im too old to be here but I remember CBGB and gatien's clubs in new york. i'd get mugged like once a fricking month, but the music scene was cool and housing was cheap. i moved out of the US and NYC a long time ago. NYC was never the same after 9/11 and i found myself a swedish wife i moved over with a few years later.
From Grand Rapids, MI, so that was a good starting wage at the time. I'm sure Chicago was something like 25/hr. I'm talking out of my ass though I feel like.
>im too old to be here but I remember CBGB and gatien's clubs in new york. i'd get mugged like once a fricking month, but the music scene was cool and housing was cheap. i moved out of the US and NYC a long time ago. NYC was never the same after 9/11 and i found myself a swedish wife i moved over with a few years later.
yeah I remember seeing Satyricon live in 2000 in some shitty NYC club,
Technology in recent decades has to be one of the biggest tricks ever pulled. The quality if life doesn't really get better, all that happens is that we trade our social life for comfort and isolation and more people on the planet.
>Comfort and isolation isn't quality of life >More people on the planet isn't quality of life
It is by any reasonable standard before today, you just don't like it now because you think you have too much of it. For most of human history we've been living with intestinal parasites, cholera, smallpox and dysentery from human feces in the drinking water, bed bugs and lice in all the bedding and eventually we advanced forward to a standard of black lung from coal smoke.
For all of human history we've been seeking conditions in which people CAN live apart without being raided by outsiders, CAN seek comfort without dying of hunger and CAN have more people on the planet instead of constantly losing children to disease.
Now we have all these things. This is objectively a better standard of life by every reasonable metric. The fact that you don't know what to do with it, or that you despise what other people are choosing to do with it, sounds like a personal problem. Maybe you should fix it.
good post. i'm so fricking tired of hearing the same homosexualy doomer posts that "le world is le collapsing!", "le technology bad!". motherfricker, we live in the best age humanity has ever lived in.
that's not to say we don't have problems, we do. the past 3 decades have foisted upon us civilization-altering tech without restrictions. we're only starting our relationship with these new techs, and there's no doubt there will be a rocky period as we adjust with it.
but to sit on this site for 17 hours/day and whine that technology is killing your life is very much a personal problem.
It's pretty weird most technology so far has only improved communication but otherwise feels the same as it was in the 90s. Like 30 years before the 90s the internet didn't exist at all 30 years later to today it just feels like Technology has expanded to about what you'd expect.
Not him, but I was at the Bend one a year ago visiting a friend. You can rent movies, but it's more of a museum than a real Blockbuster. People kept coming in and out just to look at the "shrine" of memorabilia on the back wall and to snap selfies in front of the store. They were also charging stupid prices for cheap Gildan T-Shirts with poor print quality. The store just doesn't have that "feel" because times have changed and the atmosphere is gone, so you probably won't even get nostalgic if you visit.
No, I wouldn't. My life is way better now. Also, Blockbuster was shit. They scammed people with late fees, and the staff was also a bunch of moronic high school homosexuals. Every other rental place was cheaper and better.
>MUH LATE FEES
Like just return it late then morons
No, I wouldn't. My life is way better now. Also, Blockbuster was shit. They scammed people with late fees, and the staff was also a bunch of moronic high school homosexuals. Every other rental place was cheaper and better.
Yeah, the Netflix model is the right one. It's just their content generation that failed them. Their release schedule, their rapid growth internationally, their platform, the nuts and bolts, was and still is the future, the business was good. But they hired the wrong people, they let a culture develop that wasn't artistic it was political, they fricked up the show.
It's showbusiness, one doesn't exist without the other and there is no room for anything else.
>No, I wouldn't. My life is way better now. Also, Blockbuster was shit. They scammed people with late fees, and the staff was also a bunch of moronic high school homosexuals. Every other rental place was cheaper and better.
>Have you guys seen this "You will own nothing and you will be happy." Video? This shit is scary and we have to fight back >Remember blockbuster? Things were so much better then. So much more soul. So much comfier.
Yeah no shit homosexual. But not because of Blockbuster. Social media didn't even exist back then and the internet was as big as it should have always been. No fricking smartphones, no apps. None of that fricking garbage
>dude there was no time in human history where people had access to modern technology, weren't dying of small pox and weren't getting completely raped by income inequality
It was called the 90s and 00s. It was a glorious time, truly a golden era. I feel bad for zoomers, I really do, they weren't there. Block buster was a thing because people were so well off, go fuel up the car and drive to the video rental store to get a movie and a video game for a week? Even if that's all we still had I doubt most zoomer cucks could afford to do that these days.
