never know this feel

meh nextflix is better

2025 is much better than 2000s

Everyone I knew used to prank call them and post dog shit through the returns box, on top of never returning the games. I have no idea why.

>>510490912
For easy access to porn and random information, about it.

>>510490788 (OP)
qrd on what this is?

>>510491003
Somehow it was easier to get 4 people together in person to play split screen fps games in 2000, than it is to get 1 other person you know to play the same game as you in 2025.

>>510490912
no nigger

>>510490788 (OP)
Meh, bread and circuses.

>>510491080
Because getting together and doing things was basically the only way to socialise.

I remember getting my photos printed there that I took in Pokemon Snap. Fun times.

>>510490887
There's no ritual to fucking Netflix, no destinations visited, no physical sensation of flipping through the covers, no anticipation of impending habbenings.

>>510490788 (OP)
Why do millennials romanticize rogers video/blockbuster? they were incredibly jewish over late fees.

>>510491080
because you were a kid back then you retard. You are not a kid anymore. People your age have a wife and kids. You are the fuck up

calm down idiot, movies and pizza still exist

BB would still be relevant if they took the streaming route. Possibly still have the stores up to rent games. Maybe too late now.

>>510490788 (OP)
For me it was Hollywood video, I went there a lot when I was a kid. They had a better selection than Blockbuster and you could rent the movies/video games longer.

>>510490788 (OP)
I remember rushing to Blockbuster to get a copy of a new release only to find the shelves empty. Good times. I also liked when they would sell there rental copies at a discount price. Ended up leaving with 4 new movies for $20 everytime. That Blockbuster DVD case plastic was so thick and fogged looking.

>>510491149
This unfortunately, I try to enjoy some 90s/early 2000s movies for nostalgia sake and I end up noticing just how far back the subversion goes

>>510490887
Nah kids who grow up surrounded by instant access to movies 24/7 will never get the same kind of dopamine spike that kids got on movie night in the 90s. Constant distractions have fried people's dopamine receptors and made them more resistant to stimulation

>>510490788 (OP)
They used to forgive my late DVD returns for almost a whole year because I’d tell them I was late because I forgot to rewind them and had to go back home, until this snot nosed punk one day said “it’s a dvd, you can’t rewind dvds” and basically all the workers who heard him started hating me.

>>510491208
Dunno, it was dogshit back then and I was pirating anything I could.

>>510490887
No.

>>510491325
The dopamine from watching something is different from the dopamine you get from doing something. The kids still have a chance as long as they go outside once in a while and find something to entertain themselves with. Kids now don’t even break glass bottles anymore.

>>510490788 (OP)
blockbuster was so comfy

>>510490788 (OP)
>back when time had meaning
It's interesting getting older and seeing people who never experienced these times as the present wax nostalgic about them. It certainly didn't feel like "time had meaning" then, everyone was still busy as shit and modernity was still annoying. Just less so than now.

>>510490788 (OP)
Bliss.

>>510490887
when it was the red envelope yeah. Their business model is what killed rental stores. you know whats crazy is that no one really remembers that anymore

>>510491208
>It wasn't about Blockbuster

>>510491206
this
instant gratification takes away the soul of things which dulls there life
remember how special weed use to be when it was illegal
smoking weed was a straight up personality type it was that dank of an egrogoric activity
now that its legal everywhere and extremely potent its just another thing to do or get addicted to
coffee is the same case but worse
people addicted to coffee aka daily drinkers dont even get how potent of a drug caffiene is

>>510490788 (OP)
>check out until Monday
Im checked out all day everyday now lol. Soul of a 90 year old man

Although I can't help but feel nostalgic seeing that when I snap out of it I realize how pathetic it is that the things millennials look back most fondly on is cheap consumer slop that was poisoning our minds and bodies all along. Our ancestors looked back fondly on conquering entire continents, forming large families, settling unknown lands, tight knit homogeneous communities. While zoomers on their death bed will remember playing fortnite with their online friends whom they never met. IDK which is worse.

>>510491514
Yeah, same reason I don't emulate games despite knowing how to have folders full of every rom ever made practically. Don't buy em either these days because everything is gay and jewish. But I still play my NES.

>>510490788 (OP)
I loved just renting random movies and seeing what we got lol. Friday night pizza night. popcorn and movies. Surge soda. rented Sega genesis games. whew.

meh piracy is better

blockbuster put out of business small stores with better and more obscure VHS tapes and other fun stuff to rent at better prices and all around more fun and comfy
it was a soulless company, like amazon, netflix, or any other goyslop company that exists today

I wonder if in the 30's there were like old people saying
>"remember when people all road horses? Now it's all soulless cars! Riding a horse used to be an event, you feed it, put the straps on, get on top of it and go! You had to build a bond with it! You can't bond with a car! It's just fulfilling endless dopamine hits to get from point A to point B and C and D whenever!"

do millennials really have nostalgia over wasting their whole week working for shekelstein and then wasting the 2 days off watching goyslop?

>>510490788 (OP)
He forgot friends, we all had friends back then.

>>510490788 (OP)
I remember going to the video store with my girlfriend, finding a movie to watch together, then going back to her house to cuddle then fuck with the movie on. Good times.

>>510491488
>when it was the red envelope
checked and I remember. I liked it then, and it became popular explicitly because of how outrageous Blockbuster's late fee based business model was. Funny how nobody is nostalgic about that, about their parents scrambling around trying to beat the clock on some ridiculous fee. Also nobody remembers that Blockbuster put all the local video rental places out of business. Did it to my local one.

>>510490887
Hmm lets see whats on Netflix. Jew propaganda, jew propaganda, jew propaganda ........(100 flips later) ..... jew propaganda. ooh here's something, it just has a little jew propaganda in the background rather than slapping you in the face with it like a dead fish. I can watch that.

>>510491730
>blockbuster put out of business small stores with better and more obscure VHS tapes and other fun stuff to rent at better prices and all around more fun and comfy
>it was a soulless company, like amazon, netflix, or any other goyslop company that exists today
so much this

>>510490788 (OP)
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Blockbuster is like 10 minutes from my house, I could go there right now. Not like it's the only one left in the world or anything.

>>510491730
You have to be exactly my age to post in this thread, nigger

back when you had to wait until 1 of 4 copies was returned. yeah, real fun. then you had to driveBACK to store and return them. FUCK THAT
when Netflix came along it was SO much better. now I don't even have to wait for the snail mail.
go fuck off back to 1980 dumbass

>>510491803
if all you see is pro jew shit and you cant really do anything about it why not become a jew then everything is pro you

>>510490788 (OP)
>>Zoomers will never know this feel
Oh no

>>510490887
its all equally fake and gay
this is like faggots disagreeing who is less of a faggot

>>510490887
>>510491803
nyaa dot si is better

>>510491080
Meanwhile, right this very second, my daughter is downstairs playing REPO with her school friends....

No you're just a lonely bastard.

>>510490788 (OP)
Oh wow. I sure miss the feeling of being a consumer faggot.

>>510491208
I never knew that because I returned shit on time like a white person just does.

