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| 07-21-08 10:51pm - 5997 days | #6 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I think it is largely due to the site's excellent administrators, but also in part to the fact that porn is designed just to make people happy. Sure, everybody has different tastes, but unlike Football forums or even comic book forums, there are less sides to take on a subject. Fortunately we have avoided people just being nasty because they are anonymous. On the other hand, in some ways, I think the forum goes through stagnant periods because everybody ends up saying things like "oh yeah, she is really hot too!". Only so many times one can chime in on how attractive a particular model's ass is. "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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| 07-21-08 10:36pm - 5997 days | #11 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Good call - I had forgotten about the auto play feature. I actually have had that deny access to the drive if it went ignored - frustrated the hell out of me until I figured out the problem. Oddly I've only run across the problem when uploading photos from my DSLR. "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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| 07-21-08 01:50pm - 5998 days | #8 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Under the assumption that you are using Windows XP - it is quite easy. Obviously the drive needs to be connected and responding to the computer, but the next step is to pop over to the Administrative Tools in the Control Panel. That'll pop up a new batch of icons. The one you want is called Computer Management. Computer Management is its own little program with an old file explorer style layout. The organizational tree on the left as three main categories, you want Storage. That branch expands to a further three items - and the one you want is Disk Management. Disk Management will take a sec to load. The top half will list all active disks (including attached externals) with information about the file systems, capacity, et cetera. The bottom half will show the comparative sizes of the drives, including all attached external drives. You can then just right click on bar graph for that disk and tell it to reformat. Good Luck! "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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| 07-21-08 01:37pm - 5998 days | #7 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
You should see not only a speed increase, but a stability increase as well - I've had a lot less file degradation with NTFS. Best of luck! Formatting drives is always such a time consuming process :-P "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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| 07-21-08 01:35pm - 5998 days | #48 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Fit Fannies - I think that sums it up nicely :-) I'm also a fan of alliteration, even if it does cause the utterance of long sighs and groans among the collective. "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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| 07-21-08 11:46am - 5998 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha - sorry for my absence :-) I generally don't check PU on the weekends due to other activities and as crazy as it seems, I've been sort of running out of things to say in the forum - perhaps I need to come up with some new topics myself, rather than sitting in the eves and waiting for a new thread in need of one of my typical e-novels. I'll admit I've been putting off doing reviews because they are so bloody time-consuming, but perhaps I'll set aside a few hours and put up one or two tonight. I'll try to chime in more readily - after all, I haven't broken 200 posts yet! "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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| 07-21-08 11:41am - 5998 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
A very true observation - I recently bought a 500GB External and was shocked to see that it was in FAT32. I was planning on reformatting it anyway - just to make sure the drive was working - but NTFS is so much superior to FAT32 that you'd have to be crazy not to use it if you've got Windows XP or higher. "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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| 07-17-08 09:50am - 6002 days | #49 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Thanks for that link - it is pretty interesting and while they are relying on self reporting sources it should still be a pretty good indicator of trends. There are some contradictions in their reports though - for example - they said that 9.4 mil women visit porn sites each month and that 33% of porn site visitors are women but they just stated that 40 mil adults regularly visit porn sites - making that number closer to 25%. The other thing that is somewhat deceiving is that they state that 70% is the percentage of women that keep their cyber activities secret. That just means that 70% of the women that surf porn don't actively tell people that they surf porn - rather than 70% of women are surfing porn. My guess is we'll have to wait for a massive online study like that cellphone tracking study in Europe that was released earlier this year to really nail down some of these topics. Of course that requires a lot money so until Google or another giant decides it is important we'll have to make do with the info that is available. "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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| 06-25-08 05:54pm - 6023 days | #34 | ||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Very true. I suppose it is too much to expect the stigma of pornography to be washed away from the public psyche as swiftly as its popularity has risen with advent of an the internet. One can dream. America has a history of puritanism that is still very well rooted. I'd just like people to recognize that pornography should fall within our constitutional freedoms and that obscenity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The people should not governed by laws of opinion, especially opinions of the minority. Though, in the end minority rule is to be expected. Piet Hein really said it best:
