Thread 719248710

I was born too late into a world that doesn't care...

>get a pizza
>every week
no wonder you're fat

I miss CORPORATION™

Please bring back CORPORATION™

>>719248710 (OP)
You can still get the Blockbuster experience at your local library, only the games and movies are free and may not have any late fees depending on your branch

Oh woe is me be glad you weren't incarnated as a jeet in some shitty industrial slum where you have to scrape sulphur out of used batteries for enough rupees to feed your armless, legless parents.

>>719248710 (OP)
smartphones are satanic and the expectation of being available 24/7 has destroyed society

>>719248710 (OP)
Why do you need Blockbuster to play video games and eat pizza on a Friday night?

>>719248875
Based. Fuck cell phones, fuck social media, and fuck this gay society

>>719248875
>smartphones are satanic
Retard
>and the expectation of being available 24/7 has destroyed society
This is purely on you and the expectations you set

Smart phones are just dumb phones with a camera if you used them right.

>>719248818
>Be glad you weren't born brown
Literally everyone who isn't brown is thankful they aren't.

>>719248710 (OP)
The decline of The Third Place has been detrimental for society

>>719248710 (OP)
Freddy vs Jason
Onimusha
KitKat
Panda Express from across the street

>>719248710 (OP)
Gamepass is 100 times better.

>>719248763
Dog :)

times going too fast and things pop in and out of reality, whole structures even and nobody even notices.

>>719248801
>>719248763
Zoomer babs wouldn't get it

>>719248710 (OP)
Convince killed our soul

>>719249039
>This is purely on you
tell me you've never had a job without telling me

>>719249138
Brown people get endless free gibs from whites. They can buy as much pizza and videa as they want and we’re dumb enough to pay for it.

>>719249039
>Smart phones are just dumb phones with a camera if you used them right.
This.
>noooo i need to have social media and respond to texts/calls ASAP or else normalfags will think i'm weird!
why do you care what normalfags think?

What happened to BBC (BlackBusterCritic)?

>>719249320
I don't have a trash job if that's what you're asking, wagie slave nigger.

>go to Blockbuster
>parents drop a bombshell on 9 year old me that I’m not renting a game this week
>instead, they’re letting my 6 year old sister have a turn
>she gets some shitty Bratz game
>she only plays it for a few minutes and lets the character idle while she plays with dolls
>any time I take the controller she starts whining NOOOOOO STOPPPP

>>719248801
>zoomer doesn't understand anything except corporation worship because it is all he has ever known
Sad!

>>719249426
>I don't have a job
yes it was obvious. keep leeching off your parents faggot

>>719249320
>tell me you've never had a job without telling me
NTA but in my job if I work a single minute beyond my contracted 37 hours a week I get it back as time off at a time of my choosing. The one time my boss contacted me while I was off work (to let me know a promotion I'd be able to apply for had gone live but would have closed for applications by the time I'd be back) he told me to put our 5 minute phone call down in my time sheet as a half day.

>>719249559
Damn I wish I had a job. 8 months unemployed and nearly 100 applications and I still can't even get an interview

who else rented the nintendo virtual boy from blockbluster? fucker what its own suitcase and gave me a migraine after using it for 10 minutes

>>719249518
Stop projecting, I'm pulling $36.50 an hour doing IT as we speak. I'm not sorry you can't get a job, you're a failure, kill yourself.
I took a work from home day and since nobody's looking over my shoulder I'm on /v/, now I'm going to order some uber eats.

>>719248763
One pizza a week sounds totally fine in terms of keeping a reasonably healthy diet and lifestyle, unless it's one of those hyper-greasy fuckhueg ones. You might want to go for a walk a couple times a week though to at least keep the basal metabolic rate high.

>>719248763
It was almost impossible to be fat in the 90s and early 2000s. Everything changed after 9/11.

>>719248710 (OP)
Video stores weren't that great. New releases at the blockbuster near me were often already rented out by other people so you couldn't always get the game you wanted when you wanted it. I remember waiting weeks to rent Link to the Past when it first came out

>>719248710 (OP)
>One of the things I miss the most? Renting out software, of course.

>>719249689
Work with a recruiter, especially if you're actually skilled/experienced in a specific field/industry. It will be difficult if you're not, but not impossible. Recruiters have contacts with the actual decision makers in companies while applications online are just for legal purposes.

