This is giving me flashbacks of waiting 10 minutes for a page to load

But I also remember being able to hack in custom animations into that little box. There were some cool ones.

Dude… I’ve used text-based internet. Long, long ago, when all you got was webpages in plain text.

I know what you mean, buddy. I remember when Netscape navigator was a new and amazing piece of software. All I’d ever used before that was NCSA Mosaic.

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.

I’m Chernobyl nothing will go wrong.

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 got better…

No shit

Back in my day, we called this sort of person a “spy“

The rest of us knew it was a scam all along. and we didn’t need AI to figure that out.

🔥

And even people who actually had heard his name before, probably had no idea who he was or what he did

I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes.

This is the funniest thing I’ve heard all day

I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes.

I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes.

If that had happened, I would have.

Perhaps you should take your own advice

Dude is cleaning the grill while his roommate is taking pictures of the city

I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes.