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cool for the experience and ritual, sucked when you got a shitty movie and you aren't going back til next week.
It was systematic. Streaming is just lazy
VHS/video game cartridge retail was kino. No woke shit, just decent to great movies/games. You also made friends during the process: the owner of the place, the tech guy, the balcony guy etc.
In essence, was a better controlled life: study/work during week, fun during weekends. People really got together to see/play shit.
Streaming was nice only in the very beginning, between 2007-2012, when was really a new thing. But today? LOL... its just worse than cable tv.
Torrent and a file server is the last frontier.
>Torrent and a file server is the last frontier.
how do i do this?
not the torrent thing but a file server?
i want to start downloading a bunch of shit and just stream it to tv.
sonarr, radarr, plex
find a guide for self hosting on Cinemaphile
>Torrent and a file server is the last frontier.
Last frontier is made on the fly made to order AI fetish porno starring your favorite a listers beamed directly into your brain
It was cool because you never knew if the movie you wanted to watch would be available to rent untill you got there. And most people only went once or twice a week so it was a treat.
Nostalgia must be some sort of brain poison because only a complete moron would think this is a positive.
>says the brainrotted zogbot who spends half an hour scrolling through trash on goyflix before finally settling on some zlist show only 50 people have watched while he scrolls through his tiktok only half paying attention
Don't be jealous because you didn't live through the greatest time to be alive. I'm sorry you missed out but you should focus on trying to make your own stuff better.
>Don't be jealous because you didn't live through the greatest time to be alive.
It was probably the greatest time to be alive but renting videos definitely wasn't the reason for it.
Renting videos is just the medium of discussion, it wasn't the root cause. Like the video of the kids hanging out at the 7/11, it was just the time before the internet where people naturally existed and interacted in public. Your daily life wasn't curated, you might unexpectedly run into a friend and spontaneously plan an outing. When you could expect to recognize or at least culturally connect with your neighbors or the lady checking you out at the grocery store.
That is what people miss, they miss community, they miss a country that felt like it was for them. All of that is gone now, sure renting videos technically wasn't some amazing experience. But it was an event that most people from that era can relate to, if you can't understand why so many people are nostalgic for that than you either weren't alive at the time or you have been completely subsumed by clown world.
The specific discussion is about renting videos, which was shit.
Ask me what being a teenager was like in the 80's and I'll have a vastly different opinion as it was absolutely the best period to be a teenager possibly in all of human history.
80's, great.
Blockbuster Video, shite.
Only morons went to blockbuster, the kids in the know went to empire video or family video or the no name video store connected to the grocery store. Could get twice the games and movies for half the price.
The only problem there was that those stores had very limited stock of new movies so if you didn't get there early enough then you were shit out of luck whereas Blockbuster always had like half a stand or more of the big new blockbusters.
Those only existed in small towns or big cities. Most of just had BB and HV chains.
A lot less non whites. Shitskins ruin everything
you will never have a real ethnostate
True because we were betrayed in 1920 and 1965. But at least some of us remember a time before it was well and truly over.
*1860
Only founding stock Anglos are American. Everyone else is just visiting.
Yeah I do it's called Israel, seethe harder.
its really only morons waxing nostalgic for renting
I think part of it is that, sure. But there’s something to be said in light of the overload that we’re subject to with streaming now. That one anon was right - movie selecting was an event and an occasion, and it sort of made watching a movie more rewarding even if it was shit. Often times now, I’ll browse through whatever 3 streaming platforms im subscribed to for 20 min, determine it’s all shit, and turn off the tv. There’s too much content and we’re overexposed. It does devalue watching a film a bit, unless it’s something truly special.
Now, does that outweigh the pros? Probably not. But the sentiment of longing for video stores isn’t purely nostalgia
>movie selecting was an event and an occasion
exactly.. my found memories of going to the rental store was about the family heading out to pick out a film to watch. It wasn't about going to get a very specific film and then being let down the film wasn't in. Being back before the internet was huge you didn't even know what was released until you hit the store and looked around.
but other than the whole event driven side of renting, everything else about the movie rental stores sucked ass. Returning films sucked ass. Getting a VHS that wasn't rewound sucked ass. The selection of films sucked. Everything about the tech sucked vs modern tv sets and modern formats for film.
that said, it still kind of sad that a lot of casual family sort of mini trips like going to a video store, going to look around toy's R us or wall the mall etc are 100% dead. Replaced by everyone sitting around ignoring each other in the same house with a ipad/pc/tv screen/phone glued to their face.
>Replaced by everyone sitting around ignoring each other in the same house with a ipad/pc/tv screen/phone glued to their face.
this.
i want to kill myself.
Hypermediacy is real brain poison. Your brain shuts down because it has so much less to do. Distance yourself from it as much as you can.
funny enough our brains are hardwired to HATE certainty and LOVE chance so he's technically right
Anticipation is a huge part of why memories last. Spending your week thinking about which kino you wanted to rent, staring endlessly at the postesr letting your imagination run wild, getting hyped listening to your friends talk about how awesome the film is ingrains the experience into your long term memory. Having instant access to everything makes even good films feel like just another day
You spend an hour browsing Netflix before settling on a straight to streaming Michael Pena movie with a 3 star rating
>Socializing and actually doing things is for morons
Zoomers are truly fricking lost, man
Isn’t it just about time for your bi hourly handful of SSRIs just to keep you from shooting you a gradeschool little zoomie? Your brain is so fricking fries from porn and israelites that you have no idea what was stolen from you. I don’t hate you, but you’re incredibly moronic if you think pre2000s wasn’t the most kino real life experience in existence. I’m sorry this is what you’re stuck with, sincerely.
Nostalgia addiction has destroyed you as a human being.
comfort and convenience doesn't necessarily make something better.
If they didn't have what you wanted you'd end up renting something else and it was a great way to discover movies you wouldn't have seen otherwise
an inconvenience
But you don't get the social aspect of spending friday nights with your friends going through aisle, laughing and joking around picking movies, broccoli head.
Better than you could ever imagine. I still remember the Blockbuster smell.
greasy popcorn topping and carpet glue
You will never know the feeling of riding home from Hollywood Video with two movies and a game, knowing there's pizza and soda on the way, and all your best mates are coming over for a sleepover and to play Goldeneye. It was a magical time.
frick you.
I miss childhood so much bros it's unreal.
growing up in the 90s... we didn't know what a privilege it was.
get a grip
You are why people make fun of millenials. gay.