>>510491912
kys kike

>>510490788 (OP)
>>510491208
No one misses Blockbuster/malls/Kmart etc, they miss living in a prosperous white country and the good times they took for granted.

>>510490788 (OP)
I got a few years of Hastings at least

>>510490788 (OP)
The feel of the 80s. Video Store, Roller Disco, Depeche Mode.

>>510491080
You're not a kid anymore dumbass

>>510491932
anime isn't better than good live action

Zoomers can get 90% of the experience from video games.
Also there are liminal space parks nowadays that mimic old environments like Meow Wolf, so zoomere and alphas can actually experience this irl.
Just like how millennials got to experience those '50s themed drive-in diners.

>>510491206
Remember the mad race at 4pm to get the one of the copies of Terminator 2 or the Matrix? Then you get there, and you get one of the last copies. That fuckin gold rush thrill. You got home and youve got the pop corn machine on and you dial up your bros

Henlo!
>Henlo! Did you get it!
Got it!

Then waiting for all the calls to go out and the bike squad forming up. Pizza on the way! Bros with back packs of pop and chips. Some nintendo cartridges etc. All showing up at the same time. The gathering around the TV vcr! The cassette gets plugged in. Previews! Show time!!! Fuck yeah! Brothers for life!!!

>>510491743
Every family had a horse, damnit! And a yard big enough to keep the horse in.

>>510491997
Pretty much this. All those stores were shit but at least the country was majority white and Jews were less in your face and their control.

>>510491300
Blockbuster was right next door to the record shop for me. Rent a game, parents would get a movie, then if I had saved enough allowance (or pocketed my lunch money and gone hungry lol) I could get a new CD

i didn't like blockbuster because our town had a local video store and blockbuster came in and put them out of business.

>>510490788 (OP)
You're not going to sit here and convince me Blockbuster is superior to Netflix you nostaglia goggle faggot.

>>510491935
what is the zoomer version of going to blockbuster though
even movie theaters are ran to shit these days
and i hear malls are dead but the one by me is actually doing pretty alright so its case by case

like what kids be doing these days other then chilling at home

>>510490887
Gay zoomer detected

>beforetimesdataminingthread
Dont feed the algo

>>510491206
>>510491206
>get home after a hard day of work
>make some lunch
>sit on the couch and take the boots off
>browse the catalog and see a few previews slowly savoring all the possibilities and the anticipation of habbenings
>then just forget all the problems while watching something

all that was removed was the physical act of going to the store, you can still make your own ritual and whatever. You just have nostalgia glasses.

>>510491743
Actually yeah, my grandmother was from the 30s and they talked about horses.
People kind of made friends with them, gave them names and carrots and care and cleaning, it's true.
Life keeps getting more soulless and antiseptic with more tech to insulate us from it. You can't pretend otherwise.
It's not good for the mental state of people to live endlessly further removed from natural interactions, like spending time with your gf or family in the blockbuster aisles, as sad and pointless as that sounds when you can tell your oed tv to pull something up in a search now or grub torrents all day alone in your room like a third worlder.

You're not actually better than anyone from the 30s just because you were given the inventions of others is the main thing to remember when you make vapid zoomeresque comments like this.

>>510490887
fpwp

Zoom It Zoomer...

Soundtrack
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZ5AFTcifs

>>510492176
>like what kids be doing
nigger

>>510491997
This. It's also the funny thing about Japan. I have so many Lefty acquaintances who gush about how clean and safe Japan is. It's because it's racially and culturally homogeneous. They aren't being swarmed by niggers and Indians and Muslims yet.

>>510491990
yah dude you just seem like a jew hype man
they run the world
they control the people
they own the gold
they own the idols
they own everything and everyone
like damn homey sign me up

>>510490788 (OP)
>be me
>Save money
>Rent game
>Go home
>Game doesn't work
>Weekend ruined
At least 50% of the time

>>510490788 (OP)
>dude, corporate slop like... reinforced your slavery (???)
This is funny, first of all that people are getting all sad about fucking BLOCKBUSTER, a dogshit chain that pushed out local video stores simply because it had the most money, but also that "end of the working week" shit.
Yeah dude, we used to know we were SLAVES for FIVE DAYS A WEEK, but now we uh... don't? People never do anything on weekends except rent video games and eat pizza, and one of those things is GONE. Nobody has ever gone to a bar after work on friday, that has never happened, I should know because I'm a fat retarded American.

>>510490887
I have Netflix and kids. It's not the same.
They can watch what they enjoy on repeat, frying their dopamine receptors.
Back then, you either watch what was on TV or went outside.

>>510490912
jeet post

>>510492128
I remember when Blockbuster went to 5-day rentals in like 1999 or 2000. My dad would take my siblings and I on Wednesday nights so we could have the games we rented up through the coming weekend. You had a much better chance of getting the game you wanted than if you went on Friday when the shelves were mostly picked through.

It's insane how many millennials are manchildren (I say this as a millennial) who can't separate nostalgia from their childhood from nostalgia for a corporation. You weren't nostalgic for blockbuster you were nostalgic for being a kid

>>510490887
Nah. Blockbusters was fun because my parents would let me buy candy to eat during the movie. It was going to the theater for poorfags. More importantly if there were movies with forced diversity I could avoid them with ones that were actually good, can’t say the same for pedoflix.

>>510492245
I am not a zoomer I am a millennial and you talk about technology being a bad thing as you and other retards in this thread act like you have nostalgia for a video fucking store. Get off your high horse

>>510492062
>>510491218
>t. envious roastie hags

digital gaming is actually a hoax you dont own the game so you cant resell it

physical gaming will always be superior

but you would have to re-educate the masses to make it be desired

people prefer to lose money

and physical is faster and more convenient too because the game comes loaded on the disc already and can be delivered same hour delivery

so no downloading and no paying for storage

physical gaming died because of a mass propaganda campaign that "digital" was the new wave

it was fraudulent when you inspect the details further

>>510491913
LOL Gaben!

>>510490788 (OP)
I worked at Blockbuster for 2-3 years as a teenager. It was honestly the best job I’ve ever had.

>>510490887
Nah. It's for faggots... Oh, right. Carry on, then.

>>510491514
weed is still illegal in the uk, retard.

>>510492414
I am noticing more and more that millennials are just going to be boomers part 2 with the stupid shit they complain about only they are doing it much earlier

>>510492176
Afterschool camps.
Places catered to kids, giant indoor gyms and playgrounds, private swimming pools booked specifically for them, rock climbing gyms, trampoline gyms.
Special kids only events at the museums, aquariums, libraries, conservatories, cinemas.
Zoomers/alphas above a certain socioeconomic class actually have it better than us millennials ever did.

>>510492461
When he says everywhere he means in America you giant faggot. Also big surprise something so harmless is illegal on your faggot prison island.

>>510492492
cope

>>510491983
You're still a faggot and you consume semen.

