Why do millennials have so much nostalgia for this place?

I don't
>bye

it wasn't just about the movie, the trip was part of the adventure, to decide together, and maybe grab something to eat

idem. watching movies on theaters.

>>510532493 (OP)
It smelled so weird, so maybe that and the porn section.

>>510532660
Blockbuster had a porno section?

>>510532493 (OP)
why not? we went weekly for a couple decades

>>510532493 (OP)
you see the shop is called sneeds feed and seed...the initial joke is that it was formely chucks. add the previous owner name infront of the shop you you get...

>>510532660
kek. i literally just thought of the smell a second before i read your post. i remember the smell for sure. i cant even describe it.
>>510532631
also this. it was fun to simply pick up and hold movies and look at them. same with browsing the music section at borders or f.y.e.. physical media created a connection beyond just its contents.

Internet was gay back then. What people seriously did was watch Hollywood slop, possibly hundreds of time a year

>>510532765
no it didnt, but local move rental places did, "behind the curtain". sneaking in was a right of passage for 80s and 90s kids. i can never say for certain if it wasnt allowed to be honest. either i was good at sneaking in or the owners saw me everytime but didnt care.

>>510532493 (OP)
I always pirated.
Imesh, napster, limewire and pirate bay.
There was zero reason to ever go to blockbusters unless you were a blue pilled wage cuck.

It was also a huge eye opener at 10 when i saw how holywood was one massive child sex trafficking ring. Who knew that all the child stars of the entertainment industry like disney and nickelodeon were all being trafficked.

It really gave me a great perspective on the sort of world we have.

Politicians, polish, military,churches all rotten to the core.

>>510532493 (OP)
Our entertainment still had an element of wholesomeness and creativity to it. The world they grew up in was objectively better than the one they now refuse to have kids in.

>>510532493 (OP)
Just nice to think back to a time when my country wasn't flooded with chinks, jeets, arabs and niggers.

Ride down to the store on your bike with your mates, just leave it out the front without worrying about anyone stealing it, pick out some fighting game or whatever for console that everyone can play, if it looked violent the cunt behind the counter would ring your parents to make sure it was ok because he was a cunt, maybe grab a PC game to burn for everyone at school for the weekend LAN, pick up a trojan or two from gamecopyworld trying to crack it, head back home with half a dozen mates in tow, take turns being shit at whatever you hired but having a good time, spring the plan for a sleep over on your parents at like 6pm like they hadn't already planned it and rang your mates parents.

It was just a bit of a social hub before everyone was connected 24/7 and ceased socialising.

>>510533061
False, it had a veneer of wholesomeness it was always just a kiddy fiddler industry and it still is.

The child rapists in holywood are always talking about gay right, womens pay gap, black rights and its just insufferable to hear these people who enrich themselves from the abuse of kids and the brainwashing of the masses talk about morals and the right thing to do.

>>510532493 (OP)
i shopped at blockbuster until I was 21 when they disappeared. I really don't miss it for any other reason than free games. you rent a game and own it or you could swap games when you got bored. worked especially well with nintendo 64 games because you just swap stickers. the disc games could cloned in some scenarios and sometimes they would stack the game right on the counter next to them and you just distract open it and swap with a different disc.

>>510533113
Pretty much nailed it. I remember renting Clay Fighters. You could also rent consoles. If you were too poor or had to wait until Christmas for a Sega or a SNES you could at least rent one for the weekend.

>>510533204
Correct on the diddler part but I’ll tell you there was never an ugly black Disney princess when Harvey was in charge.

>>510532493 (OP)
>Fifth time seeing this exact thread in like 3 days
Hmmm........... How curious...

>>510533022

>Who knew that all the child stars of the entertainment industry like disney and nickelodeon were all being trafficked.

This, every single nick or disney child star is fucked up . Then we see moshe further exploit their degeneracy by continuing to pimp them out and have their young audiences act like them. Oyyy veeey!

>>510532493 (OP)
Because it was from an era where quality mattered. If your movie was shit, you would suffer as a company. Now all these companies release shit after shit but since it's on a streaming service, they can justify the cost in any way possible. The death of video rentals is just another way in which large corporations garnered more power for themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if it was done on purpose for this very reason. They were still popular when they were going out of business.

>>510532493 (OP)
It's the times that it represents which people miss.

>>510534154
That’s all it is. Everyone misses being 11 years old, whenever that was. I remember my father saying in the 90s how much better everything was in the 70s. Last night I saw a baseball team of 11-12 year old boys at an ice cream stand celebrating a win and they looked like they were having the time of their lives.

>>510533022
Polish people btfo

>>510534623
Times really were better though back then. I don't play your father for saying the 70s was better because there was a lot less bullshit then although I'd miss the video games.

>>510534623
You're wrong, though. Going to a physical store and picking out something to watch with the family for the weekend was a team building exercise. It brought the family together. Now you just scroll page after page of analysis paralysis fuel then binge some show for 12 hours like a piece of shit.

