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    (on holiday) Multiverse Mike (multiverseofbadness@toot.wales)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 22:21:42 JST (on holiday) Multiverse Mike (on holiday) Multiverse Mike

    The one thing that surprised me most about threads is the unabashed nostalgic love people seem to have for Blockbuster over there

    ..and I can promise you : as a child who actually lived through the Blockbuster experience, it wasn't nearly as romantic as people make it out to be...

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      leif (studiofox@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 22:33:35 JST leif leif
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      @multiverseofbadness holy cow yes. There was a brief moment when blockbuster was nice but then it was all 8000000 copies of the same video taking up 3 walls and like 50 other videos.

      I liked being able to rent Super Nintendo games tho.

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      Peter Robison (peterrobison@nashtodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:04:34 JST Peter Robison Peter Robison
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      @multiverseofbadness
      My town didn't have a Blockbuster for a long time, but it had a funky video rental place by the university with weird and eclectic and avant-garde video choices made by the student employees who worked there. We saw some really odd stuff sometimes, but it was usually interesting, and sometimes even good.

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      Peter Robison (peterrobison@nashtodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:11:22 JST Peter Robison Peter Robison
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      @multiverseofbadness @studiofox
      Oh, man, SNES/N64 rentals were great, I miss those. I have seen Tubi advertised heavily, but I'm not happy with its parent company (Murdoch's FOX Corp.) so I've declined to use it. There are a lot of similar services (Filmrise, PlutoTV, etc.) that scratch the same itch, anyway.

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      leif (studiofox@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:14:35 JST leif leif

      @multiverseofbadness I wonder if the nostalgia is based around the “experience” that people assume to have existed by going to blockbuster.

      Driving to the store, wandering around looking at the movies, getting the terrible microwave popcorn they sold, movie night, etc.

      In that sense, I can kinda understand as it seems more “lived” than sitting on the couch mindlessly scrolling through Netflix for hours but oof. Mindlessly wandering up and down the aisles of blockbuster and then driving home with your plan-z selection was irritating

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      leif (studiofox@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:28:56 JST leif leif
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      @PeterRobison @multiverseofbadness Plex lifestyle for me. Pluto is nice but I can never really get too into it (me reasons, not Pluto).

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      Peter Robison (peterrobison@nashtodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:28:57 JST Peter Robison Peter Robison
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      @multiverseofbadness @studiofox
      I've enjoyed some of the over-the-air stations I get locally, like Comet, which has a lot of old sci-fi stuff. Oh, and the Maximum Effort streaming channel (Pluto, Plex, others) was doing a bunch of Godzilla and related films, and that was a delightful rabbit hole for a while. 😄

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