Do you miss the experience of renting movies?

Do you miss the experience of renting movies?

yes

there was this qt that used to work at my blockbuster that I never had the block balls to ask out.

and now, much like blockbuster, she is gone forever.

oh yea i totally miss one day rentals for new movies that everyone always missed so they could butt fuck you with late fee charges

I miss try to sneak to the porn movies to see some censored covers

>tfw pestering Mom to let me rent some video game or movie

>be little kid
>have to close my eyes whenever i walked through the horror section
>especially when i would see the cover of pic related

yes because I was willing to try out more things back then, movies and video games, based soley on if the cover looked cool. Now Im so ADD I have to read like 5 reviews before Im even interested in something.

Kinda. I miss going with my parents and brother to rent games and movies. It was fun and exciting to go rent stuff at Blockbuster. I don't think I miss renting movies and games as much as I just miss being kid though.

>tfw you make a new friend and go sleep over at his house for the first time and his parents take you over to blockbuster and his mom says "now remember, nothing over PG!" and you realize you fucked up

I miss renting games

>my dad left me home alone in the crib when I was a couple of months to go rent movies with my brothers
>mfw I won't be able to do the same to my child

I miss everything pre 2010s

No, I don't feel the same nostalgia as others do for it. Movies were overpriced, late rental charges, big selection of crappy movies, having to drive to return a movie before a certain time, some tapes would have to be rewound too

No, because i was born in 1998 and i already pirated my first movie when i was 7

i miss childhood more than actually renting movies

hell yea
casual movie talks with the shop owner recommend me movies etc. the guy was growing up with my dad so he knew me and was always super friendly his wife too and she was hot they had backroom fill with VHS with broken covers or replacement etc. if i ask they let me go there and pick and buy some movie real cheap. watched all the porn covers there fapp like crazy. then one time switched some action flick cover with some old ass german cartoon porn
bring home fapp like crazy give it to friend so thye can fapp
good times

fuck you

I...I miss a lot of things

Is pic related the "german cartoon porn" you're referring to? What's the name? I didn't know non-japanese animated porn was a thing.

yea pic relate
dunno the original name it was dub on my lang and was pretty funny
its super old it was old even back in the late 90s
i think its from the 80s or something you can find it on xhamster pornhub etc.

>late fees
>rushing to store before work to return
>having dirty plastic in my home/device

They were easy to steal from though.

Nigga there is no way we could find it based on the info you gave

it was more comedy than porn but hey it was good enough for me when was young horny teen

cmon man i just type
>old german cartoon porn
and click on video and i can see them there dont be lazy faggot its there

Lol the Jack Frost one was what got me...had to retreat to the Pokemon Snap printing station for comfort

One of my favourite quotes, "'I wonder what happened to a lot of things'...the question echoed back through time, woeful, lost."
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Better in context. Sorry guys I'm in a sharing mood.

this cover looked so tempting for me to rent

>in grade 8
>had long hair because I thought it made me look cool
>renting a movie with mom
>waiting in long line at the cash
>cashier jumps on a register behind us
>"excuse me ladies, I'm open now and I can take you over here"
>my face goes red
>cashier looks at me and I can literally see him trying to figure out if I'm a guy or a girl
>I don't say anything, wondering if my mom heard it too
>glare at him as we finish up
>"have a nice night ladies, you'll love Mystic River!"

That was the beginning of the downward spiral into the perpetual uncertainty and feverish defense of my injured sense of masculinity which plagues me like mental leprosy to this very day.

Yeah. Whenever I drive by places that used to be video rentals I get a massive nostalgia rush. DVD's ruined it all, once that shit became popular it just wasn't the same anymore.

We have to go back.

Chucky always gave me a spook

>>mfw I won't be able to do the same to my child

For your dubs:
>Cancel internet service.
>Retain Netflix subscription.
>Leave child alone in crib while you go to local coffeeshop to use their wi-fi to search Netflix.

No. I rented one this weekend. The Thirst by Park Chan-Wook via iTunes.

This triggers me

Which aspect triggers you and why?

Yes as early as two years ago I lived in a city with a great mom & pop rental place. Solid selection, cheap, usually would waive late fees if they knew you.