Brown and seething, I pity people born after 9/11. They just don't know that there could be anything better. The only world they ever experienced was clown world.
jfc stop embarassing yourself
Sorry you missed out bro. Hopefully your generation takes steps to start turning things around. It's not too late to make a better world for your children. I mean sure you'll never get white america back and you'll always have to look over your shoulder for the knock out game and stuff but I'm sure with enough effort you could keep big macs from going over 20 dollars.
Missed out on overpriced video rentals and very limited stock that you'd have to return quickly or be charged extra? You nostalgia spergs are delusional, the service was shit. I have more nostalgia for burning and swapping DVD's and internet piracy of the late 90's/early 2000's.
Well, return your shit on time, it’s not that goddamn hard.
Don't need to return anything anymore with free movies online.
Sorry I'm not black so none of those things were a problem for me. Also everyone forgets that blockbuster was just the name brand movie rental place that charged twice as much. If you knew your city at all you could find 10 different local places that had most of the same stuff for half the price.
When I was a kid there was a grocery story with a connected family video and you could get 3 games or movies for 5 days for just a couple of bucks. Not my fault you only got ripped off and didn't have the personal responsibility to return shit on time.
That's some cope for your nostalgia autism. Piracy was always pushed by White Europeans, ie The Pirate Bay. And Blockbuster took over the majority of Mom and Pop video rental stores, but by the late 90's came around, piracy was a better alternative.
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why you get so irrationally angry at people remembering better times? Is it because you feel some sort of guilt for maybe making these times people don't appreciate? hmm
>Better times
>Consoomer nostalgia for soulless overpriced and limited library brick and motor corporate store
Yep, you're a confirmed autist.
>That is what people miss, they miss community, they miss a country that felt like it was for them. All of that is gone now, sure renting videos technically wasn't some amazing experience. But it was an event that most people from that era can relate to, if you can't understand why so many people are nostalgic for that than you either weren't alive at the time or you have been completely subsumed by clown world.
You wouldn't get it.
What a bitter little brat you are.
>And Blockbuster took over the majority of Mom and Pop video rental stores
Is this really how it was in burgerland?
>muh local rental place!
Not same anon but come on. Those places had jack shit most of the time. Anything decent was gone by Friday night. Stop being a homo.
I'm late 30's, homosexual.
Bro, I understand and empathize with your nostalgia. I occasionally get nostalgic for the 90s too until I really remember the mundane moments that made up 90% of my life. You're forgetting the boring moments.
And you are forgetting that social media and the internet has permanently warped everyones attention spans. Do you think we all just sat around in torment all day long wishing for death because we didn't have a smartphone with tiktok to look at 24/7?
The mundane moments are where life is made, where inspiration is born. Why do you think hollywood and video games are an endless cesspool of recycled ideas? Because no one has the time to just doodle and come up with new ones. They don't live life they just watch others repeating others repeating others. It's intellectual incest each new generation copying the previous one but more poorly.
You just wouldn't get it if you weren't there and if you were than you're too zogged out to understand why more people than ever are unhappy and checking out.
>Do you think we all just sat around in torment all day long wishing for death because we didn't have a smartphone with tiktok to look at 24/7?
No. We sat around being bored as frick, watching Saved by the Bell reruns and playing Donkey Kong for the umpteenth time. These "problems" are all self-imposed too. You don't HAVE to be on social media. Cinemaphile is literally the only "social media" site that I use.
And everything you love about the 90s is still available. You can still watch the same movies, listen to the same songs, play the same games, and hell Zoomer girls are even dressing in 90s grunge girl clothes. Of course modernity is shit, but the 90s would also be absolute degenerate pozzed decade by a guy born in let's say the 1950s.
Sucks to suck I guess, not your fault you'll never get it or why people miss it. You can't see the big picture and cherry pick a few issues while not understanding that it's the entire zeitgeist of the era that people miss. Also not having to lock your doors or fear the summer of love because a crackhead OD'd.
The boring moments are what I miss. After all your favorite TV shows had finished and the few video games you owned had already been played to death, you could just chill out and be with your thoughts. I don't think I've had that experience in at least 15 years
The boring moments I remember are car rides at night before Gameboys came with light up screens. Wasn't really fun or anything
I miss white America too, Anon
Best time to be a kid for sure. These zoomers today got nothing.
It's a shitty time to become an adult too. When I turned 21 a decade ago, I could go downtown and get drunk off my ass for like $40 on a Friday night.
Now, it costs $20 for an Uber just one-way, and a single drink is like $15. Plus, they raised the age for smoking to 21. Gen Z got a shit deal all around, whereas we saw what life could have been like get stripped away.
Smoking is gross.
>smoking is gross
So is your peenie but at least some women will wrap their lips around a cigarette.
The pasta is so good because it's so true.
People don't talk enough about how deeply inferior CRT screens were for viewing movies. You are basically ruining the cinematic experience for yourself.
>b-b-b-but muh comfy scanlines
Only works for for certain genres like comedies and campy horror. Real movies could not be viewed on a CRT screen.
Video games of the time were made with CRTs in mind. The pixel bleed is part of the design.
I tried explain the masking system on CRTs to zoomers, it's a fool's errand, anon.
It was more an issue of the difference I'm aspect ratios than than the actual screen resolution in my opinion. Other than movies that got the open matte treatment , most theatrical releases got absolutely butchered formatting them for 4:3 televisions. Widescreen releases were superior but still had the issue of black bar cropping the image.
>play king kong on the gamecube
>bubble tv at max brightness is still dark as shit
>makes the game way scarier
i miss it
>People don't talk enough about how deeply inferior CRT screens were for viewing movies.
Watching movies on CRT wasn't bad until I went for a Christmas party at my rich uncles house in 1999 and he had a bigass plasma hanging on the wall
My scrubass household didn't even have a widescreen until like 2003
>Watching movies on CRT
For me it was the flat screen Panasonic CRT that weighed about 150lbs.
>scanlines
You couldn't see the scanlines when you watched a live action movie on TV unless you literally had your eyes pressed to the screen. Methinks you're a zoomer LARPing as a millenial
You couldn't even see the scalines then because VHS and live TV were both interlaced. You only see them on video games because they used progressive scan but also skipped every other line.
You didn't see them in videogames either. Zoomers are moronic.
That would depend on the quality of your TV/method of connection.
Nah, it was great
t. watched 2001 for the first time on an 8 inch screen
Infinitely worse. Blockbuster was the shitty McDonald's of video rentals, and don't let anyone tell you differently.
Why? Their selection was pathetic and NO PORNO SECTION.
Mom and pops were far superior, I’ll grant you that. They always had that sort of musty smell, almost like a library, but I get hit with a wave of nostalgia anytime I catch a hint of a similar smell. I kind of get why James Rolfe’s autistic ass did a replica video store in his house. It’s comfy as hell.
