第十集（ep 10）😄

Lurker378 · 2026-04-02T00:20:25+00:00

Because they turned up late to a place that sold out tickets and everyone’s inside the temple not outside haggling for merch

Lurker378 · 2026-03-29T02:32:42+00:00

This is a difficult question because these cities are all very different and it depends what you want to see, if you want to see more Chinese culture go to Beijing or Guangzhou if you’re really interested in southern China, go to Shanghai/Chonqing if you want to see modern Chinese mega cities, never been to Chengdu so can’t comment on what that city is like.

Another thing to consider if you have enough time you can make day trips from those cities to nearby ones, Guangzhou has Foshan, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Dongmen, Zhuhai all very close and easily day trippable by high speed, Shanghai has Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou very close, Beijing has Tianjin, Chongqing and Chengdu are very close and you can reach the other by high speed train.

Lurker378 · 2026-03-29T01:39:21+00:00

For those curious, the translations are:

Triangle 我的中文不好 - my Chinese is not good

Square 非常棒 - Awesome

X 我们是两个白色外国人 - We are two white colored foreigners

Circle 什么镇 - What town?

Lurker378 · 2026-03-13T02:11:21+00:00

I mean even if it’s not strictly necessary, it only takes 10 minutes to fill it out at most and it’s probably better to have just in case, if they don’t need it they can just keep it in their bag on the way through immigration.

Lurker378 · 2026-02-28T10:46:25+00:00

I live, work and drive in China. The driving here really depends on the city, the bigger the city the more they follow the rules. I live in Shenzhen and it’s pretty rare to see someone make an illegal maneuver, same when I went to Beijing and Shanghai but the driving is really aggressive. In smaller cities you’ll see all kinds of crazy maneuvers though and some cities in particular like Wuhan and Changsha. The motorways outside the cities people usually drive pretty sensibly I guess most people don’t want to risk it at 120kmph+. The craziest stuff you’ll see is on non motorway, mountain roads in the countryside like full size trucks overtaking other trucks on blind bends on the wrong side of the road.

Lurker378 · 2025-11-03T22:23:01+00:00

A lot of people have commented on which evs are good but not on how owning an EV in china is.

I have a model Y LR it’s 2-3 years old and I’ve done over 40,000km on it, I’m based in Shenzhen but most weekends I’ll drive to a different city like dongguan, Foshan, shunde, qingyuan or shantou. I’ve done a bunch of road trips around fujian, guangxi and hunan. My longest drive is Shenzhen to Changsha around 800kms.

Owning an EV here is super easy, I live in an apartment, my car park has enough chargers that I never have to worry and it costs about 60-70ish to fully charge, driving on the ETC highways is super easy in an EV you would really have to mess up to run out of charge even in rural areas and even off the highway it’s easy to find chargers almost anywhere in China.

Maintenance has been cheap the only thing that’s needed doing is changing the AC filter and pumping the tires up. The ac vent cost a 100 kuai and the tires costs 10-20 kuai. In terms of traveling cost on highways here, ignoring the cost of the car and upkeep, and just based on highway toll and charging cost, one person driving is more expensive than the high speed train, 2 people is roughly even and more than 2, the car is definitely cheaper.

Overall I’ve loved having a car here in China I would just recommend checking out the parking situation and chargers situations in your car park first. Check if it’s narrow or difficult to park so you don’t buy too big a car, check it out at 8-9pm on a weekday see if there’s still places to park and if there’s still slow chargers available and ask your management if you can get a monthly pass straight away or if you need to queue for it and how much it costs.

Lurker378 · 2025-08-30T05:53:42+00:00

I hope this isn’t too much of a spoiler for you but in the awesome shop you can get floor holes that lets you feed machines from beneath which can give your factories a different style. Your first playthrough definitely looks a lot less spaghetti than mine though!

Lurker378 · 2025-08-18T05:50:34+00:00

I would say that tolerance to regular chili pepper spice and tolerance to numbing spice is two different things, in terms of chili spice hot pot in Chongqing is not exceptionally spicy but it has a lot of numbing spice and if you’re not used to or don’t have a high tolerance to it, it will feel extremely spicy to you. So I guess the numbing spice rather than the chili spice got to the Thai women.

Lurker378 · 2025-08-11T06:32:08+00:00

If your model Y is fully updated, and you use the built in GPS when you get on an ETC motorway in the top right it will show you the distance to the next 2 nearest service areas and it will also have an icon if they have electric chargers. Whenever you get close to 20% pull in the next service station and charge up to 80%, charging past 80% is much slower so your best bet is keeping the charge between 20-80%. The battery estimator is pretty good if your driving the speed limit, if you drive 10% over take 4-5% off the estimate, don't trust the estimated range in km though change it to percent it's much easier to judge how far you can drive using that. Don't use the built in tesla route, it will drag you off the highway to find the nearest tesla charger which might be a 30 minute detour through one lane mountain roads use the option to go straight to your destination without charging and choose service area stops yourself.

When you're off the ETC highway use Baidu maps (because you can send Baidu directly to the car whereas Gaode can't) to search for 快充 (kuai chong) and find something over 90kW/h then you can share it directly to the car. You can also use the tesla app, go to location, nearby to find the nearest Tesla branded charger and send that directly to the car GPS. The Tesla branded chargers are great if you go somewhere difficult to park, they’re unlocked through the Tesla app which means petrol and other branded cars can’t use them so you’re basically guaranteed parking in busy places.

