So let me get this straight.People back then had to drive all the way to Blockbuster just to go rent a video game for a couple days, hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted trip, then drive all the way back to return the game to Blockbuster? And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now which is instantaneous without even have to move from your chair?
>>733576657You wouldn't get it, zoomie.
>>733576657I never used groceries delivery>in 30 years OP will create a thread about ordering bananas using his implanted chip
The intentionality you put into it is what made it feel more special than it really was. Almost like doing a ritual or something.
>ZoomZooms will NEVER experience Friday nights after school where Mom takes you to Blockbuster for 1 Movie, 1 Game and 1 snack
>>733576657There were blockbusters everywhere so if you went shopping there would be one next to the grocery store. Personally I barely went to blockbuster as a kid. I rented anime there with my brother once. Rented a few N64 games etc. Also if you rented a game and brought it back you could buy it if you wanted to. I have a few N64 carts with blockbuster stickers on them.
It was a great system. I always wanted to work for a Blockbuster because I like movies and vidya. Sadly, there are no Blockbusters anymore.
>>733576657I don't care if it sounds stupid, it was special. It was a time when the entire family got something they wanted. Mom and Dad picked movies, me and my brother got some games. We went home and all watched the movies together and me and my brother would take turns on our rental games on the N64.
alphoomers don't even play games anymore they just watch youtubers
>>733576657most people didnt have internet and gaming magazines were even more paid shills than gaming (((journalists))) are todaythe only way to find out if a game is good is to buy it(crapshoot) see it at a friends place or something, or rent itit sounds dumb but this shit saved me a ton of my pocket money let me tell you
>>733576808this pretty much, it was also a social thing. You went with your friends or parents and argued about what to get. Also I think blockbuster didn't have to deal with the rights issues that modern streaming services deal with so as long as a movie was on dvd you were probably going to find it there.
>>733576657Also, all of them used the same industrial carpet cleaner that had a distinct smell. Back then, the only information you may have about a game was 4, 1"x1" pictures on the box.
>>733576657I remember renting the Digimon Movie VHS from blockbuster and getting jumpscared by that Angela Anaconda shit. Made me so mad thinking they put the wrong VHS in the rental case
>go to blockbuster>see what new games and movies are out>employees I know by name tell me which movies and games are good>chat about the last movies and games I rented and that new limp bizkit album that just came outI miss those days, everything is so soulless now.
>>733577227lmao
>>733576657not to mention if you returned it a second late they would give you massive (for the time) fees. but of course it happened in their childhood so it was good!my favorite era of blockbuster was when it was closing down and all the dvds were being sold at $1-$5
>>733577403The price of convenience.Just ordering anything you could possibly want from amazon or ebay or alternative is incredibly easy, quick, cheaper and you can find pretty much anything. So by all accounts, it is superior.But it sucks ALL the SOUL out of everything. Same with many other things. It's interesting, I wonder if the endgame is going to be living in those matrix pods.
>>733577678"Lol brooooo why didnt the wizards just use magic to do everything for them? why make the dishbrush do the dishes instead of just wishing them clean?"soul. whimsy. humanity.
>>733576657Scarcity created excitement. It could factor into the enjoyment you got when playing it, like you're part of a prestigious club experiencing kino. You also never walked away empty handed, you'd just try something else. It made each experience memorable.Nowadays with infinite media at your fingertips just seconds away, peoples dopamine receptors are fried.
>you'll own nothing and you'll be happy ):<>you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, 1990s:O
>>733576951This. My Blockbuster was next to K-Mart, like literally inside the same parking lot, so whenever we went out for our weekly grocery shopping, we'd always stop by Blockbuster to pick something out for the weekend. It was never go to blockbuster specifically, it was "Hey we're already at K-Mart, may as well get something at Blockbuster"
>>733576657A whole lot of nostalgia is not for "shit that was better back in the day". It's for: "I remember doing this when I had no problems in the entire world and feeling happy with my life". People are nostalgic for video game rentals, not because they drove down there themselves and a great deal, but because they begged their dad to rent a game which they then played 48 hours straight over the weekend and told all their friends in school about on monday. People are not nostalgic for Vanilla WoW because it was a better game, vanilla fucking sucked. But you were 14 and played it with your mates. I watched the first pokemon movie when I was like 9, and always remembered it as a really good, really beautiful meaningful movie. Re-watched it some 20 years later: Turns out that shit sucked massive amounts of ass. So it's just a combo of kids being more easily impressed, and missing a time where you had zero worries about money, about life, about the fact that you just jerked off for the 12th time today and you're losing control of your life.
>>733577779>You also never walked away empty handed, you'd just try something elseI can't begin to tell you how many fun games I discovered because they didn't have what I was really looking for at the time.I think the loss of this experience is what killed the AA game industry.
>>733578058>you just jerked off for the 12th time todayhow the fuck do you avoid getting friction burn.I jerk off twice in a day and my circumcision scar hurts so bad I need to take a week off.
>>733577779>Scarcity created excitementOr it could be a complete gamble altogether.>Get game>expect it to be in there as intended>get completely something else insteadPicked up a Majora's Mask box. Had a Conker's Bad Fur Day cart in it instead kek.
>>733576657aa with all nostalgia, they're just associating shitty things (blockbuster) with a happier time (worryless child), so they believe if the shitty thing came back their life would be good again
>>733577678Yep, a big part of the shift in ny area was the 08 crash killing off local shops that were hanging on and even if that didn't do them in the demographic shifts and corporatization of everything hollowing any sense of local community would've ensured their demise.
>>733578063>I can't begin to tell you how many fun games I discovered because they didn't have what I was really looking for at the time.I got into entirely new genres I otherwise would've never tried because of this.
>>733578058>you just jerked off for the 12th time todayI wish, I've tapped out every single fetish I have. It's actually over.
>>733578058>>733578137>>733579720>Write a long-ish post about the human nature and nostalgia>Anons only focus on the jerking off part.Never change.
>>733579720how do you tap out a fetish?I have 3 or 4 and I find if I keep them in rotation I dont have a problem jerkingo ff.
>>733579969>Anons only focus on the jerking off part.>Never change.well yeah it's the only part i disagreed with. why would I write a post just to say "yeah i agree"
>>733579969Because the rest of the post is zoomer cope trying to pretend to have lived back then so he looks qualified to give his retarded “NEW GOOD ENOUGH OLD BAD” opinion. Zoomies just can’t admit they live in the decline of culture.
>>733579969anything about nostalgia is just worthless trash that's been posted here a thousand times.
>>733576657 ive never actually rented a game from blockbuster, only movies. I did however buy a bunch of games when our local blockbuster was closing down
>>733578137I can easily go 7 or 8 times a day, but I'm not circumcised. My mother made sure to keep me intact, sorry yours didn't.
Zoomers cannot countenance existing 100% mentally and physically within the real world even for a moment.It was so good...
>>733576657People being nostalgic for soulless corporations like this is fucking insane. Yeah, I grew up before the internet too, but if this is what you're nostalgic for, what a dreadful childhood you must've had.It's not even about a local video store, but a fucking Blockbuster.
>>733578058I watched the first Pokémon movie in the cinema too as a kid. It released here in 2000. I was like 9 or 10 years old.I distinctly remember going with a group of friends -- we all thought it kinda sucked ass... it was just random Pokémon crap happening (literally like some Simpsons skit about Japanese TV) while some B-plot played intermittently about Mewtwo and genetic engineering and how Pikachu and Ash's bond was actually somehow, just by pure metaphysical presentness, superior to Mewtwo's factually & literally superior, genetically-encoded biological-walking-weapon gene status; or, like, some shit like that. We thought it fucking sucked but the free card promo (Ancient Mew) from the ticket office was cool. They gave us like three each. I gave two away at school and kept one. I still have it
>>733582435It was alright. It was Pokémon on the big screen! I guess I wasn't the target audience as I was 24.
>>733582315>little Timmy can only view aspects of his childhood from a "capitalism bad!" lensSad!
>>733582718You must be in your 50's now.
>>733576805>implying zoomtards will NOT be able to afford fruit or real food in 30 years and that's a good thing
>>733582870I'm 50 now, yes.
>>733576657>oh no this one game I wanted isn't here>browse the 60 other games>pick one
>>733576657>
>>733576808>it was shit and that's why we liked itlotta "uphill both ways" energy from this post
>>733576657It's easy to finish a video game in a week when you aren't watching TikToks instead.
>>733582984>piss an hour away to find out it sucks>piss a half hour away to go back to the store to return it>adds up to 3 hours of life spent on nothing between going to the store, trying to find what you want, confirming what you want isn't there, settling on something you don't want, confirming that you didn't like what you didn't want, and returning itYes, OP, people are seriously nostalgic for this. For some reason. T. 40+ year old who also never held the nostalgia for this bullshit.
>>733576657>zoomer with no object permanence is confused that things before he was born worked differently than nowMANY such cases. The tragedy of your birth as sub-humans cannot be overstated.
>>733576657no more 'backlogs' for you!
>>733585701sounds like you were too picky as a kid
>>733577147I was the assistant manager for a Blockbuster for a few years. The carpet cleaning was third party and I remember it being a local company. I don't think they used the same company across the US. I do miss sitting there getting paid waiting for them to leave and the floor to dry while reading Shonen Jump at 4am.
>>733576657Lots of games were also weirder/cooler back then. LOADS of small indie dev studios with passionate devs who aware actually gamer chuds. There are likely loads of now LOND dead studios you never heard of it. Let alone games. Like “metal arms” and such. That era since Jews weren’t as deep in yet,game development didn’t need to cost so much. So you got experimental shit,a game being on every console but being a different game on each of them,etc. I miss that era because of how no two games were the same. You noticed it in shooters. You noticed it in action titles. Now everything needs to be call of duty or a hero shooter or a soulslike or have tacked on crafting or “retro” graphics or any of the other over used slop shit.
>>733585701not my fault you were retarded
>>733585701You should remember having other errands to run near the Blockbuster.
>>733585912>>733586108>not willingly eager to eat shit is a flawlol k
>>733576657>People back then had to drive all the way to Blockbuster just to go rent a video game for a couple daysIt's more like your parents were going to rent a movie, so you went along and also got to rent a game. >hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted tripYou walked around and looked at which games they had, and then secondarily which games were available to rent. There would even be some games (usually the expensive games, go figure) that were literally never available to rent because someone always had them checked out (more likely the game was stolen because it only ever seemed to be the $100+ games that were always gone)>then drive all the way back to return the game to Blockbuster? Your parents did this, usually on the way to go get groceries, and sometimes you tagged along. It was kinda fun as a kid to run into the first little set of doors and drop the movies n vidya into the drop off box and then run back while your parents waited in the car. >And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now which is instantaneous without even have to move from your chair?More nostalgic for the entire way that life used to be. Life was so much better back then, everything was slower and simpler. It's definitely more convenient to just buy a game on Steam or pirate it, but everything in the world is so soulless now.
