This is unironically what idiot 30 somethings that miss their parents really want to go back to. Instead of just downloading whatever movie you want instantly.
I flip this on its head. Physical media and paying for shit is a psyop to make your brain trick itself into thinking media better than it is. It's the sunk cost fallacy.
Do not long for the days of being more easily fooled by them.
>make your brain trick itself into thinking media better than it is
oh nooo don't throw me in that briar patch. i sure would hate it if i enjoyed more things!
This is true on a material level, but art is inherently immaterial. If you can't seen artistic value in the entertainment you consume without paying for it, than then were is no artistic value. It's pure titillation at best and MKULTRA programming at worst.
Somehow Disney is the only studio that figured this out, hence their theatrical re-releases and the use of the "vault" to keep their movies feeling valuable and like events
even today their movies rarely go on sale on digital platforms and if they do it's never below $10, whereas Sony and Universal have constant firesales where they sell movies from supposed crown israeliteel IPs for $5 or less
I never went to Blockbuster/Hollywood Video as a kid. We went to the same shitty one that was run by Asians.
It shut down like 12 years ago and is a Korean spa now. I tried to find out using Rubmaps if it was one of the happy ending places, but I could get no conclusive answer.
The smart people had their own memory cards and copied the save data over to their cards.
https://i.imgur.com/4JWGbmM.jpg
How did people live like this?
It was cheaper to rent games than spend $60 buying a new game.
For DVDs, I only used the Blockbuster Pass, got the max movies I could in a month, ripped them onto hard drives and moved on.
At the time data caps were a thing and these companies were being Nazis about illegal downloads. So it was a good alternative to rip movies. Since there were stores, it was easier than waiting for Netflix envelopes to arrive.
Streaming wasn’t a thing then either.
The idea that someone would rent a fricking cartridge game a second time expecting their save file to still be on it is moronic, just like you were as a child. That's like pausing a VHS tape, returning it, then renting it again and expecting it to still be stopped at the same spot.
>The idea that someone would rent a fricking cartridge game a second time expecting their save file to still be on it is moronic,
Who the frick said otherwise? And it wasn't impossible. I rented Secret of Mana numerous times and beat it with the same save file. Normally there were multiple slots. If it got deleted, whatever, but you could always jump into to someone elses save file if you wanted to.
Haha, fair play, me and you both, brother.
Reading in the christmas radiotimes that a film would be coming on the TV.
You had to be there at that exact moment with your butterfly net and that slice of art was yours to capture, to keep and replay forever.
I could never live in the moment after that.
Was just the last stop after another fun filled family outing, after a day of fun, having dinner as a family and spending time together.
You got to try and be exposed to new and different media, you weren’t just told to consume whatever you were told to, what with the variety of movies and especially video games that you can have all weekend for just a few dollars. You got to make your own choice!
What’s the matter Zoomers? Never experienced such a thing? 🙂
Are you seriously going to argue Blockbuster was better than today's view on demand stuff like Netflix because of its variety...? You can watch an infinite number of films in a whole month for the price of like 2 New Release 1 night rentals back in the day. Lmao get real. Not saying Netflix's selection hasn't greatly diminished over the years but it still has way more films to watch on demand and for much lower cost than Blockbuster ever offered. You'd have a few New Releases that may or may not be good and a whole catalog of shit. And don't even attempt to say video games at Blockbuster beats what Steam can offer. Granted, it's hard to rent games now just for one weekend of fun like in the past, though maybe it's not idk, I don't play consoles anymore and PC never had that option plus you play PC games online with friends not in person (usually.)
I suppose what Blockbuster really offered then was a physical space. It offered visuals, sounds, smells, touch, even taste perhaps. These visceral experiences offer a greater sense of nostalgia and human bonding in the moment than, say, just choosing a movie on Netflix or whatever. That's really the only thing that Blockbuster did better (and this only really applies if you had a good Blockbuster or movie place in a halfway decent neighborhood.)
You are demented. That's like saying "why go to a quality restaurant when I can get low grade shit at home". When was the last good movie even made? Top Gun Maverick? And that's pretty much a legacy film because Cruise was involved.
GODDAMN I loved looking at the covers in the horror section. I've enjoyed watching alot of the movies I saw on the shelf since then. Gotta say the biggest whiplash I've experienced where expectations from the cover clashed with the actual movie has to Puppet Master.
