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08-08-09  07:49am - 5616 days #21
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Originally Posted by badandy400:


Messmer. I take it you meant 500 GB drives, not meg. I have not had any issues with 1000 GB drives yet but I am still uncomfortable with drives larger than that. I have had many issues with the Seagate 1500 GB drives. I have RMA'ed one, I am getting ready to send another, and I have had several occasions where the drive have forgotten how large they are and showed up as 500 GB instead of 1500 GB.

Oh and yes, MyBook is Western Digital. SO far they have been fairly reliable. I have only sent one of those out and I did recently have a 400 GB SATA drive fail that was from back when SATA was pretty new and drives still SATA power and the older 4 pin power. That drive was on 24/7 and spent most of its life, shamefully, without cooling fans. Four years running hot enough for me to not want to touch it leaves me little room to complain.


Oops, yes, I meant GB rather than Meg! :-)

08-07-09  06:41pm - 5616 days #15
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Originally Posted by badandy400:


Messmer. Cant be disrespecting the suicidal kitten now. If he every leave PU for a length of time I am planning on stealing that avatar. Remember to format that hard drive and use it for nothing critical for a week or so. It is a terrible thing to lose that much porn, trust me I have done it before. The porn gods would strike you down and punish you with erectile dysfunction.


Thanks for the tip badandy. I certainly will format the hard drive, have to because I want to get it ready for TrueCrypt, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed when it comes to quality and possible crashes. I already have two 500 meg MyBook hard drives by ?Western Digital? that are full now and I haven't had any problems with them...yet. Let's hope their 1 TB version will be just as reliable.

08-07-09  06:37pm - 5616 days #14
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Originally Posted by pinkerton:


I guess someone's liking of a porn star is related to what they find attractive in a woman, which could translate to someone they went out with in the past or had a crush on.
I myself like leggy brunettes with long hair and so my favourite porn stars are leggy or brunette or long-haired or all of the above. Add stockings into the mix and I'm even more keen!
Not all the porn stars I like are the most atractive, but they do have a kind of sexiness whic hooks me, for example, Simone Reilly in stockings getting fucked by 2 younger guys in one particular movie on Devils Film did it for me even though in other movies she looks less hot. The same with Rachel Starr in a few of her Brazzers movies.
OTOH, other porn stars for me are more consistently hot, like Julia Taylor, Eva Mercedes, Sandra De Marco and Sahara Knite, because they're either brunette or leggy and have great bodies which always appeal to me and also 'cos they often wear atockings.


I don't know most of your porn stars but laud your taste, leggy brunettes wearing nylons do it for me too! :-)

08-07-09  06:34pm - 5616 days #13
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Originally Posted by RagingBuddhist:


There's no such thing as too much cynicism

To answer the question here, I really don't have a favorite - but the ones I do like it's because they fuck for cameras : - )


Well, that seems to me to be as good a motivation as any!:-)

And until yesterday I didn't have a favorite either. That girl brings back my youth, except that in my youth no girl I knew acted like her and if there had been one I probably would have been too shy to take advantage of it!

08-07-09  01:43pm - 5617 days #9
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


Yes, it's personality that seems to come through that gets me. There's a warmth, generosity, quiet confidence, and willingness. Maybe I'm just projecting the whole thing, but I don't care.

You know, I've sounded that way before. I can vouch from experience that it's good way to set oneself up for an eventual divorce. ;)


I like your projecting, better that than too much cynicism, Drooler

08-07-09  01:36pm - 5617 days #8
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Originally Posted by mbaya:


I think most guys see women as attractive due to the intangibles. Many times I know the best looking women are not the most attractive. Guys often cannot say why they feel a certain way about a woman. Often it is the smile and the look that shows a nice personality coming through. Often it is other intangibles, like vulnerability or confidence. For guys, you can't just add up the obvious and get it. The whole package is more than the sum of the parts. Ask women why a woman is attractive and they will say it is usually a matter of the superficial, just a matter of adding them together. For every guy you get a different viewpoint as to what they like and often cannot figure out the essence as to why. I find it a very different experience to judge a woman's looks by her pictures than it is to see her in action in a video.

I am sure Amun-Ra will be pleased with us today.


Well, I completely agree with you when it comes to the women we meet in real life. I was thinking of the ladies in porn. Vulnerability and personality seldom play a part. Should see the things my new-found favorite porn star does!! Vulnerable she isn't! :-)

08-07-09  01:33pm - 5617 days #7
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Originally Posted by lk2fireone:


I realized long ago there were nut cases out in the real world. How many of them infest the PU territory is unknown, but I believe we have more than our fair share.
One of the things I have always tried to do for my fellow PU members was to stand as a beacon of sanity, good manners and common sense for the rest of you to look up to and admire, in addition to writing the best reviews anyone has ever seen.
I do not believe in false modesty. I believe the truth shall set us free, and my faith will guide me ever onward and upward in my quest through life for the great porn experience to come.