I rented a fair few games but honestly I remember buying some used ones from Gaystop and then going across the street to Blockbuster to rent some Asian flicks like Tomie or Master Swordsman more fondly.Movie + game night was always my jam.
Zoomers literally hate to go outside, holy shit. We should just call it the cattle generation. Or Wall E generation
>>733586382there was no other option at the time you LARPing zoomer retard. No actual 40 year old thinks that video games are better off now than they were then. This is how I know you're either a LARPing zoomoid or actually completely mentally retarded
>>733586474looking people in the eye is a struggle for them
>>733586474>Wall E generationIt literally is. It's even funnier considering how extremely bitter they are against everything both before and after themselves. Thank god they're getting replaced by Gen A.
I liked it, also once you hit 18 you could rent porn vhs. Obviously you would get the most depraved shit imaginable after contemplating your choices for hours and than when arriving at the counter to checkout with your massive boner a young chick would be on shift. Real life.
>>733586382>a kid is supposed to know everything
I wish smartphones and streaming didn't exist, atleast smartphones.
>>733577817You could own it though. If you liked the game you rented they would sell it to you.
You have to realize that vidya cost way more then than it does now.Chrono Trigger ($85 then) would cost $170+ now. A $80 game today equates to $37.So rentals were a huge steal. Especially if it's a game you can beat in a week, like a Mega Man or whatever.
>>733586490he sounds brown. Of course he doesn't understand
>>733576657renting always was for the retarded. I grew up with a tech-savy father, who had only tech-savy friends. growing up with access to literally every game, movie and music in existence during the 90s was heaven. constant LAN-parties, sharing games at school, turning enemies into friends with the power of piracy. life was not only good - it was better than the lives of renters.
>>733576657While the blockbuster is very close, you can't play the game without hardware so driving your nintendo there is the better choice.
>>733578058>A whole lot of nostalgia is not for "shit that was better back in the day". It's for: "I remember doing this when I had no problems in the entire world and feeling happy with my life".Except things were objectively better in the 90s. People were more wealthy, in absolute terms, and racial demographics hadn't been completely destroyed by demographics. You're not going to be able to gaslight those of us who were alive into thinking that current year isn't as ass as it is.
>>733586807Oh also this is why I'd buy magazines with demo disks and play the shit out of them. The value was way different so trying a dozen or so games of varying quality was less common than buying a game and refunding it on steam.
>>733586885yeah man I'm sure you had tons of SNES pirated games around when those were only really sold in Asia and much later in the console's lifeuh huh
>>733586885>translation: I was poor and brown and I thought this was a real SNES
>>733583529I mean you ended up getting snacks and dinner in the same trip so it represented an extra stop at best. Not really that inconvenient.
>>733587145it was also so dad could get beer
>>733586993>>733587070>poorfags consoletards think a snes cost more than a PC back thenlittle zoomies like you are always so cute
>>733586993especially when flash carts mostly came with only a few pre selected games on it. 'Burning' games on a chipped PS1 was much much later than these early ones. On the early chipped PS1s you also had to boot a 'real' game first and then swap and it didn't work a lot of the timetl;dr faggot LARPers going to faggot LARP
>hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted tripPeople would call their local Blockbuster to see if a game is in stock before driving there>then drive all the way back to return the game to Blockbuster?Yeah, it sucked, but worth it if the game was good. People would usually read reviews and look at screenshots / videos before renting games>And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now which is instantaneous without even have to move from your chair?People are nostalgic for the experience of going to a Blockbuster(seeing the game cover, grabbing some snacks with your friends, etcetera), not the luxory of a digital game they can instantly play.
>>733587224>I had every game on a PC before NES and SNES emulation was a thinglmao lolsure you did zoomie
>>733587297my bad then, I thought when I mentioned LAN parties that retards like you would be able to assume that I means non-console games, but I guess I expected to much of you
>>733587297Yeah but "I played SNES when everyone else was on PS1/PS2" doesn't have the same ring as his gay claim.Also my PC is better than his, then AND now. And it was MY PC not my dad's like this gaylord.
Thinking about that time I had my mother drive all over the city across like 10 different video stores looking for a Megaman game that wasn't even released yet.Tell youre parents you love them anons.
>>733587381>means non-console games> literally every game, movie and music in existenceGOAL POSTS THEY ARE A MOVINGMOVING MAYBEemulate a brain, fuckwit
>wasted tripThere were other things to rent, dummy.
>>733587392you were able to affort a PC in the 90s as a kid? how?
>>733587424yeah, I bragged a little to hard there, you got me. renting games was still retarded tho.
>>733576657When you were a kid and had limited income, renting games was a decent compromise. You got to olay enough to satisfy your curiosity, and if you liked the game enough, you could later get during christmas or a birthday.
>>733587471Not being poor is great, you should try it some time. >every game in existence>missed out on Genesis, SNES, PS1, and PS2what a sad cope LOL
>>733576657Rarely. Shit was expensive and the selection was generally poor so it was only sportsgame 1997 and other mainline bullshit unless you had a niche rental. 1990s nostalgia is made of idealized zoomer fabrication for the most part.
>>733587613I still own my childhood SNES and N64 tho, as well as all gameboys up to 3ds.
>>733586490Nothing about my post implied that games were better off now than they were then. What are you even angry about?>>733586817Try again. I bought this when it was new and I was 19, by the way, so this goes for both you and the prior anon.>>733586584Why do you think I'm not speaking from experience? I've had the same thing happen to me several times as well. I'm just pointing out why it's nothing to be nostalgic about, because it's not. It sucked.
>>733585701You could use this logic for anything. Going to see a movie, a concert, some event, a restaurant. Ultimately you’re wasting time anyways.
More choices ironically paralyze people with indecision. Not to mention the convenience of having so much instantaneous entertainment at your disposal has created a ton of ADHD adults who start something, lose interest in the first few minutes, then switch to something else. And this is such a widespread problem streaming services now tailor their content for people who aren't even watching the fucking screen.
>>733576657buy 50 hour gamesrent 10 hour gamesIt wasn't that complicated
>>733577678We have been commoditizedThe purpose now is for you to get from point A to B with as little interaction as possible so you can get back into your house in front of the screen quicklyHuman relationships and community are now considered wasted timeI hate this
Tbh my life was so boring back then. I remember being so bored all the time that a trip to my local video rental to eat overpriced stale counter popcorn and look at the cases of the 80 copies of madden was a break from it.
blockbuster was 2 blocks from my house, I'd ride my bike to it with my friends
>>733576657Or walk to one of the many mom n pop rental places that were everywhere. Or sometimes corner stores had a rack of movies and games
>>733587847there is nothing better than gluing thirdies in front of a screen, because that means they are less likely to rape and kill your kids.
>>733576657Going out to do something will always be more meaningful than having it instantly done in your house with no effort. It was not more practical or efficient, or faster, but it was more of an activity. In the past doing most things was an activity, you lived life more.
>>733587990skill issue
>>733576657>hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted tripIt was very rare you would go and get a specific game, usually you'd go and get any game that looked cool.
>>733578058Midwits who spout this shit need to be fucking strangledNo, things aren't "better now" just because you get publicly congratulated for getting fucked in the ass and 30 years ago only Sir Elton John could do thatEveryone says "Things were better when I was a kid" and everyone is correct because a civilizational high water mark was 1945 and it was all downhill afterwards.There was a similar but smaller euphoria in 1989 at the End of History.Hell, for my point, take the OPPOSITE of nostalgia - looking forward. People who grew up watching The Day the Earth Stood Still ended up watching Alien and Star Wars and going "Wow, imagine how good movies will look someday" and now movies look like shit compared to Alien and Star Wars.People watched Captain Picard and genuinely fantasized that some day we'd be colonizing the universe, free of ignorance and racism and poverty, and there is not a single motherfucker on earth who actually believes this anymore, including the people who now make Star Trek.
>>733577227Did your parents also get divorced?
you could make a phone call to see if they had what you wanted and a human would actually answer the phone
>>733576657Yes. And I stubbornly continued going to my local blockbuster every weekend until they finally closed down, around 2012. My Friday night routine in high school and part of college was to stop by blockbuster, get a game and a movie, stop by this Chinese takeout next door and get general tsos chicken with pork fried rice, then stop by the winn Dixie next door to that and grab a two liter of orange soda (beer when I was old enough to buy it). At some point in this, I had a girlfriend too and that was our typical date night.
>>733588153renting entertainment was never a good thing, it was absolutely awful no matter how you look at it. it was an exclusively american suburban middle-class thing that parents did to shut their retarded kids up because there was no single form of entertainment for humans in their hellhole in a 50 miles radius.
>>733588371that's just autism, anon. you have autism.
>>733587719nice hand :D
Socrates talked this shitOn an unrelated note, Athens was conquered in the Peloponnesian War shortly before Socrates died and never recovered, to the extent that it's still only remembered for being a world power two and a half millennia ago
>>733576657not having everything made anything worth something.
>>733576657One day, even your limp wristed, estrogen addled ass, will see a younger generation getting instant gratification for something you had to put in (a relatively tiny amount) of effort for. You will look back on your gay zoomer hobbies with fondness, and cringe at how the nu-kids are doing things. It happens to us all. Even if you think some of the shit your peers are into is awful now. Trust me, it will get so much worse. Even the shit you detest the most will seem favorable by comparison to what comes next. Same as it ever was.
>>733576657wow
>>733577678Renting even working as incentive to not be a little shit to your parents for a week.I also enjoyed actually buying books and magazines, not reading them on a fucking tablet. Everything is so fucking soulless right now.
>>733576657No you just bought the game from the discount bin at Staples while picking up paper and ink and maybe a 128GB flash drive in the later years, rentards and consoletards in general were always consumer whore goycattle
>>733576657Yes, because it saved a lot of money on buying games. It was great to rent something for $5, beat it in a weekend, and cross it off the list instead of paying $60.
>>733576657I mostly rented from Video Factory. Only rarely rented from blockbuster UNTIL 1995 when I won my store's 12 and up SNES championship which game me 2 free rentals a month for a year. I ended up wasting quite a few of those though as I went to college in a few months and discovered the Internet so spent a lot less time playing console games as I discovered the world of MUDs
boomers owned nothing and were happy...
