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Dr. VooDoo posted:I miss renting movies. Being able to just pick out random horror movies and watch them was a blast. Streaming services loving suck now  I could not confirm any of those figures, the difference is less significant but the entirety of English language Netflix in 2022 was indeed fewer titles than a single video rental store
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Getting a big bottle of soda, bag of chips, renting a SNES with bomberman and having a couple friends over for a sleepover, sneaking onto the 386 to try and guess the leisure suit larry questions
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mycomancy posted:Have you watched all of these yet? Yes, No, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No but I heard stargate universe sucked, Yes, No
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Ruffian Price posted:
Remember when Netflix was a service that would mail you physical DVD's, why can't it still do that Also remember when they wanted Blockbuster to buy them and Blockbuster refused, lol
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Rauros posted:reminds me of the moment i stopped talking to my grandfather after he said it was embarrassing to see a black woman working at a store Black women, like all people should enjoy a life of leisure instead of being fed to the capitalist death machine But that's probably not what he meant
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Ruffian Price posted:
That math is really off. I can only see a large videostore getting to 7-10k individual disks. Also keep in mind every tv season got split into 3-8 'titles' that way. Not to mention only 1 person at a time could watch a given copy. The current media landscape sucks -that doesn't mean it didn't suck just as much back then. Hell, even more, since Netflex won't send you to collections with fake padded totals.
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mycomancy posted:Have you watched all of these yet? you stupid loving BITCH 
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Smythe posted:you stupid loving BITCH U mad
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tokin opposition posted:my childhood blockbuster had a gamestop in the same building, woe is me that 11 year old tokin didn't get in on the infinite money glitch Be careful what you wish for. You could get permanently banned* from trading games with Blockbuster Corp. if you hosed around and made too much money:  *unless you make a new account
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Koishi Komeiji posted:Be careful what you wish for. You could get permanently banned* from trading games with Blockbuster Corp. if you hosed around and made too much money: Permanently banned, starting next year
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I used to work at a Hollywood video and it sucked because they didn't have games. But I did get a lot of cheap rear end DVDs, and my dad still tells people to this day how much he and my step-family loved getting Joe Dirt as a Christmas present. They wore out the tape so I got them the DVD and I am pretty sure he still watches it from time to time
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i bought a bunch of tropical fish for insanely cheap at petco, and one immediately died, but the rest i bred into fabulous colorations I started out with white / black / dalmatian / gold and in the end had a fuckin green one and silver and a goddamn galaxy rear end black with iridescent scales one and they costed like $6 total. I think there were like at least 50 at one point there were too many to easily count. welp that's my petco story
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Coolness Averted posted:That math is really off. I can only see a large videostore getting to 7-10k individual disks. I don't remember exactly how my blockbuster was set up, but the building was 50 feet wide and 100 feet deep. The aisles went across the width with a gap in the middle, so let's say 30 feet of shelf space on one side of one aisle. If there were ten aisles, leaving space for a big lobby, that would be 600 feet of shelf space. Add on 150 feet for the walls, go seven shelves high with two movie slots per foot, and that's 10500 slots, each able to hold several copies. Apparently the bigger stores were in the 10000 square foot range. So even with a ton of repeats for new movies and popular movies, I could believe that a big store with 20-25k slots has 7-10k unique titles. But a small blockbuster definitely won't have that. And it won't beat Netflix.
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I remember poo poo like entire walls being dedicated to holding a billion copies of a single popular video that had just come out. Also maybe a fourth of the store was for buying stuff like used tapes they were getting rid of or just new movies you wanted to buy at blockbuster for some reason, and another third or fourth of the store was videogames. Now I have been in a (somehow still alive) rental place that was way bigger than a blockbuster and even still had a loving beta section in tyool 2019 but that was definitely not the norm.
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Shame Boy posted:Remember when Netflix was a service that would mail you physical DVD's Do I remember Autumn last year? Yeah kinda.
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Shame Boy posted:Now I have been in a (somehow still alive) rental place that was way bigger than a blockbuster and even still had a loving beta section in tyool 2019 but that was definitely not the norm. I bet the one person who still has a player for it is a really loyal customer. 
