nah those late fees were ass
netflix menu in real life
>>223313252I like nostalgia and even I'm getting annoyed by this "We have to go back" shit
>can watch literally anything i want in hd for free>wE NeEd tO Go BaCk
>>223313287it's a meme from a tv showthey had left, but they had to go back
>>223313252"the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus, it is important to make the best out of every generation.
take the lessons learned from that era and revive physical media in a new format for the upcoming 8K revolution
>>223313252Movie rental places sucked dick.People who nostalgia-bate over renting from rental places suck dick.
>>223313252> Oh boy, I can't wait to rent the VHS of Home Alone 2 to watch this weekend! > Wait, what? What do you mean all the copies are rented?
>overnight rental>must return by 11am>must rewind>late fee $7.95/day (like 20+ dollars todays money)
>>223313323there is no way anyone is going to do this. UHD Blurays are the last physical media.
>>223313252>thugged out Bugs and Taz t-shirtoh yeah, it's the 90s
Renting movies was cool, but renting vidya was the real shit. Beat an awesome game? Cool, plus you didn't need to pay full price. Beat a shit game? Whatever, at least you didn't pay full price. Didn't beat it yet? If you wanted to keep playing it, just save the game data and start from where you left off if you decide to buy it...or if you could just rent it again. It was a sweet deal.
>>223313373sorry anon last one sold out at 3:20pm, but don't worry they have to return them by 11:30am tomorrow
I was a Hollywood video guy. >walk around the store renting games >walk across the street to the coffee bean or next door to Hawaiian bbq >walk to Ralph’s >walk home I miss Ventura bros.
>>223313438i rented them after school on friday and tried to beat the whole game before school again on mondayI didn't beat final fantasy 8 before I had to take it back
>>223313252That video should be deleted. It gives a false sense of optimism about the past when things are better than ever once Donald Trump is out of the White House.
I would go back in a heartbeat.You can take my internet and cell phone and shove them up your social media asses.
>>223313252No, 2008 is the perfect time
>>223313252There are more people today than in 1993, and yet "go back" still won't find a customer base to sustain itself.
>>223313409disagree. streaming is considered a format. it's the current super-format in the format wars because the format wars never ended. there's going to be a replacement for SDHC / TF. when there is it's likely to be an optical media format similar to a CD without the requirement for rotational seeking.
>>223313287Good news, Chaim, you won. We live in a world of perpetual shit. Happy?
>>223313562I'm sorry that you failed as an adult. My life is pretty sweet.
>>223313496dude pre-2006. After 2006 the economy started cracking and by 2008 we were in a full blown crisis. that photo was taken during the beginning of the end rather than the peak. 1997-2000 were my favorite years as a lad.
>>223313496this is what you're gonna pull up? greasy slop?you can get a plate full of grease anywhere
>>223313252We have to go way back
>>223313677Also acceptable, provided we can keep the US out of WW1.
>>223313677no keep going father back
>>223313715Farther.
>>223313459Hollywood Video was cooler and cheaper. Only time our family rented from Blockbuster was when there were no other options or we had that cool monthly pass that let you check out two movies at a time then bring them back and get two more. I was watching four movies a day and it was crazy.
>>223313496Nope. 1999/2000 was the best period by far.Just had several years in a row of the greatest films ever made. The internet was just starting to be accessible but wasn't yet ruined. Excitement about the new millennium. Pre 9/11, DVDs at Blockbuster, videogames were actually fun, the economy was good, etc.It just went to absolute dog shit not long after.
>>223313767It had such a nice aesthetic compared to blockbuster.
>>223313252For me, it is the time before the fall of man
>>223313287You have to go back
>>223313482This. Social media has been weaponized against people and fucked the world up beyond imagination.