Unsurprisingly the place was always busy.

there where great you actually have to move your ass to the shop be social to people and talk about movies

I've had the idea to open a small rental shop. The problem you'd run into nowadays is that studios all make exclusive deals with certain streaming / on demand services so you'd be fucked with new releases. This same shit is what killed brick and mortar rental stores because some movies were only at certain chains. Consumers weren't going to hop from shop to shop looking for the different titles.

I really do miss video stores. There was a great shop called Valley Video just around the corner from my grandparents house. Being born in the 80s meant I was allowed to walk there as early as 4 years old since society hadn't gone full retard yet. The owner was a cool old dude named Bob and he's smoke cigars, even after the no smoking laws passed. My mom had worked there in high school and he'd let me keep beta tapes after I'd rented them a thousand times. Still have a few of them lying around. I remember his shop seemed to have an endless supply of movies and I'd wander around for an hour just looking at cover art. Now I sit at home in my underwear looking at shitty photoshop pictures on Netflix.

I miss the real world.

Honestly cried a bit when the Blockbuster where I grew up was closing with an inventory sale.
I'll never forget the countless memories of going there with my family.

I was the opposite, I was always trying to get my dad to rent R-rated horror movies for me.

I like a lot of people grew up with blockbuster. Sad to see it not here anymore it was always fun to go. The smell of the place when you would walk in. The atmosphere of sections upon sections of movies. And that tiny ass section to rent vidya games for my gamecube. Now that's all gone. People got lazy and there is no reason to go out when you can do it from home. Not the same

>older cousin from CA comes to visit
>I was like 7 he had to have been like 10-11
>mom puts on little rascals for us
>he freaks out and insists he has to call his mom for permission because it's rated PG
Was it tism?

>you will never beg your parents to rent TWO dvds again

>you're now aware the "10s" are a thing
>they're more than halfway over
>they fucking sucked

Same if we're being totally honest. it wasn't a blockbuster though it was "sun coast video." It's now a dunkin donuts and I refuse to go in there.

Being 11 it was awesome they'd let me rent movies like jackass or Harold and Kumar and tons of M rated games.
>mfw id look at the covers of dirty games like dead or alive beach volleyball and fap to the memory when I got home
Oh where does the time go

are you still a cutie user?
seems like i would be happy if i was told that
as a kid

>early 00s
>really want a movie or video game
>save up money
>ask and beg mom to drive to the store
>finally purchase the game you've been reading about for so long
>read the box and manual religiously on the drive home
>pop it in and play and replay for months
Now
>preorder game on amazon
>go to work on release day
>come home, game is on front porch
>no manual, just a flimsy case and disc
>play it and beat it after 6 hours
>no want to replay

>read the box and manual religiously on the drive home
I will always cherish those moments as a kid until I die

During summer holidays I sometimes spend the whole day at home, just doing nothing, watching tv, playing games etc. My worst task for the day was to walk around 15 minutes to the video rental store to rent a new movie to watch that day. Good times to be honest.

>>read the box and manual religiously on the drive home
This was the best part I would often just reread the manual for fun. But I believe it's more related to being a kid than the time.

absolutely right

don't be block busting his balls either fag

Not one bit. I much prefer getting any movie I could possibly want for free without leaving my house. Much better than going to a videostore to find out they're sold out of everything good and only having enough money to watch 2 movies a week.

Blockbuster was the shit tbqh

Picking them out yeah, but not how expensive it could be

Do you remember things? Actual things? The physical world, I'm talking about -- remember it, older people?

>rent an n64 game
>Delete all the save files

Not really. I have nice memories of renting movies as a kid, but the childhood family memories are the most important part of those. They could have happened anywhere. I never even rented movies on my own when I was old enough; I was far more interested in hunting for and buying movies at used record shops, which I still do.

>rent movie
>not kind so I don't rewind
>I actually set it up so it will start on an important character death/spoiler

Yes,

Me and my buddies used to go in and pick like 3 movies; one movie which we'd all like, one movie which by the cover we knew would be pure schlock, and then something "classic" that we had never seen before.

