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Uh oh, the rubber band holding the two cases together broke! Now we only have part 1 of Titanic
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:28 |
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I used to rent capcom games and cut the points out of the manual. Then send away for joysticks and poo poo. I feel like if I did this today TLC would give me my own show.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:29 |
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Gaunab posted:the blockbuster near my old apartment got turned into a liquor store. it was for the best Missouri?
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:30 |
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I remember them having good airconditioning and the one I went to always smelled nice.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:30 |
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MegaGatts posted:Remember when Blockbuster turned away the netflix people and the nexfilx people started their own business called netflix instead? Makes sense. Summer of 2003 we were piloting a service in Houston just like Netflix. Faggots would come in and pay like $20 a month and rent two movies at a time and come in later the same day to return them only to rent another two and could do so as often as they wanted all month. Rinse and repeat by the dozens, if not hundreds. Worst summer of my life. Obviously Blockbuster fumbled the ball and did not adopt this business practice. Cpt.Sean Luc Picard fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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i bought my SNES from Blockbuster. and i also bought some of the used movies there cause they were super cheap. thats my blockbuster story.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:34 |
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I worked for a franchisee for 14 years. I guess I probably have some stories.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:36 |
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I still see dvds for sale at the thrift store in the blockbuster case.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:38 |
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CruJones posted:I worked for a franchisee for 14 years. I guess I probably have some stories. whats the weirdest thing you ever saw
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:39 |
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in one of his books lloyd kaufmann complains about the religious owners of blockbuster editing out sexually explicit scenes in movies and specifically singles out a lamp superimposed over the buttfucking scene in last tango in paris.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:41 |
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I worked at a Hollywood video. My boss routinely did coke off the counter and we all stole candy and food. Apparently our store was one of the best in loss statistics which always made me laugh. One dude over the course of a year stole 10,000 dollars and was caught right before the store shut down Good times at the video store
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:42 |
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Prettz posted:i discovered a lot of old animes back in the VHS days thanks to blockbuster yeah like Ranma 1/2 volume 2, Akira, Ghost In The Shell, and Bubblegum Crisis episodes 3-4.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:45 |
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THS posted:whats the weirdest thing you ever saw I'm not the guy you're asking but one time a dude came to check out and totally plopped down his colostomy bag onto the counter while we did business.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:47 |
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renting games from blockbuster was the only thing approaching enjoyment i had as a child. someone explain to me why the government was willing to bail out fannie mae but not blockbuster
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Frostwerks posted:in one of his books lloyd kaufmann complains about the religious owners of blockbuster editing out sexually explicit scenes in movies and specifically singles out a lamp superimposed over the buttfucking scene in last tango in paris. I wasn't sure if Lloyd was correct about this until I later saw Cronenberg's Crash a second time on IFC after previously renting it from Blockbuster and wondering why people made a fuss over the sex scenes when it came out. Then I realized they were chopped all to pieces for the rental version and super explicit in the actual version. In related terms, if you're a Troma fan, you should try to track down the Blockbuster versions of Terror Firmer and Toxic Avenger IV. They have additional content not in the official releases replacing the content they were forced to cut to get them on the shelves. Lloyd himself explains what's not going on in Terror Firmer, while Toxie IV has far more cut-aways to the Sklar brothers doing their newscasts.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:49 |
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THS posted:whats the weirdest thing you ever saw A few: -Mountain of a black man fell flat on his face in front of the candy racks and knocked himself out cold. Black dude he was with just walked off muttering "I don't even know this nigga" to himself. -*Used* panties in the dropbox. -Ceramic bowl with tits found stashed in the ceiling. Seriously, it was just a big ceramic bowl with like C-cups sculpted into them. Still curious where that came from, as BBV was the only thing that ever existed there.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:49 |
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i like that they got put out of business by a vending machine
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:50 |
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porkchop_express posted:i like that they got put out of business by a vending machine that is going to happen to the rest of every job ever, soon
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:53 |
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Got in a shouting match with some lady at blockbuster because I slammed my car door into her precious astro van.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:55 |
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Cpt.Sean Luc Picard posted:that is going to happen to the rest of every job ever, soon well thanks for killing the fun, Cpt. Sean Luc Picard
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:56 |
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CruJones posted:-Ceramic bowl with tits found stashed in the ceiling. Seriously, it was just a big ceramic bowl with like C-cups sculpted into them. Still curious where that came from, as BBV was the only thing that ever existed there. probably the same reason we found a can of dip above the ceiling tiles in the boys restroom in 6th grade. janitors need a break too
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:57 |
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Frostwerks posted:probably the same reason we found a can of dip above the ceiling tiles in the boys restroom in 6th grade. janitors need a break too so what happened to the dip
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 04:58 |
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THS posted:so what happened to the dip turns out we did not like dip and we gave it to the redneck kid who did
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:00 |
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when the sega cd came out my blockbuster had one on a demo station, with sewer shark on it. i was totally confused by the gameplay, or lack thereof. in retrospect the sega cd was one of the worst consoles ever.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:01 |
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Don Tacorleone posted:well thanks for killing the fun, Cpt. Sean Luc Picard get used to it, son
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:02 |
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no, this movie better! much better!
