I moved to where I now live in 09, and back then the shopping center where my local grocery store is had a Blockbuster (it has since become a dental office) and everytime I buy groceries I think about the good times I had at Blockbuster growing up. At least once a month we would order pizza and go to Blockbuster to rent some movies. I remember when that Blockbuster went out of business in 2010 and they had a hug going out of business sale with PS2 games as low as 3 dollars and I bought a ton of games that day (wish I had never given up my PS2). I also remember when I was little it seemed every store or gas station had a corner for video rental.
As a kid working at a video rental place always seemed like such a cool job and as a teen, I was busy with sports and when I did work it was at restaurants or temp agencies. I'm curious if anyone had ever worked there or any other video rental?
Also, you think that model could ever work again with some being more interested in physical media? I could possibly see a rental place but they would have to have some other stuff, but I do know some VHS collectors so you could make it work.
I remember a family rental store I think it was literally called family rental. They had a back room with porn and I think I went in there one time when I turned 18 but by then internet was a thing so I wasn't their demo.
Anyways, even in the 90s they had the 5 for $5 deal for old and bad movies, any movie with a blue dot sticker is 5 for 5 dollars for 5 days and outside of big releases those were what we rented. Everyone gets a pick, I pissed my family off with wrestling ppv tapes. And no matter what you rented they always give you a small bag of buttery popcorn that never makes it home.
Fucking a, it was magical.
Don't get me started on 2 VCRs and putting 3 movies on one tape in SLP mode.
You still watch wrestling? I do but for me the best time as a fan was 80s through early 00s.
ya man, 80s through early 00s was peak wrestling.
So I mostly watch AEW as my weekly, I do listen to a podcast and watch WWE PLE to keep up but just not a fan of the presentation.
Oh a few years ago I accidently created c/wrestling , I assumed it would have a confirm button but nope it just created it. It's a dead sub atm, I keep wanting to make daily posts like those people on c/funny c/memes and other non-political subs. Because people come for thedonald and kia but to keep people from going back you need cat videos.
But I'm not cut out to be a mod or bother to provide content day in and day out, three decades of being online and I never had any interest other than being shitposter.