Don't lie. You miss going there with your friends on a Friday

>renting movies on a friday
You poor thing =(

>>80110466
I'm going to miss roaming malls and department stores fucking around with buds once amazon/internet drives them out of business.
Something comforting about a big store full of things I can buy.
I am a consumerist whore

>>80110466
Dad, pls get off this site

I don't and I never will.

Blockbusters was always way too expensive and charged the fuck out of you for even minor overages.

friends?

>>80110466

>Leaving the house

>Friday night being any different from any other night

>Friends

Where do you think you are anon?

I miss going to Hollywood Video more. Especially when they had a video game store that was miles above Gamestop and EB games. I got an N64 with super mario 64 for 25 dollars, and there were many other systems and older games in there.

I miss the days before everyone became an epic video game collector.

>>80110466
>going there with your friends

Haha, yeah, all those friends, haha

>My local supermarket had a video/game rental section with a good selection.

I would always rent from there because it was way cheaper than renting from Blockbuster. It even had a good selection of anime too, which blockbuster didn't have.

>>80110611
fucking 2000s babies

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will you make the pilgrimage to one of America's untamed wild areas for her, /tv/?

>>80110466

No and you would care if you were at the appropriate age when it all came tumbling down.

Having shit be locked to one location and having the kid nearly your age try and explain the bullshit around it was infuriating.

That and going in and having everything rented out on a Friday because they were cheap.

That and crazy late fees.

You're showing how young you truly were. If your were even 18 when they started crumbling you'd understand just why they fell.

>>80110466
>implying I ever went to Blockbuster
Hollywood Video is where it was at, with a Game Crazy built right into it so I could get movies and games at the same time, as well as snacks.
Shit was the bomb.

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>>80111437

Holy shit I can't believe they still fucking exist. It's nearly all Texas and Alaska. I guess because internet is shit out there in the boonies.

They have some damn smart middle management. I'm genuinely impressed.

>>80111437
>320 Santa Claus Ln, North Pole

u fuking wot m80

>>80112163

It's there. Just google it.

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Still have this though

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>>80112163
>>80112365
COMFY
O
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F
Y

>going there with your friends
>friends

Fuck off

>>80110466
> your parents will never team you and your little bro to blockbuster to get an n64 game and a movie for the weekend again

Feels bad man...

>>80110466
with my what

>>80111792
I live in Alaska and up until last year i didn't understand the blockbuster meme, bc its still 100% a thing out here lmao its still expensive af tho.

>>80112585
>sneaking into the porn section with your friends

>>80112163
It's out here in Ak. Small ass village. Went there to see Santa when i was a pupper.

>>80112937
Whoa, wait. They have a porn section? At "Family Video"?

>browsing Horror section
>Hm, this cover looks interesting
>rent it
>it's shit

Fuckin' covers.

No I don't miss the movies I want always being sold out and being charged extra for returning a day late.

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>>80110683
>>80110765
>Friends?

I could get tickets practically for free through work and yet none of my acquaintances went with me

>>80110729
Fuck Game Crazy

>Reserve MGS4 at a local Game Crazy
>Pay off full amount
>Show up at noon on the day it comes out one week later
>Padlock on the door but by peering through the windows I can clearly see that everything is still on the shelves and nothing is out of place
>Ask security guy patrolling the still-full-of-movies Hollywood Video next door what happened
>They went out of business lol

None of the employees said a thing about them going out of business. Hope they enjoyed that $60.

>>80113199
Yeah fuck that place

My Blockbuster turned into a gym I go to now.

>>80113041

> Be Nine
> Realize that I can get my mom to rent fucked up movies by selecting titles that are NR
> Watch super gross content without them ever realizing

Shit was cash. Saw Zombi 2 so young. Back when Blockbuster carried euro-horror, at least.

>>80112163
I used to live in North Pole. I was stationed at Eielson AFB. I used to rent video from that blockbuster all the time. I remember going on a DBZ binge and renting the movies from there.

not my friends, but I miss going with my mom
>I miss you mom

>>80112585
NO ONE CARES I A MCKEKIN177

>>80111611
OP is talking about missing the experience, not the actual pros and cons of physical video rental, autist.

>>80112585
I got one of those as well its nice some times you can find super cheap movies and games like i got the new deus ex like 2 weeks after it came out for 20 bucks

Hollywood Video is more noatalgiac for me


I miss being young. Having hope. Having friends.

>>80113005
Fun for the whole gang!

My family never spent money renting movies but the few times I went with friends was always fun, especially when we picked up pizza after

>>80110466
Barring piracy, how do you even get cheapish movies that aren't available on a streaming serivce nowadays?

I know you can "rent" DVD's from youtube but It's like fucking $20 for a movie. Fuck that.

>>80113353
My parents would let me watch anything as long as it didn't look like there was nude scenes but they screwed up a lot. I remember them screaming at me to leave during the prison rape scene for American history X kek.