Suncoast Video was great too, back in the days when that was the only place where you could find anime.
I used to watch all my Tashike Miike vids from mom and pop shops. Ichi the Killer is overrated though and is only memed as being good because of the cool sounding title and kino box cover.
My local blockbuster had a hentai section.
We would get the 20 dollar bundle every weekend. 2 movies, 1 game, 2 candys, 1 big popcorn and soda.
Miss those popcorn tubs, you can't find them at stores
it was fun just walking up and down the aisles. if you didn't have internet it was kinda the only way to know what was out there other than commercials on tv
it was exciting picking out a game or movie and they really had to sell you with the box in those days. sometimes you'd get a stinker but you'd still try to enjoy it because you're not gonna get the opportunity to try something else for a while. all in all it was a pretty based time tho
This. also fairly huge Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and NES games to rent as well.
Worse but it was all we had and we didn't have anything to compare it to. It's nostalgic because we were kids and it usually meant popcorn, soda, and candy. I think the selections were way better too. It wasn't 75% bollywood.
Watching VHS was like 250 lines on a 4:3 CRT where half of the picture was just black bars because muh cinemascope. You didn't know any better, so it was usually fun. But cable tv was more like netflix, because you also didn't really have much choice other than which movies the cable provider could get.
>back then, cast was like 90 to 100% white
>no gays or trannies
It was a good time, even if the movie was terrible
That’s me watching old TV shows on streaming services. Watching S1 of X-Files now. Not a single black, Alphabet, or fat woman.
>Alphabet
You know as well as the rest of us had Chappelle said that bit verbatim on the Chappelle Show, you would be condemning him as a bleeding heart while the butts of his jokes would praise him for an honest look at social and political in-fighting (the "struggling together" thing). How fast things have changed.
It was shit.
>rent movie
>watch it Friday night
>nothing else to watch all weekend.
Now for games it was a different story
You can go back to the store and rent another movie at any fricking time you want. I'm starting to think Zoomers actually believe Blockbuster was only open on weekends kek
Ya good luck getting your mom to drive you back to the Blockbuster on saturday homosexual.
Yeah if you're spoiled and rich and have a stay at home Mom that can take you to the store multiple times a week
i used to go into blockbuster every friday and rent a new videogame for 3 days over the course of the weekend, loved that shit
who /bandit/ here?
I swapped the stickers for perfect dark onto my copy of pokemon snap because I never played that anymore. I'm probably part of the reason that blue sticker is on there.
I don't understand your reasoning. How is the fact that you didn't play Pokemon Snap anymore related to you putting the Perfect Dark sticker on it?
not that anon but it's so they get switched out. he returns the one he owns but doesn't want and gets to keep the one he rented.
I'm calling bullshit. No way some bratty kid would be able to remove an N64 cartridge's sticker intact.
I never did it but I've seen guys do it on Gameboy cartridges with a loose razorblade or a boxcutter blade. you gotta hold it sort of flat under the edge of the sticker like you're shaving it off
You two are neegar scum.
I was 9. And games weren't a few bucks.
>I was 9.
Ok kids do dumb shit, but still that's fricked up.
Yeah it probably ruined some other kids weekend hopefully the store compensated him. If it was my mom she wouldn't have gone back so I'd just be stuck with it. Even though it was right down the road.
>NOOO MY HECKING BABY GAME
i had 2 vcr's and recorded every movie i rented
Do you still have them?
yeah but i don't have a vcr anymore
Same here bro, my collection was sick
>i had 2 vcr's and recorded every movie i rented
Same but with pornos rented from the adult video store or mom and pop shop. Still remember getting a second vcr and copying Tracy Lords. I had two vcr's side by side at the foot of my bed hooked up to a 12 inch color tv
Never had an N64 but didn't they save your data on the cartridge? That's gotta make renting weird.
>Never had an N64 but didn't they save your data on the cartridge? T
SNES too. It was a fact of life that when you rented a game from the store, you could choose to jump into someone else's game or start your own, but unless you erased it before you returned the cartridge, some other kid was going to benefit from your hard work.
yep, you'd see other people's saves all the time, pretty handy if it;s like a multiplayer game where you need to unlock shit
You already know my ocarina of time names
It was extremely kino. I rented a WWF game once and the saw a moronic dead looking custom wrestler that was clearly named after by friends little brother. Another time I rented the town copy of Goldeneye and used a GameShark to unlock all the codes so id be the hero of the neighbourhood
My dad routinely swapped the innards of NES and SNES cartridges. Sometimes to steal a rare game, sometimes just for fun.
so some some poor sap lent a rare and sought after game to based dad and got it back only to see super mario bros the next time they popped it in?
absolutely fricking devilish
We didn't have Blockbuster but we had Rogers' Video Rental and you could get the skinny kid to pull cases out the returns bin from outside and if you got them back before closing none would be the wiser.
>who /bandit/ here?
Here in Canada, it wasn't uncommon for rental chains to sell their rental cartridges after they were done with them. So I always went to the rental stores to purchased 'previously played' games. Ended up getting a lot of N64 carts.
every rental store did that. The best time was at the end of the life of a console generation when they dumped their whole collection for a few dollars at best
>stealing shit that's worth a few bucks
do poorgays really?
>$70.00 in 1998 dollars is: $650.20 in 2022 dollars
ShadowStats U.S. Price Inflation, 1969–2022
No it’s more like $120 moron
I wasn't poor, my family was well off enough to afford a DVD player when they were brand new (a Pioneer that still works just fine) and I imported a player that could handle all the codecs so I was able to pay for international shipping "back then." Sometimes being an anti-semite is just in your blood. The problem, though, was that it took all day to encode shit down to a reasonable file size (700mb).
Like I said above, they didn't have as much as the shop across the street. Our local place was a lot larger and had a ton more shit.
rich people (who were born poor) are rich because they didn't let themselves get israeliteed when they were poor. lmaoing @ moralgays
the store itself sucked but the movies were better because they were made for a different kind of viewer
rental era
>movie night is a special occasion you make plans around
>read reviews and research filmmakers before you drive to the store
>specifically avoid movies that are too similar to stuff youve recently watch
>if possible get something that you heard was thought provoking
>watch silently with company over, savoring the event
>sometimes go to the theater instead, if its a really exciting release
streaming era
>movies are background noise and time fillers for your other screen activities
>mostly just click on what the algorithms give you
>when you find something you actually like, it replaces sleep for a couple of days as you 'marathon' it
>never go to the theater unless its with other people and all of you live in shitty apartments, choose the most generic possible slop to be sure everyone is equally entertained
think about it from the filmmakers perspective and youll understand why everything now is just reboots and girl power. streaming services are particularly insidious because their algorithms have replaced word of mouth and critique. film is now an echo chamber repeating itself for eternity because thats what it tells the customers to tell it that we want
You forgot to mention that renting movies gives the best quality while streaming will never be able to get to disc quality.