>>510532493 (OP)
>blockbuster
I don’t remember that. But I remember blockblister
t. Born in ‘87

>>510532946
Can you imagine how much of a weirdo you would look like renting a porno from a video store? Dude, yikes.

>>510535159
That’s how a lot of the mom and pop video rental places stayed in business. They were the most rented films

>>510534864
It really wasn’t that special. At the end of the day you’re still sitting on your ass at home watching a screen. Ask someone who was an adult with a job while Blockbuster was around if they miss it and they’ll tell you no. If you didn’t get there early enough all the new movies were rented, they charged late fees, fees if you didn’t rewind, etc.

>>510535159
>Can you imagine how much of a weirdo you would look like
>t.

>>510532493 (OP)
Movies didn't suck ass back then.

>>510535502
Wow, it actually taught people future planning and flexibility? Better destroy it for hours of slop streamed right into your brain.

>>510532493 (OP)
because it was FUCKING AWESOME

Blockbuster used to let you play through whole games for a few bucks. A different game or games every week. What was there not to love.

>>510532493 (OP)
I have nostalgia for independent video rental stores before Blockbuster moved in here and crushed most of them.
It's much the same as the nostalgia I have for going to the cinema or music store and looking at what the top 40 were, browsing through the shelves and listening to albums.
Media was much harder to come by in the 1980s and early 1990s. You didn't have more music and video than you can choose from at your fingertips like you do today. Seeking out new things was a physical and social experience. You explored music by having a listen to what friends had in their Walkman, listening to the radio and music TV shows. You'd even record TV and radio to tapes to get a copy of a song playback at will or share with your friends.

>>510532493 (OP)
Why do brown zoomers not comprehend it was about more than just watching a movie?

>>510536551
Going to a place to experience a thing vs having that thing constantly in your pocket will always be a different experience. Having so much available to us at all times leads to a constant state of analysis paralysis. That leads to an overwhelming sense of apathy on a society-wide scale. It's the same way you go to an amusement park and have fun on the roller coasters but if you had to take a roller coaster to work every morning you'd quickly tire of it.

>>510532493 (OP)
We used to go a video rental shop in the late 80's/early 90's, in those days there was no internet so each visit was like a treasure hunt.

>>510532765
I'm pretty sure it did though. That's how my dad got hentai tapes...

>>510537108
Based gooner dad

>>510532493 (OP)
it's not this place, its the experience over all.
>Go to physical place with friends and family to pick a movie.
>Get to know the staff, have them reccommend good shit
>Find movies based entirely off the box art
>Sometimes meet new people
it was more social. Millenials miss human interaction. Thats it really.
Streaming is superior in every way
it used to be better because you would invite people over to netflix and chill, but now everyone just watched shit alone and trying to watch a show with someone is impossible cause they will watch it without you cause everyone is a 0 impulse control faggot.
also hollywood video was 100 x better

>>510537047
This is true. Not being forced to rely on second choices has led gen z to be the most entitled generation to ever exist. Everything they ever wanted, they got instantly within seconds. Forcing people to wait or not get their way teaches them patience and flexibility respectively, things our world is sorely lacking.

>>510532493 (OP)
maybe because its the only place they rented movies from?...
i remember walking for two hours in the middle of the night to a 24h VHS rental to get Gay Nigger From Outer Space...
Ever since they got rid of street payphones... the svl is the city is gone.

>>510537269
>Streaming is superior in every way
Fuck off out of here. Streaming allows shit companies to become lax and pump out dogshit knowing you'll pay for it whether you like it or not. The extreme drop in quality of media can be directly attributed to the death of physical media. When you had to make sales, you had to make good movies. Not anymore. This is seen much more obviously in video games where streaming fucking sucks. The ones that do release on streaming are dogshit and the ones that don't are risky propositions since you have to buy them before you can try them.

>>510532493 (OP)
Because you knew it was going to be an awesome weekend.
>early 1990s
>Friday after school
>sleepover weekend with friends
>go to Blockbuster
>grab a copy of latest big release movie
>grab a second film from the cheaper section (main part of store)
>stop by Little Caesar's on the way home

It was a third space, one that never brought any feelings other than positive ones. It was exciting and fun to see what they had at Blockbuster, like a toy store for adults and kids alike.

>>510535602
no they sucked ass, and sometimes you would get burned when all your rentals sucked cause all you selected on was box art and a brief summary.
But you laughed it off and made an effort to make a better selection next time and actually finished the movie all the way through cause you paid for it, might as well finish it.

Now if a movie isn't the best shit ever in the first minute you switch instantly. no cost to your wallet, no waste of time.
only problem is eventually people don't know what they want and keep switching and never start a movie and get the same disapointment of a night choosing the wrong movie, but with none of the self awareness of choosing better of sense of completion from finishing a movie.

Anyone else remembering your parents doing you a solid and finally giving in to take you to Rainforest Cafe? I remember the restaurant was a fucking maze to get to your table booth, the food was way overpriced goyslop and strangely the waiters were all unironic fags.

