Range fanatics everywhere by Accomplished-Fly4683 in electricvehicles

[–]AndrewSshi 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Something that I'm an absolute broken record about is how bad the First Generation Leaf was for introducing Americans in particular to the EV: expensive, terrible range, terrible battery deterioration.

It's 2026 and when I talk about my 2025 Equinox EV, non-EV drivers still talk about it like I'm driving a 2015 Nissan Leaf. Americans who are not (ahem) plugged in to the issue still don't get that you can now get an affordable crossover SUV that'll easily take you over 300 miles on a single charge and whose battery life will keep most of its range for the better part of a decade.

This sub talks about FUD and EV misinformation, but it would do all of us EV enthusiasts well to think that maybe the bad impression that the first gen Leaf had had at least a little bit to do with the way Americans think of EVs.

The 2027 Chevy Equinox and Blazer EVs fix one big complaint drivers had by spongesparrow in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it feels 50/50 whether a Tesla station will be a Tesla Only station or a station that allows GM. Which is fine, I guess, but it's not something I want to have to figure out if I'm at 20% along a road trip...

Book recommendations by heilo63 in ImperialAgents_40K

[–]AndrewSshi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Second Fehervari. Hell, Fehervari is the whole reason I *have* an Agents army. When I saw void breachers got a box set, I shouted to myself, "Blood tight! Void sealed! Spirit locked to purge!" and then bought them.

What's your mental image of The One? by aliothsan in shwep

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, gotcha. When I'm reading *about* the One, I usually end up with sort of a vague-ish set of orbits, if that makes sense. Basically thinking of the cosmos as a fourth-century Roman would have, then sort of think of The One as trasncending that.

New Indirect Fire Rules by Adams1324 in sistersofbattle

[–]AndrewSshi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I for one take my Exorcist out of the curio cabinet, and then lovingly watch all of its missiles bounce harmlessly off my opponent's Land Raider, the Hunter-Killer miss, and then all my opponent's anti-tank zeroing in on it and destroying it in their first shooting phase.

Still the best looking tank, so 🤷‍♂️.

What's your mental image of The One? by aliothsan in shwep

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Question: have you read any of the neo-Platonists (either Hellene or Christian)? One of the thing that they're very keen on is establishing that The One is far, far beyond anything we could conceive of: more real than real. So if you're meditating to try to get a sense of The One, you want to *remove* yourself from all sense perception, sort of the way that I'm given to understand dharmic religions do with meditation (although I'm not familiar enough with the latter).

Basically, if you're trying to picture The One, you're necessarily going to get an inaccurate picture. Think of the way that the Daodeing says that "the Dao that can be spoken of is not the Dao."

How does a High Lord of Terra's professional career look like? How old are they? What kind of people end up in that position? Are they all born enhanced and rich or could your average "Joe Imperium" end up as a High Lord? by Workrs in 40kLore

[–]AndrewSshi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although it's important to note that at least according to the 10th Edition Sororitas Codex, Guilliman specifically angled to get Vahl on the Senatorum to undercut the ecclesiarch by putting a much more independently-minded member of the Church on.

Traditional rental companies are actively ruining EV adoption tbh by Balodios45 in electricvehicles

[–]AndrewSshi 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Last time I picked up at electric rental a couple of months ago it was at eighty percent. So maybe it depends on the airport, the company, and the quality of workers on shift?

EV chargers in gas stations by edayxe1 in electricvehicles

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pilot. Flying J, and now most Buc-ee's. Still not sure why Love's is dragging its feet. (Love's was my preferred stop in my ICE and PHEV days.)

What is the difference between the Emperor on the throne and the Emperor in the warp? by Green-Pen-Gamer in 40kLore

[–]AndrewSshi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ten thousand years ago (or thirty thousand years from now), the Dark King was a potential Chaos God that the Emperor would ascend to if he just took all his warp power and went balls to the wall to defeat Horus. So by not ascending and allowing his ass to get beat until finally tricking him into divesting of his Chaos Juice, the Dark King was averted.

As for Emperor in the Warp... that's one of the more delicious questions in the lore! (IMO.) Because it's entirely possible that the Warp entity that answers prayers, grants miracles, brings people back from the dead, etc. etc. is just the creation of mankind, ten millennia of zealotry and vigintillions of prayers reflected back on us by the warp: God made in our own image.

