I miss video stores, for sure. Blockbuster itself wasn’t great but it was so omnipresent in our lives that it has become shorthand for “video stores” the way Band-Aids are shorthand for adhesive medical strips. Often, when people reminisce about “Blockbuster,” it isn’t really about Blockbuster itself but just the culture of the rental store as it existed back then.

I love my library and rent from there occasionally but it’s absolutely not the same experience.

The entire appeal of McDonald’s is being predictable. It’s mediocre but you know what you’re getting and it’s appealing to a lot of people. In that way, Blockbuster being McDonald’s is true — but also explains why it’s preferable to streaming in some ways. They had a limited selection but that selection didn’t change and you knew pretty reliably what kind of movies they would be carrying.

No. Almost all of them were normal, unmodified retail copies.

Ironically back when video stores existed, no major distributor would box themselves in like that. The only Blockbuater exclusive movies would be modestly-budgeted things released through one or two smaller studios with ties to Blockbuster itself.

I have had this EXACT reaction to seeing this meme before.

What a cunt.

You should collect them all and get an illustrator. Make a little 50 page ebook. I’d buy it.

I just got a new iPhone. It offers the option during setup, to leave your location on for your designated family. I left the box checked yes because it was the default and I had no strong feelings about it.

Some profoundly shitty dudes in these comments.

Funny meme, depressing thread for Lemmy.

Also Zaphod didn’t want to mention it but the baby had a knife.

God. If it was plausible I would say absolutely do it. But it’s Pandora’s Box and any notion of going back is fantasy.

I see you’re a fan of delicious flavor.

Congratulations, you took “funny shit” too literally.