>>733576657uhh yes chud worshipping corporations that killed independent rental stores and owning nothing is based and trad actually
>>733578058alone that you had to go outside to do stuff and meet your nerd friends without tech was superior to today were everyone is miserablly glued to their phones and addicted to tik tok and optimized entertainment(tm).you could go spontaneously to friends and play mario cart all evening. other friends would just appear.also, the internet and real life were seperate as they should be.(games were objectively better then, though)
Renting was fun because it was like demos. Try before you buy. Yeah, it costed like 5 bucks for a week. But that was fine given you could find underappreciated gems.
>>733587990I never get people on 4chan of all places saying this crap lmao
>>733576657Just call them and ask if it was in stock if you want something specific. But 99% of the time, you go in aimless and just pick up a few "I heard this was good" games/movies.
>>733588796You can still buy books and magazines? Id say that's the most eternal media. Discount books and small book shops are still around and will be for a very long time.
>>733576657Renting games was something only lower-middle class people who bought their kids consoles on credit did.
>>733576657Personally I just miss being younger and happier.
>>733582315You can tell millenails from genX because GenX has nostalgia for their local mom and pop or regional chain like Video Factory, while millenials grew up in the Blockbuster/Hollywood duopoly.That's another weird thing, it seems like Hollywood Video (Blockbuster's main competitor) has been entirely memoryholed. You hardly ever hear people talk about Hollywood, and even they were better than blockbuster.
>>733587179uhhh yeah sure whatever man
>>733588674They already do this. Zoomers are nostalgic for the brown and bloom era of shooters with regenerating health.
>>733589250Idk i had a family video close to our house, so we went there. Hollywood video was good just because it had a game shop attached.
>>733576657I pity the younger generations that will never know the joys of not having to buy every single game they want to play. Especially when it's a single player game that's only about 10 hours long. Going with your family to pick out some movies and a game for a weekend was a genuine highlight of the week.
>>733589363yeah poor usoh wait we can pirate anything hahahaha
>>733586387What you actually miss is living in a supermajority of your own people.Everything you are nostalgic for is about America being 80% White, not 56%.
>>733589417I was pirating shit through irc
>>733589250For me it was Blockbuster and Mr. Movies. Hollywood Video and Family Video both sucked ass. The former never had anything and the latter had dogshit return policies (the last time I went to one in college about 15 years ago, they instituted $25 rental deposits that you'd get back on returned games and movies, absolutely never went back after that).
>>733589417Pirating is for poor fags. I dont want to wait an hour plus for a dodgy installer and bother with mounting virtual cds.
Yes Zoomie, internet speed back then wasn't as fast as it is today
>>733587381Console piracy wasn't really a thing in America before the PS1. SNES emulation didn't really become playable until the Windows 98 era, so emulation would have always been a generation behind.
>be 45>everything is online now>but online is mostly bots now, social media is shit, internet is centralized around a few dozen websites>most grocery stores are chain stores with the exact same stuff inside>every shopping centre is the same chain stores, same clothing stores, same chinesium stores, same electronics stores>indepentent stores mostly don't exist>everything needs an app to worki honestly got irritated just whiletyping this out and i still had like twice as much to list, but for what purpose? i was born in 83 and fucking hate corporate capitalism, everything is fucking soulless now, designed to get as much of your money as possible before it collapses and a new service takes it's place. everything fucking sucks
>>733587471it's called having parents that loved you enough to buy one for you. plus parents could be sold on a PC as being for more than just gaming. Dad could do the family taxes and budget on it. Mom could write letters for her charitable organizations. In addition to playing games you could play around in BASIC and learn about programming and potentially train yourself for a future "career in computers".
>>733589462That's definitely part of it. I went back to one of the malls I used to go to in high school and literally everyone was some shade of brown, which was really weird because last time I went there it was all white people. Most of it is that life was better in the pre-internet or early-internet days. Everything has so much more soul. It might sound inconvenient to zoomers that we had to drive to Blockbuster, pay $5 (and I think eventually $8 and $10) to rent a game, and then drive back to return it, but there was so much more soul in that then just pirating the game and playing it on your PC without ever leaving the house. Everything just moves way too fast now, nothing matters, there's no soul in anything. Even just look at McDonald's. McDonald's used to look "fun" back then, nowadays it looks as grey and corporate and soulless as anything else. It's actually a great representation of just the overall "vibe" and atmosphere of back then vs now.
>>733577948You did grocery shopping at K-Mart? Fucking K-Mart of all places? I didn't even know they sold groceries, I only remember them having clothes.
>>733587675I rarely ran into "out of stock" problems at blockbuster unless I wanted to get Brand New Game On Release Day. There were plenty of things other than Sports Game Current Year to rent in the 1990s.
>>733587950also:buy games with battery savesrent games with password saves
>>733576657Nostalgiafags are a bit retarded, please understand. People back then also didn't really have many resources available to figure out if something was good, so often times you ended up with complete trash.
>>7335897271997/1998 was fucking insaneIn the span of a year you saw>Nesticle>ZSNES>Genecyst>Bleem>UltraHLE>No$GMBThe entire console industry broken open overnight
>>733588536>Socrates talked this shitAnd he was right. You fucking idiot, Athens/Greece was completely going to shit throughout his lifetime and hasn't fully recovered in the thousands of years since. >On an unrelated note, Athens was conquered in the Peloponnesian War shortly before Socrates died and never recoveredGood thing that I kept reading, huh?
>>733589250>You can tell millenails from genX because GenX has nostalgia for their local mom and pop or regional chain like Video Factory, while millenials grew up in the Blockbuster/Hollywood duopoly.I'm a millennial, and I have nostalgia for the local video store ("movies n video"), but sometime around when I was in highschool I think, we either moved or it went under, so we went to Blockbuster until that went out of business, then Family Video until that died out too. I still participate in "Blockbuster" discussion, because I'm not pedantic about insisting that the store near me growing up that no one else even knows about was the best one.
>>733587294>People would call their local Blockbuster to see if a game is in stock before driving thereThose fags would always justyell at me when I asked if they hadBattletoads.
>>733587950>parents let you rent games almost every weekend>binge the games nonstop all weekend and during the week after school>learned to do my "homework" while I was still at school so I could play more vidya >beat every game I rented during the rental window>asked for my favorites for my birthday or christmasThe real priority for games to buy was buying multiplayer games, because you can play those with friends or siblings. Anything else, you can just beat in the rental window, so you only buy those if you really liked them and wanted to play them again.
>>733576657I can't wait for the Internet to go dark and watch all zoomies commit mass sudoku because access to instant entertainemnt and same-day food deliveries have rotted their basic hunter-gatherer instincts.
>>733590226>>733589250>>733589526>>733589346There's really one key difference between Blockbuster and the real niggasThe forbidden zone
>>733578137Skill issue. I'm a cutfag and I can get off 4-6 times on occasion. The extra grip actually makes it easier.
>>733589321Fucking horrible
>>733576657>Instant access to anything you could ever wantHonestly kind of an issue really. Things feel more meaningful when you can't just have instant access to every game you may wanna play. You can get entire libraries of games now especially via things like emulation and then not actually play any of them because there's no meaning attached to any of it. It's all digital and it won't go anywhere. You'll always have it, so what's the point in choosing when you can just maybe get to it later. No, having to go to a place and pick a thing made the experience more worthwhile. It was about the brief journey to getting the game you wanted, not just getting the game itself.
Something about the process of going out, buying a physical game (or even a toy), and returning home with it to play has some sort of psychological reward effect that I don't have the book smarts to explain. Nostalgia runs deeper than what you see. It's never just about the product or service itself, otherwise those bad games we liked as a kid would have held up.
>>733590424I have family members, both older and younger, who fucking wither when there's an hour long internet outageIt's always baffled me, not because I'm a gigachad grass toucher, but because I grew up with Earthlink DSL so I ended up accumulating a massive pile of .avi, .mp3, .epub, NoCDs, ROMs, all the shit you need when your internet doesn't work 50% of the fucking time. If the internet disappeared tomorrow I'd probably be fine for a decade.I think I once had a three day internet outage when I was a kid and I spent the entire time running around Vice City hitting every black person I saw with the police baton, laughing maniacally
>>733578058More than this, it's also being nostalgic for a time when all of this was still new. We grew up when video games were still a new thing that hadn't been corrupted yet. Same thing with WoW. That was still during the early eras of MMOs, and WoW was the first truly huge MMO that even normies knew about, and autists hadn't optimized the fun out of it yet, and everyone who played was still retarded. You are definitely partially correct, but there is something specific about the immediate pre-internet and early-internet era where literally everything was brand new *AND* we were kids. Nowadays, I don't know what the fuck zoomers are even supposed to have nostalgia for. Do they have nostalgia for Minecraft? Do they have nostalgia for Fortnite? Do they have nostalgia for Robolox? Do they have nostalgia for "67"? What the fuck is a zoomer even supposed to attach to in order to miss? Everything is so fleeting and is over as soon as it begins.
>>733576657>Game you were initially going to get is out of stock>Grab a random game that looks interesting off the shelf>Worst case scenario you return it after a couple days>Best case scenario you find a new favorite, a hidden gem
>>733576657This seems like a good enough thread to ask, but what the fuck are we calling gen alpha? Zoomers probably aren't the ones massively shitting up the internet at this point and I don't think gen alpha has a good insult name. I've just been calling them ipad kids but I dunno if it's got the same pizzazz.
>>733582909>in 30 years OP will create a thread about ordering 3D printed bananas using his implanted chip
>>733590556I think that only existed in more urban video stores. Family friendly suburbs didn't have that... or maybe my parents just never went to THOSE video stores.
>>733590556I can't remember if my local store had this or not. I was just too young. I do remember that there was a sort of walled off section that I never went to though, but I also had no interest in anything except the game section.
"Nah, you were just a kid" niggers will look at you with a straight face and tell you that this is all equal, nothing has fallen off at all
>>733590678>>733590676there is a psychological component to it; that's how humans are wired.
>>733576805I've never used grocery delivery or pick up apps. The most I've done is use a mobile app to order ahead for my goyslop so I can walk in and pick it up.
>>733591210>Everything Everywhere All At OnceThis might be the most incorrectly shilled moved since Brokeback Mountain, and that's saying something.
>>733591210>the last good movie was nineteen years agozamn
>>733591413Explain.
Reminder game pass lets you rent an entire library of games.But this is le bad because you dont le own the games.Like retards forget what renting is.Ignoring the fact that the bigger issue whit game pass is that it affect's sales and makes good games look like they are failures because they sold less copies.Like for instance Why the fuck would i buy Ninja Gaiden 4 or the new Doom game or Indiana Jones etc for 70$ each when i can sub to game pass for around 10$(its around 10$ in my country) and finish all 3 in a month.