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| 06-25-08 01:34pm - 6024 days | #17 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The site is working, I just logged in to make sure. They have a FAQ page about login issues here: http://www.allover30.com/faq/#login Try checking your email from the billing provider with the user name and password and copy and paste those from the email directly into the browser when logging in. The inputs are case sensitive so if you accidentally pressed "Shift" when typing in the password (or user name), that could be your problem (or if "Caps Lock" was on). If you used CCBill, I'd recommend contacting them and having them help you reset your password if you still can't get the login to work. "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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| 06-25-08 08:45am - 6024 days | #31 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Not Ray Guhn!! Aww, stupid Florida attacking porn. I seriously don't understand why they are choosing to go after well established porn websites. If you setup Net Nanny, or whatever content filtering software you choose, your kids won't be seeing any porn online. If you are an adult and you run across these sites, more likely than not - you were looking for the sites, to a certain degree. "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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| 06-25-08 08:35am - 6024 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Some Japanese content targets the model's whole body, but I haven't run across any sites aiming solely for the breasts. Generally the intent of Bukkake is to perform a very augmented facial. If I run across a site with the specifications you are looking for I'll make a note of it here. "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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| 06-23-08 01:09pm - 6026 days | #6 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Looks A-OK :-) "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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| 06-23-08 09:29am - 6026 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'll second that, Firefox 3 must be handling something differently. IE doesn't have the problem and Firefox 2 didn't either. I'm running XP, so Vista isn't the culprit in this case. "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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| 06-16-08 12:29pm - 6033 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
A 40 Gigabyte monthly limit? Are they insane? I would burn through that in a few weeks with my Netflix Watch Instantly usage alone. Hell, all of those Youtube addicts out there could burn through the basic level 5 gigabyte limit in days. That is a terrible idea. I don't care if some Grandmother gets a slightly slower connection for her weekly email check, those of us that actually use the service shouldn't be punished because of a bit of a slowdown for the other users that don't fully understand what this "interweb" is about. If cable puts in this download limit, I'll switch back to DSL. It is as simple as that. "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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| 06-09-08 08:49pm - 6039 days | #36 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
At first I thought it was related to the Gonads & Strife video but then I realized that was a squirrel. For those uninitiated in the worship of Gonads & Strife, see the video here: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee "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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| 06-09-08 05:16pm - 6039 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Try increasing your screen resolution so that it is above or equal to the native resolution of the video you are watching. Often video players do well at upsizing video, but have trouble downsizing it. Also - I'd highly recommend upgrading to WMP10 - it is vastly superior. You may also want to shop around with the various free players that are available. DivX player or BS Player are both reasonable choices and may handle the playback a bit better. "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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| 06-09-08 02:58pm - 6040 days | #16 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Sweet - Thanks! I am greatly honored to be a member of the order and will continue my dedication to the passive protection of Water Buffalo via the use of vigilant, emphatic and bedizened written word, words or even sentences. I'll also gladly accept "beatification" by the Pope - though I was hoping it was a typo and is instead "beastification". This of course meaning that the Pope's otherworldly powers due to his function as a direct conduit used by the Almighty would allow him to grant me immortality via the condition of modified lycanthropy so I could become a Werebison. Much the abilities of a werewolf with the exception of carnivorism and addition of the tendency to travel with herds. While I must confess that I have almost no knowledge of Clay Aiken - I'm sure his fan club sites will provide plentiful entertainment for at least 10 or possibly even 15 minutes. Entertainment is always something I seek - be it imagery, movement or written form. So again thank you! Bless ALF for his wayward ways! "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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| 06-09-08 10:05am - 6040 days | #9 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Thanks, I'd rather be traveling to Montreal anyway, it is my favorite of the Canadian cities I've visited (Including Ottawa, Quebec, Hamilton and of course Niagra Falls with its silly tourism). Very Euro in many ways :-) Toronto is nice as well, but seems much more business oriented. Somebody said that in many cities people live to work and Montreal people work to live. I like that, apparently much of Italy and France also share that philosophy. "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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| 06-06-08 09:55am - 6043 days | #17 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Jesus. That's crazy - I didn't think they'd ever convict him - I thought it was all publicity on the part of the "moral majority" types hoping to