>>80113865
Pretty sure you can rent on Amazon

Also Red Box

>>80113865
Buy it used off Amazon.

Takes two days to get to you so it's not instant gratitude, but you can own a DVD of it for like 3-4 bucks compared to streaming it for $15 on youtube instantly.

>friends on a friday night

Are people on /tv/ really this old?

Listen, I am 25. My memories of Blockbuster are "my mom let me pick out a movie on Friday night". That would be circa 2002, during the 'golden years' for Blockbuster.

We didn't even have a Blockbuster in my city anymore by the time the corporation went under in 2013. Did you?

>OP is too young to know why Blockbuster died
They charged a shit ton of money for movies 5$ for new movies that were 3 day rentals+late fees. Customers were harassed with a gauntlet of offers before they could pay for their fucking movie/game.
>would you like a Bundle?
>Oh i see you just have a basic membership! would you like to upgrade to one of our other plans with X benefits?
>must list off all 6 of the offers
>would you like to sign up for our online service?

>>80114116
Yeah, h-ha, $5 for 3 days is a lot...

We have it so much better now. With a Roku® you can stream new movies for just $4.99, on demand for up to 24 hours!

>>80113353
>Zombi 2

The eye gouging scene is sick

>>80110765
We are your only friends and we don't even like you

>>80110466
I still do that. Went to the movies with a friend on Saturday

>>80113865
Torrent that shit fampai

>>80114307
>barring piracy

>>80114209
the difference is you dont have to go some where.
you dont have to wait in line.
you dont have to get it back by X time and HOPE the employees opening get the movies checked in right away or get fucked by late fees
you dont get "oh sorry we are out of that movie you wanted..."

it is a better trade off.
Nostalgia makes Blockbuster seem great. anyone who went there as an adult would know it was a huge pain in the ass and things are infact better.
they died for a reason. i was a manager at one of the last ones. we as a store were profitable til about 2012 when we got a new regional manager that fucked things so hard that we were forced to shut down all the stores in the Bay area.
she forced us to order X amount of candy/soda regardless if we needed a stock refresh. by the time we were closed we had hundreds of soda/candies/popcorn that were to be "thrown away"

>>80114509
Did you get to take as much candy and popcorn with you as you wanted?

>>80114509
No fucking way. Infinite streaming marginalizes art. it becomes just a constant hum of low level white noise.

Picking out just one movie and focusing on it was WAY better.

>>80111611
The golden age was right before they crumbled. Netflix was killing them so hard I had a monthly fee membership at Hollywood video. Didn't need to pay for rentals and no late fees. Only limit was on the number of movies you could have out at one time.

>>80110662

I miss mom and pop video stores. The selection at Blockbuster was absolute shit.

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>>80114669

>>80110662
>Not having a plan

LOSER

>>80114798
That seems like a personal problem with media addiction.

also Red Box exists.

>>80114837
We still have one. It focuses on noir, art-house, foreign and horror.

miss getting high and staring at all the movies inside, now I get high and stare at the redbox screen and people line up behind me all impatient and shit

>tfw I still have video rental store where I live

No idea how they stay in business. Probably launder money through it or some shit.

>>80114913
>That seems like a personal problem with media addiction.
Well, it's certainly wouldn't be some isolated case.

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>>80110466
I remember reading a story about the internal clashes in upper management and the executive board between people who knew that Netflix had the potential to ruin them and others who doubted its potential. Blockbuster could have ruled the world if they had a little more vision of the future. They are the Xerox of the home movie industry.

>>80110466
>tfw mom took out on my allowance the penalty for not rewinding and bringing back tapes on time

>>80114823
Yeah, a lot of people forget that Netflix originally started as a DVD rental company a really long time ago. My semi-rich friend in high school had a Netflix subscription and I remember how amazing it was to request any movie you wanted and it would show up the next day.

>Thursday at lunch at school
>Friend asks group of friends what we want to watch on Friday night
>Rent something that we didn't see in the theaters or something that we wanted to see again
>Everyone goes over to his house with huge TV and amazing surround sound
>Watch a movie and then play Halo LAN until 3 AM
>Sleep in until 11 AM on Saturday and then meet back up to do it again

>>80115039
>rewinding

good times brother

>>80113353

I tried that. It ended when my mother walked in on me watching Last House on the Left during a rape scene.

>>80110466
>implying friends

>>80110466
It was fun but I don't miss it at all.

