I miss traditional videogame rental stores It was a simpler,

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Fuck yeah I miss em

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=441yNVdmVU4

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>>381012334
I'm glad I wasn't that autistic. There were a lot of things that closed or substantially changed during my childhood that probably affected me more than most but that kid's damaged goods.

>>381012334
>this autism

>>381012771
If I recall correctly, he is LITERALLY severely autistic

>>381012334
i still have one called family video
they gotta have fuckin ties to the black market dude
i have no idea how they're still alive
i remember renting kirby super star ultra and starfy there, which are some of my favorite games now
I always loved seeing the save files on them

>>381012714

>Tap into the PlayStation 2s online potential down the line

Is this supposed to be cringe?

>>381012334
Simpler, and was nicer for us as kids because it was fun as shit. Almost like an arcade.
Sucked as a college age teen and adult due to the crazy shitty business practices that even mom and pop stores would employ.

>My small hometown still doesn't have a great internet provider and is full of old people that don't trust credit cards, so there's actually 1 video rental store open. It competes with 3 red boxes and some beaner knockoff one. It's sad as fuck looking from outside.

>all those elmo dvds
A U T I S M

>>381012714

>Game Crazy

Oh shit man, I miss that place. It was just right across the street where I lived so it was ez getitng vidya as a teenager.

>>381012334
>all those fucking sesame street and children's dvd's for an adult
LMAO its an autistic spic

>>381013146
t. Mike

>>381012771
>>381012912
>>381013146

He's literally super fucking autistic.

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>>381012334
Until a few years ago, in my town there was a combination Blockbuster/McDonald's store, they had full entrances to each other and everything. Apparently only three ever existed. It was pretty neat.

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>want to try some games
>cant cause no rental places

>>381012334
I know the word autism is just a buzzword here but this is legitimate autism.

>>381013316
i still don't understand how we don't have a cure for autism yet, or why we don't euthanize the autistic, since 99.9% of them are a burden, a drain on society, and only the tiniest smidgen are actually worthwhile rain man-tier supergeniuses like john carmack

>>381013141
family video is the shit dudette
they place themselves next to churches over here so I can see how they stay in business especially when they're all connected to a Marcos pizza place

>>381012714
>Had one of these when i used to live in North Carolina
>saw it closing down one day and went it
>felt kinda said seeing the place half empty of shelves and decorations
>buy a used copy of Tales of the World on PSP and leave
>few years later
>replaced with a Game Stop

Fuck

>>381013606
the edge

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I still go to Family Video which is still around.

I just rented Get Out, Don't Kill it, Logan and A Dogs Purpose. Going to get John Wick 2 soon if its there(Theres an entire wall and everyone is renting it now)

For games, I bought Alien Isolation. I might get the Berserk game if they have it. I really wanted to get Shante but they don't have any of them. Thankfully the Ghostbusters game is there when I feel like it.

>bring my laptop to Blockbuster
>get a unlimited gamer pass that lets me rent as many games as I want a month
>get a game go to car
>burn it
>come back 30 minutes later get another game
>do this 20 times before cashier has a chat with manager
>now banned
>go to another one 5 mins away do the same

I used to have like 10 blockbusters within an hour drive so I loaded up on so many free PS1 games.

>>381013561

>no Poor Little White Guy

It's trash

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>>381012334
>As a kid, rented games and beat them without any dollar going to support the developers outside of the initial purchase of the game
>As an adult, do the same with pirating

I feel not much has changed

>>381013606
>i still don't understand how we don't have a cure for autism yet
Because it's a bullshit disorder. Autism is a thing because our society is too good and we allow children to become secluded and don't give them hard labor. If WW3 happened tomorrow autism would go away the next day as would most discussions on gay/tranny rights.