scare porn companies out of business. I don't understand why they would pick on him - he panders to a pretty secluded market. It isn't like you are just going to trip across his products in a normal store. I don't understand these morality driven attacks on porn when violence goes completely unchecked. I just watched Rambo IV - which was entertaining in sort of the same way that a car crash is - but that happily got an R rating despite more dismemberment than you could shake a stick at. They killed off children, dogs and water buffalo (yes - water buffalo!) on screen, but Max Hardcore faces jail time for rough sex, how does that make sense? "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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| 06-05-08 09:30am - 6044 days | #24 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I gotta say - despite being in the age range you mentioned - I'm a bit perplexed by the shaved phenomena. I grew up with 80's porn - that was what was accessible to me. So trimmed or hairy was what was in vogue in the 80's and early 90's. Then it is as though a switch was flipped and now one has to go on a safari expedition to find hairy girls - especially if you want them to still have that professional model look. I suppose that is one of the reasons I admire Eastern European models - they don't believe shaving is always a requirement for the job. Trimmed models are very common. I suppose it is all fashion. Hair ruled porn for a 100 years - but I hope it comes back again soon. "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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| 06-04-08 04:23pm - 6045 days | #21 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
ALS Scan appears to aim more for the natural bodied teens look - but if you are interested in the toys and lesbian aspect of the site - Simon Scans does a very similar thing. They feature a wider range of body types and do have hairy models as well - though they admit that they prefer shaved and usually try to get the model back for another shoot in shaved form. I apologize if this a repeat - I can't always remember to whom I've recommended what sites. "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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| 06-04-08 04:17pm - 6045 days | #37 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Thanks :-) My family is rather verbose, so I grew up speaking this way. Language is fun to play with - I just wish I was even remotely competent in another language. I'm your typical American: Unilingual :-P Also, that was a good point you mentioned: Softcore should be extolled as well! "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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| 06-04-08 04:12pm - 6045 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Ha ha - blasted, nosy helicopters! "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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| 06-04-08 02:11pm - 6045 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I was planning on attending the major AVN sponsored porn convention in Las Vegas as it is very close in time to CES - but apparently it has been tamed due to complaints, so that it is more of an industry event and less of a spectacle. I also decided to skip CES and went to CeBit instead, which was mega impressive - so I think that was the right choice. I live close to Montreal and Toronto (say 3 hours) and I've heard rumors that they have some interesting conventions that are pretty uncensored and flamboyant, but I've been unsuccessful in finding their website or anything. Can't say I've lost any sleep over it - but I thought it would be a fun weekend trip. If anyone knows about conventions in the eastern Canadian area - I'd love for some tips. "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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| 06-03-08 09:06pm - 6045 days | #23 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
One more thing: People please post with a little bit less aggression. I know people tend to get defensive but this is a very good opportunity to discuss all aspects of DRM. Many of us users are against it to an almost hysterical extreme - as though it is some rite of passage into porndom that we must shun DRM and don't really back up that hatred with rational thinking of any sort. I understand that it is a pain-in-the-ass at times, but the subtext of some of these posts is just a chorus of "fuck you" repeated over and over. I have to say that splatnet has some pretty honking balls to come on to this forum and post the thread like he did. Yes, some of his posts have had the same subtextual chorus, but the man deserves respect for being open to discussing the topic and asking for alternatives to the dreaded DRM. So a cease fire on the less than subtle attacks would be sweet. Everybody is aware that DRM isn't loved - let us instead help the industry shake off DRM's shackles and make money in ways that we can all be happy with. To peace, love and hardcore pornography. It's what we are here for. P.S. This isn't in response to Drooler's previous post. "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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| 06-03-08 08:55pm - 6045 days | #21 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Despite the inconvenience of DRM - I would say that would be an acceptable and very reasonable solution. I might even go so far as to say a smart solution if one was set on staying with DRM for the time being. The smartness would be it would regularly remind the user that they still have an account with the site. Though the account is in a passive mode, they could be able to log on to the site, and resubscribe to reactivate the account at anytime and thus keep their old username and password and so on. (I'm one of those odd users to which this matters and have complained to sites when I had to sign up as Toadsith3 or 4 or so on... ::cough:: GGG ::cough::) I know the majority feeling is that DRM is a big pain in the ass and so on, but if it still worked post expiration of the membership, I think it is operating basically the same as any other downloaded material. I hardly think any serious porn user would be terminating their ISP connection anytime soon, so I honestly can't fault that idea at all. Sure, it might be a slight annoyance