>>223313287Exactly and with video rental stores it is pure nostalgia because streaming is better in every way which is why it beat out video rental stores in the first place. It's the good feelings associated with childhood memories that people are nostalgic for not the video rental store itself.
things are better now, they were worse after but then they got better. you can get everything online now, stuff you would have never seen before even from mom and pop shops with obscure films. you can watch films on youtube now that you would only ever see if you were getting a film degree. stumbling upon something new and excellent was great back then, but i stumble upon something new all the time now
>>223313252Movie stores still exist. Nothing is stopping you from using them.Not only do they still exist, they dont have the horrendous fees that blockbuster had. So, zoomer, when you're tired of having nostalgia for something you've never experienced, go outside for once. Fucking performative faggot.
>>223314062>the horrendous fees that blockbuster hadLol only a problem for morons who couldn't remember to return things before they were due
>>223313367I only ever used them as a way to demo games before buying them or to play games that were beatable in a day like Pokemon Snap. The only kids that usually got excited for Blockbuster were poor.
>>223313860Its hard to believe that nobody under 25 even remembers what life was like before social media consumed everything
>>223314062>Movie stores still exist.
you don't want that specific shit back, you want to be a child again
>>223314167Stop living in a flyover state bum.
>>223313482>You can take my internetlol, speak for yourself dumb zoomer. A lot of people had internet in the late 80's/early 90s and that was the best era of the internet>>223314167nta but I have some really gay performative store nearby called movie trading co. and they sell a lot of overpriced retro shit that redditor normalfags go crazy for
>>223314171>You don't want that specific shit backI would kill to go back to a time when a single salary could afford a house, fast food was actually cheap and gas was less than a dollar a gallon. Seriously post Covid America is basically just a rotting corpse
Come to think of it everything WAS better back then.>Sports>Movies >Music>Food>Video Games>Television>Food>Economy>Physical Health>Mental Health What the fuck happened?
>>223313396Hollywood video used to let you put off late fees indefinitely though. I had around $200 in late fees before they closed.
>>223314213I would also like to just going back to when you had to hand in or mail in resumes and applications to jobs instead of having to constantly come up with tricks to get the HR bots to even flag your resume to be looked at by human eyes
I don't get the obsession with blockbuster. By the time blockbuster was ubiquitous that was the tail end of the good times. The real good times were when there were tons of different independent video stores and smaller chains.
>>223314216>What the fuck happened?the Bush administration
>>223314216NAFTA in 1994 and permanently normalizing trade relations with China in 2000. That was the real beginning of the end. Boomers sold us out for Walmarts full of cheap chink shit.
>>223314471There always were independent movie stores and regional chains. A number of them outlived Blockbuster a little while
>>223314530>NAFTA in 1994 and permanently normalizing trade relations with China in 2000.t. knowerShit started closing FAST in the US after 94, it was like clenching a fist of sand watching factory after factory shut down and go overseas for 2+ decades
>>223313252>cropdusting the new release aisleAh yes...times were good.
>>223313396>(like 20+ dollars todays money)which is a stupid comparison because the cost of living was extremely low back then
>>223314566Yup I wasn't really old enough to full grasp what was going on in the 90s but by the early 2000s I noticed how fast all kinds of shit like toasters and coffee makers, Christmas decorations, kid's toys, fucking everything that had been made in the US were suddenly coming from China. That's where the enshittification process really began. You can pick up consumer Craftsman hand and power tools that were made in the US and bought by random dads through Sears all through the 60s up to the 90s that utterly mog the chinkshit "professional" garbage being sold today. It's fucking sad to see.
You should check out picture related. You might like it and understand why videostores diedhttps://transfer.it/t/HAs5Hd9X0TAI
>>223313252Fuck video rentalst. I was actually alive back then, I don't need to imagine a fantasy version of it
>>223313252Renting jewish goyslop sucked. TV monoculture sucked. These people were led to believe that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons.
so why does the future (our present) suck? what went wrong? why did boomers lie to us?
>>223315121Boomers were duped and mislead by jewish machinations their entire lives and that passes down through time. Trump is the boomer final boss.
