Would you still go to Blockbuster even today?
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Nah.
Have you seen bookstores lately? It's all goyslop. Prior to the internet, you'd go to bookstores to find obscure books. Now, it's all cookie cutter garbage and you have to order online to find a good book.
Blockbuster would have became the same. Only Shawshank Redemption and Call of Duty available to rent. Any actual good movie or video game would only be found online. Meaning, no one of note would go to a blockbuster today just like how you don't find right-wingers with reading as their number one hobby anywhere near a bookstore unless they're buying a board game.
That's one thing I remember about the selection before they closed down, you couldn't discover interesting older movies anymore. There were the popular staples, but it was dominated by new releases and slop from the past several years. Which at that point was the orange and teal era of movies. Shelves full of movies with covers that all looked the same.
Bookstores are all slop aimed at the base instincts of women because women are the only ones who read as a hobby nowadays. Its hilarious how predictable the books are.
Some of this is by design because the publishing industry basically fell to women, so now they squash anything that men would actually want to read.
Well, at least not in my Blockbuster. If I were the owner.
Used bookstores still have some gems buried in them. I found several books of the War of Powers series at a used bookstore and oh man, those are not books they would put on the shelf today.
Depends on the era.
Early blockbuster seemed to always have something interesting. Like a game or a movie. Or even just the upcoming game and movie list. It was one of the only ways to know what was coming out without having to buy a video game magazine at the time.
Malaise era blockbuster when they no longer carried anime, cut down on the amount of games they were carrying, and then for some reason a sea of samey looking box art for movies got to be a little weird. I'm not sure what that was about. It was a lot of sea blue and sunset orange.
For awhile it had a useful purpose, then it shifted for some reason and became just another place to get movies.
I liked going to blockbuster because often times I'd see people from school and it became a place to socialize outside of school
I feel like anyone that would say yes is just lost in nostalgia. It’s more of a hassle and no matter how much you tell mom the rents are long past the return date she acts likes it’s your fault the charge is suddenly so high!
Does it still count as lost if you're aware and consciously choosing to go there specifically to indulge in some nostalgia? I still go to physical stores for some things that could be delivered straight to my door via Amazon even if most of my purchases have shifted to online retail.
The one thing I'll say for Blockbuster, and physical retail in general, is that it reduces choice paralysis. I think we've all been there, where you're in the mood for a movie or a show and instead of picking one out and watching it you'll just sit there for an hour browsing through the near infinite selection trying to pick out something. Similarly, with access to everything you end up spending days researching all the various hardware components on the market and pouring through NewEgg reviews trying to get the perfect rig together, whereas now I'll just order a couple pieces online and source the rest from whatever's available at my local Microcenter.
I think there is value in having that finite scope of choice, even if the world we live in has made that entire model obsolete and buried it forever. It's not coming back but I do mourn the loss of it.
this is something I learned living overseas. in most other countries they dont have the wide variety of choices like in america and you just kinda take what you can get. and it turns out it's not that bad. I guess the one caveat to that is that matters more for groceries and retail stores. when it comes to games, movies, and books I prefer online shopping because i tend to seek out older or more obscure titles. living overseas was liberating in a way because it taught me to overcome choice paralysis.
that being said I now do 80% of my shopping online because going to the store has become a hellish idiocracy goycattke experience.
The past is over and done with. There's nothing to go back to.
And in ten, maybe five years' time we'll look back on today as "the good times."
Well, yes, if they will start a real deadly pandemic or WWIII.
Untile that, what we have now is the worst that can happen.
Oh buddy.
I'd use the place to fill out my media library, but for the most part, no, I would not use it.
I have been sailing the high seas for over a decade, and only have physical media for stuff I think deserves it.
If they still had Sega Genesis games, I'd consider it.
Only if it smells the same.
If the games and movies that are being made today are the stuff that would be in there, no.
Only if they have a vast collection of movies and tv shows that were made pre-2010 or so. Pretty much anything after that is crap.