>>510537649
Let me rephrase this...
>Pirating and streaming
Better?

>>510532493 (OP)
It was a social place, you could talk to other customers and the clerk about movies and you would bump into people you knew. Nothing like that exists anymore

>>510536926
I think it's more "the dilemma of choice", a known phenomena in business/marketing where people like having choices, but if you give them more than a few things to choose from they get overwhelmed.
Optimal choice is like 3 or 4 options - something Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple.

>>510537952
I guess, but you and I both know pirates don't buy the shit later. But I for sure went out and bought some of the games I rented because I loved them so much. It gave too much power to the consumer so it had to be destroyed.

>>510538725
Isn't that what analysis paralysis is?

>>510536551
>independent video rental stores before Blockbuster moved in
Movieland, civic video, video ezy chains. The latter stayed into the dvd era. The tiny independent corner ones were soul. Blockbuster was later 90s. When they came along they were better because you could rent consoles but was more expensive than the aussie ones. They also had their branded white tape case, large clean stores that was corporate and professional. The aussie shop tapes came in their original case and printed movie covers. When a popular movie came out the blockbuster overnight or 2night rentals were a rip off and made the others raise prices. I also hated the smell of cigarette laden grubby tapes/dvds you know were handled by dirty fucks. Imagine the hygiene if we had the millions of jeets we have now handling tapes. I don't think you'd want to visit a video store in todays world. It would be like the netflix front page and pozzed bookstores. Faggot rainbow section, nigger BLM wakanda section, stronk womym section. Fuck modern movies. They like society peaked in the 90s even though they were a jew run pedo industry from the beginning

>>510532660
Industrial floor cleaner and probably the cheap stuff

>>510538193
Not even bars. Everyone is just staying home all the time now. We're one step closer to becoming the batteries from the matrix.

>>510535602
Movies were a lot less stupid back then. Stupid movies still existed but they at least had some good ones still. There’s a list of em somewhere

>>510539537
>Not even bars. Everyone is just staying home all the time now. We're one step closer to becoming the batteries from the matrix.

Nobody wants to go outside because Cops and niggers are terrorizing everyone at random, you never know if it's your day to be face to face with some blue-badge thug or some nigger on meth

>>510532493 (OP)
There is no culture because they destroyed everything so millennials worship corporations and places where they consoomed things

>>510532493 (OP)
Let me actually explain to you, underageB&.
Uninstall every single subscription app on your devices, so the only way you can watch anything is with cable TV.
And if you want to watch anything else, with no commercials, you go to that store.
Live like this and tell me you don't want to go to Blockbuster all the time.

This doesn't even touch on rending video games, either.

>>510532493 (OP)
I worked at the largest Hollywood Video in 2000, in Las Vegas. We had the CEO Mark Wattles visit one time and he took four of us out to lunch. The manager and I had been spitballing for a long time about the future of the business and what could be done to take the company to the next level. I remember pitching Wattles on competing with the On-Demand market (which was taking a huge bite out of video rentals) by offering movies online - basically streaming before streaming. We even had a prototype TV box that was essentially a Linux PC that booted to a full screen web browser for playing hosted video files. He didn't see the potential, though. To be fair, I'm not sure if the industry was ready for our "Netflix before Netflix" service, especially because broadband wasn't ubiquitous yet. Timing is everything.

>>510532493 (OP)
>comfy aesthetics
>tons of peak 80’s and 90’s animu VHS
>tons of vidya
>popcorn and snacks
>end of week comfy time to relax and watch movies and play Vidya
>a time when life wasn’t about nonstop demoralization, niggers, kikes, and miggers
>even the slop was kino

>>510539715
That is true. Niggers definitely hinder my outside experience.

>>510532493 (OP)
It was one of the last fun places to shop.
It's the same thing with how malls used to be. Before everything was algorithmically chosen for you, you could walk into a rental store like Blockbuster or The Sharper Image or Media Play and find neat things you didn't know about!
Actually being able to shift through physical objects that weren't selected for you or in most cases these days shit you have already seen, was a fun way to discover New and exciting media, trinkets or whatever!
Streaming used to be fun for the same reason until they "improved" their algorithms. I used to be able to find all sorts of new and interesting films I never heard of on Netflix and YouTube, but now after they changed their algorithms, I'm constantly served shit I've already seen or the most boring slop they consider "popular".
The mall did the same shit before they started dying. You used to be able to look around shops and find neat gadgets and movies and stuff, but eventually they decided that those things weren't "profitable enough" and now you can only find cell phone accessories and clothing in the mall. I might be the outlier here but all phones are pretty much the same these days so shopping for a fucking phone is boring, and I really don't care that much about clothing, especially when it's just t-shirts with [brand] on it in most cases.
So that's why I'm nostalgic for Blockbuster...
Also fuck you OP, I'm sad now, Faggot.

>>510540477
It was truly peak life back then

>>510540893
Sorry, Anon-kun, didn't mean to make you sad.

