u/YobaiYamete

I just had the most baffling experience yesterday, I guess the guy didn't want to sell the car???

I walk up and one of the first things he says is

>"Why are you so dead set on getting an EV?"

He then spent basically the ENTIRE time negging EVs, negging driver assist features (one of the main things I told him I was looking for) and just kept talking about how he turns all of that off in his giant truck

I think my favorite quote was something like

>"Every time one of you EV drivers come to the lot you already know what you want and have spent so much time reseraching that you know more than me"

as if he was bitter about it

He was even ranting about people come to the Chevy lot he works at, to use their car charger because it's public access, but he'll kick them off it to charge the lot cars etc

I obviously did not buy the car, but I have never had an experience like that where the dude seemed outright pissed that EVs existed.

I've never met a used car salesman who vehemently did not want to sell the car

I am heavily leaning towards the Equinox and already paid the delivery fee for one to be brought to my area, but I am still looking around

I'm primarily after

• EV or at least Plug in Hybrid
• As many self driving features as reasonably possible
• as reliable as possible
• Big enough to haul bikes and go car camping etc

So far after hundreds of hours of research it seems to me like my main options are

• Bolt EV - Has to be a 2027 model to even have real super cruise though which means $33k+ and at that price point . . why would I buy a bolt over an Equinox?
• Equinox EV - Very very tempting, but supercruise only works on the high way mostly which is a shame, but still very nice
• Model 3 - Not a lot of space, and the ones in my price range have 2-4 times more miles than the Equinox
• Model Y - very few even in the price range and all have 70K+ miles
• Ioniq 5 - Every single on I've looked at has a lemon title and multiple ICCU failures which is very worrying
• Prius Prime - VERY tempting but it's still got an ICE which has it's own slew of issues

Am I missing any main ones I should be heavily considering?

Currently the Equinox EV I paid to have delivered to a dealer near me is the one I'm heavily leaning towards because

• AWD
• 18k Miles
• Supercruise
• Launch edition which means it has all the bells and whistles and cameras and heated seats etc
• 2024 year model
• $29k out the door

When I compare that to my Model 3 options they mostly all have 40 to 60K miles on them for ones that are 2-3 years older, and the Model Y are all 60K+ as well

What do you guys think?

So tired of every series with cool potential turning into generic adventure slop with a party of nakama waifus

>"I've reincarnated into this mysterious dungeon and I seem to be the master of the dungeon! I can reshape the dungeon at will and design it however I want. I better summon a bunch of talking monsters then immediately leave the dungeon to go be a generic adventurer!!"

BRO STAY IN THE DUNGEON REEEEE

>"I was transported to this strange world where I'm isolated thousands of miles deep in a jungle with no signs of life anywhere besides mysterious ancient temples full of strange magic. I'd better leave the temple and head straight to civilization so I can become a generic adventurer!"

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>"I've found a mysterious tower I can climb where few have ever reached the higher floors. I better settle down and start a generic fantasy adventurer town where I get to deal with politics and have to defend my crappy town against threats for the rest of the series"

Can you like, not?

>"I'm alone in this mysterious deadly dungeon and was reborn as a monster, I better make sapient underlings and rush to build a town full of other monsters so I can spend 80% of the series defending my town against humans"

I feel like I'm not asking much here, surely there has to be one series where the MC spends most of the books fairly isolated, focusing on solving the mysteries of the world or powering up and fighting non sapient enemies, and without the effing talking pet that every single series has to include

I legit do not understand the obsession with giving every single protag a talking pet who exists to be cute / waifu bait / spams snarky one liners and catty comments on cooldown

I don't feel like the MC has to be utterly alone, but even just them spending most of their time exploring and surviving without just being a Generic Fantasy Adventurer Party™ who goes off to Generic Fantasy Adventurer Party™ things like constantly fighting corrupt nobles and dealing with small town politics would be nice

I feel like Reccettear hasn't been topped in the shop keeper genre, but I might be missing some? I don't want a "sim" game like TCG card shop and that nonsense, I want a real shop keeper game

Base building mechanics would be a huge plus too, has there been basically anything like that in the last decade?

So one of the coolest worlds in any series I've read, is Made in Abyss. Basically it's a deep cave exploration series, but IMO what makes it so good is

1. The mystery, people have only explored the first few levels and the deeper stuff is the stuff of legends
2. The danger, it's incredibly dangerous and near suicide to go in at all, let alone to go deep
3. The fact that people can't just easily go back up once you go down. The deeper you go, the harder it is to ever return to the surface again

The last point especially is one I feel like a lot of tower climbing series miss for me, where they spend way more time outside the tower than in it, or can just casually leave to go back to the normal world regularly

Some of the ones I've read that are good and similar

• 12 Miles Below - Definitely has the dungeon diving aspects of it, although they can still go back up to higher levels at will. Great series though
• Legend of William Oh - This is honestly probably the closest I've seen when it gets to higher floors
• Chrysalis - Has the same concept but with a lot less grim dark

Are there any other good examples you guys have read that scratch that itch of "stepping off the edge of a cliff underwater, falling into the deep dark abyss to find the unknown"

They didn't seem like that big of a deal to me at first, but I think the sandbox settings is actually probably the best change the game has had in years

The only thing now I still want, is for them to add Learn by Doing back as a sandbox option to replace magazines. I know they said they've looked into doing something with learn by doing in the past, so maybe some day we can get that system back?

This sub keeps screaming about bandits because they were the content that was promised 3,000 years ago, but bandits sound annoying as hell

Ranchers and yetis are already incredibly annoying, and vultures and cops aren't far behind. Having still more enemies with ranged attacks is going to be obnoxious

This sub is already like 30% complaints about the ranged zombies, people are NOT ready when they suddenly have to deal with hordes of guys with guns or grenades or heaven forbid dynamite etc that constantly shoot you while you are riding around or use explosives to blow up your base etc

If not for the Promise That Was Given™ I legit do not understand why anyone would want bandits in a zombie survival game like this

Anyone had them do this? I just laugh and like to assume they are just being silly rather than malicious

It seems pretty common for motorcycle riders who pass you to do it though where they pretend to air pedal lol

I was thinking about some of my favorite series like Years of the Apocalypse, Cradle, 12 Miles Below, Book of the Dead, Dresden Files etc and thinking about what I really like about them that makes me like them way more than other series I like, but don't love

I really feel like it's the pacing of the power progression. In basically all of them the MC starts out pretty weak but has solid progression throughout the entire series, but doesn't progress so fast that they invalidate basically everyone else within a book or two

I don't really think you'd call any of them slow burns, more just that the world building is deep enough to where they have a ton of room to grow, while also not being infinite like Cultivation series. The MC's in all of the ones I like are firmly in the top tiers now days or are at least VERY notably strong, but got there through growth throughout the series and not instant power ups

Which series are similar pacing to these where they aren't ultra slow, but also aren't like ultra fast