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Off topic somewhat, the place I work I managed to stumble upon a CRT TV with a built in VHS play which was hiding in a corner of a room nobody ever goes in, then in a completely separate part of the large site, a huge amount of old marketing VHS tapes. I got it working and was watching some old non-released TV ads from 80’s and 90’s. Today was a good day.
This is just a straight up advertisement.
Why is this marketing getting posted in a meme sub?
Finally, a game I can smell.
Rose-colored nostalgia sells.
They’re unknowingly training an AI model to work in retail, for free.
I was a manager at Blockbusters in '93.
I’m not sure how to feel about this.
But if there is not a segment in the game where I am ordering “All Holes Filled with Hard Cock” in front of an 8 year old, or randomly locking the door to go hang out at the convenience store next door, then I am not interested.
Needs this mod
15 bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand. If that money doesn’t show then you owe me owe me owe. My jungle love.
AFLECK WAS THE BOMB IN PHANTOMS, YO.
ooowwwee owwwwee oooooo
Fuck.
Mother mother fuck.
Mother mother fuck fuck
Schedule 1 crossover when
I was just thinking, would this be good for money laundering?
This isn’t “Be Kind, Rewind”
“I’m Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today” adjacent games
“Fine then, let me just borrow your car”
“What for?”
“I want to rent a movie”
“you work…at a video store”
“I work at a shitty video store! I want to go to a good video store and get a good movie!”
View Askew.
37?!?!
Hey that gives me an idea for a mini game they could add.
In a row?!?
The way our character shows up on their day off and loans out VHS tapes before diving face first into a mooby’s combo meal is full of the exaggerated swagger of a middle-aged rental clerk.
So a gas station attendant simulator? Pick a pack of smokes off a wall of packs, restock beer in the cooler, empty trash bags near pumps, and occasionally do full service?
I wouldn’t want to relive that again. Chevron sucked as a job.
I used to work at a Blockbuster, I’m not sure I’d want to relive those days.
My favorite was when customers would come in with the cards we mailed out letting them know they were in collections for a late return. something like $4.25 (yes we’d send people to collections for the cost of a rental) and they’d always have the same complaint “I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.
Hot take - If you can’t pay for a damn video tape rental you can’t be trusted to pay your house loan.
Yeah sorry I agree with you. Entire point of the credit system is to let people like mortgage lenders know how trustworthy you are. All you really need for a good score is to simply pay things off on time. If you ignore the small things, how will you treat the big things?
the point of the credit system was to have a race blind way to be racist
This should have been one of those bubble markers covered in the big short
How do you buy a house without $4.25
the excuse was, according to them, that having the late fee sent to collections would destroy their credit thus preventing them from getting a loan.
“Well then, sounds like you’ve got a payment to make”
More like, “well for just $4.25, plus my convenience fee of $100, we can resolve this problem”
I love being assholes to assholes, so the chub is just a side benefit.
Why are the customers assholes in this case? For having an unpaid late fee?
For bitching about $4 that they should have paid weeks/months ago, bothering staff like that is going to be an easy way out. Using a bullshit excuse for pity.
If you can’t afford $4, what house are you buying? Exactly. They just expect to be treated ‘different’, because ‘they’ are ‘better’.
Yeah, but then you give them something to complain about afterwards. Pissing them off by being kind is sooooo much more rewarding. You haven’t experienced pettiness until you’ve gotten a customer to a boiling rage by being nothing but saccharine and professional to a pissed off customer looking for a fight.
I used to work retail cell phone sales for a now defunct reseller, and we’d frequently get people in who got pissed off when they found out we couldn’t do a lot of carrier functions, and boy was it fun winding people up by being kind, courteous and professional.
I wasn’t as bad as the South Park ISP dudes, but same vibe lol
I get that, but what why waive the fee
if you’re in debt, your credit score goes down and you can’t take out a loan
“I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.
I’m sure they did nothing wrong with that house once they bought it…
*looks at housing market*
OP you should have doubled the fine
That’s not people’s fault for wanting to own a house, it’s the banks’ fault
What about second house and third house
How do you buy a house with $4.25?
it’s selling the longe gone dream of working yourself up with honest work not possible anymore in monopoly driven late stage capitalism
That’s why I hate video games - they appeal to the plebian fantasy.
/s
just own nothing and be happy!
That’s the Hollywood Video floor carpet.
Source : a former video rental store worker
Currently #11 now but good to see the post wasn’t lying
The poor yearn for service positions.
/s if it’s necessary.
“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the fucking customers”
yearn for service positions
Yes, but not in the way you think
Yeah I service the economy on my knees.
Now see, that is a person who puts their country and shareholders above their dignity. The next round is on me! Not for them though, they are preoccupied…
I just heard about another game not out yet where you run a video rental store during the day, but at night you basically turn into John Wick. It has both a rental store sim, and a Watch_Dogs looking action game combined. It sounded pretty dope.
any chance you could find out the name again?
Blackwood.
Now you, too, can experience how it is to have a job!