>>223315165>tfw you find out Clinton, Dubya, and Trump were all born within a few months of each other in 1946.
>>223313496>Nostalgic for the 2008 crash eraJESUS FUCK
>>223315192A lot of people here came of age around that time.
>>223315215Yeah, so did I and it fucking sucked. Everything starting getting fucking expensive (gas shot up to $4 a gallon LMAO history repeating!) so I was trying to get a part time job as a kid/young adult and all the Gen Xer's were snatching up all the entry level positions. The internet and video games were still pretty good though since the normalfags hadn't had enough time to totally shit them up yet.
>>223315121The boomers were trouble from the start. People were already bitching about them in the 90's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZ-CpINiqg
>>2233154671980s too. Bonus points because the comments on a song shitting on Boomers for being greedy, short sighted assholes pissing away everything they were given are full of completely oblivious Boomers talking about how great they are.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyG2wTLUOk
>>223313252Movies lost their magic when these went out of business. You used to look for the movies that looked cool, rented them, then that's all you had to watch that weekend. Streaming is actually cheaper in that you can watch any number of movies for less money than rentals. It cheapened the whole experience. You get 20 minutes into a shit movie on streaming and you just find a different one. If you rented it, you'd watch the whole damn thing, even if you hated it and could share that mutual hate with your family as a story of the horrible movie you had to watch. We don't get interactions like that with movies anymore. The world has become easy come, easy go and I fear we'll never get back to the way things were.
>>223313396>>must rewindYou push a button. Hell some VCRs do it automatically when they reach the end of the tape.>>223313438I rented Battletanx repeatedly, that game rules.
>>223315562>Movies lost their magic when these went out of businessWatch >>223314890 Movies you very likely love are the reason video rental places went out of business Netflix was just simply the killing blow for Blockbuster aka who also helped killed mom and pop rental stores.
>>223315634I ain't clicking that shit. Netflix fucking sucks. Giving you everything at the press of a button cheapens your enjoyment of that thing. That was my whole point. Without any work involved in procuring something, you take it for granted. A cold beer will never taste as sweet as when you just got done mowing the yard on a hot summer day. Every generation takes things more and more for granted until they stop caring about fucking anything. You see it in the young generations now. If they had to run a paper route for 3 months to afford a video game, you damn well better believe they're going to enjoy it. Now they have every video game they could ever want at the tip of their fingers and couldn't care less about them.
>>223313252for myself, I LOVE that you can be watching any movie ever made within ten minutes of learning it existed.for everyone else, I HATE it. effort gatekeeping is in reality a good thing.
>>223315907Your life is empty and devoid of meaning.
>>223315634>Blockbuster aka who also helped killed mom and pop rental stores.They really didn't, just filled a need better than them. MUH MOM N POP VIDEO STORES existed alongside Blockbuster
>>223313498that's because most of those people are experienced a first world lifestyle for the first time. their 'nostalgia' would be for clay brick shacks and goat herding.
All of the things you miss and reminisce about you couldn't have now due to demographic change and low trust society. I hope you got to enjoy it when it existed, I did, but we can't ever have that again. Niggers would ransack a blockbuster in a heartbeat and steal every video game display at Sears they could fit in their shit stained pants.
>>223313252You can literally go shopping.
>>223316034It really brings a tear to my eye. Knowing my daughter will never know what the before times were like. Knowing that we're handing off a pile of shit to our descendants when we were handed a steak dinner. And knowing we're completely helpless to do anything about it. I hate what has become of us.
>>223316061Leave it to a zoomer to fundamentally misunderstand the concept of renting something (except where they'll live for the rest of their lives).
>>223313277Try not being a stupid nigger and you won't have to worry about such things.
