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I’ve been saying this!…
If you miss Blockbuster, visit your library. Most have an A/V section now. They don’t advertise much. But it’s basically the same experience of renting movies; just without paying.
Currently watching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, a classic I never watched…using my PlayStation 5, lol.
They also have hardcopies of video games! Usually, it’s a pretty updated library of titles. 2 week rentals, you just have to go back and check it out again. Totally free.
Not all libraries are the same but if you’re a gamer, you can try a nice collection, totally free.
I finished Princess Peach Showtime from there. Seemed like a mildly interesting game but not something I wanted to own for myself.
My kids: “like… sellotape?”
I still have my old employee ID somewhere
i still have both my blockbuster and hollywood video nametags. without a doubt the best jobs i ever had, and now that i’m in my forties they’re probably the best jobs i’ll ever know.
I was working too much to take advantage of the free rentals (they were my fourth concurrent part time job) but I loved working there regardless.
Set the TV to channel 3
I’m this old…
(I’m not actually this old, but I’m old enough that I’ve used this one)
I have…
I am also Spartacus.
Master System memories ❤️
People still say they filmed something
I mean… People still say “movie” which was short form for “moving pictures”
We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.
We also hang up phones, which used to literally be what we had to do, but which makes no sense today.
Is it possible to program a smartphone, so that, using gesture control of some sort, you can hang up a call by dramatically placing the phone down face first on a hard surface?
I SAID GOODDAY SIR!
If you set it down hard enough, yes it will disconnect the call.
We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.
I mean, I put down a deposit recently for a new car that will have roll down windows.
It would be cool to have power windows that are activated by a hand crank. You would just rock it one direction or the other, but maybe bonus points if you have to continue rotating it to keep the window moving.
Cool? Yes. But the whole point of crank windows is mechanical simplicity. This is anything but that.
Clocks still tick even though most of them are digital nowadays, and the floppy disk is still the universal symbol for saving. We humans love novelty but hate change.
They save their data to a solid stste disc that isn’t a disc by using the icon for a 3.5" floppy disc. They punch out at the end of the workday and fill out a timesheet later.
Yeah, we use a lot of terms that are no longer literally true and kids know what it means even if they don’t know how the term originated.
The beauty of language is that you can understand without knowing what words mean
This reminds me of the “save” logo in almost every app. Apparently I’m one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.
I just had to use one the other day at work on an old machine. Lol
Fuck yall not old, just told my 16 year old I had to tape something and he said and I quote, “Like record something?” He 16 and he knew what I was talking about. Maybe her kids just sheltered.
Yeah, but you’ll notice that he had to double check with you to be sure though. So, he had his doubts.
There’s a piece of software we use at work and the save icon for that is a downwards pointing arrow and a CD. No one knows what it means.
Idk, my high school aged kid is using floppies to load software onto a piece of equipment in their shop class at school. It also accepts usb (but only at usb 1 speeds, and exfat formatted) .
The kids are into using floppies of different colors much like I was in my first comp sci class in high school.
It’s not ubiquitous but it isn’t quite as unknown as it was.
I mean I knew what an 8 track was in the 90s.
“Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!”
I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol
Still using my tapes today. Work great and they do what I want, no ads, no subscriptions, I own it. Younguns missed out on the best time. They wont own a thing and will be consumed with ads and depression
It’s shocking how apathetic many people have become to this. I don’t want any kind of ad anywhere. When I have to use a browser that doesn’t have my essential plugins installed every second of the experience feels like I’m taking poison damage.
Studies have shown ads cause depression. But holy crao are people desensitized now. Its infuriating.
I’m exactly the same. My other half doesn’t know how good she’s got it 😂 I’ve ad-proofed as much of her stuff as I can.
I’ve converted my entire family to at least use Brave on their iPhones
There are ways to own very high quality movies. Those ways just happen to not be legal. Still less of a hassle than maintaining a physical media collection.
I do own a record player so I see the point of added physicality though.
For a given value of great. The only tapes I’d describe as looking great are HDV tapes, and even then they’re anamorphic and interlaced.
I’m all for owning media but whenever I see stuff like this I wonder what the person is watching stuff on. Tapes were fine on titchy CRTs but they look pretty horrid on TVs from this decade.
Somewhat ironically they’d probably look fine on the mobile devices the younguns favour!
Well I have multiple crts haha. I use my flat-screen too and it looks fine. I’ve never cared about visual quality as much as audio
I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying “record”.
I don’t get it. The little plastic data slabs in Star Trek TOS were called “tapes”. Apparently the term didn’t have the staying power Roddenberry expected. I wonder how much longer we’ll keep calling our little pocket supercomputers “phones”.
They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.
We had those at my first programming job. At a later job in the 90s one of my minor duties was to swap out the tape cassette for daily backups. It held 8Gb and was about the size of a deck of playing cards. I remember talking with another guy about how amazing it was to put 8 gigabytes in your shirt pocket. Now that’s a fraction of a micro SD smaller than my fingernail.
Every once in a while I think about downloading a LCARS theme
By TNG, which started airing in 1987, data was mostly kept in (isolinear) chips and the computer, which still feels natural.
My friends kids are competent at taping wrapped presents.
“She has chosen… poorly.”
Duct tape?
Or tape worms? 🤔 No idea.
I still keep my Blockbuster membership card on me, just to remind me of a different time.
Reminds me of the time I used a rotary phone at my grandma’s and… *POOF*