Shish, try to look a bit deeper and you're called a nut case, unless (more likely) you are referring to badandy, in which case I agree! :-) Hey, badandy, guess what? I've just ordered a 1 TB external hard drive, I'm going to catch up with you yet.

And, yes, we all greatly admire your wisdom, knowledge and wit, lk2fireone, but, tell the truth sometimes I wonder if it isn't a misplaced sort of admiration. How can you truly admire and follow someone who has a kitten as an avatar? That is so .. so .. not alpha male!

08-07-09  10:28am - 5617 days #3
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Originally Posted by badandy400:


I am scheduling you for a 9 AM appointment Monday morning with Exotics. You guys can dig around your head for a while and figure it out.

I really think certain people have a certain look that others find irresistible, even if the look is not the most attractive one. For example, I am all about Amy Reid but I do not think she is the best looking woman out there. For some reason I am compelled to her stuff over some others that normally I would love to see. I have no clue what it is but it seems to be there. Thus, I chase down her stuff.


I suggest you come with me to my appointment with Exotics! Maybe he can figure things out for both of us! :-)

08-07-09  08:59am - 5617 days Original Post - #1
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I never did have a favorite porn star - until now! Just discovered one whose videos will be chased down by me all over the DVD place. Her name is Claire Robbins and the reason she touched that special chord is because she looks exactly like my first crush when I was fourteen-ish! :-)

Which brings me to the obvious question: Is there anyone else who associates their liking for a star with someone from their past or maybe even the present.

I could never understand the pre-occupation with and adulation of certain stars (after all most acting is atrocious and most look like so many of the others, so why single out a particular one) but my experience would explain "why" we like certain things about stars, and porn in general. And why we keep looking.

Is it the past (erotic feelings in connection with someone or certain erotically charged situations) that makes us go wow rather than the quality of a video or the beauty of a model? Don't mind me, just wondering about my reaction.

08-06-09  03:01pm - 5618 days #26
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Originally Posted by badandy400:


Sounds like free downloading is a love hate relationship. It helps creators get their creators seen or heard but can result in never being paid at all. They could always offer lower quality for the free downloads. The kind of quality that sounds like it is coming through a telephone. I have bought many songs because I downloaded lower quality versions and wanted a high quality version because it was good enough.

Is there anything you are not into Exotics? By the way, I nominate Exotics for the next PU interview.


I second that nomination!

08-06-09  02:57pm - 5618 days #30
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Originally Posted by Toadsith:


Under "Tools" click "Preferences". The Preferences window will pop up with 6 large icons on the left side if you are in "Simple" settings. (Change modes in the lower left hand corner where it says "Show settings" - selections are "Simple" or "All".) Click on the "Video" icon, this will take you to the Video Settings. On that tab, you should see a section near the bottom outlined and labeled "Video snapshots". It will have a text box labeled "Directory" with a "Browse..." button next to it - click that and choose the directory to save the files into. The "Prefix" text box you can simply type in and this will be added to the front of the snapshot's filename, I usually stick with the default one. I recommend checking the "Sequential numbering" check box so you can take many snapshots per video without it overwriting them. You can change the format with the drop down box labeled "Format" - choices are just png or jpg.


Thanks, Toadsith! I had my settings on "all," once I clicked on "simple" I was able to follow your directions and all is now well. Thanks loads. As to your other recommendations re. stuttering HD videos, I followed your advice but the darn videos still stutter in the VLC Player, WMP works fine but I find VLC so much better that I hate to use WMP.

I like the snapshot feature (obviously) but, even more important, I like the idea that one can sharpen the videos. Most need it and I have VLC set to automatically make them "crisper" by a notch. Now why doesn't Microsoft think of incorporating that into their player?

08-06-09  11:37am - 5618 days #28
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I just got the latest version of the VLC Player (5.0.1) and can't find the settings for snapshots (or how to modify the defaults.) I previously had it set to save snapshots in jpg format and in a folder/directory different from the default one. Can someone who has the latest version help me find the right spot to make the changes. Probably staring me right in the face!

PS. Just came to mind: VLC stutters badly when I play the 8000 bitrate HD files I downloaded from In The Crack and FTV and I always have to switch to the Windows Media Player to play those files. I do have a quad core chip and more memory than I'll ever need. Any ideas? Solutions? Thanks again. Edited on Aug 06, 2009, 11:43am

07-31-09  09:49am - 5624 days #23
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Originally Posted by PinkPanther:


My main tool - the button that turns my computer on - beyond that, I'm kind of floundering.