>>223313252>had to drive there, pay money to rent a movie and then drive back to return it>now can just stream anything for free Nah
>>223313252gen x here. I worked at a Hollywood video when I was 18. AMA
>>223316118>Knowing that we're handing off a pile of shit to our descendants when we were handed a steak dinner.Speak for yourself. Most Millennials (and below) were already handed a pile of shit right out of the gate.
>>223316118Things will only get worse from here. No point in crying about it.
>>223316209It means less to you. Look at EBT. Do people on EBT think about the people who paid for them to support themselves and treat it with respect? Or to they sell half of their food stamps for drugs and use the rest to buy candy bars? Compare that to people who go to food pantries when they can't make ends meet. They see the workers and the effort that goes in to acquiring the food and treat it with respect. White people intrinsically understand this.
>>223314189>internet in the late 80's/early 90s and that was the best era of the internet>waiting 45 minutes to download a 240p clip of 3 seconds of a Mexican getting donkey spunk shot on her faceNah
>>223315744The doc brings that up too. Perry knows far more than your average facebook tier nostalgia thread
>>223313252FUCK SHITBUSTER AND ANY OF YOU FAGGOTS WHO RENTED FROM THOSE SOULLESS COCKSUCKERS!!!FACT!!!
>>223316240Just because we got chopped steak instead of filet mignon doesn't mean we weren't handed a completely edible meal.
>>223313252Was Home Alone really that big?
>>223316034>>223316118Yep. Imagine showing up to a mall these days, and it's filled with nothing but white people wearing polo shirts.
>>223316280>it takes too long to get my bestiality pornI think your opinion is worth so little I'm not even going to get into what else you're wrong about.
>>223313252I have torrentio and I can stream absolutely anything at any time for like $3 a month. Why the hell would I prefer going to a video store?
>>223316330Because you don't respect anything given to you without putting effort into acquiring it.
>>223313438>Didn't beat it yet? If you wanted to keep playing it, just save the game data and start from where you left offThat only started being possible with disc-based consoles. With carts you’d always leave a save file for someone else to find when they rented it. It’s like Nintendo made a built-in anti-rental scheme.
>>223316362Playstation chads can't stop winning. That was really only ever a problem for nintendo. Games prior to the playstation were generally meant to be beaten in one sitting. And if they weren't, they used passwords.
>>223316317There aren't even any malls left here.
>>223316308It was huge. I remember seeing it as a kid, and it was everywhere
>>223316362I would always erase all the save files just to be a dick.One time I saw one that said "PLS DONT DELETE" and I debated whether to have mercy on the kid, but I went ahead and erased it anyway.
>>2233134961945 to 2001 was the height of western civilization until 9/11 and has been in a downward spiral ever since, as it's been one disaster after another while our governments actively work against us, especially if you're a white straight male, who they want to replace with third world trash that has infested our civilization and are subhumans not interested in creating a new way of life for themselves and future generations but to simply turn wherever they go into a new version of whatever shithole they come from with Canada being a perfect example as you can see from the attached picture of me and my Wife on Corpse Mountain, formerly Toronto Island...https://youtu.be/mWQf13B8epw?si=s_ijlMhZOAH0uhvc!!!FACT!!!
>>223313284>blockbuster>rents it but it's always sold out>netflix >doesn't offer it at allcan't decide which one's worse
>>223313252No, we seriously fucking don't.
>>223313715>animals in nature don't have to work to live
>>223314530>NAFTA in 1994 and permanently normalizing trade relations with China in 2000. That was the real beginning of the end. Boomers sold us out for Walmarts full of cheap chink shit.100% this!!!FACT!!!
>>223316540Animals live to work. I work to live.
>>223313305I miss finding new kinos by flipping through the covers.On that note, over here across the pond, rental stores would put the paper covers in plexiglass sheets and you'd bring that to the counter and then get the box, was that a thing in the us as well? Or did you go through the movie boxes?
>>223316567We kept store branded boxes with the movies in them behind the actual covers so we'd know when a movie was available or not. Your way seems more inconvenient for the customer or the worker, depending on how you do it.
