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sure, you can still go to Walmart and buy a box set of your favorite show, but recently i’ve been missing the days of video stores. gamestop is still around, but it’s a shell of what it used to be. it’s exciting to see the advancement of technology, but i miss the simplicity of the early 2000s.
May 11, 2025
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one day i want my kids to be able to watch so many different types of movies and tv shows and read comics, manga and books and listen to CD's... all without having to endlessly scroll. i myself want to be able to enjoy a library of curated media that i can take off of a shelf and open and enjoy fully without having to cypher through 10 different streaming platforms or purchase digitally until the company loses the rights and i can't access it anymore. i'm glad that so many are becoming enamored with this idea again. hope this trend only grows bigger and eventually we see video rental stores come back to popularity in the same way that book stores and record stores have in recent years.
Jan 28, 2025
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(I mean I know it still exists but) there was something kinda fun about running into an FX movie marathon or a 90s cartoon rerun in the middle of the day on the weekend at, like, your grandma’s house and just locking in with your sibs. I know a lot of it was slop TV but streaming is as bad if not worse now and there’s TOO much choice. Maybe it’s silly to romanticize but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 19, 2025
what in the adult world equates to the feeling that one would get while sitting and playing at the toy section at blockbuster at those ikea tables with the bead toys and the knockoff superhero dolls while i waited for my parents to go rent dinosaurs?????
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on demand media had taken away the excitement and the ritual of gathering together and choosing a source of entertainment for everyone involved, it is now just a tireless act where no one is satisfied with the choices suggested. plus, whatever choice made can then be easily argued and changed within seconds rather than being forced to just sit and watch the one movie that was rented, until one decision is made that will somewhat satisfy everyone—a vast juxtaposition to the careful curating it would have taken to rent the perfect movie for that evening. it really removed the art of critique and discussion.
bring back the BlueRay era fr, those ads were goated anyways
Jan 19, 2025
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