It was better because they had to make good shit to earn your dollar. Now they just make endless slop, they are bought by streaming services that never make any money, and those streaming services hope to pop sub rates in order to be bought out by a bigger streaming service.
Hollywood died when Blockbuster died.
there was a dvd rental store that we went to every friday when I was a kid. the owner would always keep new releases for us because we were regulars.
a few years ago I ran into him on the train. I didn't even realize it was him until he recognized me. all dressed in black and sporting a graying beard, walking his giant dog. fricking felt like post-apocalypse.
The same Salvadorean guy was always manning the counter at the mom n pop when I went in to rent porn. He probably knows me better than most people without ever having exchanged anything besides pleasantries and I deeply hope I never run into him again
I only got games from Hollywood Video because I'm not a boomer or Gen X. Games like Pokemon Snap, Simpsons Hit and Run, and Resident Evil. Never occurred to me to ask my parents for a particular movie there. It was fine, a way of trying out new games. A Hollywood Video was right across the street from a Blockbuster Video and the grocery store, but we always went to the Hollywood Video most of the time.
My fantasy woman is now a chubby neettress whose only job ever was working at Hollywood video for three weeks but it's 2002 and the last week she's working there, forever, thanks to you
Don't know what about your post brought that out of me
This is unironically what idiot 30 somethings that miss their parents really want to go back to. Instead of just downloading whatever movie you want instantly.
the problem with making everything disposable is that it makes everything seem disposable
Holy shit…he’s right
Also makes everything feel very lonely.
I flip this on its head. Physical media and paying for shit is a psyop to make your brain trick itself into thinking media better than it is. It's the sunk cost fallacy.
Do not long for the days of being more easily fooled by them.
>make your brain trick itself into thinking media better than it is
oh nooo don't throw me in that briar patch. i sure would hate it if i enjoyed more things!
This is true on a material level, but art is inherently immaterial. If you can't seen artistic value in the entertainment you consume without paying for it, than then were is no artistic value. It's pure titillation at best and MKULTRA programming at worst.
>Just destroy the Mona Lisa bro there's already like a million photos of it online
Somehow Disney is the only studio that figured this out, hence their theatrical re-releases and the use of the "vault" to keep their movies feeling valuable and like events
even today their movies rarely go on sale on digital platforms and if they do it's never below $10, whereas Sony and Universal have constant firesales where they sell movies from supposed crown israeliteel IPs for $5 or less
Very carefully
hm what u mean?
Didn't have smartphones, streaming and pirating wasn't very mainstream. It was totally normal.
I never went to Blockbuster/Hollywood Video as a kid. We went to the same shitty one that was run by Asians.
It shut down like 12 years ago and is a Korean spa now. I tried to find out using Rubmaps if it was one of the happy ending places, but I could get no conclusive answer.
they're all happy ending places for the right price, anon. shit, restaurants will give you a happy ending if you flash enough dolla
I rented games as a kid and saved over everyone else's save file.
The smart people had their own memory cards and copied the save data over to their cards.
It was cheaper to rent games than spend $60 buying a new game.
For DVDs, I only used the Blockbuster Pass, got the max movies I could in a month, ripped them onto hard drives and moved on.
At the time data caps were a thing and these companies were being Nazis about illegal downloads. So it was a good alternative to rip movies. Since there were stores, it was easier than waiting for Netflix envelopes to arrive.
Streaming wasn’t a thing then either.
By the time Hollywood starting carrying DVDs it was already over
Ever hear of memory cards, stupid? This is like saying "when I go to a hotel I have them wash the sheets, ha ha ha"
Based knower. Thanks mom for renting me Wicked City thinking it was a kids flick
>Ever hear of memory cards, stupid?
Cartridge games didn't have memory cards (SNES, Genesis, N64) you fricking homosexual.
The idea that someone would rent a fricking cartridge game a second time expecting their save file to still be on it is moronic, just like you were as a child. That's like pausing a VHS tape, returning it, then renting it again and expecting it to still be stopped at the same spot.
>The idea that someone would rent a fricking cartridge game a second time expecting their save file to still be on it is moronic,
Who the frick said otherwise? And it wasn't impossible. I rented Secret of Mana numerous times and beat it with the same save file. Normally there were multiple slots. If it got deleted, whatever, but you could always jump into to someone elses save file if you wanted to.
they left their houses
Post the movie that you rented at the video store over and over and over again
Hollywood videos had the good stuff.