>>510492245
you should simplify it even further
>everyone owned a large amount of property and the state wasn't up to your neck forcing you to sell it to so they can pack wage oppressing browns in in section 8 apartment complexes
>government literally enforced a policy to where you couldn't use propaganda in selling products

they actually had it way better in the turn of the century and their children and grandchildren literally consented all their give up all their liberty for security. fuck

>>510492461
the uk stopped mattering since 1776
youre basically india now enjoy our culture while you get invaded by every brown imaginable all shades of turd

Another detail nobody has mentioned: corporate America wasn’t organized enough to squeeze every last shekel out of your pockets back then. The video store companies had to actually sell off old videos and games as new stock came in. Patient buyers got their games and movies for pennies on the dollar. No longer an option.

>>510492576
Seethe

>>510492347
Why are kids growing up today more depressed than kids who grew up in previous decades?

>>510490788 (OP)
This. Even though I like pirating things, it’s not as nice because exactly that ephemeral feeling this guy described. This old 20th century world which has been replaced by a decaying empire ruled by literal devil worshippers.

>>510492629
I dunno let me guess because blockbuster isn't around is that your retarded logic?

>>510491935
So sayeth the /pol/ posting retard. Your daughter would disown you if she knew what a faggot you were. Embarrassing.

>>510491003
Information is all censored now retard.

>>510492612
missed your cue roastie if I wasn't seething already I wouldn't have clicked on a nostalgia thread

streaming is now a globalist psyop made to push their propaganda. depopulation and open borders

>>510491080
/thread. Holy shit this was concise and hit home.

>>510492245
Quality post.

>>510492762
You are seething and every reply you do to me proves it

>>510490912
says the indian

>spend 5 days working for Mr Goldstein, get 2 days off, spend all of it watching his cousin Ezra's films, or playing his cousin mordechai's yideo games

Anyone who feels nostalgia for this is a naive manchild. I lived through this time period and everyone was insufferable to be around, they had no personality and just repeated punchlines from popular Jewish comedy movies as a substitute for one.

>>510490912
>computer OS are worse
>movies/music/tv is worse
>everything is so much more expensive
>everywhere you go some little weak ass bitch tries to verbal check you if you drop "fag" or "nigger"
>darkies are out of control
>cars are WAY worse
I'd prefer the tech of late 2000s any day of the week over current year.
We had multi-core 64 bits by then.
And intel ME hadn't infected everything yet

>>510490788 (OP)
>back when time had meaning
razor sharp observation. it cuts me deeply.

>>510492629
> depression increase since 2010

my friend used to steal ben en jerries from a place like that and trade it with me for a 1 euro burger

movies on a disc is superior too because you can sell the movie after youre done

if you buy a 10$ movie and then put it on ebay for 7$ once you opened it

thats a 70% savings

and all physical media is instantly deliverable

its up to them to partner with doordash and things like that

blockbuster can succeed in the modern day by people unfortunatenly fell victim to "were high tech because we use digital"

similarly crt was superior technology to lcd and analog audio is better than digital audio

but we lost it due to dickheads feeling smart

>>510492440
bring back chunky games
they are the vinyl of gaming

like cocks smaller isnt always better

Anyone else remember the discount bins? My blockbuster when a new console was coming out would have big bins of all the old console games at the front of the store. N64, PS1, etc. I bought so many games just grabbing them out of the bin for a few bucks, not always great games, but still.

That's how I got metroid prime, I would have never played metroid prime ever if I hadn't got it out of a bargain bin at blockbuster.

>>510492732
No, retard. Way to miss the completely miss the point. It's because the world in general has gotten more atomized, people are raised to spend more time interacting with screens than real people and they are less connected to nature. The economy also isn't as good as it used to be, inflation has destroyed the wealth of the middle class and that factors into it as well. Saying that it's just about Blockbuster is a complete strawman. The Blockbuster thing is just a proxy for people spending time together in real life

>>510491935
You’re a retard who has to lie in orxer to protect his liberal worldview.

My friends who have kids all complain about how much less interaction ALL the kids are having. And this is in multiple states.
>>510491218
>because you were a kid back then
Makes no difference you faggot kike. He wasn’t talking about himself. We all see Kids nowadays and they fail to get what we got.
>People your age have a wife and kids.
No they don’t you retarded jew. How old are you you fucking freak? 50?
>You are the fuck up
Shut the fuck up kike. I bet he makes more money than you.

>>510492591
>Another detail nobody has mentioned: corporate America wasn’t organized enough to squeeze every last shekel out of your pockets back then.

On that note, I recall that Blockbuster had an insanely good rewards program. I swear that me and my brother could each rent a game and buy candy and my dad could rent a couple of movies...and it would be like $8 bucks total with our rewards points.

Can anyone who was a wagie at Blockbuster back in the early 2000s confirm if my memory is accurate?

>>510492062
Somehow all the middle aged dorks I played Warhammer with in 2003 could get together to play Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies

>>510492956
>people are raised to spend more time interacting with screens than real people and they are less connected to nature.
> The Blockbuster thing is just a proxy for people spending time together in real life
It's the same thing you delusional retard. Watching a movie is just another version of staring at a screen. The delusion is insane.

>>510492176
Mine's an artist so she draws. She also does comissions, so I think she was doing one of those yesterday. Saturday she went to the beach with friends and got sunburned but somehow only on her boob window.

>>510492749
I've unironically posted stuff from /vg/ before to her. She likes Blade a lot.

>>510490788 (OP)
>"Please rewind before returning"
humiliation ritual

>>510492849
Off-yid homestead introvert NEETs win again

>>510491997
Yup, this.
>>510491208
It wasn’t about blockbuster anon.
>>510492275
Yet. Have you seen the videos posted here? Nigs are already smash n grabbing all their vending machines.

>>510492925
since games are now 80$ they should provide a ssd with the game already preloaded on it for every game they sell

and then u can sell it and give it to your friends

trade whatever

i dont think it would look like a cartridge if they tried to perfect physical gaming today

but if it did i would be ok with it

The old days were objectively superior to modern times - to a large degree - and I will urinate in the Corn Flakes of anyone who attempts to say otherwise.

I mean, we can't cure cancer but at least we've got video games with hyper-realistic graphics and phones that your kids will never look away from. Fuck this. Take us back to 1993.

>>510490912
hate to say but every ear is only getting worse
we will be missing '25 in '28

born in 94 but i never went to blockbuster. I remember asking my dad why we never went and he said it was because it was too expensive. We always went to a locally owned video store that was across the street from the block buster.

>>510490788 (OP)
Man I miss going here and getting a pizza with my bros and staying up all night playing cod and watching shitty movies. Fuck. I miss having friends.

>>510490788 (OP)
Pictures you can smell.

>>510493000
>Makes no difference you faggot kike. He wasn’t talking about himself. We all see Kids nowadays and they fail to get what we got.
Yes he literally was since he obviously can't speak for all kids kike
>No they don’t you retarded jew. How old are you you fucking freak? 50?
Yes they do kike. Not everyone is an incel failure like you
>Shut the fuck up kike. I bet he makes more money than you.
Getting an allowance is not making money kike

>>510493088
>renting a game with the booklet missing

Humiliation ritual

>>510490788 (OP)
blockbuster wasnt why you have nostalgia, it was spending time with your parents

>>510492347
>if you temember a prosperous white nation, you’re a manchild!
Pathetic insult that carries zero pursuasive weight. At least call him a pedo, kike rabbi.