>>80114509
>Blockbuster
>Has to pay for labour costs of tens of thousands of employees nationwide
>Has to pay for rent and utilities of thousands of store
>Has to purchase thousands of DVD's for every single store
>Charges $5 per DVD rent

>Online stream rent
>Just has to pay for labour costs of a team of software engineers and a few IT grunts here and there that oversee servers that service the entire nation
>Just has to pay to rent the servers
>Just has to buy the right to distribute from the publisher once which can be distributed infinitely, simultaneously
>Doesn't have to account for lost or broken inventory
>Charges $5 per DVD rent

And yes, actually going to the store and deciding what you want was part of it. Being able to instantly get whatever you want on demand without getting out of bed isn't satisfying.

>>80114974
This is sadly true.
but you can break it. once you watch so much you will start to get bored of everything. at that point go outside. turn off your gadgets and bugger off for a jolly adventure.

>>80114984
>They are the Xerox of the home movie industry
>Xerox
Elaborate?

>>80115172
but you dont get the frustration of not getting what you want wasting your time and gas.

>>80114984
yes Blockbuster was full of morons.
they passed on it due to thinking it was a "fad"

>>80115269
you take the good with the bad

So they don't have what you were looking for but you get something else, maybe It wasn't great, maybe it was and you are pleasantly surprised and upon returning it, the original DVD you wanted is back in stock

>>80115245
Presumably he's refering to the fact that xerox invented the GUI that served as the basis for windows and macintosh but never realized its mass market potential.

Look up the Xerox Alto.

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>>80115245
Xerox had an R&D lab that pretty much invented the personal computer as we know it but the company brass never acted on any of it commercially because they didn't think there would be a big enough market for home PCs in the foreseable future. Now everybody has most of this shit in their pocket. Apple, IBM, Microsoft, etc all built this stuff instead. Apple is now worth almost $500B, and Xerox is maybe worth $20B.

I miss renting games from there, it used to be nice checking out gamecube games for the weekend.

Last game I ever rented was Red Dead Redemption, good one to end on.
God speed local Blockbuster and cool lesbian who managed the store.

>>80111437
Almost tempted to do a drive next door to Indiana to check it out

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I remember one time when I was a kid I went with my parents to Blockbuster and they asked an employee to recommend them a movie.

He recommend us pic related, which I saw with them. Why would he do that?

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>>80110466
I actually miss the surprise element of renting a movie without being so exposed to what expect.

>>80115506
cause he was high as fuck.

>>80113353
Man I remember when that Unrated fade took off in the early 2000's with the rise of DVD's, I think I got some Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie and Scary Movie 4 out of that.

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>>80110466
>movie
>not PS2 games

You know how I know your childhood was shit?

>>80115506
that employee is a good man. only Tom Green kino so far

>>80115417
Employee 1: What's that thing?

Employee 2: Its a controller we're working on for the Graphical User Interface project.

Employee 1: No kidding, that's interesting. Looks like a little robotic mouse on your desk. So you want to get tacos for lunch?

History is weird.

>>80113353
>his mom was some methhead who didn't even look at the ratings before renting it

>>80110466
i was home alone a lot as a kid and their unlimited game/video rental thing was the best. i forget the pricing but i could have like 2 games/movies out at the same time. shit was cash before they closed.

>>80113041
Seriously, before smart phones/review hubs you'd watch a lot of shitty movies thinking the cover looked cool.

>>80115405
>>80115417
Alright.

>tfw still have local video store
>bag of free popcorn whenever you go in
>just won 4 free rentals for getting three oscar winners right the week beforehand
C O M F Y

>>80115506
>movie is called Freddy Got Fingered
Why your parents retarded? If he had recommended Sorority Sex Kittens would you idiot parents rent that too?

>>80110466
I liked my local video store
Shit was so cool back in 1994

>>80115661
'Fingered' can also mean named/accused.

There is still a video store I go to they have a shit ton of movies they do a 5 movies for 7 days for 5 bucks deal (5-7-5 deal).

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>>80114984
I can kind of understand why they were hesitant about buying out Netflix at first (especially with Enron's video streaming service being a colossal failure and dvd's in the mail still being new), but for $50 million?
That's inexcusable given how much money they were making and how it could keep their business model afloat even longer.

>>80115724
"Sorority Sex Kittens" could be about a sorority that needs to raise money so they get into the cat breeding business.

>>80115815
you're reaching

>>80115805
Netflix is worth about $15B now.

DAD VIDEO

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>>80112588
>>80112588
>>80112588

Oh fuck

Post yfw you will never rent a vid from there, to go home and get max comfy with an open fire...

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>tfw local blockbuster and childhood favorite restaurant in town both closed down a few months before I started my freshman year of college
The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry, wanting me to grow up fast.

>>80115891
plus it is a cultural icon as much as blockbuster was.
"Netflix n Chill"

>>80112588

this is one of the comfiest images i have ever witnessed. thank you

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>>80110466

Hold be bros

>>80115805
>>80115891
you are making the assumption it would be the same company under different ownership

blockbuster would have ran it into the ground

>>80115661
Well, in my country it is called "Out of home"

>>80115980
the idea would be if they were smart enough to buy it they would maybe not fuck it up.

