>>219743251
The internet was a mistake. I can’t even think of a single improvement its actually made to human lives

You can still do that at the library. You don't like the smell of hobo piss?

When I look back on my childhood im nostalgic about having friends and playing outside and shit not renting Jurassic park at goybuster

>>219743251

There's so much to watch but there's literally nothing to watch at the same time.

>>219743287
Music streaming is all I can think of. I used to have so many fucking CDs in my car

Capitalism.

>>219743287
>>219743287
The internet was fine until social media and 3rd world countries went online.

>>219743435
The phones are what did it. Desktop social media was fine as well.

>>219743338
Well that is part of it. Moving everything to online services has completely disincentivized people from going out and doing anything. Just door dash your food, stream your movies, order your stuff on amazon. There is no reason to ever leave your house anymore and we are worse for it.

>>219743382
I recently went back to just having CDs in my car, and honestly having 5 discs with 70-80 songs is more than enough. Most cars are still sold with 5 disc cd changers in them.

>>219743251
I'm ready to throw down in a blockbuster parking lot, which actually is now a taco loco parking lot.

>>219743251
No we didn't. Rental stores were and still are an utter cancer for any form of media and you should kill yourself.

>>219743251
>streaming is the worst thing to ever happen! Families would go to blockbuster every Friday night it was an experience!
>home video is the worst thing to ever happen! Families would go to the pictures every Friday night it was an experience!
>moving pictures are the worst thing to ever happen! Families would get dressed up and watch the local play every Friday night! It was an experience!
>plays are the worst thing to ever happen! Families would trek to the local coliseum to watch an execution! It was an experience!
>paint on wall bad! Grug offspring and seed taker go watch sun go behind mountain and pray it come back! It experience!

>>219743468
Yea true, Thats a good point

>>219743251
I stopped using these before streaming services kicked off btw

>>219743591
The previous generation was always correct though

>>219743591
>plays are the worst thing to ever happen! Families would trek to the local coliseum to watch an execution! It was an experience!
Plays existed before the fucking colosseum you 12 year old

>>219743591
All of them were right

>>219743287
It made your incel seething public for me to be entertained at. That's one, but there are others.

>>219743910
>It made your incel seething public — for me to be entertained by
ftfy saar

>>219743817
/tv/ is legitimately the most autistic board on 4chan

>unskippable legal screens
>shitty menus

Physical media was always shit

>>219743435
This. Internet was better when you hid your identity. When facebook and smartphones happened, it was all downhill.

>>219743338
we all know you had no friends, you homo.

>>219743287
internet was fine before smartphones

>>219743997
Not even close, tourist.

>>219743591
enjoy paying for fifteen streaming services a month hoping they don't yank any films you purchased because they feel like it

>>219743591
Im pushing 50. I would honestly be happy if we went back to 80-90s tech. I would love to return to BBSs and getting the news at a trickle monthly rate via magazines.

>>219743591
we should take our medical knowledge and retvrn to grug desu. there's too much shit going on and it's uncomfortable for my brain. i wish i only knew hunting caribou and fishing

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>>219744087
We used to live in a golden age

You just miss being young. There was nothing good about having to deal with a corporation to watch movies.

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>>219743251
Fake zoomer blockbuster nostalgia is so lame. At least pretend to be nostalgic for hollywood video.

>>219743468
>Moving everything to online services has completely disincentivized people from going out and doing anything.
Bowling Alone was published in 2000 when the Internet was still in its infancy and it talks about this quite a bit. Unfortunately nobody really tried to put the brakes on before it did a whole fucking lot of damage to society as a whole. This passage comes off as incredibly quaint considering all this shit was in full swing by 2010.
>NO SECTOR OF AMERICAN SOCIETY will have more influence on the future state of our social capital than the electronic mass media and especially the Internet. If we are to reverse the adverse trends of the last three decades in any fundamental way, the electronic entertainment and telecommunications industry must become a big part of the solution instead of a big part of the problem.
>So I challenge America’s media moguls, journalists, and Internet gurus, along with viewers like you (and me): Let us find ways to ensure that by 2010 Americans will spend less leisure time sitting passively alone in front of glowing screens and more time in active connection with our fellow citizens. Let us foster new forms of electronic entertainment and communication that reinforce community engagement rather than forestalling it.

>>219744003
>unskippable legal screens
Oh the humanity, a 3 second wait

>>219743287
How to tell the class you're 13

>>219744251
… just post this!

>>219744250
but anon, now we get to have the movie freeze up halfway through. Isn't that great?

>>219743591
boomers seething at this post lmao

>>219743435
>>219743466
This

>>219744219
>At least pretend to be nostalgic for hollywood video.
Some of us never had hollywood video

>>219743287
Being able to find information. I bought a really good quality hat and it got in quite the state from a combination of sweat and sun screen. I found out how to clean said hat by hand and dry it without it losing its shape as opposed to putting it through the washing machine and it become some sunken sad floppy thing.
It came out almost looking like new.

>>219744292
Skill issue for using streaming services and not downloading everything yourself

>>219744031
As a kid with no friends I can tell you we still played outside in the 90s.

>>219744448
Back in the day you’d have an adventure and make friends with the Korean dry cleaner in your neighborhood to obtain that information

It's because the internet is polluted with scum that should not have access.
Like all the assholes posting in this thread.

>>219744490
No, you didn't. You stayed inside and played with yourself.

>>219744479
Is this you admitting that streaming DOES suck?

>>219743251
Media seemed more valuable somehow when you could only access it through a physical copy or had to catch it at a certain time on television.

>>219744923
Not that guy, but everyone knows that streaming sucks. Even the normies know it sucks, and it is only getting worse. Shit might be advertised as 4k, but it is running at half(or sometimes lower) than the bitrate of a 1080p dvd. Ironically it is the worst of all possible combinations, shitty flatpanel displays with bad color accuracy and depth, streaming low bitrate movies at 4k resolution. At this point you're actually getting worse quality than watching a 480i vhs on a fucking 16inch CRT.

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>>219743251
I miss video stores because they were fun to browse and I love seeing physical items. But streaming is just so much easier and so much more varied. Also video stores were better in the 80s and 90s when there were more mom & pop shops. My favorite was a place simple called VIDEO. It was huge inside, they had fresh popcorn you could buy and a great Japanimation section. Goddamn I miss that place. That time. That existence.

I remember renting bubble boy so much in 2002 m so much that blockbuster was like you can just have it

>>219744118
>we should take our medical knowledge and retvrn to grug desu. there's too much shit going on and it's uncomfortable for my brain. i wish i only knew hunting caribou and fishing
This would be fantastic for many people. To just grow up in a village, learn village stuff, be responsible for village stuff, etc.

>>219745034
>>219745189
Listen to this anon >>219743329 and check out your local library. Massive selection of DVDs and even blurays sometimes. You can trigger that nostalgic feeling of browsing a video store and it's absolutely free (you paid for it through taxes).

>>219745407
Like I haven't seen the video section of a library before lel. It's really not anything like it. I think you're a zoomer.

