DCC Appreciation Thread...

[boozeman]

Yeah Blockbuster was always the start to a great sleepover for me as a kid. It's not the same to pull up Disney Plus or Netflix and pick out a movie that you could watch any time. Plus movies just kind of suck now for the most part.

And on a really good day I could convince my mom to let me rent a video game or two. Again, that concept is totally gone.

I read something about how now it is a small trend to try to bring back old video formats, just like how vinyl is making a comeback. They have an abandoned family video store that is a fixture in the town I live in. There are petitions against a proposal to turn it into a meth clinic.

 

[boozeman]

We rarely went to McDonald's, and I don't think blockbuster existed when I was growing up.

It is existed as of at least 1985 on.

Perhaps your parental guides along your journey had a bad experience with the retailer. Or you lived somewhere in the sticks then.

 

[Genghis Khan]

It is existed as of at least 1985 on.

Perhaps your parental guides along your journey had a bad experience with the retailer. Or you lived somewhere in the sticks then.

I don't really remember one being around until maybe the late 80s when I was in high school.

But we weren't big on renting movies. We just watched TV.

 

[boozeman]

I don't really remember one being around until maybe the late 80s when I was in high school.

But we weren't big on renting movies. We just watched TV.

I remember the pompous rich kid who had a Laser Disc Player and thought he was the shit.

He also rubbed his Intellivision onto us Atari boys. I had the shame of a Sears Roebuck branded Atari console.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I remember the pompous rich kid who had a Laser Disc Player and thought he was the shit.

He also rubbed his Intellivision onto us Atari boys. I had the shame of a Sears Roebuck branded Atari console.

I knew a kid with Intellivision but it honestly didn't impress me at all. I always thought Atari was better. Later we got a Colecovision after Atari tanked and Colecovision wasn't great either.

When we moved on to the Commodore 64 though, that was greatness.

 

[Cotton]

There are petitions against a proposal to turn it into a meth clinic.

Meth or methadone?

 

[Genghis Khan]

Redbox is the only thing left where you can rent a physical DVD.

I don't understand why anyone would want to.

Streaming and/or digital versions are infinitely better.

 

[Cotton]

I don't understand why anyone would want to.

Streaming and/or digital versions are infinitely better.

Oh, I agree completely. Blockbuster missed the bus during that transition. They should have been able to see what was coming and adapted.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Blockbuster missed the bus during that transition. They should have been able to see what was coming and adapted.

Yep.

 

[boozeman]

Meth or methadone?

Treatment for Fent and heroin with methadone.

Hell one day you could go in, shoot up and come out with methadone. Right in our downtown square. Fuck all that. If I had the money I would spite buy it.

 

[boozeman]

Yep.

Actually they were in decent position to compete in the DVD by mail and kiosk business. They pivoted the wrong way by growing too fast into retail mall stores and not finding that one business stream to stick to.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

It is existed as of at least 1985 on.

Perhaps your parental guides along your journey had a bad experience with the retailer. Or you lived somewhere in the sticks then.

I remember all the video stores back in the early-mid 80's were mom&pop operations.

Then Blockbuster came in and wiped pretty much all of them out, WWF-style.

 

[boozeman]

I remember all the video stores back in the early-mid 80's were mom&pop operations.

Then Blockbuster came in and wiped pretty much all of them out, WWF-style.

That is how our system of free enterprise works.

One day, one big fat conglomerate will own everything.

 

[boozeman]

Alright. I am going to go ahead and laugh my ass clean off listening to this and I do not care what anyone thinks.

 

[Cotton]

Alright. I am going to go ahead and laugh my ass clean off listening to this and I do not care what anyone thinks.

So, it's a cackling bird rapping?

 

[p1_]

I remember all the video stores back in the early-mid 80's were mom&pop operations.

Then Blockbuster came in and wiped pretty much all of them out, WWF-style.

and then what happened? Netflix shut that shit down, pronto. CYA later, buh bye.

 

[Cotton]

Wife: 6:30 is my favorite time of the day.

Husband: Hands down.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

 

[Cotton]

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

This one was much better.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

As a person who has represented a deaf person in court, I had never thought about it.