>>80115938
>tfw you take your snowmobile to the North Pole Blockbuster.

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>>80116027

>>80115973
I miss fun promotions like this, you never see them anymore.
I wouldn't mind advertising so much if they made it actually interactive and entertaining like these old booths.

>>80115980
This. It's quite possible it would've remained a DVD by mail service and someone else would cash in on streaming first.

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>>80110466
>>80112588


>tfw will never Blockbuster'n'chill

>>80116045
>yellow controller
geez anon you want someone to get triggered?

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>>80116075
>tfw never got to work at a Blockbuster during the summer and just chill and watch movies all day
Feels bad man

>>80116160
This. My dream as a kid was to work as a video store clerk, and by the time I was old enough they had all shut down.

>>80110466
I miss renting bad old horror movies and games I could beat in a weekend.

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>>80116160

S-stop...

>tfw you picked up some Sour Patch Kids and a Cherry Coke at check out

>>80114116
I don't remember any hassle at the register. The only problem I had was convincing my parents to rent me anime videos because they all had an 18+ sticker on them. I mean come the fuck on, why is Ranma 1/2 18+?

Was my blockbuster the only one to do that?

>>80116238
Brisk Iced Tea with Lemon and a box of Milk Duds
;____;

>>80116238
>mom chooses one movie she wants to watch and let's you choose one movie you want to watch
>choose a movie that you'll both enjoy to increase chance of getting candy at checkout

>Blockbuster > torrents/pirating

Are we all in agreeance?

>>80116238
Sour Patch Kids, Butterfinger Bites and a Vanilla Coke for me.

Also got popcorn from there if my friend didn't have any at his house, man I miss playing vidya and watching movies with him.

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>>80116027
>tfw you have to walk to the North Pole Blockbuster because you can't afford a snowmobile because you work at the fucking goddamned North Pole Blockbuster

>>80116341
Butterfinger Bites where a classic Blockbuster snack.

>>80116337
Since I didn't have to pay for Blockbuster when I was a kid, yes.
The store atmosphere was so comfy.

>tfw local blockbuster got bought out by petco

>>80116356
He's married. Kek at r9k.

>>80116449
>tfw Blockbuster employee in Alaska has a better shot at waking up covered in pussy than you

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>That asshole friend that always picked up horror movies with the most fucked up covers
>Have to pretend like I didn't mind it because I would look like a pussy if I said something
>Tfw having nightmares about The Ring for a week

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>>80110466
My God, everyone can make all the 'fuck off dad' jokes they want, but I genuinely do miss it. Of course streaming options today are cheaper and infinitely easier. Guess what? So's fucking McDonald's, but you don't eat that everyday. Blockbuster was an ordeal, but it was also an event, an activity, a weekly ritual, a part of a comforting routine. Some days you knew what you wanted, other days you roamed and made discoveries. I've been with friends and family and gf's, and every time was a different experience and a different memory. My brother and I would rent Gamecube games when they first came before buying them, to see if we liked them, and would ride back home on our bikes full of excitement. My next door neighbor and I were browsing the shelves on a Saturday night and accidentally discovered Afro Samurai, thinking it'd be funny, and were blown away at the incredible work of art we'd stumbled upon. My dad would take me to rent a movie for my siblings and I to watch together, and then we'd pick out one that the whole family might enjoy, and he'd let me pick out some candy while we waited in line.

Blockbuster was a few extra steps to accomplish the endgoal of watching a movie, but sometimes I really honestly miss slowing down my life a few minutes and building memories, not just consuming media. Don't care if everyone calls me a consumerist ancient fag, and no it's not a pasta. Just something I wanted to say

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>>80116573
>the ring gave me nightmares
You are soft like little babby. My dad let us rent this once when my mom was out of town. Another time it was Leatherface. I was about 10 at the time. My dad was fun. I think my friends liked him more than me.

>>80116647
>tfw you walked around Blockbuster w/ a girl for 40 mins just talking and deciding what to rent

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>have 500 dollars in late fees
>blockbuster goes out of business
>still have the games and movies

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>Friday night
>Mommy takes me to blockbuster
>rent schlock-kino like puppet master 2 and and anaconda
>also rent pokemon stadium
>get pizza after

what happened

>>80110466
>You miss going there with your friends on a Friday night

Me and my friends are dead.

>>80116758
I think I still have my blockbuster copy of Spider-Man.

