It may have contributed to the failure of Betamax, but there several reasons for the failure of that format.

1. It was expensive. From the cameras to the playback machines, even commercial distribution on Betamax tapes came with an expensive license and fee that VHS did not have.

2. Betamax tapes (initially) were limited to 60 minutes. The VHS tapes were initially 120 or 180 minutes.

3. Betamax machines and Betamax camcorders were much more bulky and heavier and more complicated to use than their VHS alternatives.

Despite its superior quality, Betamax came with a lot of drawbacks, all of which were the major contributors to its downfall. How much porn itself had to do with that, it’s probably not known, but it was not a major contributing factor.

This is called a “dark pattern“ (a rather shitty design concept) wherein the design is specifically engineered to make you finally give up because it’s so overly complicated, and to just accept the cookies so they can track you and get all your personal information and sell it.

Material is Google’s design language

I’m Chernobyl nothing will go wrong.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure they were incapable of smiling before now.

Not just trans people— all LGBTQ+ people are regarded this way

clearly…

But they do it all as salamanders! Hilarious!

Funny, my media server automatically skips the intro at just about that point, lol

That doesn’t really sound like writers block, it sounds like writer apathy.

There have been countless writings for thousands of years, ever since humans learned to write. That’s no reason not to write something.

Imagine if Plato or Shakespeare or James Joyce thought to themselves, “Ah, why bother? There’s already so much shit out there…“

I always found this episode hilarious. I don’t understand the hate.

“Sup, bro”

I got better…

I remember that. Everyone was so fucking pissed.

When regular evil isn’t enough

Oh, I’m totally making this

No shit

They might have more success if they weren’t making such ridiculous demands

Valar morghulis