/tv/ millennials will never understand
>>70407526
>lit
>bitching about millenials
>>70407526
I'm a old, is "lit" the new nigger word everyone is using?
90's kid. Blockbuster wasn't as great as your nostalgia filter makes it seem. They were usually dirty and were out of the movies you wanted. Honestly there's nothing better about Blockbuster compared to streaming.
>>70407526
>ywn experience the bliss of picking up a snack, renting a movie, and video game while being a care free kid.
why live
>>70407604
You probably lived in some dirty podunk. All the Blockbusters near me wear clean and well stocked.
Can you imagine Blockbuster today if it was presented as a new idea?
You have to drive there, there's a good chance they won't have what you're looking for, and you have to personally RETURN the stupid movie, forcing you to drive back there again.
Blockbuster was a stepping stone to better ways to acquire media.
>>70407604
Sorry not all of us lived in the ghetto like you anon
Is using millennials incorrectly a meme or something?
Daily reminder if you were born after 1982 you're a millennial.
>>70407684
>>70407734
I lived in the suburbs. It's not like they cleaned the VHS/DVD cases ever or anything like that.
Oh and I forgot to mention the chance that what you rent would have a chance to be scratched and unwatchable.
>>70407785
this, OP is a fucking retard
>>70407604
This
also when you got the freebie and only had 1 movie and they would almost force you to go look for another one just to charge you something
Jokes on you faggots, we still have a video rental here and it's great. Staff are chilled, helpful and know their shit.
>>70407886
do you live in a flyover state
![517184ba6d4bf.image[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VyZZ8QZ.jpg "517184ba6d4bf.image[1].jpg")
Who /familyvideo/ here?
>millennials will never understand
you know a millennial is someone born after 1980, so technically they might understand if they are 30+
>>70407893
I don't live in america
>late fees
>have to drive there
>overpriced
>rewind
>no selection
>overpriced candy
ah the good ol' days
>>70407953
My condolences.
Why do so many persons here don't know what a "millennial" is, yet do not abstain from using the term anyway?
when they closed last videoworld (that's what they were called in my country, the biggest chain at least) I just started torrenting movies and that's sad because I used to pay for them
>>70408034
They need a term that means "kids these days" so they can insult them, but have seized on a word that actually means their own generation, so they end up insulting themselves like retards.
>>70407919
Family Video was great. All the normies went to BB so they always had the new release movies and games.
>having to tip the Blockbuster guard every time you enter or leave
>not being able to carry your keys into the store because they could be used for "terrorism"
>the showers were never clean
Why did people like this place again?
>>70408162
Yep. Who they actually mean is genzeers/homelanders.
every time i went there i suddenly had the urge to take a shit every fucking time
>>70407986
I live in NZ, you should try it, you might enjoy the first world.
>>70408227
Free anal inspection on the 1st of every month
>>70407526
Have so many Blockbuster memories with me Dad.
>tfw some asshole already rented season 2.5 of BSG for two weeks a few minutes before me and my dad get there
>tfw we look at the dvds for sale and 2.5 is there for like $60
>tfw says "sorry anon, we'll just have to wait."
>tfw almost at the car when my dad grabs me and says "come on" as we head back inside and buy it
>tfw we spent the rest of the night binging BSG
>going to a chain
>not a having musty, old bleak drug store that also rented out tapes in your town
>>70407604
>Go in to rent new release
>Oh it was all taken
>Guess I will paruse the old shit
>Fuck that movie sucked
...
torrents are superior.
>1998
>Not renting WCW vs. NWO for the N64
>>70407526
>Be kid
>Rent from Jumbo Video, Blockbuster, and Rogers Video in town
>Be adult
>All closed
>>70407526
but millennials were the ones begging their moms to let them rent movies
>>70407976
>late fees
>knowing the guy that worked there and getting all your shit swiped off
I once accrued over $100 in late fees and paid like $15.
>walked there because I never lived in the boonies among the appalachian mountain men in the middle of fly over ghetto stank trailer trash towns
>people where I lived are actually decent human beings and rewound tapes
>always a good selection
>not being poorfag status where you can't buy one candy box
Damn it's like all of you lived in poor ass neighborhoods with redneck trash.