>>510532493 (OP)
You had to go out of your way to get a movie or two, and since you were spending your time and money just going to a movie rental place you'd want to get something good and scrutinize everything, not just lazily play any slop that shows up on your feed.
And if the movie wasn't amazing you didn't have a button to skip to one of a million other films, you were stuck with what you got, but you already spent the effort and money on it so you're damn well watching it.
It was an event night for the whole family.

With streaming you get blasted with the choice of every movie ever made, which sounds good, but most people really just want to watch what they're familiar with and so many choices just leaves people wading through a river of shit, but that's okay because you're putting in as much effort to get to them as the people who made them.

>>510533022
>Imesh, napster, limewire and pirate bay.
blockbuster was before that
vid piracy popped off around 1996 with the bizarre vivoactive format (couldn't fast forward or rewind, had no "seeking" feature, yes in a video computer file, designed for online streaming, about 100x100 pixels over modems).. I was there

before that most you could get is blockbuster, they did run the show for a time. but yea 1996-2002 the vid piracy popped off, realmovie/realplayer had higher quality and took over, then divx (format), VCDs were big too esp in SE asia, usually split across multiple discs. I still keep my sentimental vivo files from the early days

>>510532493 (OP)
>>510532631
And maybe meet some other people too

>>510535159
56k internet kept a high value on porn magazine & vhs.

>>510532493 (OP)
Imagine today a video game that costs $70-80 USD

You could rent it over the weekend, finish it and have a snack for like $10 or less.

You could also go to pawn shops and own the game for way less if you had to own it.

Also games had paper instructions as rentals and would survive multiple renters without being stolen let alone damaged. High trust White societies did that.

>>510538831
They're the same sort of thing, but as I understand it, analysis paralysis is more about neurotically obsessing over making the optimal choice whereas the dilemma of choice is more about people deciding to just walk away from making a decision because it's overwhelming.

>>510532765
They didn't have a 'section' but it was out in the open. BB used to keep the actual movies in the boxes (they changed that) so that porn could be 'hidden' in plan site.
>why is everyone renting The Little Fox?
>plays tape
>oooo

>>510542505
Getting the booklet with the game was always kino. Definitely a relic of a high-trust society.

>>510535159
Ya, I bet those losers got flammed on bbs

Going to get a porno was as normal as getting a loaf of bread or a bag of milk.

>>510542505
I remember renting WWF No Mercy on N64 and my friends brother had saved a bunch of shitty looking characters under his name. I also used a GameShark to unlock all the cheat codes on my towns copy of Goldeneye

>>510540070
Remember when Netflix started out as mail-order DVD rentals?
I think the move from VHS to DVD is really what started killing video rental stores as the drastically smaller size of the media enabled Netflix and Redbox vending machines.
Why rent a big store and pay people to staff it when you can fit an entire video store inventory into a jukebox that be put in any convenience store or gas station?

>>510543149
Oh yeah the game saves that came with the game from previous renters are always a trip. I think I borrowed a game from my aunt and she had ocarina of time with maxed hearts and all the items and feeling really impressed by it all.

Letting your neighbor borrow shadows of the empire, he left your save alone and played on his own.

>>510543853
I also had the game shark and remember it really only being useful for GoldenEye

>>510535502
>wah you had to pay fees if you couldn't handle basic responsibilities

How hard is it to rewind the tape and bring it back on time?

>>510537108
Many places had also yet to fully realize what hentai was.
We're talking back in the time when every boomer parent's thought process was
>hentai?=it's a cartoon=so it's like the flinstones!
So you could actually find it out in the open sometimes.

Some kids first foray into anime was sailor moon or pokemon on tv.
For other? la blue girl on vhs from the blockbuster.

>>510543853
Yeah, that was the death nail, but On-Demand was killing us before, too. We proposed to focus on the historical library rather than new releases for streaming, which was the bulk of Netflix DVD rentals. There's an alternate timeline where Hollywood Video became Netflix and I was promoted to Emperor of Earth.

>>510544444

>>510542505
>High trust White societies did that.
The entire ritual of anticipating the weekend, making weekend plans with friends/family, renting a movie/game, and bonding over it is a White thing. Brown zoomers are so fixated on the end result of watching the movie that the concept of making plans is so foreign to them. They also have grown up in a time where corporations are trying to make everyone addicted to their products. Believe it or not, in a higher trust White society, corporations had an interest in selling products that aided in community building/bonding activities.

It’s not just about watching the movie. Video stores represent an entire facet of a safer, healthier, more prosperous society.

>>510544126
Ya I can't remember what else I did with it, usually I'd type in a bunch of lines and then nothing would happen I think. Still a pretty cool device looking back, I felt like Neo using that thing

>>510532765
No it didn't. They couldn't rent Bambi 15 feet away from Analmom Bambi mix II

Jesus we are getting old. It's fucking over.