>>510490887
It's just background noise and goyslop

>>510493146
>feeling the need to have friends
Humiliation ritual

>>510490788 (OP)
Millennials will never know the mom and pop video store

>>510493210
They still had a couple in my area when I was in school

>>510493182
I was specifically talking about nostalgia for a video store kike which is the opposite of being nostalgic for living in a white nation

>>510493104
thats basically what nintendo does but i hate tiny tiny floppy disc i want big chunky art piece i can blow into

>>510493143
hollywood video was better than blockbuster

blockbuster felt weird alien vibe like u were in space

>>510492414
How is what I posted envious? People are busy as they get older. You're not in your 20s anymore dip shit.

>>510491208
They're not old enough to remember mom and pop video stores which were destroyed by Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. Nothing better than going to the tiny video store on Friday and picking out two NES games from the owner's personal stash and playing all weekend. Blockbuster ruined everything and cost 5x as much with horrible late fees.

>>510493210
Especially the ones with a porno section behind a curtain

>>510493008
Former blockbuster wagey here. The rewards program at the time was $15 Canadian. That included one free movie rental for every 5 paid movie rentals. $2 off of one movie rental per month (a movie rental was only around $4-5 anyway). $1 off of a new movie purchase, $1 off of the purchase of a used movie. I had to memorize this and I still don’t forget it. I sold the fuck out of those blockbuster rewards memberships. I still have an old “passbook” somewhere.

>>510493210
That was all i ever knew, there was a family owned chinese takeout spot next to it. I still get my chinese food from there although its a bit further away. The video store is long gone though

>>510493210
>Millenials
gen x nigger, pls. those were the best places to rent the old horror movies. blockbuster never kept the good shit.

>>510492440
I completely agree and I’ve noticed this too. You’re smart and people like you are why I still come here. Digital media was always a gay psyop. Physical media by the time of USBs and CDs became very easy to store, too. Now steam can lock you out of all your games you “own” for nothing. If I stay on offline mode for too long I get kicked off altogether and cant play until I get back onto internet.

>>510490788 (OP)
we never truly realized how good we had it bros

>>510490788 (OP)
Yes, because joy and contentment were captured for profit too. There is only suffering, shitskins, trannies, and profits for jews in the future ahead.

If you pay attention, everything that was popular from 2000-2010 is still popular. New versions of iPhones and new expansions for World of Warcraft. Real life is the same but the foundations are slowly being whittled away. It's the same world as 20 years ago, but worse by all metrics. Your iPhone is faster.

>>510493210
Plenty in Japan and ZERO gangstalkers

>>510492492
Weird. Boomers never complained about kikes like you.

Iggle Video was my shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3TbPqvT4Ak

>>510493321
I only realized just how much of an introvert I am recently

>>510490788 (OP)
Gee, I sure do miss consoooming so much.

>>510493358
Boomers whine about younger generations like millennials do now about zoomers. It's pathetic because boomers are in their 60's doing it but millennials are in their 30's to early 40's doing it

>>510491935
>REPO
>online only multiplayer
>early access
(((she))) is playing with groomers

>>510491003
You could have made this argument about information a decade ago, but not anymore. We are in the post-information post-knowledge era.

>>510493293
Thanks for the info, Anon-sama. Blockbuster rewards were truly incredible.

>>510493161
Just passing by to say you need to be publicly skinned alive

>>510491080
>somehow it was easier to get people to come over and play the same game as me when they were children and didn't have options with how to spend their free time
you're shitting me?

>>510493161
Show us your horns, jew. Show us the horns on your head kike. Take some pics

I used to trade games with friends. One friend gave me his Majora's Mask while I gave him my Ocarina of Time, and another traded me MGS for Final Fantasy Vll

>>510493319

ya if u lose steam you are a loser because if you buy the game at the store for 60$ and then sell it a few years later on ebay for 40$

you will have saved 66% of your money

but instead its sitting on your steam account and you cant do anything with it

so steam is for literal losers period they hate money

digital gaming is a fraud

>>510492347
People who fetishize childhood are trash.

>>510492849
your dad was in prison at the time wasn't he, tryhardbro?

>>510493532
What do your children do for fun?
Since you are playing the 'le seggs and adult' card.

>>510490788 (OP)
He makes a good point about ritual. There is no ritual to life anymore in the west. It's absence is felt. Convenience has ruined all meaning.

>>510490887
Fuck off retard.

>>510490788 (OP)
>Heh, Im not into jerking off, I just edge till the end of the week

>>510493062
>sitting in a bedroom by yourself doom scrolling is the same as sitting in a loungeroom with your friends or family watching a movie and talking shit both before and after
You might have brain damage. Seek help. That other anon very clearly explained his position but you don't seem able to comprehend basic information.

>>510493499
Honestly I miss working there so much. It was the nicest job I have ever had. You would get games and movies a week before their release date so you could watch/play them in order to give recommendations. I got GTA San Andreas while in high school a week before the release date. I was practically a celebrity because of it. Also it was during the end of the golden era of movies, so decent movies still came out. The smell, the snacks, even some of the customers. I miss it all.

>>510493564
people who overuse the word fetishize probably have a problem with their own fetishes.

>>510493564
This. They were probably stasi child spies who didn't realize how much their parents were mindfucking them to prepare them for our dystopian communist world

>>510491071
the kino repository

>>510493402
Giant Eagle is awesome

>>510493578
be thankful teleportation doesn't exist
you still have to engage in the ritual of travelling from point A to B
once that is gone its over

>>510493633
There's no going back, either live in the now or kill urself living a dumbass fad that was always gonna die

>>510492176
Since the older generations decided to start shitting down our necks and calling it entertainment, we just made our own form of it, memes.

You’re also forgetting most of us grew up on this stuff just the same. I’m a 98 zoomer and the only part I remember being any good was the popcorn machine.

It’s time to stop projecting your own shortcomings on us. We get that we had the internet, but so did you for a long time and you just used it to fall for even more Jewish propaganda. Don’t be mad that none of us fell for the psyops you did, just be better

>>510493287
True, but blockbuster was also the final comfiguration of that part of society. And when it died, it took with it the final gasp of that whole experience.

It’s ephemeral bro. It’s not about blockbuster, never was. Not even about the vidya.

>>510490788 (OP)
Gen z here, me and my friend used to get a Wii game and a movie at blockbuster every other weekend, in 2009
Remember, Gen z started in 97

>>510490912
lmao jeet missed out on peak western civilization. at least you'll get to experience the collapse (that you're contributing to)

>>510490788 (OP)
The earliest zoomers will be 30 in 2027

>>510493710
You sound like a miserable faggot. You’re like the browns who always get mad when people say the 1950s was better.

>>510493633
I remember chatting up some of the wagies at the checkout line when renting a game and they'd tell you how good it was. Just built the anticipation even more to go home and play it.

>>510493446
Nobody in this thread said anything bad about zoomers, rabbi. Only your tribesmen do, in other threads.

>>510493739
The average jeet is experiencing the internet in 420 or 720p with <cd quality audio.
In 2000, we had 800x600 minimum.