>>719249816
Recruiters are a joke, they take like 20% of your pay just to get you an interview, complete scam.
You want a job? Lie on your resume.

>>719249764
>i'm putting
of course you do anon of course you do

>>719248763
>>719249772
John Carmack ate a pizza every day for years and he's responsible for some of the most important kino to ever grace gaming.

>>719248763
>he thinks it's about the pizza

>>719249964
Again kys, maybe I'll order a pizza in honor of this thread.

>>719248763
>fast food twice a week
>160lbs
Maybe just don't stuff your face 24/7 and you'll be fine.

>>719249689
I got this one 7 years ago and it's absolutely fucked now. I've done some interviewing for people coming in to the same role I started in and the demands they have of them are night and day from what they used to be. It was "have literally any degree" back then and now they wanted a masters in a STEM minimum and experience with several coding languages (it's a data science job and didn't used to demand any; I knew none coming in and was taught on the job). The job hasn't even changed that much, they're doing the same shit I used to do.

>>719249802
At least back then they didn't try to dress it up as a straight up replacement for owning anything.

>>719248710 (OP)
It's odd Blockbuster got the image of nostalgia for this when most people didn't even enjoy going to it for the better portion of its lifespan and usually preferred the smaller local video rental stores if they had a choice. I can't tell if these nostalgia images are even made by people who grew up with the culture they're trying to represent because a lot of it comes off as superficial circlejerking by someone who only knows of this shit based on what they heard other people say but never really experienced it themselves.

>>719249964
Is $36.50 a lot for you?

>>719248763
>eat pizza
>spend the next day playing outside all day
wow that was hard, retard

>>719248710 (OP)
Blockbuster was absolute shit that bought out every other good rental place.
It was fucking cancer.

>>719248807
Not even close to being the same, niggrjew

>>719249175
>Freddy vs Jason
Decent
>Onimusha
Decent
>KitKat
Twix are better
>Panda Express from across the street
Trash

Game rentals is how I played most of my games growing up. I miss it. Gamepass or piracy are OK but don't have that magic of forcing you to pick one game. I wouldn't have played games like chameleon twist or snowboard kids if I only pirated.

>Blockbuster
nah

>>719250127
lmao you just confirmed you have no fucking idea of what you're talking about
>>719250262
no i'm just making fun of a faggot neet who's larping a bit too hard

>>719250521
>The last "rental" store in my hometown before it turned into three other stores
man...

>>719250189
I just don't know how to solve this problem. I graduated with a biology degree and there are barely any entry-level positions available. The ones I do apply for ghost/reject me. I get that I don't have experience, but there's literally no way to get experience in my situation. I started looking for jobs outside my field like HR and legal assistant because at this point it seems impossible to get any job in biology or environmental science right now.

I fucked up big time.

>>719250543
>lmao you just confirmed you have no fucking idea of what you're talking about
Hows that, please enlighten me I'm getting paid to argue with you. (I decided on KFC)
>>719250262
It's more than any of his inbred highschool dropout bloodline kin has ever made at their tesco jobs.

>>719250521
You are also wrong.

What you're missing is the quality of the games you had access to
If today's gaming environment were half of that of the Blockbuster era, threads like this wouldn't exist
What you don't talk about enough is the death of studios like Blizzard that were Ship of Thessius'd from gold to diverse and inclusive dogshit

>>719250521
>Could buy both new and used media
Damn I miss Hastings.

>rent thing
>copy it at home
>give it back and borrow something different
>repeat
Of course the exploit had to get patched

>>719250687
>doubles down
you're not even trying anymore anon

>>719250665
I think bio in particular is very fucked. I've got a pal who was in the same boat with a bio degree a few years ago and he couldn't find anything. Ended up on an IT support desk because his brother was the team lead and got him nepo hired and has worked his way up through that field into a decent job at another company now, but pretty sure he's just written the degree off as a bad job.

>>719250845
>>719250642
>>719250521
The last things I remember getting at my local Hastings were box sets of Nobunagun, Wixoss, and Fraggle Rock

Where does the time go?

>>719250947
Maybe if you were better at communicating you'd be employable, nobody wants hyper autists in the workforce you'll just think you're good at something, fuck it up royally, and have everyone hate you and fire you and then you can go back to your family and cry but they hate you too, everyone hates you anon.
Except me. I don't give a shit about you, and I installed mocha for 2 people since our last messages to earn that satisfaction of doing a real job (something you'll never have) and earn that chedder (something you'll never do)
But hey, enjoy my taxes in your retard subsidies!