I don't. I used to watch maybe 1 movie a week until I got Netflix DVD service in 2004 and started watching 6 per week. I also think renting games was one of the reasons video games were bad and the golden age started after the death of the arcade and Blockbuster.

>>510533113
kek this game was hysterical

>>510532493 (OP)
>Why do millennials have so much nostalgia for this place?
Cheap VHS rentals. Just the feeling of going to BB or Hollywood Video or RogersVideo (in Canada) and picking up multiple VHS cassettes on Tuesdays for special discounts.
Absolutely kino glory.
We also weren't big movie goers as a kid so cassettes rentals were the primary way of watching films.

>>510532493 (OP)
It's just retards being retards over nostalgia

>WAAhhh I miss my retarded movies and shows to waste my life watching!!! WAAAhhhh!! Remember when they used to change my diaper at the Cockbusters!! I remember that, so many movies and yummy popcorn with my retarded friends waaahhh

Nostalgia is for retards stuck in the past, get with the program or jump off the sink, most of those movies were made by child fuckers and you were just experiencing babies first little dip into capitalism, now watch ur child fucker shows on netflix eith whoever else girlfriend or whatever friends that dont talk to you anymore cause they're on drugs or they just hate ur ass

>>510533113
That's what's funny about how people say that the internet has brought everyone together, sure I can more easily socialise with someone living in Buttfuck, Indiana but when it comes to your real life friends nobody seems to really want to get together anymore and when you do they're just browsing their smartphones like zombies.

>>510532493 (OP)
That's where I found Armored Core 2

>>510532493 (OP)
I lived in bend Oregon for 14 years where they have the world's last blockbuster. Drove past it many times but never stopped by.

>>510545997
jfc its just video games u fucking sperg. meds unironically

>>510532493 (OP)
Because it was nice to have family movie night and make it into a mini event with going and getting a film, some popcorn and some pizza before all going back to the house to watch it.

I dont miss blockbuster itself, I miss the family being together that it brought about. Its the same feeling you get about Christmas, or I guess Thanksgiving for you Americans, when you get the family together for a big dinner.

>>510532493 (OP)
I was born in the 1980s. Went to Blockbuster numerous times as a kid in the 1990s. Rented games and movies.

That said, I don't get why THIS is the one thing so many Millennials keep harping on. Here and elsewhere, it always comes back to fucking "muh Blockbuster."

>>510532493 (OP)
with everything being delivered today do zoomers even know the joy of going somwhere to pick up something cool
are girls not still addicted to the thrill of going out and going shopping
like there use to be something called mall rats where people would just hang out in the mall cause going out there to pick up stuff was fun and cool

>>510544626

>>510544179
Fees really weren't predatory basically if you were late, they'd charge you for another rental so you'd just keep it another few days and return it. Worked for games if you needed extra time to finish them. If you never brought it back then they'd start charging you more money though.

>>510532493 (OP)
Nah. Blockbuster and hollywood video were corprate pieces of shit that helped run my local video rental places out of buinesses before their time because of the normies who didn't know better and can't resist branding, bright lights, and shiny logos. Bigger selections but not at all better ones. There were still tons of movies at my local place but they were all handpicked by the owner and staff and you could pick a movie off the shelf blind and know it would be good and they had seen and could tell you about every single one. The late fees at the local places where way more lenient and lower too, thats another thing that made it hard to compete, being generous and kind with your community. Rest in piss blockbuster.

>>510540070
That's really cool, my grandpa had the license to one of the first FM radio stations when that was new tech, didn't figure out what to do with it from what I can tell.

It was just a wonderful place to be.

>>510548085
Yeah I could see that.
My grandpa ran basically a "corner store" on a lake in rural Michigan. It was a big place but functioned like a 7/11. Had food, alcohol but also rented videos. Was really cool to visit as a little kid in the early 90s.
Then retards drove 45 minutes to an hour away to go to Walmart in Ludington and he folded.

>>510532493 (OP)

It’s difficult to describe if you weren’t there. Video stores were my life growing up. When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike to a local mom-and-pop, and just wander the aisles, looking at the kick ass cover art, and trying to imagine what they were about. There was just something about the atmosphere, the smells, all of that.

I loved them so much that I eventually got a job at a Blockbuster just because I wanted to, not necessarily because I needed the money.

For the record, mom-and-pops>>>Blockbuster

>>510532493 (OP)
I think everyone has nostalgia to a time when everything was innocent and they didn’t have responsilbiies and bills to pay.

>white normal family of 4
>Was always an adventure
>Everyone would pick a movie
>Sometimes get lucky and mom would let us pick out an N64 game we didn't have
>Spend at least half hour to an hour browsing every row

>>510532493 (OP)
We don't, anyone who was older than infant-aged during that time knew that Slopbusters was the Amazon/Netflix/Walmart/Youtube Front Page of its time with only the biggest most popular Hollywood films - and nothing else.

Loads of movies were banned from being available in the store for being too violent or sexual, including obviously adult movies.

