Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

@InternetOfGames@awscommunity.social people seemed programmed to take teams, no matter the context…

@ben hi

@trinsec this was only zero because Google refunded Stadia hardware. Which is nice of them given that this works fine with my PCs.

By far the best free joypad I’ve ever had. Not a bad deal for £0. #xp

@itisiboller I like that a lot.

@LoveRetroBTW I never used one back in the day, could never afford it over a game :) But I did buy an NES one much later in the last couple of years. Used it once... LOL

@dan when I sell my pickup truck eventually I might wear some little shorts and pose in front of it like that for the advert :)

@CommodoreBlog oh WOW! Will look it up.

@roseeater @plexus @Raspberry_Pi to be fair on this one issue Twitter and Mastodon were about the same. There was as much shouting on Twitter.

@BethO even as a person who likes pickups and finds them super practical I must agree that full-size pickups have gotten HUGE! Their noses are insanely high.

My solution (as a European who finds that trucks are long but their beds are often too short) is to go back to flat-nose/forward-control setups. This will do a number of things:

* Make the overall truck shorter.
* Make the bed longer for the same length truck.
* Greatly increase forward visibility.

There are passenger safety challenges with these designs but nothing that cannot be surmounted with current technology.

Also, we need to factor in that trucks no longer need a long nose to fit an engine, with everything going EV that's simply not needed.

PS: Also the problem is mostly the latest trucks from the big America 3: Silverado, F Series, RAM. The noses are just huge vertical slabs!

I have a Japanese mid-size pickup (an Isuzu D-Max) and the nose is much less aggressive and sloped like a car. This gives you better visibility than when driving a full size truck.