>>719250665
Lie on your resume, you actually have 5 years of experience at a place that closed down. Also your references are just dummy emails.

>>719249175
>Panda Express from across the street
Im sorry for your shit childhood

>>719251478
panda express is good

>>719251136
>starts projecting
lol?

>>719251689
You started it, I just finished it.
Now if you'll excuse me my chicken tendies are here.

>>719250471
>>719251478
You can't take away my comfy memories or love of orange chicken

>>719249474
why didn't you tell your parents she's not even playing the game

>Muh zoomers
>One pizza (literal greasy dough) a week is totally fine
>It was almost impossible to be fat in the 90s because we were playing very great video games
>Video games are a lot like pizza (food analogy btw)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"He thinks it's about the pizza" ev&doe it is
>fast food twice a week = 160lbs
>eating pizza is good as long as you exercise even though it's still literal poison

>>719248763
That's not an elephant, it's a woolly mammoth

>>719251760
>You started it
nah you've been larping all this time for no reason at all

>>719252220
NTA but would it even matter? The game would've been already rented and the weekend would be halfway done at that point

>>719252346
You're the one on this "y-you must be unemployable like me!" shit
Typical summer /v/

>>719252364
at least the guy would've gotten to play with the console, either that game or some other game (if they owned any)

>>719252240
>repel reasonable arguments
>post a fucking soijak (dead meme farmed by your government btw)

>>719248763
>he doesn't understand sharing a pizza with his bros while playing N64

>>719248763
BBC receptable

>be a kid
>never realized using a search engine on the internet was a thing despite schools showing us several times
>only way to find out a new game was out from commercials or randomly seeing it in stores.
In a way, I miss the surprise of going to a Family Video and checking out the games section for new stuff that was out.

>>he doesn't understand sharing a pizza with his bros while playing N64
>>repel reasonable arguments
>>post a fucking soijak (dead meme farmed by your government btw)

>>719249175
Horror films are for genuine homosexuals.

>>719248710 (OP)
It went bust because nobody wanted to go. STFU.

Shartypedos get out

>>719252652
t. projecting faggot

I used to cook popcorn in the back office and then put like two bags in the manager pit where the fans were to circulate the smell through the store during rush time Friday and Saturday
My store had pretty high concession sales even compared to the higher traffic stores in my district.
You WILL buy my popcorn.
You WILL buy 2 soda 20 once bottles for 2 dollars.
You WILL get the candy theatre boxes 2 for 2.50.
You WILL rent the latest sports game I have prepared a POP for near the check out.

>>719252625
haha sharteen mad

>>719248710 (OP)
I miss the golden age of piracy more

>>719248763
Like with anything, it's fine in moderation. As long as you're not shoving a full pizza down your throat regularly eating pizza is not why you're fat, exceeding your caloric needs is.

>>719250521
>bought some damn good books, movies, and games from here
>hung out with friends in the coffee shop, which had the best bagels i've ever had
>it was the best store in my hick town
>now its a planet fitness
BRING THEM BACK
BRING THEM BACK
BRING THEM BACK

>>719252652
It depends. Watching a horror movie maybe once a year or so is fine. It's the people that do nothing but watch constant horror movies are the ones that are fucked in the head. They are pretty much desensitized to most visual stimuli and watching someone be viscerally ripped apart is about the only thing that elicits an emotion response anymore.

>>719252436
>like me
why do you keep projecting?
why do you keep larping?

>>719252240
The funniest thing about this is that you're probably the fattest person in this thread, I'm willing to bed on it because it wouldn't be on your mind so much otherwise.

>>719248710 (OP)
The Jews are right, we are cattle

>>719249772
That doesn't look like pepperoni and cheese, besides the mushroom what's the meat? Looks like a good pizza

>>719249346
He had a kid and decided to let the internet stuff take a backseat. Last time I seen him active was him streaming himself watching e3 2017. No clue what he's doing these days.

>>719250665
Same issue here with physics tbqh

shartoid melty

>>719253085
What do you suppose we should eat then

>>719248710 (OP)
u can still be a punk rocker with flowers in ur hair, bby

>>719249168
Third places disappeared in the US because the demographics became hostile to their existence.