But if you were like 10 years old in 2008 or whatever, you probably think it's the greatest bestest thing because childhood nostalgia and it's where grandma would rent out spongebob DVDs for you.

indie/local/regional video stores were the good shit.

>>510532493 (OP)

it represents a better time in our lives when people actually interacted with one another and promoted community/family bonding.
Every time I went to blockbuster as a kid, I knew that there was a pizza accompanying that movie and plenty of bonding time with my parents. Simpler, more wholesome times.

>>510532493 (OP)
>Why do millennials have so much nostalgia for this place?
A majority of my mk-ultra tier program conditioning came through this place. Mind you, this was a time when the establishment wouldn't/couldn't make propaganda as mind meltingingly cringe as they do now.

>>510532493 (OP)
do you faggotniggers with a mean spirited attitude remember the fucking advent of 3D video games on consoles being demo'd there? that was fucking mindblowing and the first time it happened in world history. fuck outta here trying to discount that to zero. on top of THAT it was the 90s when GOOD movies were released, and that is coming off the coattails of the 80s when other good movies were released. i could go on and on but i'm going to make a jewtube video about this so kill yourself for trying to come here for free content

>>510545997
>OUTBURST
*goes back to his vidya games*

>>510549487
maybe things were just better then u fucking skitzo.. maybe its ayys raping my ass

Super good times.
Meet a girl.
Ask her to hang out.
Get some dinner at fast food place.
Go to video store to rent a movie.
Get something you're interested in.
Go back home.
Put tape in VCR.
Lay down in bed with girl.
10 minutes start rubbing her ass.
20 minutes in, lifting up her skirt, sliding thong over, and hitting it from the side while rubbing on her ass.
Cum 10 minutes later.
"Can you pause the video for a sec"
She goes to bathroom and cleans her cunt out.
Comes back.
Unpause video.
Watch rest of movie.
Afterwards, fuck her and make her cum.
Go to Waffle House.
See lots of frens there.
Everyone is white.
Hang out until early morning hours.
Go back home.
Fuck girl again.
Go to sleep.

>>510532493 (OP)
We were kids or teens, and back then life was actually better, and of course being a kid everything was cooler and better so it was a double whammy of a good life.
Plus they had actual up to date selection in one spot for games and movies. Netflix quickly took over that aspect but nowadays you gotta subscribe to like nine different fucking streaming services to get all the up to date content.

>>510532493 (OP)
Because millennials wish they were gen x.

>>510537108
Your dad sounds cool. You should jerk off with him.

>>510532493 (OP)
It was a chill place to hang out.

>>510550256
this entire thread is mostly zoomers pretending they're millenials because of their epic 2007 childhood nostalgia 3 years before blockbuster went out of business

>>510551226
Or mostly brown zoomers being redditors about how the past is le fascist and the present is the greatest time to be alive

>>510532493 (OP)
The smell when you walked in. The thought that everything you picked up brought joy to a bunch of other people and now you are here to carry the torch, now this movie will come home with you and bring you joy, and you will take good care of it like the many others before you, and countless others will enjoy it after you. It wasn't just a store, it was a representation of the community. When people don't rewind, or even worse, when others would damage the tapes or DVDs, it meant our community was damaged. When blockbuster went, that was pretty much the end of America. Now it's "Team America™" where everyone is an economic unit owned by jews.

>>510549845
Those. Weren't. Aliens.

>>510532493 (OP)
It actually wasn't as important as people make it out to be. It just represents a time when Tech was simply what you wanted it to be. "Go to Blockbuster, rent thing, have fun, return thing, go on with life" instead of approaching Mark Zuckerberg metaverse glasses with cameras in them hoo hoo hee hee shit being the *central* thing everyone has to think about. It was an escape instead of an obligation.

>>510532493 (OP)
Renting movies and video game consoles used to be more important part of our lifestyle.

>>510532493 (OP)
We don't miss the place dipshit, it was a place to congregate with your family and friends and spend time together at home with the product your got from the place. We miss the memories the place helped us create.

>>510546201
It's good for keeping in touch with people living far away. I've kept up with some friends only because we game on the weekends together and I just went to two of their weddings in the last year. I don't know if we would still be close enough for that living thousands of miles apart if all we had was physical letters and phone calls through the years.

But to your point I've never made lasting friendships through online interactions. Everyone I've met through 4chan or gaming and then in person I wouldn't invite to my home.

>>510532631
This. Consider everything done online now had to be done like this. You could try and do it online then, but it'd take you a week to get a film, and even then it'd be watching potato quality.

>>510546201
>when you do they're just browsing their smartphones like zombies.
>Hey, let's go to the bar
>Okay!
>Sits and plays with phone for 3 hours while drinking $10 drinks

>>510532493 (OP)
Not just millennials

>>510539999
>rent vidya
>install it
>download the crack
>bring it back the next day
devilish, I'm telling you

>>510532493 (OP)
Because you're a nigger

>>510540477
Based. It was the journey not the destination.

t. millennial, '83

>>510532493 (OP)
The business thrived in a far simpler time.