>>381013606
To cure autism we would have to rewire the persons brain

>>381013964
>it's a bullshit disorder
CWC is kinda the biggest proof that you are wrong

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>>381013561
>That Town movie at the top

i always rented smash and pokemon stadium 2 to play with the lads

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"I MISS DRIVING/WALKING 40 MILES TO RENT A PHYSICAL DISC FOR 5 DOLLARS INSTEAD OF JUST CLICKING A BUTTON ON MY LAPTOP. ALSO WHY THE FUCK DO CELLPHONES EXIST. I MISS PAY PHONES. ALSO FUCK TECHNOLOGY"

>>381014059
no you wouldn't, it has been literally proven that playing or watching sonic the hedgehog gives you autism, it is not something you are born with, it is acquired

source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21984201

>>381013657
How is North Carolina? I regularly breed a guys wife when he comes out to the west coast with her on business but I'm thinking of moving there so I can be a full time bull for them. How's the weather?

>>381013893
Except Blockbuster bought thousands of copies of those games giving the game developers money, while the parasitic neckbeard pirate bought 1 copy.

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>>381013826

y-you what?

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>>381014146

what is it like living with autism?

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>>381014064
But anon, it's a well-documented fact that CWC was coddled by his parents and usually got everything he wanted. Sonichu not becoming a big hit that would make him a multi-millionaire was probably the first dose of reality he ever had. If CWC was better socialized, he wouldn't have made the mistake of announcing his home address in youtube and starting years of misery.

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>>381012771
>>381012334
I just don't get how people can stomach childrens cartoons. Granted I would watch Gumball from time to time when its on. But to actually watch more than that aimed at that age, I don't get it. Specifically because of the dialogue and stuff.

>>381014064
>CWC is kinda the biggest proof that you are wrong
He is literally the proof I am right. He had parents that coddled him with Nintendo products in a secluded home and it made him awkward as fuck.

>>381012334
Depends on which console you had. I still remember picking apart dying NES and Genesis rental sections as a babby and things were good. Then I got an N64 and there was so little to pick from I'd end up with trash like Quest 64

>>381014430
>animeposter
>I just don't get how people can stomach childrens cartoons
Is this some kind of ironic post?

>>381013561
>Xbox controller in the corner

Proves Xbox is for autists

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>>381014146

>40 miles to get to the nearest Blockbuster

Do you also miss cassettes and VHS, OP?
Grow the fuck up

>>381014459
wrong, it's because he played sonic the hedgehog, read >>381014170

>>381013656
Nah it's literally a single location family owned place, never even heard of Marcos.

But there was a place that sold pizza/burgers/hot dogs and movie snacks you could get along side of your rental.

>>381013606
In the future, it might happen. Or more likely, a Gattaca situation where you almost have to go out of your way to have shit like autism. We just had a kid and were able to have her chromosomes indexed pre birth to check for abnormalities.

Also, it's easy to say that now, I thought the same way in college. You start to lose the edge later in life. Same thing will happen with religion, you'll stop judging theists.

>>381014146
>easier access to media consumption is only a good thing

die

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>>381014170

>tries to make a point
>posts "proof"
>it's a study done by a sand nigger
>it's not even about sonic games
>it's about a protein named sonic hedgehog
>information about the protein actually proves the point you were arguing against

>>381014170
>Sonic hedgehog protein
Made me click 6/10

>>381014459
He would have been awkward even if he was normal, but he is completely deluded.

>>381014662
>You start to lose the edge later in life
I turn 34 this year, so I'm not sure when that's going to happen. I'm just tired of my tax dollars going to worthless mental rejects.

>>381014242
Bipolar as fuck, says a friend of mine who lives over there. There was almost a hurricane some weeks back just because of how unstable the weather is.

>>381014732
so, you didn't read it or the primary study it links to. guess i shouldn't have expected /v/ to have any reading comprehension

>>381014760
see above

what do kids these days do if they want to see other games than their parents can afford?
>youtube/twitch faggotry
oh.......

>>381014146
And guess what, there are old african people with running water in their homes that miss carrying a jug on their head for three miles.

People remember things from their past fondly. Big deal.

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>>381014532
I'm not a huge anime fan. I just love the reaction images. They're cute.

>>381014242
>I regularly breed a guys wife when he comes out to the west coast with her on business but I'm thinking of moving there so I can be a full time bull for them. How's the weather?
hahaha, that's pretty neat I guess.
Not that anon, but I lived in NC for many years. It's not bad, currently residing towards the coast which has nice, but humid weather. it's not bad in the Raleigh area and the surrounding cities. The mountains are really nice. I make trips to Asheville and Boone to see old friends every now and then and the weather there is pretty nice there (they get a lot more snowfall in the winter, obviously).