>>733591413It's part of a new genre called "better than average movie" where it only gets hyped to death because everything else that year sucked shit and won because the only good ones were what the Academy hates to nominate like horror.
>>733591535>>733591575It's a piece of shit, just like Brokeback Mountain was, but they both got extremely shilled. Brokeback Mountain was obviously homosexual propaganda, and I think EEAAO might be Chinese propaganda.
>>733591575Or anything animated.
>>733591615>>733591413Thanks for reminding me Brokeback Mountain existsIt will always be one of my favorite Blockbuster memories because my grandfather thought it was literally just a cowboy movie and he was SO fucking mad that he turned it off, called the wagie and cursed them out
>instantaneous Games today are anything but.You used to go to the store, buy the game, come home, put it in, and play the game. Maybe you read the manual on the way home. That's it.No installs, no updates, no patches, no service outages, no bugs, no scams, no bullshit.You bought the game, for a single price, one time, and you went home, and you played the game you got.And it was never revoked from your ability to play it, the game never received balance or content changes to completely rework the game you already purchased and enjoy.It just worked. The first time.Today I might wait 6 months after a game releases and it's not even finished, and will take me 12 hours to download and install after I make sure to delete 1 other 5TB game from my state of the art machine that's required to play some shit slop cashgrab bullshit.
>>733591615>all of those husbands and boyfriends I had to watch rent that shit as I rang up their rents because their wives and girlfriends made them>"Hey man, so how is this movie">I don't know; I'm not into gay romance so I took a pass>watch their faces droop and their girl's brightenman, that shit was funny but I'm glad I don't work retail like I did when i was young. I think saying what I did then nowadays gets you fired instantly. I also enjoyed the Christian freakout over Passion of the Christ. Had pickets outside and everything. They put fliers behind the boxes
>>733591876>Today I might wait 6 months after a game releases and it's not even finished
>>733591876>after I make sure to delete 1 other 5TB game from my state of the art machine that's required to play some shit slop cashgrab bullshit.It is quickly becoming real life hyperbole that every modern game is over 100 gigs while storage prices are steadily increasing.
>>733591817he knew anonyour grandpa was gay
>>733591876>this was absurd exaggerated gamer humor 30 years ago
>>733592069>oops I rented the gay cowboy movie extremely famous for being gay haha I didn't know how could that happen haha>I paid for it haha better see what all the fuss is about haha it won awards so might as well hahaMANY such cases
>>733592069He got scammed.He devoured every cowboyslop he ever had access to, as if those dumbass hats were his kryptoniteThe real life version of when The Simpsons accidentally rented Paint Your Wagon
>>733591950why would Christians protest a movie about Christ
>>733591413This movie feels like advanced oscarbait.And by advanced I mean I'm sure they were planning on giving it the Oscar before it was even halfway through filiming.I don't hate it, it just tries too hard.
>>733592082It's crazy what passed for video game "humor" back then.
>>733592216>>733591413EEAAO cracks me up because it's somehow exactly like the music video the director did previously and then it hits you that they basically gave him an oscar for thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
>>733592152You shitting on Paint Your Wagon?
>>733592321That explains so fucking much.
>>733592213mixing up Passion and Last Temptation.Last Temptation was the one that got protested. Passion was the one that had church groups lining up to see a graphic torture movie(Christianity is largely about flagellating yourself and feeling guilty over how Jesus suffering was him paying the price for every time you ever jerked off or lied to your parents about doing your homework)
>>733576657my blockbusters was like 200 meters away.
>>733592321Reminds me that Hardcore Henry is basically the same thing as the director's previous music video. Except that movie's fun.
>>733592321wait i'm out of the loop, what is EEAAO about ? i kwno this music video, the music is okay but the video is trying too hard, imo
>>733591817>uncle always brings movies to grandpa>Grandpa likes mexican movies>they rent Almodovar's Bad Education(I know, not mexican but my aunt is kinda not bright) for him>next day, during breakfast,they start complaining about it>Aunt: "I thought it was a normal movie, but it ended up being about *turns her head towards me* Crossdressing Faggots">*everyone gives me mean looks as if it was my fault*And they wonder why I haven't talked to them in over a decade.
>>733592484No, it was Passion. The Gibson one. I don't remember why they were protesting to be honest but I had to tell them to go across the street and stop loitering or I would call the cops. They were across the street all night. Maybe it was Jews being mad, who knows
>>733592598are you a crossdressing faggot?
>>733577678>the soul of consumerism has been taintedHoly shit dude
>>733592521>what is EEAAO about ?An old chink roastie learns that she can jump between universes and starts out by going to ones where she married somebody else/older family members are still alive/etc. but quickly ends up in ones where everyone has three eyes or penises for hands or is constantly kung-fu fighting and the entire thing is filmed like that music video and then at the end it drops a completely sincere and overwrought emotional message on you like a final boss from a Persona game
>>733592321kek that actually makes a lot more sense>>733592521>what is EEAAO about ?It's the kind of thing that sounds like it might be cool, but it's peak retarded in such a way that I swear it's only there to be Chinese propaganda featuring a Chinese family. I don't really know how to explain it. It's like a parallel universe multiverse timeline thing, but it's actually trash because it's only ever about the frayed relationship of the family.
Anno sucks up to Tomino but it must eat him up inside that Eva is better
>>733593001And both of them wish they made VOTOMs.
>>733576657Imagine, just imagine for one second, that they did not what you went there for. "That sucks" you thought so you decide to pick out something else seemingly at random just to discover a hidden gem of a game. You wouldn't get it. I knew you wouldn't. Just try to pretend like you understand just this once.
>>733593148>rent Joe and Mac for the 5th time>still don't beat itmy brother and I were not very good at video games
>>733588016I had two different rental places that were about that far from my house. One of them had biweekly (Tuesdays and Thursdays) "rent one, get one free" sales, while the other ran half-off rentals on Wednesdays and Fridays, and they had variable rental lengths available. My friends and I would routinely walk from one place to the other in search of fun shit to play. The place with the R1G1 was great for trying out random shit. The other one was a godsend for RPGs, since I could rent it for like 10 days for 5 bucks if I rented it during their half-off days.
>>733592738>>733592781gonna be honest anonsthis premise is the same shit i think about when i'm trying to fall asleep. someone made a whole movie out of that and it got an oscar? wild.
>>733592738You can't handle sincerity?
>>733593148OK so right now instead I can pick out one random game out of 50000 that's on sale for $1 on Steam and potentially have the same experience, and I didn't waste time physically going to a store to do it. Got it. How's the old way better, again?
>>733593438Do that with a brand new full-price console release.
Nobody is "nostalgic" for it in the context of preferring we go back to this system without other options like Steam today; its the same reason that nobody says they'd prefer to spend hours downloading a single episode of some grainy fansub and hoping that nobody picked up the damn phone or didn't see the >DONT USE FAX LINE I AM DOWNLOADINGnote put up before you went to bed (yes, I am aware I was lucky and grew up comparatively wealthy in that we had a dedicated line for faxing and dial-up use in the early/mid 90s).Rather, its about appreciating it in the context of the time. Remember this was back in the day that even some horrible movie tie in game was $60-100+ on cartridge, so getting to go to Blockbuster (or another video store) meant a chance to try something out if it was a console game. You didn't want to waste your allowance/birthday/holiday/reward for school performance gift games on something that sucked, but you wanted some variety between those times. Maybe rent something multiplayer if you were having a sleepover with the bros. Maybe get some sort of rare game that looked interesting and discern if it was good or not. Renting a RPG or something else with a battery in in? You either had to hope you could clear it in the 2 days you had for the rental, beg for a re-rental or to keep stuff overdue, or hope that if you rented it again later nobody deleted your save file! Still if something wasn't there, you tried something else that looked interesting..and you only had to go on A) the fucking box art - pic related was for some goddamn reason the US box art for a side scrolling shooter in the manner of R-Type or Gradius B) Stuff you remembered from Nintendo Power or other gaming magazines or online C) recommendations from friends. It gave you the chance to try stuff out or even beat a game that was "not worth buying because you beat it over a long weekend" . I haven't even gotten into the movies or the 'animation' shelf too
>>733593408Someone made a movie that's literally about a chick getting her back blown out by the Creature from the Black Lagoon and it won the Oscar that year because the director tweeted that he really dislikes wypipo
>>733593585>yes, I am aware I was luckygay, kill yourself, your parents worked for that you ungrateful fag
>>733593870What kind of brain damage is this? I know they worked for that, I was lucky to be born into an upper class professional family that could afford such things. If I was born into some ghetto somewhere, the parents there could be working equally as hard but not making nearly as much money. I didn't work for it, I lucked out being born into relative comfort and having good parents that weren't shitty about it. After all, I could have had wealthy but miserly shitbag parents who would ship me off to boarding school and not give a shit about my enjoyment for that matter.
What are you, some hillbilly fuck from the boonies? The rest of us that actually lived in actual civilized society had a blockbuster no less than five minutes from wherever we were.
>>733594081kek I thought >>733593870 overreacted at first but he clocked you, give a land acknowledgement next homo
>>733576657Yeah and sometimes I would splice pictures of my cock into random VHS tapes. I got really into it after seeing fight club
>>733594208Considering how many faggots here seem to have a massive spergout the moment anyone invokes a less shitty childhood then they had, it seemed at least a 50/50 chance of authenticity considering how many seem to want to work through their unresolved childhood trauma by screaming on a yak pelt weaving message board.
>>733590556Sneaking through the curtain and nonchalantly checking out with the burnout behind the register is how I managed to watch >La Blue Girl >Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend
>>733576657Yes. I could just go in and look at what was available and not some algorithm curated list of titles. Also you didn't have a slow as fuck UI making you scroll for 20 minutes to find something decent
>FuncoLand>Blockbuster>Circuit City>Toys R UsFUCK YOUGIVE IT BACK
>>733595213I also hadkb toyzmicroplay
>>733595213I liked Funcoland so much more than Gamestop
>$5 to rent a game for the weekend, pick up some snacks while you're there too, if you like it once your rental's up go to the game store and pick up a copy to keepvs>$80 to "buy" (rent) a digital copy of a game that has a good chance of sucking, don't like it too bad no refunds chudgee, can't imagine why people would miss it
>parents never rented games because they cost more than movies>parents talked about renting SNES when they were younger but refused to rent us an N64Gas all Gen-Xers
>>733593409>hot dog fingers>sincereIt's New Sincerity, if anything. The poisonous nature of Irony is too prevalent.