>>510532493 (OP)
When were you born?

>>510545997
Hey look guys!!

>Its the creepy homeless man that sometimes spawns at Blockbuster parking lots late at night

>>510532493 (OP)
Ture millennials hate that place, they went out of business because they were a very shitty company to deal with, it would be like being nostalgic for Sprint or some shit. Bullshit fees, late fees(when you returned it on time), no rewind fees(when you rewinded), etc. my childhood memories were every time I went to blockbuster with someone the parents had to fucking argue with the worker about bullshit fees.

>>510554782
No true Scotsman logical fallacy

>>510554856
Shut the fuck up redditor, it wasn't logical reasoning it was an opinion you midwit faggot

>>510546201
You've reminded me of the Nationwide advert, with the young black guy reciting poetry in a High St cafe.

>>510532631
>>510532817
This. It was a fun thing to do and it really did create a sense of community. If you were a regular you would get to know the guy working there etc.
>>510546201
Smartphones have been the death of humanity imo. When you needed an actual computer to access the internet it was centered on nerds who would keep their online and real life lives separate. Now its all the same and people have rotted their brains.

>>510548875
I don't think it's literally blockbuster that people yearn for, its just symbolic of the ever increasing encroachment of the internet into our daily lives. Video rental stores are the one thing every millennial would have fond memories and blockbuster is just the big name one.

>>510548085
>local mom-and-pop places
My autism didn't like the thought of mom or pop watching me browse their small selection and form opinions regarding which movies I wanted to watch/ I'd rather blend into the crowds and be one of a hundred other faces the workers at Blockbuster saw that afternoon.

>more lenient late fees
Easy to avoid when you return your shit on time.

>>510532493 (OP)
The experience was one thing, you went to a place full of fun stuff and got to pick a fun thing to enjoy with a snack and your parents who aren’t divorced. The stoner kid at the counter would scan your stuff and you’d be off to watch Three Ninjas and play Croc on the PlayStation, maybe after a quick visit to Burger King to get that Pokémon toy that all those babies choked on.

These were the last golden days of blind consumerism where we loved the beast but it loved us back. The modern age is all beast, no love.

>>510532493 (OP)
people aren't nostalgic about blockbuster or shit.
They just want to go back to the 90s/early 00s when the world and the internet wasn't so fucking gay and lame.

>>510557471
This.
Where I grew up we went to a mom & pop video store until we moved to the other side of town. We’d rent something, make popcorn, and get together to watch. It wasn’t solely about the movie or “consoomerism,” it was the anticipation, planning, and bonding experience it entailed.

>>510532493 (OP)
nostalgia is a part of the human mind, if you think about it even you'll reminisce about some mediocre or even slightly bad memory in a nostalgic way, like going to a boring lecture in college with your friends, or drinking piss beer on a sunny afternoon on the beach
blockbuster//any other rental chain in other countries are basically the epicenters of many great memories for those who grew up in the nineties or the noughties

my post commie ass country proves that over a certain age you'll feel nostalgic about anything that reminds you of your youth
>everyone had a job! (working was mandatory and as high as 1/5th of all jobs were just fake minimum wage payoffs where you showed up, did nothing and grabbed the money)
>we had industry! (terrible quality that only the USSR bought up)
>we had order! (a quarter of the country was actively recruited by the state to report on their fellows about any anti-state activities)
>we had new flats built! (from unpayable loans in piss poor quality)
etc.

>>510532493 (OP)
it was a bastion of high trust society that died

>>510533022
You're not a real millennial if that's your answer. We didn't have Internet until we were older

>>510532493 (OP)
Because it was a social experience with friends and family.

>>510555087
Ad hom

>>510532765

blockbusters didn't but independent places always did, there was also a chain in Minneapolis called Hollywood Video that had a porn section, it's where I bought my first Asa Akira video

>>510557911
It's also hard to consoom when your renting one or two movies to watch over a weekend. The instant gratification caused by streaming services is another thing that has drastically increased the brainrot. It probably also helped incentivize hollyjew to make good movies because people weren't going to take the chance on a faggy movie when it cost them money whereas when your paying 15 a month to watch anything people are more likely to take that chance.

>>510548595
>Then retards drove 45 minutes to an hour away to go to Walmart in Ludington and he folded.
What made them choose Walmart over his?

>>510532493 (OP)
It'd be cool if it were still a viable concept, but I think these days there are pass/premium services that let you access many games for a low price as long as they're still part of the list/rotation?
Anyway, I did enjoy taking the short walk by myself to rent a game and often times finish it after 1 or 2 rentals. Still some games/series I haven't gotten to since those days. Just got put in the backlog between Blockbuster shutting down and me finally being old enough to work.

>>510532493 (OP)
For me it was the 4 for $20 used Blu-ray movies towards the end.

>>510558515
Same thing that killed every mom n pop store. People came in for eggs but couldn’t find a 5/16ths hex nut or a weedwhacker or shotgun ammo so they went to the place where they could get it all at once.