>>719249253
I noticed it yesterday

>>719253246
Transporting africans off their continent was the biggest unforced error of history.

>>719252652
My wife and I watched Insidious last night and had sex right after. Sounds like a you problem.

>>719253228
he's a sharteen so cum and dicks, I assume

>>719250521
In my town, we skipped expensive blockbuster for this home town alternative

>>719253228
What your fathers who made this country great ate many years ago, ungrateful swine

>>719253379
>>719253246
it 100% is the """"demgraphics"""" but you don't want to undersell the bum issue either.
In the 90s I would go to the library to study and hang out, but I would never go there now with all the zombies roaming around.

>>719248763
God forbid someone has three slices of pizza on a weekend.

>>719248710 (OP)
Why do angloids worship corporations?

>>719254041
Because they have no kings.

>>719253845
Looks like vomit

I was born in time to watch these all die, to see game crazy and then gamestop wither and die because of online marketplaces. To see streaming eat Hollywood Video and then Blockbuster's lunch, and then kick sand of them.

I used to work at hollywood, and then game crazy. I remember hearing about stupid shit the leadership were doing. There was a world where gamecrazy was as big as gamestop. it makes me laugh to this day.

>going to blockbuster every week
No wonder you're poor.

>>719248710 (OP)
I need to get down to blockbuster one of these days, have a couple games i've been meaning to return for a while.

I miss brick and mortar multimedia stores in general. We had a Hastings in my hometown, and beyond being a really good video store it was also the only place to buy books and comics beyond the crap they stock at Walmart. Most of the video games I played growing up either came from there or Blockbuster.
It's annoying that I have to drive out to [Nearest Major City] to get that kind of shopping anymore. Family Video somehow survived up there right up until the pandemic.

>>719253246
One of the main reasons I want to leave the USA and raise a family elsewhere is because there are so few third places left in pretty much anywhere but our largest cities anymore, and our largest cities are mostly shitholes.

>>719248710 (OP)
Blockbuster was a soulless assembly line shuffle and the only people who miss it are zoomers who weren't even there.

>>719254545
I used to love going to the mall when I was younger but now they really depress me when they're mostly just empty buildings with nobody around with the music just quietly playing in the empty halls

>>719254864
>t. zoomtard that wasn't there

>>719254326
>projecting poorfag thinks 12 bucks a week to rent some movies and games with the family is even worth commenting on
AHAHA POOR AS
FUCK

>gamepass
:(
>gamepass, physical
:o

>>719254935
Be glad, I live in a suburb that 30 years ago was famous for having a huge mall, that was our only crowning glory, it used to be pretty cool, now every store is gentrified bullshit and everyone who shops there is an asshole.

>>719255092
Blockbuster did have a pass. 1, 2, or 3 movies at a time, could be swapped unlimited number of times.
Customers loved that shit.

>>719255067
You're not even american, why are you in a blockbuster thread? Why does an esl have nostalgia for something he's NEVER experienced?

>>719248763
Based animalposter triggering the mutts

>>719254935
here's the mall I used to go to, in the heart of my city.
It's been bought twice for development, and abandoned twice now.
It's just a spooky abandoned blight in the middle of the city that is too expensive (land value) for anyone to do anything with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thG4scWOr1E

wild shit

>>719255224
>y..you're esl (says retard who can't speak English)
I used to work at one, Paco. Had to speak to a lot of your kind there but they weren't as retarded as you.

SAAAR I NEED TO BLOCKBUST, SAAAR NOOOOOO

I love how zoomers seethe and react with rage to everything they missed out on. They viscerally know everything of theirs is dogshit. This is also why they don't go to their websites and cling to a 2003 copy of a 1990's website despite not even knowing who Moot is.

>>719248710 (OP)
>rent a game
Imagine getting nostalgic over products you didn't even own.

>>719255517
meant for
>>719255416

>>719255374
There’s still an active mall in my city but it’s a massive hive of groids and jeets. No thank you I don’t feel like getting stabbed

>>719255605
nah, that was directed right at you, Pedro.

>>719248763
This nigga eats salad and plays stardew valley. You're fucking gay.

Do YOU remember the first thing you rented at a blockbuster?
I do. The Rocketeer movie. Initially it was going to be 2 things, and a movie and a game, then my mom bitched out and said just one thing, so we got the movie.

>>719255750
Super Mario RPG. Then Goof Troop. I ended up buying that one.

