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04-25-08  11:39pm - 6084 days #7
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Ok, as Wittyguy accurately predicted, this is going to be a long one from me...again. Lets start with my Porn Users Cheat Sheet (PU Cheat Sheet.txt to be precise):

Originally Posted by Porn Users Cheat Sheet:


VIDEO CONTENT
* Previews / Trailers?
* Screenshots?
* High Res. Video Format?
* DRM?
* Video Resolution?
* Video Bit Rate?
* Watermarks?
* Video Quality? (Crisp or Fuzzy)
* Number of Videos?
* Update Rate?
* Full Length Videos?
* Avg. Video Length?
* Video Available in Sections?
* Download Managers?
* Download Speeds?

PHOTO CONTENT
* Photo Resolution?
* Watermarks?
* Photo Quality?
* Zip Files?
* Number of Sets?
* Update Rate?
* Matched to Video?

SITE DESIGN
* Search Engine?
o Search by Body?
o Search by Action?
o Search by Model Name?

* Simple Design?
* Browsing Categories?
* Extra Features?

MODELS / CONTENT
* Exclusive?
* Originality?
* Models Attractiveness?
* Amateur / Professional?
* Good Angles?
* Good Lighting?

EXTRAS
* Bonus Sites?


Formatting Note: I've bolded key words to make skimming this article easier.

I have this little document open during the review writing process to make sure I don't forget any site facts or opinion pieces that should be included. It is a catch-all of sorts, not all sites have answers for each bit, but it pretty much covers every site I've run across. I've modified it quite a bit over the past few months, this is probably revision 4 or so.

Now, one has to take into account that I'm a bit fanatical about information acquisition for a review - I literally count every single video to give a precise number so people can see the site's progression while reading through all the reviews (32 videos in '07, 83 in March of '08, and so on). If the site is video focused, and it is a pain-in-the-ass to count the photo sets, I sometimes guesstimate that figure. Of course if the reverse is true, then my actions would be reversed.

Lets get some chapters going here...


Video Content

As you see above, this is the most specification heavy chapter of a review. There is so much data you potentially can collect here. The question of course is: Should you?

Largely personal preference of the reviewer - so my preferences weigh heavily on the organization of the cheat sheet in this arena. The main governing preference here is quality. I always download the highest quality content the site offers, no exceptions. This means that I do not report on the low quality content. I give the maximum video resolutions. I'll only list multiple resolutions if the contents max. resolutions vary throughout the site. The same goes for photos - maximum resolutions only.

I personally loathe split video files and would never download them when given the option of a full-length single file, so I don't report on them unless they are the only available option. The same goes for the silly mobile phone and iPod friendly videos. I'm quite curious as to who is gleefully downloading these videos and watching them on the bus-ride to work - in the US, at least, you could get arrested for such activity (as silly as that law is).

How a user decides to download content is a very important aspect of the website experience, so reporting on video previews and screenshots can be quite useful - some sites let you go on the faith of your knowledge of the listed performers, a single photo and a title. That is a long stretch from the downloading confidence one gets from sites like 21 Sextury.com or Brazzers Network that provide full, edited video previews of every scene. The user is usually investing at least 10 or 20 minutes in downloading a full scene, so knowing approximately what that scene includes is rather crucial to avoiding Downloader's Remorse. (Cheesy, I know, as usual I couldn't help myself.)

The average video length is a guesstimation again - no need to setup a spreadsheet and run the numbers - it just helps potential members get a feel for what their money will be getting them.

Video Quality is entirely subjective, but sometimes the raw figures don't tell the truth. All Internal is a perfect example - their video specs are off the charts amazing. Unfortunately they can't yet afford proper HD video equipment that will get the razor edge crispness that the specs promise. Surprisingly (almost somewhat disturbingly) Ghetto Gaggers and its sister sites are using this technology and are phenomenally sharp.

Two very easy questions to answer in every review are: DRM? and Watermarks? A simple yes or no, will suffice. Don't forget that Porn Users doesn't want us discussing ways to circumvent DRM, so don't waste space on that. Also, for any user that doesn't know the term "watermark" this is simply referring to the application of a website logo over the video (or photo) to brand it and protect against copyright infringement. Sadly most sites do this.

Judging the update rate for a site's content can be rather difficult at times. In the past I have achieved it by simply making a note of it each time I saw a new video posted or checking the dates on the files on my hard drive so I could see when I downloaded them. Ideally the site will list this, or even advertise how frequently they update and stick to it come hell or high water.

Download Mangers - any hardcore porn user is going to already know the pain of living in one of the circles of Hell if they try to acquire content without a download manager. Tedious doesn't even begin to describe it. These days nearly every site can use a download manager of one form or another. Many sites use some form of CAPTCHA-style challenge-response test to keep bots from entering their site. Browser integrated download managers bypass this problem easily.