>>70409058
Really? I was born in 1997. Why is your old ass even here?
>>70409058
I miss being able to rent shitty fighting and racing games and meme on them for a week or so with your budides then returning it. Like 2/3rds of game made even today are only worth playing for a 2 week period.
![blockbuster1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dIcGT1b.jpg "blockbuster1[1].jpg")
>>70409076
>>70408966
torrents are a lot better but i do miss spending time going to blockbuster with my mom. she didn't drive regularly until l was older so we walked about a mile and stopped by macdonald's on the way. and the card was under her name anyway.
it was all over by '99-'00 because i was on IRC downloading movies
>rent a N64, 4 controllers, WCW vs NWO and goldeneye on a Friday sleepover with my friends and parents order pizza
a based childhood 2bh
>>70407594
"Lit" as in lively and full of people
>>70407526
Yeah I always loved having to come back to a blockbuster 3 times to get the right movie. Good times.
>go to Blockbuster
>rent movies that flopped
>>70407526
Millennials have gotten so bad they don't even understand collecting physical media anymore, or even owning physical media in the first place. They think it's a waste of time to wait a mere 20 seconds to watch a movie or tv show by having to insert the disc into a player. They're so impatient. Anytime they have to wait more than 2 seconds for something they get anxious and complacent, and they feel completely lost without the internet as if the whole world suddenly became empty. It's pretty pathetic. The earlier millennials like myself still understand those things though.
>>70409160
Why would you stop visiting a website after reaching a certain age?
Also please leave underage.
>>70409281
Sorry your taste in movies is so narrow. Not Blockbuster's fault.
>>70409375
Not true. I'm 28 and only get things digital now. Collecting physical copies of anything is for fags, and you should probably kill yourself. I'm assuming you're a younger millennial than me as well
>>70409375
They also don't have a vocabulary beyond retarded slang such as lit, squad, bae, etc
>>70407919
Holy shit, is this my family video? Where is this located?
>>70409432
Bro how did you get this far in life with bait that bad?
>>70409452
Tell me about it. It's only going to get worse.
>>70407526
>lolz im such a 90s kid
>>70409375
>oh no! young people torrent their movies for free instead of buying a million boxes and plastic cases!
>>70409606
looks like mine desu lad
>>70407526
You're a millennial too you dumb fuck
unless you are like 35 in which case god damn you are pathetic.
>>70409647
>Being a criminal isn't such a bad thing as long as you aren't killing anyone!
You don't have to understand. You could be less of a bitch though. Might make life easier. How would you feel if your wifi went down and you had to resort to other forms of entertainment besides the internet?
>>70409375
There's literally no point to physical media. It's not out of impatience its out of practicality.
Unless you're some autist that likes to show off his movie collection.
>>70409050
>not automatically going to horror section to find the weirdest looking cover and renting it along with a video game for the same price as a new release
>>70409774
>No point in physical media
There's literally no point in having a fancy watch either, or having a buick, or having a red house, or watching horror movies, or wearing black pants specifically. Your point?
>>70409952
>browsing Horror section
>pick movie based on VHS boxart
>it's shit
The system had its flaws.
>>70409989
>My dorky movie collection is on par with an expensive watch/car
grow up doofus.
>>70407526
>when it's ya birthday and ya mom says you can rent 2 games this time
ITT people who don't realize that before the Internet, renting videos at brick-and-mortar stores was your ONLY option. Stupid nigger fuck millennials can't even conceive of a time before the Internet. KEK
>>70409999
that was kind of the fun of it all though. Telling friends that you watched the movie and they are all geeking out that you saw the sleazy t&a splatter flicks before them. Most of the time, the movie was shit but still had tits and gore
>>70409160
>born in '97
lmao i was born in '90
kill yourself, child
>>70410039
No counter argument? There's no point in having long hair, or wearing a star wars t-shirt, or wearing nike shoes, or eating at wendy's, or playing an instrument. All of these things aren't necessary to life, but many people do them. It's not about money or impressing people. I could give a fuck less what you think of my movie collection. It's not your movie collection.