Our last standing local movie rental store just closed down. To be fair the only thing I ever did to help them was donate VHS tapes, and buy video games. I have my own movie collection and archive so the only time we rented was for my GF. Rest in peace kangz.
sometimes i wonder if we are living at the peak of convenience and global warming or some other AIDS is going to make everyone subsaharan tier poor so the world becomes like fallout and people will look back at the time when you could instantly have any kind of film, game, or musical record as the crazy atlantis techno wizard times
even in atlantis i'm still a loser tho, pretty gay.
I'm 36 and know for a fricking fact that my parents worked half as hard for real-world more money and a pension that will actually fund a retirement. We are cursed to pay for the nurses that will deal with thier incontinence. Ritz video rental ruled.
>Be honest, you'd return if you could. It was a better time
Return to the 90's? Yes?
Return to Blockbuster? No.
3 rimes I returned stuff in the return slot and 3 times they accused me of never returning it and charged me full price for them. A friend of mine who worked at another location told me never to do that and always return it and watch them scan it. Some employees mostly the blacks would pocket items returned in the return slot.
No shit.
I rarely got to go to Blockbuster (my parents said it cost too much) but yes, I like going into physical stores more.
I used to play Sonic 1 there when I was a kid because I was poor
I just miss having reasons to leave the house
Piss off nostalgiafricker. Video stores were a giant pain in the ass. Its much better to be able to rent without leaving the house.
No it isnt
this
90s fricking sucked and blockbuster fetishism is fricking disgusting.
Blockbuster sucked, but the '90s and early 2000s were a genuinely good time.
im too old to be here but I remember CBGB and gatien's clubs in new york. i'd get mugged like once a fricking month, but the music scene was cool and housing was cheap. i moved out of the US and NYC a long time ago. NYC was never the same after 9/11 and i found myself a swedish wife i moved over with a few years later.
Housing was incredibly cheap and you could get a factory job starting at 18-20/hr pretty easily fresh out of high school.
where did you live at?
From Grand Rapids, MI, so that was a good starting wage at the time. I'm sure Chicago was something like 25/hr. I'm talking out of my ass though I feel like.
>im too old to be here but I remember CBGB and gatien's clubs in new york. i'd get mugged like once a fricking month, but the music scene was cool and housing was cheap. i moved out of the US and NYC a long time ago. NYC was never the same after 9/11 and i found myself a swedish wife i moved over with a few years later.
yeah I remember seeing Satyricon live in 2000 in some shitty NYC club,
older millennial here, this is cringe to the max.
and cheaper. Blockbuster was such a rip off
Still having independent theaters showing older films regularly was better for film. Convenience isn't everything.
Technology in recent decades has to be one of the biggest tricks ever pulled. The quality if life doesn't really get better, all that happens is that we trade our social life for comfort and isolation and more people on the planet.
>Comfort and isolation isn't quality of life
>More people on the planet isn't quality of life
It is by any reasonable standard before today, you just don't like it now because you think you have too much of it. For most of human history we've been living with intestinal parasites, cholera, smallpox and dysentery from human feces in the drinking water, bed bugs and lice in all the bedding and eventually we advanced forward to a standard of black lung from coal smoke.
For all of human history we've been seeking conditions in which people CAN live apart without being raided by outsiders, CAN seek comfort without dying of hunger and CAN have more people on the planet instead of constantly losing children to disease.
Now we have all these things. This is objectively a better standard of life by every reasonable metric. The fact that you don't know what to do with it, or that you despise what other people are choosing to do with it, sounds like a personal problem. Maybe you should fix it.
good post. i'm so fricking tired of hearing the same homosexualy doomer posts that "le world is le collapsing!", "le technology bad!". motherfricker, we live in the best age humanity has ever lived in.
that's not to say we don't have problems, we do. the past 3 decades have foisted upon us civilization-altering tech without restrictions. we're only starting our relationship with these new techs, and there's no doubt there will be a rocky period as we adjust with it.
but to sit on this site for 17 hours/day and whine that technology is killing your life is very much a personal problem.