>>510493552
I hate Steam so much. I can't try out any small time games because they are all on the Steam storefront. I just want to give a new studio some attention and I can't even play their games because they don't do physical and don't even digital download their own games. Even major games are only on Steam now too. They really don't want you to own anything. Emulation and retro form here on out I guess?

>>510493782
I was that wagey. There was one couple that would come in every Friday night and would specifically ask me which movie they should watch. Apparently I had never given them a single bad recommendation. It was maximum comfy.

>>510493667
that didnt explain anything

>>510493710
Hopefully Iran just nukes you in Israel one day without warning. Fucking kike.

>>510493698
Once I can teleport, the body will just effectively become meaningless. I will teleport my soul into a better body on a better planet.

>>510493062
no, it's not even remotely the same

>friday night, been home from school 2 hours, done with your homework
>alone in bed, catching your baseball over and over, thinking about the girl you like
>you realize that if you're bored, she's probably bored. you should call her when you're mom's done with the phone
>ring ring ring "hey Jill, im bored, wanna do something"
>"omg hi jack im bored too ok!"
>"do you like horror movies? want to go pick out one from blockbuster?"
>"omg yes i love scary movies"
>"ok i'll pick you up in an hour"

and that's only the initial planning. that's before you even get to the store. clicking an icon on your phone demolishes all of the human interaction in this chain of events. you don't know what you're missing out on because you can't comprehend your own blind spots and atrophied social sense.

something was taken from you that you don't even know you're supposed to have. this is why we harp on it. imagine if gen Alpha didn't know you could communicate using your mouth. and they try to explain to you how much more efficient texting is. that's what you're trying to do, you simply don't have a case because you don't know what you're missing.

>>510493092
>Off-yid
LEL

>>510490887
Well.. Easier perhaps, but I wouldn't say better.

>>510491803
this

>>510493977
Half of the experience of Blockbuster was just wandering the aisles, picking out cases and discussing them. Movies used to have cool artwork on the cases too, because it has to stand out.
Also you’re leaving out the part where you call the girl and her parents answer. Zoomers can’t even make fucking phone calls, imagine them having to call and speak to the parent of a girl they like.

>>510493402
>iggle video
pittsburghfag

>>510490788 (OP)
Why are soilennials so nostalgic?
>duuude remember back in like 2008 when we like went to the video rental store and-
Shut the fuck up, you're 38 and acting like a 70 year old remembering the 1960s

>>510490788 (OP)
>>510490912
>>510490887
Oldfag here. I used to hate nostalgic fucks like myself, but the past five years has accelerated everything so fast. It's impossible not to look back with some kind of nostalgia now.

2001 was the first big changing. Everyone born after that year, but especially after 2008 is an NPC in some form or another compared to older generations. The very social fabric of our society has become completely unhinged.

If in the year 2000 a 15 year old girl said : "I take cute bikini pictures of myself and share these online publicly. Thousands of men can see it and like, comment and reply to my pics" - there would immediately be social services involved and it would be the biggest scandal ever heard of at 99% of schools . Nowadays this shit is just completely normal.

In 2010 selfies weren't even socially accepted. If you stood around too long in one spot endlessly taking pictures of yourself people would genuinely think you were a fucking weirdo. Nowadays? Almost considered weird if you DONT participate in narcissistic behavior on social media.

Dating before apps used to be 100 times better. a 5/10 guy would eventually always hook up with some 5/10 girl at a party somewhere. People still actually talked, attraction was formed. Everything is so fucking fake these days. Tinder was a nuclear bomb to the human race.

Dont get me started on the internet before Web 2.0. It also helped that it took time, effort and money to actually own and operate a PC back in the early days, so that weeded out a lot of retards. Most kids are technologically illiterate. They can type fast on their iPhones but have no clue about how any of the underlying technology worked. My father in his 80's had to explain to my 15 year old nephew how to install a VPN because he can't focus on anything for more than 5 seconds because of tiktok brain.

Now with AI everything is going to become increasingly more gay. We will create gay AI's that create even gayer AI's.

>>510490788 (OP)
Mom-and-pop rental stores were better. I remember being about 10 years old, begging my mom for some money to rent a couple of games. I had to ride my bike along a highway connector road and cross a narrow, dangerous bridge to get there. Parents today would probably get locked up for letting their kids do that. Once there, they offered free popcorn with a game or movie rental and had new game releases set up for people to try. They even had a "secret" backroom with a curtain covering the door where they kept the pornos. I’d sometimes peek my head in to catch a glimpse of the covers with the naked ladies.

>>510490887
bugman arrived quick

>>510494222
I mean, every generation is nostalgic for their formative years. It's certainly not a phenomenon that's unique to millennials.

>>510494222
>Why do people that are older reminisce about when times are better?
Gee. What a fucking mystery. God I hate you brown zoomer fucking losers.

>>510493831
and? people actually lived outside of the internet back then

>>510490788 (OP)
>back when time had meaning
sounds like a personal problem

>>510493321

>>510494310
You're 38 and acting like your life is already over, like you're already retired and have nothing to do but reminisce about the past and kvetch about young people

>>510494432
The internet was best when it was confined to a terminal in the corner of a room in your basement.

>>510494156
Going to the rental store was fun. Everybody in our family would make their requests. Dad wanted his movie, mom hers, sister her music, and the babies a kids movie, I always went for video games. We got to the store and split up. When going to the rental store there was a 100% chance of running into somebody you knew from school so you got to spend more time with them while you searched around. When we were ready after what seemed an eternity we got in line and got ready for a purchase. We even got the extra stuff like popcorn bags, candy and soda for our weekend. We had a great weekend and everybody had fun. My parents would give me all the videos and merch and I had to go return them on Sunday evening by myself, the store was closed and it seemed sad in a way. We got ready for the next weekend.

>>510490912
back in early 2000s
i chatted up and picked up two girls (real, not anime)
in a video store

>>510494307
yeah and it's annoying as fuck, people who lost their way in life look to when they had their way (notably when they had no responsibility) in their youth. For some people this nostlagia is a manifestation of failure to launch, for others it's a manifestation of a mid life crisis.

>>510492629
I wonder why men are killing themselves at 5 times the rate of whores who get free shit from society and face no consequences

>>510494275
fantastic post, bravo

>>510494502
I felt that post, Anon. You just perfectly described so many nights at the video store for me.

Cheers Bouyzzzz

>>510494432
>coping jeet

>>510493977
Checked
It wasn’t just watching the movie, it was the whole process of meeting with friends/family, making plans, browsing, getting comfy, and so on. Brown zoomers will never understand

>>510494569
>the kids who fought in ww2 yearn for the better years of their youth in the trenches
ngmi

>>510490912
Wrong

>>510491869
of course Bend would still have a Bluckbuster

>>510494156
>Also you’re leaving out the part where you call the girl and her parents answer. Zoomers can’t even make fucking phone calls, imagine them having to call and speak to the parent of a girl they like.
I never thought of this. I bet a few of them reading this thread are going to continue being edgelords and forget all about it but will have legitimate night terrors about it later.