>>223316562Sorry you have to flip burgers and throw trash bags in the dumpster, man. Sucks you weren't born an animal that has to dodge deadly predators hunting your flesh all day.
>>223316602Guess you've never heard that boomerism before.
>>223316562>Animals live to work. I work to live.Animals live so that they can work? What antiwork mod did you hear that nonsense slogan from?
>>223316630>What antiwork mod did you hear that nonsense slogan from?Any boomer that's ever owned a boat.
>>223313677those are some dirty wops and eastern euro kikes at the beginning
>>223316567Independent stores would put the cardboard VHS sleeve in a hard plastic case or more usually, shrink wrapped with styrofoam inside it. You'd take it to the counter and they're get the actual tape from a rack and mark the shelf display as checked out with a bookmark or paper clip on a rubber band when they put it back on the shelf.Blockbuster and other chains could absorb loss more readily and just put the available copies behind the shelf display so you could instantly grab it. It was faster to do it that way
>>223316518stfu zoom zoom
>>223316352Its not a big deal
>>223313459oh shit 805 baby what's up
>>223316583They'd have boxes with these plexi sheets, categorized by genre and "new releases" and such. For new and "hot" releases the most common setup was to have a single sheet correspond to a single copy. They had a code on top to differentiate them. So if that particular store had 10 copies of Jumanji, you'd have 10 plexi sheets with Jumanji. You'd pick one, and once you got the movie, they'd keep the sheet behind the counter so now there's 9 sheets in the store. For older releases, some stores put a “rented” indicator on the plexis. Or, better yet, some stores simply removed the sheet when the last copy went out. Or both. Man as I'm typing this I can smell the video store, going in, looking at the various movie paraphernalia (they usually sold posters and action figures as well), going through the movie sheets,the movie artwork, the tapping sound of the plexiglass, ...
>>223313409>UHD Blurays are the last physical media.FOR NOW. You think time is your ally? You merely count the hours. I was shaped by them—each second another stone laid upon my back, until waiting became strength. The clock does not rescue you. It only measures how long you have left.When Blockbuster is ashes, you have my permission to collect.
None of you would survive if you went back to the era of Blockbuster. You’d all kill yourselves like little pussies.
>>223315165do you spend a single second per day NOT seething about "boomers"? honest question
>>223313308name the show. i don’t believe you.
>>223316800Nothing is a big deal to you because everything became easy to obtain with little effort. You're one of the beautiful ones in the mouse utopia experiment.>>223316809That seems needlessly complicated. Even at the local store we had semi-opaque cases behind retail cases so you could see what was available and what was checked out. That was the early 90s. Some of the gas station ones did something similar to yours but nothing beats that first method.
>>223313252>>223313498all those movies would have to be locked behind plexiglass now
>>223315215>>223315421>Nostalgic for the 2008 crash eraMainly for us early zoomzooms who weren't paying attention to the political and economic turmoil at the time.It's funny to look back on it now or even watch commercials from that time that I remember and noticing the way companies were trying to get people to buy because of the recession. Same as it ever was.
Back then they had to make movies that people would>pay to see in the theater>pay to purchase or rent on VHS>watch on TV with adsNow they just make movies to fill a catalog on some shitty streaming service.
>>223316905It's kind of crazy how certified schlock from the 80s and 90s is somehow better than large studio releases are today. I often lament the death of the corny comedy because we don't have anything like that in today's world. Stupid shit like coneheads puts anything made by seth rogen to shame.
>>223313252These were unironically the glory days
>>223316299>Continuing the food analogyI'm assuming you're either a late gen x'er or early millennial. You're probably one of the lucky ones that squeaked by or you came from a wealthy family/had connections. You are the exception. Not the rule.
>>223313277Only thing I hated was getting hit by forgot to rewind fee
>>223316858It was done this way to save space, I guess. If displays had the actual tape inventory behind them they would need huge displays to do it.
