Chorlini

On 12/28/2022 at 7:43 PM, at9 said:

Back in ancient times they said this writing nonsense will never catch on. In any case it's bad for the memory.

In the middle ages they said printing was dangerous. Putting knowledge into the hands of too many people.

Recently they said the WWW was dangerous, as people would not need to remember facts anymore when they were so readily available.

Now there's a panic about AI.....

Who is this 'they'? I don't remember any of those 'they's' saying that. I'm sure that monks were pissed off that their copying old manuscripts by hand was out of business with the printing press, but with the Reformation happening they had bigger fish to fry. As for the WWW, we only need to see how divisive, narcissistic and manipulative social media has turned out to be. It used to be that most people lived on the land, then a revolution in agriculture allowed an excess labor force to be created which could work in industry. Then automation happened and industries got shipped to China and we all had to move into offices and service industry pushing paper around. Now the office jobs are getting automated too and even the one thing left to us, the creative industries, are feeling the hot breath of AI in them too. We are running out of fields to shove our excess working population into. And we cannot have an idle population living off universal income doing nothing. Idle people with no hope for advancement or things to keep them are dangerous people. Those were the people that ISIS managed to attract so well to fight for Islamic State, remember all those young people traveling to Syria? We are not designed by nature to live idle. We find meaning and purpose in struggle, not comfort. Which means the governments will lean even harder into AI to control and track us all.

I'm growing ever more firmly in the belief that maybe Frank Herbert was right after all when he wrote Dune, which had a futuristic society which had forbidden AI and automation. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Same with the Adeptus Mechanicus in Warhammer 40K, which calls AI Abominable Intelligence. It is just too great and dangerous a tool for people in power to have and handle. Not even the USSR under the worst excesses of Stalin had the means to monitor and track its subjects like we do now with AI.

On 12/9/2022 at 10:58 AM, Shyheels said:

I’ve heard of it. I’m sure it’s clever. In terms of art and literature it will never replicate human passion and emotion and creativity. It can only organise words, colours and shapes into patterns that its programming says is successful. That success may coincide with notions of beauty and expression, but it is by no means the same thing. 

I've heard that said too when drumcomputers came about. And now we have whole music scenes revolving around someone pressing play on their playlist full of electronic copy/paste music where nothing sounds human. Or worse, you hear the recording of a band, 99% chance the voice has been shifted with autotune and the drums and other instruments are quantized along a digital grid to be on the beat. No more of that slight tug and pull that we used to call groove, like John Bonham playing When the Levee Breaks, instead everything gets neatly arrayed and shifted to be on the beat like a machine.  And the thing is, AI gets better all the time, humans only seem to get dumber. We already have drum computers that try to simulate that tug and pull on the beat that a human drummer does. We have AI's that can almost can hold a conversation with a human like a human.

Even I were to wear heels out of the home, which I don't, all the concerts I have been too were general admission, cause I hate sitting on the stands. GA is where all the energy and fun is happening. The downside of that is LOTS of standing before the show even starts. There were times where my feet ached before the show even started. So comfy flats it will be. Although, having a pair with heels that can extend to make you see over the heads would be cool. But that's why I get in line as early as possible, to get a good spot up front so I can see. As for in the mosh pits? Forget it even more.

On 12/2/2022 at 12:16 AM, VirginHeels said:

To be honest, when I’ve tried with my guitar rig, it’s easier with pointed toe heels as you can direct to what you need on a switch. Wah is a slight adjustment to get the pivot point correct. It’s about motor adjustment. Not a big thing, it’s trying to modify muscle memory to be honest.

I just can't get the hang right, the heel always keeps on slipping off. Maybe it needs a slight upstanding edge to keep it from sliding off?

On 12/2/2022 at 12:16 AM, VirginHeels said:

Now we do all that via MIDI switching or using a digital amp/effects interface, so his tone and playing would have changed if he was alive today.

HE might be one of those guitarists who detest digital and swear with using only analog pedals and tube amps only.

On 12/2/2022 at 2:43 AM, Mr. X said:

perhaps.  But also boss pedals are just good pedals.  That is why they are so popular, and widely used.

They're pretty too. It's like your first love, it imprints on you. When I started playing guitar Boss pedals were top of the line and the biggest on the market. So my first instinct is always to check them out over the boutique stuff. Which is mostly tricked out clones of Boss. MXR and EHX pedals anyway. Plus Boss pedals are built like a tank. Perfect for life on the road and perfect to stomp on in heels.

I do wonder how he managed to operate his pedalboard in heels.

Tapping switches is one thing, but operating a wah or expression pedal is hard when you (or at least I) have a high chance of the heel slipping off. I wonder if his footwear was why he used so many Boss pedals, their big lever switches are very pointy shoes (and thus heel) friendly.

She has also done a video in red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiL5FW9_v4 I love that model sandal, too bad Pleaser changed them, they're now a centimeter higher then they used to be in the larger sizes. They're now outside of my range of ankle flexibility to walk in. Which is a shame because they used to come in every color you wanted, as long as it was black, and nowadays they really do offer more colors.

This is one skill I have never managed to master. Which is why 5.5" is my limit, even though I can walk comfortably in the 5" to 5.5" range. I just cannot straighten out my ankles.

On 11/15/2022 at 6:11 PM, Shyheels said:

It ticked a box and scored some Twitter approved publicity in September - job done. Next…

Virtue signaling in a nutshell.

17 hours ago, Pumped said:

Plus she was complaining about everything over 2 inches!🤣

Which shows exactly that she cannot wear any heels to begin with. Another sneaker queen who likes heels in theory but hates heels in practice.