They're both digital, dumbass.
moron
>rent a bunch of VHS tapes
>record them at home
>rent a bunch of DVDs
>rip them at home
It was ok if you were in a dial-up area. I didn't like to go to either because they were more expensive and had less stuff than the local place. Local place had a bunch of PPV tapes the chains didn't have.
it was shit anyone pretending like it wasn't is a zoomer larping or a boomer nostalgic for a time when his life didn't suck
tell me how it was shit
It was better because there was a greater catalogue
It was good. Loved it.
You appreciated or hated the movies more because you had to go out and get them.
Enjoying spending time with family? Pretty great.
Inconvenient mr off by one, fr
>Zoomer here.
>How was it compared to streaming?
That is kinda hard to answer, because of the state of the market. Back during Blockbuster I watched around 300 movies per year, and due to the nature of BB we had to plan what we'll borrow and when we'll return it.
Streaming should make that easier then, right? Not really, because of the quality of the movies. Sure, there were piles of shit in 80s and 90s but difference was that a bad movie was just that, bad movie, while nowadays a bad movie or series also manages to piss me off, which basically never happened in VHS days.
You know you can steam old movies, right grandpa? R..right?
Yes, of course, the difference is that back then I borrowed current movies, I didn't browse for movies from 50's to escape movies made by a bunch of neobolsheviks, and I didn't have to do research beforehand.
Limited inventory, sometimes games would be all fricked up
Pretty shit, just like fake nostalgic baiting.
Instead the movies being something to just consume, going to rent a movie was actually something to "do"
Going to Hollywood video on a Friday after school with a friend or two who were going to stay the night was a fun time on its own.
The one near me had a big table with a million Legos so we would build shit and hang out there and talk about what we were going to watch or play first while the parents all talked
As a kid it was a fun weekly ritual with your parents, and also fun to see other kids with their parents there. It was near a BooksAMillion in the same stripmall center in my hometown, and we would sometimes play yugioh in the aisles and trade cards. It was a different time.
It actually sucked ass. Imagine having to pay to watch a movie. Lol. I remember spending up to an hour searching around for the "perfect" movie that I was willing to spend actual money on. Now you can just torrent or stream for free.
It was awesome. You should be personally upset that this doesn't exist for you.
Go on, seethe now.
It was great. Your dad would let you rent a game, a movie, and get 2 things of candy. You knew your weekend was gonna be fricking lit.
We still had video stores in my town until 2 years ago, so I went to one and rented a DVD just to see what all the hype was about. It's definitely highly overrated by nostalgiatard man babies who can't just migrate to a superior online service.
What happened to the Hollywood Videos and Blockbusters in your guy's hometowns? Mine became a dialysis center and insurance agency.
Cell phone outlet, then Chinese restaurant
A yoga place or some other women's exercise place.
blockbuster was split into a liquor store and library, the hollywood video across the street has been a million different things since that didn't last nearly as long, i think it's some burger place now though.
Had a family video until a year ago, I thought they would hold on but one day they were just shuttered. Don't know of any others close by. Will probably just get vandalized and bulldozed for another gas station or drive thru coffee shop. I hate the antichrist.
Way better. It was exciting piling in the car, and seeing what you could find. There was always the risk of something new and popular being rented out, so there was a little bit of a gamble involved. A problem with everything being at your fingertips at all times is that nothing has any value anymore. I remember that it was a fricking event when Jurassic Park finally came out on VHS.
Sometimes something being a slight inconvenience and an experience makes it more special. Having so many options lazily from your couch now dilutes the spirit of watching a movie or show. When you went into the video store it was an important decision and you committed to whatever you picked out.
Also zoomers will never know what it was like to be a 3-6 year old and scare yourself by just looking at the box art of movies you weren't allowed to see
frick I was just about to post something similar
yeah you definitely had to commit to a movie you picked out just because of the hassle of returning it. kind of a sunk cost fallacy here too, because if it sucked, you'd typically finish watching it just to get your money's worth. Versus now you can just stop the slop and pick something else instantly.
I'm not nostalgic about it tbqh, I like the convenience of streaming. Back then we didn't have smartphones that could easily pull up a web page to watch the trailer for a film while shopping around Hollywood Video so it was just basing an opinion on if the box art looked cool.
>Also zoomers will never know what it was like to be a 3-6 year old and scare yourself by just looking at the box art of movies you weren't allowed to see
I would always try to sneak a peak at the horror aisle but would usually see some shit like freddy goes to hell and it would scare the crap out of me and I would scoot over to the next aisle.
STEALTH MOUNTAIN
Pretty shitty tbh.
Have to trek all the way to the video store, pay relatively extortionate amount of money to borrow a movie for a night or two and then have to trek all the way back to the store the next day to return it.
DVD put them out of business because they were mass produced and cheap enough to buy outright and keep forever compared to the early days of video releases.
Netflix was just the final nail in the coffin.
Streaming is hands down a better experience. You will never have to worry about trying to get to the store early so the selections aren’t picked over. You don’t have to take a special trip back to the store to return it. You don’t have to get all hyped up to see something and then walk around there for 30 minutes trying to find something else because what you wanted it checked out. You could argue that it helped you see movies you otherwise wouldn’t have but you can do the same thing now and usually without having to pay $5 to roll the dice.
Not American so can't speak for Hollywood video, but we had Blockbusters and they were the Netflix/WalMart/Youtube of video rental stores.
Great selection on new releases on their weekends, everything else was absolute garbage. There was no porn, and they heavily supported censorship to the point where they didn't carry NC-17 movies.
If you wanted to watch whatever little anime there was at the time like Ninja Scroll it had to be through some regional video branch or a mom & pop store.
Luckily at its peak video rental and game rental was all over the place. Even the corner store that just sells beer and milk and sode and also at the time loads of pornographic magazines also had its own section of VHS and NES games you could rent. One "mom and pop" video store took up the entire 2nd floor of a local shopping mall, larger than the Blockbusters that were around here.
Oh but I guess what was cool is that at least they rented video game consoles, and you could print out stickers through their Pokemon Snap booth.
>you will own nothing and you will be happy
:I
>you will own nothing and you will be happy, 1998
:O
Hey, I own this.