>>223313322It's like pottery
>>223317021Bro, how can you look around at today's world and not see how much shittier it has become? There is zero hope for a better future. We're fucking cooked as a society. At least we got to grow up in a functional white society. Anyone born after 2000 has no fucking chance.
>>223314530>NAFTA in 1994You are a russian troll.
>>223316824>AI slopThis thread is being worked on by the glavset.
>>223317078Nafta destroyed america's production base and caused wages to completely stagnate. How the fuck are americans supposed to compete with mexicans who have a much cheaper standard of living than we have? I know you love to suck clinton's dick but that was undoubtedly a bad deal for our country.
1896 was kinda cool
>>223317093NAFTA increased american exports by nearly 400%, allowed the american automotive industry to become the first in the world and skyrocketed foreign investment. You suck at this, Alenka, go join the SMO. Goddamn AIDS-ridden krokodil fiend. I'm going to watch you die screaming for your mother in a drone video.Goddamn asiatic subhuman.
>>223317151Yeah, just look at the strong production base we have now. You can bandy about retarded figures all you want but my eyes can see that you're full of shit. How much you want to bet those exports are to mexico and canada so they can produce the products made with them instead of producing it here.
>>223313252My mom would drop me off while she went grocery shopping next door.Got to pick out my games and movies, no one batted an eye about a kid doing that back then.All that free pop corn.
>>223313616It wasn't always slop you know
>>223313252How many rewinders did you own? How many late nite drives did you make to avoid late fees (granted when there weren't riff raff gangbangers holding up the road, air/wind were nice, gas was cheap). Touching stuff a lot of ppl had smeared crap on is gross.
>>223317151>NAFTA increased american exports by nearly 400%Some industries benefited, but the working class was gutted because factories went overseas.
>>223317172A lot of those manufacturing jobs were also replaced with service industry jobs. I specifically remember this because I was in high school at the time and this was sold to us as a good thing.>you don't want to work in an icky gross factory, do you?>wouldn't you rather have someone in another country doing that so you can work in a store or a restaurant?>that's why switching from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy is a good thing!
>>223317457We could've done both but we sold our manufacturing industry down the river. With everything so globally connected it sure feels great to have to compete with the entire world to make a living. No other country has to do that except us. Every other country protects its domestic industry. Not us.
>>223317076That wasn't the argument I was making. I agree with you that shit has gotten worse. The point I was trying to make was unless you were already out of the gate by 2008 you were already fucked anyway. By the end of that year we had the Global Financial Crisis and a black president. It was already over for most millennials by that point.
>>223313252Blockbuster was absolute fucking SHIT.Who's making these threads? It can't be anyone who was old enough to have actually been to a blockbuster.t, gen x.
>>223317627If that's over then what do you call life for zoomers? We are at least old enough to see how good things could be. Zoomers have no frame of reference for the kind of shit sandwich they're being made to eat. It's almost worse in a way to see how good things could be and know you'll never get it. But their generation has some serious problems as a result that we didn't get as well.
>VHSPlebian.
>>2233134962007 was when social media launched and iphones came out, it's when women started using the internet.It was when clown world officially started.And then in 2008 the GFC happened.2008 was an awful time.
>>223316873Well. It was the last time I had a gf....
>>223316540He didn't say that.Work =/= pay.
hunter-gatherer societies were peak humanity
>>223317891for me it was the Akkadian Empire beforenit fell
>>223317812Zoomers are fucked worse than us but they have the advantage of not knowing how fucked they truly are. You said it yourself, when you have no frame of reference for a shit sandwich you'll gladly sit there and eat it.
>>223313252>NiggerbusterThe franchise filth that bought out every independent video store. And then closed them.No.Kill them.Don't pretend they were ever good.
>>223318018>The franchise filth that bought out every independent video store. And then closed them.You retards are morons
you aren't nostalgic for renting, you're nostalgic for being a child.