>>80116885
>I'm Dunheer

what's the poing of introducing a character then kill him right away? fucking nolan

>>80116647
>My brother and I would rent Gamecube games when they first came before buying them, to see if we liked them, and would ride back home on our bikes full of excitement.
Are you literally me

>>80116758
they sold it to a collection agency for pennies on the dollar but it still shows up as an unpaid debt on your credit rating for 7 to 10 years after they give up trying to collect

>>80116817
I remember always getting full moon kino and having to cover my eyes to all the TNA that was on those movies

>>80110592
>Go to rent Sin City
>Literally the entire wall is full of Sin City DVDS
>Pick One Randomly
>Go Home and Insert into PS2
>The DVD is scratched to shit

>FFFFUUUCCKKKK

>>80110466
my blockbuster is now an Eyemart
my hollywood video is now a cash for car titles
my local family video just went out of business

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>>80116758
>tfw i had a $100 dollar late fee
>always promised to pay it back since im out on college
>finally had $100 spare to pay them back
>see their site
>its closed
>fall on my knees and crumple my $100 thinking it could have saved them

i-i'm sorry

I remember renting vidya game weeklies and playing the shit out of them, usually to completion. Those were the days, man...

>>80116758
I have a Banjo-Tooie cart that says "Property of Blockbuster", not sure how it got in my hands since we never rented stuff there.

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>>80117110
fuck them anon. Their late fees cost more than the goddamn movies/games themselves. Thats the price those jews pay.

>>80117188
>took 3 days of sick leave just to finish FF7
>mom took my ps1 for a whole month as a punishment

totally worth it.

>>80117214
You bought it from someone who bought it from blockbuster? All that inventory had to go somewhere.

>>80115417
Not only was Xerox so retarded about marketing the GUI they fucking put it on display and just let Bill Gates and Steve Jobs finger fuck it.

Jobs and Gates just got investors and hired half the team that had worked on the computer.

>>80117075
>not checking while your there

>>80117395
It had literally just come out. My thought was who the fuck is going to rent it and scratch it in one day!

I didn't get to bring friends

>>80110466
>still a family video in my town
>drive 20 minutes to get there
>spend 3 hours walking around looking for primo Nic Cage and 80's slashers
>spend the better part of it painfully crouched in thin rows surrounded by the niggest
>check them out
>watch them all in 2 nights
>and by "all" I mean "half" because they were scratched af
>forget to return them
>accrue 10 bucks in late fees
Video Stores died with the "customer is always right" mentality.

You can practically destroy anything you rent from a chain as long as you bitch hard enough when they try to call you on it. It's just doomed

>>80115245
exactly

>>80117342
Probably that's what happened. Somebody gave it to me, but I don't remember who nor why they had it in first place. Good regardless because I didn't own that game back in the day and I loved it.

>>80110466
Yes. It's a social thing.

>>80110466
Blockbuster sucked ass, they were the reason I've used Netflix since 2002. Sure they were better priced than the local "Ma&Pop" video rental stores, but they were shit with blanket policies and customer service widely varied by area and store because it was a big chain.

>>80110466
family run stores are the absolute tits for high school jobs.

>virtually no obligation to actually work
>generally some kind of hub for your friends to congregate at and buy snacks or shit
>no corporate humiliation or bs weighing down on you every second of the day
>more than capable of being run without you, really just giving you the job so the couple that owns it doesn't have to do jack shit
I will never forget those summers. I worked at a batting cage/driving range/mini golf joint for 2 years. We'd race golf carts down to the snack shack and run them around the driving range with putters playing polo at night. The best part had to be that your job consisted entirely of chilling with the other guys that worked there while occasionally humiliating the adults that dropped their kid in the fast pitch cage and wanted gibs for their own stupidity.

It was heaven.

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>>80117214
>tfw just got Banjo-Tooie, Kirby 64, Ocarina of Time and several other N64 games for $2 each at an estate sale last week
I love getting lucky

>>80117604
Big chains ruin fucking everything. Blockbuster was staffed by teenagers who wanted money for pot instead of people who watched and cared about films. It's like how nobody at GameStop plays vidya and nobody at Starbucks drinks coffee.
Fuck, I'm an old person yelling at my front law, aren't I?

>>80117700
what do you do now?

>>80117751
>Kirby 64
You're giving me feels anon. My parents had a rule that I couldn't buy a new game unless I traded in an old one, and Kirby 64 is the one game I'll never get over giving up.

>>80117700
>tfw working at a restaurant one summer run by family my family's known for years
>tfw female boss and I used to blast Disturbed and a bunch of metal all day long
I miss those simple days

>>80111437
>Alaska is the last cozy place on earth

>>80117700
I'm actually super jealous of this. One thing I've always romanticized is shit like this that you see in those early 2000 teen RomComs. Something like a boardwalk with amusement rides, a snack place, an arcade, a pizza joint, etc.

Seemed like a great place to live.