>>219743251
>We've ended up with something worse.

>Fight me.

My local video store was good when it went to “Netflix format”, when you just paid a monthly fee, and could take out up to three discs at a time.
The local video store was about a half mile away, so I could walk there, take out three films, watch the films, and return the discs, and potentially watch nine to twelve films in a day when I had nothing else to do.
The video store still had some obscure films on VHS that had not been released on DVD as well.
Sadly, once actual streaming really got decent due to better bandwidth, the store went under and closed.
Blockbuster on the other hand sucked, and charged way too much, and the last time I entered one I asked about opening an account, and got yelled at by some completely dick employee, when I asked about using a Debit card that had a Mastercard logo as the credit card necessary for the account.
Blockbuster’s rental charges sort of sucked, and their movie availability for new releases was always shit.

>>219745662
>their movie availability for new releases was always shit.
This is just false, as they had deals with the studios for exclusive rights for a couple of months before you could buy the release in the stores.

>>219743358
This. I keep so many tabs open all the time it’s insane.
Plus download hundreds of movies I’ll never watch…

I have been constantly watching TV before I have been “chronically online” since circa 2028, and we got the fast internet back then, people still used to have dial-up for a while, but I had it good-with the quick downloads especially.

Was 16 and I was heavy into porn so I looked up a lot of that too.

All in all I love how easy I can access info, esp love wikipedia rabbit holes.

But honestly it distracted me from doing anything for school because I never had any good routine for homework and studying tbf.

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The real kino was when every random ass business had a little rental section. I rented Nintendo games from a tire shop all the time.

>>219743407
capitalism was invented 10 years ago

>>219743338
I dunno about you but the 2 were a mixed experience. A summer evening with you and a couple of your best friends having a sleep over at one of your houses and the parents would often take us to blockbuster or whatever rental place they had membership at and we'd get to rent a couple games and usually grab a large pizza and some soda and you'd spend all night playing a new game trying to beat it before you had to take it back.

>>219743518
B-b-but they existed in the 90's. Doesn't that make you nostalgic???

>>219743407
Tell me comrade, how good was soviet video rental?

>>219744219
I lived in a dump little town that had Movie Gallery. It was peak sovl, I made my parents rent the 1933 King Kong so many times the staff wound up giving us the VHS on the sly because I liked it so much.

>>219743338
I don't believe you because renting . movies is what kids did after playing outside all day

>>219744448
>Being able to find information.
Yes, but enough about pre 2010 internet.

>>219743287
>have all of human knowledge just a few clicks away and don't have to depend on your uneducated parents or shitty teachers for answers to questions
>more people are connected than ever before and can educate/inform each other on government or corporate attempts at manipulation and control
>also free movies, free games, free porn, and can order anything you want from the comfort of your home any time of day

>>219743338
People literally used to spend 90% of their time outside and only went home to eat or sleep. Only really old or sick people stayed inside. When I watch a movie showing the urban life in the 80s, 90s, etc it reminds me of how normal it used to be to just hang out outdoors and how much it's changed. After smartphones and internet took over everything, everyone basically became an old fart.

>>219743251
Nah fuck it, its just the nostalgia of being a kid that makes it seem better.

>>219743287
Unlike you, I use the internet to learn about millions of things. I'm considered a genius by everyone who talks to me at work.

>>219745718
>This is just false, as they had deals with the studios for exclusive rights for a couple of months before you could buy the release in the stores.
“New Releases”, would remain in the “New Release” section at blockbuster, for months, and in some cases, probably a year or more.
Blockbuster charged more to rent “New Releases” and gave customers a shorter rental period for those “New Releases”, they only removed the films from the “New Release” section, after customers stopped renting the film frequently.
A popular film, like Terminator 2, would basically be unavailable yo rent for months, even if the Blockbuster hot dozens of copies in stock.
As far as the “exclusive rental period”, that was an industry standard release schedule, with movies first getting released into theaters, with the films sometimes traveling around for months, or even years, before the video and airing rights were sold.
I believe the next step after theaters was Pay Per View, in some arrangement with cable providers.
Then after Pay Per View, the films would be released on video, with the videos costing rental places a fairly large sum, that likely varied per film, but which might have been $80-$200 per tape, back in the 1990s. (Possibly somewhere between $400-$1,500 in todays currency given inflation).
If you lost a rental copy of a video, this is the reason video places charged you so much for a replacement copy.
Technically, you could likely actually buy these films, if you didn’t mind paying a fortune for the films.
Then, after that initial period, the films were generally released for sale to the general public, at more affordable prices, which were still expensive, at $20-$30 per cassette, or way more for a laserdisc.
DVDs once they became available eliminated to rewind fees at Blockbuster, and most movies were priced at maybe $20, and were therefore affordable to buy, compared to a $5 rental fee.

The internet is infinitely better than shitty ass blockbuster and everyone in this thread is just sad about getting old

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>>219745189
>9/11 birthday
kek, that sucks
I noticed Virginia Madsen was born 9/11/61, so I'm sure her big 40th bd dinner/party plans were ruined

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>>219743251
imagine being such a consumerist cuck that you liked wasting your money on renting movies
because of the nostalgia

i am glading those video rental places are gone. blockbuster and hollywood video sucked

>>219743287
then why are you on the internet now?

>>219743251
tubi is better than that crap. it's free
free = better

>>219746456
>imagine being such a consumerist cuck
>posts kpoop
Irony off the charts

>>219743251
>rent dvd movie/game
>super excited to watch/play it
>disc is scratched and it won't play
>go back and return it, they give you a replacement
>it's also scratched and won't play
nah fuck video rental stores, they were shit, good riddance

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>>219746537

implying i have spent a penny on kpop

>>219746321
After the initial rental and video sales period was over, the films would get licensed to Premium Cable channels like HBO, The Movie Channel, or Showtime, so cable customers paying for premium channels could watch the films without paying rental fees.
After this period, which might take months, or a couple years, the movies might wind up on basic cable channels like TNT or USA, etc.
These basic cable channrls were routinely owned by the same broadcasters who owned the premium channel that had initially licensed the airing rights, so the films were only available to basic cable subscribers after the lure for the premium cable channel memberships was over.
After, this was over, the movie might then wind up being shown on regular broadcast TV.
This process could take a decade or more to play out, with the studios raking in as much money as possible, till the films were seen as old worn out product, whose potential audience was thoroughly exhausted.
“Art movies” that would likely gave little viewership, were sometimes never released on video, or would spend a couple decades as high priced videos, that were barely available.
Criterion and Lorber were both fairly expensive, and would let movies go “out of print” rather than have someone just knock out a label on a printer, and copy the film to a new cassette when someone ordered a copy.
Lorber was also awful at VHS video, with washed out color.

>>219743251
This is a streaming era store. But I get your point.

>>219744923
Streaming sucks therefore the internet should ve shut down is the argument tards in this thread are making

>>219743251
I'm a pirate you dip

>>219743251
most Millennials are expected to live well into the 2060s–2080s or beyond, with the last members likely passing away in the late 21st or early 22nd

>>219745587
You must be American where your tax dollars go to Israel instead of your community

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>>219744214
Uh..

