Random Talk

[Kevtones]

Hopefully, I will be visiting LA. this summer I haven't been back since 2004. I miss having all the activities in one place, especially after living here in Mayberry with a population of 1011.

I have a friend out there, and I'll have to convince her to do all the dumb touristy stuff I didn't get to do when I lived there. I was there for a year and didn't even swim in the Pacific. All the locals told me most the stuff wasn't worth it, but almost 25 years later, I still wish I'd seen and done all that stupid stuff.  

Like, my co worker said the Tar Pits are for school kids but I've seen vids now and wish I didn't listen to that guy.

I did do a lot of hiking around Mt Baldy and Timber Mt. tho. (where Julian Sands died )  I didn't go in the winter like he did. But I did make a rookie mistake. One time I was going to push myself and decided to summit two different mountains in one day. (they were close together so not that big of a deal) but I was behind schedule and decided I would still go for it. It gets dark real quick, real soon when the sun goes behind a mountain. I thought I'd have a little more daylight but didn't account for the other giant mountain West of me. And no flashlight cuz of course I planned everything correctly. Except for that mountain and my vehicle being in a valley. Once I found a decent trail I made it back to my Jeep.

Anywho, I'm taking ideas on what to do in Southern California and I thought I would take pictures of those things that I do and post them here. So I'm taking suggestions. 

I don't have any real schedule so it doesn't matter where it is, really. As long as it's interesting. Even anything on the way cuz I'm driving out there from Wisconsin. Being disabled with no job and no family. I'm starting to go a little nuts and I thought this would give me something to do.

I lived all over LA for 15 years up until 2022 and fuck yeah on the Mt. Baldy mention. Have done that about a dozen times and it's my absolute favorite hike. Love the mix of terrains, view types and uniqueness of each section of the mountain. 

Anyway, one caveat is my suggestions are post-LA fires so hopefully I don't give you obsolete suggestions:

- Museum of Jurassic Technology is novel and unlike any other museum. 
- Dodger games are a blast. There's a small part of me that wants to be that 82-year old guy at baseball games holding up the pitch speed gun.
- UCB on Sunset or Franklin are great improv nightly. They also have rando (funny) celebs pop in all the time. Usually a bit less esoteric than 2nd City.
- Best beach is a bit tricky without Malibu but I lean Manhattan Beach (the South Bay in general). Best sand, dolphins and it's pretty laid back. 
- Food: I could go for days on this. Depends on where you're staying but FUCK do I miss the food of LA.
- Griffith Park is a usual but I think it's worth doing every time you're in LA. Now is probably way interesting to people that knew what LA looked like pre fires.
- Huntington Museum and the Norton-Simon are my two favorite conventional museums.
- One of the last things I did before moving away was go on a Mulholland Drive tour. It was both hilarious and informative, also great for fans.

[DavidCroquet]

Hey nerds. Do any of ya'll have advice on how to clean up an audio file to make speech more clearly audible?

We're not talking about a professional recording here, we're talking about a shitty iPhone recording with environmental background noise. Any recommendations?

[Besticus Maximus]

You could use true audio on chatgpt maybe, play the file into it and ask it nicely

[Nintex]

Hey nerds. Do any of ya'll have advice on how to clean up an audio file to make speech more clearly audible?

We're not talking about a professional recording here, we're talking about a shitty iPhone recording with environmental background noise. Any recommendations?

The new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra does this really well. Not sure what AI model they're using though.

[Nintex]

New Tinder like: 32F. Looks decent enough, accepted. She works as a shoe buyer or whatever, this one is even more dry and serious than the last 32F though. Not sure if I can get this one to date.

I may have found the secret ingredient for the bio to increase the matches. Which is to add the dating age range, which I've set to 20 - 40.

Apparently a lot of 'red pilled' men have 'written off' 30+ or even 25+ women in general and I've seen that sentiment online too. So if they think you're one of 'those guys' they just won't bother liking.

I see 40 year olds that look hot and 26 year olds that look rough.

My Tinder is stuck on 35 though and if 32F is nothing special I'll just reset it so it shows I'm 36. Otherwise I don't see the girls looking for 35+ daddies and I don't see the 36 - 40 year olds as much either. At 35 you're kind of in the worst spot in the 23 - 35 dating pool. You're basically the oldest guy in the list even though I look younger and it's all the types looking for travel buddies. Not to mention all other men are hunting in that range. In the 36 - 40 pool I'll stand out way more and there is less competition.

[Nintex]

Hot damn, now this is what I want. She liked me. Hopefully she responds to my opener

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Her entire profile reads: I just wanna fuck around and find out

Me too gurl

Maybe she trolled me but I expect an LMAO in the morning. And if she did troll me, good on her, keep trolling queen.