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:04 |
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i tried to rent some video games from blockbuster and they wanted like 3 forms of id and poo poo so i said no way and 6 months later they went bankrupt
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:08 |
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One time I bought two games and got one free
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:09 |
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Oh look there's a shitload of the movie I wanted to rent oh actually there aren't all these boxes are empty
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:11 |
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Gaunab posted:the blockbuster near my old apartment got turned into a liquor store. it was for the best let me guess. out in kcmo? westport?
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:11 |
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Pumpkin guts in the drop box. Bunch of cute girls persuaded my dorky rear end to let them have the full body cut out stand of the blue dude from Avatar... Jake was it? It had a weird looking loin cloth extension to hide the side of his naked blue man-cat butt. There was this cool old druggie dude that had hep C and a big bandage on his front where a big section of his intestine was apparently poking out from.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:17 |
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Wicker Man posted:Pumpkin guts in the drop box. Bunch of cute girls persuaded my dorky rear end to let them have the full body cut out stand of the blue dude from Avatar... Jake was it? It had a weird looking loin cloth extension to hide the side of his naked blue man-cat butt. In my case (at Hollywood Video) it was a cute punk girl that convinced me to let her have the cut out for Frankenstein when Universal released the anniversary DVD. I later snagged the Yoda one for Episode II for my Star Wars loving older brother.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 05:21 |
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Cpt.Sean Luc Picard posted:I used to work at one in the early 00s and helped to make it eventually go out of business. This is basically my story. Working there was totally not a waste of a few years of my life.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 06:16 |
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I remember being 7 in 1993 and being excited about renting games from there.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 06:24 |
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Prettz posted:when the sega cd came out my blockbuster had one on a demo station, with sewer shark on it. i was totally confused by the gameplay, or lack thereof. in retrospect the sega cd was one of the worst consoles ever. the Lunar games ruled
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 06:34 |
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i worked there and i went to my coworkers house after work one time, her husband had been coming in and just stealing a poo poo load of movies, there was a stack of maybe 200 blockbuster movies from our store right on her floor near the tv good times
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 06:50 |
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I grabbed the wrong box and didn't look at it on the way up to the cashier and accidentally ended up with Hope Floats. I watched it anyway because I didn't want to feel like I wasted my money.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 06:51 |
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when i was a kid, blockbuster put a bogus late fee on our account. like just straight-up made it up. we'd lived in one state most of my life, but for a bit over a year we'd lived in another state in a completely different part of the country before moving back. about a month after we got back we wanted to rent some movie or another and found out there was a late fee on our account that had been created while we were living two time zones away. my mom managed to argue out of paying for that bullshit and it was at least another five years before we were willing to rent from there again.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 07:11 |
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My town still has two running Blockbuster stores, and one of them is next to a Papa Murphy's take-and-bake pizza, which makes it easy to get dinner and a movie of two. I don't go there often because I get some stuff from friends who torrent, but every time I go the store seems well managed, and the people who own it say it's profitable. Good for them. Also one time I molested a dude who was trying to rent dusk til dawn 2.
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# ? Aug 27, 2014 07:28 |