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Lol. This is basically the EXACT type of thing you would see in GBS circa 2006, I missed it
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My favorite part is the casual racism.
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Apr 18, 2017 20:47
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In Training posted:My favorite part is the casual racism. Yea, 2006/ 2007 me didn't cater to people's delicate sensibilities. How times have changed. Tommy_Udo fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Apr 18, 2017 21:19
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As most of you are aware I am currently employed at BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO. There are some parts of the job that are pretty good: I work with alot of cool people, FREE RENTALS! and discounts, A chance to force my superior film taste upon others. It’s really not that hard of a job.The biggest drawback of the job is this:I HAVE TO SERVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC! Probably the fattest, most ungrateful, disgusting, and just dumb group of people to ever walk the earth. The American General Public. Especially kids! Abortion should not only be legal, it should be ENFORCED! Sure, you have a few cool customers that rock, but overall most of the customers I want to punch in the face.
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Apr 18, 2017 23:28
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Fungah! posted:As most of you are aware I am currently employed at BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO. There are some parts of the job that are pretty good: I work with alot of cool people, FREE RENTALS! and discounts, A chance to force my superior film taste upon others. It’s really not that hard of a job.The biggest drawback of the job is this:I HAVE TO SERVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC! Probably the fattest, most ungrateful, disgusting, and just dumb group of people to ever walk the earth. The American General Public. Especially kids! Abortion should not only be legal, it should be ENFORCED! Sure, you have a few cool customers that rock, but overall most of the customers I want to punch in the face. A harsh, but accurate portrait of the American consumer.
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Apr 19, 2017 00:19
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Tommy_Udo posted:Yea, 2006/ 2007 me didn't cater to people's delicate sensibilities. How times have changed. Racism is bad, fuckwit
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Apr 20, 2017 00:32
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Improbable Lobster posted:Racism is bad, fuckwit It would be an overreaction to call anything in the blog posts racist. Crawl back to your safe space.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:11
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Tommy_Udo posted:It would be an overreaction to call anything in the blog posts racist. Crawl back to your safe space.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:17
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I'll reopen this later... take a chill pill.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:21
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I laughed so hard at the psycho in part 3 that I woke my girl up twice. Haven't laughed out loud at anything on this site in years. I miss the internet of the mid 00s. Bravo
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Apr 29, 2017 07:32
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Tommy_Udo posted:It would be an overreaction to call anything in the blog posts racist. Crawl back to your safe space. I'm also sick of the snowflakes and SJWs.
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May 2, 2017 05:10
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im sjw
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Tommy_Udo posted:It would be an overreaction to call anything in the blog posts racist. Crawl back to your safe space. I'm sorry to have offended your delicate sensibilities
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May 3, 2017 00:39
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Cornwind Evil posted:Finally there was another video store (might have been the same one) where in and out movies were indicated by these little plastic tags stuck on velcro, and if they were out the tag was gone. I remember for some reason there were two color tags, red and blue; red tag films could be rented by anyone but blue tag films could only be rented by people who had an address in a specific neighborhood (where I didn't live) and I was always cross because there were a few 'blue tag only' films in the kid's section I could never watch and hence my childish curiosity was deeply irked. When I was really young (probably about '86 or so), there was a rental place my family went to that had a system like this. However, the purpose of the separate tags was to differentiate between VHS and Betamax cassettes.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'm sorry to have offended your delicate sensibilities I'll forgive you. This time.
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ZDar Fan posted:When I was really young (probably about '86 or so), there was a rental place my family went to that had a system like this. However, the purpose of the separate tags was to differentiate between VHS and Betamax cassettes. There was only one hardware store in my town that rented Beta tapes, and my dad bought out most of their collection for like $30 after they gave up on that.
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May 4, 2017 05:03
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I remember my dad renting Free Willy from BB and copying it onto a blank Beta. My mom wanted him to do the same with Titanic. I think it took about four(?) betas.
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Wow, Hollywood video. Another chain that died a dishonorable and comedic death .They thought independent video game stores would never work and that video streaming was a passing fad. Is Gamestop still a Thing? The only way to kill a shambling zombie is
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Going to Gamestop over the last few years has been interesting, the game sections keep getting smaller and smaller while the sections for tacky "gamer/geek" merchandise get larger and larger. I think half of each Gamestop at this point is Star Wars mugs and funko pop figures.
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Going to Gamestop over the last few years has been interesting, the game sections keep getting smaller and smaller while the sections for tacky "gamer/geek" merchandise get larger and larger. I think half of each Gamestop at this point is Star Wars mugs and funko pop figures.
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May 10, 2017 20:35
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The last time I was in a Gamestop I was trying to buy Borderlands (lol, for the couch co op) and a steam card my senior year of high school and I left my ID in the car. The clerk refused to sell me the game, but said he could still sell me the steam card and proceeded to check me out. I stopped and said "I'm just going to buy these at Best Buy next door where they won't card me, dude" in a really cool high school kid voice. The clerk then had a melt down in front of everyone in the store yelling at me on how this is going to make him look like poo poo because his sales are down and he has a family to feed. I put my head down and sped out the door
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May 10, 2017 20:44
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In the last place I lived there was a GameStop across the street I frequented and I was the only person there to ever purchase a Vita game and there was a weirdo girl on staff who recognized me for it and kept trying to loudly sell me on softcore porno Vita visual novels whenever I stopped in so I moved out of state and changed my name.
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In Training posted:In the last place I lived there was a GameStop across the street I frequented and I was the only person there to ever purchase a Vita game and there was a weirdo girl on staff who recognized me for it and kept trying to loudly sell me on softcore porno Vita visual novels whenever I stopped in so I moved out of state and changed my name. Cannot believe you didn't pick up on her cues  but you own a vita sooo!!