I don't have anything below 11cm, with 12cm my preferred comfortable height. 10cm would be like walking in flats to me. Sadly the vast majority of women are incapable of walking in heels because they never got into walking in heels in the first place. It's been sneaker culture for most of them, or the accursed army boots I see everywhere. Now heels may be desired by women, but little to no experience for most of them, all we will get is low to mid heels, platforms and a lot of whinging.

On 10/8/2022 at 8:02 PM, Shyheels said:

I’m not being pessimistic just a realist. If you showed up for a job interview for a high powered position in stiletto heels, the interviewers would rate you as not a serious candidate, regardless of your qualifications. Like it or not appearances matter, and a guy in stiletto heels is not the appearance big companies are looking for. You might wish it were otherwise, and so might I, but it ain’t. 

I disagree. I think you would be exactly what they are looking for. Maybe not the CEO of the company, but they see a guy showing up in heels and they think Ka-Ching! Instant ESG rating and Alphabet Cult credit!

We're back to lean hard times it would seem. Crazies on the left invading our spaces making the general public think we're Alphabet Cult adjacent, and now the return of the accursed platforms back again. Disaster never travels alone.

If they left the keys in they obviously wanted you to take it for a spin. What possible explanation could there be?

On 9/25/2022 at 10:11 PM, Shyheels said:

Yes working from home has brought a lot of changes. I used to love all the travel that came with my work, now I am quite happy to be home. I think a lot of people are

People still work from home? My employer still allows it, the university I work at is more catholic then the pope in that regard, but he still wants me to be in the office 50% of the time and most people are back at their workplace fulltime. And whenever I am in traffic in rush hour it's worse then before covid.

I miss the days when we were just a small community of men and women who like to wear heels. Now the crazies are moving in in force and we better gatekeep the sh*t out of our community or we will go down with the Titanic with them.

I doubt that Louis XIV would wear a pair of So Kate's if he had them in his day. They would look too unmasculine. Which is saying a lot considering the fashion of that age.

I wear nothing below 11cm, preferably between 12 and 14cm, only at home. Sadly I have not worn much lately. I had sprained my ankle and anything requiring ankle flexibility hurt too much for me to wear any heels. Took me months to get healed and now I'm kinda out of the habit. The hot weather didn't help either. Then again I often have bouts where I rarely wear heels for a while. In the end it will come back. It always does.

19 hours ago, spikesmike said:

Chorlini : A place called " Shoebidoo " sells and ships high heel boots and shoes to the extreme from the Netherlands. I do not know if they have a show room or not. Either way, have you been there?      Mike

No, first time I check them out. I usually tend to ignore webstores like these as they barely tend to have anything over 4". Now I am intrigued.

8 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

I get what you're saying, but it is very difficult for many of us to ignore the details, and that's partially because we're already reached the Promised Land, to some degree or another. I do not personally know what it feels like to want to try some kind of style, just because it's in style. I'm trying to imagine a guy buying heels for the first time, saying to himself, "I'd kind of like to try that," having larger than woman-sized feet, and purchasing a pair of these Asos shoes. If they fit ok, he might like them, and purchase another pair at some point in the future. If they don't fit ok, he might well say, "Now I understand why women always bitch about their shoes. I can see that being able to wear high heels out and about is pure fantasy." And then never buy another pair again.

I realize that reviews are not the end-all solution to this problem, but they certainly do help in many ways. Some of this micro stuff is going to end up driving the macro world in the end, at least in the long term. If only one of us could be there to guide every potential newcomer to heels down the slippery slope of an inclined footbed!

It is not the promised land we have reached, but gender confused crazy land. As a side effect that means more choice in high heeled footwear and some acceptance wearing them in public. On the downside that means we are alphabet cult adjacent. And that may not be a place we want to be associated with. Especially when the MAP's get in.

I've ordered a pair of those recently. The biggest thing I had to beware of is the sizing, as a size UK9 is not a size EU43 but EU42. So I got a wide UK10 instead. And even that one is tight.

I agree. When it was still called beige it was a so and so color. Now that it's being called nude it's suddenly as essential as black and I have quite the number of pairs myself.

Ballerina flats are my go to slippers. If only because everything beats flipflops. I do not know the brand but ballerina flats are a dime a dozen. Even the foldup once. Easy to get everywhere

6" heels with size 15 feet is like the equivalent of 4" heels for people with small feet. Unless it's 6"heels with platforms. In which case she might as well be walking in flats.

It's about virtue signaling. It's not about making sense, or be productive, or actually solve any problems, it's about peacocking to the world what good moral human being that you are. To these clowns heels are something that dragqueens, thus gays and Alphabet people wear, so to them its about showing their support to the Alphabet brigade. Nothing to do with us. Hell, since we are normal dudes, who just like to wear heels, we can probably drop dead as far as they they are concerned. This was why I said when the first mainstream videos and articles about men in heels showed up that we should stay the hell away from these people. These are crazies that you do not want in your community as they will tear it down for their own politics. Just stay away and try to not get noticed. I'm a huge sci-fi nerd and all the major sci-fi franchises and their fanbases have been destroyed and torn up by them. Pray that they will never notice us.

On 5/23/2022 at 4:36 AM, Pumped said:

Both my mom and dad are old school conservatives. I had a conversation about men wearing women's clothing with my mom. Some show with men cross dressing on TV triggered it. I thought she was going to explode! Nothing but hate and vile coming out of her mouth. I mentioned I didn't care what people wear and if a man wanted to wear high heels or a dress I could care less. All I got back was a death stare!

My dad is equally closed on the subject. Any mention of alternate lifestyles and he just gets mean. I mentioned to him I knew a couple gays and I can not repeat what he said! If I wore heels around him I think it would end up in a hospital ER!

It probably doesn't help that the Alphabet Cult is pissing in our water, which means to conservatives any dude in skirts or heels is now a groomer.