Why are boomlennials so obsessed with Blockbuster?
>>217478659They've been mentally reprogrammed by decades of commercials
>>217478659They're retarded? I don't remember blockbuster, or any other rental place, being good enough to be nostalgic for.>walk in>they don't have what you're looking for >get something else >go home>try to play it>it's scratched wow, what a great memory
Last rental I remember getting from BB was Unreal Tournament 3. It was gay as fuck and I threw the disc away.
>>217478659They wanna regress into children because its too scawy to think about bills and getting old
>>217478659Don't know. It was far more expensive than streaming even if you adjust inflation.
>>217478659You actually own physical media which is a benefit.
>>217478659It’s weird. I have nostalgia for the golden age of Netflix. They had damn near everything it seemed for like $8/month. Even as a broke high schooler I could afford that. I watched it on my Wii.
>>217478992Owning physical media other than an external hard drive is pure consoomer bullshit. >look at all these products I consoomed
>>217479031May as well live on the street like a hobo then, lest you be branded a consoomer
>>217479056I use my money wisely not on inferior products that do nothing but display consoomption.
>>217479086>a child in Africa could've eaten that movie cartridge, chudNo one gives a shit. People will spend their money however they please and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>217478992You rented from blockbuster meaning you literally did not own it
>>217478659blockbuster didn't display movies like this, how else would you see the covers
>>217479429Yeah but the guy in OP's pic owns it. The driving factor is obviously nostalgia, probably because it's more exciting having to make a choice on what to watch in a physical store and not just staring at random lists on IMDB like a drone.
>>217478854this. Only poor people liked blockbuster
>>217478659Why would a guy in Australia have nostalgia for an American company?
>>217478854Tapes still play fine even if scratched.Unless you're talking about DVDs, if that's the case then what the fuck were you doing watching rented DVDs? Pirating was easy by that point.
>>217479004I remember ordering all these obscure movies when it first came out now all of the stuff I used to order is on Tubi for free
>>217478659>aussie>blockbusterWhat an absolute wanker, he should have done video ezy not blockbuster. This guy is a poser.Also why can't zoomers use the word "arcade" correctly. An arcade is a building, so grammatically that title makes no fucking sense.
>>217478854That's what your dumbass parents get for living around blacks or browns I guess. I never had an issue with scratched discs, ever because they tested them after every rental. Well, in white cities where people have good work ethic and give a shit at least.
For me it's
>>217479519DVDs and games.And tapes usually were so worn out, it had poor picture quality.
>>217479654>video ezygoing in on the weekends and renting a game i hadn't played before for 5 bucks
>>217478659>one lighthe needs to work on it a bit more
>>217478659I've always wanted to do this, but it'd be based on Video Ezy not Blockbuster.And to answer your question, going to a video store was usually a Friday/Saturday night thing, plus maybe getting some pizza or some other takeaway food, back in the 90s this was as good as it got when you were younger.No-more school/work for the week, a meal that you don't normally get to have, and seeing a movie that isn't one of the 10 VHS tapes you watch over and over. It was awesome. Before the internet and smart phones were able to feed us mind-numbing entertainment slop 24/7 all you had was what you already had on the shelf (which wasn't much because VHS was expensive and bulky), or what was on TV which most of the time was boring as shit and you had to make sure you were in front of the TV right on time so you didn't miss the shows you actually liked. So renting movies was an event.
When I was a kid, I wanted to work in a video store when I grew up, but it became a non-existent career by the time I was of working age.
>>217478933>scawyProjecting are we, xir?
>>217479744this anon knows about the good old days
>>217478659born to late to experience mom and pop and indie shops because blockbuster put most of them out of business.
>>217479782>mom and pop and indie shopsweird dirty poorly lit and disorganized usually but still an interesting visit
>>217478659Autism. Unironically. Lots of undiagnosed autism in that generation.
>>217478659Turns out being the last generation of a huge technological shift that effects every facet of life makes you nostalgic for the lost world you used to know.
>>217478659Mogged Cuckbuster in movie and game selection.
>>217479477>staring at a random list in a store>staring at a random list at homeIt’s the same shit. If it’s the socializing you miss leave the basement and go to a bar.
>>217480352Browsing a store is not the same as staring at imdb text file, zoomeretard.
