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.
>>217480469What makes it different
>>217480352It's not. There's engagement by going to the store and you can see the item in person and hold it in your hands. Going through some online list someone slapped together just isn't the same. As far as I know, people are psychologically more inclined to buy things they've already been in contact with, and this just furthers my stance.
>>217478659You wouldn't get it. Zoomies will never understand how much better life was pre-smartphone.
>>217480637This. To put it in zoomer terms "it just hits different nahmean capische fr fr ong"
>>217478659Honestly if I was really rich I'd probably do this.
>>217478659It was just something to do, go out, come home. I think it stupid to recreate it in your home that just retarded. The whole point of joy is going to somewhere that's not just for alcohol or food its why malls are so missed it was a place to just hang out, explore socialize within your interest of course I can buy anything I want online and have it at my house but that's fucking cancer when its all you have its fucking cancer to just go to the same ring of bars literally cant enjoy it anymore because its the only social option you can only be and talk to drunk retards so much.
>>217478659They're not old enough to remember a time before Blockbuster had nearly completely monopolized the video rental industry.
>>217479744>Anon didn't program his VCR to record things off the TVSad.
>>217478854Australian Blockbuster might've been different to the US then. Huge stores, huge selections and most of the time you'd go in to rent the latest release and supplement it with some older movies. Usually if I wanted to watch anything new, I'd just walk down the aisles and pick whatever had a cool cover. >>217479744Based. Also game rentals, VideoEzy rented out PS1 and N64 games.
>>217479782A couple of them stuck it out long enough for me to have visited them even as a zoomer. Coincidentally both of them got bought out by Movie Gallery and never reopened because the company immediately went bankrupt.
>>217480334these guys put up a good fight for a long time, and their gamecrazy branch was the only place where i'd ever find actual copies of ace combat games. bonus points for my local one having an actual public restroom while blockbuster across the street was employees' only. fuck them
>>217479782They actually started reappearing briefly but COVID completely ended their return.
>>217480750little moments of just a passing convo or seeing someone without everything needing productivity or some extreme purpose or knocking out a list seeing people things were slow and it was nice, you see people shop now in stores and they are just consuming because going out is a waste of time but its even bigger waster of time waiting for package its all necessity now even people walking its not for leisure its for productivity.
>>217478659>DUDE MEMEBER WHEN WE USE TO RENT MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES AND GET CHARGED LATE FEES AND THE SOLD OVERPRICED CANDY AND POPCORN? I MEMBER
>>217480637Different? For sure.Better? Eh, questionable.
>>217478659>boomlennialsThis has nothing to do with age and everything to do with consumerism + no life
>>217478659>;_; pls giv me money
>>217480869It's strange how things have changed. Going to malls now, you feel like it's not a place to just hang around and that you just need to buy what you need and gtfo as soon as possible. Strange to think there was a time when I would just hang out with friends or bump into other groups of friends because we'd all be just hanging out in different sections of the mall.>>217480898Zoomers got to live through this too, Blockbuster didn't fully shut down in Australia until 2019. I bought up a shitload of their ex-rental blu rays for just a few dollars when they were shutting down.
how original
>>217480893It was objectively better.
>>217480972Those bed couches are supremely comfy for watching kinos.
>>217480908Manchild nerd shit is a pretty big market
>>217480947>Blockbuster didn't fully shut down in Australia until 2019What the fuck
>>217481032To play devil's advocate, the reason it's likely popular is because, like >>217481019 said, those days were better so people will either a) want to experience nostalgia about them or b) distract themselves from the current times which with a single word can be described as "mid" (and that's being generous)
>>217481041It limped along for a good while but it was an absolute shambling zombie by 2019, I really don't know how any of them were still open by then. I hadn't even rented a movie since 2013 as there wasn't much coming out that I liked and Netflix was already really taking over.
>>217478933>They wanna regress into children because its too scawy to think about bills and getting oldThis. They are already weaponizing this against us.
>>217478933Zoomies are in for a rough ride since they're already afraid of getting older and being unc.
>>217481041Australia and New Zealand had some of the very last ones, with NZ having the final Blockbuster outside the US that shut in 2020.
>>217479744wrong. it was a tuesday thing because rentals were cheaper on that day.
>>217481019Agreed there's also nothing really new the biggest new thing is stranger things and even that's just nostalgia baiting what do people have now that cant be done sitting at home.
>>217481198People still go out to eat food together (at least for the time being).
>>217481135Because they missed out on youth. So naturally the concept of becoming unc is intimidating.>what do you mean I'm old now? I did jack and shit when I was in my most active years
>>217478659Blockbuster wasn't even that big in Australia.Video-Ezy was the dominant video rental place here.
>>217481119Jesus I had no idea things were this bad.
>>217481239What did they miss out on? They did the same as every other kid from the last 20 years, they stayed inside and played videogames all day.
>>217481173He's not wrong. Most video rental places had a special where if you rented x number of movies you got one more free. It's easier to binge that many movies over a weekend then return them on Monday
>>217481273We used to rent 5 movies, it was part of some deal. 2 kids movies and 3 mature movies is what we'd get. It was also how I saw The Mummy and got scared of beetles for a few months kek.
>>217481270Plenty of millennials went outside and did more than just play video games. I'd argue that was a better way to experience games as well, since they were complimentary to your life but not the main focus. Times have changed and we've shifted to a more tech oriented culture where the internet has become the defacto walk in the park or "town square" as Musk puts it.This shift could eventually lead to something that offers an enhanced experience of life (such as a virtual reality) but we're still in an intermission period where it's not there yet. So the modern youth basically experienced the worst of both worlds.
>>217481338I guess it depends on the zoomie. Don't forget, they're also the gen that were a part of a lot of TikTok trends that involved going outside and fucking with people or doing insane shit like kicking down doors of houses, stealing cars with USB sticks or harassing people on the street.
>>217479691Obsessed
>>217481377>gen alpha asks their gen z parents about what their childhood was like>"well you see, we used to listen to a Kesha song and kick down doors of random peoples homes to the beat of the drums. it was a better time"
>>217479101>we consoomers will consooooooomYeah I know, and I will continue to mock you.