>>219744219
I had a Blockbuster and Family Video within driving distance when I was growing up. My parents mostly just went to Blockbuster though, I don't know why.

>>219745407
Brother by the time DVD rolled around renting was already a shadow of itself

>>219745929
in Soviet Russia, video rents you

>>219746269
>have all of human knowledge just a few clicks away
Use none of it
>more people are connected than ever before
Talk to none of them
>anything you want from the comfort of your home any time of day
And you're spending all your time on 4chan anyway
Don't even try to bullshit us, brother. -HH

>>219743287
It’s allowed me access to root my spirituality. It’s allowed me to teach myself a trade and start a business where I have a market cornered (sorry won’t be more specific). I learned both the trade and 3d printing (related to the business) through the internet/social media.

I’ll be starting a YouTube channel to reach others who I know need to hear things I need to hear about living in an environment with extreme dualistic beliefs. I know im not the only person who is completely disillusioned with the “us against them” mentality and starved for voices that unite people of all beliefs. I won’t make any money off of it but it will give me purpose if I can help
one other person. I may decide to sell my products on a separate channel too.

It’s a tool. You can use a hammer to build something or you can fuck your self with the handle. Up to you.

>>219746992
>Use none of it
i use it at work daily
>Talk to none of them
i'm talking to them right now

looks like your post ended up as nothing more than a projection of your insecurities. sad!

>>219743251
I am able to watch way more movies now with streaming than when I could only afford renting 1-2 movies every weekend. And the selections are far superior.

>>219743591
>paint on wall bad! Grug offspring and seed taker go watch sun go behind mountain and pray it come back! It experience!
I have never felt so enlightened

>>219743338
>When I look back on my childhood im nostalgic about having friends and playing outside and shit
We all are, but in case you haven’t noticed this a tv/movie board you colossal faggot. I guess staying up all night with friends and watching rented movies and playing rented games wasn’t part of your Amish childhood.
>Jurassic park
>goybuster
You know nothing of the magic that was the local mom and pop video store. They probably predate your dad’s first climax. Fucking millennials…

>>219743251
Yeah the slow 90s era had soul and serendipity built-in, you had to choose everything wisely from a young age which built character. Thanks to twitter we now know what every bitch or bozo is thinking and creating and demanding, and no amount of pretend quirks can fix that homogeneity.

People say this but if someone opened a fucking video store none of you fucking retards would go. Shut the fuck up dipshits.

>>219747134
Broadcast TV would air movies all the time. Only downsides were the commercials and being edited for content. But first times I saw Terminator 2, Alien, 2001, Seven Samurai, etc, were all on broadcast TV.

>>219746702
They may live in a small community with a small library.

Jews live in your mind rent free.

Nah I live in the middle of fucking nowhere and now I can watch anything rather than relying on the tiniest selection of kinos

>>219747307
>Broadcast TV would air movies all the time

Yes, but what they aired was completely random so you had no control, you were at the mercy of having to watch it whenever it might air unless you were able to record it, and that’s assuming you were lucky enough to notice a specific movie would air. And it would be several yea after the fact that new big movies would air.

With streaming you can control what you watch, when you watch, you can take breaks, and it’s super convenient. The only downside is that you don’t accidentally start watching something and profitability for studio is down. But in terms of what is better for access and catalogs, it’s way better than rentals or TV.

>>219743796
Which one?

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>>219743287
The Internet was amazing when it was just white/asian male nerds age 15-35 on it. As soon as corporations learned how to monetize in and bring in the normie midwits and browns it died literally overnight.

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Through the download of a raw rip of a Japanese animated TV show, I was informed about a 1960s Swedish film and was able to download it that very night. The digital world just offers such a vaster array of art and entertainment that physical forms could never match, let alone how much easier and safer it is to store.

I will consneed that there's a community aspect to rental stores, and limitation of possible movies to watch makes it easier to pick a movie to watch (it's easier to pick one movie out of three rather than one of out ten thousand) but I'm very happy to be a digital pirate. I'd never pay a fucking cent for streaming albeit.

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>>219743251
Reminder to OP and everyone in this thread that Netflix’s DVD mail-service was already killing Blockbuster and video stores rentals even before streaming got big. Even mail-service was a huge step over video stores because they sucked so much and it annoys me that it’s forgotten, even if it was just a transitionary thing.
>>219744219
I used Hollywood Video and it was just as bad.

>>219747654
zoomers DESERVE to pay money for garbage

>>219747785
LOL
Nice history revision.

P2P sites and lawsuits over their fucking ridiculous late fees was killing block buster.
Hell, no one wanted to touch Netflix streaming for years because 90% of its content was unironic faggotry and Hollywood sub mediocre shit.

>>219743287
Internet, especially the portable variety, is fucking dope. Could you imagine walking around with outdated physical maps and a bunch of other bullshit? The only thing I think majorly shifted is that information feels more unpredictable now with all the cults of ideas being thrown around, aka, “meme,” but those existed in the form of propaganda and other media, 4chan is just a tabloid essentially. Ironically, most things feel more predictable and simulated after using a computer for extended periods of time, which is creepy because it’s almost just hypnosis, easier to get to where you wanna be in a way.

>>219747464
You think you have control over the library of your streaming service or even if its altered?

whenever i rented a dvd or vhs i always watched the same movie that night
maybe twice if the film was good
with streaming i literally never even open the website
i just browse this shithole site and watch pointless drivel on youtube all day and night

>>219747304
>>219747304
Another fucking zoomer who has no idea the volume of media that isn’t available through streaming anymore. I know your modern slop that sends the right message and is properly diverse gets your motor firing. That’s great. You see the difference between streaming and renting media in a store as getting in a car and driving. That makes sense because you’re a dense smelly pig fucker.

Some of us remember rows of movies that were made by smaller maverick studios, half who blew all their income on coke, and occasionally made some amazing movies. Even the ones that sucked were often fun and weren’t sanitized with hyper political correctness. The closest thing to what I’m talking about that is streaming is Tubi. Of course Tubi can’t carry 1/10 of the shit I’m taking about.

Wash your ass and get a job you greasy hippy.

>>219747899
I didn’t say shit about streaming, I only mentioned Netflix’s mail-order service, which Blockbuster tried and failed to copy.

>>219747899
>sees post netflix dvd rental
>responds with screed about Netflix streaming

>>219748009
Are you fucking retarded?
Netflix mail in thing was not even slightly popular
Blockbuster died because of p2p and lawsuits.
Netflix having anything yo for with it is history revision meant to make Netflix look like a bigger deal then it is.

Hell block buster could have easily veered to redbone style video renting and used its name to make a free streaming service while keeping new and popular movies in their kiosk for people without or bad internet.

>>219748066
>Makes ridiculous claim that Netflix "profitable" DVD mail in service was killing block buster
>Tell you the truth and talk about how netflix was a failure for years
>Has tard fit.

