What was this era like?

Comfy.

Used to rent nes games with my friend from the local video rental place when we were kids.

Awesome beyond belief, especially if you were a kid.

90s fucking ruled!

REAL COZY.

It was great i member planning 9/11

People also didn't spend everyday waking moment on the internet

I worked at Blockbuster before they went under. I got to play vidya gaems before even reviewers did. Shit was so cash.

This. It was unironically comfy.

>go and rent one of the million jimmy neutron games from blockbuster
>the day it’s due back I’m on the final boss, aunt is coming in 30 minutes to bring it back
>the time is now
>I had no idea how to beat the boss, found out purely by luck and intuition
>beat the game as my aunt walks through the door
>relive the triumph to this day

3/10 I want to die

>current events

Stop talking about the holocaust then.

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people were more ignorant, little things weren't treated as big things on a daily basis, so the actual big things felt much bigger, resonating with people stronger, with unity instead of instant division

people were happy, because they were ignorant

Felt more happier

I remember days when me and friends would just walk by the streets, goofing off, laughing at each other. We took our sweet time walking and chatting.

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Really fun.
I'd save up my lunch moneys and rent a video game over the weekend.
Then once I hit highschool I managed to land the a super pretty blonde gf.
we would wander the aisles and find whatever movie even though we would only watch 30 minutes of it before I was playing with her little pink pussy hole

Pretty shitty era, honestly.
>live on the cult section of local video rental stores
>fill your head with insanity, sharing it with your friends
>Blockbuster moves in
>puts all of your favorite stores out of business
>Blockbuster has mainly aisles of multiple copies of the latest release movies, and a very shitty cult section
>Enter Netflix
>Enter Redbox
>Blockbuster shuts down
>Now there are no cool video rental stores in my town anymore

Honestly, though, I think there is an untapped market for local video rental stores to open again. People like to browse, and to find those cult classics. You can rent whatever you want, return whenever you want, and you don't have to subscribe to Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/YoutubeRed and still not be able to find specific films.

comfy as hell but also very sheltered. race relations wasn't really an issue, the economy was booming, video games/movies/tv were actually good and relatively free of hebrew propaganda

There were only two genders

>comfy as hell niggy

we brought you pulp fiction, buffalo 66 and shit you can't imagine 30 years from now

full of late fees, you had to get to know the clerks and they might wave them

I'm still living in it. Here it's Tsutaya. Japanese don't illegal download TV shows, etc.

Imagine today's level of propaganda, but more successful because the internet wasn't a prominent thing. People act like the 90s were some great time, but it's only because they were bluepilled. The reality is, we were being slammed with propaganda 24/7 and were completely oblivious to it.

When I was 12 my mom came into my bedroom and poured hot wax all over my nipples and genitals. She said why are you screaming it's 4am? I said it was because I can't see goddammit

Perhaps the last time governments could brainwash people effectively before the internet came in like Killdozer. Unfortunately, like Killdozer, the mind control program started back up as companies began working with governments.

It was effectively as close to a utopia as you could get: bad news seemed far away, children had it made, the different races got along together at the local level....

But the internet and a string of events broke this bubble: Columbine, Y2K, worms holding entire enterprises hostage ("I love you" worm), the dotcom bubble, various others, and finally 9/11.

It almost feels like a dream.

I want to say it was better, but more likely we were just ignorant. Still there wasn't the constant enabling of progressive insanity.

Pay attention. Know your history but don't wallow in tne past. The 90s were "better" than now. But you could feel the slide. Most cities had already fallen. Most factories had been decimated. The rotten fruits of the late 60s were shedding all over. Broken families, std's, student loan bubble began inflating, tech bubble about to burst, gay shit and drud culture seeping in, nihilistic consumerism metastasized. Govt becoming more visibably corrupt by the day. OJ Simpson trial was Jessy Smollett v1.0.

1996 version

youtu.be/QGrWvrGDOXg

The era before social media, where people were just as dumb as now just i didnt have to see it every day and these fucks werent creating their echochambers validating their faggot was and finding solace with other faggots thinking "im not the only fucking weirdo in the world, there are more people like me, it must be normal"

Severely underrated, based, and red pilled.

I worked at one for almost 2 years.
Idiots were in the closet back then.
The neighborhood wasnt 75% Iraqi either.

Cucks

every era that didn't have zoomers was incredible

fuck you zoomers

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Wandering around looking at the same old weekly titles. Might be a few new releases but they're too expensive and usually out. Eventually you leave with Waterworld, Speed, and The Usual Suspects like always.