>>70410199
Don't get me wrong, I like trashy Horror as much as the next guy, but watching crappy Horror has its limits.
>>70407567
>underrated post.
>>70407702
omg, you had to live your house
how awful
>>70409050
This, torrents are fucking magic
>>70407526
tfw economy of my local area is so fucked a family video is still in buisness off movie and videogame rentals because of how broke the town is.
I feel as though I need to clear some things up about why Blockbuster Video is closing, and why they went chapter 11 in the first place a few years ago
>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks
Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty fucking corporations.
Late fees were such a fucking Jewish scam.
>>70409050
Stealing isn't superior in any case honestly.
>>70407785
>being this old browsing a thai knitting forum
>>70409432
Physical copies do suck dick.
Every time I move I need to lug around 100+ dvd cases, video games etc
>>70410407
>be a lazy nigger
>hurr le jews xd
fuck off faggot
>>70410641
They're belongings like anything else. If you have such a big problem with having to move them don't have them or don't move often. Simple.
18 year old fag here
I remember this feeling, but instead of Blockbuster, it was Hollywood Video. My parents said they had better deals. I think we paid like $15 a month and got to rent three movies each week. It was always on fridays too.
I still remember when our Hollywood Video close, it got turned into a shitty pizza place. I was sad.
>>70407785
Born in th Russian Steppe in 2147 BCE
I miss browsing there but I'm happy to not have to pay so much just to watch a fucking movie these days.
>>70407801
Also in suburbs and that never happened to me. Even with the change from VHS to DVD that still wasn't a thing.
Your local manager was a shitty guy, which is why your Blockbuster experience was so poor
>>70407526
>millennials
i bet your a millennial
>>70409233
I miss that too, entering the store and watching aisles of movies, docus, nintendo cartridges and pop corn, skittles, m&m... I loved that store
>>70410364
No one asked you for this
>>70410848
>18 year old
you know nothing
>>70411079
I know that the last time I went to Blockbuster (before we started using Hollywood Video) I got in trouble for ripping open a Red Vines box and eating a handful of them. I barely remember it. I remember the spanking more vividly though.
>>70411050
>SHUT IT DOWN! Jew detected.
>>70407567
this so fucking hard
im 26 and only once i moved back to my home state after law school, and saw my old undergrad frat become normie / nig central did i start hearing the term 'lit' used as slang
>>70407919
And Porn!!! They carried porn. What you kiddies don't understand, this was truly a "family video". Friday night Dad would get a couple porno's in order to bang Mom. Mom would get a romcom. Kids would get a few children's movies, and sneak a horror film in there.
Now everybody sits at home and jacks off...
>>70409375
you said kids dont get collecting media
>>70409774
he said there is no point to it and you are just agreeing with him by posting examples of other shit that doesnt matter. You have absolutely no way of defending your initial claim that collecting media is in any way worth "getting"
Shut the fuck up
>>70409261
I used to be all over Blockbuster when they got new games. Remember hitting up x3 Blockbusters one Tuesday afternoon to get BioShock. Got home, played 20 minutes, returned it to the store, went and bought it.
>>70409774
I like to show off my movie collection. It always gets a few "ooohhhhs" and "aaahhhhhs".
>new releases were only 3 days
>you could rent entire consoles
>that doorway to the "back room" that had "special interests"
>Be Kind, Please Rewind
And then you finally got one of these guys.
>>70407526
People currently in their early 30s are considered millennials.
>>70411441
Eating trix cereal is pointless. Wearing black pants is pointless. Having a table made of wood is pointless. Dying your hair is pointless. Buying food at a restaurant is pointless. putting your clothing in a closet is pointless. Got any argument for that? Why do you wear tan pants when you could wear black ones? Why would have a red car when you could have a blue one?
>>70410364
Appreciate the effort, but this doesn't factor in some many other variable.
The short story, they were too slow into digital, and Netflix put them out (resulting in everything you listed).
>>70407526
You mean....overpriced.
Glad it's gone.
>>70407702
My public library allows people to rent movies and games like that. The only thing thats worth it is the great selection and that it's free.
>>70411609
Red cars are faster than blue cars.
