there was something precious about the time spent just going to a video store, with family or friends and browsing movies, picking up boxes off a shelf, reading the backs, debating about what to pick.
It's not nearly the same experience sitting on the couch and using a remote to flip through your screen.
there was something about just the experience of going out to do all of that that made it part of the enjoyable experience.

nostalgia is a blight on existence and giving in to it like this just makes you more susceptible goycattle.

>>212541503 (OP)
You let Redbox die. Shut up.

you miss enjoying shared activities with your family and friends, not a fucking shop.

>>212541576
forgetting your past makes you the ULTIMATE goy cattle. we are only as good as our ancestors. jews HATE this one simple trick!

>>212541777
your past isn't a capitalistic entity, your past is your family and friends.

>>212541816
>muh capitalistic

>>212541838
they want you attached to brands, not the people who share your blood.

>>212541777
>yes goy don't think about what's happening right now just reminisce about how much more soulful consooming as a child was, then be sure to buy movie tickets for the new legacy sequel of your favorite childhood movie and see all your favorite characters from when you were a kid again and clap like the good little piggie you are! clap little piggie! clap! clap! clap!
the infantilization of modern americans is sickening. you're an adult now, grow the fuck up and stop living in the past.

>>212541874
>Hey guys, I brought a pizza
>THAT'S JUST WHAT DOMNIOS WANTS. YOU SHOULD JUST BE HAPPY WITH EACH OTHER!!!!

>>212541927
>Just consume the newest slop goy. Don't remember when you actually enjoyed anything

>>212541959
sounds like im hitting close to home and you're wildly deflecting.

>>212541993
consooming slop 2025 >:(
consooming slop 2005 :O

>>212542002
No, I'm pointing out what a drama queen you're being.

>>212541993
they don't want you thinking about why, is the point, you're desperate to beat away.

>>212542020
exactly. we should just eat all the new slop right? no comparing to anything that came before. just slop it down.

>>212542041
I'm stating facts. You're screaming like a cornered animal.

>>212541503 (OP)
>>212541576
The thing is, you are both right. Rental VHS/DVD stores were a complete and utter rip off. That is why DVD sales boomed massively in the early 2000s. It just makes more sense to buy DVDs outright at that point.

However, the experience of going out and doing things like this does add to the experience. The fun of life is being automated in a way that we may end up regretting.

>>212542083
your sperging out about capitalism like an sullen teenager.
>someone talking about movies on a movie board, I GOTTA PUT A STOP TO THIS!

>>212542123
You're choosing to focus on that so you won't think about how isolated you are now.

>>212542075
it's all slop, the only reason you like the old slop is because you consoomed it as a kid and now they've made it a part of your identity so you'll consoom it more when they bring it back.

>>212541503 (OP)

AGREE. The entire going to the video store experience was JUST as fun as watching the movies—maybe even more so.

Watching shit on a computer now and talking about shit on /tv/ is depressing and soulless by comparison.

>>212542143
it's a movie board, stupid.
take your little faggy ass to Pol or whereever and go complain about capitalism there

>>212541503 (OP)
Reddit opinion

>>212542100
>The fun of life is being automated in a way that will increase shareholder profits.
The Soviet Union lost, the average person likes not being able to retire until their 70s.

>>212542148
not my fault you never enjoyed anything when you were growing up and now you're a bitter old crank.

>>212542168
>nooo stop talking about the real reasons i'm nostalgic for a geographic location it was the experience the experience just talk about the experience!

>>212541503 (OP)
It's remotely the same experience

>>212542218
why are you talking? you're having a conniption because someone said they liked video stores.
please take a pill or something.

>>212542200
I enjoyed my youth, but now it's over and I've moved on. I'm not sitting on the internet living in the past making posts reminiscing about stupid shit like video stores.

>>212541576
An actual rental store had a lot of perks to it. They usually had a pretty wide selection, and since new releases were always hard to get a hold of you spent a lot of time sifting through the racks for something you hadn't seen before with a cool cover.
It was also great if you had a rental place with a legitimate movie-dick you could argue with or get recommendations from.
And since you didn't have infinite movies on tap through streaming services, and even if you had premium cable channels like HBO or Showtime you had to watch what was on. So the scarcity of media made it a bit more precious.

>>212542253
No, you, are having a conpition, because someone pointed out the actual reason you're nostalgic for a chain store.