Woah she is just 5"4 compared to my 6"1. I thought she was using a fisheye lens or whatever but she's really smol 

[DavidCroquet]

You could use true audio on chatgpt maybe, play the file into it and ask it nicely

Can you explain this more?

I just went to ChatGPT and asked about true audio, and it seems confused...like "you might be referring to..." and then a bunch of stuff that seems greek to me.

[Nintex]

 but I expect an LMAO in the morning. 

[BIONIC]

If Nintex ever gets laid I will live stream my suicide.

[Polident]

If Nintex ever gets laid I will live stream my suicide.

You’ll live to see your great-grandchildren graduate college.

[Besticus Maximus]

You could use true audio on chatgpt maybe, play the file into it and ask it nicely

Can you explain this more?

I just went to ChatGPT and asked about true audio, and it seems confused...like "you might be referring to..." and then a bunch of stuff that seems greek to me.

4o has an audio input thing called true voice or something where the LLM does tokens based on the audio sample you give it rather than trying to transcribe it into words. So it kinda chops up the audio file into little bits and reassembles it based on what it heard, so maybe it can boost the bit you want 

I've got no idea if this will work but it might

[Nintex]

Her response was even better later. I thought it was maybe too much but she escalated.

I suggested for the "perfect first date": "let's go to the boulevard, order a bottle of champagne and wave at the grumpy people"

L: "Hahahaha yes we should"
N: "Great minds think alike"
L: "Also lets hang on the beach after and laugh at people that need to work and hate their jobs"

Anyway asked her if she wants to do that this saturday and the what she likes about me killshot.

Hopefully I get the hell yes when she's done working.

I asked yesterday if 32F has a hobby and she wants to read a book or watch a movie. She is very dull and boring in comparison. 36F upped the bar big league. She even wears Lara Croft hiking outfits.

I can see why she is single because most "men" would balk at her not cooking and in every pic where she is at a restaurant she's made a big mess she is proud of. Not the perfect daughter in law type, absolutely perfect.

[Polident]

Somehow every year around this time I get a powerful urge to go skydiving but inevitably wuss out. Media indoctrinated my generation to jump out of aircrafts. From Point Break, to Goldeneye, to Power Rangers the movie, to Sonic Adventure 2, to MGS3. I feel like I’m letting down my programming.

[killamajig]

i wanted to try skydiving myself but I settled for this......



they put you in a quick release harness, take you up and open the trapdoor. Theylower you through the door and once you are clear they pull the release and you cannonball with your ass/back into the net. Thats as close as I got to skydiving but it was definitely worth the $30 I paid vs, whatever skydiving costs. A very strange feeling when you fall even that short amount into a net.

I did convince my wife at the time to do this with me too...



The first and only time I ever heard her scream   That was worth more than the $30 or whatever that cost me

[Nintex]

I've cooked up some new bio lines and tried getting feedback on them. I'm surprised that the women all picked out the most... well blatant innuendo.
The one they like best is: "My phone and balls are always🔋". Mostly because it comes after the line that I'm a Direct and sarcastic COO. It confirms that and it shows I have, well balls.
I thought it was too much but they like it. All in all I'm just still too much of a nice guy, I need to act like the bigger asshole I actually am and just throw out all the filters. 
 
Everytime I do that, the quality of the matches improves and they get more excited. 
Who knows hotel manager and me could've been together right now if I had told her: "Sorry for your loss. Do you think we'll be sober in time for the funeral?" like I originally planned.

[BIONIC]

[Nintex]

One of the women made a good point actually. A lot of guys just 'act nice' trying to set them up. So they can't tell the 'real' nice and honest guys from well, the liars.
If you're too nice they just assume you're up to no good. You give them the ick. It's all very fake really, filtered or professional pictures, made up interests to try and 'hook' the right person. Lying about intentions to lure more quality long term people into casual hook-ups etc. And for some women being submissive is a real turn-on. I certainly misread that with some of my matches. Hotel manager that wanted to go full bird brain was the only one I did that right.

So in the end they just decide not to trust the nice guys anymore. Assholes that are up front about being assholes, well you don't run into the same risk and you can kind of tell what type of asshole they are. If anything they're probably overdoing it and/or joking. 

Dutch directness plays a big part in this too though. There is some kind of fitness event going on right now, so 90% of the Tinder bios now read: "Looking for the champ of the [insert name of fitness event]".

As for the matches. Nothing new from 36F L unfortunately but I'm winding things down with 32F. She's looking for a buddy not a boyfriend and I want her 'honest' ass to come clean about it. So in a respectful way I told her that. She favorited some of my flattering flirty messages but I got very little in return. And the 'buddy' to me is what a 'nice guy' is to a woman. I have plenty of buddies like co-workers and friends. Buddy is what I wanted(or maybe thought I wanted?) 10 years ago. That ship has sailed, now I want bubbly. So I simply asked her if she was up to the task. Drink champagne, laugh at the normies and a very lively bedroom to celebrate. She has submissive vibes though, so she might actually consider it. 