>>70407526
>>70409160
Because this site is for teens pretending to be adults.
Come on, stop being a manchild and grow up
>>70407702
I read somewhere that one of the Blockbuster higher-ups wanted to phase out rental stores in favor of streaming and original content before Netflix was a thing, and they told him to kick rocks.
>>70407702
Back before blockbuster, you had to pay for a membership to then rent movies.
>walking down the horror section when you were little
who else /walkfastandlookatthefloor/ here
going to blockbuster with my family was great. looking back i'm glad i dad took the time just to do that kind of stuff with us. the small things.
>>70411418
They still do
>>70407526
>it's a millenial who complains about millenials despite being a millenial himself episode
>>70411737
Right here
>>70407976
>doing things is lame
>>70409771
I'd probably read a book or watch one of the many films already downloaded on my laptop
>>70407526
>lit
Is this one of those ironically retarded threads?
>>70409375
how much you want to be this was posted buy a 1985 90's kid special snowflake. You are the problem with millennials.
I went to Hollywood Video because Blockbuster always had a shit selection.
>>70408966
Damn, I wish my dad was that cool.
>>70411888
What a faggot.
>>70407526
growing up, renting shitty 80s horror movies for 50¢ on the weekend. those days were the greatest, but now you can watch whatever you want whenever you want which is pretty awesome. Back when I was growing up we were slaves to the cablejew.
>>70411854
>I cannot live without technology that is supposed to be a luxury. I also aim to impress people by talking about the movies I have on my laptop.
Go outside and engage in some kind of physical activity every once in a while. Your body will thank you.
>>70410881
>Being born AFTER the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry
>Only being semi-nomadic
>Not rising with the sun to casually follow herds, weave baskets from wild grasses all day and have rock throwing competitions with the boys
Post-Third millennials pls go
>>70411882
Here's a helpful tip. Learn how to type words before you try to argue with me.
>>70411888
I had one of those Hollywood Video/Game Crazy stores near me that had a whole corner dedicate to video games. Me and an old buddy would hang out in and around that place so much like fucking Jay and Silent Bob in Clerks. Those were the better times.
Streaming and downloading are obviously 100x better and easier but I miss the old days of being able to hang out in a store that sold shit you were actually interested in.
>>70407604
80s kid here. Blockbusters were amazing when they first came out. Finally could hold on to movies for two days without returning them, and they rented Nintendo games.
>>70407526
>tfw my mom worked at blockbuster when you were younger, so you got 5 free rentals a week
>played so many fucking video games
>only had a week with them(plkus school and 2 siblings to share systems with), learn how to fly through games quickly
>mom remembers it as one of the worst job experiences she's ever had, only above the time she got fired from a bank because they thought she stole $50
>she didn't, and they found out later someone made a math error
Probably just her Blockbuster, but from what she said and the little I saw when I was there while she was working, some of the customers were just fucking awful. Rude, pushy, cutting in line then screaming at her when she said they had to get in line, then screaming at the manager because the manager agreed.
Plus Blockbuster was such a fucking easy place to rob shit. You could literally grab anything and just walk out the door. Easier if you walked into the bathroom with something, destroyed the box, and carried the game disc out. I remember there was even a website devoted entirely to teaching you how to shoplift Blockbusters.
Left 2 years before the whole Chapter 11 fiasco, so kinda dodged a bullet there.
>>70411890
He's basically a 61 year old robot so that's probably why.
>>70407893
ANy normal city that doesn't suck ass will still have a movie rental business. They usually cater to some niche.
Pro-tip: it's not Blockbuster that you miss, but rather your childhood
This corporate rental store nostalgia is utterly nauseating but what to expect from a bunch of filthy millennials.
>>70411936
Sounds like you're projecting pretty hard, tubby. Take five and cool off
If you're not like middle aged right now, then you're a millennial
>>70412249
Bad bait. What's crazy is you'll probably reply to this with worse bait.
>>70407526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHfMsTvtaCw
>>70412328
sammy boy getting royalties off this?
>>70407526
>millennials will NEVER know the sleazy rush you get from slipping into the Adult section of the video store.