to occasionally log in when viewing a video - but that really is nit picking in my opinion. I still think that DRM isn't the best investment for a company, despite understanding the drive behind the investment. As Rick said - I too have watched many large sites try and then abandon DRM. I am one of the few users that doesn't shy away from it - but that is largely because I can get around it if I care to - but I'd be lying if I didn't stay my purchasing hand a bit. If I were in your shoes, I'd buy a gun, buy a man shaped target, write "Porn Thieves" on it and shoot the bloody hell out of it. Then I'd go and spend every waking our tweaking the preview and member pages, working on categorization and advanced searches and lists for my users. Integrate a user a forum and try to get the models involved with it. Work to get respectable scores from all the major review sites and work on search engine optimization to increase my Google ranking. Actually, if I had the money, I'd hire a specialist in Internet Marketing and focus on getting new content up. Fast, regular updates with an obsession in maintaining quality. These are just a few of the things that I'd focus on, but honestly - I've seen the effect proper marketing can have on a site and I can't help but believe it would be money better spent than fighting off some thieves. Granted my knowledge and experience with the business side of the internet is with a rather different market (computer hardware) but I believe parallels can be drawn to a certain degree. I don't think anyone here is implying your job is easy or that your content theft problem isn't real. They simply believe that DRM isn't the best solution. Sort of like download limits - those too are becoming a thing of the past. I hope if you stick with DRM that you try the lifelong membership idea. I also hope you honestly consider increasing advertising as a attack against content theft. I noticed Khan has many years of experience in running adult websites. As I know he reads all of these posts, I hope he'll chime in with his opinions on DRM and perhaps some suggestions on alternatives. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Jun 04, 2008, 02:12pm (Toadsith: Misspelled Khan's name, whoops - you'd think I'd be able to spell it what with Star Trek II and all...) | |
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| 06-03-08 03:07pm - 6046 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Hi splatnet and welcome to the forum - it is always good to see webmasters interacting with the community and putting forth their side of the issue on such hot topics as this. DRM has been discussed before and while I'm not a proponent of it - I understand why some producers choose it as way to maintain control of their content. As a reminder to all, Porn Users has stated that it is against their policies to describe methods of circumventing DRM protection - so we won't be discussing that here. The major problem with DRM in the eyes of us serious porn enthusiasts is that we like to keep an Archive of the content that we've downloaded over the years. In the same way that other people buy and stock pile DVDs or Magazines. All of us collections totaling in the hundreds of gigs, hell, some of us have archives that rival the capacity of the DoD's servers. So when you are an animal of habit, as most of us are, and always download and catalog favorite scenes into said archive, it is a shock to the system to realize that those downloaded files will be useless if we decide to cancel our membership. Most of us have to budget our porn intake as it can be a pretty pricey habit - I spend more on porn than I pay my ISP - or my electric bill for that matter. So we can't maintain a constant membership to every site that offers content we like - so we must pick and choose. By quitting a site, we give up the opportunity of seeing any new content that site is posting - but can be comforted in the fact that we still have older content archived. You mention Tube sites - but any self-respecting porn connoisseur doesn't use these services other than for research - as the quality is terrible. Yes, full quality content can be transfered via Torrents - but I'd say a good 60% of porn I've attempted to acquire via that method was virus ridden - so it is a dangerous method. Not to mention the legal risks with the MPAA's attorneys hunting around that area. I understand that you worry about people stealing your content - that is a definite risk of allowing users to download your content DRM free, but you also have to realize that you'll be alienating the serious customers that will return again and again to keep getting the newest content. (Or if they have bad luck and their archive HDD dies... ::cough::) I keep a folder of sites listed for returning, I can't afford to keep them running - but I visit them each around once a year. I want to draw attention to one specific part of your argument:
I have a very simple and direct solution: Don't do trial memberships. Many top sites don't. Instead they simply put a great deal of effort in providing a constantly updating preview section that is informative, interesting and provides full resolution samples of their content. Trial memberships are crazy. Medium to small sites can easily be downloaded in three days with a download manager. If your content is worth a month (or more) of membership time - prove it with a stellar preview page. People visit those pages and they do work - I can't even begin to count the amount of sites I've joined just because its preview page won me over. I think DRM will eventually be embraced in the form of streaming video. Streaming video will become the norm in the near future - it is almost there already. At the rate that ISPs are increasing their speeds, streaming video will be running 1080p HD (or better) before we'll know it. At that point, us pack rats will be out dated and our archives will be silly wastes of resources. However, until streaming video rivals the performance of downloaded video - the DRM dislike will continue. Us pack rats don't like having porn simply lended to us. "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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| 06-03-08 12:20am - 6046 days | #12 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Again I must stress that it has been a while since I was a member (read that as a few years) but at that time, and from the reviews I've read of recent - I believe it to still be sorted by photographer and by model but with no particular interest in fulfilling any niche per say. You may want to go ahead with that comment though, as I'm certain there are current members among the Porn Users community that can give you a direct answer. "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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| 06-02-08 04:23pm - 6047 days | #10 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