Hollywood Video had good deals on their used movies. I was only 13 but I started a pretty good DVD collection then with some of their deals
>I was only 13 but I started a pretty good DVD collection
I'm sensing it's all been downhill from there.
Haha, fair play, me and you both, brother.
Reading in the christmas radiotimes that a film would be coming on the TV.
You had to be there at that exact moment with your butterfly net and that slice of art was yours to capture, to keep and replay forever.
I could never live in the moment after that.
Holy shit me too
>evil robot mommy dance number at the end
In retrospect it's pretty bizarre that people let Ralph Bakshi make so many movies
TMNT 2
Was just the last stop after another fun filled family outing, after a day of fun, having dinner as a family and spending time together.
You got to try and be exposed to new and different media, you weren’t just told to consume whatever you were told to, what with the variety of movies and especially video games that you can have all weekend for just a few dollars. You got to make your own choice!
What’s the matter Zoomers? Never experienced such a thing? 🙂
Are you seriously going to argue Blockbuster was better than today's view on demand stuff like Netflix because of its variety...? You can watch an infinite number of films in a whole month for the price of like 2 New Release 1 night rentals back in the day. Lmao get real. Not saying Netflix's selection hasn't greatly diminished over the years but it still has way more films to watch on demand and for much lower cost than Blockbuster ever offered. You'd have a few New Releases that may or may not be good and a whole catalog of shit. And don't even attempt to say video games at Blockbuster beats what Steam can offer. Granted, it's hard to rent games now just for one weekend of fun like in the past, though maybe it's not idk, I don't play consoles anymore and PC never had that option plus you play PC games online with friends not in person (usually.)
I suppose what Blockbuster really offered then was a physical space. It offered visuals, sounds, smells, touch, even taste perhaps. These visceral experiences offer a greater sense of nostalgia and human bonding in the moment than, say, just choosing a movie on Netflix or whatever. That's really the only thing that Blockbuster did better (and this only really applies if you had a good Blockbuster or movie place in a halfway decent neighborhood.)
You are demented. That's like saying "why go to a quality restaurant when I can get low grade shit at home". When was the last good movie even made? Top Gun Maverick? And that's pretty much a legacy film because Cruise was involved.
The Friday/Saturday night ritual of video store, pick up pizza, chill at home meant more then the places themselves.
>How did people live like this?
They didn't. Time began when you were born.
GODDAMN I loved looking at the covers in the horror section. I've enjoyed watching alot of the movies I saw on the shelf since then. Gotta say the biggest whiplash I've experienced where expectations from the cover clashed with the actual movie has to Puppet Master.
>GODDAMN I loved looking at the covers in the horror section
same and also the anime shelf
my mom would never let me rent guyver
> zooms will never enjoy the illicit thrill of browsing the Adult Video section behind the curtain in the back of the local video store.
>how did people live like this?
ever wish you could go to chucky cheese again without being judged?
You can't go there without getting caught between a multi family Black brawl now
this but most of the US
Rent free
It was better because they had to make good shit to earn your dollar. Now they just make endless slop, they are bought by streaming services that never make any money, and those streaming services hope to pop sub rates in order to be bought out by a bigger streaming service.
Hollywood died when Blockbuster died.
My Black here describing capitalism
But true
there was a dvd rental store that we went to every friday when I was a kid. the owner would always keep new releases for us because we were regulars.
a few years ago I ran into him on the train. I didn't even realize it was him until he recognized me. all dressed in black and sporting a graying beard, walking his giant dog. fricking felt like post-apocalypse.
The same Salvadorean guy was always manning the counter at the mom n pop when I went in to rent porn. He probably knows me better than most people without ever having exchanged anything besides pleasantries and I deeply hope I never run into him again
I only got games from Hollywood Video because I'm not a boomer or Gen X. Games like Pokemon Snap, Simpsons Hit and Run, and Resident Evil. Never occurred to me to ask my parents for a particular movie there. It was fine, a way of trying out new games. A Hollywood Video was right across the street from a Blockbuster Video and the grocery store, but we always went to the Hollywood Video most of the time.
The only job I've ever had was Hollywood Video for three weeks lol
My fantasy woman is now a chubby neettress whose only job ever was working at Hollywood video for three weeks but it's 2002 and the last week she's working there, forever, thanks to you
Don't know what about your post brought that out of me