#rip redbox

[xanderisbraindead]

So was anyone gonna fuckin tell me redbox shut down 8 days ago? I was tryna rent a movie right now what the fuck!!!

I wanted to watch the new strangers with my friend but movie theaters overstimulate him now i have no choice but to BUY it. UGH

[catcherinwhitebread]

Redbox shutting their kiosks down was my blockbuster

[sortanonymous]

Well this rots

[syi666]

end of an era

[atlasthecheeseball88]

saw this at my local redbox

kiosk is dead (its cmos battery is dead) on one side, other side refuses to dispense

and the lightbox looks freaky asf

its at a Walgreens nonetheless and it was my childhood redbox

and this specific unit is running windows 7 embedded with an i3 processor with a 500gb hdd and 4gb of ram

[nanamivnemesis]

Favorite little bits/canons/headcannons within the Sonic snap cube universe

- Sonic and crew being theater kids

-Knuckles in 1907

-Redbox and Adam Sandler

-Piss wife saga

-Silver being autistic

-Silver and the dennys

-Shadow loving Pumpkin hill

-THE FUCKING TILTED TOWERS

-Amy’s ongoing violence and explosive anger issues( ripping out Elise’s throat, melting silver down and making him a necklace)

-Charmy can die happy tommorow

[yusuke-of-valla]

Oh the eShop is so chock-full of AI generated slop it's ridiculous

Tbf this was true before AI, I remeber being a kid and seeing some movie called like Kiara the Brave that had a red headed princess on the cover at the RedBox in the grocery store

Certainly wherever there has been something popular there have been cheap knock offs looking to get a buck off of confused grandparents.

Hell I only downloaded this because the logo looks like High School Musical

Which had it's own bunch of knockoffs including Sunday School Musical.

I was just thinking that doing a visual novel knock off of High School Musical as a detective visual novel was insane enough I had to see what they were thinking. Like I was genuinely curious how they were gonna rip me off

But it occurs to me that this could just be an AI making a logo for "high school detective" and basing it on High School Musical

I'm a little miffed that instead of organic human stupidity I got AI stupidity but also I paid less than a dollar for it so like. Not too miffed

[jc-lambert]

Of Death, Paliperidone & England

Oh.

It's good to see your offices aint closed.

Theres a few families from the area of Anglia/Wales: blonde folk...

sketchy...

rather mafiosa...

crime syndicated types.

Who have taken to the United States.

Theyre probably going to be down in Saint David Arizona for awhile.

They where with a global triage of what I would call drug dealing terrorists and pimps.

They where seen in a self help group for drug abuse which is heavily drafted credit off my mother's extended step family.

Many of such people in that family, are dead or missing.

It is suspected they where all killed looking for rent monies, which are heavily demanded of the group. Their names where Dunham I do believe. You would be investigating the families of Melvina Dunham-Zellner. She was the 4th youngest of I believe 9 children. I cannot recall. It would be my Aunt Thelma's family's.

Everything her family owned is boarded up and abandoned.

The candy distribution store "Tobacco and Candy" is still in operation, it requires an appointment or invitation now.

I do not know how to find them.

With rent and taxes being what they are, in tandem with the crime syndicate being well nested in the zipcode of 67213 : that family could very well be dead. I am sure there is a surviving heir or heiress somewhere to all that. 

Aunt Thelma had 7 children I believe and when you counted her great and great great grandchildren, there was over 100 of them. She was the aunt with a Ms. Pacman arcade game in her basement, and a lava lamp: which she kept through the 1970s all the way to Y2K when she died. 

Crystal...

I am going to sit down and start collecting paypal donations again.

Ive managed to purloin some laundry soap and fabric softener, to scrub my clothes in the river with. I will be needing a computer I can download programs to. Once I have the ability, I will rip through the programming of a found password protected phone and install an OS. This will allow me to use the device as if new. It will also allow me to plug in a porsche or other car's SIM card, and use free service.

Its just a matter of finding equipment and service.

It is the phone of Troy, a local drug dealer from California. He was killed to make paliperidone and the phone was stolen by one of his customers: and thrown in the trash. They can also be taken to the Redbox at Walmart on Maize Road. They have a machine that pays cash for broken/stolen cellphones. You pop the phone in, and it spits out cash.

With debts so sky high....

anyone can become paliperidone. This is what we mean by "angry cannibal hoarde".

even yall in Olpe.

The good news is for me, being who and what I am...

my only punishment would be that I would be forced to take my paliperidone and wear opals and howlite made out of those who became part of the death count.

Venus...

are you alive?

You're probably one of the only people I can think of who would be politically and socially protected from the psychotic snaps of corporate which have led to widespread commercialized cannibalism.