*flashes membership card*
*gets instantly wet*
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>evil globohomosexual megacorp that ruins the local economy, but from when you were a kid
:DDD
I'm also a zoomer but my mom used to take us to blockbuster all the time. We used to rent games from there as well. I enjoyed the experience but honestly I don't miss it much. The most similar experience I probably could've had as a zoomer is going to a redbox machine in high school with my friends and renting a movie from there, which I have fond memories of. To add insult to injury for blockbuster, the location of my local blockbuster got turned into a verizon store after they closed.
Inconvenient and expensive, but it was an incredibly kino ritual for a kid who didn't have to worry about all that. The smell of my local Blockbuster is burned into my memory alongside all the awesome SNES games it allowed me to play.
For me? It was the public library. Comfy selection of old movies when I couldn't afford Blockbuster. You bet your ass those Brave Little Toaster tapes got renewed every time.
Looking at the covers and imagining what the movies were like was a lot of fun as a kid.
You could spend a lot of time browsing but once you were home it was usually easy to get them watched since you couldn't just flip through the menus fussing about what to watch and the due date was rapidly looming.
There was a more social element to watching stuff. No binging by yourself. More of a shared community because of the smaller selection(if you were friends with a group of anime nerds for instance, everyone saw stuff like Sailor Moon and Escaflowne). There was more of a sense that you should give your bro's favorite movie a try and next week the gang would give something you were interested in a shot.
Libraries were great. Had this little suburban library near my college in the early 00's and there must have been an Asiaboo working there because there was a whole shelf of Asian kino so I got to watch stuff like Rashomon and Hard Boiled.
My friend had one that was like 30"(big for the time) but his dad had this lamp on in the living room at all times and you could see the lamp's reflection filling up half the screen. If you turned it off he'd get really mad and run over and turn it on again.
My grandma had a TV where any shade of red was somehow broken and displayed as what looked like neon orange sherbet.
I suppose I don't miss that kind of shit in hindsight but most of my friends' tvs had weird quirks.
>Movies from all studios laid out as a buffet
>Cheaper than streaming since you only had to rent what you wanted and not pay 5 subscriptions
>Plenty of obscure 80s/90s flicks that never went to streaming because of licensing fights
It was very based.
I think people are more just nostalgic for the pre smart phone/social media world. It was nice renting a Nintendo tape or a Genesis game on Friday's after school, you appreciated what you had more. But also having every 90's rom in a harddrive is nice too.
When what you rented was all you were getting, you actually engaged with it, you didn't just shut it off after three minutes if it didn't immediately grab you. And then actually engaging with it made it a part of your life, and you'd have inside jokes with your friends about it, and learn who niche character actors were, maybe get into a new tiny band because they had a song on the soundtrack. You weren't consuming life, you were experiencing it, at least a little bit.
>Zoomer here
Nice bait. I am a zoomer and vividly remember blockbuster
i still have my old blockbuster, hollywood video and all the other local mom & pop video star cards saved in a drawer, my autism for saving things that were from the happy times in my life just never let me throw them away. (is this how hoarding starts?)
>(is this how hoarding starts?)
It depends: how many happy times have there been in your life?
3 to 5 it's hard to remember the early years but it could be as high as 8.
>only been happy 8x in my life
You'll be fine, hoarding-wise.
its weird how decades going by makes memories that at the time seem like nothing special seem like the best times of your life looking back. maybe they were great but most likely is that rose tinted glasses thing or whatever that redditgay phrase is i always see people saying. im just being a gay falling into the nostalgia meme, i guess you cant help it when you get older and everything in present day just sucks so much compared to everything when i was younger. i hate how early in my life ive already turned into a BACK IN MY DAY! cringey boomer homosexual
What a stupid thread.
You can tell OP is a cringe loser. Probably a flyover. Definitely an obese incel. His life is complete dogshit.
It only felt better because the movies that got made were actually good back then
>It only felt better because the movies that got made were actually good back then
you had to leave the house
Even riots were better in the 90's, it really was the best decade of humanity.
Cool because I got to play every single SNES and n64 game and knew which ones are worth buying.
Absolute dogshit, you couldn't get half the shit cause the videos were mostly picked by head office.
2 movies would cost you $10, the same as a Netflix subscription today, adjust for inflation that's $23.58, entertainment is a luxury, you have to buy fuel to drive to get it, taking your free time, it's cold outside, and 99% of the movies are slop anyway, frick the 90s.
Ok but not all of us lived in alaska. Sorry you never got to experience summer.
>Uh, I noticed that you have $30 of outstanding late fees. Would you like to take care of that now?
>"No."
back when games actually had demos and you could play them before the game was out and without having to buy a console
Yeah but a certain demographic was always smashing the consoles and vandalizing it so they stopped doing it... I was probably part of the problem because I would get on the 3Ds games and start new games when they had zelda/pokemon titles and put slurs as the name.
I figured they were pretty much smash proof. They were like bolted to the floor and the console was like in a pope car box.
Yeah but the controllers and monitors weren't not for lack of trying. I remember walking into wall-mart and the handhelds were cracked, the screens smudged and look like someone tried to yank it from the holders. Almost like a wild animal attacked. The 360s and playstations were safe though but you could always tell by the scuff marks that someone tried something lmao.
>Almost like a wild animal attacked.
>Almost like
>local movie rental place
>popcorn machine gave out free popcorn
>vhs and popcorn smells intermingle
>new releases on outside walls, old stuff in the middle
>spooky fake castle hung with cobwebs was the horror section in the back
>walk around taking in 80's cover art while parents pick action kinos from new releases
We gained some but lost more.
Shit, I was torrenting/downloading back then too
Zoomer here. It was pretty comfy. Going out and renting a movie was an experience that made watching it a lot more exciting. Now it's so easy to get movies that I never feel like just sitting down and watching one.
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It definitely made it feel more special. You'd get together with your family or friends on a weekend night with a new film rented, and it would be an actual event.
Streaming has removed the "rarity" and limit of selection to the point where people can literally scroll through hundreds of things and go "there's nothing good on". We've been spoilt, and now we're apathetic even to the entire back catalogue of human cinema.
A movie rental shop with the selection of current-day normieflix or prime would go out of business. They wouldn't last a year. A rental shop had every noteworthy hit of the last 30 years to choose from, plus a lot of secondary offerings that you might opt for if the box did its job of selling to you.
Streaming has to hide the ability to browse genres so you can't see how truly thin the catalogue is. They don't dare let you browse A-Z anymore.
Except for Tubi, their library's fricking packed
Overpriced, inconvenient, and often the thing you wanted would be out of stock.
We went there once a week on the day that films were $1 each and games were $2 each
My family would walk there and my parents would give me around $3 a week to borrow DVDs
Usually my sister and I had to walk to the store to return them but we were never given any pocket money by my parents so we were only able to borrow when they were around
I remember feeling disgusted when I saw the porn section
The horror section felt like an evil place and I used to get nightmares seeing the cardboard stands they had for the latest film
They didn't have a very good international section
I have fond memories of walking to it with my friend and borrowing random shitty films and watching them together after school
If you wanted to see a certain movie that you knew was coming out it was harder to have a copy of it in stock besides driving around to other stores
Other than that it was good. Later they gave options to buy the movie off them so they can replace the copy, movie theater popcorn and candies and renting video games was fricking amazing
hey OP, try this next time you are browsing a streaming service for something to watch
DO NOT WATCH OR LET ANY PREVIEWS LOAD
browse only by the "cover" art of the title. thats how it was shopping at blockbuster
Ok but the local independent video stores were better. Also when we’re you born, 2008? Most zoomers remember this shit
Shit but I was young and didn't care
Shitty as frick, had to find the mom and pop stores if you didn’t want mainstream shit, and even then it was still iffy
tbqh if you want to experience blockbuster literally just checking out DVDs from your local library emulates about 75% of what the experience was, the other 25% being autistic shit like "muh twizzlers" or "muh blockbuster smell"
It was annoying and Blockbuster was literally profitable based off of late fees
You had to go outside to get your kino
It had some nostalgia but overall streaming is 1000x better
>hear about some movie on Cinemaphile
>check goyflix
not there
>check hbo
not there
>check scamazon
not there
>sigh and turn on my vpn
streaming is more scammy than cable tv ever was. Once in a blue fricking moon is anything on a streaming site that I actually want to watch.
New stuff is always on one of the big 3 and older stuff is basically always rentable on Prime or buyable for what used to be a Blockbuster rental fee.
>go to google
>search watch movie free online free streaming [movie title]
>watch movie for free online
>Go to blockbuster Friday night
>All new movies rented out, have to get some old shit
>Disk is scratched, doesn't load
>Forget to return it on time
>Charged extra
wienerluster fricking sucked ass zoomers should be grateful for slopflix
It was nice when you couldn't watch everything all the time. It's nice to be limited a little
>tfw I owed late fees to Hollywood Video but they shut down so I never had to repay them.
Gay. I remember the time fondly because I was a kid but it would be a pain in the ass now. Free instant access to basically every movie, song and game ever made is the best part of living in distopia.
Anon, having everything at your fingertips is what made this timeline a dystopia
Everything went to shit the year the internet became normalized
>zoomers think the internet was normalized in 2018
I’m older than your father
what year do you think the internet was normalized at
So? I can still enjoy the positive aspects. If you want to fry your brain watching movies all day go right to it.
>Everything went to shit the year the internet became normalized
Im pretty sure the exact moment the timeline derailed was when Facebook first released a mobile app.
This is such a zoomer-roleplaying-as-boomer post.
Actual boomers like your grandma and auntie are glad to be complaining about the weather on facebook and see what Gladys is up to with her crochet group and you're all AAAAHHH NO STOP YOU'RE FEEDING THE GREAT SATAN THE DEVIL LIVES INSIDE OF 5G TOWERS TECHNOLOGY IS BAD AND EVIL (but the not websites and apps that I use, those are good and based actually, and the internet is totally completely different on a desktop vs mobile)
This folks is what we call a textbook case of a strawman. The OP is speaking of the broad spectrum damage of social media being a constant drip feed into peoples lives with the advent of smartphones. This poster attempts to deflect by setting up the strawman of grandparents talking to each other causing the downfall of society which is obviously not true.
Don't fall for these common fallacies. The more you know.
>internet on mobile device
😐
>internet on 5000 $ gaming PC
:DDD
I thought OP was asking about video rental stores
also
Did you know that social media also exists on desktop? In fact it also existed before smart phones.
He's probably too young to remember the real downfall of Facebook wasn't 'le mobile app' but when they removed the college email requirement.
Who said anything about the downfall of facebook?
NTA but he misspoke and you're being obtuse or autistic. It's not the "downfall of facebook" per se, it was the rise of facebook who led to the downfall of western civilization and also frick it all of the entire planet as a whole now we live in the absolute worst time of all time oh god life was better in the 1750s it was so sovlful to die in coal mines at 8 years old or some shitty war no one remembers where a cannonball would blow half your face off
I mean that's their argument anyways, not mine.
No one said any of those things. Why do you have to use absurdum arguments to try to discount the experiences people remember. We aren't talking about some obscure time hundreds of years ago. Most people in this thread lived through the 90's and know exactly what it was like. You can't change history because you want to argue online. What are you even trying to defend? Facebook certainly doesn't need you playing their white knight.
>Facebook certainly doesn't need you playing their white knight.
The argument wasn't even about facebook, it's about phones.
Desktop Facebook = okay or perhaps even good
Facebook Mobile = The collapse of modern civilization
you could swap "facebook" out with dating websites/apps, or youtube, or pornhub, your gmail account etc etc etc.
>Mobile = The collapse of modern civilization
True it has been a major contributor to warping the human psyche. We are not evolutionarily prepared for so much immediate gratification or for there to be a global town square. Everyone being able to vomit out their inner most thoughts to the entire world and every move they make and everything they say and do being recorded for the whole world to see and mock is not something humans were ever prepared for.
The stupid mistakes you made as kids used to stay that way. Stupid mistakes that only you and your friends knew about. Now that stupid mistake gets put on tiktok for your entire school to make fun of and the next day everyone calls you shitty mcshitface and you go and have a nice day or shoot up your school.
All of these things were not possible before the advent of social media and smartphones.
>you go and have a nice day or shoot up your school.
>All of these things were not possible before the advent of social media and smartphones.
No actually school shootings, suicide, and bullying were all created long before tik tok.
Yeah absolutely the fact that everyone has a surveillance camera in their pocket that instantly connects to the rest of the world is not good for you if you shitted your pants in class in 8th grade or whatever.
I'm old so that was never a concern for me in high school.
But even if all smart phones were banned or destroyed or whatever, it would still be the exact same thing. Kids would just have tiny cameras on them that they'd take pictures and videos of and then upload that to their giant desktop computer. it would just be like the late 2000s all over again. Hit me up on Myspace.
Also the most antisocial people aren't the ones who spend too much time on social media, they're the ones posting here ironically about how social media bad and then off they go to play video games or jack off to internet porn and maybe get into some youtube comments arguments for 16 hours a day.