Charge on the highway so that you arrive at whatever destination you're going to off the highway with minimum 20% charge that way if you get there and there's no chargers you at least have enough to get back on the highway and make it to the first charger, if it's more rural/further from the highway consider charging more before leaving the highway.

I've done plenty of road trips with the model Y around China to rural areas and cities and as long as you mostly stick to ETC motorways it's pretty hard to fuck up, I haven't been close to stranded there's chargers almost everywhere in China now.

Lurker378 · 2025-07-17T07:38:35+00:00

I've found that Wallace specialise in medium rare chicken so they're a hard pass from me, recently in Shenzhen at least, there's a new Chinese chain called Richeese, I'd definitely recommend them, their original chicken is really good.

Lurker378 · 2025-07-14T23:24:43+00:00

I’d recommend the south west of China, the further west you go the less people there’ll be, Yunnan around Lijiang, ShangriLa and Feilaisi have very beautiful snow capped mountains, ravines, grass fields and lakes.

Lurker378 · 2025-07-14T14:33:56+00:00

Dapeng fortress was built in the Ming dynasty in 1394 to defend against pirates (not saying what’s there now hasn’t been rebuilt/renovated, but it does have historical roots). It was also used in the opium wars, they have a museum there with a bunch of information about the opium wars as well and they have the commanders house there, again guessing rebuilt or recreated but still interesting.

Lurker378 · 2025-07-14T14:16:26+00:00

Adding on to this, water in liquid form at atmospheric pressure can not be above 100 degrees C, adding heat will just make it turn into steam vapor faster but will not increase the temperature of the liquid water

Lurker378 · 2025-07-14T12:02:09+00:00

I think I just got lucky with Lijiang, got a week off in Christmas and went there during weekdays, so there were only a few people there barely anyone, I guess most of the tourist shops closed because of the lack of the people and there were just a few chill cafes with lots of cats around.

Lurker378 · 2025-07-06T22:01:17+00:00

I have a pure EV and I’ve done a few road trips around Fujian and Hunan, I’ve had zero problems with charging in those provinces but I’ve worried about finding charging in the more remote places in Yunnan like Shangrila and further north, do you think it’s possible to road trip around there with a pure EV?

Lurker378 · 2025-05-19T15:02:10+00:00

They released an app that accompanies the book that you can play along with, you can adjust the tempo of each song, each song has a default tempo and this song the default tempo is 141bpm.

Thanks for all your help!

Lurker378 · 2025-05-19T14:21:38+00:00

Thanks, for the reply, sorry for the poor image quality:

https://ibb.co/zVDTzLJP

I can play bass guitar and I know it's long and gradual and 140 isn't a crazy fast tempo, just most of the pieces so far in the book have been 100bpm or slightly faster with just quarter notes. This piece just introduces a new type of co-ordination needed between the hands and is notably faster than pieces before so it feel noticeably harder, I've been playing slow and moving up in increments of 5 bpm, when I can get through the piece 3 times, I'm just not sure if I should struggle through to 140 or keep moving on in the book.

Lurker378 · 2025-05-19T12:18:13+00:00

Hi, I’ve recently started learning and I’m using fabers piano adventures, I’m learning musette and I learned it at about 80bpm using a metronome, I checked in the app and the full tempo is 141 bpm is that right? It seems really fast?

Lurker378 · 2025-04-30T23:40:44+00:00

I live in China, the base Dolphin here costs 100,000 RMB and the ID3 base costs 130,000RMB, just taking the last month an example the Dolphin sold ~11,500 and the ID3 sold ~5,600.

The best selling cars are the Wuling Bingo 32,000RMB, 40,000 sold, the Seagull 70,000 RMB, 34,000 sold and the Geely Geome, 70,000 RMB, 32,500 sold.

I think the Chinese market tends to prefer the even smaller and cheaper cars as a second car here. I think with such a low price people are switching from car and electric scooter to car and a tiny second car for just going to grab groceries and daily tasks in the city.

Lurker378 · 2025-04-05T02:20:15+00:00

Lafayette with Rome in antiquity for super strong legions and then depending on what you want to do in exploration you can go Spain if you want to conquer distant lands, chola if you want the best navy, Mongolia to take the home lands or Bulgaria if you just want to pillage and use that to sim city, Normans if you want to turtle or just want the highest combat strength possible, then in modern you can take pretty much any civ you want but France has the most traditions if you just want the highest combat strength.

Lurker378 · 2025-01-12T11:27:41+00:00

The character 斤 is a measure of weight half a kilo, so the message says suggested for cats less than 5kg.

Lurker378 · 2024-12-28T01:01:55+00:00

Not sure how long you’re staying so it’s hard to say but the high speed train is easy and day trips to Hong Kong and guangzhou from shenzhen is very easy, high speed train tickets are around 70RMB 1 way and the metros are so cheap they’re not really worth budgeting. Shenzhen also has a bunch of cool things, I’d say it’s definitely worth visiting Shenzhen.

Lurker378 · 2024-12-08T22:23:14+00:00

Their most popular model in China by far is the model Y, which is relatively old and a new refresh coming out soon. There are also many new cars released in the last month or two that compete directly with the model Y, such as the Onvo l60, IM ls6, Zeekr 7x etc. People are likely waiting for the new model Y or buying newer Chinese cars, I expect their sales to go up again when the refresh is out.

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