I should probably go to Emporia or Lawrence.

I am currently located in Wichita.

I need a new life.

Can I get a ride there, and someone to pick up applications for Section 8, rent vouchers and Eastgate Rental Application as well as sit down with me at the SSI website?

You've got an uncle or mamma's cousin family or someone in the area named Pelletier. 

He looks like you.

He looks like he could be your dad or something.

Ive always been told to avoid him (even by you I think).

He's in the middle of the whole thing.

He's how I know your name is "Durango" and how I know you aint supposed to be in the United States and how I know you are a Spanish Enemy insurgent. 

So....

let's sit down and buy firearms.

let's sit down and eat something. I am famished and my poo aint green.

let's sit down and get my medication going, and tell Jennifer that I am on it. (she will psychotically snap and pick me up and kidnap me, she's Jewish and part Hanuman, the kind of people commonly who become paliperidone)

infact...

I want to introduce you to tea from Amazon.com. You can now purchase by the pound. There is also a wonderful drug dealer in London who can and will provide with all kinds of illegal street drugs via the internet. They like to rip people off online, however we already have the ability to put a gun to their head and make sure they give us free samples.

that reminds me...

Buckingham Palace ain't in England.

They are perfectly located in the middle of Wales.

The drug dealer needs to be reminded of this.

The reason methamphetamine is called "meth" is due to the word "meddyglyn". If anyone from England is to be selling that compound, they also need to be reminded that too much methyl cake can cause the lungs to collapse and their chemists aint really that trust worthy.

Now...

while I am off my anti-psychotics....

who is the judge or authority causing my psychosis?

do they want to be body harvested due to the trillion dollar debts to the gunpowder industry?

Because right now...

I could go for a master bottle (about 10,000 PAL3 pills) which would be made of about 500-1000 people. I would prefer they all be the assholes who have kept me from my ID and wallet and bank accounts and my drivers license.

[mortalheartache]

urge to download letterboxd

(if only because it sounds like redbox which gives me nostalgia. RIP redbox.)

[jezabatlovesbats]

RIP Redbox.

Redbox has filed for bankruptcy, leaving stranded all of those massive DVD rental machines that they have in front of grocery stores across the country. So r/Redbox is now filled with people showing off all of the DVDs they stole from the out-of-order machines

[aroihkin]

Here's a tag I haven't used in years...

So anyway redbox is gone. The company is gone. I'm not sure how to feel about that, tbh. I was so fond of that job and they treated me so well, and I guess this is kinda like grieving a friend you didn't leave on bad terms but hadn't talked to in years but now you never will again, you know? That's kind of what this feels like.

They never really recovered from covid shutting the whole industry down for so long. Pre covid we were doing quite well, but I think so little revenue for so long just did irreparable damage to the company, even with everyone on skeleton crew hours (and then a lot of us leaving just to pay our bills).

Anyway. It sure is a thing my brain has to chew on, now.

RIP

[clockwork-reveries]

5PM.REDB0X.2024

"How is Redbox still a service?" Amp queried, patiently waiting as Static selected a movie to rent. "Do they not realize what happened to Blockbuster?" "It's out of business, pretty much." Static checked the selection of movies. "Do you remember the kiosk by the old gas station nobody goes to? They got rid of it." "Ah." He added, "please hurry yourself. Choosing a movie shouldn't take forever." "Your accent's pissin' me off, be quiet. You sound like a horrible combination of Scottish and British and it makes me wanna rip my core out." "English," Amp corrected. Nothing could annoy someone more than correcting them. "And imagine how I feel about yours."

Static looked up, eyes a little wide. "Damn."

[chaosmenu]

wtf the person at my local walgreens who still rents movies from redbox will never recover

[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

It’s been a pretty quiet week in the Fahrni household and at work. I’d say we’re in a steady state at both. Of course it won’t stay that way for long so I’m gonna enjoy it while I can.

Our granddaughter is with us this weekend so let’s see how much writing I’ll get done. 😁

I’ve saved so many interesting links this week. I hope you enjoy them.

Caleb Newton • Bipartisan Report

J. Michael Luttig, a widely consulted former federal judge, is among those harshly condemning the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to give presidents a layer of legal immunity, meaning protection from prosecution, for certain actions taken in office.

Our Supreme Court has done democracy a big disservice. The immunity they’ve granted Presidents basically gives them carte blanche to commit crimes as part of holding the office.

They’re evil idiots.

Jason Koebler • 404 Media

The real Christina Warren hasn’t been writing these new posts on the zombie TUAW, however. The site’s new owners have stolen her identity, replaced her photo with an AI-generated one, and have been publishing what appear to be AI-generated articles under her byline.