I appreciate your honesty, Pink Panther, I possess your level of expertise and it's good to know there's someone else out there who's just as handicapped tek-wise! :-) Edited on Jul 31, 2009, 03:05pm

07-31-09  09:38am - 5624 days #23
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Originally Posted by GCode:


If you are talking about Anilos and updates, I looked at the whole month of July and they are so-so. I'd say half of them look good while the rest look average. If it was All Over 30, I'd probably be saying half look good and half look bad instead of average. But, I have never been a member so I'm going on looks alone. I'm not sure if it is model quality plus content that you are talking about. But I can tell you this, it's the content as a whole that is the reason I want to join, I would not join based on these updates if you get my drift :)


I wouldn't either. First time I subscribed I went by the updates because I found some of the models breathtakingly beautiful (they're happily resting on my hard drive) but the present updates appear to be indeed only so-so, with some exceptions. Same as I found that the latest Nubiles updates aren't quite as nubile as they used to be ... which is another story. Thanks for confirming that it's not just a question of becoming jaded! :-)

07-31-09  09:32am - 5624 days #9
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Thanks, guys, for your varied responses. Some made me laugh, some made me cry (figuratively speaking) when I realized how old I was getting. Pantyhose = Vintage? Man, to me they were invented only yesterday.

Another thing that really surprised me, reading between the lines, is that lingerie is often seen as something that gets in the way of the action. It's that generation gap again. For me, Lingerie enhances, it excites, it teases .. it's an absolutely necessary element when it comes to porn. Hooray for Victoria's secret and slinky teddies etc. when they stick to their original formula rather than attempting to make their lingerie look like Calvin Klein's.

Thanks for participating, guys. I did have fun reading the replies, it's a wild, wonderful, diverse world out there that much is obvious.

Doesn't help me with getting more teasing back into porn but I appreciate your thoughts! :-)

07-30-09  07:44pm - 5624 days Original Post - #1
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.... about nothing but maybe of help to webmasters (and me):

Does any Porn User find pantyhose (tights) sexy? It is my personal, stubbornly held belief that the invention of pantyhose ruined eroticism as we knew it. :-)

Why the question? Well, I am very interested in subscribing to a site that caters to folks like me who drool over women who are clad in lingerie from the fifties, sixties and seventies, the sexiest lingerie ever, but find to my astonishment that they also offer a bonus site for pantyhose lovers which, to me, is the very antithesis of erotic in its bland practicality (not the site, the pantyhose.)

Now don't be afraid to come back at me with an honest answer. I'd really be interested to see if there is a sizable percentage of porn lovers who not only learned to accept pantyhose but actually find it erotic.

And while I'm at it, does anyone really prefer cotton to nylon and silk and satin? Women may sit this one out because I am sure they prefer the comfortable to the sexy in their everyday lives, but what about men? Do you prefer cotton on your women? Honestly?

You know what I'm doing here, don't you?

Hope springs eternal in the human breast, so I hope the overwhelming majority of you will be with me in connection with this topic and that webmasters and owners will look in, sit up and take notice, and create more sites that appeal to me! :-) One can always try! And didn't we talk about this subject before? If so, forgive me.

07-30-09  04:07pm - 5625 days #21
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Originally Posted by GCode:


Meh, that was not long winded and I like reading forum posts so don't worry about the length. Just read your reply and this post to find out they finally got HD videos now at All Over 30. This will be a great addition but if they don't attempt to reformat some of their old videos or at least bring some back that I loved for new HD videos, I don't think I'll be joining soon. It's a damn shame that you can't find anything appealing lately. I saw a review and comments for Vintage Flash which if I can recall, you were kinda in to that type of content. So, you may want to check that out if you have not already.


Strange you should mention Vintage Flash because I just put it under "favorites" to remind myself when it's time to subscribe to my next site.

But my taste is actually more eclectic than that. I have subscribed to a few on your wish list like: Anilos, Nubiles, In The Crack and have enjoyed them as well, despite the fact that Anilos was the only one fitting my preferred niche. Have a quick look at their recent updates and confirm for me that, in their case as well, the models aren't as hot as they used to be! If you don't agree with me then I'll know it's a question of getting jaded. :-)

Karup's Older Women is another site that I've been tempted to subscribe to, but I noticed through sample sets of theirs, offered by All Over Thirty as a bonus, that their picture sets are not that exciting. At least not for me.

07-29-09  07:16pm - 5625 days #19
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Originally Posted by GCode:


Hey messmer, how has the search for some sites been lately? I remember before your small absence you were really trying to find some new sites that interested you because you were seeing a lot of sites as monotonous. Just wondering if you found anything recently? If not, I hope the search ends up in your favor. I can tell you one thing, I do have a laundry list of sites to join but my budget went down substantially so I am good for a few months. Hopefully, during that time I can add up even more so I never hit a bad drought that you and some others seem to be experiencing lately.


Hi GCode, thanks for asking! :-) I haven't been doing too well. New sites of interest that show up occasionally don't have enough contents yet to please me, old sites I discover that might appeal to my taste have either low quality contents because they stopped updating some time ago or, if I return to a familiar one, don't give me the same "kick" I got out of them originally.

I am currently subscribing to All Over 30 again because I had great hopes when it comes to their videos, after they announced that all material shot after May xx? was in High Resolution or in the case of videos in High Definition, but all updates for the past three days have been in the old format when it comes to videos. They must have a huge amount of older material that they release over a period of time so until they use that up, good quality videos are hard to find on their site.

Then I also returned to Videosz and found that the complaints that their DVDs were lacking excitement and were too much the same lately were justified. It seems that the whole Porn world has gone anal and oral and every update seems the same with only the faces changing. A sad tale of woe.

There were two sites that tempted me, because they were different ... they were both Japanese and I like their story lines and their acting. I find that Japanese actresses are much more demure and give delicious (more restrained, mock-reluctant) performances, much more time is also spent on foreplay and getting undressed than in North American Porn, HOWEVER, I don't think I'll ever get past those d.....d pixels hiding their naughty bits. :-) I've tried, I've really tried but it's a major turn off for me. And there it stands .. sob ... Please send me your list, post haste, maybe there are some sites I've overlooked! :-)

Sorry for being so long winded but you did ask!!

07-28-09  02:08pm - 5627 days #17
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Originally Posted by BabyGetReal:



I am looking hard for the hard-to-find boy/girl porn with affection, real chemistry, real women who don't look like plastic dolls (see some at darering.com), some real dialog, natural boobs, foreplay, attention to genuinely arousing the female, slow unrushed teasing, both parties really getting aroused, no jacking off on the face (which I find ridiculous and demeaning to both parties), real female orgasms (the more the better, and I love it when the girl says "I'm going to come", then "I'm coming" if its for real -- otherwise too often hard to tell), kind gentle enjoyment (nobody using the word "slut"!), throbbing penises making creampies, guys coming early in the vid, then again later, creativity, playfulness, fun!



Welcome to the forum and PU in general, BabyGetReal! You've brought up a very important point when it comes to Porn. I watched a main stream romantic comedy the other day that had a couple of fairly "daring" sex scenes and found myself more turned on then I have been with much of the stuff I've downloaded from Video Sites lately.

It does make a huge difference if the mood is set first, with some affection, tenderness, foreplay etc., before the director switches to the actual sex scenes. I am also craving scenes where, upon completion of the sex act, there is some embracing and caressing. I don't think too many would agree with us because most, if given the chance, will edit all the meaningful stuff, the stuff that gives a scene context, just to get to the "money shot" quicker. The only thing I would disagree with, when it comes to your taste, is your rejection of "slut" (and I assume other similar terms). Sometimes couples enjoy playing "dirty" and that's all right as long as the afterplay is (appears) tender and loving.

07-23-09  03:22pm - 5632 days #3
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


My experience has been that I can join at the recurring rate and cancel in less than a month without penalty IF the billing company is ccbill, as it is for many sites. In such numerous cases, the non-recurring rate is -- how shall I put this? -- "BS."

It's not always, so, though. ALS Scan and ALS Angels, for example, really do mean it. I found that out the hard way. They were doing their own billing.


Thanks, Drooler, I never paid attention to (or noticed) the two differing rates. Seeing that I'm mostly using CCBill and Epoch anyway I'll probably be all right then if I pick non-recurring. At least I hope so, in the case of Epoch!

07-23-09  02:52pm - 5632 days Original Post - #1
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I never noticed this before but there are sites that quote the subscription price as being:

One month, $29.95 recurring, $35.95 non-recurring. Do they exact a penalty if you subscribe to the former and then cancel within that month? Thanks. Edited on Jul 23, 2009, 03:23pm

07-22-09  02:49pm - 5633 days #25
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Originally Posted by RagingBuddhist:


Yeah - I am forever, first and foremost, a Carlin fan. For current comedians, here's my list.

After that, my number one is Lewis Black 'cuz he rants my rants. He's angry like I'm angry. Next, Jeff Dunham for taking ventriloquism to a new level. Frank Caliendo - one of the best celebrity impersonators I've ever heard. And I love Rodney Carrington - kind of an X-rated Jeff Foxworthy. For the rest of the list, including past and present comedians, there's Wanda Sykes, Ralphie May, Robin Williams, Ron White, Eddie Izzard, Bill Maher, Victor Borge, Lisa Lampanelli, Richard Pryor (of course?), Flip Wilson, Sam Kinison and Steven Wright.

All in all, I'd have to say, the more sarcastic and cynical they are, the more bite they put into their act, the more I like 'em. But I also like what I guess you'd call storytellers - that's how G and PG rated guys like Victor Borge and Flip Wilson make it to my list of otherwise R rated performers.



In this case my taste is just the opposite of yours. I love the story tellers. Newhart, Borge, Wilson, were some of my favorites. I know that dates me! :-) I also loved comedians like Richard Pryor, George Carlin etc. on G rated shows but disliked them on R-rated cable. Strangely enough, seeing that I'm a porn lover, I don't like x-rated language in my comedians.

07-22-09  08:56am - 5633 days #20
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No one mentioned Seinfeld. My opinion? His show was great but as a stand up comedian he isn't so hot!

07-18-09  07:38pm - 5636 days #32
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Originally Posted by lk2fireone:


messmer, who is that in your avatar? The photo quality of these avatars could really be improved. Is that Angelina Jolie or some porn actress? Angelina Jolie could make a great porn clip just by walking across a room. She has a body to die for. :)


lk2fireone, it is Angelina Jolie! I like her a lot but am not really a dyed-in-the-wool fan of hers. I was just looking for an avatar that had a woman wearing something nice and clingy and came across hers. I am still looking for the avatar that best expresses my taste. And that one would definitely have nylons and garter belt in it! And full cut panties!

07-18-09  12:57pm - 5637 days #30
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Originally Posted by WeeWillyWinky:


Hi Mes,

Actually, that did have something to do with why I decided to take a break from PU, but it was only an example of what the real problem was: the fact that my tastes are so drastically different than most. Looking back, the site in question did have all of the problems you eventually pointed out in your review, and my initial impression was way over-stated.

I asked to have my account re-activated mainly because I'd like to participate in the forum. I see it's still virtually devoid of the usual squabbling and flaming that occurs on so many boards. This is an oasis of civility in the sweltering desert of Netville.

Thank you, Khan, for re-activating my account.


Hi WeeWillyWinky, would you believe this is the first time I come across this post of yours. Don't know how I could have missed it! In any case I am very glad that you are back. I sent you an email through PU recently to let you know how delighted I was that you had re-activated your account, but had no idea you had posted again in the forum.

And I am so glad that I once again have someone whose tastes are very close to mine and hope to see some of your reviews again real soon! I'm running out of ideas! And don't worry about the times our tastes should part ways. I, and my wallet, can handle it if I should find that we're not on the same wave length the odd time that happens. :-)

06-26-09  11:46am - 5659 days #12
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Well, I am glad that Farrah gets a bit of time and recognition in this forum. As far as the media are concerned there was only one story yesterday and that was Michael Jackson.

06-26-09  11:43am - 5659 days #26
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Originally Posted by SueAnn:


Hi everyone,

Sorry to burst the apocalyptic bubble, but abbywinters.com isn't going anywhere...

Police have to respond to any and all complaints and although I myself wasn't there (I nicked up to the snow), I was told the "coppers" were polite and actually good humoured. They didn't take any hardware and no charges have been laid.

We have incredibly thorough policies for recording ID and model details to ensure they're overage and we proudly sponsor ASACP.

Apart from that, it's business as usual, the site will be radically updated towards the end of the year (loads of cool features, stay tuned!) and I'm here to help answer any questions and generally be a forum flirt :)

Hope that helps,
Sue-ann


Welcome to this forum, Sue_ann, and I am delighted you burst that distasteful bubble. Abby Winters was my very first review and I've rejoined the site at various times over the years so I am happy to learn that the raid was relatively benign. I would have been very disappointed in my friends from Oz if it had been any other way.

06-26-09  11:39am - 5659 days #25
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Originally Posted by Jay G:


Thanks for the wonderful news. Paranoia is an emotion I confess to fall into too easily, so a healthy dose of reality is always welcome!


Don't be too hard on yourself, Jay G. It was easy to react negatively to the newspaper article which is reality. If you are paranoid then so am I. :-)

06-25-09  11:56am - 5660 days #15
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I read only recently, can't remember where exactly, that those on top of the food chain cannot tolerate anything that is not under their control and that this holds true even in democratic and "free" countries. I'm starting to believe it.