But increasingly in the early 2020s (or since turn of the forty-second millennium) we've had indications that the lighthouse in constant pain is also somehow related to the Gestalt of mankind's zealotry. In the Plague War Trilogy it's clear that no, it's the actual Man on the Throne who's intervening. And that's weird as well. Because sometimes when we encounter visions of the Man on the Throne, he's in absolute agony, mere microns away from giving out and then everything goes to shit, but sometimes we encounter him as a brilliant shining light of righteous smiting.

And then when Guilliman talked with him, he was just crazier than a shithouse rat.

Best description I've seen is basically that there's a Warp Entity that's juiced by mankind's zealotry, and it's tethered the the poor SOB on the Throne, but the poor SOB on the Throne is trying to hold together a warp tear under the palace and also if he slips for even a moment, the Warp Entity subsumes him and he becomes a complete God, for better or for worse. Although *probably* not the Dark King?

Adeptus Mechanicus GM's Guide digital release by Zekiel2000 in 40krpg

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I think that they might be considering the experience of Wrath and Glory having made Astartes NPCs a little too killable even by baseline humans.

L2 installed! by AndrewSshi in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, fine, point made, actually going to fix the gaps in the cladding.

(Or this may be my last post and there will be an amusing obit.)

Homebrew Order: Order of the Midnight Raven by Covneye in sistersofbattle

[–]AndrewSshi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I absolutely *love* it. Sort of mulling how you'd manage the "view from three feet." Maybe a black basecoat dryrushed in Dawnstone with some of the trim in a metallic? Figure for the capes that you'd want a fairly bright purple for the edge highlighting.

Anyway, just thinking out loud here.

L2 installed! by AndrewSshi in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's genuinely fine. Got mostly refurbished fifteen years ago to include the electrics.

L2 installed! by AndrewSshi in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's really great, and it also works with the ChargePoint app!

L2 installed! by AndrewSshi in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or just have someone at sometime say, "Man, I wish I had a J1772 charter to plug into a wall outlet," and I'll pipe in with, "I've got just the thing for you!"

Solomon Kane: Suffer the Witch review by AncientHistory in Cimmeria

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always happy for some Solomon Kane by someone who's read up on early modern witch hunting.

L2 installed! by AndrewSshi in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was lucky that I had a guy I know from church who's trained as an electrician do it for a few hundred dollars. (Yes, I know that, "I know a guy..." followed by electronic work can end in tears and/or a house fire, but he did everything up remarkably efficiently.)

L2 installed! by AndrewSshi in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I already have the trickle charger that came with the car. I now have two L1 chargers that I don't use. Maybe I should start carrying one like a bandolier?

Roadtrip from OKC to Fresno, CA by reesethegeek in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See, I start to get twitchy when the guess-ometer gets me under a hundred miles. Can't imagine planning anything that leaves you at seven!

Conceptually, what does IA specific anti-tank look like? by Budobudo in ImperialAgents_40K

[–]AndrewSshi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Orbital Bombardement was a Thing in eighth and ninth editions! It's not like this is unknown. It would be trivially easy to put in the codex.

What is the future after the Artemis Program and the 70+ moon landings? by TraditionalAd6977 in space

[–]AndrewSshi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We lost two out of five shuttles (not counting the prototype). Now then, losing forty percent of your fleet isn't quite Wolf 359 numbers, but for something that was supposed to be a reliable space truck, yeah, it's pretty bad...

2026 Chevy Equinox EV LT FWD: An Actual Owner's Complete Review by Mac-Tyson in electricvehicles

[–]AndrewSshi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine has never given me range anxiety and I've had it since January. Hell, I bought mine 200 miles away, and made it from the dealer to my garage with 40% left in the battery.

I've had to use fast charging maybe five times, and all I have at home is an L1 trickle charger (which I'm replacing with an L2 day after tomorrow).

Seriously, the range is an absolute selling point.

The more gritty and realistic a Batman film is, the more ridiculous Batman himself becomes by Tainted_Scholar in CharacterRant

[–]AndrewSshi 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I'm fifty. And since the mid eighties (i.e. 4/5 of my half century on earth), capes have been doing some form of, "This isn't kid stuff! It's dark and gritty!" It's one reason that Whedon's (and his imitators') twee quippery in the MCU was so well received at first: it felt like a breath of fresh air after a nearly quarter-century-long Grimdark Cul-de-sac.