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general anime posted:Cannot believe you didn't pick up on her cues Well she was probably like 10 years younger than me, in high school it seemed (looking at my Vita for a while and thinking about my life) Good God
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May 10, 2017 23:18
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when I worked at game crazy (The video game store [zoolander and hansel talking about the computer files voice] inside the Hollywood Video) there was a dude named Mark who seemed like he'd been working there forever, and always would. I wonder where all the Blockbuster lifers are now, and what they're doing?
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May 15, 2017 21:56
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They're working at Gamestop. Out of the frying pan into the fire, right?
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In Training posted:In the last place I lived there was a GameStop across the street I frequented and I was the only person there to ever purchase a Vita game and there was a weirdo girl on staff who recognized me for it and kept trying to loudly sell me on softcore porno Vita visual novels whenever I stopped in so I moved out of state and changed my name. Lmao
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Going to Gamestop over the last few years has been interesting, the game sections keep getting smaller and smaller while the sections for tacky "gamer/geek" merchandise get larger and larger. I think half of each Gamestop at this point is Star Wars mugs and funko pop figures.
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May 16, 2017 02:53
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May 22, 2017 22:52
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I also worked at blockbuster ask me anything. We had a walgreens next door so you could buy liquor to drink through your whole shift, I learned how to look the other way while video games walked out in exchange for weed and hosed more than one coworker. The employees were treated a lot better in the old viacom years but in the later killed by netflix and redbox years it was a terrific place to be a degenerate.
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Dr. Lariat posted:I also worked at blockbuster ask me anything. We had a walgreens next door so you could buy liquor to drink through your whole shift, I learned how to look the other way while video games walked out in exchange for weed and hosed more than one coworker. The employees were treated a lot better in the old viacom years but in the later killed by netflix and redbox years it was a terrific place to be a degenerate. the names of the men?
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May 26, 2017 17:00
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paying for weed with video games - those were simpler times
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Joke: paying for weed with video games Woke: paying for video games with weed
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Going to Gamestop over the last few years has been interesting, the game sections keep getting smaller and smaller while the sections for tacky "gamer/geek" merchandise get larger and larger. I think half of each Gamestop at this point is Star Wars mugs and funko pop figures. The last time I went into one was when I was trying to kill a lunch hour at a Barnes & Noble next door and figured I could go for a game. And then I came out two minutes later because the games were a shelf on the wall that was littered with signage to buy a membership that was apparently used to buy Hot Topic castoffs. I never worked at a Blockbuster, but I did work at a few independent video stores and I think the one thing that never ceased to make me laugh was this one strange girl who had just graduated from high school who wanted to 'move up the ladder' at the store. In the year and a half I was there before I got a real job, I saw her do some crazy poo poo like lose her sense of smell by jumping out of a moving truck to avoid her boyfriend, suffer a meltdown during a busy Friday night while she couldn't stop talking about how her clitoris swelled and turned black after her first sexual experience, and how she missed a morning shift because the night before had her and some other co-workers hit a gopher and then meltdown when they couldn't find a vet that was open at 1am to 'save it' despite it barely clinging to life in her car trunk. I wish I was making this poo poo up, but needless to say this was my last ever retail job, and for that I am thankful.
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I worked at Blockbuster in college and there was a guy that got caught stealing DVDs out of the cases. He would do this by cutting the spine of the case, pull the DVD out and pocket it, getting around the magnetic lock thing that were on the cases. He'd done it a couple times and we figured out who it was from the security camera so the third or so time he came in we called the cops and he was arrested. I wound up telling this story to a group of friends not really thinking much of it. A week or so later one of the guys that was there when I told the story was arrested for doing the same thing at another Blockbuster. Whoops.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:I never worked at a Blockbuster, but I did work at a few independent video stores and I think the one thing that never ceased to make me laugh was this one strange girl who had just graduated from high school who wanted to 'move up the ladder' at the store. In the year and a half I was there before I got a real job, I saw her do some crazy poo poo like lose her sense of smell by jumping out of a moving truck to avoid her boyfriend, suffer a meltdown during a busy Friday night while she couldn't stop talking about how her clitoris swelled and turned black after her first sexual experience, and how she missed a morning shift because the night before had her and some other co-workers hit a gopher and then meltdown when they couldn't find a vet that was open at 1am to 'save it' despite it barely clinging to life in her car trunk.
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When my family moved to a smaller town.....the nearest video store was some no name place called A+ Video. When they went out of business.....they tried to sell off their stock for pretty outrageous prices. I did like that they sold their old movie posters for $5 or something when new ones came in. I had a Black Knight poster on my bedroom door for what had to have been 10 years.
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I did six years in a Movieland that became a Blockbuster in Adelaide. Our weirdest customer was the sixty minute man, who would hire a porno VHS and return it without fail an hour later - we had paper towel on the counter just for him.
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Overall it was a great job though, I never had to touch fast food in high school or uni and I've seen every movie that came out from 1998 to 2004.
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Worked at a mom and pop video store to pay my way through college. Every single week, on Friday, an old dude would come in, putter around for a half hour or so and rent this movie: He did this for years, renting the movie hundreds of times. Over and over we would offer to just give the guy the tape, but he acted like he didn't know what we were talking about. Anyway, I wasn't there when this happened but apparently one day he ran out of the store and into the busy four-lane road in front, laid down in one of the lanes and started screaming. They took him away and none of us ever saw him again. Also I got my life threatened on at least three separate occasions for insisting that people pay their fines. That's my video store story.
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