06-25-09  11:52am - 5660 days #14
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Originally Posted by mbaya:


The whole world should be a lot more worried about the obscenities going in Iran than in the content on Abbywinters.


You said it, mbaya. My sentiments exactly!

06-24-09  01:33pm - 5661 days #59
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Originally Posted by Wittyguy:


I give props to Messmer for turning me onto this one which I call the "RCLAP Award" or the "Royal Canadian Lard Ass Patrol" award. This goes out to the fine Canadian legislators who recently proposed a law allowing the warrantless surveillance of all internet activity and the right require ISPs to turn over customer information. Apparently the Mounties (Canadian police) find that chasing bad guys involves work and that it would just be easier to figure out who people are talking to without having to develop a working case, probable cause or even knowing what kind of crime is being committed. Hell, just sit on your butt, watching the internet stream by like Neo on some sort of "Matrix" acid trip and hoping to find the bad guys is the new game in law enforcement.

Apparently the law wouldn't allow the police to view the contents of the communication (they would still need a warrant for that) but it would allow real time monitoring of all web and cell communication and require ISP's to turn over customer names and addresses without a warrant, retain all customer communications for some time period (so if they get a warrant they can look at everything) and even allow the police to turn on remote tracking (GPS) systmes in cell phones. All of this is needed to protect our frigid neighbors to the north from child porn perverts and identity theives. Apparently the Canadian police don't like the fact that some ISP's won't turn over information without a warrant and that this hinders law enforcement operations ... apparently missing the point that if you want to build a police state then anything that denies you access to everything when you want it is a hinderance to law enforcement.

What I like is that there is no mention of what crimes need to be committed, or are about to be committed, for this oversight to take effect. Is Aunt Lucie conspiring to illegally park her Buick outside the Post Office; is some police officers ex wife talking smack about him and thereby hindering law enforcement operations; is the porn Messmer is downloading about to turn him into a pedophile serial killer? Better yet, suppose you accidentally dial a wrong number and call a suspected child porn hoarder. At that point the government will be tracking everything you do and say for years to come because you're now a suspect just by having contacted this person. Remember "No Boundaries, No Limits, No Doughnuts Left Untouched" is the new motto of the Mounties.


Oh, that we (Canada) had a country full of wittyguys instead of all those polite, naive, passive folks that think that everything their Government does MUST be for their own good!

I'm not crazy about unrestrained individualism but when it comes to basic freedoms, like the freedom of speech, we tend to be too complacent. Eh?

06-24-09  12:00pm - 5661 days #8
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Stories like this always give me the very uncomfortable feeling that we've been living in the "Wild West" period of the Internet and that it won't be long now before the folks on top will take measures to re-establish some form of control over our electronic lives.

I still remember the frantic efforts by customs and the Post Office to keep the "filth" originating down south out of pristine Canada and the resentment I felt that someone's view of what's "proper" should be able to control mine, so the Internet was (and is at the moment) like a breath of fresh air to me.

Having been born and raised in Europe I could never understand that sex was so controversial on this continent while violence was freely shown on Canadian and American Television on a daily basis. Someone's values are slightly twisted, and I don't think they are mine.

To add to my unease, our Government in Canada is, at this very moment, talking about introducing a bill that would make it mandatory for every ISP to have to install equipment that would keep track of every move a user makes on the Internet, this even includes e-mail!

The official reason given is that a tool is needed to hunt down pedophiles and terrorists. Scarier yet is the fact that no warrant would be needed to check the activities of an individual except some vague suspicion on the part of the police that he might be up to no good.

The sheeple are already muttering: "Nothing wrong with a law like this if you are not doing anything wrong!" giving me fits of despair that they seem to be unable to see that some of the freedoms we have gained are gradually being taken back.

I hope to hear loud protests from the opposing parties that, at the moment, are propping up our minority government once the proposed bill is being debated. If not I'll give up voting for good.

P.S. I just stopped my subscription to Abby Winters a month ago. I wonder if the present subscribers will end up on someone's data base as "known perverts?" AW, for Pete's sake, one of the cleanest sites around. Go figure! Edited on Jun 24, 2009, 12:05pm

06-16-09  06:55pm - 5668 days #18
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Originally Posted by exotics4me:


Here is maybe a different story about it.
http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=74281


Interesting, exotics4me. I didn't know that male performers in California have to use condoms by law. Who is making all those DVDs containing unprotected sex then. I thought most of them originated in California.