>>80110466
I just liked browsing and discovering new tapes
It was always fun going to a different town and visiting a local blockbuster that had the obvious big titles but also weird different tapes
I remember the delight of finding odd horror or anime back in the day

God VHS was so comfy, I miss that inferior video format

I had a chipped psx and would rent all the new games from blockbuster take them home and clone them on my pc. I literally had bags full of games for the ps1

Blockbuster was great, but my family's credit was always too shitty to get a card. So we usually rented at smaller places that moonlighted as adult video stores. The closest one to us was run by a fat Jordanian who smoked cigars and had a big black curtain at the back of the store that you were "never ever never supposed to cross, my friend".

One more thing killed by the internet.

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>>80117466
you're a pretty lonely guy

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literally me

>>80118296
Great bargain, my friend! Money no problem!

>>80118296
>It's a "my friend, non payment very very serious" store

I kinda miss these desu.

>>80118296
>Man of Spiders

>>80110466
Kind of a reverse dank nostalgia is the actual Blockbuster Online which for me was actually a bit quicker than Netflix then I used that. They actually tried to compete with Netflix for 15 minutes, they even had digital streaming on some bad movies.

I wish I could remember them but it was probably Crackle-tier. My parents were also on an anti-Netflix anti-death of video stores kick and wanted to support Blockbuster.

>>80115172
Shit bro, one reason Millennials/Z are getting screwed up the ass is things like these. There used to be a million more jobs for teenagers to do like these and now they are forever gone, so how can you begin your resume or get some nice cash to make college a little easier?

>>80115417
The Corporate Dinosaur thing is so funny. Sears is a couple years away from full bankruptcy, they had the Sears Catalog which was the prototype for Amazon.com, all they had to do is upload that shit online and use the cachet that Catalog had especially with the legendary masturbation stories and they would have probably been close to the size of Walmart. Amazon would have been a Pets.com

>>80115506
One time a black man asked me out of the blue what I would recommend to him and I was about 15 and I said 'Boys In The Hood' and he did it. Felt really bad later on like I did something horribly racist.

>>80115815
Postironic Porn needs to be a thing I think. Put the filthiest possible title to a movie but make it a serious movie. Have lots of sexual situations and innuendos but never show anything. Premiere it on Pornhub.

>>80119851
>The Corporate Dinosaur thing is so funny
Yahoo was pretty much everything google is today back in 2000, and they just sold for under 5 billion dollars.

>>80110466
I didn't have friends

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>>80115048
This sounds like a great childhood

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>yfw you were the patrician amongst your 9 year old friends

I remember showing them Half Baked and Titanic on a sleep over. Good times

I'm not that old, I went with my mom to try N64 games

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>>80110466

I feel as though I need to clear some things up about why Blockbuster Video is closing, and why they went chapter 11 in the first place a few years ago

>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks

Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty Jew owned corporations.

>>80117759
>Fuck, I'm an old person yelling at my front lawn, aren't I?
That's kind of what 4chan is.

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I once went to Blockbuster with my mom and asked the clerk what would be a good movie for us to watch

He picked out Black Snake Moan but I grabbed Pick of Destiny instead

Did not enjoy watching the cock push-up scene with mummy

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>>80116075
Life is suffering

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>I miss going to Blockbuster to rent movies and games
>Gamepro magazine
>downloading music with Ares or Limewire
>90's early 2000 MTV
>staying late night with my girlfriend just to watch 120 minutes
>pre-social media world
>Fat women were ridicule till they lose weight
>beta lonely males would keep their mouth shut, no all that mra/mgtow shit

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>>80111349
>Underrated post.

>>80120380
>be snooty patrician kid
>dad would always force me to watch van dame style action movies in an attempt to bond
>tfw my dad brought home another gay dad movie for us to watch
>it's called fight club
>I introduce all of my friends to fight club
>become a hero to every edgy nerd and loner in town

ty otousan QQ

>>80110466
Even Blockbuster on Demand is now Sling TV.

I never went to blockbuster much nor did I have any friends. I did go to the local video store at least once a week to get a video game or a movie. It was my favorite place as a kid. The owner was a really nice old guy who just wasn't able to compete with blockbuster anymore so he closed it up. I remember crying like a family member had died. Ironically people in my family have died and it didn't elicit 1/100th of the reaction hearing about the video store closing did. As I was growing up I always planned on getting a job there when I turned 16. It closed when I was 12 and then I dropped out at 16 instead. 8 years later I'm still a NEET.

What I wouldn't give for the video store days to return...

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>Be six year old me
>Go to Blockbuster
>Dad doesn't believe in paying to rent movies because he pays for HBO, Showtime, Cinimax
>Won't shell out $5 to rent a movie no matter how much I bug him

>Look over at register, and see a blonde family (aka "The Chad Family") in line with their movies, games, over priced candy, and sodas
>The dad (Chad) asks his son (Chad Jr) what kind of pizza he wants to pick up on the way home after leaving the video store.

>tfw you will never be part of The Chad family
>You will never know what it's like to rent a movie / game , and pick up a Pizza on the way home every Friday night.