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>>381014146
physicaltards truly are pure cancer and the absolute embodiment of manchild consumer culture

>G*DDAMNIT I'M SO MAD I COULDN'T GET THAT SWEET COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF THAT SHITTY VIDEO GAME, IT WAS ONLY 70 BUCKS EXTRA FOR STEELBOOK COVER, A SOUNDTRACK CD (!!!) AND A SHITTY ART BOOK, THANKFULLY I REFRESHED AMIAMI JUST IN TIME TO ORDER THAT KAWAII SABER FIGURINE FOR 180 BUCKS, WHAT NO RUNNING OUT SPACE IS NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME BECAUSE I STILL LIVE WITH MY MOM AND DAD, I'M ONLY 32

>>381014654
I know its le ebbin may may that Sonic = Autism but you can get that same "autism" through Mario or whatever. Ultimately it's just loser kids with no friends or anyone to talk to.

>>381012334
the only good thing about this system was being able to find hidden gems without looking down and seeing the 'customer ratings' and poorly-written reviews trashing the game/movie.

>>381012334
Enabling autism should be a punishable crime

>>381013964
>neurological issues caused by brain disorders don't exist because I say so
I assume you also think every mental issue can be overcome through willpower.

>>381014762
Oh then idk man. Maybe it has more to do with dating/marrying or kids or being around a lot of death.
I mean obviously everyone would be better off if mentally retarded people didn't exist. But then we'd also be better off without sub 100 IQ people. Or anyone below 130 IQ.
Slippery slope bullshit

Autism is a real disorder, but it's not a spectrum. The people pushing autism as a spectrum are the same as the ones pushing gender as a spectrum. Real autists are easily identified: deformed bodies, difficulty speaking due to muscular problems, and a lack of intelligence.

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>>381014920
>G*DDAMNIT

>>381014146
>40 miles
>not down the street next to an In And Out

Where the fuck did you grow up?

>>381014931
I recall you can give a child autism by letting it watch TV at 3 or below.

>>381014920
>Video games take up too much space
>being a poorfag

>>381012334
no, that's gay

>>381015120
>lack of intelligence
That's nearly all of /v/.

>>381012714
>>381012334
>>381013561
>>381014335
dumb phoneposter

>>381014762
>I'm just tired of my tax dollars going to worthless mental rejects.

If you honestly believe this then you would have killed yourself by now :^)

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>>381014842

>absolutely did read both, still nothing to do with video games
>further research shows that SHH has more to do with patterning teeth, lungs, and stem-cells than anything else
>additionally, the link between SHH and BDNF are very likely to be incidental and non-related

>>381014170
SHH protien has nothing to do with the sonic videogame or televsion series aside from sharing the name
t. Biologist

>>381013606
We have to stop supporting autism, simple as that. Move away from "A for efford" and attempt to correct the mistakes via overexposure untill its solved.

>>381013606
> this is coming from someone posting on /v/

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>>381012334
No it was not.

And I actually lived it. Stop nostalgia fagging thanks.

>>381012334
I just miss being able to see muh vidya and animus lined up in a big, nice, physical display.

I remember when I was a kid, Best Buy had a giant fucking anime section with all kinds of fucking dank 90's-early 2000's fare. It was a wonderland. The vidya section was likewise brilliant.

Now it's just sad, and all Best Buy's seem to reek of BO.

>>381012334
>tfw mom was dumb and kept renting Halo 2 for me over and over again rather than just buying it and spent probably 3x the cost of the game renting it before buying it for me

>>381013826
why not get a bunch of games at once if you could get as many as you want

>>381015120
>Low autism is ADD/ADHD
>Aspergers
>Autistic
>Banging your fucking head autism
>Mentally thinking your six

Makes sense. Though I think Aspergers is just Autism now.

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>>381013141
>>381013656
Do you live in Shelby, North Carolina?

>>381015348
>And I actually lived it.

Holy shit did you that's amazing!!!

yes i miss those days. if you think about it, people can kind of "rent" a game. go buy a game play it for a week and return it.