>>733576657>Blockbuster just to go rent a video game for a couple days, hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted trip, then drive all the way back to return the game to Blockbuster?Things weren't as expensive back then
>>733576657youre actually rightthis is why gamefly was fucking superior
>>733599506people say this but ive recently looked at the price of computers in the 90s and holy shit dude shit was WAY more expensive back then
>>733588153>Hell, for my point, take the OPPOSITE of nostalgia - looking forward.not that anon but fuck bro.we used to be a lot more optimisticIt was a narrow series of windows though.the 50's to the 60's and the 90's to the 2000s maybe.but there was a lot of complicated shit going on then as well.
>>733576657>Hope it was in stockYou could call and ask them to hold it provided it wasn't the release day or something.
>>733576657I miss these popcorn tubs like you wouldn't believe. >Grab a movie and one game>Pick up one of these fuckers>Comfy friday night movie with the parents then off to play the game I rented
Do Anons use GameFly?
>>733601247nobody has used gamefly since 2009
It was family video for me.You go to the rental place, there's a whole selection of games. You pick out a game that looks cool that's also in stock. You have fun with it. If its really good you get it multiple times and even ask your parents to buy it for you. (Games were much much more expensive then, you'd get maybe 3-4 games a year). If the game you want is out, thats an opportunity to try something different/new.
>>733596140Gamestop killed Babbages and Funcoland and replaced them with something objectively inferior.
>>733576657>a couple of daysdad always saw that as awful value so we were only allowed to rent weekly games. any time we got 1 night rental movies we usually dumped them with dvd shrink and kept a copy for later.still have decently good memories getting like halfway into FFX during school holidays before having to return it
I would call my blockbuster to see if they had a game in stockeventually after knowing the people working there, they'd hold a game aside for me if I asked.
>>733593148That's how I played Tomba and eventually Jersey Devil.
>>733576657>people had to interact in the physical world and they were happier???yes, faggot
>>733593148That's how I found Spike McFang. I thought it was gonna be stupid but it was actually pretty kino.
>>733601379It still exists though.
>preorder Independence Day VHS >preorder bonus is a either a cool floating blimp or a ship>they change it last minute to a lenticular "signed" pictureIt was cool tho, it featured the capitol scene but still
>>73357665741 year old boomer here.Blockbusters were everywhere. Driving to one was like driving to grocery store. You stop by on your way home, pick up a move, having a good time, and return it back the next day on your way home from work or something.Video game rentals were pretty expensive at blockbuster. It was something like $5.99 for three days (moves ranged from $1 to $2.99). They had to price them high because people would never return them back. The cost of SNES/Genesis games meant they could only stock 1 or 2 copies of each non sports game max.Eventually they changed the system to be like a monthly subscription where you could check out one game at a time for a one time fee. It just meant popular titles were never in stock. I remember my Blockbuster bought 12 copies of Ocarina of Time for rental and we're checked out 100% of the time.By the time I was old enough to drive and had my own money I stopped using blockbuster and just bought my own games. I don't know anything about the store after 2002.
>>733576657They associate this act with the wonder and excitement they had as kids.I had that experience too, and I'm nostalgic for it - but you are correct, the service today would be objectively horrible compared to digital distribution.
>>733576657correct. though it was the local mom and pop video storefriday night>pick out a movie or two>grab some snacks>get a sega gamelife in the 90's was better and more comfy than anything you nihilistic CUNTY zoomershits will ever understand.
>>733576657>And people are seriously dating and having sex instead of jacking off and cumming instantaneously without even have to move from your chair?
>>733576657Family would go to blockbuster weekly for movies so picking up a game or 2 became a regular thing. Usually on Friday so it had that weekend good feeling when you had a lot of time to play games. Parents would return the movies/games after work or something.Worrying about what was in stock never mattered really there was always something you wanted to play. Yeah a brand new hyped release might be rented out but whatever you can get it next week. Life moved slower it was great.
>>733576657>hope it was even in stockgenerally when i went to blockbuster it wasn't even to rent a specific game, i just looked around until i found a game that looked interesting and rented it.
I can recall thinking during the MLP craze "holy shit" this is stupid and gay. Like beyond stupid and gay. They really managed to take furfaggotry to the next level huh? I shudder to even hypothesize about what higher echelons of gay shit are on the way".What came next absolutely exceeded my expectations of how bad it would get. I fully expect the next five to ten years to do the same.
>>733589321>Zoomers are nostalgic for the brown and bloom era of shooters with regenerating health.they are unironically better than most slop today. there is barely any shootan or single players
>>733589918>everything fucking sucksmight as well enjoy yourself as long as this lasts. the next economic crisis cant come soon enough
>>733591273Ive been rodentmaxxing on Doordash and its ilk by never opening an account but always being around people that do have one and ordering off theirs.
>>733592679The silence is deafening.
>>733583529It wasn't shit at all. Shit is click two buttons to watch modern slop
>>733576657>drive all the way to blockbusterYou know there were loads of them right? It's not like it would be far to go.I do agree thought blockbuster was largely shitter than people realise. Discs would always be scratched, manual not in the case etc.
>>733578137My dick isn't mutilated. I've jerked off nine times in one hour before.
>>733576657>pay paltry sum to play game/watch movie for a few daysor>pay full price for something that might suck cockPlus, it was a family experience going out to pick up a movie to watch for the night
>>733576657back then doing these things were soulthe internet ruined it all
>>733576657Video rental stores were fucking everywhere. My small hometown had one and the gas station across the street also had a video rental section.
>>733576657No, I drove to Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery or whatever small local mom and pop shop there was. Rental stores wee how most people experienced vidya and movies because movies were too expensive for 2 hours of entertainment and vidya was expensive. If physical wasn't dead, this would actually be a good time to bring back rental stores.
>>733578058Obviously nostalgia plays a role, but things were genuinely better. The dollar was stronger, there were less minorities, technological leaps were actually impressive, etc. You zoom zooms were unfortunately born when the western world's decline began to nose dive
>>733576657Blockbuster is the reason how I discovered Star Fox 64 had a secret mode. Rented Star Fox 64 and wondered why Fox was wearing sunglasses like his dad. Based guy whoever you were
zoomers will never know>Saturday mornings mom sends me and my older sister to the laundromat to do the laundry >in return the laundromat is in the basement of the local video store and tanning salon, so I get to rent a game and my sister gets to tan>we load the laundry>spend wash cycle scanning the shelves for something to play while my sister tans>I move the laundry from washer to dryer>usually have something picked out so I browse movies or look at games for consoles I don’t even own>sis gets done tanning just before dryers done so she hands me cash and starts to unload and fold stuff while I check out the rental and her tanning booth>help her finish folding>load the laundry in the back of her car>go to Pizza Hut Saturday buffet goddamn, life peaked in 1998-2001
>>733609114>>go to Pizza Hut Saturday buffetNow there's something I haven't heard off in a very long time.
>>733576657generally you would stop by when already doing something else they were always in large market plaza's so it would be next door or across the street from the grocery store so you could just go in real quick with your parents before you hit the grocery store as a kid.Sucks you're a young faggot living during the worse years of human life, there was no better feeling than hitting up blockbuster on a friday right after school, picking up a cool looking game, grabbing some candy like NERDS or airheads, then heading home to call up your best school friends and see if they're allowed to spend the weekend at your house and play some awesome new game together, then the day after you spend all afternoon in your pool.
>>733608254These stupid fucks also don't realize that was also the golden age of gaming and movies. literally we had back to back fucking god tier games that these little shit heads get tattoo's of still today releasing month after month.
>>733609708>hen heading home to call up your best school friends and see if they're allowed to spend the weekend at your house and play some awesome new game together, then the day after you spend all afternoon in your pool.Eww. Xbox Live/PSN exists for a reason. I don't want you fags over at my house.
>>733610090Gayest post ITT.
>>733576657Yes, and no I’m not nostalgic at all for it. I do wish everyone was White again.
What I miss the most of nostalgia is how everything could co-exist and the people that complained where ignored or told to shut the fuck up.You had the action movies, the smutty movies, romance shit, horror shit all together in perfect harmony, same with games, now its all or nothing aimed at once specific audience that doesn't exist, and somehow someone shipping a complete game is something to be celebrated.Its just celebrating mediocrity, the system worked just fine, end of the day steady profits will trump LINE MUST FOREVER GO UP.
>>733578058I fucking wishI watched some old Xplay and more than anything it reminded me of just how much stuff was releasing at the time, I'd say more than anything that's what helped blockbuster take off. Your parents could not afford to buy the sheer amount of quality vidya and movies, so you had to settle for renting and getting what you likeThen, video games was a hobby. Nowadays the internet is mostly disney adults but for vidya because it has stagnated so much.
>>733604978Explain why watching My Little Pony is supposed to be worse than whichever your favorite anime with little girls is.
>zoomer zoomer zoomerzoomers literally had this. You're talking about alphies
>>733592679Technically, no.
>>733576657>And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now which is instantaneous without even have to move from your chair?its what makes it nostalgic that you have the means to go outside
>>733615074Not just go outside, but you actually had things to look at, this was the time when buildings weren't the same drab and gray commie architecture.
>>733576657yeah and in the bargain bin i picked up dead space and armored core for answer for 4 bucks each and had enough leftover for candy. i remember seeing those foldable things outside advertising for netflix when they'd mail you rented movies and you'd mail them back. simpler times.
>>733609114>laundromatcomfy
>>733582435wasnt ancient mew a promo for the second movie
>>733593409Hollywood can't handle sincerity. The academy can't handle sincerity. This movie can't handle sincerity either. None of that is on me.
>>733617445It was definitely for the first movie. I got one with a VHS copy.
>>733576657I never rented a game since it seemed like a waste of money. Buying a used game wasn't that much more than weekly rentals, especially if you played older games.
>>733608254Have you ever thought that the reason you're miserable is because you're a fucking retarded racist?I bet you aren't even white
>>733617714Used games were not common before 1993-94. You either got your games new at Toys R Us or rented them.
>>733617680It was a promotion card for the pokemon movie 2000 which was the second movie. Maybe it came with the vhs for the first but in theatres dragonite was the promo card for the first film.
>>733617714used games weren't a thing when blockbluster dominated.
Zoomzooms will never know the joy of anticipating a new game you convinced your mom to buy on the long car ride home by reading the manual and getting excited from all the art and cool features you wouldn't know about otherwise inside.
>>733576657Games were $40-$80 ($150 in todays money) depending on the title. You would get four new games max the whole year. Other times you would trade with neighbors, rent, or hit a yard sale.
>>733576657>or else it was a completely wasted tripYou know how many awesome games we found because the latest and greatest POS was checked out? How many times you'd rent some weird thing because you had no other options and it turned out to be the best game you'd ever played?Instant gratification has ruined the market.Things have not gotten better. It's just gotten quicker.