The peak of human civilization was in the 80's. Some would say the 90's but they would be mistaken. It was 100% the 80's. The 90's was where it was cool to edgy and depressed for no real reason. I mean sure, it made for slightly better music than the 80's, because the best music usually comes from pain, but life in general was much happier in the 80's. Pretty much happier than any other time in history. And it was arguably the peak of movies as well.
Look kid, everyone knows that smartphones changed the way people interacted with the internet and how people interacted with each other. This is a documented fact undisputed by the entire world.
I get it, you're bored and you need something to pass the time so you are arguing about bullshit on Cinemaphile. We've all been there, but you need to learn to pick your battles. Find something you at least have passing knowledge about before you try to bs people who have been on this earth a lot longer than you.
Chill out, sport. Don't have a heart attack.
>Look kid, everyone knows that smartphones changed the way people interacted with the internet and how people interacted with each other.
The argument is that it's BAD
No real reason why, it just is.
Every tech billionaire keeps their kids away from smartphones. There are thousands of published papers warning of the addictive and destructive qualities of such technology being introduced to children early in life.
Anons every day decry how socialization is getting worse and worse with peoples faces being glued to their phone.
These are undeniable facts, so tell me oh great wise anon. Are all the billionaires and psychologists and anons wrong? Are we all just making a mountain out of a molehill? Is tiktok the way humanity will get to the stars?
More absurdum non arguments. I see we've reached the end of any possible intellectual discussion.
>reached the end of any possible intellectual discussion.
>smartphones
But video games and pornography and internet drama on the desktop computer? That's somehow totally okay and actually good for you actually
>But video games and pornography and internet drama on the desktop computer? That's somehow totally okay and actually good for you actually
No one said that.
That's the argument. It's the phone that's the problem. Why is desktop not bad?
What about laptops? They're right down the middle.
The phone isn't the problem it's the medium. The problem is social media has dumbed down peoples attention spans as well as caused rampant oversharing of peoples lives and opinions causing mass mental unwellness. The same thing happened and would happen more slowly without phones. It just sped up the process.
Well meanwhile that other anon is saying that school shootings didn't exist before smartphones (maybe it was a really clever parody post that completely flew over my simple head), and there's all these random posts talking about how the world ended and the dystopia began in whatever year they think social media was created for smart phones, sometime between 2007-2014, that other anon blames Facebook Mobile specifically.
What you're saying is a bit more reasonable, but you're still saying the phone is the problem in that the problem is that this natural inevitable process was sped up.
>The argument is that it's BAD
>No real reason why, it just is.
Because bad thoughts spread like a virus. And mobile phones are the equivalent of superspreaders. Any good parent knows who your kid associated with will have a massive effect on how they turn out. Now tl imagine that bad influence amplified by 1000 and spread through every inch of society. That is what modern social media does and how we now have an epidemic of kids trying to cut their dick off. It's not that complicated.
Facebook was the first mobile social media app dipshit. Zoomers wouldn't understand that it was young people that started using Facebook first. Not old farts and conspiracy theorists. It was MySpace 9n desktop. Then Facebook 9n desktop. Then Facebook on mobile. That is when EVERY moron on earth suddenly had a voice to the public 24/7 able to spread their moronation to the masses faster than the coof ever could.
>Then Facebook on mobile. That is when EVERY moron on earth suddenly had a voice to the public 24/7
It's still the same website, and the same users, and the same internet.
The fact that you can have a terrible website/app, on either mobile or desktop changes nothing.
I mean sure you can make the argument that obviously having it on mobile lends to more addiction - but the real internet addicts aren't on facebook mobile or on facebook at all, they're right here and on porn websites and playing Steam games, probably on some frankenstein Linux machine too.
Most people would say the smartphone was when the world went to shit. I'm saying it was a little bit later with the merge of the smartphone with social media.
For me it was getting a movie from the local library.
I remember a time BEFORE vhs, vcr's or Blockbuster. All we had was Showtime or HBO for home movies. And if your house didn't have a subscription you would have to stay up all night waiting until your parents were asleep and patiently wait for the video signal to randomly de-scramble for 5 to 8 seconds max just to see a quick shot of boob from an R rated movie.
>I remember a time BEFORE vhs, vcr's
Absolute bullshit, you are not 70 years old. That or you're Brazilian or something and VCRs and VHS only showed up there in 2005
Pretty much every Gen-Xer remembers a time before vcr's. It wasn't the old west it was the 70's. I saw Star Wars and Alien in the theater. And yes Alien scared the everliving shit out of me. I remember being traumatized for a day and threw up eight hours after seeing it because I thought I had one in my stomach ready to burst out.
>I saw Star Wars and Alien in the theater.
So did I but it was the mid 90s and early 2000s re-releases.
Not the original 1970s releases.
I mean Gen X'ers were BORN in the 70s, not already like 25 years old driving their ford mustang to the opening day of A New Hope. That's actual Baby Boomer age.
VCRs came out in 77 in the USA.
I was in my 20's in the 90's when the term Gen X was created. Twentysomethings were Gen X. Pearl Jam, Nirvana...All Gen X. All in their 20's in the 90's.
So you were born in the 70s, and when you were done shitting in diapers and learning what shapes and sounds are then VHS were common place.
This is like when someone born in 1999 tries to claim they're not a zoomer and that they totally remember 9-11.
You are literally, functionally, clinically moronic. Kurt Cobain..the face of Gen-X..was born in 67'
You were born in the 70s
you were born in your mom
I remember 9/11.
>2000s nostalgia thread
>it's all baby kids cartoons
that's just being a zoomer
for millenials, the 2000s means being mad at george bush for the iraq war, michael moore interviewing marilyn manson, terrible nu-metal and corporate pop-punk and cookie cutter mallgoth fashion which I all unironically miss.
That doesn't stop millennials from trying to claim Spongebob as theirs even though they were in their 20s and too old to give a shit.
bro correct me if I'm wrong but isn't spongebob still on now too?
Yes, but millennials are manchildren who were watching children's cartoons when they were teens and adults. They also think Fairly Oddparents and Billy and Mandy are theirs kek
i was in 3rd grade when those premiered, what does that make me? you Black folk keep changing the definition goddamn
>millennials from trying to claim Spongebob as theirs
As a millenial I have no opinion on Spongebob either way, I only first saw it when I was 19 because my gf at the time watched it, she was the same age as me.
I saw a lot of the adult humor and especially the meme close-up faces as just a kid friendlier version of ren and stimpy
and like the other anon said it's a show that's still ongoing it's like the simpsons or family guy or whatever it's like two generations at least.
>The series officially premiered on July 17, 1999
Like I said I didn't watch it until several years later, and I am an older millenial. For me anyways it was too kid friendly and I was too old for me to watch it day one.