Part of why I realized I got so quickly over the redhead, is that we started meeting in fun settings like office drinks and the Christmas party. Once it became a buddy co-worker thing I lost interest in her in that way. I think she does fantastic work but that's it. Radio girl same deal. Looking for a buddy to walk her dog. I liked our talk about music, I didn't care about her job or life at all. I want to say it was out of respect for her privacy that I didn't ask but in hindsight I truely had zero interest in what she was up to that weekend she was busy. All I really wanted her to do, was send me a nice picture for my birthday.

[BIONIC]

[killamajig]

Am I not in on some joke? This thread used to be wholesome

[BIONIC]

The only wholesome thing I want to see here is WLW content

[Nintex]

L ended it, too bad but already a new like.

33F, Wasian, the best part: 5"15, compared to my 6"1.

Let's see if we can avoid talking about marathons when she opens the chat and instead talk about how she has to stand on her tippy toes to kiss.

[Besticus Maximus]

L ended it, too bad but already a new like.

33F, Wasian, the best part: 5"15, compared to my 6"1.

Good luck with your giant lass

[Polident]

There’s a Dutch lady living here I helped out who is like 6’3” and dwarfs me. I met her husband the other day and he’s like 6’8”. Crazy genetics those people.

[Nintex]

There’s a Dutch lady living here I helped out who is like 6’3” and dwarfs me. I met her husband the other day and he’s like 6’8”. Crazy genetics those people.

When my bro was still in Amsterdam with his American friends it was always so weird to see people the size of children that look like adults.
His group in particular was only short kings. At 6"1 I'm just about above average of what the girls consider 'tall hot'. Lots of them have a 'minimum height 6"0' clause in their dating bios.


In hindsight I see what I did wrong with L.

I moved too quickly. In the end her last joke was funnier than mine. If the choices were, somewhat funny guy / somewhat funny + ripped guy. I just lost the game.

Had I continued to escalate a little more and more smoothly transitioned into asking her out and not mentioned anything about 'why u like me' I would've had a better shot when she looked at her messages again. I also think that she may have literally meant laughing at people that need to work and might've been dissapointed I had to work and proposed saturday instead of that same day. Oh well, I wish her bubbly 9/10 ass the best. She allowed me to compare her to the 'buddy' girl and that confirmed something I suspected for a while. 

It's also time to change up the interests to things I want to do, instead of what I'm currently doing. Because those give a buddy vibe, when in reality I've barely touched a video game for 3 months. I'd like to hit more beach clubs but I'm not buying the lads champagne to get drunk and I want to do more city trips around Europe but visiting Paris and Berlin with dudes, not appealing to me. 

In fact I realized with buddy girl that I don't enjoy watching movies with people that yap about them. Don't like cinema visits with co-workers either. I like to read in bed or just work through 50 pages in an hour to soak up knowledge but bookclubs or whatever boring as hell. With videogames the same, I get awfully bored when it's a friendly bout of Smash Bros with someone who barely knows the buttons. If 32F doesn't respond by dinner time I'm calling it quits and I'll tell her to put in her profile she's looking for a buddy and add some interests because there's plenty of guys who want just that.
 
In her profile 33F wasian states she wants someone to train and coach her for the marathons. Making her sweat, now that's something I'm interested and willing to invest my time in. 
Fun and original first date too, little jog along the beach, drinks at the beach club after.

[Polident]

I’m pretty content being average+ height but the times I interact with guys over 6’5”, you feel diminutive. Like those photos of Arnold next to Andre the Giant and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

[killamajig]

Tall men die younger, so you guys can keep the extra 5" over me.

[Polident]

Looking up chicken breast recipes on YouTube. Half the results are middle aged women talking about various spices to make it palatable for their children. One or two pieces. Nice color and pan sauces. The other half are bodybuilders dumping 3lb into a casserole dish and blasting it in the oven but it’s so packed it ends up getting steamed. Ends up looking pale and just bland sustenance.

[killamajig]

You have to look for the 18th century cooking influencers.



You can actually find some good recipes, and back then, nobody gave a shit about children's palates.  No kids menu back then

[Rendle]

Tall men die younger, so you guys can keep the extra 5" over me.

Musing from someone who doesn't know how it feels to be young and tall at the same time.

[Polident]

On dying early, I’ve stumbled upon esoteric diets people swear by. My nature keeps me curious, or gullible, depending on perspective, that I consider trying it.

Anyway, the diet is eating natural sugars until 3 PM, fasting (“fasting”) until 7 PM, and gorge on protein and vegetable. The person who wrote this speaks of eating 450g of honey and 225g of dates every morning. At night it’s 1350g of beef, broccoli, and mushrooms. This builds muscle and burns visceral fats, allegedly.