>>510557962
The problem with this argument is that this nostalgia bait isn't based upon rose tinted glasses as a result of yearning for our youth's. As a society we have drastically declined in certain aspects within the last 15-20 years. Particularly when it comes to a sense of community (at least in North America). People use Blockbuster as a symbol of a simpler but more community driven time. As other anon's have stated another example is the old music/record stores which were a complete hangout spot for music nerds where you could go and meet people with the same interests as you. Nowadays, as music is on spotify or another streaming service, the only place to meet people with similar interests would be online and its never the same.

>>510532493 (OP)
I worked there for a couple years during high school. My gf worked at Hollywood Video. It was fun. I was a late fee collecting bastard. I remember one time some lady had late fees, so I told her she had to pay them to rent what she wanted. Some fucking white knight starts giving me shit acting like she doesn't have to pay late fees, and then said
>I'm going to start using Netflix!
But at that time it was just mail order, so I said
"Oh yeah, go to watch a movie with the wife and order it to wait 2 days, sounds fun"
And that cuck still rented, and of fucking course he had late fees too..
One time this dude came in with a hot ass woman. The tried to rent but he was on a nationwide hold for late fees. So I had to call around to all these stores to rack up how much he owed all over and it was hundreds of bucks and he fucking paid it. I think he was really embarrassed in front of the woman.
No, there was no porn in the store. Yes, we put VHS tapes and DVDs when they came out in the 2 day rental, or 5 day rental boxes, but the original box was always on the shelf so people could look at it. One time my manager who had the hots for this dickhead she hired made a contest of who could sell the most Rewards memberships, the prize was she would take you out to dinner. She only did this because she was confident her little fuckboy could outsell everyone. Ha! I sold more fucking rewards memberships than anyone else by 3x over. It wasn't even close, and this bitch has the nerve to just bring me fancy Ramen one day, she never took me out. I didn't care much because my gf at the time was way hotter and cooler. I did all that debt collection, and selling for a whopping $6.25 an hour. Never got a raise even though I was killing it, and never missed a shift and always covered for the losers. Then one day the manager hires this old drunk that was a frequent customer, and she shows up to training (I'm training her) and brags that she's getting $8 an hour... con't

>>510532493 (OP)
because of spending $50 for new snes game I could rent it for $5-8 and beat it on a weekend

>>510558767
Walmart (as with all major stores) were able to undercut the mom and pop shops also by virtue of mass buying goods and companies like walmart were willing to take less profit on one item because they could get people to buy more stuff by being available. So people went to where it was cheaper. Its the whole reason Costco exists. Its also the whole reason Costco still has the 1.50 hot dog combo. Luckily (at least where I live) people are starting to move in the opposite direction and are going to more and more mom and pop shops in the last couple years.

>>510558959
I walked into the managers office and quit on the spot. And told her
>I've worked here over a year, with no pay increase, and since the new hire alcoholic 65 year old woman was worth $1.75 more than me, she would be able to cover my shift
And walked out. Miss Manager came running out yelling shit about the shit uniforms, and then slammed her door so hard a bunch of new release movies fell off the wall.
I had even thwarted multiple thefts for that company. Shortly after that the whole company went tits up.

>>510532765
Our local Hollywood Video and Movie Time chains did. Both had a dozen or so stores in the tricounty area til the early 00s when all the stores went out of business. Funny part is our local Movie Time store had all the outlawed Traci lords vhs movies til around late 1998 til I guess someone brought it to the owners attention that she was underage in those movies. My dad recorded all those tapes on a buncha sony blank vhs tapes in EP format where he could fit 8 hours worth of porn on each tape. Last I remember, he sold them to one of our cousins up in Seattle for a couple hundred bucks in 2004 or 2005

>>510532493 (OP)
It's a remnant of the (mostly White) world now gone forever

>>510534623
People like you are part of the fucking problem. Things were objectively better and you're just saying "it's nostalgia". Ok faggot, google average house prices in your area in the 90s. Imagine a world where everyone wasn't walking around filming everything with their phones if someone fucks up, now picture girls dating local guys instead of having an illusion of endless choice via social media. Now you're picturing a world where cars were build to last longer and be easier to repair instead of filled wtih computerised shit and now, they are tryiing to push subscription fees for built in features. Oh physical money was a thing too, as were various third places to meet people and hang out, there were less immigrants, the women were thinner, tattoos were rare, the cars didn't all follow the moder, soulless look but had more character. No one cried about political correctness, offesnive shit was broadcast on TV as comedy, it wasn't insane to think there were only 2 genders, etc.

It was objectively better, stop dismissing it as nostalgia because shit is 100% worse now.

>>510560524
>now picture girls dating local guys instead of having an illusion of endless choice via social media
This has been the biggest gamechanger. In the past you may have been the best guy in the neighbourhood so she'd hang out with you but now compared to the world you're nothing.

>>510558837
oh believe me, 20 years from now on we'll find a way to have watery eyed nostalgia about our current times