SpongeBob came out in 1999 most millinials were around 13 at that time. That's the age range that would be watching SpongeBob and actually had to sit and watch it too.
>13 at that time. That's the age range that would be watching SpongeBob
Bro 13 year olds were watching WWF wrestling or South Park, if some millenials were watching spongebob it was the younger ones
remember wwf wrestling? there was plot points involving anything from animal murder & consumption to satanic cults and human sacrifice, loads of sexual assault and of course the physical violence back then, they were trying rival ECW.
and there was one wrestling team whose slogan was "suck it"
The Attitude Era ruined an entire generation of men.
They weren't without their down sides. Some of the more valuable releases were limited to 1-2 day rental and carried a premium price.
it was pretty cool; getting a movie seemed more like an actual plan rather than a fallback that someone inevitably wouldn't pay attention to
and the ads were only at the beginning lol
Passed this movie and the other one with the fingers on it like a million times as a kid and was always like "What the heck is that about?" but couldn't rent it because R movie.
This whole thread needs to come hang out in this world.
Renting videos was boring as frick and blockbuster nostalgists are gays. Buying ripped DVDs labeled with a sharpie from some sketchy dude on the street was the real kino. No overpriced candy just overpriced and way more illegal marijuana.
There was a Mexican dude who walked around town with a duffel bag full of stuff like this. $1 each or $5 for 10. Those were the days.
In his own small way he helped put blockbuster out of business. The video quality was all over the place too, but if your a poor college kid on a desktop computer or a dvd player hooked up to a shitty Cinemaphile it was amazing. One of my friends swore he got one with scatporn mixed in randomly probably by some proto-/b/tard
>One of my friends swore he got one with scatporn mixed in randomly
Your friend was spinning tales for early prehistoric clout.
I bought a random CD case off a crackhead a few years ago it was full of every season of Charmed a few misc comedy films and like 2 pages full of ebony porn dvds
I got banned from my Blockbuster because I was trying to flirt with the clerk. I got really nervous and shoved my hands in my pockets and leaned against the counter so she didn't see my fidgeting. I forgot I had a gun in my pocket and I ND'ed into the floor.
>small video rental spot in my local grocery store
>cozy atmosphere, I get to look at movies and stuff while mom shops on Friday night
>pick out video game or movie, talk to QT3.14 girl working the counter about said movie or game
>never had a chance cuz I was 12 and she was 16, tried to be smooth anyway
>mom comes up, pays for my rentals
>she notices that I like this girl, she suggests I invite girl over for dinner
>chicken out, but go home and play Star Fox 64 and eat Red Baron frozen pizza anyway
>I do ask her out a month later, she shoots me down as nice as she can
>relate story to friend at school
>she says she’d like to come over for dinner
>wind up with QT3.14 gf for awhile
It was a wonderful time.
Never once did I go to Blockbuster or Hollywood Video and leave without something I really wanted to watch/play. For contrast, I'd spend like twenty minutes scrolling through the Netflix menu looking for something just mediocre and usually couldn't even find that. I no longer pay for any streaming services for this reason
I am also zoomer and went to these stores
right? Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010 and in the US at least it dragged on for a few more years until 2014. Zoomers totally experienced the last few years at least.
I always preferred Hollywood Video but my brothers liked Blockbuster better so we always went to Blockbuster because they outvoted me.
Fricking dogshit service, the only people with Blockbuster nostalgia are millennial manchildren suffering from Peter Pan Syndrome and zoomers who only remember the last years of Blockbuster
>getting the white gumball from the gumball machine by the exit which won you a free rental
Do zoombinos have an equivalent today?
Shieeeet I forgot about that. And the dairy queens had that weird coin game you tried to land on little platforms in basically a fishtank.
I have to thank Hollywood Video and GameCrazy for my life. I met my wife in 09 at the attached Game Crazy. Is was about 2 - 3 weeks before they closed. She was eating some snack and watching Scrubs over at Hollywood Video and I walked over to Game Crazy, so she needed to come over and make sure I didn't steal anything. She says "Goddamn customers won't let me eat my lunch" I say "that sounds like something a fat girl would say" mind you she weighed 95 lbs so it was an obvious joke. We started chatting and we exchanged gamer tags like the nerd gamers we are and have been with each other ever since. It's now a pizza place, maybe I'll take the family there this weekend for dinner.
thanks for sharing, i'm going to hang myself now
frick you
This girl i was banging for a while told me a story like that. Said her husband was a loser.
Hollywood was better. I rented Patlabor 1 & 2, Akira, M.D. Geist, Ghost in the Shell, and Venus Wars.
Something about watching anime late was a magical experience. I rented End of Evangelion when I was 11, I never saw the TV show, i went in blind. Shinji jacking off, and him wallowing made me angry. I thought he would “snap out of it” and save the day. Things just got worse and the world ended. It was really bleak. I never felt those emotions before.
You have to leave your house, spend 5ish dollars to rent a movie or game, then pay late fees if you didn't return it on time but it works without internet.
>it’s Friday night
>you go to Hollywood Video
>my divorced mom rents some gay movie and you rent Aliens or something else that’s sick
>mom got you and your brothers Arby’s
>they used to have the deluxe roast beef sandwhich that had lettuce, tomatoes, and some kind of semi sweet sauce
>my middle brother got beef and cheddar, while my youngest bro got the plain roast queef
>mom was fat as frick and got like 3 roast beef boiz
>she would go watch her romance movie upstairs while scarfing down those RBs
>my brothers and I would stay up till like 3, playing PlayStation, watching movies and drinking the nectar of the gods, Cherry Coke.
>my mom had a frick buddy that was some weird chunky simp that would “sneak in” and probably feed her more Arby’s
>sometimes mom would go to the bars and get drunk as frick
>she would get drunk munchies and get Taco Bell on the way home
>the best nights were her slightly chunky but huge breasts and ugly face friend would crash on the couch
>her huge breasts would be barely contained in the loose wienertail dress
>one night she got so drunk and passed out her fat breasts broke free of her too tight dress
>I just looked at them
Kino brothers
I remember one new Year's Eve I. The 80's I was 13 but looked older. My dad was in band. Him and my mom weren't together anymore but they were still friends so we went to see him play at a bar. In the packed car on the way there one of her friends had to sit on my lap in the back seat. Had to use every ounce of combined energy in the solar system and the universe not to pop a boner. Then later that night stoke of midnight I was sitting near the bar and a random woman leaned over and kissed me on the lips. I just stood there dumbfounded and amazed. She didn't say anything, not a word. And then just left. That was when I learned about the whole kissing on new years thing. What a god tier amazing night for a 13 year old. The 80's were the best.