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What the hell dude, cream cheese and jalapenos are a saintly combo, underrated honestly, but then you went and nuked the tortillas? Who raised you and do they know what you’ve become??

Nice butt though, could be worse

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That’s funny, I happen to have you tagged as an incel. Not sure if I want to remind myself why

What can you put that?

Band name

One of the first cars I ever drove was the family turbo v6 Chevy box van with an auto (column shifter, the best kind for autos). Thing could seat 12 and handled like a stack of mattresses, but I’d crush the gas pedal into the floor and that thing would pull surprisingly well - after 2-3 business days. Between the transmission taking it’s time to pick just the right gear and the turbo spooling up I could literally punch it and go “one Mississippi two Mississippi three mississi-” VVVVRRRROOOOOMMM. The delay was so prominent that it actually came full circle and became hilarious and fun to drive, one of the only autos I really liked.

True but again, most modern trains don’t have the internal combustion engine directly delivering power to the wheels, they’re hybrids where the engine is essentially just a generator powering an electric drivetrain. You can’t have regen without a place to put that regenerated electricity, engine braking is distinct as that energy goes toward compressing air in the cylinders and generating heat that just goes out the exhaust as waste.

My first thought was maybe that the car had a leak or somebody was working on it recently. I’ve done this before with broken down cardboard boxes. Granted I never left them in a public parking spot, but it’s not a stretch that they forgot either. Idk though, this is just a wild guess

Exactly! In city driving or parking lots when I’m just creeping around I literally don’t touch the gas at all sometimes

What’s that fungus?

Haha no worries

The “don’t touch the gas” thing is mostly just a learning exercise for people brand-new to driving stick to get a feel for where their clutch bites and how it slips, it’s not the way to start a car rolling, certainly not on hills. Though anecdotally, I’ve driven at least a dozen manual transmission cars and trucks and only one lacked the torque to start and roll just idling - because we found out later that its timing jumped a tooth. So this line

None of this "wait till the cars starts rolling and then you have a quarter of a milisecond to add gas before it dies on you.

makes me suspect that there’s something up with your car? Even if it can’t start from idle, any car should be able roll in idle

Regen is just an electric car thing though, no? And EVs (with very few exceptions) don’t have a transmission at all?

It’s slow, but in most cars the idle is torquey enough that it’s not that slow. My beater doesn’t even have 1st gear anymore, so I start in second, and I can still go from a full stop to clutch fully released and rolling in like 4 seconds (if that) without touching the gas at all.

I feel like this is something that you just have to do to learn though. You can’t smoothly and competently operate the clutch without understanding the bite-point, and for a noob it’s going to be really tough to get a feel for that bite-point if they aren’t taking it very slow at first. Speed will come, usually after only a few starts

It’s just more fun dude. Manual transmissions make shitty cars bearable, and nicer cars exhilarating. Plus I really like having that direct control over the car. Plus they tend to be more reliable and cheaper to repair. There’s not much else too it.

I’ve tried to drive manual vehicles and it just required way too much of my attention for what should be a simple means of conveyance.

That just means that you haven’t developed the muscle memory yet, you had that same learning period with every other aspect of driving, operating a manual transmission is just one more. So you know, if you’re serious, practice.

I’ve been driving manuals exclusively for so long that I actually have the opposite problem, In the rare situations that I need to drive an auto, I have to be super careful and mindful. I’ve literally stabbed the brake before in an auto with my left foot instinctively looking for the clutch, so I have to conciously keep that foot still.

Yeah but it’s not really feasible to use it at every corner and stop like you can a manual car. Engine braking in an auto is mostly just for doing long descents without riding the brakes too much

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But when he’s cursed in the moonlight, even he turns into a skelemuppet