>>219743251
Broadcast digital tv sucks over analog. Can only get local channels (most of the time), can't channel surf cause it takes a second or so to decode the signal, and when the signal is a bit low the image freezes in a jarring way making it unwatchable over a poor analog signal.

>>219743251
>>219743287
Nah streaming and the internet are both amazing.
Like most things, you are only nostalgic for Blockbuster as a cultural artifact for the '90s when you were a kid.
What you are really nostalgic for is childhood, not Blockbuster, and perhaps the American movie industry as it existed in the '90s when it could deliver well-rounded wholesome blockbusters.
Fact is Blockbuster was around for long time into the '00s and it was already sorry and soulless by that time. The movie industry was already soulless by then and there was nothing knew to look forward to, and it was pretty much the same feeling as stepping into a Gamestop/EB Games now.

Think of McDonalds. They're still around, but they still feel soulless to step into. If McDonald's had gone under in the '00s you'd be latching onto it as well.

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>>219747943
Pointless drivel on Youtube or pointless drivel on Hulu, what's the difference?

>>219748299
Internet destroyed cultural merit. Used to be you'd only know about the scene from Food of the Gods 2 with the giant little boy flipping people off if you'd actually seen the movie. Now it's a meme. Used to be you got out of the media zeitgeist what you put into it. Now it's all worthless.

>>219748299
*new
Also ToysRUs is still around here and still kinda soulless.
You're looking for the connection to society you felt as a child.

>>219743435
Bingo.

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I pirate games and movies since 1998, nothing has changed for me, just getting faster with more speed yera after year and easier to view and share with jellyfin.

>>219743591
Literally none of those actually happened except the very first one and MAYBE the home video one if you were a movie theater company.
>t. oldfag

>>219748139
I’m not the anon you were responding to. I noticed you responded to that anon in a separate post >>219748080
Did you honestly not understand you were responding to two separate people? It’s odd you didn’t respond to both with one post. I’m guessing shills get paid per post.

>>219747930
You have control over what you watch from it and you can do it at your leisure. With rental you were at the mercy of “oh somebody else already rented it” same way as with broadcast TV you could only catch it as it was airing.

>>219744448
You'd go to a dry cleaner or tailor for that information back in the day. They'd of maybe just cleaned it for you for free, I've gone to dry cleaners with a small issue and they've fixed it right then and there for nothing. You had a worse experience in the end because you met no one and didn't leave your house.

>>219748353
Nah.
Bots algorithms and online shills paid to destroy organic groupings of people killed the internet.

I mean. Most women all think and talk the same because the inorganic online bubbke feeding them a false version of the consensus they depend on to understand the world and survive.

>>219748628
If they choose the options you have to pick from, do you really have a choice?

>>219748512
Uh huh...

>>219743251
You don't miss video stores, you miss being young and living in a country that isn't 50% brown.

>>219746820
in 1997 renting hadn't even peaked yet, zoomer

>>219748703
You still have free choice from what’s available on whichever service you choose to use. It obviously has certain limitations but absolutely nothing has ever given you full access to everything.

>>219748760
Ironic considering everyone is discussing ways to access old medua and fake stories of lives they never lived oft recorded before they were conceived.

>>219748686
>you got to learn something new when instead you could have used up some gas and have 5 minutes of small talk with a stranger

>>219748703
> I mean. Most men all think and talk the same because the inorganic online bubbke feeding them a false version of the consensus they depend on to understand the world and survive inside the internet bubbles they exist in.

>>219743251
>sitting in my room, i can watch literally any major or minor film created since the darn of filmmaking, for free
No, I think that's a pretty fucking good upgrade over being charged 99 cents for forgetting to rewind. You miss your childhood, not all the consumer shit that existed at the time.

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>>219743287
No more trekking across sticky floors for porn.

>>219748783
Lol, no. If you weren't renting vhs, you missed out on video stores.

>>219747925
>Could you imagine walking around with outdated physical maps and a bunch of other bullshit
You eventually just learned where everything was by the experience of traveling. I live in a major metro and I basically never have to look up where anything is anymore, and that's just from driving/biking around the last year. It also teaches you to read signs, how to properly navigate, and understand city layout and design better. Google Maps has made the average person far less resourceful.

>>219748703
Dead internet theory was supposed to be a meme, but I can't help but see it across almost the entire internet. The early internet was very human and organic. Blog posts, news headlines, hell even the yahoo front page, were all hand written by human beings. Aggregation and algorithms weren't really a thing yet. The internet wasn't really a problem until 2008ish when algorithms started taking hold. They funneled people into ever shrinking and specific "communities". Now the bots and shills keep those communities engaged in their little echo chambers. It the closest modern approximation of the Allegory of the cave.

People used to have varied tastes and favorites because not everyone saw the same rentals, info miss that. Now everyone's seen pretty much everything.
>>219748894
Hey, R100, neat.

I'm gonna get to watch the live action gundam in a theatre without having to make time for some highly limited release on a specific day that might not even come to my city right?

It was fucking off netflix and then suddenly it was back

>>219748828
The dry cleaner would have explained it to you. When I've gone to tailors they've explained how to get bad stains out to me. I've learned to properly condition and polish my leather dress shoes from a cobbler, and met a new person. Wow, who knew you could have it all?

>>219748937
Yup. Telltale sign is how many memes these days are just blatant retreads like “looksmaxxing”.

https://youtu.be/NetGL6k0HD4

>>219745407
This, I went to my local public library on a whim for the first time in like 20 years and they had tons of dvds. I was surprised there were shelves full of complete manga series. Much cooler than when I was a kid.

>>219743251
Millennials are so fucking insufferable because they’re all nostalgic for awful capitalist slop.
>BACK IN MY DAYS WE ACTUALLY CONSUMED PRODUCTS THIS WAY!!
No other generation is this fucking idiotic. You don’t see boomers crying about how their means of consumption was better (they’re actually nostalgic for genuine reasons).
Meanwhile millennials throw hissy fits in their overflowing diapers when you dare suggest that VHS is a shit format, CRTs are garbage, and that paying 10€ to watch two films for 24 hours actually wasn’t a good thing.

>>219748937
>It the closest modern approximation of the Allegory of the cave
I literally just heard based Jiang say the same thing:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sfS1sytbps&t=7875
Except instead of the internet he's talking about AI and how AI will feed us individualized shadows on the wall of the cave.
So I guess as atomized as the internet is today, it's only going to get worse with AI.

>>219743287
My grandma can order her medicines straight to her home and her caretakers are immediately digitally notified if there's a change in her vitals.
That alone makes the internet worthwhile.

The fact that chuds like you and I abuse it does not wipe away it's virtue.

>>219749759
The writing on the wall for this has been on the wall for years. It is interesting how retards like you need to hear a chink say it to believe it. Go shill that sub human retard somewhere else.

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>>219743287
I can get any video game I want for free with the Internet. Tv shows and movies too.

Fuck society, I like the internet. I hope every home owner and wealthy family burns.