>>381015267
>>381015292
i'm beginning to think you are black and can't actually read at all, you completely skimmed over the part that explains why it's called the "sonic hedgehog" protein and how it directly relates to CAUSING autism.

we're done here, don't reply again because you bix noods clearly don't get it despite the fact that i posted CONCRETE PROOF on the US NATIONAL LIBRARY OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE

>>381013547
No this is a legitimate case of parents not beating their child enough.

>>381012334
>white people

>>381012334
Literally the first time I hear about this kind of stores

>>381015175
Hows that GED holding up?

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>>381014920
>My feeling when the torrent comes with the special OST and artbook.

Limited edition my ass.

@381015608
>black
>bix noods
Ah, so you were baiting for (You)s the whole time.

>>381013606
>and only the tiniest smidgen are actually worthwhile rain man-tier supergeniuses like john carmack

So what you're saying is, we should euthanize you as well?

>>381013486
GameFly

>>381015608
Obvious bait but its people like you that have caused controversy over the naming of this protein.

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>Giving up so easily

Faggots, all of you

>>381016000
Why not just euthanize everyone? It makes no difference to me. Although let me finish P5 first.

>>381015661
>white people
Unless you're the type to move goal posts when it counts as "white" and when it doesn't, he's Hispanic/Latino.

I used to work at a dvd and game rental store. Ask me anything.

>>381015260
What's the point of doing this? Stay on topic, you wanker.

>x blah blah blah....
>so y blah blah blah!

I don't know why it aggravates me so much but fuck this format of journalism.

>>381013029
They have a decent website, I'm in California and I only know of them because I've bought games from them online before.

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>>381015260
Lol fighting against phones are we?

Good luck with that.

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>>381015608

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog

aside from just needing to read that, any asshole with credentials can post a study journal to NCBI

that isn't even the url for the national library of health and medicine

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/

this is ^^^

NCBI is literally just a place to store and cite studies

>>381016309
Do you like movies about gladiators?

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>>381016245
filter and move on

>>381015260
Are you the same autist in OP's pic?

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>>381016685

>>381012334
>20 elmo DVDs and the town on the same rack

>>381016249
Arr rook same

>>381015710
The GED is harder to get than a high school diploma to be honest.

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>>381014252
Actually renting games costs devs money. That's why they've always hated it. Same with used games.

>>381014146
If you lived 40 or more miles away from a Blockbuster, chances are you lived in the boonies far away from any type of civilization and not having a Blockbuster was the LEAST of your worries. You probably also didn't live a grocery store, a gas station, or a restaurant, or a mall of some kind either.

That said, Blockbuster sucked; new movies were always out of stock and lots of older movies had retarded policies like one day rentals. Oh and hope you never were late returning them, lest you were okay with the store manager blowing up your phone threatening you with additional late fees.

>>381015608

i think you mean the other thing it may cause

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holoprosencephaly

which can cause the brain to form incorrectly leading to mental retardation which isn't the same thing as autism

>>381012714
This was the only place locally that resurfaced scratched games. RIP

>>381016695
Yes

>>381012714
>1:15
>Zelda
>I'm down here in the hiz-ouse
I had to stop I couldn't.

>>381014430
You talking shit about Tom & Jerry because I'll fuck you up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZMJ9_kdb9Q

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>>381017375
Play n trades do disc repairs. You don't have one of those nearby?

>>381017410
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

>>381016309
Was it your policy to call customers who were late on returns and harass them with fines?

>>381012334
>Rent a racing or fighting game
>Spend all your time trying to unlock everything but fail because you're astupid kid and bad at vidya
>Return game
>Rent it again and it has everything unlocked

>>381017954
I'm talking about modern cartoons in general.

Tom and Jerry is a classic and has zero dialog 99% of the time.

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>>381017954
>Tom and Jerry x Touhou
Good shit

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THE RENTALS, DAHNALD.

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This thread reminds me I'm not really poor nor live in a shit hole.
As bad as things are someone always has it worse. Something we are too quick to forget in our daily struggles.

Thanks for cheering me up today /v/. Endure and survive!

>>381018256
Yes but I hated doing it. I would usually try and be cool and call them the day before it went over due to give them some time, or if they were pretty early scrub the fine.