>>70407526
>go to blockbuster
>browse for a movie
>go to new release section
>go back and forth
>do this for almost an hour
>can't decide what to rent
>rent American pyscho for the tenth time
Every. Damn. Time.
>>70411755
My dad didn't believe in pay $3 to $5 to rent a film for a night or two.
No Friday night Blockbuster video and a Pizza at my house ever.
We went to the movies once every other YEAR.
He said that the reason he paid for HBO, Cinamax and Showtime was to avoid going to the movies and paying lame rental fees.
We would go to Blockbuster every now and than but it was only to look around and shit bricks at over priced films and candy
>$3.87 for normal size bag of m&m's
>Go next door to the supermarket
>Same bag is $1.32
or
>The Lion King gets released for the first time on VHS
>Blockbuster price $29.99
>Everywhere else it's $19.99
Same shit with other snakes, sodas and movie merch.
>>70412486
>Slip into adult section
>Spend to much time being amazed by all the crazy shit they have
>Parents wondering where you are
>Dad comes in and yells at you to get your ass to the car
>Turn back and see him picking up a copy of 2 Dicks in 1 chick
>As we leave he goes to the counter saying he forgot to pay for something
>>70407526
>always smelled damp and moldy
>never had best games
>employees always fucking weirdo neckbeards or druggies
>full of mom's and their shitty awful children whining about tapes and shit
I went to blockbuster because it was a necessity, not because it was a good company. it took awhile but BB was finally crushed by the invisible hand for being such a short sighted poorly managed company
>>70409050
>Stealing are superior.
>>70409233
>Stealing are a lot better
>>70410326
>We be magical now
They are also fucking illegal.
>>70410297
this. also, the selection was far better, especially for more highbrow things and anything over about 10 years old. there's so much shit these days where your only legal option is to pay $20 for a dvd to be mailed to you over like 2 weeks.
>>70407751
Where have you been the past year?
>>70411848
>paying way too much is commendable
just give it up already ya fuckin kike
>>70412906
MODS
MOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
>>70412906
>tfw millennials will never know the feeling of not having a remote control and having to actually stand up and walk to the tv to turn the nob that switches channels
>>70413023
It's definitely a good feeling desu senpai
>>70412879
>8 to 12 comprised of both games and movies
>often didn't have what you wanted
> vs gamefly netflix amazon prime Hulu plus torrents literally dozens of sources to watch or play any movie or game ever made
DURR but da blokbuster had great selection fickck
>>70412869
Oh no not something ILLIGAL. Jesus Christ breaking the law? Don't even talk about that.
Fag
blockbuster, 20/20 video, and hollywood video were my regular spots as a elementary & middle schooler.
i still remember when new movies would come out for rent at blockbuster and there'd be that wall with new cases for the movie, and yeah sometimes it was literally like fighting for that toy in jingle all the way. for some reason out of all the movies or games i rented from those places, i still remember when amelie first came out. something about that poster art was so alluring.
my local blockbuster was right next to an in n out as well so that was cool.
>>70413203
>(You)
>millennials
>not understand Blockbuster
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Do you not know what "millennial" means? Do you not know that this is the equivalent of saying baby boomers wouldn't understand the Vietnam War and Bay of Pigs?
>>70413109
You can't really browse though, as the amount of literal dogshit on any digital streaming service is simply staggering.
Anybody else remember the based mom & pop video store that had knowledgeable employees and loose late fee rules? So much better than Blockbuster
I don't understand because I didn't use Blockbuster.
I had a locally run video store.
>the guy who owned it literally built a racing seat cockpit he could play video games in while at work
>always recommended to me weird foreign and horror movies I would have never known about otherwise
when it closed down I tried Blockbuster but it was just too shitty.
Rentals were expensive, you hardly got any time to view what you get and the staff were all depressing losers who obviously didn't want to be there.
So I turned to piracy like everyone else.
Is nostalgia for this place an American thing? I remember my family would always just buy the video tapes instead of going out one evening to rent them.
>>70407919
My local Family Video is always full of black people. Do they not understand torrenting/streaming?
>>70413109
>plus torrents
i wasn't talking about torrents, i was comparing the legal options that were available then vs. now.
