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12-05-08 08:39am - 5823 days | Original Post - #1 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Need collection help. I have still about 1 terbyte of very good quality porn thats in all niches not seperated very well. I am lost as how to sort it because I have no clue the models names, and the other variation are great. We are talking about allot of videos. I have tried looking for video porn collection software but cant find any. so need ideas to start sorting so hard to find the good stuff in that drive. I have thought of using a grading system but notr sure . Thanks. Since 2007 | |
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12-05-08 09:51am - 5823 days | #2 | |
Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Oh, that is a rough one - my organization system works solely because I've been following it from day one, so all the necessary data is collected at download time. The problem is that any organization system instituted now will require either research or previewing of every scene, and at 1 terabyte, that is going to be several days of straight work. I believe IKnoPorn has made a software organizational system for his porn, perhaps he'll be able to help you. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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12-05-08 11:04am - 5823 days | #3 | |
badandy400 (0)
Active User Posts: 869 Registered: Mar 02, '08 Location: ohio |
Haha...oh Cybertoad...welcome to my world....multiplied by 15. My organization is absolute hell, but it is slowly getting better. If you do not know anything about the videos, begin separating by niche and subniche. For example, use a folder for lesbian stuff, then a subfolder for teen lesbians, and another for say interracial lesbians, and another for midget lesbians spanking Santa Clause. Well, maybe that would be the last subfolder :). This is exactly why I include the site and model name in every file I download now, or at least organize every few days before I forget were the stuff came from for those i do not include a site name. This also make life much easier when it comes time to rejoin for an update of a site. You can see what you have easier. Anyway good luck with this, and if you find anything good please let me know...I am in trouble as well! "For example, badandy400 has taken it upon himself to become the one man Library of Congress for porn with a collection that surely will be in Guinness Book of World Records some day." ~Toadsith~ PU Interview | |
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12-05-08 02:01pm - 5823 days | #4 | |
Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Just to put an amusing spotlight on my obsessive organizing system, as I've said in previous posts I organize first by content producer and then by model name. I've recently found a free Photoshop plug-in that lets me save icon files - so I now make a custom icon for each of the content producer folders, lol Now I don't have to look for Porn Pros, I can just load the folder with their easily recognizable seal! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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12-05-08 04:22pm - 5823 days | #5 | |
Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 02:16pm | |
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12-05-08 04:38pm - 5823 days | #6 | |
Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Yes, I'd ask, "How do you want to find this content?" Then choose what's most agreeable to your own way of thinking. I'm like Toadsith. I've been organizing content from the start. I'd say organizing by content provider is OK except for one little glitch: sometimes the same content shows up at the different providers. That's probably not a bother for Toadsith, but for me, it's one reason to organize principally by models/performers. But it's just how I think, I guess. I idolize 'em. But there's a downside to the way I do it, too. Being mostly a pic collector, I've now got more Olga's, Nikki's (not to mention Nicky's and Niki's), Ann's, Anne's, and Anna's than I can shake a stick at. Tip of the proverbial iceberg. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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12-05-08 05:11pm - 5823 days | #7 | |
Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Yeah, most of the sites I join feature exclusive content - with exception of the DVD content sites of course. Still, if I recognize the model from one of the other sites I already have, I often do a retrospective run of that older content out of curiosity, so duplicates would probably show up quickly. Only probably though, lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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12-05-08 05:16pm - 5823 days | #8 | |
mr smut (0)
Active User Posts: 107 Registered: Dec 27, '07 Location: Germany |
I would take the name of the model you like most in a scene but still there's one problem and that is the fact that most models appear with different but similar names *grr* In the end the collector is lost in a world that doesn't understand his needs :-( Good luck b.t.w.! | |
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12-06-08 11:23am - 5822 days | #9 | ||