>>381018373
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izcjjq2SM9M

The best shit

I still have a privately owned rental place just down the street from my house. They still do pretty well with rentals and get a lot of business from them. Probably cause they have good prices. They also sell pretty much everything, I go there to play cardgames cause they have a ton of space for Magic, Yugioh and Weiss. They dont rent games tho, cause games pretty much always get stolen or come back unplayable after some serious mistreatment by children.

>>381013029
If the place is being used to launder money, they will remain open as the legitimate business is not what is keeping the doors open.

That said, there are a number of rural areas that don't have great Internet that still have "video" rental stores. I know there are still a number of Blockbuster-like places in certain parts of Alaska, for example.

>>381012714
>tfw my Gamecrazy is now a pet store
I want it back.

>>381012714
I miss the fakeness of early 2000s.
t. former hollywood video and game crazy guy.

Nowadays I just buy my games digitally or off amazon and don't sell them.

>>381018530
Jesus christ why do these characters work so well into it

Remiu as Tom is just too good

>>381014920
Gaben pls go

>>381013606
being an edgelord is autistic

>>381013029
>>381018678
Family Video is a corporate business. People still go there. They just don't have much to compete with since they are one of the few chains.

>>381014920
honestly this circles around from being so overdone that it's not funny to actually being a little funny

good job my man

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>>381017954
>>381018530
anon this is beautiful

>>381013606
My gf is autistic but she is actually very successful. She runs her own business and everything.
She says the best way she can put it is that she gets overstimulated and she kind of has freakouts when she can't handle something. Its hard to live with but there are autistic people who are useful. We should get rid of the ones who use it as an excuse though

>>381020193
Anon out of curiosity how is the sex? I know this sounds like a shitpost but I'm genuinely curious. I've only ever had one gf and I broke up with her because I found out she was asexual and absolutely did not want to do anything even remotely sexual.

>>381020978
Forgot to mention she had asperger's

>>381021202
I bet the anal was delicious!

>>381012334
>tfw you can no longer borrow a 50$ game for 5$ and play through it in one weekend

Feels bad man.

>>381022205
>You can no longer rent a $60 game and rip it with your DVD/CD burner and keep it forever in a big fucking binder of games

>>381022407
>>You can no longer rent a $60 game and rip it with your DVD/CD burner and keep it forever in a big fucking binder of games

I was like 10 when those stores were still a thing I didn't know jackshit about CD burning back then.

The internet happened so fast.

>>381022546
I'm not talking shit but I was probably like 8 at the I'm 23 now. Dad and brother just taught me how to use fucking Nero to copy a CD or DVD and we had chipped Playstations

Shit was so fucking awesome, all the game you wanted for cheap.

>>381013561
>No MLP

Well he's not that autistic

>>381022792
>I'm 23 now
Same.

>tfw my dad never taught me to burn CDs because my parents were computer illiterate as fuck
>they wouldn't let me play online games because they thought that the game would download a virus

Fuck i remember renting so many games it was so cheap now its all 70 dollars 80 dollars 90 dollars for what 6 hours of gameplay

Nothing says 'nostalgia fag' quite liking pining for renting games and VHS tapes from a Blockbuster.

Millennials deserve the eye-rolls Gen Z gives them.

>>381014335
I hate this .gif because the guy in it looks like the biggest faggot I've ever seen in my life.
I can practically taste the petulant "better than you" idiocy pouring out of his squinty, judgemental eyes.
He's the kind of person you can punch without remorse, jesus christ.

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>>381012334
>i miss obsolete shit

Pathetic. Why are nostalgiafags such cucks?

>>381012334
Who the fuck actually went to an actual Blockbuster every week? Their prices were twice as much as the mom and pop ones attached to convenience stores. Other, smaller chains had way better prices and popcorn. Only good price was their weeklong rentals for RPGs.

>>381024737
Not every week, but at least once a month because I got free rental coupons every month.

>>381020193

Autism is a very wide spectrum. My older brother is autistic but he really can't be trusted with complex tasks but otherwise needs minimal guidance.

>>381012334
I thought blockbuster shutdown everywhere years ago?

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>>381012334
If this small setup is due to severe autism, wtf does James have when he devotes an entire room of his house to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsKVBZEx3Ck