>>733576657I miss going to my local movie/game rental store during friday after school with friends, borrow a game and a movie or two for the weekend then playing coop. Zoomers and alphas will never know that feel.
>>733576657>accidentally wander into the adult section which is right fucking there in the middle of the store>what am i looking at>parents usher me awayWho was renting porn at the blockbuster
>>733576657I for one am not nostalgic for it at all. When Netflix first came around and you could rent movies through the mail for cheap I thought it was so much better. I don't miss brick and mortar stores in general. Only thing I miss about the 90's and early 2000's were people being more sociable and the lack of social media. (And society not being utterly fucked on every level)
>>733618728What blockbusters had porn? My parents basically used blockbuster as a daycare while they smoked outside, I never saw any porn.
>>733619203He's probably thinking about Hollywood Video or something. Direct competitors that had backrooms for all the degens.
>>733619375Hollywood video didn't have backrooms. Generally that was your independent non chain video store in the strip mall in the poorer neighborhood. The video store in the nice neighborhood with good schools didn't have that room.
>>733582909Food was never a human right
>>733577127>Also I think blockbuster didn't have to deal with the rights issues that modern streaming services deal with so as long as a movie was on dvd you were probably going to find it there.Nah the alternative was the usual warnings like "you wouldn't download a car" at the start of every movie. Like anyone with half a brain wasn't already recording them from live broadcasts with or without ads depending on your timer settings. This whole song and dance about piracy is hilarious now when you consider that many companies have industrialized the process at scale thanks to AI. You burning discs at home is small fry shit compared to the wanton theft that happens now with all the arrogance that entails.
>>733576657You didn't go to Blockbuster, you stopped there on the way home from going out to eat on a Friday night. Going out to eat used to be so cheap a middle class family could afford to do it once a week. On the way home you went to Blockbuster and got to rent a movie and a video game. You picked from what was there; you didn't go in with a specific game in mind. As for the movie, my father always picked because he was a movie guy so he always knew what was kino and what wasn't. I attribute my strong appreciation for the classics to him.
>>733617680Nah, that anon is correct. These were the promo cards for the 1st movie. The 2000 movie gave Ancient Mew and one of the three legendary birds.
>>733576657Instantaneous?Fucking lying faggot and I have rich ppl only internet. Stop crying they had it better than you do now, fucker.
>>733618728>Who was renting porn at the blockbusterDirty old men on pension day.
>>733586709Yes...for the price of that game, you didn't get a discount or anything until they needed room so they sold it for like $20
>>733620875once a month go to Showbiz Pizza/Major Magic's and pick up a movie from Blockbuster on the way home.
why do millennials relish in spitefully punching down at zoomers every waking moment of their existence? not even boomers are this blatant in rubbing in everyone's face how much better they had it. very weird obsession. it's like a guy who hates his boss and then goes home and takes it out on his kids
>>733619375>Direct competitors that had backrooms for all the degens.Real men will use sleazy hotels for their private goon seshs all paid for from taxpayer dollars of course. When the wife is aggro, your mistress is oncall and you've nothing better to do between meetings.
>>733586709>I was the only person renting Mystic Heroes from my local Family Video>After the tenth time I rented it, one of the clerks just spotted the purchase price, cleaned the disk one last time, and gave it to me
>>733588309kek
>>733586709>You could own it though. If you liked the game you rented they would sell it to you.If they were too jewish to sell it outright they would occasionally keep it aside if they knew you were coming in. I kept the PS1 shelf at the local rental relevant while everyone else was moving towards PS2 and Xbox Heug. Did a similar thing with gaming mags at the library because nobody else was reading them.
>>733621236Some of it is just in good fun and memeing, some of it is trying to improve them because the culture is not going to help them with that. Many zooms came around right when the transition to clown world started so they have to be reminded that not everything has to be clown and that a world used to exist before it. Yeah maybe some are doing it maliciously just to shit on them but I don't think most of us are
>>733621340>>After the tenth time I rented it, one of the clerks just spotted the purchase price, cleaned the disk one last time, and gave it to meBased
>>733576657Probably a bait thread, but it was unironically cool walking through a video rental place and looking at all of the covers. Some of the horror ones scared the shit out of me as a kid.
>>733621932I feel sorry for the zoomies that are forced to prop this sad excuse of a society up. The vast majority won't see any form of a pension let alone any flags that are worth rallying around. Providing the current trajectory continues to fly off a cliff I can't blame anyone looking for a way out of this garbage fire. Memes taking the absolute piss out of the rolling scandals is just one of the few coping mechanisms that isn't outright dangerous.
>>733621236Because you little fucks are totally clueless and were brainwashed since an early age. You need guidance from your elders. No, Fortnite and Steam are not the best things to ever happen to gaming. We legitimately had it better. And you know who had it better than us? Boomers. Yes, that's right, boomers are 100% right about millennials. As it turns out, things have been getting worse for a while. And the next generation is even worse than you.
>>733622361Boomers don't enthusiastically celebrate millennials not having what they had growing up and wear it like a badge of honor, though. They just call them lazy losers.
>>733622546Keep seething, little zoom kiddie. We all got made fun of when we were kids.
>>733622762boomers to millennials: "You could have what we had if you stop buying coffee and avocado toast"millennials to zoomers: "You will never have what we had (and that's a good thing)"
>>733576657You will never understand the feeling of renting a game because the box was coolYou will never understand the feeling of buying a blizzard battle chest at bestbuy.
>>733619375Well they used Hollywood Video as a daycare for smoke breaks a lot, too, and I personally never saw porn there either. The only "backroom" was the Game Crazy that they shared the building with.Although, I do remember spanking it to some art book I got from Game Crazy. They were just clearing out old merch by giving it away one day, and a worker threw a Suikoden IV art book in my bag without even asking (I had never played any JRPG, and was buying Black for the PS2).Anyway, I never played the game, but I spanked it to a bunch of the character art, like picrel, many times. I don't know what happened to that book, but if someone owns a second hand version with cumstains all over it, you got mine. this was the mid 00s and I didn't have uninterrupted PC access yet, alright? we had to work with what we had back then...
>>733620875>As for the movie, my father always picked because he was a movie guy so he always knew what was kino and what wasn'tRespect to your pops and all, but if he didn't grab Tremors at least one of those times, you were deprived and should seek damages in court.
>>733576657>it's friday night 2007>go to friends with other friends, we all bring our favorite junk food/drink to share>vidya>go to movie store to get 2 movies,a game and popcorn bucket and a candy for $19.99>play all weekendWe called this a "session"
>>733576657>constant dopamine fried brain can't comprehend the tension of anticipation and the joy of finding the specific thing you came for, and the elation of booting it up for the first timeYou may have more stimulus overall, but it's a fucking flatline. The shock of the nadir and pleasure of the apex are beyond your comprehension. For all intensive porpoises, you are a human robot. I am truly sorry this society has failed you so totally.
>>733576657>And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now which is instantaneous without even have to move from your chair?do you even watch movies? or anything that runs for longer then 15 seconds?
>>733576657If you really liked the game you could buy it. It was just downloading a demo on steam. I like the new system more, but it wasn't so bad back in the day either.
>>733625497it was like downloading a demo on steam.*
>>733625320based Odo gets itIf I could still rent a new game for like 7 bucks, I would finish way more games than I do now also because you want to finish them before you take them back. You're only going to rent a really good game twice.It was a good system. I tried more games, took chances with variety, and ended up completing more of them too.Now, I'm usually paralyzed by choice.
>>733585978Also worked at Blockbuster for a few years until the final days, 4-star CSR that would've been promoted if not for the collapse. For us it was Cintas, I think a good portion of the stores used commercial places like them. It was neat watching them swap our mats for new ones in like 30s. Fucking carpet ghosts.
>>733576657>hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted triphuh?
When you rented a game, you had to play it.
>>733625497its crazy how steam has literally more demos then ps5 and xbone has games out RIGHT NOW and people act like demos are "gone" or something. like niggas, steam has more free entire games to try then ps5 and xbone has literal exclusive. literally. they have 27 games between them exclusives.even if 99% of the shit on steam is slop (it is), the 1% of free games is 84 games. right now. you could be playing a new game every day for almost 3 months for free
it was a good era.
>tfw rented a bunch of games 3 months before they shut down
>netflix offered to sell to blockbuster for 50 million>blockbuster laughed at them, saying it was a niche idea that wouldnt last
>>733617727nigger
>>733626246Is the former CEO who turned it down is still alive? I'm suprised any of the former board members and shareholders haven't tried to kill him.
>>733585701yeah almost like life was just slower back then in the best ways possible
>>733576657The incentive was there to go to the store. You could even go with your friends and pick shit out together. When did you go to pick a certain thing? There was so much trash there you'd always have something else to pick/play instead of just getting stuck in your own niche. You may not be able to imagine what a proper library looks and feels like but unlike with streaming services they don't have to pay for streaming rights just to keep their catalogue open.
>>733576657Reddit post.
>>733576657>People back then had to drive all the way to Blockbuster just to go rent a video game for a couple days, hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted trip, then drive all the way back to return the game to Blockbuster?Not quite.Sure, you could drive to Blockbuster specifically to rent a specific video, but more likely, you were going there to rent "a movie" or "a video game" and might just hope for a specific game to be available. If not, you'd rent something else. They were also everywhere, so frequently on the way home from work rather than an out-of-the-way trip. They also tended to sit next to restaurants or pizza places, meaning that most people might order a pizza, pick up a movie while it was cooking, then pick up the pizza order once it was done.>And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now which is instantaneous without even have to move from your chair?I don't know many people who would prefer spending $5 to rent a Blockbuster video or game for a week (or even just a weekend) over just spending $15 a month and playing as many games as you wanted. Late fees were a pain and you frequently needed to deal with them unless you got into a habit of just renting every Friday and returning every Monday, as a habit.Some people are nostalgic for that time, but that's as much the Blockbuster experience as it was the Pizza Hut to-go experience and the PS1 CD experience. Get done with work, order a pizza, pick up Harvest Moon or the next Mega Man X or whatever random game you found, pick up the pizza, spend the weekend with pizza and soda and playing the game and scanning the new CD to find out what you get in your Monster Rancher save file.>>733586709>If you liked the game you rented they would sell it to you.Rarely. And mostly only if it was old and nobody else seemed to rent it. All the movie rental stores I visited still had NES games on the shelves, so they usually weren't interested in selling
>>733576657This post made me realize that zoomies don't actually know how easy this process was.
>>733622361>things have been getting worseHow? Inflation? Things are cooler now, back then you had to have a specialized device for each thing you wanted, now a pocket device has all of that.