It was incredibly comfy but at the same time Blockbuster was a merchant of zog propaganda.
Ignorance was bliss, but the goyim know now so that’s the world we live in.

Much simpler and more expensive.

We used to have to rent consoles and shit- anyone remember TAKE IT HOME VIDEO?

Yeah...

Watching the matrix films with friends or girls as a sleepover.

Found the senile old boomer.

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It was great. Hitler portraits were in every school.
You could oun black slaves.
Gays didnt existe
American was at war with israel
A random girl on the street was obliged by law to give you a blowjob just because you were white
But then the Democrats won...

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Yeah, people were sympathetic to the Palestinians but you sure put a stop to that. Well played.

There was a brief sweet spot in the 90s: the soviet union broke up so it wasn't like we were going to have nuclear war, the dot com bubble had the economy humming along, good music on the radio, free music on lime wire. Then the Jews pulled 9-11 and it all went to shit.

And this went a long way in terms of people behaving normally and not being bitter faggots all the time.

Pretty boring desu. I grew up in that era and find myself feeling nostalgic occasionally, but the reality is the world today is a lot more accessible.

Gen-X was luckily able to straddle the old world and the technological era, so we grew up old school, then by the time we were young adults began to have access to the Internet

sofa king BORING.

No, you Millenials will never be bored like Gen X (and before) were.

Fridays were pizza night with a rented movie and video game for your SNES or Sega Genesis.

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Yes there are lots of movies that you can't find on Netflix and other such sites. In fact Netflix is really poor. And it becomes harder to find them on torrent sites, only the private ones that many people don't know about and require invitations. A store like that can look nice too with a creepy dark atmosphere and all the movie covers on display. Other than that, DVDs and BDs of certain titles can be hard to get and will become even rarer in the future.

Being born between 1980 and 1985 was arguably the best time to come into this world. You grew up with the progression of technology enough to understand it. Movies were better. Anime was in it's golden age. Gaming was amazing. Politics weren't as contentious as it is today. The social fabric of society began to crack and breakdown when social media came about.

Comfy

You rent tv shows? How about watching them on tv?

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Times were good then, times were good after. It wasn’t Facebook or cell phones that killed the good times either. It was the government psyop releasing meme power point slides belonging to a fictional character named Snowden that was 100% effective in convincing a bunch of sheep that they had to be good goys because the government was always watching. Goodbye pool closings, goodbye rolling trips to open the briefcase, goodbye people actually saying what they feel and hello relentless reddit tier virtue signaling in fear of being categorized as a wrong thinker.

nice when I didn't have to do all this adult shit

If I had the money I'd consider opening a small rental store. I'd have a respectable cult section, a horror section, a foreign section with a heavy golden harvest/kung fu influence, and focus on 60's-late 80's nostalgia that can be difficult to find. I'd take customer suggestions on how to expand, maybe even sell a few videos via a kind of "bounty hunter" service (customer says what they want and gives a price and I go find it). The only thing I can't figure out how to do is what to do if customers rent videos and never return with them. People have changed a LOT since the days of local rental stores. I imagine I'd go bankrupt pretty quickly over people renting and running off with things, and disputing late fees with their credit card companies or whatever. It would be nice, though. I'd love to do it.

Lame asf

top kike

I’m more comfy now than I was then, but I had to leave the country to make it happen

>Hidden depravity as you were not aware, just blind.

Agree with this gent.
In retrospect it looks a comfy era, but in reality we were just ignorant of the truth.
Jimmy Savile was rasping kids and cripples & we didn't know.

hell, when i was little? cable wasnt a complete "thing" yet. you got TV stations like you move n antenna around on a radio to bring the station in, ha ha. I remember the VHS vs. BETA format wars. I had an Atari 2600 growing up. Originally? you had to join a "club" with a big yearly membership fee, to be ALLOWED to rent VHS tapes at the local record store. I remember i was hot shit in HS because i had computer and i hada phone modem too, other people were amazed to come over and watch me get on BBS's (kinda the original internet if you wanna call it that) I was a 20-something thru the 90s, so, i enjoyed them as best i could.

Bad resolution from worn out vhs tapes mostly and hanging out more at each other’s houses Cuz no cell phone texting faggotry you queers enjoy so much

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>The only thing I can't figure out how to do is what to do if customers rent videos and never return with them.
I don't know about anywhere else, but here you had to get registered with a valid ID. If someone doesn't return a DVD, you just sent a debt collector... I'd worry more about copyrights. You can't just buy a DVD and then start renting it out.