Here’s someone using “AI” in an unethical way. Taking someone else’s work, running it through an LLM to change it, and republishing it under the authors name — with a different author picture — is disgusting.

Victoria Namkung • The Guardian

Whenever Cassie Yoshikawa drives through the Central Valley on the former US Highway 99, she looks for the century-old landmark that symbolizes the midpoint of California: the Palm and the Pine.

You’d think being a lifelong Californian I’d have known about this. I recall passing them but I had no idea they represented the center of California. They’re an official unofficial marker. Folks just did it. Pretty nifty.

Of course they’re going to be ripped out for highway expansion. Goodness knows we need more cars on the road.

Noor Al-Sibai • Futurism

Elon Musk is a man with many brands — but for electric vehicle shoppers, his personal brand has become increasingly toxic.

That’s right, folks are not buying Teslas because Space Karen is such a dick.

I’ve given up on The Musk Files. The man is just so toxic and disgusting his crimes against humanity are too many to enumerate.

Janko Roettgers • Lowpass

This is it for Redbox: The judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of Redbox’s corporate parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment granted the debtors request to convert it from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, effectively paving the way for shutting down the company and liquidating its assets.

Wow. BluRay and DVD renters are out of luck it seems. Before streaming became ubiquitous we’d rent from Redbox about once a week. We had one at our local grocery store. It was easy and cheap.

There’s a bit of irony in this whole thing. I’ve gone back purchasing BluRay + digital download movies. We use the digital version all the time but have that BluRay backup should the license for the digital copy be revoked.

Dalia Faheid, Monica Garrett and Brandon Miller • CNN

Death Valley sets a new daily record with a searing 128 degrees as West Coast heat wave drags on

Poor California, poor planet. If this keeps up how long will it be before California can no longer produce the fruits and vegetables that feed the world? That’s not hyperbole. California’s San Joaquin Valley really is the breadbasket of the world.

Patrick Wyatt • Code of Honor

I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable game code.

Don’t look at the date this article was published. Yes, it’s from 2012. 😄

You know I love a good discussion about code architecture, especially when presented in the form of an actual product. Not just some sample code to illustrate the point. He links off to another post discussing a linked list implementation and it’s great reading.

Chris Medland • racer

Lewis Hamilton’s victory in his last British Grand Prix for Mercedes is “like a little fairytale,” according to team principal Toto Wolff.

It’s really nice to see Lewis Hamilton pick up a win in his final season the Mercedes.

Manton Reece

Everyone who has implemented ActivityPub from scratch knows that there are implementation-specific quirks that trip up developers, making compatibility between apps more difficult. Some of these issues are being clarified by the Social Web Community Group. Test suites will help too. Micro.blog has had ActivityPub support for years and we’re still finding edge cases.

So many folks are climbing on the ActivityPub bandwagon and that’s a good thing. Providing more integration with other services and allowing those to be displayed in native clients without changing formats is wonderful.

As much as I’d like to finish writing, my granddaughter is up so I’m gonna hit the publish button now and hang out with her. 😃

Steven Beschloss

The dangerously self-important Roberts insisted that the country is “in the process of the second American Revolution” and further noted that this so-called revolution “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Tom Warren • The Verge

Microsoft is finally rolling out spellcheck and autocorrect for its Notepad app in Windows 11, more than 40 years after the simple text editor was first introduced in Windows in 1983.

Skye Jacobs • TechSpot

Big Tech needs to generate $600 billion in annual revenue to justify AI hardware expenditure

Sarah Kuta • Smithsonian Magazine

While visiting his parents’ recently renovated house in Europe, a man spotted something unusual in one of the floor tiles. Upon closer inspection, it appeared to be part of a human jawbone—and it still had a few teeth.

Spire Motorsports

Rodney Childers, a 40-time NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) race winning crew chief and one of the sport’s most respected tacticians, will lead Spire Motorsports No. 7 team and driver Corey LaJoie in 2025.

Felix Salmon • Axios

The Slacker generation might have been slacking off when it came to planning for retirement: Gen X consistently ranks in surveys as the least-prepared group for when they stop earning.

John Stoehr • Raw Story

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) declared Monday he is advocating for Christian nationalism, a far-right ideology that claims there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution, and promotes as a national religion Christian fundamentalism, a hardline, extremist brand of Christianity at odds with the religious beliefs of many Christians across the country

Drew Magary • SFGATE

But again, discretion isn’t this car’s job. This is a loud and lonely car for loud and lonely people. And while I enjoyed driving my Cybertruck, I hope I’m never loud and lonely enough to want to buy one.

[news2024news]

RIP Redbox, a Bad Idea at the Worst Time http://dlvr.it/T9VSvB