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Hello all, sorry I've been working too much lately (story of my life). I appreciate the sentiment about my custom made tool - alas being a custom tool it suffers from not having a user's manual, and has some built in assumptions about the way I organize my collection. I don't think it's quite ready for prime time with BadAndy's collection, he would be yawning and my tool would probably choke at the enormity of his collection. Sounds like, though, I should consider putting some serious effort into making it available to others, perhaps something I can work on over the holiday break. The main advantage of my tool is that it makes web pages out of photosets, so you can see all of the photos at once rather than clicking through them one at a time. This is something I'm quite proud of - you see several images and can click on any and that particular image will enlarge it - and of course it is scaled to your monitor - basically like a thumbnail page, although my tool does not create thumbnails, it dynamically resizes the images to fit several on your screen at once. Although like any good developer I stand on the shoulders of giants (i.e. I took some free software and "reused it" to make my tool work ;-) But rather than lament how I could make my tool better - I'll provide some guidelines that I have been using for years that keeps my collection somewhat sane. It takes discipline and a great deal of anal-retentiveness to make it all work: 1) Whenever I download ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING, I already have a folder created for it and thus it is instantly organized into the proper place. As a general rule of thumb I first have a folder named after the site, and then create a sub-folder with the name of each model, for example: C:\...\1by-day\aneta 2) As I download photosets, I make further subfolders, although often I just put the zips in the folders, and when I unpack them I just let Windows create the folder name, for example: C:\...\1by-day\aneta\cheerleader 3) My tool does not index the files or put them into a database or anything - it is not that sophisticated - I just use the file system (i.e. folders) to organize it. This also keeps my tool extremely lightweight, and thus I could likely pass it on to others who would not need to be concerned that my tool would take over their machine. All my tool does is make web pages out of the folders, and tells me how much I have. BTW here is the summary line from my last run: Grand Total: Text=31 Sites=31 Others=3 Movies=1431 HTML=2275 Folders=1197 Images=79463 Zips=138 As you can see, my collection is extremely modest by most counts here, just over 100 GB. All I save is the best of the best of the best (I actually have stuff dating back to 1995, BION), plus I am extremely picky. Someone (I believe it was TheSquirrel) made a comment about not having enough time in one's life to enjoy everything they've downloaded, which is one of the main reasons I built my tool - to at least let me see what I have and enjoy it. Now that I have my "personal website" of my collection, I've found things I had no idea that I had, my puny 100GB of photos and vids goes a long way when you can see it all summarized and can just click on what you want. 4) Of course, there are exceptions to the folder system I have described, Drooler mentions:
Yes, one must continually review, trim, and move content around, otherwise your collection will quickly mushroom into a mess. What I've done to solve this problem is that I rename folders when I find a model by a different name (and how many times has this happened to you ;-) with a format kind of like this: C:\...\ftv\Larysa aka Georgia Jones At least this way I can find different models who are really the same. But, it still has the drawback that you might end up with duplicate photosets. Fortunately, I have a pretty good memory, and can usually tell when I have a duplicate, in which case I keep the better quality photoset (pretty obvious, but just to let you know there is no magic way to find the dups other than memory and effort). 5) My absolute favorite models I organize differently, in a special AAA folder: C:\...\AAA\CarliBanks and then by site: C:\...\AAA\CarliBanks\nubiles So when I have a craving for a certain someone I know right where to go. 6) So now that everything is in folders, where does my tool kick in? Well, I make a special text file in a folder that I say counts as a "site", for example: C:\...\AAA\CarliBanks\site.txt And this file has in it whatever description I want, and this is what goes into the web pages my tool creates. 7) So what about videos? Or if you don't know the model? Well, I just make more folders that seem to make sense. For example, for my videobox content, I do something like this: C:\...\VideoBox\bj C:\...\VideoBox\doublebj C:\...\VideoBox\lz etc. (figuring out what my abbreviations mean I leave as an exercise for the reader ;-) 8) One "bottom line" is that no one system will solve every problem. Sometimes you just have to be creative (and don't forget anal-retentive!) to make it work. Sorry to go on and on - my intention here is to point out that it takes discipline to organize a porn collection! And my tool is not a magic silver bullet to figure it all out. However, if you want to take a chance, there are several products out there, BION, that serve this purpose, although I have not tried any of them and cannot recommend any. If you Google for "porn organizer" for example you'll find some, but beware: personally I'd have a hard time trusting some of these tools that encrypt files and make databases and the like - it may be full of spyware/adware and you have no guarantee of your system's security (I'm probably overly paranoid on this one), but would you trust a pervert to organize your hard drive and keep your computer safe? :D Hope this helps!!! Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman Edited on Dec 06, 2008, 11:41am (IKnoPorn: Fixed typos, added comments about videos) | ||