>>219744230
Technology has always been isolating. Sometimes that was seen as a good thing though like for enclosed cars or when Picture Palaces (early movies) first emerged and encouraged the german plebs to take some extra hours of non-working time to think and distract themselves from a hard life. And now isolation is considered bad, to be constantly alone and distracted from surrounding life, but if every RL adult conversation you've ever had has also been trite there is no place left to go.

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>>219743338
I'm nostalgic for having the delusional balls to pursue women at 14 before I realized how ugly and short I was. I miss highschool just for this reason. I want intimacy again. I haven't touched a woman intimately in 20 YEARS.

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>tfw the bots are actually in this thread right now.

>>219750031
it improved my life by giving me free access to any media I require. that's more important to me, I don't care if it doesn't improve your life. In fact I actively hope it messes with society and makes living harder for your average "successful" man or woman, and their children.

>>219749954
Sorry that an asian guy triggers your inferiority complex so hard.

>>219743329
"Go to the library to look up dinosuars"
Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU

>>219749786
You’re the one abusing it, randomly insulting people.

>>219743251
American Nostalgia
>Golly Gee my Jewish masters used to ive Me QUALITY GOYSLOP

>>219750031
The scary thing is o algo is training people to think like bots, and bots are learning from those people to train others to think the same. It’s why reddit is a hive mind. Updoots training humans to think the same way like dogs.

>>219749786
>ayo hol up my smartch say grandmas fallen and she can’t get up, imma send a task rabbit Ethiopian to help her off the bathroom floor… aight back to gooning
You should be caring for your grandma.

Is this just fake nostalgia from retarded zoomers?
Does anyone that experienced blockbuster actually think it is a better alternative than pirating every single movie you could possibly want in a couple of minutes?

>>219750581
People can’t comprehend they’re just nostalgic for their childhood experience of going there and browsing movie covers

>>219743382
meh I still torrent music or at least buy it on bandcamp when I can
128gb sd card on my phone is enough

>>219743251
You're forgetting that if you forgot to rewind the DVD before returning it, they'd fine you and add on a bunch of late fees until your credit was ruined and you couldn't buy a house.

Yeah being able to browse movies at home from multiple sources on a large flatscreen tv sure is shit

I miss my childhood of physically going to one source to browse their limited collection and then rent a tape that's been played 100 times and the tracking is shot, on a 300 pound 20 inch CRT monitor

>>219743287
>I can’t even think of a single improvement its actually made
Because you are low IQ. Sorry to hear you're retarded, son.

>>219743251
Streaming cheapened the end product.

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>>219746311
>I'm considered a genius by everyone who talks to me at work
just put the sandwich in the bag encyclopedia brown

>>219743251
Much like Gabe said, convenience is the key. Streaming worked at the start because everything was in one place. Now it's in a hundred places because of greed.

>>219750628
>>219750581
>Instant gratification makes your experience better
Categorically false. It’s basic neurology. The dopamine spike is more pronounced the further the complexity of the steps taken to achieve it.

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>>219743251
There will be alot of lost media, dont there?

>>219745842
fuck bro I miss being a kid in the early 2000s

>>219749983
Cars hurt society as well. Everyone would be happier if we went back to horse drawn buggies and walking everywhere. And street cars. We'd all be healthier too.
>>219749786
Your grandma is only unhealthy, even at her older age, because of the sedated life she's lead from living in a technocratic dystopia.

>>219753931
Horse drawn buggies but with bullet trains for long distances would be kino

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>>219743251
I'm fine with pirating films, TV shows and music to my HDD.

>>219743251
I've been making posts about how much the internet sucks for a while. But on this I disagree with you. Sure those stores had a charm. But what torrenting gave us is many, many, many times better. Both in convenience and the amount of stuff you can get ahold of. If I have to give up the charm of those stores for it then I'll easily give it up every time. 100 percent. The media the internet gives you access to has to be the one best thing about it. I'm eternally grateful for it.

just torrent your movies and you have them on your harddrive until the end of time + use your moms netflix account if you want. problem solved. we live in infinitely better times than back then.

>>219743287
you are definitely a young zoomer or an alpha, because the internet was definitely fucking incredible until social media took off.

>>219743287
wikipedia is probably the most important cultural impact humanity has ever achieved
it's some utopian tier shit

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How much of a fucking boomer do you have to be to want to go walking through a blockbuster or mall around faggots and shit? I have 120TB of tv anime music and movies directly connected to my tv and networked to the other rooms. Stop crying like little bitches and become your own blockbuster.

>>219754332
Your soul is a shriveled husk and you don't even know it.

>>219754359
Oh jesus fucking christ do you have anything intelligent to add or are you finished acting like a dramatic bitch?

>>219754251
Yeah, pretty much. We don't need to get rid of the internet all together, we just need to fix the way it works and is used especially by the common idiot. Stuff like Facebook was literally explicitly designed to exploit how people's brains work for maximum profit. No shit it causes harm on society. Holy shit.

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>>219754326
Life should be more mysterious imo

>>219754455
No you want more people as stupid as you so you feel you arent as dumb. Life is better than its ever been. You just have no way to experience it.

>>219754500
Life is measurably worse for people in many places, mostly in terms of their mental health. Which is kind of all that matters anyways
The reason scripts suck these days is because everyone’s working with the same foundation. Before the phones everyone’s knowledge base was a unique patchwork of facts and false information, and it’s what made things kino

>>219754615
People still lie, make up stories and tell information that is inaccurate. The mental health crisis is on the population. It doesnt really matter actually. There are plenty of capable people who do much more than mentally ill people so who cares. Life is infinitely better from the 90s to the 2020s. People also have become significantly dumber in the last couple of decades because theres no real struggle or fight to motivate people, which is a double edge blade that gave peace but enabled complacency.

>>219754752
>>Life is infinitely better from the 90s to the 2020s
>entire rest of the post is anon describing hellish modern conditions
what did they mean by this?

>>219743251
the problem, is capitalism

IMAGINE ONE STREAMING SERVICE RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT WHERE EVERYTHING EVER MADE COULD BE EASILY ACCESSED

>>219746757
>Family Video
Underrated place.

New releases were overpriced but 2 movies for $1 section meant I watched alot of random stuff i wouldnt have otherwise and there was actually some good stuff there.

One of the ones i went to many moons ago turned into a print shop and then an adult store.

Other one is now a dollar general
Sad way to go.

>>219754615
>its what made things kino
>Life should be more mysterious imo
just vague bullshit rooted in vibes. you are not as interesting as you think you are. opinions like these almost always come from a position of massive privilege.

>>219743435
social media was fine until chuds weaponized it to turn everyone into nazis

>>219754752
>Life is infinitely better from the 90s to the 2020s.
Only if your parents stole enough shit in the 90s to leave you free shit now.

>>219754908
pretty sure jewish media has been making nazis since the 1970s

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>>219743251
>tfw blockbuster doesn’t have the movie you want so you have to go to the creepy local rental place with the adult film section instead

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>>219754900
Yes I’m white. Idk maybe not having the internet would be nightmarish for gay brown people like yourself. I’ve noticed the more melanin concentrated people have a real hard time understanding adventure and hobbies.