>>719255750
Toejam and Earl 1

>>719254935
Same, man. It's been something like three years now since I've bothered to go any of the malls I used to like.

>>719255592
you mean you don't have steam installed on your pc?

>>719255903
please forgive the Zoomtard. They don't comprehend things they weren't alive for (no object permanence or concept of verisimilitude).
Things like Gamefly, Sega Channel, rental stores, etc confuse and frighten them.

>>719249346
No clue but I check up on his brother Shokio from time to time who livestreams every now and then.

>>719255750
I don't think I do, no. The first movie I remember renting was one of the DBZ Bojack movies, but I'm certain that wasn't the first thing I ever picked out.
The first video game I remember renting is Gran Turismo 2. My picks probably make me sound older than I am; I'm thirty.

I visited our Blockbuster the day it went out of business and snagged a copy of Bayonetta for $6.They were even selling all the display racks, too. I remember that fondly for whatever reason.

>>719256126
ask him about it, why did his brother stop making youtube videos

>>719255804
>millenial gods
>all look like Adam Conover and married fat women

>most of the old people that waited outside my store every morning to rent movies and talk are probably dead now
feels fucking bad
I hope you're enjoying talking shop in the video store in the sky

>>719248710 (OP)
Not sure why you would want to have to go out of your way to do this, now you can instead stay comfy at home and download as many games as you want and actually own them, and just order your food online. Yes I'm old enough to remember renting games as a child; either you end up with a good game you won't get to spend enough time with, or you end up renting a trash game because there was not much info available about a lot of games in general, it sucks.

>>719256271
>sam hyde before he took the thiel money

>>719256271
>zoomtard with pink hair and arms so thin they can't support its weight trying to say anything
HAHA

>>719256363
There is a 100% chance you were born after 9/11.

>>719256363
does complaining about a generation who can't vote yet make you feel better about getting shafted by boomers anon

>>719256329
Whatever you say brownoid zoomer.

>>719256428
>n..no..y..you
Broccoli-chan, no need to be so angry. Not that you stunted retards can act on that anger anyways.

>>719248710 (OP)
Blockbusters still existed well enough into the late 2000s, so you have to be under 18 to claim that you didn’t get to experience it.

>>719256435
>complaining
you meaning mocking? Yes, yes it does. I own a house.
Zoomers will never.
Keep posting on our website because the ones made for you are so dogshit you can't.

>>719248763
You triggered all amerilards on /v/, good job

>>719256521
they were like 4 years old, anon. They don't remember.

>>719256587
>saar I responb to my own post 4 times rupee for I , yes

>>719256521
There's a very real chance that some posters here could have been under five years old when there was last a Blockbuster or any video rental shop in their neck of the woods. 2007 was 18 years ago.

>>719248801
It's not about that. Something is lost when you religate things to digital storefronts and such, a humanity is lost. It's similar to arcades not really being a thing anymore.
>>719248875
Yes. They are a thing of the devil.

>>719256567
>i own a house
>i am doing so well I will brag about it on an anonymous senegalese gradient forum
>this website is made for me
>you had to be gen X to not break global rule 2 when the website was launched
okay man

I'm getting influenced... tonight might be pizza night.

>>719256679
What did it want the phone for?

Horse and buggy>>>>cars

>>719256751
>brag
>about things that are 100% commonplace for my generation
HAHA found the upset broccoli-tard. Literally having a meltdown and existential crisis over people having fond memories of renting games for the weekend because his childhood was all online and sterile as fuck
LOL

>>719256772
It knew it was a thing of the devil. He was doing the lord's work.

>>719256854
>Literally having a meltdown and existential crisis over people having fond memories of renting games for the weekend
there are like 4 people ITT this applies to right now though

>>719256494
see
>>719256751

>>719253379
Yet we got the greatest most complicated music of all history from those peoples. STRANGE.

>>719256854
nobody is having a meltdown man. also, i am 20 and i remember going to blockbuster. it shut down fully in 2014. does it bother you that i have the same memories you do?

>>719256854
>>719256970
Can you guys please stop being so gay.

>>719256970
>nobody is having a meltdown man
Yeah you are. You sound like you're about to cry
>>719256970
>2014
>the same memories
no, no you don't at all.
LOL

>>719248763
how can baby elephants looks like weird fucking aliens while still being so cute?