Thought one day I would be able to break the curse, and do it with my kids. Than Blockbuster closes so I'll never get to do the Friday Pizza, and a rental video night thing.

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Which one are you?

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Watching Clerks for the first time in 2010. I didn't expect all those feelings to hit me so hard.

>>80120881
you legit sound like a psycho anon, like your entire life hinged on that video store and everything fell apart when it closed, lmao.

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>>80120940
88 kid here. Tho I was too young I really enjoyed the 90's.

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>>80120940
Class of 2002 here. Fuck you for attempting to make me feel old, 0/10

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>>80116647
Largest video store in world still open in Seattle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scarecrow+video&prmd=vmsin&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiax8-xv8HSAhUG5WMKHWMcBZsQ_AUIBigA Open today. Google Scarecrow Video

>>80120940
Pure 00 kid, which I feel is an honest assessment.
Oh, if only my memory wasn't so shit would I be able to look back clear and fondly.

>>80120503
Fascinating even if anti-Semitic angle is disregarded

>>80121069
>also Class of 2002
>used movies to escape terrible home life instead of doing stupid shit
>Blockbuster was half the reason I stayed sane in high school
>shed a few tears when walking through the closing sale of the last one in my city

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>>80113112
You are a minority in this thread, friend
Even the anons born in the early to mid 80s are still young enough to have grown up with Blockbusters as children, and there for look back at it with Nostalgia Goggles.

Very few anons here were adults in the 80s, and 90s , and actually remember getting fucked over with late fees.

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I used to rent horror movies judging them only by the cover and reading the back. I didn't care about reviews back in the day.

The only thing I miss rental videos for is the cool 8 dvds for a week for, like, $12 deals when me and my friends would pick out all these shit horror movies at random and marathon them. Some were boring, some were batshit insane and some were genuinely good. The Toxic Avenger in particular was fucking sweet.

Lloyd Kaufman is the GOAT trash producer.

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>>80121129
>anti-Semitic angle
We know why you're here. Now please leave.

>>80120940
I graduated in 2010, what does that make me?

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>>80121217
You should go back to /pol/, you low IQ inbred piece of shit.

>>80121129
There is literally nothing anti Semitic about hating Jews.

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>>80121259
>edited
I've never been to /po/ much less post there. When will silly newfrieds realize that /tv/ has always been this way.

>>80121176
I was an adult in the 80's, but rarely had to deal with late fees.

I remember when my brother paid $30 for a membership at the video store that opened up in town, and that they also sold the movies for $79.

>>80121221

a faggot

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>>80115661
>Freddy Got Fingered

>you will never be arrested for Not returning a 2001 VHS copy of "Freddy Got Fingered" almost 20 years after renting it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlBkz964tU

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>>80121281

>>80116647
The guy who runs the video store in my town (now they mostly do /tg/ stuff) is the single biggest weeb I have ever met, and is single-handedly responsible for my interest in Jap crap. Whenever I went to return movies without my parents he would give me shit for free, whether those vaguely pornographic animus, newest gundam volumes, or fucking FLCL. When I got older he also hooked me up with a guy who sold blow, which was pretty rad as a high schooler, and that guy gave me a ton of tapes (no dubs or subs, used to be you had to learn nip to consume their media). His daughter was ugly as sin but I fucked her a number of times, and I still know her. Fuck, that place was tits.

As I said, these days they do mostly MTG and Warcraft, but the guy keeps VHSs of every anime you could ask for in the side room. Also has, like, 70 TVS, and is still obsessed with Japanese media, but more talk/game shows than anime. I should text that nig

>>80121558
there's an Anne Frank anime?

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>>80121756
Anne no Nikki

>>80121893
Worth watching? "the diary" is unironically one of the best reads available

>>80121756
>>80121893
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.569938

>>80121977
Danke

>>80121943
Most say no. They cut out large parts of the diary, and there are weird directorial choices. It is Japan, and they seem to be obsessed with Anne.

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>>80121050
M-Me too!

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>>80110466
>friends

>>80121893
Pretty good movie. Gave me an erection.

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>>80121977
What is wrong with Japanese people?

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>>80121050
>You will never fake marry your own sister, and have children with her.

>>80121582
Wait, did I you actually learn nip to watch anime? How?

>>80122095
They look happy and with a big family. Probably happier than 99% of 4chan.

>>80121050
>>80122095
>tfw no qt Mormon waifu
jdimsa

>>80110466

I'm Australian and i still have a Video Easy, don't ask how. I think it's a retirement job for the guy running it, it's only recently it's been winding down.

>>80122105
Are you serious? It's the single easiest language to learn, by a large margin (maybe korean is easier). Once you know the phonetics (hira/kata) the grammar is simple as shit, and the vocabulary is derived from consonant-vowel pairs, so also easy. Once you know the sentence structure and vocab it is cake. I still can't read or write kanji, but why learn that in the first Place if you just want to watch cartoons?