>>733589918>everything needs an app to workI remember hitting up a random gym and I couldn't access their stationary bike cause I needed an app to login and actually use it. The fuck.
>>733576657People had phones back then to call Blockbuster to see if the game is available
>>733629141i wish i lived in that era. id be calling them up shitcalling all the time (they need a word for prank phone calls). asking them if they have 5 butts and a funeral (that should be a parody porno)
>>733629063Wow.I'd like cheap groceries, fuel, cars, and houses back if it meant giving up the society-destroying cancer that is the smartphone.
>>733629237>NOOOO PROGRESS IS BADI'll never understand this, life is better now.>bbbut everything seems worseInformation spreads faster, problems were kept under wraps back then, there was way less transparency and the control they had over you was soul crushing.
>>733629237to be fair thats just, america, really.
>>733629349so your saying its the same but we didnt know how bad it was and we got to own homes, and groceries and entertainment was cheap?how awful. oh no
>>733576657t. 34 Yeah and it sucked. People wax nostalgic about how great it was to rent a game for 7-10 bucks for a week, you can pirate games so easily and you can legally purchase games for 7-10 bucks now.
>>733576657>without even have to move from your chair>t. fatso
>>733629456>People wax nostalgic about how great it was to rent a game for 7-10 bucks for a weekI liked just browsing the games/movies and picking some shit that had interesting covers after going out for dinner at a sit in restaurant.Basically you went out and had some fun, and also picked up something to enjoy at home until you next went out for fun.With the addition of the internet I'm not longer getting a mystery game/movie.
>>733576657>People back then had to drive all the way to Blockbuster just to go rent a video game for a couple days, hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted trip, then drive all the way back to return the game to Blockbuster?Yeah that's why it died.
>>733629349Cunt, I can't eat information.
>>733629450>housing problemIsn't that like almost exclusive to big cities? Why do you want to be so close to progress if you hate it so much anyway, go live in the woods.>entertainment was cheapHuh, that Isn't true and this thread is proof of it, not only you didn't get to own anything as well, you had to return it in time, meaning that you had to spend your own time to seek for entertainment.There was also a lot of uncertainty back then, physical distribution is inherently limited and you had to keep yourself informed by investing on media that had that info just to figure out what was available
>>733576657No, they didn't. There were a dozen other avenues for obtaining new games to play.>borrow from a friend/family>play an arcade game>download warez>swap warez offline>get warez in the mail>download shareware and free games>swap shareware offline>get shareware in the mail>get demos with a magazine>type source code for games in from a magazine>code your own game at home>buy games from stores>buy games from friends and family>trade random stuff to stupid kids for their games>get games for christmas and birthdays>rent a game, copy it, and return it >buy a game, copy it, and return it>order a game through the mail>order a game over the phone>get someone else to go blockbuster for you
>>733629623No? But with all(debatable) the info available to you you can find a way to eat.
>>733586807>Chrono Trigger ($85 then) would cost $170+ now.And it was a complete game, front to back. A complete game today costs around $4000 after you buy every ounce of DLCs (finished content cut and repackaged after release) and mtx costumes and items (used to be free unlocks or collectibles)If gaming was cheaper now then gaming companies today wouldn't be worth 1500x what they were in 1996.
>>733629835Or maybe, just maybe, more people buy those games, who knows...
>>733577147That smell makes you need to pee.
eh, people forget gaming used to be good. just look up the top 10 games of any year before blockbuster shuttered in 2014, every single one of them are bangers. now think about how many good games there have been in the past 10 years.imagine walking into a modern blockbuster and half the shelves are funko pops and the top games "for rent" are uh...fortnite. and uh...horse gachai mean look at this image
>>733629763>Isn't that like almost exclusive to big cities?oh christ this is how out of touch this person whose arguing with us right now.
>>733629932Idk man, 2008 was far from the sweet spotSome shit like any given year between 1993 and 1999 maybe, but I'm not about to stroke my cock about how good God of War, burnout paradise, Mario kart wii, or force unleashed are
>>733629932>GoWEw>Guitar Heroaka cashgrab>fableLol>mkwiiEh>Dead SpaceOk this one is great>MGS4Always wanted to play it but fuck buying a ps3>GTA IVFirst gta I ever finished, genuinely awesome>Burnout ParadiseDisgusting, regret playing that shit>God of WarSame as MGS4, got hooked up with 2 but I kinda disliked the ps3>farcry 2 Eh>force unleashedBoring tech demo, even the ps2 version is better>CoDEh>SSBBI preordered it, ngl I spent a lot of time with it>Falloutlol
>>733629969>no argumentYeah you just want to be with all the cool kids but don't want to pay for it.
>>733630186lmao okay zoomer
>>733629763>Isn't that like almost exclusive to big cities?in 575 counties in America, aka literally 99% OF ALL OF AMERICAN LAND NOT JUST CITIES, the cost of houses, both rent and mortgages are growing 10%+ faster than median wages are growing https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/home-sales-prices/attom-q3-2023-u-s-home-affordability-report/>go live in the woods.Yeah I too wonder why, after spending 30 years screaming at young people to get STEM degrees or adjacent upper middle/high wage field degrees, that most people seem to want to live in cities where all the those related jobs are and don't just go be an Engineer somewhere in bumfuck nowhere with a 6 hour drive to work every day. A real mystery for the ages you got there Sherlock.
>>733630270>live innawoodsIs also a meme as the cost of houses innawoods have also gone up considerably.t. Own a home in a suburb, wife wants to innawoods but neither of us want to drive 4 hours to work every day
>>733583529Convenience kills your drive to do anythingGoing out to eat someplace is more fun than ordering the same shit to your house. The food is not the end goal, it's everything inbetween and the change of environment.You can take a car somewhere, get there in 5 minutes, but walking there for 20 minutes is far more of an enjoyable experience, you engage more with your brain, take in the sights, the air, the movementMenial tasks are good for your mental and physical health, cooking might seem like a drag, but once you get into the zone, it's fun. You could order takeout or heat up some frozen shit, but preparing a proper meal is meditative in natureModern people are so helpless and fucked in the head and scared of boredom, just look at yourself.
>>733630270Again, you want to be where progress is happening and it is obvious that comes with a hefty price, you could just live in bumfuck nowhere, away from everything you have been shitting on the entire thread but no, that is unacceptable too.
>>733630415Speak for yourself, I fucking hate wasting my time just to see some new shiny shit, I don't need any of that, I want that time to do stuff I actually want to do insteaf of being stuck in traffic.
>>733630415Chicken wings at home is 1000 times better than chicken wings at a chicken wings joint....Mongolian BBQ in a car is 1000 times better than Mongolian BBQ in a sit-down joint....
>>733630143didn't ask
>>733630615You have shit taste anon, sorry
I stole so many video games from this place
>>733576657the mixture of uncertainty and anticipation was unparalleled, your parents took you because they wanted to rent a movie and they promised you you could rent anything, back then you didnt have the internet and relied on other kids talking about something being fun, maybe you didnt see it but another cover intrigues you, when you have infinite choices instantly you lose appreciation for the random joys life is capable of
>>733576657They could phone the store to check availability
>wasting precious time is joyous Gosh, nostalgia is poison, even as a kid I had a tight schedule, few hours each week to spend doing what I wanted just to realize I picked wrong or listened to a terrible opinion and now I was stuck with something I wasn't enjoying, I clearly remember filling up with dread knowing I had to wait another week to get another chance at it.
>>733586540>Gen AAnon they are zoomers times 100. Infact they won't be able to even read nor speak properly
>>733630517See, you aren't mentally "there". Your experience is entirely reactionary and physical, your mood swings from external influences, you're not in control and you are very disturbed when you don't get your way, that's ego. If you were to cast that aside, that traffic would be a blissful experience, a moment to yourself to stir in your thoughts. If you feel like you're in bad company when by yourself, you've never given yourself the time of introspection.When was the last time in your entire life when you just stood still, sat down and brewed inside your head for hours on end?
>>733630893oh no you built up patience. if only you could of flip through tik tok and become so adhd rattled that something being boring for 3 seconds is a crime
>>733631185lol this is so stupid, so first you were talking about "fun", to see all the new things that are outside of you, then you talk about being fine with yourself and introspection? It is clear you need all of that noise to keep yourself entertained, one that has killed their ego does not seek "fun", does not ask anything from the world as they have already found the universe within themselves, you are just fooling yourself and coping with your need for belonging to the outside world.
>>733631470What?
>>733631510I never claimed to not have ego, all I see is that you are a very disturbed individualAnd you conveniently ignored the question:When was the last time in your entire life when you just stood still, sat down and brewed inside your head for hours on end?
>>733631737oh we call that autism these days
>>733587990>jeetspacing
>>733576657>hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wasted tripzoomers cannot comprehend having other things to do, going outside and stopping by, or getting some literal who game off the shelf and finding kinogrim
>>733576657You've heard the term, "It's the journey, not the destination." Well, it's kind of like. Modern convenience has removed the journey, and the destination loses something as a result.
>>733588408>friday>go to blockbuster>rent random movies and random games>go home>watch movies with my family>play rented games >return them on sundayYou know, i'm getting the feeling that people that are not nostalgic for it are peole that don't clean themselves up. You lack the genes to live in a high-trust society.
>>733631849the evading continues, I guess your brain is beyond repair, keep getting mad and angry over minor inconveniences, numbing yourself with frivolities, bread and circuses and keep that samsara going like the hamster you are
>>733576657It was even worse than that, actually. Developers intentionally designed games to be as frustrating as possible, so people couldn't rent them and finish them over a weekend, making them more likely to buy them instead of renting.
>>733632017yes you won
>>733631737I don't know why you seem so interested in my meditation routine but, today. When I was young I always wanted to be outside see all the new things and get constant stimulation, but it was life itself that taught me all I needed was in me already, went into isolation for a year, focusing on what was essential and made introspection a common practice in my daily life, I have no need to see whatever new distraction society has come up with, it's a waste of time and I'd rather sit at home learning more about things that nurture my soul, experiencing the bliss that the people I have in my life offer me, than being on some random place with strangers.I honestly don't know how you reached to the conclusion that I am "messed up" for not liking being outside, seems more like a projection.
>>733589947I don't remember any of my local McDonald's looking that elaborate. I know that many of the stores had some theming going on, especially out traveling or local cities. We did have a one-of-a-kind (well, one of three) Blockbuster/McDonald's combo store.
>>733576657It made you play whatever game you picked up instead of having choice paralysis and not playing your 5000 games in your steam library or pirate site.