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12-06-08 12:58pm - 5822 days | #10 | |
badandy400 (0)
Active User Posts: 869 Registered: Mar 02, '08 Location: ohio |
A major point that would have to be considered is that some of use have to use more than one hard drive to store everything. I am still working on a way to get everything efficiently powered and connected simultaneously. I am considering building a custom hot-swappable hard drive mounting system. I can power everything now, but it is terribly messy, but I can not connect everything to a common computer. "For example, badandy400 has taken it upon himself to become the one man Library of Congress for porn with a collection that surely will be in Guinness Book of World Records some day." ~Toadsith~ PU Interview | |
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12-06-08 04:14pm - 5822 days | #11 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
I use XP and I think I may have found a color code easy Idea. There is a plugin for windows explorer I am looking at I will let you know how it pans out but allows a color code system within the words looks cool oh yea its free and uses the preexisting software . And it requires nothing more then a click of a drop downmenu. I'll be back ASAP with what happens. Cybertoad/ Since 2007 | |
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12-06-08 11:04pm - 5821 days | #12 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Hey Cybertoad, I'd love to hear what this thing is, even if you think it's a POS, the concept sounds interesting. Maybe something else I could add to "Porn Commander" ??? After my long rant about it, I am now seriously thinking about putting "Porn Commander" into an installable program for others to use - it requires Java, but not much else. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-07-08 02:49pm - 5821 days | #13 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Ok One of two things I am trying: using plugin icolorfolder, plus the bonus pack I am only trying this is xp It allows looks like 25 possiblitys of folder colors and shapes. Leaving various subfolder wtc. That will keep the files in order. the next is to use Picass3 and have it only look for my videos in those areas and folders it allows you to see names as well. I am not sure if I can do it quick, but depends on how fast and how well it works. I never founds and automation but this may sort well. I am looking at xplorer2 lite to see if I may use it too it has a great preview ,movie area as well as a great sorting system in its own right and a awsome search engine. I will be intouch as I look to make it east to do. PS love to get a look at that program if possble, I write code as well and hmm perhaps could suggest some idea. But want to make sure anything I type here is ok with PU. Cybertoad Since 2007 | |
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12-07-08 02:56pm - 5821 days | #14 | |
Pinche Kankun (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2 Registered: Apr 02, '07 Location: Long Beach, CA |
Man, screw this forum!! I just joined and I was already refused an avatar that specifically explains my personality... AKUMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PINCHE KANKUN QUEY >:O | |
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12-07-08 06:56pm - 5820 days | #15 | |
Khan (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
What you fail to share in this post is that the avatar you submited was animated even though we specifically state that we don't allow animated avatars. Your remarks implying that it should have been accepted suggests that you either didn't bother reading the rules OR you feel they don't apply to you. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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12-07-08 07:05pm - 5820 days | #16 | |
Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Hey Pinche, if you want assistance creating an avatar that complies with forum policies, just send me an email and I'll be happy to make one up. I can make one with a transparent background like my own avatars so they look good no matter where on the site they appear. I personally have to agree with Khan and the rest of the PU staff that the animated avatars are a bit evil, as the forum would soon end-up looking like times square. I hope that the avatars start showing up elsewhere throughout the site, it has been hinted that this will be a feature added to Porn Users in the future. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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12-07-08 07:27pm - 5820 days | #17 | |
badandy400 (0)
Active User Posts: 869 Registered: Mar 02, '08 Location: ohio |
Must 100% agree with Toadsith here. One or two flashing avatars can be cool, but they get annoying after about 4 seconds. Having our cute little pictures next to our reviews would be pretty cool, assuming that is what you are talking about. I need to update mine though....I am thinking my hard drive with a nice hotti laying back on it. :) Anyway, back to the topic at hand here. I would definitely be interested in trying out your program and see how it goes for a while. I am sure I can find a way to screw it up. I manage to screw just about every program up at one point or another. "For example, badandy400 has taken it upon himself to become the one man Library of Congress for porn with a collection that surely will be in Guinness Book of World Records some day." ~Toadsith~ PU Interview | |
