Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@qoto.org

@repeatro I'll get photos when I finish work :D

@darwinwoodka @BBCRadio4 ah! yes.

@repeatro I have it on both NES (French cart), and Famicom :D Great game too, but I think overall I prefer the first one.

@Basmitharts I'm coming from the perspective of a person who kind of liked the concept, I thought it was unique, I was slightly sceptical that it would be genuinely useful but was open-minded. My main concern was the bed, it wasn't separate and thus you couldn't replace it with a flat deck or easily install a canopy for camping or similar applications.

However, over time as we've seen more of the production versions I've started to think this is one of the dumbest vehicles ever designed. I'm happy with basic and functional designs, but this seems weird for the sake of being weird.

@repeatro this is perhaps my favourite game of all time :) I''ve got the USA cart, a Euro cart, a replica, Famicom cart, and the Gameboy game. You could say I'm a little obsessed.

PS: I also have the remaster :D

@Sonikku

@John I share the same opinion, the bar for Plus is fairly low and the Plus label might push prices upwards.

But I do like that now we have a label to look out for.

@nikki I know right? Animals are very trusting, I'd never trust King Kong to hold me :)

@elaterite @fsf I remember this clearly :) I'm surprised it was so long ago! I'm getting old.

@MissingThePt I'll be the first to say it when you are not announced as the winner.

"YOU WAS ROBBED!"

@gnutelephony@floss.social @darnell @BBCRD There are market and regulatory reasons why super apps don't exist outside Asia. It's not just that you need force to mandate it, but I suspect there are other market forces and consumer behaviour that make super apps possible in Asia and not Europe or America.

@gnutelephony@floss.social @darnell @BBCRD

I think Musk’s initial assumption that Twitter could become a WeChat equivalent wasn’t too bad, but it also wasn’t great. Let’s look at what WeChat has that Twitter had:

* Messaging (crappy, but it was there)
* Social Media
* Official Accounts

What’s missing is the following:

* Payments
* WeChat Work
* All the mini apps like: like health, movie reviews, tickets, delivery tracker, etc, etc, etc…
* Users: Twitter never had anywhere close to 1 billion users

Twitter had the BIG one, they were the place for official accounts for companies, politicians, academic institutions, government bodies, etc… But Twitter has regressed, rather than being even more welcoming to these sorts of accounts Twitter has become more hostile.

Overall Twitter is regressing, and not progressing towards this goal.

And I don’t see how they could ever make it. WeChat is developed by Tencent and Tencent has over 110k employees, Twitter has 1300 active working employees down from 7500. They can’t even support what they have, there’s no way Twitter can develop all the additional modules needed to become even 5% of what WeChat is.

PS: Also let’s factor in that Elon wants Twitter to become a paid for app, WeChat is free! Everything Twitter is doing is driving it further and further away from becoming like WeChat.

I guess they could become the WeChat for the USA from what you say. But even then I'd argue that it doesn't make them equal to WeChat, WeChat exists outside China all over Asia as a payment platform and China is a much larger market than the USA. Twitter could be WeChat Mini, not WeChat.