>>70407919
>>70409606
>>70409714
indiana pa?
Why did I/my family/everyone I know watch so much trash from BB? Its like there existed a world of shlock that people willingly watched.
> people contemplate movie rental stores and sleepovers with pizza and Nintendo 64 gaming as the pinnacle of their lives
No wonder 4chan is so lacking in quality, being raised in a culture of bliss.
>grew up in small town
>local video store within biking distance
>$0.99 for a 2-liter of pop
>enormous ps2 and n64 section
>spent most of my summer days chilling there and talking about the latest movies
>become friends with all the employees
>try to get a job there when I turned 16
>around that time a holiday got a redbox
>they go through rough times and decide they can't hire me
>have to settle for shitty dishwashing job
>they soon close
feels bad man, but I accept that it was just consequence of newer technologies (although I hate redbox now and exclusively torrent/netflix).
>>70407526
>blockbuster
le 90's kid XD
the truth is blockbuster was cancer and censored and sanitized vhs rentals
as if anyone in this thread isn't a millennial
>Christmas eve
>dad takes me to Blockbuster so we all can rent movies
>pick out Christmas themed movie
>Christmas day family over
>ask cousins if they wanna watch the video
>put tape in VCR
>video starts playing
>opening title with "Santa's Little Helper"
>Santa's elf gets on her knees and starts blowing Santa
>Santa gives elf her Christmas present early
>Dad runs into the room yelling, "Hey that's the tape I rented. Don't watch that!!!"
Good times.
>>70414066
I really hope this is a true story anon.
>>70409375
t: has a bookshelf with anime figures and star trek boxed sets in living room
>>70409375
>Millennials have gotten so bad
t. a Millennial
Hollywood Video > Blockbuster
>>70407594
Yes. They did away with "fire" too quickly imo.
When exactly did Blockbuster start the DVD mail service? anyhow:
>subscribe to free month trial of BlockBuster mail service
>unlimited rentals, but 2 movies at a time
>copy DVDs and mail them back to get next movies in queue
>repeat till trials ended
felt good man
>>70413770
>indiana pa?
>>70409989
Fancy watch and buick are status symbols that echo one's taste. A collection of hundreds of 10-20 dollar DvDs and TV shows does not.
>>70407801
>scratched
t. 00s kid
Do people just use the term Millennial to mean "people younger than themselves" now?
Plenty of Millennials grew up with blockbuster, some Millennials are in their lower 30s now
>>70414311
you go to IUP?
>>70407919
I worked at the Hollywood video literally across the street from this Family Video. They were our nemeses.
>>70408966
>tfw dad died when I was a kid
>tfw the last time he drove me in the car before was too sick was to blockbuster
>tfw rented Mario RPG
>>70407526
>only 90s kids XD
Reddit is that way.
>>70407604
Blockbuster's unlimited rental cards were far superior to streaming, especially when it included vidya
>>70409375
I guarantee I'm older than you and I love having local and streaming encodes. I haven't bought a disc this year.
You're an idiot, kid
>>70411233
>so fucking hard
>shoehorns law school into post about renting movies
Insecure about your debt are we?
>proudly claims was in a frat
>claims frats in general aren't for "normies"
You reek of reddit and probably don't belong here
>>70409375
>Anytime they have to wait more than 2 seconds for something they get anxious and complacent
Dictionary.com? Or maybe crack open a book version since you're such a whiny hispter nigger?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAiaVLqyKN0
>>70414416
>tfw living in ft. Wayne
>>70409432
servers don't last forever, retard.
>>70412682
>2 Dicks in 1 chick
Your dad is a cuck.
>>70409375
*tips entire hat rack of fedoras*
>>70414737
there is actually a town in pennsylvania called indiana
>>70407604
Its just nostalgiafags who miss MUH HUMAN INTERACTION THOSE DAMN KIDS AND THEIR PHONES NOBODY TALKS ANYMORE RRREEEEEEE
>>70409375
>The earlier millennials like myself still understand those things though.
>>70409160
Jimmy Carter was president when I was born
:^)
>>70414394
Yes. The other day my friend (28 years old) was bitching about "millennials." He meant Gen Z, the generation currently in high school and younger. I had to explain to him that he indeed was a millennial and he was dumbfounded.
This is my pleb friend who tells me how great every episode of GoT is and who has a transformer badge on his Tiburon.
>>70407526
I was born in 96 and I still remember blockbuster
>>70415243
I was born in 2012 and I still remember blockbuster.
''lets go see what games they have''
''lets rent a few games and movies since its christmas vacation'
'' they are holding the movie for the next hour lets go now''
you will never hear those phrases again
>>70409160
>1997
Please leave.
>>70415243
That's not very surprising considering they were around well into the 10's. There are still a few stores around.
>>70407526
>Le 90's kid
>2002
>not going to mr. movies
>>70407526
Stop acting like this place doesn't still exist. There is one within a five minute drive from my house.
Anybody else remember the colossal waste of time known as MovieStop?
>>70409396
2016 - 1997 = 19
you fucking moron
>>70407526
The days when you could walk around at Jumbo video and eat free popcorn. Behind the curtains was where they kept the porno stuff.
26 btw.
¿Who /videocentro/ aquí?
>>70415733
where tf do you live? africa?
forget blockbuster
who tower records here??
>>70415914
Sydney.
>>70415898
AY-YO
Never went to Blockbuster. Went to Take One Video. Sweet deals that were coded with red, blue, and green stickers. Fuckin' beanbag lounge for kids, and on Friday they gave away free popcorn and balloons.
>tfw renting Genesis games
>tfw rent one get one free for green stickers
>that one copy of Whacky Worlds we never took back to Don's Video
>>70416088
>Fuckin' beanbag lounge for kids
That must have smelled wonderful.
>>70416223
Smelled like the little beads in beanbag chairs.
I miss going to Borders and listening to the CDs in the listen stations.
I used to rip DVDs from Blockbuster.
>>70411233
>frat
fuck. off.
>>70407526
Who actually goes to Blockbuster at night? Wouldn't you be at home watching the movie at night? Most of the time I'd go to the Blockbuster earlier in the day, maybe right after school, so that I can enjoy my movie/game for the rest of the day.
>>70414737
Anytime I drive downtown fort wayne, i only ever see black people or poor people go into family video. I'm still suprised its open.
>>70413317
Millennial is a misnomer. It includes anyone anyone currently 18 years old up to 35 i think.
>>70409606
Midland, MI
>>70407526
I turned 18 less than two months ago and I can remember going to Blockbuster when I was 4x
>>70409999
checked
>millennials will never understand how fun and optimistic life was during the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
>be 6 or 7ish
>go to BB with papa
>says I can get a game
>dont pay attention to consoles, I have PS1 so I assume everything is for PS1
>get scooby doo game
>fuck yeah, cant wait to play
>get home
>open box
>its a cartridge
I was confused and dissapointed
>>70409375
>Lend the wire on dvd to a friend
>She doesn't watch any
>"Why?"
>I'm too used to netflix, feels like such a chore to get up and put a disc in every time
Jesus fucking Christ.
She's 30, slim and college educated. How can someone be have that mentality?
>>70413317
It's used to mean people college aged and younger. And also this is b8 worthy, millenials is "officially" defined as people born up to the 80's by literal whos and people with hot air for opinions. Tbh "millenials" sounds like "born around the millenium" a.k.a. 2000. They really need to come up with a better term and use another to define how people always technically correctly use the term "millenial".
>>70414558
Dat phat ass in latex though.
>>70407526
What the fuck does millennial mean anymore? The gen following gen x was old enough to know how lit block buster got.
>>70407919
Movie Gallery for us southerners was were it was at.
>>70407604
Them and Hollywood Video were worth going to for the candy and junkfood, honestly. Now I just go to a 7/11 but it just isn't the same. Remember those bottles of corn syrup that was flavored? It was just flavored corn syrup you squeezed out of the bottle into your mouth? They don't do that shit at normal stores, it was only in rental places could they get away with such extravagant candy.
>>70413654
They are always 10-15 years behind.
>>70409396
Because after a certain age it starts to look pathetic being on here.