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12-07-08 08:57pm - 5820 days | #18 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
If you're referring to my "Porn Commander" utility, I'm flattered. Cybertoad is also looking into alternatives, as (s)he mentions above. I actually have a question into the PU staff on this very topic, I want to make sure that sharing software like this is appropriate for the forum. Provided they give the green light, I would need to spend a little time to get it into a state where I could share it with others (i.e. at least a "readme.txt" type of thing). I'll add another post once I know more. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-07-08 09:06pm - 5820 days | #19 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Hey Cybertoad, that xplorer2 lite looks like an awesome program! At the very least, that should be something to help others here better organize their collections, looks much better than lousy Windoze Explorer. In the meantime, one area that would help me alot is, do you know of a small program to generate a thumbnail from a movie file? That's something that Porn Commander is missing, I make links to movie files but it really needs a thumbnail. What's cool about Explorer's video thumbnails, is that it actually goes part way into the movie to make the thumbnail - that way if your video has a title screen or some such nonsense, it skips past that part to give you a meaningful thumbnail. I'm not sure how it does that... Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-08-08 09:59am - 5820 days | #20 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Hmm heres a command line thumbnailer called movie thumbnailer (mtn) again not sure about putting links but google it. But being its command line might work perfect ti intergrate. Still looking Cybertoad Since 2007 | |
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12-08-08 10:05am - 5820 days | #21 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
PS picassa3 has a capture device as well being google crap is free I am trying to setup something I can do free LOL. I even thought bout MYSQL stuff or html simple code, just not enought time in the day to even attempt it, Since 2007 | |
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12-08-08 09:58pm - 5819 days | #22 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Hey good news people! Khan and the good folks here at PU have given me permission to share my "Porn Commander" utility with you. My program needs some tweaking and documentation to make it "Porn User Friendly" which I will be working on over the next few days. I will probably distribute it over a free file sharing service (the program is tiny, just over 1 megabyte). And of course, the program will be offered free. Looking back on my previous posts about my program, and how I have gone on about organizing files into folders (something my program DOES NOT do, you can actually put your files into whatever folders you want), I think one thing that is needed is a clear explanation about exactly what Porn Commander does. Yes, it is a grandiose name, for a rather simple program. So I am going to start working on this. I wish I could just zip it up and post it, but it isn't quite that simple. I'll explain more soon! Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-08-08 10:09pm - 5819 days | #23 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Yeah I checked out the Youtube video demoing Picasa3, it looks extremely impressive. Just so you know, and for other user's here, my Porn Commander program is not nearly as sophisticated. Google has armies of developers getting paid to do cool stuff, me I've just been working on Porn Commander in my extremely limited spare time for the past few months. So, if you don't mind installing a huge program that will index your photos in a searchable database, and allow you to add your own tags, edit the images, rearrange them at will, change the color etc. then get Picasa3. But, if you want something very simple and lightweight, that doesn't use a database, and is simply a small Java program that generates web pages for viewing your photos with a web browser, and that can group your folders by whatever categories you want to create, then Porn Commander might be what you're looking for. Cybertoad, thanks for the tip on the movie thumbnailer. You're right, a command line utility is perfect, something I can all from my utility while it's creating the web pages. I'll see if I can get this or a similar capability integrated prior to offering up Porn Commander. Now if I can just find the time! It may be a week or two for me to get it in order. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-08-08 10:27pm - 5819 days | #24 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
HEY CYBERTOAD!! YOU ROCK DUDE!! (or Dudette - sorry I make no assumptions here ;-) That movie thumbnailer (mtn) is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! I've been playing with it for the past few minutes, it even makes thumbnails from "dreaded" Quicktime vidoes!! That is SOO COOL! This has been the one weak link in Porn Commander and now it is totally nailed! I'm so glad I asked, thanks so much!! Can you tell I'm totally excited?? If not, my avatar should indicate my excitement level at this particular moment. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-08-08 10:39pm - 5819 days | #25 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
