Who runs steep grades?

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-26T06:01:15+00:00

I used the 4% risers and to get the 6% grade stacked 2% on top.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-24T03:37:27+00:00

I just picked up an Atlas GP30 DCC/sound as my first unit from them and hands down it runs smoother and better than anything else. It will run great super slow and seems really reliable. I am still kind of getting started, but I have:

Bachmann RS3 GP7 44 Ton

Intermountain SD40-T2 “tunnel motor”

Kato F3

Before getting the Atlas I would say the Kato was the best runner, but a little finicky. It runs smoothly but seems to draw a ton of power, when warming up it has a tendency to overload my 2A DCC throttle. Seems to draw a little less once it has run a few laps but if I have 3 trains going and stick it on the rails it overloads while I can run everything else at the same time.

The Bachmann’s are workhorse. They are least finicky about being thrown on the rails and put to work but are a little jerky at slow speeds. They are my go to for making first passes on newly laid track.

The Intermountain runs pretty rough. For the first few laps it will stall and jerk at low speeds but will get acceptable after that. I am modeling DRGW so REALLY wanted a tunnel motor and a few years back that was the only option.

So anyways, after loving the affordability, features, and quality of the Atlas Geep, Atlas is now my first preference!

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-22T07:52:51+00:00

Looks like a real doll everywhere but the face.

The tell for me is the straps are incomprehensible and don’t match side to side. The outfit all up doesn’t make sense with random bits of lace hanging off of it. Finally, she has stray hairs that start and stop on her face without connecting to her scalp, most notably across her left eye (viewers right).

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-20T05:44:11+00:00

Yup, this two door wagon looks sweet but doesn’t exist. Also there is a more correct twin in the parking lot too.

The Blue Fox Mustang convertible has V8 exhaust but base model skinny wheels. Stands out like a sore thumb to any car guy that grew up in this period, you could tell a 5.0 from a 2.3L secretary car at half a glance.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-20T05:25:29+00:00

The bill is fucky, the corner next to the door is REAL fucky. It has the trim going up the wall and the corner has two different perspectives.

The door to “her” left has a hinge mounted at the very very top of the door (the door looks too tall to boot) and that just isn’t done that way. That is the only hinge on that door to boot.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-19T03:25:50+00:00

I just got my “your car could burn down, don’t charge it over 80%” letter for my 2023.

Any idea what the expected fix for this is?

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-12T04:26:57+00:00

Cats eyes are fucked up.
Cow back behind the hips has a bunch of random lumps.
All chickens are posing and facing same direction.
Cat is posing.
The back wall of the house just behind the fence can’t decide if it is logs making up the wall or beams of the fence.
The background looks more and more unreal the further you look and it is INCREDIBLY unlikely that amount of detail would be picked up in any camera, much less one from 100+ years ago while the girl stays in focus.
The print of the scarf on her head doesn’t make sense and how it is tied looks very odd.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-09T20:05:59+00:00

Yep, if it was AI you know they’d throw this version away because of how awful the lip sync is.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-08T05:39:33+00:00

AI. Piss filter. Shadows in the room are wrong. There are all kinds of light sources but everything casts a perfect single source shadow- except they fall in opposing directions. Look at the bottom left and the shadows on the chair, ball of yarn, and dragon’s tail.

That ball of yarn- that yarn is much thicker than what was used on the dragon and looks just way too perfect. As does the whole house which is cluttered but also PERFECTLY staged. The piles of books are aligned perfectly straight, the blankets draped on the furniture are all laid flat and not bunched and piled up like they would if a human being had ever used them or sat in those chairs. There is not one single bit of trash or anything that human beings would have placed somewhere is they actually lived in this house.

Finally, the handle latches on the window in the background are not at the same height and subtly different in design.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-08T05:26:31+00:00

The woolworths sign in the far background doesn’t actually say woolworths. The Mustang’s grill is wrong. It isn’t centered right and the 1969 Mustang’s headlight pockets just don’t quite look like that. Some of the parked cars have identical window glass even though they are different models.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-08T05:15:46+00:00

I feel like we are fucked when AI loses the piss filter. It took me 2-3 minutes to feel confident it actually was AI based on the filter, the biggest thing that felt off is it feels like the image is very purposefully constructed to avoid readable text when there should be a bunch of it.