MET Art will definitely set you up with a plethora of models and photographers to choose from - and you will find some exceptional examples of both. But do note that sexually explicit photography is pretty minimal - the models aren't usually all that shy, but they are generally just posing and not fiddling around with the naughty bits. Also, many of the models are close to exclusive with the photographers they are with - rarely do you see a model shot by lots of different people. Due note that it has been a while since I've been a member, but MET has some pretty strong principles, so I doubt too much has changed. "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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| 06-02-08 12:50am - 6047 days | #6 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Indeed I have noticed that Sean R.'s more recent stuff previewed on ATK has appeared much more palatable with the harshness toned down and the lighting becoming warmer. I admit, over saturation is wildly prevalent in porn photography - Photoshop is definitely to blame for making adjustment of saturation so easy. But I'm a bit surprised that you mentioned liking Abby Winters - as while that site has very good color, they tend to do a lot of outdoors photography or near natural light photography (say only on umbrella on low power to avoid extreme shadows) and so often have quite warm color tones in their photos. Not unreasonably so, but certainly if I had to place them on a chart, it would be with the normal reds and such - I can think of a few exceptions, but I'm not entirely sure those were intentional. They are good about trying to keep things well in focus though. Even if they like to play around with the depth of field. I think Sean R., on the other hand, used to just drag in a few hundred stadium lights and then shoot through a hole the size of a common bacteria. I swear I could pick out the model number on the electrical wiring that happened to be in the background on some sets. Anyway, it sounds like you might not be looking for cool tones per say, but just good photography. That is much less prevalent than people will lead you to believe. "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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| 06-02-08 12:35am - 6047 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Probably the most secure way would be to put your porn on an external drive that you could simply unplug and put in a lockable enclosure (like a filing cabinet drawer) when you were going to be away. That way you don't have the complications and slow down of encrypting data. Complications being the unfortunate incident of losing your password somehow or a minor hard drive error destroying an entire encrypted archive (if your encryption program works on batches rather than single files). If you are worried about lists of what you've been looking at on the drive showing up in the recently opened documents section of the XP (assuming you are using that OS) start menu, just do the following: Right Click on the task bar and select "Properties". Select the "Start Menu" tab, and click the "Customize" button. Select the "Advanced" tab and then uncheck the check box next to "List my most recently opened documents" and then click the "Clear List" button. Click the "OK" button on that window and then again on the previous window and you should be safe from that problem. As for bookmarks and cookies, there are ways to hide that - you can put a separate instance of Firefox on a removable flash drive and only browse porn via that. That method keeps the host computer free of any trace of your activities what so ever. Many a guide for doing this can be found via Google, but here is one I found quickly that seemed reasonable enough: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=472692 If you feel like going all out, you can view your porn through an encrypted data stream certified and used by the US Department of Defense. The IronKey - they take portable data security to the extreme with a plethora of software and hardware protection - to the extent that the drive will self destruct if attempts to hack it are made. They sell with it a one year subscription to their secure data stream service. It is total overkill for most people, but I'm sure would serve your needs just fine. Check them out at: http://www.ironkey.com/ "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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| 06-02-08 12:15am - 6047 days | #32 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
It sounds like you want an online "National Audubon Society Field Guide to Porn Starlets: Newcomers". Being a website it could offer more than a few descriptive photos but the full video, text and photo galleries you request. It would be an interesting exercise and one that I think could team up with my interest in doing Discovery Channel / Animal Planet style narration of video of human behavior - which certainly could also include porn. The whole thing could take a rather detached approach to the presentation of porn stars, human sexuality and so on. Of course you would end up with something that is less directly porn and more a form of satirical art piece. Many sites try to blend the line between art and porn - this might have the ability to do it while including hardcore sex. To succeed, it would have to be done properly, no skimping. It would need a good bit of financial backing to film and photograph each starlet for such an extended period of time. There would also have to be a lot of setup shots, post production work and so on. This definitely wouldn't be a matter of editing a video and popping it online. Much work would have to be done for each addition to the library. Despite the presentation of the detached researcher, you could still have some fun, like capturing and tagging of each week's specimen. Everything captured through the lens of the face-less observers... I just need the money to finance these projects. ::sigh:: "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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| 06-01-08 11:41pm - 6047 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The exchange rate issue is a very real issue that many sites ignore and I think they don't realize how much it hinders business with European customers. You aren't the first person to address this issue, yet numerous sites keep treating the Euro and the Dollar as if they are at the same rate. Most of the really big sites have become aware of the problem and taken steps to adjust for it. On those sites, they'll originally present the price in USD and you can select a different denomination and get the current conversion rate. The numeric value isn't going to be a nice simple number, but it is fair. Hopefully more webmasters will realize this needs to be done and make the appropriate adjustments. "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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| 05-30-08 11:40am - 6050 days | #17 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Ha ha, "interesting" like the old Chinese curse? ("May your life be interesting." for those who haven't run across it before.) "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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| 05-30-08 11:38am - 6050 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Soft and crisp don't need to be tied to color tone. It is just a matter of aperture size when photographing the scene. If you open the aperture wide, you'll get a very narrow focus field, blurring out backgrounds and so on - close it down and everything will be in focus. It is an aesthetic choice. I prefer wide apertures for portraits and outdoors photography and medium to small apertures for everything else - leaning more towards crispness at most times. Warm colors versus cool colors is any easy choice - humans are largely red based, so a cool color tones (blues) generally don't work well making the images just look washed out and unhealthy. It can work well if you are doing the goth look and want your subject to look like a vampire, especially if your subject already has naturally pale skin. Now granted sites often go a bit overboard on the warm colors - and everything looks like a shade of yellow or red - but generally, a slightly warm color set is much more flattering to humans. So finding photographers that intentionally aim for cool color tones in standard nude photography sytle like ATK Galleria is going to be pretty hard. I know Sean R. at ATK Natural & Hairy used to do that and also aimed for extraordinarily crisp looking photos - but it laid such a harshness on the photos that they looked less like porn and more like crime scene photography. "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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| 05-29-08 07:58pm - 6050 days | #15 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I do enjoy Canadian late night television. Hell, even in the normal evening news I see major differences - up way north in New York you can receive both Canadian stations and US stations - there was a day a few years back that a number of feminists decided to stage a number of protests revolving around how men could wander around topless in parks but not women. So an upstate park had about 20 or 30 topless women protesting with signs and singing and such. The US stations showed bare backs from very low angles and other very careful shots to avoid any footage of bare breasts. The Canadian stations were exactly opposite and even interviewed the women with the naked breasts front and center on the screen - it was really amusing to switch back and forth between the stations. "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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| 05-29-08 07:53pm - 6050 days | #14 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Well in the US there is absolutely no doubt that the director would be prosecuted and most likely sentenced to jail time - certainly he/she would end up with a record. The US is still quite conservative about such things and has some very fierce sexual offender laws. For example, in New York State a sex offender can be convicted of a crime - say rape - and serve their prison sentence. Then, they can be pulled back into court and if deemed dangerous by the judge and jury the can be sent to a Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP). There are several medium security facilities placed around the state that are classified as hospitals so they are governed by the Office of Mental Health rather than the State Correctional System. The prisoners, now called patients, can be held there indefinitely until doctors deem that they are healthy enough to return to society - and that may still be in small, careful steps, like group homes and then state run apartments and so on. The courts tend to rule in favor of more treatment, but not always - still, the US is not a place to edge the law. You have to be heavily certified to legal carry anything deemed as child pornography in most states - I think there are less than 100 people in New York State (that number might be off, but that is what my memory says). In case people are curious, the only reason I know most of this information is that I'm friends with someone who is a top administrator at of one of New York's SOTP facilities. So, yeah - be careful with what you dload and keep on your hard drive if you are in the US. Even the cartoon stuff can be prosecuted on - though it is vastly safer. Anyway - teen sex is pretty high - as it has been for a while, so teen celebrities photograph themselves naked or get pregnant - not a huge surprise. They are still stupid kids - sometimes very fucked up in the head because of the insane lifestyle, but they are still kids and so they'll do stupid kid things like that. People seem to forget that kids are legally minors until they are 18 because they do stupid stuff and need leniency because of it. I don't understand why people think it is OK to try a 14 year old as an adult - sure I might have technically know right from wrong at that age, but I can't say had the life experience