I miss having people to watch movies with. It's really hard watching movies by yourself without falling asleep or getting bored so you pause and go do something else. When watching movies with other people my more engaged and it's fun to laugh and make comments with other people.

>>212542280
No you're sitting on the internet having a fit because someone said they liked something.
you're not exactly setting any kind of better example here.

>>212541576
>>nostalgia bad
The ultimate zionist psyop to rip you from any possible happiness. Just like no fap, literally self-cuking

>>212542308
please pull the gigantic stick our of your ass

>>212542332
you're replying to more than one person.

>>212542366
>if you point out that I miss having family and friends, not a retail chain, you have a stick up your ass

lol

>>212542332
I'm having fun living in the moment, you're trying to enjoy yourself by going back to your childhood. I'm happier than you'll ever be.

>>212542397
I still have family and friends.
believe it or not people can miss other things too, except for retards like you who gotta cry over reddit shit like "muh capitalism".

>>212542441
spent any time with them recently?

lol

>>212542308
>chain store
Not every rental place was a blockbuster or hollywood video. If you lived in even a medium sized town you had multiple local places where you could get weird shit like bootlegged imports.

>>212542411
I'm having fun living in the moment.
no you're not. someone said they liked something and you had to race into there to bitch about bullshit like capitalism. you're a miserable little homo who can't stand that people may have enjoyed something.

>>212542453
uh..yes.
I don't race in to bring people down with my bullshit and tell them how wrong they are

>>212542473
just reaching for more ways to describe shitholes that loan movies.

>>212542476
If your fond childhood memories consist of you buying and consooming you are the perfect bugman.

>>212542285
Yeah. It was fun to bullshit with the guys who ran little hole in the wall places like that. They were almost always movie buffs or some other stripe of oddball nerd. Like ham radio dorks or guys really into arguing about japanimation on internet newsgroups. Good places to get hooked up with a cable descrambler or hacked satellite card too. I also knew of a place where the owner's son would solder a modchip into your Playstation and sold burnt games for a few bucks each.

>>212542555
and we're back>>212541959

>>212542500
Yeah, you’re trying to take refuge in retail nostalgia to not think about your life

>>212542650
it's a movie board. what do you want people to post here about? what the fuck is wrong with you?

aw forget it.

>>212542621
Except that's not what's happening. What's happening is you going on the internet 20 years later and posting about how old Dominos was so le heckin soulful instead of just thinking of the memories you had with friends/family.

>>212541503 (OP)
depends if it's independent or chain store. the latter has entire walls of the same movie, you're limited to just the few the studios needed to recoup on.

>>212542684
>what do you want people to post here about?
television and film. not places they used to get them so they can distract themselves with inane bullshit.

It's not video stores that I want, it's the things I had when I went to video stores that I want:
>young
>not worried about being successful as an adult
>not self conscious about my looks
>country is homogenous, no third world problems
thats pretty much it. thats all i miss. i cant get my youth or my looks back but we sure as shit can achieve remigration.

MFW I hear we'll got rent some movies after dinner

>>212542020
People will now say shit like "the 2005 slop was actually good"
I've literally seen a Facebook post saying >"you know what guys, 50 shades of grey wasn't actually that bad, it's like a beautiful music video!!!!"

>>212541735
>you miss enjoying shared activities with your family and friends, not a fucking shop.
Kinda this. Most store nostalgia posting is nostalgia for third spaces in general, not the stores specifically. - You don't miss Blockbuster etc. You miss the shared sense of local community that we all used to know. The stores and experiences in them were just emblematic of that.

Millennials knowing what this used to feel like and then losing it probably fucked them up way more than zoomers never really knowing it to begin with. That's why they're so obsessed with it, and can't let go.

>>212542189
I'm sorry I didn't put some kind of edgy spin on it so you would admire my edge and validate my desire to be regarded as edgy

>>212542332
Holy shit you just destroyed that other guy
>>212542411
Dude he fucking wrecked you

>>212542308
I didn't say anything about a chain store. Actually I was thinking of independent stores, because that just happens to be most of the places I went to because they were closer than any chain store.

>>212542555
>If your fond childhood memories consist of you buying and consooming you are the perfect bugman.
OP here, I specifically wrote about the EXPERIENCE of time spent going out to do something together. Your mindset chose to interpret it as my being nostalgic about paying money for things, when I never even mentioned that.