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It's pretty weird most technology so far has only improved communication but otherwise feels the same as it was in the 90s. Like 30 years before the 90s the internet didn't exist at all 30 years later to today it just feels like Technology has expanded to about what you'd expect.
You can, there's still one in Bend, OR, about 3 hours from Portland
you can rent movies there? I'm like 120 miles from bend lol
Not him, but I was at the Bend one a year ago visiting a friend. You can rent movies, but it's more of a museum than a real Blockbuster. People kept coming in and out just to look at the "shrine" of memorabilia on the back wall and to snap selfies in front of the store. They were also charging stupid prices for cheap Gildan T-Shirts with poor print quality. The store just doesn't have that "feel" because times have changed and the atmosphere is gone, so you probably won't even get nostalgic if you visit.
I just miss video stores in general. browsing was kino
Late fees were not cool. The problem isn't the distribution, the problem is the content.
The wrong people were attracted to hollywood.
>MUH LATE FEES
Like just return it late then morons
No, I wouldn't. My life is way better now. Also, Blockbuster was shit. They scammed people with late fees, and the staff was also a bunch of moronic high school homosexuals. Every other rental place was cheaper and better.
Late fees more than anything is what killed them. Netflix turned late fees into a subscription.
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Yeah, the Netflix model is the right one. It's just their content generation that failed them. Their release schedule, their rapid growth internationally, their platform, the nuts and bolts, was and still is the future, the business was good. But they hired the wrong people, they let a culture develop that wasn't artistic it was political, they fricked up the show.
It's showbusiness, one doesn't exist without the other and there is no room for anything else.
>No, I wouldn't. My life is way better now. Also, Blockbuster was shit. They scammed people with late fees, and the staff was also a bunch of moronic high school homosexuals. Every other rental place was cheaper and better.
This.
Family Video had insane deals compared to Blockbuster. It was something like 4 movies for 2 dollars for most of what they carried.
>Family Video had insane deals compared to Blockbuster. It was something like 4 movies for 2 dollars for most of what they carried.
all the ma and pa places had great movies and great deals plus the adult section I'd go browse when nobody was looking
Yeah, they were also a lot more receptive to requests you had for a hard-to-find movie.
The world would be a better place without you in it.
>Have you guys seen this "You will own nothing and you will be happy." Video? This shit is scary and we have to fight back
>Remember blockbuster? Things were so much better then. So much more soul. So much comfier.
Yeah no shit homosexual. But not because of Blockbuster. Social media didn't even exist back then and the internet was as big as it should have always been. No fricking smartphones, no apps. None of that fricking garbage
>a-a-atleast we have bing bing wahoo video games...... we're totally more prosperous than the past
>dude there was no time in human history where people had access to modern technology, weren't dying of small pox and weren't getting completely raped by income inequality
It was called the 90s and 00s. It was a glorious time, truly a golden era. I feel bad for zoomers, I really do, they weren't there. Block buster was a thing because people were so well off, go fuel up the car and drive to the video rental store to get a movie and a video game for a week? Even if that's all we still had I doubt most zoomer cucks could afford to do that these days.
Our last standing local movie rental store just closed down. To be fair the only thing I ever did to help them was donate VHS tapes, and buy video games. I have my own movie collection and archive so the only time we rented was for my GF. Rest in peace kangz.
sometimes i wonder if we are living at the peak of convenience and global warming or some other AIDS is going to make everyone subsaharan tier poor so the world becomes like fallout and people will look back at the time when you could instantly have any kind of film, game, or musical record as the crazy atlantis techno wizard times
even in atlantis i'm still a loser tho, pretty gay.
Zoomers be seething
I'm 36 and know for a fricking fact that my parents worked half as hard for real-world more money and a pension that will actually fund a retirement. We are cursed to pay for the nurses that will deal with thier incontinence. Ritz video rental ruled.
>We are cursed to pay for the nurses that will deal with thier incontinence.
looking like that might happen over in england
Geolocated -. I'm currently watching Jaws 2 thinking about how much I'd rather live in pre-internet New England
>Be honest, you'd return if you could. It was a better time
Return to the 90's? Yes?
Return to Blockbuster? No.
3 rimes I returned stuff in the return slot and 3 times they accused me of never returning it and charged me full price for them. A friend of mine who worked at another location told me never to do that and always return it and watch them scan it. Some employees mostly the blacks would pocket items returned in the return slot.