to make judgments as well as I do now. I'm sure I'll be even better in 20 years - and then in another 50 years my judgments might start going all to hell again - but that's life. "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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| 05-29-08 05:38pm - 6050 days | #11 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Indeed this little game is best suited for the more gimmicky pet names - those that enjoy giving pets "people" names just have to shrug and move along. Or lie. That's always a good option. "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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| 05-29-08 05:35pm - 6050 days | #10 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Oh - this is just one of those so-called "Ice Breakers" often used at company events, college dorms and such. It is just an amusing way for people to all be part of a harmless, but ultimately off color joke and laugh about it. I have a particular fascination with sabotaging Ice Breakers. My favorite is the one where each person has to say they "hate (or love) cleaning because" and insert a reason. On that instance, I stated that "I love cleaning because I wear rubber gloves and work hard and long at it." Then the leader tells everyone to state that they "hate (or love) sex because" and give the same reason. There was a bit of an uproar when people realized what that statement was going to become. Good stuff. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on May 29, 2008, 05:59pm (Toadsith: Sentence order.) | |
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| 05-29-08 05:29pm - 6050 days | #9 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Sounds like that is one of those "oh dear" and "time for a talk" moments that most children encounter with gold fish or turtles. I generally finish the speech with "You didn't really kill [insert pet's name], it simply hated you and how you've changed its life so it took its own life, all be it in an inventive fashion. Myself and the rest of your friends and family are hanging on by a thread. So be very good from now on or you will end up alone. So very, very alone." Ah - "Twinkie Chestnut", I agree, that sort of digs you further into that side of the industry. Well, they've always said its easier for men to join gay porn. "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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| 05-28-08 11:49pm - 6051 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Ah yes, Chows are much like Wookies, always let the Chow-Chow win. "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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| 05-28-08 05:05pm - 6051 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I must ask: What poor creature was adorned the moniker of "Twinkie"? "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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| 05-28-08 05:04pm - 6051 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Mine simply sounds like a supporting character of a 60's TV sitcom- "Barney Lennon". Definitely not a good porn star in the classical sense - might be deemed memorable though, just for its lack of porn-ness. A variant of this same game, the way I was introduced to it, was to use the street you grew up on as your Porn Star last name. This unfortunately shifts my Porn Star name from '60's Sitcom to 60's Cartoon as it becomes "Barney Walnut". "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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| 05-27-08 07:17pm - 6052 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha - yeah, "Embrace" is one of the films that came to mind. Ah, gotta love America's little sweethearts growing up and stripping down for the camera. Still waiting on those Olsen Twins. Then again some stars never bothered making people wait (Brooke Shields anyone?). "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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| 05-27-08 04:21pm - 6053 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
With cannons, don't forget the cannons. Of course, since this is all promotion for Porn Users, don't we get naked cheerlearders as well? Maybe they could be extra specialized - like an all nude review variant of the Andrew Sisters, with close harmony singing and the like. Let's call them the Boogie Woogie Busty Babes of Company Double D. "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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| 05-27-08 12:40pm - 6053 days | #10 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Black mailing organizations with threats of invading their air space - I like your paradigm-breaking thinking! Also, what is stop us from Airship related piracy? A crew of rowdy PU riffraff would be perfect to board and pillage those scalawags with their namby pamby lesser airships, mucking about over stadiums and the like. "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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| 05-27-08 11:39am - 6053 days | #33 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I always found Sponge Bob quite disturbing... Sort of like R. Crumb was told to create a children's series about a sponge and under-the-sea life. "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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| 05-26-08 09:29pm - 6053 days | #8 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That reminds me of the MAKE 7 UP YOURS t-shirts from back when Orlando Jones was their spokesman. In all seriousness - I would indeed love to see some shirts advertising the site in an ambiguous and mysterious fashion. An extension of the porn users graphic perhaps. Something that is interesting enough to spark a conversation but not explicit enough to make people run in the other direction. "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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| 05-26-08 09:25pm - 6053 days | #7 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'll gladly accept the posting! I think it would be fitting for the PU Airship to be the first airship to successfully mate with the Empire State Building in NYC - cross winds and drafts be damned! "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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