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Shame Boy posted:I remember poo poo like entire walls being dedicated to holding a billion copies of a single popular video that had just come out. Also maybe a fourth of the store was for buying stuff like used tapes they were getting rid of or just new movies you wanted to buy at blockbuster for some reason, and another third or fourth of the store was videogames. It's funny that this is pretty much exactly how Netflix is in 2024 only they hide it by having the same 20 movies in 15 different categories that you can scroll through.
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So many wonderful touching stories... I always knew capitalism was great, but seeing just how much positive impact it had on everyone is eye-opening.
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I liked when it destroyed Lowtax
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That was good, wasn't it! Good for a bit of a giggle anyway
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I remember working at Blockbuster and having to aggressively sell those rewards programs. I got pretty good at it and eventually realized if I could sell one without the enticement of a free rental up front, I could hold onto the little coupon disc thing and use it the next time someone wanted to rent something and pocket the difference. gently caress yeah i used to do similar poo poo in food service. in retrospect it was a huge mistake to give me the managers password
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I used to work at Anttila and I embezzled 200 000€ from them just before they went bankrupt.
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tokin opposition posted:U mad thats no way to address ur dominar
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Shame Boy posted:Remember when Netflix was a service that would mail you physical DVD's, why can't it still do that Lmao in college I had to watch a movie and research the actual history for some bullshit 301 course and for whatever reason (there was a list of 20 acceptable movies) I chose the last emperor and I actually signed up for mail order Netflix to get it (but then it was out of stock for a loving month because some rear end in a top hat never returned it so I had to buy a dvd off of Amazon and ended up getting a Chinese language version because I’m an idiot (and then I posted in gbs to bitch about that and got thoroughly and rightly mocked for being an absolute idiot)) HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 17:58 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Netflix used to have a really good website for the dvd service that has every movie available listed and it made good recommendations based on your favorites that all went away
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euphronius posted:Netflix used to have a really good website for the dvd service that has every movie available listed and it made good recommendations based on your favorites everybody decided at once that they needed to make their service indispensable by owning the content itself rather than just being a library service so they could maximally rent-seek result: no good library services, fifty content creation services that each have maybe 0.75 of a good show on average and hundreds of millions pissed away on garbage ones
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HashtagGirlboss posted:it was out of stock for a loving month because some rear end in a top hat never returned it lmao sorry about that my bad bro
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spacemang_spliff posted:lmao sorry about that my bad bro In choosing to believe this is true and not a joke because it’s really funny it’s true
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fondly remembering Blockbuster Video is counter-revolutionary
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Kreeblah posted:I bet the one person who still has a player for it is a really loyal customer. It's me. I'm that person.
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aw frig aw dang it posted:fondly remembering Blockbuster Video is counter-revolutionary The average goon is old enough to get Medicare what would you expect
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FYI the library still exists in a lot of places and they have a good video section usually. That's how I watched Rome and many other things
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tokin opposition posted:The average goon is old enough to get Medicare what would you expect we're all sorry for the concept of time but if it makes you feel better we all pay for it in the end
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Schmeichy posted:FYI the library still exists in a lot of places and they have a good video section usually. That's how I watched Rome and many other things my library co-op isn’t allowed to have Blu-rays
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RandolphCarter posted:my library co-op isn’t allowed to have Blu-rays my library is also a co-op. a co-op run by the city of los angeles, supported by taxpayers therein. 
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 this guy is preventing dollars and none of you people care
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011824_6 posted:
Please gently caress off.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:i bought a bunch of tropical fish for insanely cheap at petco, and one immediately died, but the rest i bred into fabulous colorations After several years of working there all I can say is that the selling of animals via Petco is insanely unethical and I hope everyone from district manager on up burns in hell forever e: that's my petco story
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Professor Beetus posted:After several years of working there all I can say is that the selling of animals via Petco is insanely unethical and I hope everyone from district manager on up burns in hell forever The ones where I live don’t sell any live animals (maybe fish?) but that might be a state law thing
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