>>219754908
Once governments started using social media to sway public opinion it became completely useless. This started around 2010 when the US used social media to start all those color revolutions in the Middle East.

>>219755030
dont you have horoscopes and schizo bateman edits to consume, bugman? perhaps a cool gnosticism iceberg video seeing as you just learned that word recently and its become your personality the past 6 months? i hear theres a new prosopa insights video for you to watch just now!

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>>219754615
Suicide rates fell to the lowest levels ever recorded in the late 90s-early 2000s. Across the board, conditions were far better for the average person than they are right now. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is flat out lying and engaging in intentional misdirection.

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>>219755397
heres also a statistic that is conveniently ignored by rose tinters

>>219755507
I’m not black so none of these really affect me

>>219755507
That was caused by lead exposure thoughbeit. And the downside of recording stats as per “100,000” means that even though there’s numerically more crime now we can pretend there’s less. As if crime only affects a single victim

>>219755061
that was a test run to prove that social media organized movements can be a threat to the establishment. as before that occupy was seen as just a cute little display of harmless free speech by the little people. complete with occupy watch parties from the finance/banker class with champagne and caviar.

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>>219755242
I have no idea what any of this means lol are zoomers okay? No wonder you’re taking the position of “internet good” you fricken junkie

>>219755507
that bump is almost entirely attributable to the LA riots. which everyone outside of LA ignored.

>>219755712
right because the LA riots famously started in the 70s and had a consistent rise until the 1994?

>>219755761
Just say "i'm retarded" next time, thanks.

>>219755507
>rape and homicide stayed the same
>but robbery and aggravated assault rose
Hm. Something tells me that the devil is in the detail with that chart.

Are people aware of how many more movies and tv series do people watch nowadays? Imagine that you need a physical disc with it's plastic box for each movie and tv series (with a disc for each season) that you watch. How many of those plastic things do you have to store in your house? Hundreds? Thousands? It's not logical anymore to do that.

>>219755507
Yeah crime started dropping like a rock around 94/95. I was in high school and had to hear faggot ass Jew Yorkers up for the summer bitch about how the city lost its teeth after Giuliani started cleaning things up. Because living in a shithole riddled with crime was the only substitute they had for a personality.

>>219755837
and it was all because of legalized abortion removing the would-be criminals from existence.

>>219755825
I watched the same 15 things I like over and over. Most normies I know are like that too. Background noise while scrolling

>>219755825
Most streaming slop today would be broadcast TV slop in the past. Nobody was running out to buy box sets of one and done garbage like Ally McBeal or Dharma and Greg.

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>>219743287
I can tell the good news to a wide number of people now.

>>219756211
I was talking about now.

>>219743251
If Blockbuster and other rental stores were such a great idea then why did the invisible hand eliminate them?

>>219756590
there was no "invisible hand" at play in the destruction of blockbuster. they bought themselves from their parent company, but their parent company was using loans for their yearly operating costs and paying off the loans each year. but the loans were in blockbuster's name, and once blockbuster bought itself out, and became an independent company, their former parent just didn't pay the loan off. Loan defaults, company collapses.

>>219743251
the internet as a whole was a mistake
not even saying that like I'm above it, im addicted just like everyone else.

>>219750000
why did you include whoever that slut grifter is

>>219756803
>there was no "invisible hand" at play
The invisible hand guides all. You're just not financially literate, and tend to watch too many youtube videos., lol.

>>219743338
Well we didn't all share the same friends and go to the same places outside so we can't reminisce on that shared experience with internet strangers can we numbnuts?

>>219757249
zero youtube videos is too many, i'll grant you that. The reality is blockbuster did not collapse due to the viability (or lack thereof) of its business model, but wholesale kikery.

>>219757249
The invisible hand? Is that the one bailing out criminal banks and corporations and causes rampant inflation?

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>>219755825
A lot of people end up struggling with choice paralysis because of the sheer amount of content on streaming services that often nowadays don't even have the thing you actually want to watch the most anyway. I remember when I only had DVDs of like 10-20 different films I would rewatch the hell out of them as a kid even if they weren't my absolute favorites but now I barely rewatch even the ones I actually love. Times were so much simpler back then.

Also fun fact (well more depressing really) they've actually conducted studies recently on how information overload on social media has led to a decreased attention span and cognitive function in young people compared to previous generations. The human brain was simply not built to handle the modern internet and it's only going to get worse and worse from here.

The irony of it all is that we're actually more disconnected from each other than ever before >>219743468. That is the price we pay for freedom and convenience above all else.

>>219743382
it just devalues music. There's no fun in building a music collection anymore, because you just have everything by default.

>>219758039
>>219758227
lol

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>>219743287
The internet was good until we let normies use it.
It happened around 2008 when suddenly everyone had the internet on their phone.
Everywhere got flooded with retards and it suddenly became a prime target for advertising and propaganda.
Everything turned into a pig farm where the good little paypigs were herded into pens, fed slop, and turned into products.

>>219755507
This is because the internet has created a completely sedated, inactive society. I'd rather have crime back if it meant the average person went back to actually spending more time outside their house than inside of it. Risk is what makes life worth living, and we're more risk averse as humankind than ever.

>>219758428
This. It blows my mind some anons argue in favor of digital media storage when if the internet goes under one day they lose all of it. At least if you have a victrola and records you can manually crank it and play music without electricity.

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>>219755507
Dick Wolf saved New York

>>219758760
Yeah anon the internet was a utopia when only the truly enlightened and intellectually elite such as yourself were using it

as someone who has lived through the entire cycle of the internet (because it is dead now) I can say that the peak was 2005-2007. Reddit is the biggest cause for the downfall of it because it homogenized communities and killed independent message boards for niche hobbies. Twitter and other social media are also responsible for turning it to shit by only rewarding short form content.

>>219758942
Remember when Twitter was just status updates about things irl. I think another big point of disturbance that signaled the downfall of the internet was Dennys making a tumblr

>>219758858
>I'd rather have crime back
Holy shit you retard stop larping so hard

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>>219758913
Yeah, pretty much.
Back in the day the only people on the internet were the people who bought a computer and actually sat down at it to browse the internet instead of watching television.
This filter increased the quality of internet users.
Now every retard with a phone (literally everyone) uses the internet at all times.

Maybe this will help you understand. You're immigrants.

>>219759103
Nta but crime affects some demographics more than others. Realistically many of us would be equal to or less than probable crime victims as we would’ve been in 1990. And if the trade off for returning to pre-internet was like, my car stereo being stolen once or twice yeah it would objectively be agreeable

>>219743591
Grug had seed taker and seed taker had Grug, it was a good system.

>>219758274
I could understand rewatching the same movies over and over again as a kid because you can`t even choose what you see most of the times. But do you expect people nowadays to buy 10 movies in physical format and rewatch those movies for years?