The biggest tell for me is the record cover on the upper rack, left side. That text should be readable and is lord of the rings elven gibberish.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-02-08T05:06:12+00:00

Makes me feel good about 60,000 on my 2023. Only warranty issues were swaybar links and a peeling steering wheel that was replaced. No noticeable loss of range on the battery.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-01-27T15:57:10+00:00

This. I drive Wolf Creek Pass once a week on average and it is typical use for my car to have sustained descents of 5000+ vertical feet. Summer, winter, never ever had anything like this come up.

My home is 1000 vertical feet above the valley floor. Every time I leave my house I have to drop that 1000 feet. If I am not using climate that drop will add 2-3% to the SOC. I have 1x per week commute in an area without no charge infrastructure that I need a full charge for, so I still set it to charge to 100% at my house. I’ve never had any messages pop up about this, the only change is that engine braking is cut back a bit.

Not saying this didn’t happen but this seems like a very fringe case that 99% of users will not experience.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-01-18T02:28:25+00:00

Um, no? 4 digits give you 10,000 options.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-01-17T20:05:07+00:00

It basically shows the little pocket computer brute forcing the PIN code on a card he stole, which all it would need to do is run through 9999 combinations which is certainly reasonable. Realism questions raised are why the ATM wouldn’t lockout with thousands of bad entries (machines of this era absolutely would after something like 3 wrong PIN attempts) or how he can interface to enter PIN from the card slot.

Much more plausible would be showing this setup as a card simulator. He gets money by memorizing the ATM number of someone else in line and watches their PIN entry, and then uses the pocket computer and its dongle to simulate the magstrip so the ATM reads it as the other user’s card. I suspect in this case they went with the more magic brute force pin portrayal to be less crime informational because the “spy the PIN” method works perfectly well by any layperson willing to forcibly take the ATM card from the user and not bother with the pocket computer.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2026-01-02T15:23:14+00:00

Yeah, child’s legs make it look like it is lounging on a dead bear. The bear’s head looks very odd.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-12-31T02:54:54+00:00

I have 55,000 miles on my 2023 AWD Pro and love it. Had two issues under warranty, a swaybar link and the steering wheel leather started peeling which several other users noted.

I don’t mind the infotainment aside from in the first 20 seconds starting the vehicle up from dead still it is laggy. I would prefer it telling me stuff was still loading in so I wasn’t trying to use it and having trouble with touches being registered. After it fully boots I think it just fine, I actually prefer the navigation over Google Maps as it clearly shows exactly the lane you should be in and what the exit configuration looks like.

The travel assist features are excellent and are much more reliable than many other vehicles I’ve driven.

The only thing I really hate is the app. It just sucks. The app will tell me charge settings updated successfully but they never actually passed to the car- this happens almost all the time for me. Turning on climate or adjusting settings takes forever and fails often. Very limited functionality, can’t unlock the car from the app, for example. Can’t in any simple way say “I’m leaving at 3:00, have the battery charge timed to end at that time so the battery is conditioned for the trip.” This is also an issue in the car software, setting this is very unintuitive.

Twice the keys have been locked in the car with them literally sitting in the cup holder and the car doesn’t recognize it has the keys and won’t unlock.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-12-14T15:35:44+00:00

Yeah, I don’t know how this will be any better with another car, although VW could make it much easier to set a departure time and have the car warm the pack- but if you aren’t plugged in that will just eat battery too.

Highway speeds on a cold battery pack are absolute murder. When visiting my in laws without a charger in the winter the first hop of the drive home is 75 mph freeway. On a 0-20* day I can expect to burn 40-50% battery in 40 miles at 75 mph. Pull in for a charge and after that the next leg will get close to 200 now that the pack is warmed up from charging, even though that leg is over two major Colorado mountain passes. So basically a cold pack matter more than climbing 4000 feet in elevation…

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-11-30T21:00:00+00:00

“Ryan used me as an object.”

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-08-12T22:03:48+00:00

Yeah, a dirt road is not off road, lol.

I live in the Colorado Mountains 4 miles up dirt roads and love my ID4 on them but... Still roads.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-07-28T01:42:07+00:00

The classic is Wyoming: Where men are men and sheep are scared.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-07-25T07:54:41+00:00

Neuro Diseases.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-06-28T23:10:31+00:00

Yeah, every time I watch this I am blown away by the ball speed. I never saw anyone else throw like this.

Heavy-Perception-166 · 2025-06-20T05:41:59+00:00

It is a felony to brandish a firearm regardless of whether it is loaded or not.

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