>>510494493
I’m not acting like my life is over. Hardly. But I am so sick of little shithead zoomers with zero long term perspective acting like they fucking know anything. Just the most absolute worthless brown generation imaginable. The world was better when faggots like you were pissed on for being the moaning little shitheads you are.

>>510490788 (OP)
It was exactly this. Time had meaning.
I own all my games
I no longer have time to play them

>>510494732
Also the girl not being a literal whore because the phone would be ringing constantly if she was.

>>510493633
I wish a wage job like this would sustain me and not make me want to blow my brains out, I work in a mill right now but the grass is not greener on the other sides

>>510491748
how is that different to now?

>>510490887
Yes it is generally but the main issue to zoomers is that this is now considered the minimum. Video tapes were a luxury in the early 80's but became cheap and easy to rent so it was an awesome experience. Same with renting games but now there are 500 demos you can play for free or just play fortnight that there is no excitement. It just another zoomer thing they barely got to experience. Its like how gen-x talks about free roaming before stranger danger came around and how everything was less regulated in general.

>>510491466
Like the hotrod scene of the 60's, you had less screens so you had to enjoy stuff like nature or road trips.

>>510494732
Imagine a zoomer having to do anything that requires them interacting like people did before 2008. Try to picture some zoomer being told “stop texting me and give me a fucking call.” Imagine a zoomer having to use a landline and having to speak to someone’s parents. They’d shit and piss themselves, the worthless little faggots.
>inb4 Buh buh but you raised us!
Take some responsibility for your lives you losers.

>>510494765
you were an ignorant shithead when you were young too. you just didn't broadcast it everywhere and have a content bubble that reinforced your delusions.

the zoomers have to be guided, they're digital ferals

>>510490788 (OP)
Boomers are delusional asf. Imagine thinking anyone would be jealous about renting a game/movie lmao

>>510494765
It's amazing how you older soilennials have fallen into the boomer trap of blindly hating on "kids these days". When I was younger I swore to myself I would not act like the boomer when I got older. If you're not careful you'll end up demanding more yummy brown immigrants and spending all your kid's inheritance.

>>510494947
It is beyond that, anon. If they could be erased and started over it would be best. Wait until this turbo-leftist woke faggot generation finally starts ascending to political power. It’ll be horrifying. These digital dipshits just annoy me, that’s all. They have zero redeeming qualities.

before it was record shops and arcades, now it's a specific soulless multination corporation that ate up all the smaller specialized shops from the 80s. but you were a kid and didn't know that. You think blockbuster was some magical place with no knowledge of the context of its existence.

>>510493718
It's kind of strange, if someone thought the world had somehow changed for the worse, wouldn't they want to try to return to what was better? Or something close to it? I don't get the second part where people are blaming younger people for everything as if they decided to have things suck. It feels more like the louder retards in the front of the crowd are getting all the publicity.

>>510495020
It’s funny how you think it’s a “kids these days” thing when the bulk of zoomers are in their fucking 20s. You’re not children anymore, that is the problem. You still think you’re kids, you’re not, you’re in your fucking 20s. It’s pathetic. There is only a small cohort of Gen Z still below 20 (maybe 5 years worth, at most), and even then 2 of those years are over 18. It’s not kids these days, those are alphas.

>>510494895
renting of things is always gonna be a thing

they could have survived just renting switch 2s and still be a place to this day

they didnt want to succeed so they gave up premptively and people had a fake faith in digital gaming instead

digital is worse

theres never not going to be the concept of paying a small amount to get access to a big thing for a small amount of time

u can rent bikes and cars and houses but u cant rent a switch 2 and controllers and games

wow seems like a loss of a market someone is losing

>>510493564
you're the only one getting a boner, memeflag kike.

>>510495020
They are practically boomers atp with how out of touch they are. I think alot of millennials are also just jealous because of the tech we got to grow up with compared to them

>>510494984
Imagine this not being bait, but instead someone posting with complete and sincere frankness with no irony whatsoever

>>510490912
Absolutely wrong.

>>510491003
That already existed then. I was on the internet on the late 90s but you people wouldn't know about that.

>>510495020
Retard, they are just making fun of the idiots who complain about us.
>its the millennials fault
Just like you are doing.
Kill All Jews.
Get out of the way so we can burn this jew system down.

>>510495039
us online shut ins are the proto-zoomers. we had all of their pathologies before it was commonplace. the internet's guinea pigs.

you have to match their intensity without being drawn in to the emotional escalation. you fail the 2nd part and act like a zoomer yourself

>>510493718
>None of us fell for the psyops
>1/4 of Gen Z are open faggots
>Gen Z is the bulk of trannies
Ya sure. You didn’t fall for anything, did you?

>>510493977
This guy gets it.

>>510493062
Retard. Films were cultural, because they were vapid entertainment, but were well written, acted and filmed and
>really made you think
and that would cause conversations to happen afterwards. You would discuss the film, it's implications, questions it raised, characters your liked etc. Now movies are a bunch of cookue cutter garbage designed to mass appeal and get as much profit as possible and aren't worth watching let alone thinking about or discussing.

>>510491206
It did when you had to order your rented Netflix DVDs in the mail. I still remember waiting to get the next season of Malcolm in the Middle

>>510490788 (OP)
Yea but the ultimate hack was to go to blockbuster early like mid afternoon skipping high school because back then all movies, video games and cd’s all released on Tuesday. So you could hit up blockbuster for movies/video games then go hit Best Buy, circuit city, Sam goody and the other music places for cd’s and be set for the next two weeks until more releases… Otherwise when you were a kid you had to find. The slim pickings on the popular stuff and ask the people who worked there if there had been any returns and to check the return box for what you were wanting.

>>510495204
>The tech we grew up with
I can assure you, no one gives a fuck that you got an iPad when you were 4.

>>510490981
They never had jackshit that you actually wanted and the rental return policies were short. The candy was massively overpriced. They really weren't that awesome.

>>510495243
You are old now and have nostalgia over shit nobody younger than you cares about. It's ok to embrace it but acting like we missed out cause we don't rent games/movies is delusional asf lmao Infact it's 100x more convenient now

>>510495204
>tablet kids think it's a flex that they're tablet kids

>>510491208
I liked the non chain video stores more as a kid because they always had the b movies that were strange or more interesting than a lot of the main ones

It doesn’t matter anyway because most of that is gone. Definitely more enjoyable back then and more creative too. Now it just the same ultra rich groups of “artists” ripping off everyone else with their boring movies that are cheesy and quirky. Back then there were more independent films to pick from or maybe I stopped watching it all and don’t know where it went

>>510490981
You had a lot of faggot friends

I'm such an old-ass boomer I remember when GameStop was called Babbage's.

>>510491149
>>510491314
Even the new kids movies are just subversion at fragmented magnitudes like "inside out"
These pedo kikes are seriously trying to program slave bots for their propaganda army

>>510495446
>He thinks it’s about renting the games and movies
You are genuinely retarded.

>>510490788 (OP)
They honestly didn't miss much. I don't miss going to blockbuster or the other one that sold music and shit.