That store in OPs pic has too many dvds in them. So its already sovlless.
But other than that yes. Some of my first really fond memories is being sent on errands to return tapes and rent new ones.
Also its not the products you miss. Its the humanity and sovl.
Look my childhood was traumatic af but I still miss the parts of the 90s I can still remember being a kid in that were not traumatic fondly. Its not just nostalgia. It simply was better. Not a utopia (faaaaaar from it) but still better. It was just simply more real than this bullshit. I think thats what many miss the most. The realness.

OP here.
Here's a charming little tale:
>go to video store with buddies
>the older, but still underage cousin asks if we can get a porno from the back area
>"sorry can't do that buddy, but here's a pg-13 movie I can recommend that has some really nice tit reveals!"
lol

Have you ever really lived if your first memories formed after DVD began outselling VHS?
Or scratch that if your first memories were formed after Y2K?

Does my life objectively suck ass if I was born in 1993 and consider what I remember of when I was age 3 to 6 in the late 90s to be the best it ever got?

>>212543164
Smart people were sounding the alarm about the loss of third places even back then. Bowling Alone got a lot of attention when it was published. It pretty accurately described the atomized hellscape modern society turned into.

>>212543895
The book came out right at the turn of the millennium. Very fitting.
And even if I agree atomization was already troubling as far back as the 1950s I still think pre-2000 it was still somewhat managable even if dysfunctional. You still had social mobility in the 90s. It was already fading but not impactfully so yet. The turn of the millennium was when the impact really started being felt.

>>212544004
atomization started with the nuclear family, yes

>>212544004
It was actually easier to be alone and be left alone last century. For all the implications in the discourse now about how social media has somehow adjusted society for loner nerd spergs more its actually the opposite. I think The Big Bang Theory was pivotal. That one show has had demonic consequences and ramifications for us loner nerd spergs trying to be left alone by mainstream society. Because it dragged us into the mainstead kicking and screaming. Thats basically what the 21st century and social media actually did to us. Not the other way around. Atomization is normiefication.

>>212544025
True. Which is whats so bizarre about conservatives longing for the 1950s and liberals hating the 1950s. Conservatives should actually hate the 1950s too. Liberals actually hate everything and will never be satisfied no matter how much we "progress" though. In two decades they will probably call Obama a regressive and conservative lmao.

>>212544263
There is a 99.999% chance people who use the words "liberal" and "conservative" don't actually know what the words mean, and they just treat it as another console war.

>>212543895
>>212544004
>>212544025
>>212544151
>>212544263
The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset from all the way back in 1929 is an even bigger eye opener.

>>212544025
yeah, retard, because nuclear and atoms both are from the same science class in school

>>212544263
it doesn't matter what divides people, only that they remain divided.

>>212544370
That too of course.

>>212544442
That sort of contradicts atomization though.
Some division and distinction is only healthy if you want to avoid turning us all into the same Borg collective in the end. Divisions are used in a problem-reaction-solution vein by the technocrats though but that does not mean all divisions are bad inherently. Just the way divisions can be used as a tool by schemers who want to achieve a consensus and synthesis.

>>212541503 (OP)
i'd kill for something like this. The only video store in my town got killed back in 2020. It was one of my dream jobs.

>>212544539
its a pretty classic example of winners don't matter if they're fighting over nonsense. both sides essentially worshiping atomization.

>>212541503 (OP)
Zoomers wouldn’t like them they don’t like leaving their homes they like buying everything thru apps

>>212544759
True. They both feed into it from two ostensibly diamtrically opposed angles.

>>212544657
>It was one of my dream jobs.
What?

>>212541816
That's an argument against the object of his nostalgia, not nostalgia itself.

Game shops like your pic fucking suck. Tiny little game shops were cool but even then all shops are kind of gay im not gay ergo I dont like shops

>>212541576
Whenever someone approaches me with a bad attitude and fancy words I always ask them "but are you happy?" That usually shuts them up as I walk away victorious. This has never happened but I will be prepared for it when I get the opportunity that I probably won't take.

>>212541576
The answer to what we are nostalgic about in our nostalgia is the answer to quite a few questions, large and small. Through this lens, not just from a desire of youth but what that culture and world was then and what it is not now that makes nostalgia more preferable to the present state. Sort that out and you'll figure out why the modern world sucks. Then ask yourself why it ever had to change to begin with. Things didn't improve, after all, just the opposite.

>>212541503 (OP)
Get a library card.

>>212548604
I doubt I can get Bloodsucking Freaks at the library