>>219743287
It enabled the lunatics to find other psychos who got together to blame the whites for all their problems going on 20+ years at this point with no end in sight

>>219758942
05-07 was peak. Early social media was largely innocent and was used to facilitate real life interaction, not replace it. It went to hell when Facebook became big with venture capitol funding and smart phones allowed users to be on social media 24/7 instead of it being that thing you checked at the end of the day for 30 minutes. I guess it was inevitable but it's sad we can never go back. The social media addiction is a real thing, the fact it hasn't been identified as the public health crisis it is is scary. Pretty much everyone I know who uses social media agrees their loves would improve drastically if they stopped, but they can't stop. That's addiction 101.

>>219759231
I don't understand anons who need like 15 tbs of storage for thousands of movies and TV shows. I consider myself an avid film watcher and I only go to the movies like 15-20 times a year. Are there really people who watch 800 movies a year to justify needing all these films saved on a hard drive? That's crazy to me, with all due respect get a life.

>>219759453
That is an extreme example but you are saying that you watch 20 movies/year on the cinema, plus the ones you watch at home, plus the tv series. So imagine buying all of that in discs. How many discs would you accumulate just after 5 years?

>>219743338
I must be some kind of genius because I have the mental capacity to reminisce about at least two things.

>>219759453
We will own everything, and we will be happy.

>>219743251
You know how everyone back then just "had a guy" who knew movies and knew what to recommend? My father was the "that guy" for his friends and family. Every Friday night we'd go out to eat, then on the way home stop and rent a movie and he always picked kino. Either it was a new release or it was a classic movie that he knew we'd like and it was good every time. He's retired now. He has like six streaming services and he's the only person in the world that legitimately needs that many. All his free time is just watching movies. Whenever we visit it's always "Oh [anon] did you see X yet? It's by so-and-so director and it has A, B, and C in it, and it's about whatever and..."

So, much like the days of Blockbuster, your ability to appreciate movies comes from your knowledge of movies or the help of someone knowledgeable.

>>219746456
Who are those semen demons?

>>219746311
>I'm considered a genius by everyone who talks to me at work.
Self-employed.

>>219743251
To be honest, the internet should just be used for information and downloading data (images, documents, books, films, shows, music, etc) mostly. Like what it was made for. Just limited usage. The offline world is where life really happens.

>>219759747
>know someone will like a movie
>everyone i know is autistic and won't watch something recommended by someone else
>if they finally do watch it, they love it
uuuugh i hate being a fucking millennial

>>219743329
I'm a big fan of my public library. It's been years since there wasn't a week where I didn't have books, dvds or even cds on loan. Great way to check out stuff I'm curious about just to see what it is. Let's face it, streaming is not ever going to include 95% of movies and tv so tracking down physical media is often times you're only chance to see it.

>>219759410
Social media will be looked back on like idiots drinking radium water or putting lead in everything. It would have been banned or heavily restricted long ago if anyone in power actually gave a shit about public health.

>>219758274
Social media like AI is a meme that doesn't matter nearly as much as schizos think it does. If it was 200 years ago these people would be screaming about Freemasons or whatever boogeyman schizo screamed about back then.

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>>219760597
t.

>>219760597
there was a saying that if you picked up a newspaper from 200 years ago and changed the names and dates to current day ones the headlines would read exactly the same

>>219760650
the only way that works is assuming that anon actively uses SM

>>219749538
nobody thinks VHS was ok

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>>219760661
That saying doesn’t exactly apply anymore. It’s only true until the inflection point into the parabola.

>>219744077
>want to watch movie on Netflix
>it’s not available anymore
>google to see where it is available
>watch there instead
>go to Blockbuster to rent a movie
>it’s not available
>shit out of luck
>pick something that’s been out for twenty years I’ve already watched a thousand times just so it wasn’t a wasted trip
>go to check out
>apparently returned movie late
>forced to pay more fees to rent a movie you didn’t really want to watch again in order to have not waste the trip

>>219760682
I mean it’s a joke because anon is clearly retarded. Social media decided the last 3 US presidents, among 1000s of other geopolitical events. Changed all sorts of ways we live life. Find work. Have relationships, etc. Maybe AI is overblown but smartphones are de facto peripheral sensory organ for a large quantity of people

>>219760818
>reach for movie I’ve seen 20 times
>touch hands with cute girl also reaching for movie
>smell her hair
>follow her to her car
>watch her enter her buildings security code
God I miss blockbuster

>>219743251
Sigh...fuck the video store. I miss living in a better economy, in a whiter co
country. I miss the friends and relatives the years have taken. Streaming is 1000% an improvement over video stores.

>>219744524
If you got lucky. What would you do if the Korean dry cleaner said sorry can't help you? What if you had some other niche problem or query that you couldn't get help or answers for in your locality? That's what the internet is for. On the off chance you'd go out and have a nice experience and make friends with a Korean dry cleaner doesn't mean that the internet doesn't serve an important purpose that there aren't substitutes for.

>>219748997
I can't imagine it being any kind of reasonable request to expect the person at a shop or business to teach you how to do the thing which you've sought them for. Sure, it's nice if your tailor or cobbler or whatever had the time and willingness to do that, but that's not what they're there for. They're there to provide a service, not teach you things. They could have just as easily been bogged with a big workload and have no time or energy to go out of their way to teach their craft to every single customer that comes to them. And even if they did, why would they teach you how to do stuff that's literally supposed to make them money? "Hey my laptop is broken could you teach me how to fix it?", "Yeah sure man no problem I'll just sit beside you and teach you how to fix your laptop so you can do it yourself instead of coming to me and paying me to do it for you. I have no problem with giving away my livelihood as charity." Not to mention, learning to do things on your own is also more of a learning experience and good exercise for your brain than having a person there to teach you everything. If pleasant social interactions are what you're looking for then there are other ways of doing that which don't involve trying to shoehorn it into things in a way that is not practical or effective for your original goal, which here was to get a simple answer. Which you can get from the internet much more reliably and effectively.

>>219748433
emby > jellyfin

>>219743251
Imagine if during Blockbusters heyday all the movie studios had said "hey it's bullshit we gotta share this money with blockbuster, let's start our own rental company that only has our movies & stop letting blockbuster rent them" and we ended up with a dozen different rental chains and if you wanted to rent a specific movie you had to go to the specific chain that carried just that studios movies

>>219743251
How is it worse now?
When I was a kid it went like this:
>Go to video store
>Look through limited collection of movies
>No, not the latest movies they are too expensive
>Decide on movie
>Pay to rent
>Watch it
>It's shit. Better luck next week.

Why would anyone chose that over everything we have now.

you still need good films to actually stock those shelves

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>>219745034
>Media seemed more valuable somehow when you could only access it through a physical copy
I know exactly what you mean. I remember hearing about A Clockwork Orange and ordering the DVD from a brick-and-mortar store in my local mall; I had to wait 6-weeks before it arrived. And then, after picking it up, I went home and put the movie in my PS2 and watched it on my 21" CRT TV. This was only in like 2005.

>>219745034
A physical copy has resale value.

>>219750089
but those average "succesful" men and women are part of the machine that created the media you require

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>>219745662
>potentially watch nine to twelve films in a day
There's no way you actually "watched" 10 or 12 movies in one day, fuck off.