Me and bros did that every week for like 2 years. I really miss it.

lol faggot, anyone could see that the tape wasn't rewound and just rewind it before putting it in, you dumb stupid faggot

I still rent movies.

you'd think that haha

I miss early 00s due to the coziness of the, I hate how connected and heavily politicized everything is now.

>Video Games were still slightly fun and you were made fun of for playing them
>No smartphones or social media except for Myspace
>Comics were still slightly decent, Civil War had not happened yet and ruined everything beyond repair, much like video games you were ridiculed for liking them now people use them as a social status thing rather than enjoying it as a hobby
>Capeshit was good because it wasn't all a shared universe
>No Facebook but we had that cancer Myspace

>rent ff7
>ff9 disks in the case

My buddy loved renting movies. I don't think I ever did.

I remember spending a lot of time looking around thinking "what a bunch of trash". I used to think there very few good movies. Turns out blockbuster just kept those out of the store.

2010s are so far way better than most of the 00s. I hated pretty much everything '02 on.

I live in a third world country and back in my middle school days movies were pirated, burned on cds and sold for like $3 a copy. So every saturday evening after school was finished at 4pm (yes we had class till 4pm at saturdays) I used to go to a store and buy a pirated copy of a movie or borrow one from my friend, and that was my treat for saturdays nights. I remember walking home all happy that the week is finally over and happy about the movie I'm going to watch. Now if want to watch a movie I just torrent it and it's ready in 20 minutes. i could watch 2-3 movies a day, It just doesn't feel the same.

>Turns out blockbuster just kept those out of the store.

Or everyone else was renting the good stuff and leaving you with the scraps.

>finally my cousin will lend me ffviii
>CTR in the case

That being said one of the best games I've ever played as a kid.

Blockbuster had a "no hard R" policy and movies were altered to be allowed to be rented from Blockbuster. Small details like male nudity were removed. Blockbuster was a shit place to rent anything if you didn't want to watch censored shit.

We still have a bunch of Family Videos in my city.

We had a few others until recently too. A local place called Galaxy Video shut down about a year ago. Owner said he could have kept it going since he owned the building outright, but it just wasn't worth it anymore.

>>No Facebook but we had that cancer Myspace
Fuck, I remember when everyone on the internet made fun of the emo kids who used myspace.

It's ironic how that fad died out, isn't it?

Godspeed desu

No, because Redbox.

They're inside or by drugstores and supermarkets.

Only thing I miss is the wider selection.

Every girl I talked to tried to get me into social media. My Space was guge with retarded female teens.

Hollywood Video > Blockbuster

They kept trash bags in front of the store or something? I'm not sure I understand.

fuck no.

Not really. People were tired of the endless HTML abuse and the autoplay songs.

TO BE QUITE TBQH, THIS

Always got made fun of for being scared of Chuck.
>Be 10
>"LOL it's only a doll, what's there to be scared about?"

I used to go to blockbuster everyday Saturday morning, prepared to rent anything based on the box. Exciting!

Once it closed I eventually switched to itunes as my rental service, but the fuckers don't make every new film available to rent, the fuckers! I was down to rent Crimson Peak this week but it is purchase only. I watch far fewer new films with Blockbuster gone. I often wind up scouring YouTube for hidden gems.

And was solely responsible for me fucking an abundance of retarded female teens. You should have given it a shot.

more like shes probably 40 years old now and is a single mother

How is it ironic?

My family rented a dvd player and the matrix from blockbuster one time. We were truly living the life when we plugged that bad boy into our 32in tube tv.

>tfw too poor to afford a dvd player

Emo kids were getting laid and he wasn't and he's still bitter some 10 years later

Absolutely true, they had way more niche movies and you could get away so much more shit. I think there were at least 4 or 5 movies which I never returned and they never asked.

I preferred Hollywood.

Their pricing was better, as well as how long you could rent the video.

I still have a copy of Dead Alive on DVD that I never returned.

2012 was pretty good.

No. Absolutely fucking not.

Terrible prices on everything. Fucking CANDY was doubled in price.

I'm glad that shit is dead.

Damn ice cream man really got to me. I still remember the feelings of disgust after i first saw the cover.