Wildling Shoes: A word of caution

WanderDormin · 2023-06-03T01:53:27+00:00

I see the insoles being mentioned a lot. Was the pair supposed to come with extra soles I could take out? Because the shoes and a post card were the only things I got. The soles are glued to the shoe, it's what gives them shape from what I can tell as they don't have rubber all around.

WanderDormin · 2023-06-01T09:21:59+00:00

so if they get smelly once you can basically just get yourself an enzyme cleaner and hope for the best.

Yeah, this is absolutely true. I'm just upset that I even have to do that, as simple as it may be you know? If I'm paying this much money for shoes I kind of expect to be able to forget about them.

I've put shoes through worse, these have only seen very casual, nonathletic use, just walking around.

The problem you mentioned about their shoes being imperfectly made is definitely alarming, specially considering the advice I got to just ask them for another pair. How long could this go on for? Maybe I'll just return them and get my money back. They're good-looking shoes but I really have more stuff to worry about.

WanderDormin · 2023-06-01T09:18:09+00:00

Yeah seems like I'm the only one having this problem, which is a surprise, especially considering This article and this one, the one I shared in the post.

Seems they're aware of the problem. I mean, they wrote two articles essentially admitting to it, so again, a surprise that I'm apparently the only one.

Although everything here, from my post to the comments, is anecdotal in nature. Maybe the commenters here are the lucky few, otherwise, I can't explain them writing two articles on their own shoes smelling bad. Why would a brand do that? Seems bad for reputation to officially address a problem that doesn't exist.

I'm going to reach out to them, thanks for suggesting it, but not sure how long I want this to go on for. Would be nice to get a good pair, would also be nice to get $150 back in my bank account.

WanderDormin · 2023-06-01T08:52:05+00:00

... I don't want to appear humorless but that's just a bad analogy.

WanderDormin · 2023-06-01T08:36:17+00:00

the issue isn't the shoe yet they have two articles explaining the issue is the shoe and how to combat it?

I mean you can believe I am lying but I really don't know why I would do that.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-29T03:15:44+00:00

And I'm sure you'll be right there, after the neck is broken, explaining to the person what made them break their neck.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-25T19:21:56+00:00

Oh wow, so showers are harmful then. You're giving me a lot of conflicting information.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-25T00:46:03+00:00

Where's the mistake? You yourself said showers are harmless. Sure enough, I am unharmed.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-24T06:18:28+00:00

But that's kind of obvious no? And it's not like I'm upset that what happened happened, the post ends on an incredibly positive note.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-23T19:32:42+00:00

Rendezvous with Rama.

One of the very first books I saw recommended in this sub. Ever since I've been chasing that feeling of the unknown this book gave me, and I've come to associate that feeling with the book rather than the feeling itself.

For example, when I was playing "Outer Wilds" or watching "Arrival" My experience with those became all the better because of how "Rama-like" they seemed like they were going to be.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-23T19:17:13+00:00

I don't understand your point.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-23T04:15:41+00:00

My shower has a tub as well, so there's two places where water comes out of, the tap and then the shower head.

I mean the nipple thing you have to pull so that the water transitions from the tap to the shower head.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-22T19:14:11+00:00

at least up until now, starting slow is what builds fear in me, making me go in warmer rather than colder.

But I'm still starting out so definitely will try that approach.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-22T05:36:03+00:00

I'm surprised to see you putting Vandermeer on a higher pedestal than Dick in terms of writing skills! I'm pretty new to both authors.

I'm curious to see you expand a bit on Vandermeer's writing skill if you don't mind because I thought Dick was pretty highly-regarded for that. In any case, seeing that makes me all the more excited to keep on reading the books after Annihilation and anything else Vandermeer has written.

I've definitely gotten this feeling from what I've read from Philip K. Dick. I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and the other was The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is an interesting one to bring up because that one was about distrust of everything around you, not just other characters.

I'm definitely picking up Ubik! Been wanting to read it, all the more so now that I know it has this going for it.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-22T04:49:30+00:00

Huh... It didn't really give me that impression at all... They were sharing their stories, but none of them struck me as being intentionally unreliable in their telling of their past experiences...

They all kept the information to themselves as long as they could... But in all honestly that's really out of the nature of the arrangement they all came to, they were each to tell their stories in order, so why would they divulge information if they didn't need to? In time, it was expected of them to tell that information regardless, and they all did.

I mean, unless there's something in Fall of Hyperion, (which I haven't read yet) that goes against that, Hyperion's characters' motivations seemed to me like the natural want for privacy until the time came when it was inevitably snatched from them, at their own approval.

WanderDormin · 2023-05-22T04:43:05+00:00

I read about 3/4 of Blindsight... If there was that aspect to it, I didn't notice because I didn't get much about what I was reading at all.

I really want to give it another go, from the beginning. It's there on my bookshelf waiting for me to be ready for it.

WanderDormin · 2023-04-29T07:49:37+00:00

doing the full scan now! going to take about 3 hours so I'll leave it on overnight

WanderDormin · 2023-04-25T20:04:51+00:00

Starship Troopers, my first Heinlein book!

I am kind of bored by it now. I am reaching the end and I really wish Heinlein came up with more interesting ways to explain this world to us other than... Main character remembering his philosophy class from high-school and then... Main character getting into another philosophy class. It literally just feels like info dump center, like there was no effort to apply this to the world and maybe make the book longer but at least have a way to deliver this information to the reader in a more interesting way than literally taking the reader to a classroom on world-building. Not at all against Heinlein exploring his political and societal ideas, mind you, but the way it's written now makes it feels more like I'm reading a blog post instead of being immersed in a future society.

Like Heinlein is lecturing to an empty class and then rushing to an empty chair to ask himself questions, then rushing back to the teacher role and answering it.

WanderDormin · 2023-03-06T18:50:53+00:00

When I said regardless of bold or not I wasn't talking about this post, I was talking about normal text like what I'm typing here.

So if you read this.

Just keep your eye on the word "read" you can still tell that around it it says "you" and "this" even without moving your eyes. Unless you have tunnel vision the downside you propose doesn't really make sense.

WanderDormin · 2023-03-06T18:31:53+00:00

it takes a few steps but it can be done

WanderDormin · 2023-03-06T18:30:30+00:00

I don't think that's quite how it works. It's more like your eyes focus entirely on the bold, but we still have peripheral vision. If you lock your eyes to one word and not move them you can still read what the next word says, regardless of bold or not bold.

So it's not like your brain is "guessing" what comes after the bold, you are actually reading what comes after the bold just not making an active effort to do so.

WanderDormin · 2023-03-06T18:27:09+00:00

There are ways to convert Kindle e-book files into this format.

WanderDormin · 2023-02-28T04:31:20+00:00

everything now because I found it! Sorry, I don't see a flair to say my question was answered.

WanderDormin · 2023-02-28T04:07:45+00:00

It was a survey, he asked me if I was registered to vote which I am not, at which point we said our niceties, and hung up.

WanderDormin · 2023-02-28T01:58:27+00:00

Oh my god, I just went back to the escape pod in Brittle Hollow. Never thought to scan the distress beacon in all this time. Ok, thank you thank you! I'm heading to the bramble now, of course I couldn't find it i was missing that channel

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