So when it comes to discussing a site's compatibility with download managers it usually comes down to the question of Download Acceleration. Again, for users that don't know about this, allow me to explain. For most broadband users... I write my reviews with only broadband users in mind, I feel for you dial-up users, I really do. I was there for many years, but I mean come on, get satellite if nothing else is available. Let the hungry mouths starve, porn is more important. But I digress. For most broadband users the download speed bottleneck is not on their ISP's end but rather at the starting gate with the provider's server. The server can be configured to allow only so much bandwidth per connection to it. So download accelerators, the sneaky, little fiends they are, will connect to the server multiple times and request different parts of the file. As each connection gets that set download speed, you are effectively downloading the file at a multiple of however many connections the accelerator has made. Now the servers have become wise to this and will limit the number of connections one IP can make, sometimes as low as one - which means download accelerators won't work, or worse, can even cause the server to deactivate your account temporarily. I generally will say yes or no to download managers and acceleration with perhaps a little note telling readers how many connections they can make.

Download Speeds is a relatively new addition to the Cheat Sheet and I'm not entirely sure how useful it is to the reader as it is dependent on how much acceleration the site allows, the site's server speed, the amount of internet traffic at the times I'm downloading and my ISP. That is a boat load of variables, but my manger gives me that number when it is downloading, so it easy to collect and I pop an approximation into the review text anyway.

Yowza, that's about it for Videos... moving on!


Photo Content
Photo Resolution is quite easy to determine - load up one of the large size photos on the site, right click on it and hit properties. Almost any browser will give you the pixel dimensions right there. I don't bother with explaining how many or what percentage are landscape or portrait oriented.

The Photo Quality is another subjective, gray-area type subject. Some sites feature scanned content, either due to older photos or simply strange photographers - this can cause for low quality photos - washed out colors, dust, scratches and so on. However, the biggest culprit for bad quality photos is excessive compression on JPEG images (by far and above the dominate photo file format on the internet). Unlike its older sibling, BitMap - JPEG has the capability to be compressed - limiting the number of colors or using a data saving visual trick known as "dithering".

Rather than providing the exact color, Dithering limits the color pallet and intermixes two close approximations of the color (one on either side of the correct color on the color wheel) and thus giving the illusion of the correct color. JPEG Dithering is annoying as hell when it becomes strikingly apparent - it shows up most as sort of speckled noise at the edges of two very different colors. For example a nude model standing in front of a blue curtain - you would see this strange jagged halo around the edge of the body as the image software was trying to accommodate the extreme color gradient while using as few colors as possible. The higher the compression, the chunkier and noisier the photo will look.

Photo Quality does not apply to the technical skill of the photographer, it simply is to address how well the original photo is presented to the end user.

Watermarks, Zip Files and Matched to Video are this section's easy Yes / No answers. For the definition of watermarks please see the Video Content section. Frankly every site that has even small sets of photos should provide zip files for each set so the user doesn't have to spend their life clicking away at each photo to get it on their hard drive. Sadly a surprising number don't provide that feature. I never select exactly what photos I want so I don't usually report if the site lets you do custom zips. I sort of see that like buying a music CD and burning only the tracks I like immediately - if I respected the artist enough to buy the album, I should listen to those other tracks as well because they probably know something I don't. On a couple of Tom Waits CDs I own - some of the tracks I absolutely hated at first are now my favorites.

Matched to Video simply means, does the video scene have a complimentary photo set that shows exactly or approximately the same content. DDF Productions appears to do two shoots in a row, one for the video and one for the photo - but the content is nearly the same for each so I would call that a matched photo set.

Unfortunately some sites don't let you browse their photo sets easily, so finding the number of sets can be difficult. You might have to click on each scene and then check if it has a link to the photos. If that is the case, either guesstimate it or just explain that there are some photo sets. If you can provide an exact figure, that is even better.

As discussed in the Video Content section above, the update rate can be difficult to determine. You can use the same tactics I mentioned before, but hopefully the site will list the updates for you.


Site Design
If you had to leave one category out, this would probably be it. However, as a professional webmaster, graphics artist and web designer - this matters a bit to me. So in that spirit, lets talk about simple design. Ideally a site should be instantly navigable - no learning curve what so ever. The only sites that can get away with that are fashion and art sites that have to be breathtakingly trendy and innovative. So if you had to hunt around to find the model director a nice NO can be the answer here. I could go on and on about my opinions on how sites should and shouldn't be laid out, but this is about the review, not building a site.

It is rather impossible to navigate any sizeable site without some form of browsing categories - the most common is a simple model directory with the models listed in alphabetical order. However even today you will run across site missing this - like Nasty Makeup and its sister sites in the ATX Network.

The perfect Search Engine really is my Holy Grail; so few sites even attempt it that even a simple one wins points with me. So far the most complete and user friendly one I've run across was on Abby Winters - you could select massive numbers of variables (body type, hair color, you name it) and whittle down the searches or do keyword searches or any strange combination. It was wonderful and easy to use. So if a site has one, be sure to mention it as that can be a real plus for many users.

As for the ambiguous extra features I have on the cheat sheet, that is really a simple reminder to comment about strange gadgets that don 't fall into the previous categories - for example Abby Winters user created content lists or forums - not common enough to earn a spot on the cheat sheet, but interesting enough to mention in the review.