>>80110466
Of course I do. Anyone who can't relate is underage as far as I'm concerned. Serious question: what do kids do today that they will remember so fondly in 15 years? We had arcades and video rental stores. What do kids today have? Pretty much anything they could ever want is right at their fingertips now. That really cheapens the experience.

>>80122216
>What do kids today have?
Cyberspace. They literally don't have physical hangouts anymore.

>>80122105
Books and movies, took a couple months maximum. Pretty easy compared to every other language ever, you don't have to be smart or intuitive to pick up Nihon, just willing to waste your free time.

You can learn almost every language if you dedicate a couple months to it, just watch all tv/movies dubbed in that language and practice on native speakers, and read written material in that language so that you can understand the grammar and syntax. Japanese is among the simplest languages ever created

>>80122348
Exactly. I'm actually surprised when I go out and see kids walking around the mall at any kind of physical media store.

>>80122377
walking around the mall OR at any kind of physical media store*

>>80122396
Does anyone have siblings? I'm 24 and still have sisters in school

>>80122423
I have a younger brother, but he's out of school.

>>80122444
kids really don't seem to be any further distracted today that. they ever were

>>80122423
Does she live in LONDON?

I still go to video stores sometimes.

I like browsing the 50 cents a week rentals and trying to find the trashiest4shit imaginable. Seeing all that goofy low brow box art idk man.

Going to miss it when it's gone. I would never even hear of the gems I stumble across without it.

>>80122490
Of course kids have always been easily distracted, but now they don't have to wait for anything if they have the internet. Going to the video store to rent a tape was very special for me as a kid because the store we went to had a couple of Godzilla movies that never came on tv and that was the only place I could possibly get them, not to mention the rows and rows of other movies they had on the shelves. I rented Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah one day (I was probably 8) and I can't even describe the excitement I felt. It was a huge treat because I didn't get the opportunity to watch something like that everyday. Now anyone can go to amazon and order the dvd and get it to the house in 3 days tops, or just torrent it immediately, and I guarantee kids don't get the same special feeling from that. Then if you take that instant access away they get irritated and complacent.

>>80122616
I guess I see what you're saying. Instant gratification gets me, as well, these days. Hard to go back once you have been exposed to it

>>80122616
Criticism is hopefully gonna get better now that kids have easy access to every film in existence

>>80122650
I think it also destroys any hope of teaching most kids patience as well. You can't learn to wait for things if you know for a fact you could get it right away if you wanted to.

>>80110466
>implying I had any friends

>>80122708
Not a good trade off tee bee aytch. I'd take people who like bad movies over people who never learned patience. They will bitch and moan when they can't get what they want right away (literally what children do) while the bad movie people just talk about how they like the movies.

90s were the perfect level of technology really, just enough to be comfortable but not to in your face. people overuse the nostalgia argument, things can and do get worse over time.

>>80122861
Yes sir

>>80122861
>just the right level of technology to enjoy things like video games, look things up online on a slow ass connection, text your friends on your shitty cellphones
>but not too far that a sixth of the species lives their life on facebook, you can watch any porn you want as soon as you want and get addicted to it and everyone has smartphones that let them fuck about on social medial 24/7

based 90s

>>80117474
They tried to call me out on something I didn't even do.

>Bought Black Ops on 360 for $30
>My Xbox can't read the disc
>Bros Xbox can't read the disc
>Take it back within the 7 days window
>Disc doesn't have a sticker on it or whatever
>Dunno man its the same disc
>Says I swapped it out for a scratched copy and I'm "pulling a fast one"

Eventually got a copy that worked but what the fuck man.

>>80123011
The guy who had it before you probably switched the good copy with a shit one, then the employees didn't check it when they returned it.

>>80110592
>not sitting at home as a kid surrounded by your family watching a rented movie
not my fault your parents didn't love you

>>80122783
I was just talking about comparative criticism, not that I disagree with you. Now that people have the best art in its medium available to compare the schlock to, they should hopefully be able to appreciate good shit better, at least in comparison to the rest

>>80123314
I mean your theory seems very reasonable, but I'm saying it's not a good tradeoff.

>>80123408
Truth. Also why I stay away from my sisters

>>80121977
Is this accurate? Do nips actually believe that they were the victims? Do they not get taught about their occupation of Manchuria?

>>80116337
lol no, you special snowflake faggot.

>all this corporate forced nostalgia ball gargling

create your own comfy you pathetic faggots, buy a projector for 500 usd, make your own home theater. Blockbuster sucked fucking dick and everyone knows it. This is the ultimate redditor thread right now.

>>80123885
Wanna know how I know you were born after 1996?

>>80123885
Remember when everyone got coupons from Blockbuster after they got
that class-action suit about illegal policies?

>>80113308
leeds?