LOL its Dude, And lol if your av was any more excited LOL well. Glad to help, be happy to see teh product awsome. Cybertoad Since 2007 | |
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12-08-08 10:39pm - 5819 days | #26 | |
Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Just as an aside, you can click on the user name of any of us and find not only the gender but also the age of almost all of us. In Cybertoad's case that would be reported as "Male, 46 yrs old". In my case that would be "Male, 25 yrs old", which is accurate in my case - I'm one of the young'uns on the board. Btw, glad to hear we'll all be able to try out the much famed Porn Commander in the near future :-) Sounds quite nifty! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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12-12-08 09:41pm - 5815 days | #27 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
Hello All, Sorry to be away so long, Pinche's LOS has been a big distraction for me when I come back to the board. It's time for something more uplifting! BTW, LOS = Line Of Shit I presume (hope?) many of you have been eagerly awaiting my first release of the Porn Commander Project. I thought I'd give a brief update about where I am and when to expect something. 1) TIME - unfortunately, many times during the year, and especially the holidays, I go on overtime at work. Good News - I get paid extra. Bad News - I have no life, no time for my family, and no time for fun. BUT, fear not, I am not making excuses, and I push this project a little further along each day. 2) LICENSES - Porn Commander is composed of several integrated products, together with alot of home grown software. I have had to investigate that I have permission to re-distribute the software with my product. So far, so good, since my product is free, I can distribute everything else. 3) USABILITY - Since I wrote Porn Commander to be my own personal tool, when I really started looking at it I found several areas that needed to be much more "Porn User Friendly". For example: 3a) Movie Thumbnails - Thanks to Cybertoad, I am integrating movie thumbnailer (mtn) 3b) Image Thumbnails - Porn Commander uses a technique I call "Dynamic Image Scaling", which is a fancy way to say, no thumbnails! I generate them on the fly. However, with very large images, this is quite slow. Given that this is primarily an image appreciation tool, and given that many users likely have extremely large images (3000px for example), I think that this is something I really need to fix. I have a technique to do this, but alas it is a bit more integration work. 4) DOCUMENTATION - I have been working on this, including such topics as: - Installation instructions - HTF do I set this thing up? (HTF = How The Fuck?) How do I install the different utilities? - Running instructions - what, no GUI? (Sorry, this is a command line utility) - Contact Info - I am setting something up to protect your privacy, and mine - And on and on Needless to say, this is alot of work, but it is a labor of love. Seriously, I love to write code, and knowing that I am enhancing something that maybe one or two of you might find useful, I find very inspiring. I just hope the community here can be patient while I continue to make this something I can be proud of, and hopefully you can find useful. I hope to have something by Christmas. Thanks in advance to all of those that want to try Porn Commander! Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-12-08 09:56pm - 5815 days | #28 | |
IKnoPorn (0)
Active User Posts: 61 Registered: Jan 15, '07 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
True, but "not making assumptions" and using your imagination is so much more fun! For example, what if Cybertoad is really Raquel Darrian? Who knows who anybody is? I suppose it's like having to give a report when you were in grade school, when the suggestion to eliminate nervousness was to pretend everybody is in their underwear. Glad to hear you're looking forward to Porn Commander! At the rate I'm going Santa will probably leave it in your stocking! I wonder if Number 6 ever posted a stocking over his fireplace with the fake logs in it...I really liked how the doors opened, sort of like the Star Trek doors. Did they ever have a Christmas Prisoner episode? I don't remember. ps: Don't Google for "Christmas Prisoner". Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb. - Batman | |
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12-12-08 10:39pm - 5815 days | #29 | |
Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
If you want to leave her in my sock for Christmas that would be cool too. PS I write code to so let me know if you need any two cents. Its been awhile but still think I am pretty good at it :-) Since 2007 | |
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12-13-08 01:57am - 5815 days | #30 | |
Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
It would be cool if one of our pornusers was really Annette Haven. You know, I've wondered about HeatherMcXxx. When she said that she thought Silvia Saint was like a mannequin, that seemed to me to be a kind of competitive opinion. Or maybe she's really Asia Carrera? Anyway, seems like someone with a high IQ along with a good sense of fun. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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