>>510495446
>but i did eat breakfast

>>510495204
>I think alot of millennials are also just jealous because of the tech we got to grow up with compared to them
We got the same tech at the same time as you as it was released and we actually understand how it works because we had previous shit that wasn't made for retards
What do you think you grew up with that millennials didn't have a version of or would actually want

>>510495379
Also you had to get permission from your parents when you were under 18 to rent R rated movies and they stored that in the computer that you could rent R rated movies and could also rent soft core porn movies they had :^)

>>510495514
Why are you arguing with a brown?

>>510490887
I wished you were a neet since your early years and were talking about pic related. If only.
Imagine his opinion over McDonald's.

>>510495430
it doesnt matter if they actually managed to run the business right or not

the concept of a physical renting of gaming / movie store can and should still exist today

just because they might have gotten expensive and were bad at doing it doesnt mean theres not a place for it

how many people would have rather rented a switch 2 to see if they like it so they didnt have to buy the 450$ device

maybe everyone? like millions of people

blockbuster was a case of corporation just not wanting to deal with it and do it right

Only thing I ever rented from block buster that wasn't trash was mario kart advance and gba right when gba launched. Never liked movie slop personally.

Downloading my movies and other media was like finding the City of Gold and at the same time being in a great war against companies going digital only. It was great at first but then just got routine after a while. Companies making things worse and worse makes me disgusted. It feels like I have forgotten how to have fun. The only time I get a little spark back is when I buy special edition box sets of stuff.

>>510495446
Why do you keep typing lmao like an old faggot from facebook
You have to be brown or something

>>510495446
Derp herp muh buzzword will help me not feel bad about contributing nothin with my generation of slop. I’ll just call 35 year olds old over and over even though your grandparents are actually old and agree you haven’t made anything

35 isn’t old you little crybaby fag, no one is trying to flirt with your 17 yr old ugly girlfriend calm down pussy

>>510495204
Kek no.
I had one of the first modems in my entire city.

>>510495475
Same and electronic boutique EB

>>510495460
I'll be a contrarian for the sake of the Zoomers.

I think they still seek out exactly what you are describing, but as you said, a lot of modern entertainment is bland and homogenized.

BUT, a lot of zoomers wind up going down hyper specific rabbit holes into what could be called Nu-Niche Media. Everyone knows the Backrooms for example, but there are a lot of lesser known analog series on YouTube.
I think the drive to discover unique things still exists, it's just changed forms as entertainment has changed.

>>510490887
die jew

>>510495510
>you don't understand it's not about renting it had AURA
Genuinely just kys

>>510490788 (OP)
>Sorry faggot kid the one game you wanted to rent is sold out right now

my parents were buyfags which means there's hundreds of vhs in the basement. The increased cost also meant they wouldn't buy any candy or treats to watch the movies with :(

>>510495632
Blockbuster rented consoles, it’s how I found out I didn’t want to own a Nintendo virtual boy

>>510495731
>It had *insert faggy zoomer slang*
It’s so apparent you’re just some seething brown lmao. Sorry, Raj, Canada was a better place when you weren’t there.

>>510495632
>how many people would have rather rented a switch 2 to see if they like it so they didnt have to buy the 450$ device

Doesn't seem sustainable as a business model. That, and a lot of people would steal what they rented.

>>510495731
You’d have never met Mike Vallely if you didn’t go to the Ross Dress For Less anon

>>510495737
>sold out
>at a rental
zoomie go zoom zoom

>>510495892
Sold out as in all the rental copies are currently rented out, retard

>>510495831
>Nintendo virtual boy
Kek one of us.
We know the failure of VR is systemic.

>>510495854
I see your browndar went off too
God they're fucking annoying

>you'll never smell a video rental place again
it's such a unique smell and I've never smelled anything else like it

>>510494502
Comfy post anon, it gave me nostalgia. I did the same. There was no internet back then, or barely anyone had it anyways for a long while. So the rental store was also a good place for recommendations to find new things. I loved just browsing through the video's and then the PS1 game section and picking out everything that looked cool and then looking at the pictures on the back and reading the blurb. Everything looked so fun and exciting and it was often legitimately hard to make a choice. Whatever game/film you picked would radically determine how your weekend went. We all had those weekends where we accidentally picked a dud, and then had those other weekends where we found gold and it was so good we later went out and bought a personal copy.

Also do you remember sharing copies of games and video's with friends at school. I remember one day everyone agreed the day prior to bring all of their video games. And at recess and lunch there was a massive crowd of boys from every year in the school all trading games and keeping track of who borrowed what. It was like a school swapmeet for video games and movies. The rentals all agreed to last a week and the weekend, and return to original owner. If you borrowed something from someone, you had to give them something in collateral to borrow so no stealing.

>>510495860
its very sustainable car rental places are still going for decades

renting of objects is not going anywhere

>That, and a lot of people would steal what they rented.

they have ways around that they collect your id and credit card numbers and take "Deposits"

and have reputation systems

bro blockbuster didnt play around im pretty sure it was harsh punishment

>>510490788 (OP)
Every zoomer over the age of like, 18 years experienced blockbuster

>>510496011
Cars are worth a lot more than the switch 2. This sounds like an idea you should pursue then. Keep me updated on your success.

>>510495990
I honestly just assume every zoomer is brown and most times I’m right. It’s why they seethe so much. A bunch of late to the party second generation immigrants in denial that things used to be better.

i wanted to open up a blockbuster type store but it would be a monthly subscription and free to borrow, no employees, but self checkout. dish.com (who owns blockbuster) never got back to me.

>>510490788 (OP)
THATS A LIFE NIGGA IM A ZOOMIE AND IVE BEEN THERE

>>510496011
The 90's was too high trust for that shit, you are thinking like a niggeriezed person.
We used to just leave cash on the counter because the store owner went out for lunch.

>>510496080
no if u can rent out 100 games and 20 switches in a week then youre making more than the car rental place that only rents to a handful of people that week

you would make more money since playing video games is a small amount of money investment for a large fun

car renting is more emergency type of thing

more brutal business id say

>>510490912
This Pajeet never met all his school friends at Blockbuster on a Friday afternoon.

>>510490788 (OP)
Better times.

>>510495990
>>510496141
Post hand I can guarantee I'm whiter than both of you lmao

>>510495731
>brown zoomer doesn’t recognize the anticipation, social engagement, and community building that took place during the whole process, they just think it’s about watching the movie
You make society measurably worse in every way

>>510495994
Great thing was games were complete. If I got a stinker I made sure to beat it as soon as I could and try again next week. No money went to waste.

you'll love this book then:
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>>510490788 (OP)
I cannot begin to tell you how many times I would drive to Blockbuster on a Friday night and all the New Releases were GONE. All 40 copies of one movie. Fuck Blockbuster.

>>510495854
Know what let's talk about jeets a moment
They type like edgefags from 2005 because they're literally at least 20 years behind the curve at all times
It's why they all buy shitty BMWs and fuck them up by the hundreds. Because when they watch 80s and 90s Hollywood movies with white yuppies driving them it still looks like it was shot in the future compared to their film quality so they assume it's still the white yuppie thing to do
Recently the younger ones have moved into the early 2000s culturally and started buying mustangs
It's a fucking shitshow, it's embarrassing to be on the same planet let alone the same living environment

>>510492586
America is browner.