>>733632017>why aren't you an enlightened individual like me, now excuse me, I need to go to the mall to forget about my lack of self-esteem
>>733632452>choice paralysis at blockbuster :D>choice paralysis at home :(
>>733589947i doubt that zoomers dislike the idea, it's more like niggers , white trash and jeets don't want or are simply not able to be responsible >Shieeeeeeeeet mang i have to return daaa movieeeeeeee no waaaaaaaaaay>this is supposed to be fun n shieeeeeeeeet imma just steal da copy
>>733576657zoomers are hermits they can't function in a real society
>>733632524Selection was like 100 games at best. Less if you only had one system and you'd pick them based on the best box art or if you read about in a magazine. I haven't touched half my steam library and probably won't ever do so.
>>733632276You've confined yourself into a bubble and believe that you've seen everything there is to the outside and believe that from the confines of your home you'll be capable of nurturing your soulthat is nothing BUT "messed up"
It's so funny that these people are equating being forcibly over stimulated with fun, it's like they think corporations 30 years ago weren't playing with their weak minds by using cartoons to siphon money out of their parents.>muh soulLOLNo wonder you hate brainrot so much, it subconsciously reminds you of how much manipulation you suffered
>>733632671Huh? Why do you keep making these wild assumptions about me? Why are you so hellbent on proving being stuck in traffic is an unparalled spiritual experience?
>>733632524You didn't really have choice paralysis at blockbuster. You had the game you actually wanted to rent, and if it was there you got it. If that wasn't there, you had maybe a backup or two that you had wanted in the past but that you rented a different game instead. And then sometimes there wasn't really a game that you wanted that you hadn't already played before, so you picked one of the weird games just to see what it's like. To put it in a way that a zoomer can understand, it was a lot more like window shopping for which porn video you're gonna goon to. You don't really have analysis paralysis. You judge it by the preview slideshow or the thumbnail. You're gonna rent a game no matter what, it's just a matter of which one you pick. When you have analysis paralysis at home, you might get sidetracked and just shitpost on 4chan instead.
>>733632469strawmanexternalities will never sate you, it's all within
>>733632646Same thing, even less time to pick, unless your mom was extremely lenient and had tons of time, you would have 30 minutes tops to pick whatever you wante to play, and then if you made a bad choice you had to play it and even pretend to enjoy it
>>733632825Uh huh, then why do I need to go outside then
>>733632770I don't see how that's any better, been there done that, it wasn't cool nor nice, it was all you had and there's still physical shops if I really want to engage in mindless window shopping.
>>733632737>"I don't like going outside">"You don't like going outside">"HEY, BRO, DUDE, WHY ARE YOU ASSUMING THINGS OF ME?"Being distressed in a moment of supposed boredom is telling of the mental of an individual. Boredom is a scapegoat buzzword for the disturbed, there is nothing boring in this wonder-filled world.
>>733632894>and there's still physical shopsnope
>>733576657>driving I live in Canada so most of the time youd walk to your nearby rental place and see what they had. or loiter on their SM64 display all day or until you got kicked out
>>733632827>then if you made a bad choice you had to play it and even pretend to enjoy itYou've never rented a game in your entire life. You didn't have to enjoy shit or even pretend to enjoy it. If it was actually a bad game, you'd just play a game you owned instead. Or maybe *gasp* you'd go outside and play with the neighborhood kids instead of playing vidya. You really could judge a book by its cover back in the day though. I never ended up renting many bad games that I disliked. Though I did probably end up not renting some games that I might have liked just because I didn't like the cover or the screenshots on the back. >>733632894>been there done that, it wasn't cool nor niceYou are a zoomer. You weren't alive when this was a thing. You've never rented a game. You are larping. >there's still physical shops if I really want to engage in mindless window shoppingActually, there isn't. The shops all around here closed during covid. I did rent a game in like 2020 because I didn't want to buy it and it wasn't on PC yet.
>>733632857because you're all desiccated like a wilted flower
>>733632925>No, you are actually this bad thing I made up to feel better about myselflol k
I miss how we didn't automatically know everything. Red being the Final Boss in Pokemon Gold and Silver was a big secret. Now, a game all of it's content (besides certain DLC crap) will be shown like five days even if you're not intentionally looking for it.
>mfw mom rented jurassic park and a snes with donkey kong country for the weekend
>>733633034nuh-uh no she didnt. we all know you're poor ANON
>>733633024Don't forget how streamers get like a week of early access privilege to stream the game and make youtube videos on it before the public can even buy it.
>>733632965How are you so sure? I'm just not nostalgic about it
>>733633065We were poor. That's why we rented a snes.My uncle gave me a snes much later (probably fenced) with 6 games. Shit was cash.
>>733590029Probably talking about Super Kmart stores, which at their prime in the late 1990s and early 2000s were arguably better than Wal-Mart Supercenters, with more full-service departments, cleaner, better-looking.
>>733632967What makes you think so?
>>733633034Clarissa really did explain it all, didn't she? >>733633097>How are you so sure?Because you're imagining how it used to be by using the modern framework of your own reality. It's obvious you didn't live the experience, because you don't account for how different things used to be, because you either weren't alive yet or you weren't old enough to remember.
>>733633115my friends dad, when they got an N64, tossed away their SNES and all of their games for it. they had basically every RPG for the snes you can think of too. right into the garbage. guy was a supreme prick
>>733633159What the fuuuuuuuck?I hope you dumpster dove that shit?
>>733633143Why? What exactly makes you think I never went to a blockbuster to rent a game or a movie? I mean even older zoomers got to experience that, are you nostalgic about arcade too?
>>733632987Quote the part I "made up", because I am replying directly to words you've uttered
>>733632527Yeah, malls don't do well with poors and non-whites. Even back in 2008 when DeadMalls.com was still the premier resource on this sort of thing, there were already tons of places that had gone under or were actively going under due to "demographic changes".
>>733633242nah, enjoy traffic I guess
>>733633136You're in /v/, in a nostalgia thread no less, also, I can smell you through the screen
>>733633207I only found out about it later on. still makes me mad. didnt even need to give it to me instead, couldve done literally anything else other than that
>>733633281I use creams and parfume tho
>>733633292Yeah. Would be better if he gave it away or sold it for pennies. Throwing it in the trash is such a fucking waste.
>>733633240>Why?I already told you. You're larping, and it's obvious. >are you nostalgic about arcade too?I wasn't really an arcade kid, but kinda. I think arcades were maybe even older than me or else they were a thing city kids did after school on the way home, not suburb kids whose parents picked them up and drove them to school. I went to a few birthday parties at arcade type places though, and those were really fun.
>>733633362So just because I am not nostalgic about it? There's a lot of things I don't miss, like my "family"(cousins, uncles, aunts and such), did I not have that either? Tell me more about me anon.
>>733633316exactly whyWater is all you actually need, don't hide your natural pheromones, it's what attracts people to you, not artificial scents. Perfumes, deodorants etc. are for people who don't wash regularly
>>733633426>So just because I am not nostalgic about it?No, that's what (You) said, that's not what I said. Sorry that your larp wasn't convincing enough.
>>733633316>parfumebrown
>>733633431So many words just to say you smell like hotdog water
>>733576657Come on now, I was born in 03 and I have plenty of experience with Block Buster.
>>733633464>implying I was trying to convince you
I'm so glad I am not poisoned by nostalgia, I can't imagine how awful all these people must feel
>>733633530The act of larping inherently implies you are trying to convince readers of your performance, yes.
>>733633493I'm sorry you were brainwashed to believe thattake a shower, shit + perfume is still just shit and perfume, you can't mask it
>>733633647Eh? That sounds like projection
>>733633646Prove it or gtfo
>depressed zoomer >no gf>no friends >hate self>blame society>scrolls down his only source of stimulation: social media>ponder how things came down to this>look at previous generation's childhood>in a desperate attempt to feel something not bad he makes fun of the one thing he has that didn't exist back then>convenience>people start talking about how good it was talking to employees that know you>people start remembering being driven by parents to video game rental store>people talking about things they had that he doesn't>he starts feeling left out again >WHERE'S THE CONVENIENCE>he thinks as he tries to ignore the one thing he cries for>sense of belonging>he can play video games but that doesn't work anymore
>>733633942 do a flip faggit
>he made up a story to justify his nostalgialol
>>733633670"projection" is a neat buzzword you can throw around when you have nothing of substance to say, a clever little deflection tactic to ignore addressing arguments or questions
>>733634179>Why aren't you addressing my arguments or questions about how I think you smell badlolUse creams tho, I am so smooth and love the way I smell, you could achieve beauty like me if you started with something as easy as spraying some fragances on you~
>>733629063which is why your life will end if you lost your phone, zoomie
>>733634350My skin is as smooth as a baby's and I'm over 30no more than ~15-30 minutes of sunlight, sleeping well, eating good and exercising do miracles for your longevity, Haven't used lotions, shower gels or shampoo for the last 15 years, brush teeth twice a day, after you wake up and before bed, floss 2-3 times a week and ALWAYS use a toothpick after eatingTaking care of yourself is harder than just slathering yourself with a temporary fix, but far more rewarding
>>733576657What even is the argument here? You can't even rent videogames nowadays.
>>733576657Games back then were rarely worth playing more than a weekend so getting to play them for a couple bucks compared to buying it for $50+ was a godsend. As a kid it meant you could play something new every week instead of maybe a few times a year. It's part of why roblox is so popular today, it gives kids a wide variety of games to play for little to no money.
>>733589250We had a Hollywood videos in my town but it was just far enough from home that my parents never wanted to go there, especially since we had a BB just down the street.Why was it so much better? I had a friend growing up who used to swear as much but I never went and never learned why it was so good.
>>733634904It's probably highly dependent on location. I always went to Hollywood because they were closer to me but I never found much of a difference between them other than maybe Hollywood had better snacks (which I never bought because they were overpriced).
>>733576657>hope it was even in stock too or else it was a completely wastedIf it wasn't in stock then you rented something else>And people are seriously nostalgic for that instead of what we have now Well, they were actual games so yeah. All that is released now are walking sims and cinematic digital experiences made by dei niggers or jeets and stuffed with some greasy jew's politics
>>733591526But BİRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) was released was released 12 years ago.
>>733629969Erm nta but I have a three bedroom one bath house and over 3 acres of land. My mortgage is only 200 dollars a month over 15 years. Definitely IS a city problem, because it sure as shit ain't mine.
>>733634593So you just run around all day smelling like hotdog water? Ew
>>733635507grim. imagine how far this guys gonna have to travel
>>733635661Sounds like projection, everyone has different natural bodily odour, your seems to be the hotdog water that you keep projecting withMine is a hint of vanilla and birch