06-16-09  06:53pm - 5668 days #17
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Originally Posted by turboshaft:


Maybe it's why I always return to solo girl material: you can never feel guilty about enjoying it...until some (un)lucky cameraman or towel girl get hit in the face with some errant body fluids. ;)


:-) That must be the reason, why I too keep going back to solo girl material. Must go and subscribe to a site that is mostly solo or g/g. It's been a while.

06-13-09  02:49pm - 5672 days #10
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Originally Posted by PinkPanther:


Here's the article at AVN.com:

http://business.avn.com/articles/35572.html

I've got to say that I've got tremendous respect for Dr Sharon Mitchell - she went from being a porn performer/heroin addict to going through medical school and has done more to prevent AIDS in the adult industry than any other single person alive. I doubt if the adult industry would have shut down to the extent it did a few years ago when there was the mini-HIV breakout for anybody else.


I agree with your admiration for Dr. Sharon Mitchell, Pink Panther. I learned quite a bit today by following some of the links provided. Thanks everyone for your response.

I was more than a bit disturbed when I first saw the headline because I had assumed that the controls were quite stringent and that the industry was quite safe for most performers. As someone who dislikes scenes featuring condoms I also felt more than a little guilty for enjoying them. :-(

06-13-09  02:26pm - 5672 days #9
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Originally Posted by atrapat:


This xbiz news piece quotes an AIM spokesperson referring to the Patient Zero as a woman.
http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=109218


Thanks for that link, atrapat. Doesn't sound quite as bad as the media made it out to be.

06-13-09  01:16pm - 5672 days #7
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Originally Posted by atrapat:


I get somewhat lost in all the jargon but it looks like it's one performer who tested HIV positive in the beginning of June plus 16 other unrelated cases since 2004 (date of the last public outbreak) that hadn't been disclosed previously. Among those 16 there are both people who wanted to enter the industry and were testing for the first time and people who were already in the industry.


I sure hope that one performer wasn't a male because that pool of "actors" is pretty small and he could have infected many women especially in all those scenes where anal, unprotected sex is featured.

06-12-09  08:01pm - 5672 days Original Post - #1
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Just saw that sad news scrolling on the bottom of a news cast. Does anyone know who it might be? It didn't mention a name, nor if the star was male of female. This could cause quite the uproar in porn valley.

06-06-09  06:49pm - 5678 days #12
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Originally Posted by turboshaft:


The videos at Anilos, at least the ones labeled "HD," were probably shot with an HD camera and never had to be scaled down to DVD resolution (usually 720 x 480 for NTSC). A DVD site is probably all sourced from DVDs -- not the original source, which may have been shot in HD -- and so, even at a high bitrate, may not look that great.

As many of the members may know, video size isn't everything, bitrate matters too. Messmer also started a thread about this last September.

Concerning sizes, we had a thread about "HD" quality over a year ago, including a great post about resolution by Toadsith, who always seems to be the go to guy for all this high tech computer and Interweb stuff.

Size is still pretty important to me (uh, video size that is), so I always try to check out sample videos on tours at their original, or 100%, size, and then at full screen to see the qualitative differences, since I like to watch in full screen mode. For me, HD at 100% is very close to full screen, but again, since size isn't absolutely everything, I try to judge sound, lighting, colors, etc. before I instantly judge something labeled "true HD," or "full HD," or whatever as great video.


Thanks turboshaft. I am embarrassed and realize that I'm really getting older because I forgot that we had a discussion on bitrates and that I had started it! :-) I have always had a bad memory so I can at least relax about Alzheimer's for now.

One more question directed to the whole group of fine gentlemen: Still talking DVD sites, not HD ones. Of all the sites you subscribed to which one did the best job of converting DVDs to a good to excellent picture at full screen?

06-06-09  06:33pm - 5678 days #11
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Thanks guys for all the good advice. I tried the mouse over the icon bit and got the size of the file (so and so many mbs)as well as the length, eg. 26 minutes, but not the dimensions.

I tried pretty well everything until I found out to my delight that Raging Buddhist's suggestion worked. He may have Windows 2000 but it works in Vista as well. Right click on the file, go to properties, then to details and there it is: Frame width, frame height, total bitrate! And badandy, your suggestion worked perfectly for me when I still had xp but as you said Vista is retarded (Can't wait for the new OS to come out in November) and while I could get it to display some information it never gave me anything under details or dimensions. Again, thanks all!

06-06-09  01:47pm - 5679 days #33
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Originally Posted by pat362:


Then again they could always remake old time porn movies.
I'd be highly curious to see someone remake "Behind the Green Door".


Strange you should mention remakes. I just watched "The Story Of O" the other day (for the umpteenth time)and, as always was wishing someone would remake it but with great caution and care. Keep the story as is, just use better cameras and lighting. Now that would be a keeper!