>>219746269
I agree with you in that I have downloaded voracious amounts of movies and music in the past two decades. Before that I was spending practically any money I had on buying CDs and DVDs, etc.

>>219762961
Yes, when we would find a good DVD we would end up leaving it on over and over at a friend's house

>>219762129
>Sure, it's nice if your tailor or cobbler or whatever had the time and willingness to do that, but that's not what they're there for. They're there to provide a service, not teach you things.
For very basic things like conditioning and polishing dress shoes yeah a Cobbler will teach you that, since you're buying the conditioner and polish from him. Thinks like repairing/replacing soles and finer work like restitching and patching leather takes years of experience and isn't something he could teach you quickly even if he wanted to. Same with minor, tough stains, a dry cleaner would absolutely help you with that but the finer work of say bringing in a pair of pants waistline or letting the sleaves out on a suit jacket again takes a lot of experience and isn't something they could teach even if they wanted to. Sounds to me like you have little to no experience with dry cleaners or cobblers, if you did you'd know there are plenty of things they'd be happy to teach you.

>>219743251
Everything is worse thanks to normalfags.

>>219743466
barrier to entry makes literally EVERY hobby or community better

>>219743251
The only people who think movie rentals were a good thing are either nostalgia blinded faggots or larping zoomers who didn't have to deal with that dogshit.

>>219754908
Social media was never fine. Even in the late 90's and early 00's shit like Livejournal were dens of pure faggotry. The Internet is only good when it's anonymous. The more real life you drag into it the worse it gets.

>>219758428
>There's no fun in building a music collection anymore

The fact that you call it a collection rather than just music you like to listen to tells it all.

Social Media is a Cancer for Humanity

>>219743435
trvke
its thirdies who ruined the internet

>>219762254
>need to pay to get features
Miss me with that gay shit

They still have rentals in Japan. Geo is a franchise that does it amd surprisingly I see people often renting.

>>219764065
That’s because most people in metropolitan areas live in tiny apartments so they can’t actually collect tons of stuff when they don’t have room. Also the price of buying TV shows and movies in Japan tends to be insanely expensive compared to the prices in the west. Like easily twice the normal price. So of course second hand and rentals are popular, and of course digital now.

>>219755672
>Women feel no guilt or blame

Must be nice to live such a charmed life.

>>219743251
>counting or not counting family streaming

>>219744219
every rental store nostalgia thread ends up being some old fuck saying "yeah blockbuster sucked, you know what was REALLY good?! Gallery Video" or some shit, not realizing that part of the appeal is Blockbuster always being out of popular things and you having to make due with another movie, and the fact that the nostalgia comes from when kids were too young to actually choose where they were going to rent videos or comparison shop.
And 8 year old probably wasn't able to choose what rental store his parents took him to, and if they had any say they'd probably gravitate to Blockbuster because of the advertising and promos like the Pokemon Snap stickers.

I'm a 49 year old homosexual and me and my black boyfirend used to go to the video rental store and rent gay porn and fuck at the local motel 6

>>219760661
bro newspapers today print shit like "[whogives a fuck] posted on xhitter that "[who cares]"

>megacorp :l
>megacorp (defunct) :O

>>219762815
>limited collection
>he didn’t go to the independent video store that had 2 floors and literally every movie ever made
It was way better, especially for older kinos and less well known stuff. Streaming just has new slop

>>219762815
I remember chatting to the clerk. That was kinda nice.

>>219758274

Piracy > Video Stores > Streaming

Streaming sucks but at least you don't have scratched DVDs that stop playing 45 minutes into the film.

>>219743591
Based

>>219754251
Pre-2007 Internet was the best

>>219743287
internet until 2008 was fine

>>219743251
Streaming services should be regulated like utility companies, where they get a legal monopoly in exchange for not Jewing too hard. The model was amazing when Netflix was the only one around and you could get everything there. Now that literally every media company has their own streaming service you need dozens of subscriptions to watch what a Netflix subscription could get 10 years ago and it's so shit you have people clamoring for Blockbuster.

>>219755507
>stop charging blacks with crimes they commit
>stats say crime went down

you can't be this retarded

>>219743287
FPBP. Fuck the internet, it was a mistake and never could be contained. Yes it was fine, even good when it was nerds locked down to desktop PCs. But laptops and smartphones have ruined it forever; they were an inevitability. The internet should be nuked.
See this fag >>219746269
>MUH PORN MUH PORN
Literally the thing destroying civilization.

>>219772179
its real in your mind, at least

>>219743287
i learn and read shit daily on the internet, lately its been a lot of history, also
>>219743382
and beyond that the socialization I get on here is better than what I'd have if it didn't exist

>>219772179
Urboid leftists are always dishonest. You shouldn't trust any "statistics" they give you. Cuckifornia as a whole stopped prosecuting theft of items under 1500 dollars. So they basically "wiped out all crime" with that one.

>>219772261
>UHHH PORN BAD SOCIETY EXPLODE POO POO PEE PEE
Nuke all christcucks and roasties

>>219743287
i learn and read shit daily on the internet, lately its been a lot of history, also
>>219743382
and beyond that the socialization I get on here is better than what I'd have if it didn't exis

>>219743338
my sister and her friends and I would go rent shit at hollywood video almost weekly, usually horror, it was a great pleasur e

>>219772338
Kys child molesting reddit retard.

>>219745189
There were no Blockbuster video stores in my area during the late '80s and '90s. I believe the franchise was located down South in London. Where I lived, it was all independent video shops. They all had a terrific selection of titles. I loved going on a Friday night as a kid. I went into my first Blockbuster store around 2009 when one opened in my locale. I found it to be a soulless places with a crap selection of films. It shut down within 24 months.

>>219772324
>Facebook boomers really just believe theft is legal in CA
like the stat game juking stuff is legit. But prosecuting as misdemeanor versus felony is different than simply not charging people for taking shit that isn’t theirs. There would be zero operational consumer industry in CA right now if they just let you steal, think about it logically

>>219745407
My local library is not free (it costs 20 bucks a year, so almost free) and its selection is abysmal.
Mostly YA romance trash for women and some super normie movies as bluray.
I'd love to support it but it simply has nothing to offer to me

>>219743251
You can still buy dvd's and blu rays.

>>219772338
I'm with him.

>>219772373
You should cut your head off. To improve society.

>>219772324
raising grand theft to $1500 doesn't mean "theft is no longer prosecuted."

>>219772744
but anon, he saw videos of niggers basically looting a walmart! the employees didn't do anything! that means none of them were prosecuted! there are so many videos of employees just recording niggers openly stealing shit and the police never come!

>>219773126
>that means none of them were prosecuted!

correct

>>219743468
>>219746302
The internet didn't help but it doesn't take all the blame. My friends and I used to do way more shit back when it didn't cost 50 bucks for a fucking tank of gas and eating out didn't cost as much as a week's worth of groceries

>>219743287
It is less the internet and more the smartphone, it was not so bad when you had to dedicate time to sit in front of a computer to use it. It was a happy medium. People having permanent access by means of a little brick in their hands destroyed everything.