>>70407526
>When BB made the big change from VHS to DVDs and you went in there and it blew your mind
also anyone remember that you could rent a fucking game system? top kek what a rip
>>70409375
i appreciate your bait
>>70419814
>not always
You're wrong
I'm 24 and I remember begging my parents to take me to blockbuster or Hollywood video to rent a video game. You make it seem like all milliennials were born yesterday or something.
>>70409375
>implying we're not building our KINO-tier VHS collections with all those great genre movies that never made it to DIVID instead
early millennials are Boomer-tier
late millennials are Great Generation matieral
>>70412573
>tfw didn't care so you rented Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Evil Dead 2 like five times
>tfw realizing your parents got you the Indy boxset to save money
>tfw paid like twenty bucks in early 2000s money for Evil Dead 2 and it was only marginally better than the twenty bucks for a copy of The Wolf Man on VHS in the 90s
>>70412869
all i know is that barqs is slowly becoming less apparent/obviously on the road to discontinued in my city and not only do i love it i fucking hate A&W so this image triggers the shit out of me
plz delete this or i'll get the fbi
>>70415962
had the displeasure of visiting the flagship in NYC. the only record stores left worth visiting in the USA are, strangely enough, in fucking Nashville. good meme store, shit experience
>>70407526
I'm 20 and easily remember going to Blockbuster
I would imagine only people born after ~2004 wouldn't remember it
>he thinks physical media isn't worth owning
Then what do you say to the people who have Video games, Movies, and/or Music collections?
>>70411559
Holy fuck I remember we used to have one shaped like a car
>>70419435
yeah here in oklahoma
>tfw the new movie comes out and when you get there the huge secion of it has all been rented.
>>70421562
>Then what do you say to the people who have Video games, Movies, and/or Music collections?
I think they are retarded and need to get a life.
i remember going a few times
wasn't that great of a memory or anything though
I had a blockbuster like blocks away from my house.
It was awesome because it was so close.
>>70410364
>>70411050
fuck you guy, I liked the history
I was born in 91 and went to Blockbusters every weekend because it was literally across from my grade school, and not once do I remember them offering VCR/game system rentals. Was this just a thing they did at bigger ones?
>>70422090
They did it pretty much at every story but maybe it was a franchise and some owners didnt do console rentals.
>we didn't have any big video store, there was a gas station, pizza, and a store for food
>but there was also a video store that also had a small arcade and that's where all the kids hung out
I'm not even sure if kids will know what an arcade is now.
>>70407526
>lit
when did this stop meaning drunk?
>Its still there :(
Well it was last time I was there two days ago.
>>70410039
>>70409989
Here's a counter argument you can't actually stop:
You merely have an attachment to outdated media, like cassette tapes or punch cards for computers. "Digital films" are stored on expansive and re-writable hard disk drives or solid state drives. The files are the same whether on a HDD or a Video Cassette or a DVD, etc. They are merely a storage container. You can't possibly be making the argument that owning a $.25 piece of plastic packaging for a $.9 disk has any value. If you are, then you are saying that the tacky and worthless packaging of a film is really what the 'physical media' you're talking about is, and not the format on which it's stored. Are you saying that a storage format that stores one singular copy of a film is better than one which stores many films?
You don't really have any cogent argument here other than nostalgia. At least people who buy expensive watches or cars can opine about the mechanics or construction. There is no elegance in a plastic container for a disc or video cassette, no purpose in their use, or value in their form.
Never used blockbuster because the local video stores and competitors had better selection, and more obscure titles and imports, as well as none of the horror stories I always heard about blockbuster.
>>70409774
There will be, when governments starts censoring and editing all the media in the cloud.
>>70407526
I don't think you fully understand the term millennial.
Renting video games was something the world truly needed. Shelling out £50 quid a pop is not on for something that takes a week to finish, and they had them in as soon as they came out. Console gaming is too dear these days.
Millennials are between ages 20 and 34. You're all thinking of generation z.
>>70415106
>Its just nostalgiafags who miss MUH HUMAN INTERACTION THOSE DAMN KIDS AND THEIR PHONES NOBODY TALKS ANYMORE RRREEEEEEE
That's exactly what it is, faggot.