06-06-09  01:41pm - 5679 days #5
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Originally Posted by Jay G:


I appreciate your asking the question and eagerly await a comprehensible answer. There is such a wide range of quality, but it does not always seem to be totally by the "numbers." I really like the new crisp clear video of obviously much better quality, but still only know it by looking at it myself (not yet by any numbers).

"I know it when I see it."

I await response from a guru much more knowledgable than I.


Hey Jay G, I'm glad I'm not alone! And I agree with your observations. I've been downloading files, all with a 4000 total bitrate, yet the quality is very uneven. Some videos are reasonably clear as long as I don't use full screen, others are the pits. Bit rates are indeed not everything. My Anilos videos run at 3500 and are like HD, the ones I downloaded from a DVD place (even the best) at 4000 are terrible by comparison.

06-06-09  01:36pm - 5679 days #4
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Originally Posted by mbaya:


I find it after I download. Put the cursor over the file icon and it appears as well as the length of the video and the bitrate. Be careful though in looking at AVI files where the bitrate is always low, even when they are of excellent quality.


Thanks, mbaya, that would be a very convenient way of finding out. Must try it out right after I finish writing this! :-)

06-06-09  09:36am - 5679 days Original Post - #1
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Can anyone tell me how they determine the size of a video. I know that I'm exposing myself as a dummy but while I can get the total bitrate through Vista I have not yet found a category that would list the dimensions of a video, e.g. 720x480!

It is important information in connection with a review but I don't know how to go about getting that information. Would there be a setting on your Player that allows you to determine what's what? Argh, I hate to look like an ignoramus when it comes to technical details. :-(

06-03-09  06:42pm - 5681 days #4
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I read somewhere that a guy has been convicted or at least added to the pedophile database because he had Simpson porn cartoons on his computer. That is making a mockery of the legal system. The only thing these kinds of judgements do is dilute or perverse the law. After a while the law simply no longer works because of this. I'm sorry but I don't think that a guy who has a Bart & Lisa sex based
cartoon is the same thing as a guy who has pictures or videos of guys having sex with children.


Didn't we have a guy in BC who challenged the ruling that written kiddie porn was illegal, pat? I think a higher court agreed with him because no harm was done to any actual persons but that particular ruling might have been reversed as well in the meantime.

06-03-09  06:37pm - 5681 days #24
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Originally Posted by pat362:


Messmer you are a nutcase and I for one really appreciate it. Now I will have to look for another avatar that doesn't involve my sperm.
Afterall, I am a rather shy person.


I think you got me mixed up with Wittyguy, pat. I do plead guilty to the nutcase part, though. And I like it that way, it's a lot more fun than being sane!

And btw. re. brangelina, that's a desperation avatar and not a sign of my devotion to her. If anyone finds me a mature woman with nice clingy silky lingerie I'll use that one ... I had better stop before I get myself too worked up. LOL. Nice work Wittyguy!

06-03-09  09:19am - 5682 days #17
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Originally Posted by Denner:


Like some wiseguy said: I knew it...you'd miss us all in the long run.
Of course messmer iS back again....WELCOME!


Thanks, Denner. I missed you in the short run! :-)

06-02-09  07:56pm - 5682 days #14
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Originally Posted by badandy400:



It seems that the only thing we do not have in the forum is women, perhaps one day...



Aha .. maybe that's the answer. Without women no one has to try to be the alpha male and that keeps things civilized! :-)
Just kidding, just kidding.

06-02-09  07:53pm - 5682 days #15
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Originally Posted by PinkPanther:


Yep - that's my self-imposed rule - no reviews until I've been a member for at least a month - it's just too easy for first impressions to lead in a direction - pro or negative - that doesn't hold up over several weeks. Of course, some sites have a particularly good or bad month, but it's a reasonable time to wait to do a full review - not that I'm recommending it as something that ought to be a general rule, but it's one that I try to keep to.


Yep, I think it will be a reasonable personal rule to stick by, PinkPanther. I am currently subscribed to a site I was highly enthused about at first but now I am finding hidden flaws that were not readily apparent during the first week or so and they would definitely knock the site down by at least five points. And I'm with you when it comes to making our method a general rule. May each do it in his own way.

06-02-09  06:27pm - 5682 days #40
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I had the same problem with a webmaster recently who refused to zip his pictures for fear of piracy.

But non-zipped picture sets are not half as bad as un-downloadable videos, so, no way would I subscribe to a streaming only site, even if it was full of lingerie loving MILFs in their fifties, which happens to be my favorite niche. :-) The WM is plain wrong in his predictions: streaming only is a sure fire way to Porn site obscurity and eventual death for lack of subscribers.

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