>>719252240
Retardation, you have it.

>zoomers seethe at game night back when games were good
>browns seethe at delicious weekend pizza
feels good to keep winning

>>719254127
Your skin is brown.

it's 1995-2010
What game are you renting on what system?
What snack are you getting?
What drink are you picking out?

>>719252240
>Bread, tomatoes, cheese, and some meat is "literal poison"
It's a surprise anyone is still alive!!

>>719254189
Gamestop is still kicking. The Swotch 2 midnight launch was giant. People still want their physical stores, Gamestop will persist simply by virtue of being the last one standing.

>>719257220
>What game are you renting on what system?
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for N64
>snack
Red Vines
>drink
Bangs Root Beer

>>719257220
Pilotwings 64 or Goemon's Great Adventure
Reese's Pieces
Root Beer

>>719256751
>you had to be gen X to not break global rule 2 when the website was launched
What's that have to do with anything? I've been here since I was 12 or 13, you think you get retroactive bans for posting underage 15 years ago?

>>719257220
>Super Return of the Jedi on the snes
>peanut M&M's
>Coke
Check out this intro. It sounded and looked amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_BWNFmvwn4

>>719257273
>>719257326
to think there were men of such culture left on this board
I didn't have the save pak for the N64 so I would have try to beat the 3D Goemon (not the platformer, don't remember which is which) in one try

>>719257238
Yeah. He's posting basedjaks so you can't take him seriously, but some people really don't realize pizza isn't always that bad. There's a million types of pizza and some are way unhealthier than others. But a basic pizza isn't the worst thing you can eat.

>>719257220
>saar please telling me what drinking are you out picking!!!

>>719257220
>What game are you renting on what system?
Klanoa 2 on the PS2

>Snack
M&Ms

>Drink
Sprite

>>719257421
>ESL fuckwit thinks proper English is wrong because he's an ESL
many such cases!

>>719257397
I loved this game

>>719257407
>I didn't have the save pak for the N64 so I would have try to beat the 3D Goemon (not the platformer, don't remember which is which) in one try
I did the exact same thing. Plus when I finally did get the save pak, it kept fucking up and deleting my file, so I've replayed the first half of Goemon a ton.
>3D Goemon (not the platformer)
Yeah that's Starring Goemon, the platformer one is Goemon's Great Adventure (also great)

>>719257506
Did you ever beat it? I'm pretty sure it was impossible to beat.

>>719257572
No. There's a lot of games I never beat, like the SNES Lord of the Rings game despite my brother and I trying to with rentals like 4-5 times.

>>719257572
Not him but I never finished it, the game was brutal. Maybe I always just tried to rush through it too much as a kid and that got me killed. Super Empire Strikes Back is even harder though.

>>719249039
You should have ended your post at calling that guy a retard for using the word "satanic" like it means something

most of the """christians""" who loudly proclaim themselves as such in America are literally contradicting every lesson taught by Jesus and the Bible, it's like the entirety of America decided to collectively agree on using doublethink, where they think they are the best Christians around and keep saying it, whilst disregarding every lesson in the holy book

I don't get it, they claim to be proud members of the "peace and love" religion whilst aggressively hating everything and breaking commandments

>>719257220
>Game.
Super Mario RPG for the SNES.

>Snack.
Those bread sticks with cheese dip.

>Drink.
Capri-Sun

>>719257735
that was a purchase rather than a rent for me but I can respect it

>>719257652
That game was really neat. One of those things I'm eternallt disappointed that the followup never happened.

>>719257824
the Mines of Moria just ruined us

>>719257479
Yes, this happens a lot. Pay attention; Indians are the most confidently incorrect race on the whole planet. No wonder they love AI garbage.

>>719257864
>>719257824
wait sorry, my memories are kinda fuzzy. I think it was the Barrow Downs, not the Mines.

Back in the rental days, I never had game consoles. We were too poor and my parents didnt like vidya. But we rented movies all the time, and I played all the vidya I ever wanted with my friends until I got a Gamecube in middle school.

>>719248710 (OP)
>consoomerism, now
:|
>consoomerism, 90's
:O

>>719258020
>said the retard, on the board for consumerism in the video game space
LOL IDIOT

>>719258020
Yes, unironically. You wouldn't get it, leftoid.

>>719258095
easiest bait ever lmoa

>>719253845
You know what, I'm more of a beef or chicken stew kind of guy but that looks delicious. Wish clams were easier to buy in the UK because I would give that a go.