>>510496302
>N-no you
Fuck off Raj, I don’t take orders from browns.

>>510496203
i forgot whatt the punishments were for being late for returning games and they probably just outright took the full amount for the game either u left cash with them or whatever

u couldnt really escape

i dont remember how they did it though

i just remember it was a brutal punishment for being late

>>510490887
>staying in my house is better than leaving it with my family
It's so sad. He doesn't know what he's missing ;(

>>510491935
>my daughter is downstairs playing REPO with her school friends
Post her feet.

>>510496418
Thought so Juan
You will never be white and you will always be a boomer seething at people younger than you

>>510496424
For most places here it was cheaper to rent for extra time than be late, but standard rentals were 2-3 days or something, and you only needed the extra time for vidya.
I think renting an xbox og and 3-4 games for a week was like 40 bux?

>>510496302
>can't help lmaoing again
stop doing lines and go back to bharatchan you stupid jatt

>>510496424
At Blockbuster the late fees were around $2/day, which added up quickly. If you kept it past (I think) two weeks, they assumed you weren’t bringing it back and sold it to your account. At that point when you brought it back it had to be readded to the inventory so they would charge you a restocking fee too. Most times I’d just wave the restocking fee if they agreed to pay the $14 for a week of late fees. For gaming systems you had to put a deposit down to get it, which was usually a couple hundred dollars.

>>510496592
>stop doing lines and go back to bharatchan you stupid jatt

>>510496552
>Get called brown because you’re obviously brown
>N-no you
>Ha, I’ve won
Honestly it must really suck being some rootless brown thrown into a first world country.

>>510493718
You couldn't even drive when Obama was president.
You don't even understand.

>>510490788 (OP)
Nigger i'm almost 30.

>>510496424
Blockbuster claimed they paid for better quality copies of movies and games were meant to uphold more wear and tear and charged you a higher price to buy and why their late fees added up so quickly.
>>510496576
The thing about their consoles wasn’t the rental price but the ridiculously high deposit they made you pay to rent consoles.

>>510490788 (OP)
>>510490912
>>510490887
>>510491003
>>510491080
Niggers

>>510496772
I think the deposit was because they limited the max duration of console rentals.

>>510496410
I’ll add that even if Blockbuster did still exist, or were to come back, it would not be the same. Rather than a movie buff wagey, you’d be dealing with some dead eyed brown zoomer.
>Make it a Blockbuster night saar!
No thanks.

>>510496827
That and consoles were crazy expensive for the time.

>>510494718
Yeah it does kinda fit. What's funny is I'd heard about "the last Blockbuster" but the name Bend meant nothing to me at the time so I didn't realize it was here until I moved here and drove past it. (btw I feel like I should say that my company transferred me here before somebody thinks I'm a CA refugee and flips out on me.)

>>510496727
I haven't even started on you man, try this-
You will never have a wife.

>>510496827
I dunno I ought all the real consoles but like I said in my earlier comment the only one I ever rented was the virtual boy. I even owned a sega Saturn but never owned a sega CD because I was still too young at that time and the sega genesis and Super Nintendo scratched the video game itch until PlayStation and 64 came along before the next gen of consoles that included ps2 Xbox amd game cube

>>510497022
>Virtual boy
That used to give me migraines.

You guys ever play that terminator game with the bazooka?
90's were so dope

>>510497022
Speaking of I forgot about the sega dreamcast which was honestly better than the PlayStation or the N64 but was the forgotten child of video game consoles that should’ve reigned supreme

>>510497212
I had one super nerd friend who somehow got a NeoGeo
Its like the PS3 hardware snafu a generation before. Lack of games at launch
Dreamcast had a bunch of Jap RPGs didn't it?

>>510496889
You used to be able to chat with the cashiers and they'd legitimately tell you what was good and what was shit
They used to hook me up with the perfect movies when I brought a girl in
I remember renting consoles I didn't have and plowing through games without any spoilers guides or walk-throughs existing unless you wanted to buy a hardcopy book.

>>510497320
I’m sure why the Dreamcast never took off, it was ahead of it’s time since it got dropped in the PlayStation and N64 era and got over taken by the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube era.

>>510495204
Nigga you can't use an OS file system because every screen you've ever used was designed for literal boomers who still couldn't find the any key after 20 years. You weren't even supposed to have that tech. It was designed by Apple for literal actual adult boomer retards to finally get their money, but they put it in your dirty hands to stop you from crying, and look what happened.

>>510497559
I was a cashier there. The store I worked at is a Bulk Barn now.

>>510497671
I'm a millennial and I get up playing DOS gorillas on a 286. The fuck you talking about?

>>510497671
>>510497847
Sorry mang quoted the wrong anon

>>510491488
Blockbuster had the chance to buy Netflix and they declined

>>510497917
That's fine I'm working late and couldn't think of a good leaf shitpost anyway.

>>510498031
netflix is worse than blockbuster i already explained that

netflix literally was old black and white films backk then it didnt have anything

>>510498031
Biggest corporate fuck up ever like sears not buying Amazon… I miss the fuck out of blockbuster and the actual smell of their stores :’(

>>510490788 (OP)
for me it was the smell of hundreds of fresh VHS tapes sitting on the shelves. i loved walking into the local video store with my dad after he got off work for the week. it was a special kind of sensory overload ill never forget.

>>510498171
sears was better than amazon

shipping to a central location is cheaper than shipping to individual houses for each item

retail is mathematically more sustainable than e commerce

>>510498217
Certain places have a unique smell
>Dentist office
>Church
>Blockbuster

>>510497824
>Bulk Barn
The blockbuster of snack food, almost as quaint as a pottery barn or value village
If they pack it in im calling it

Is there any conceivable way to run a brick and mortar video rental store nowadays? Maybe have it be partially a mail model, but who even has a Blu-ray player? As a kid my dream teenage job was to work at my local video store, but they all but died out when I was employable.

>>510498160
>I already explained that
Why do you think I took the time to read your post?
>>510498171
>the smell
Oh man I totally remember the smell. I’ve been in the process of converting all my home videos from VHS to mp4, its so depressing seeing life before smartphones. We can never go back either but I’m raising my kids like the 90s, they don’t even watch TV.

>>510490788 (OP)
nothin personell jew

>>510498251
Yeah but once you add in physical location rent, employees etc overhead Netflix took off once they were able to scale streaming without having to send physical copies and if I’m not mistaken Netflix blew up off their video game rentals and not off movies. I can’t remember the name of the video game service but that’s what gave them massive market share.

>>510498416
I posted this earlier but there’s no point. You’re trying to capture lightning in a bottle. The time has passed. No one wants to deal with some brown dead eyed zoomer renting them movies. Half of the fun of blockbuster was chatting with the movie buff wagies. Zoomers would ruin it. And theft would be rampant.

>>510498416
it has to include delivery u can get a game to a customer faster than they can download it

physical gaming is superior

and same thing with movies if u can get a cheap rental to someone delivered then why would they even need netflix and shit

its very doable they just didnt want to make it a reality they believed in fake digital meme shit

put the movies on drives i guess because they dont even have dvd players on em anymore