>>719258020
Well yeah. The big corporations were making cooler stuff back then.

>>719248710 (OP)
I have many fond memories of my older sister renting monty python, whatever N64 game, and getting me either a butterfinger or a box of whoppers
I wanna go back so bad
Usually Bomberman 64, or Mario Kart 64

>>719248710 (OP)
Going to a physical store, buying or renting a game based on the box art sucks, is bad and that's why it died out.

>>719248763
Is that a baby mammoth? Why is it hairy?

>>719258193
>I was just pretending please believe me
We got him
what an idiot, he didn't even last 2 posts before trying to backpedal
HAHA

>>719258246
I used to watch Monty Python endlessly around that time in the late 90s.

>>719257220
I'm probably renting a PS2 game. I probably chose Metal Gear Solid 3, Soulcalibur 2 or 3 or Tekken 5.
I probably bought some of those Meiji chocolate mushrooms. The video store I frequented always had stuff like that and lots of anime and figurines.
I probably got a Sobe.

>>719257238
>bread
>fatty cow milk byproduct

Uhh yeah. poison.

>>719258395
>Sobe
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time....

Did gen x parents not do family weekend rituals with their zoomer kids?

>>719258371
That, and my brst friend's mom, practically my second mom, would regularly rent princess mononoke when I'd stay over
My first and favorite Ghibli movie

>>719258416
I love when lactose intolerant brownoids like this always expose themselves
they're mad at cheese because they can't digest it like whites

>>719258519
no, hence the seethe. Not a single one of them got a pizza and had the lads over for a cheeky Goldeneye on Friday night, either

>>719258416
>can't eat dairy
BROWN!!!!!!

>you'll own nothing and you'll be happy
|:(
>you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, 90's
:O

>>719258675
haha you can't eat cheese, jeet

>>719248763
hey retard you don't get fat from eating a pizza once a week.

>>719257815
Well, I discovered the game's existence in Blockbuster and rented it a couple times before deciding to buy it.

>>719256679
>It's not about that. Something is lost when you religate things to digital storefronts and such, a humanity is lost. It's similar to arcades not really being a thing anymore.
(real) boomers thought the same when they saw their retarded kid drooling infront of CRT playing video games and watching movies on VHS while eating greasy pizza, instead of going outside to socialize and watch movies at the cinema.

My mum would take me and my younger brother and sister to Blockbuster on a Friday after school so we could rent 1 film each and get 1 snack each. Sometimes we would rent games instead of films. After this we would go to McDonald's and get a happy meal each. I still remember what we all got.

Me
>Cheeseburger Happy Meal
Snack: M&Ms

Sister
>Chicken Nugget Happy Meal
Snack: Haribos

Brother
>Fillet of Fish Happy Meal
Snack: Chocolate Stars

>>719258286
yes. it will be replacing beef soon. this time we won't hunt it into extinction

We would rent movies and games on rare occasions. I never really meshed with it, because I never knew what movie to see so I usually just picked the same handful, and if I liked a game then I would have to wait until my birthday or christmas to play it again, and it always felt like a bit of a waste. Like spending 50 dollars of birthday money for a half finished game felt awful.

>>719258748
goddamn I love Haribo Colas

>>719258513
Oh yeah dog. I still mourn the loss of my beloved Lizard Lava every now and then.
I think my happy place might still be reading a magazine in the floor while I drink a fruity lizard drink, if I'm being totally honest.

>>719258519
>rituals
oh so you're a pagan weirdo? Read the bible, get right with god.

>>719258748
I onky had local rental stores growing up. when my dad was in a good mood he'd let my little sister and I both pick out a game, and movie. sometimes he'd let us get candy too even though it was cheaper down the street at the gas station

>>719258594
That's kinda sad, no wonder Zoomers are always angry.

Zoomers missed out

>>719258218
We went from pagers to cell phones to little Star Trek touchscreen tablets in the span of less than ten years. That's fucking crazy. Kids these days just get iterations on established tech, and even then it's like, "Introducing New Processor...with ONE more ((efficiency)) core and AI SUPPORT!", introduced by one of the many Indians who have now taken over the tech industry.

Like imagine shitty LLMs being the biggest tech "innovation" of your life when we had the goddamn internet being birthed. What a sad joke.

>>719258395
>lizard milk

I GOTTA GO BACK

ITS NOT FAIR

>>719258357
it was a bait but what I said was still true thoughbeit

>>719259046
well zoomers get AI now. technology is still growing, but in a different way

>>719259046
Truly. The world still mostly looks and feels like it's 2013.

>>719258945
>>719259040
>ITT: childless 30 year olds gatekeep consumer culture from 20 years ago because their lives peaked at eating pizza in a basement

>>719258882
I remember laying on the grass at the park with my friend and he got Nintendo Power and I got Game Pro so we would swap and borrower the other magazine.
I remember being so hype for Earthbound with the spread in NP.
I remember being pretty surprised that it didn't do well at the time. Nintendo Power pushed it pretty hard so I thought it always had been the "classic" people call it today.

>>719258817
They are pretty good
>>719258931
You will always remember this anon :)

>>719259089
>he's still trying to cope
lol you got owned

the last game I rented was either alundra or ff8

>>719258557
>>719258628
>you are...... le brown!

And your body is overflowing with estrogen

>>719259130
look at how mad it is
it is so fucking mad he never got to rent Mario Party and have his friends come over for 10 hours of gaming madness
LOL

>>719259040
That's a zoomer game

>>719259156
The last game I ever rented was Dragon Quest XI for the PS4, if you can believe it.

>>719259134
I used to subscribe to PSM unofficial. I miss those days

>>719259040
You posted a zoomer game

>>719259164
saar plz do respect the COW do not eat the PIZZAR CHEESE
you would think you poo addicted faggots would love the fact it makes you shit yourselves

>>719259240
where did manage to find a rental store for that!? that's nuts

>>719258519
9/11 into the 2008 financial crisis was more rough than people give credit for. There were some days where we would have to wait for gas to be a bit lower before we could fill the car, there wasn't enough in the budget for 80 dollars weekly for movie rentals, snacks, and pizza.
And I'm from a double income family of an engineer and occupational therapist.

>>719259208
>millenial
>reminiscing about RENTING something
checks out

>>719248710 (OP)
>I was born too late into a world that doesn't care...

>>719248710 (OP)
>nostalgia over renting
Americans have been jewed for so long

>>719259240
>>719259280
physically? or some sort of game pass bullshit?

>>719259298
Zoomers don't look like this anymore, they all have perms now.

>>719259291
>There were some days where we would have to wait for gas to be a bit lower before we could fill the car, there wasn't enough in the budget for 80 dollars weekly for movie rentals, snacks, and pizza.
>And I'm from a double income family of an engineer and occupational therapist.
Your family sounds like it was pretty bad at budgeting/comfortably living within your means

>born in April 2000
>first console (ps2 slim) in 2005
>my only console until 2010
>game store sold ps2 games 5 for £35
>went there every birthday and ended up with a huge collection
>most of the games were very good

I miss the PS2

>>719259360
lol

>>719259094
>zoomers get AI
No, they get algorithms dressed up as AI by big corporations because the big corporations wasted TRILLIONS of dollars on an ineffective technology that is using more energy than it can ever give back to the world.

We don't have AI, and if things continue as they are, we'll never get it.

>>719259383
We weren't.

>>719259424
don't get me wrong I agree with you, zoomers are pretty fucked

>>719259424
they are pretty useful algorithms though, completely over-hyped and misunderstood as they are

>>719259134
That's so sick. I was that age in the 2000s, but I still got to grow up reading Nintendo Power, Game Informer, GamePro, PSM, PC Gamer and MAD. I miss magazines dude.
I remember an especially great issue of Nintendo Power that commemorated Ocarina of Time's 10th anniversary with a big pull-out strategy guide. It was sick; I stashed it in the case of the used copy of the GameCube port of the game that I bought from GameStop.

>>719259094
>well zoomers get AI now
The youngest zoomers are almost done with high school, the oldest are well into salaryman years

>>719259424
energy is actually free. these corporations are just charging us for. energy cannot be depleted.

>>719259575
well maybe I'm thinking of alfas

>>719258739
Sure? But at least in an arcade or LAN paries or what have you, there's a greater element of human interaction than just internet.

>>719259523
there's a website where people have archived most of them.
https://www.retromags.com/magazines/
It's fun to browse them some times and see what was going on back earlier in my life.

>>719259579
water in this case

>>719259647
man I fucking love goemon