Models / Content
This category mostly will end up being discussed in the Bottomline as it largely is opinion. First lets start with the few simple facts, is the content exclusive and what are the models? Amateurs or Professionals?

I generally rely on the site to tell me if it is exclusive or not, granted it isn't the most accurate way of doing it - but I simply cannot verify the claim with out being suddenly granted with the curse of omniscience (Omnipotence is a blessing, Omniscience is a curse - because then you'd never truly enjoy a new movie again.). The same is true about the status of the models, but with a bit of experience in viewing porn, you get pretty good at picking out the pros (Usually because you recognize them).

The question of originality is of course a matter of opinion but it really is matter of how much the content producer stick to a specific formula, as frankly finding a genuinely original idea that startles and amazes is unlikely. Many sites tend to fall into the comfortable rut of a formulaic shoot that causes the scenes to blends together once you've watched ten in a row. Sometimes you can't knock them for the quality of any one scene, but once you are looking at the forest, you realize all the trees look bloody similar.

The attractiveness of the models is one hundred percent subjective and yet vastly important. A review is hardly an empirical analysis of a site. I believe it needs to contain facts but it is largely opinion and your readers will begin to learn how well your opinion matches their own and make better decisions based off the descriptions of your opinion. So definitely do not shy away from stating if the models just didn't attract you or vice versa.

Good Lighting can be discussed as simply as stating that you could see all the details easily or more specifically as to how accurate skin tones were and if the colors were washed out or not. Again subjective, include as much as matters to you. The same goes for the camera angles - some people want the model's crotch hovering inches from the lens, others want to see the model's body from head to toe. Do not be afraid to discuss it, any information is better for your readers - if they agree with you or not.


Extras
If you are reviewing a small site that is part of a big network, it is important to list that it is tied in with a whole bunch of bonus sites. It would be ridiculous to complain about Real Wife Stories being very small without pointing out that it is part of the massive Brazzers Network. On the other hand, some sites have these after thought style cheap, streaming content sites that are only interesting if you are incredibly bored and have looked through all the exclusive content on the main site. I don't tend to mention those add-on bonus sites.


The Review's Pros and Cons
The vast majority of the above discussion is designed for points to be included in the Pros and Cons. Porn Users' admins have been kind enough to give us a rather sizeable 1000 character limit for each - so it is wise to use it. Every conceivable specification that you want to include should be in one of those two sections, because the Bottomline is your opinion piece, and opinions can be lengthy so you have to conserve those characters.

However, 1000 characters can also be diminished very quickly - so don't include any unnecessary words. You simply want to get the information across - fast, simple and direct. The butchering of grammar is OK as long as it has a bullet in front of it.

On the bullet topic, that is one of personal preference - but you have to have some sort of character there. Porn Users doesn't support special characters. So traditional ASCII bullets are out, but a popular choice is "+" for Pros and "-" for Cons. I use the simple apteryx (*) for mine as it looks the most like the normal bullet to me. I also add a space after it to make everything line up nicely and not look scrunched up, but that's me - I obsess about things like that.

One last thing about the Pros and Cons - just because they are the best location for specifications it does not mean that you should not put opinions in there. A short & sweet opinion like "Many Unattractive Models" is fine. That would be a definite negative and should be listed.

The Bottomline
This is the big one - and by far the most difficult section of the review to write as well as advise upon. The Bottomline is intended as a summary, an opinion piece and a finisher all-in-one. There needs to be one easy to find sentence that sums up your overall recommendation for the site. Yet this is also the time to discuss the style of the content, the feel of it. All of the intangibles that form the so-called "X-Factor" that can make or break a site. Some sites just ooze personality and quirky charm that make overlooking their flaws easy - others have exquisite quality but leave you cold and uninterested.

The Bottomline is your time to explain that phenomena. To explain that numeric score you put down at the beginning. To explain why a reader should or should not join the site. The Bottomline has one hell of a responsibility, despite the weight of the specifications lifted from its shoulders.

The overall tenor of the bottomline very much depends on your writing style. Some users are very conversational, it is how they think and they simply can't get the point across without that charming ramble. Others cut straight to the point.

The advantage of short, direct commentary is it gives you more space to hammer a specific point home if you feel it needs some extra enumeration. As my forum posts frequently reflect I tend to be rather verbose. Consequently, I spend probably a third of my time with the review editing down my comments so it will just barely sneak under that character limit. I think it is important to point out that not everyone needs to fill out the bottomline to the extreme. Many of us do it, but sometimes there just isn't a hell of a lot to say. The Pros and Cons will tend to be pretty plentiful if you go on the data collection rampages that I do, but if you simply were not wowed by the site in any way, shape or form - simply focus on getting that recommendation sentence in there and just touch on the subjects that come to mind and post that sucker. It is better to get the review up rather than racking your brain over what else you could include and then ending up not posting it at all.

Terminology
I am rather clinical in my usage of terminology during reviews. It is my "Professional" voice of sorts. So to achieve this any anatomical reference I make will generally be referred to by its common medical name. I also generally refer to the women as "models". It seems more respectful to me and adds that air of detachment that I like to have in my reviews. This relates back to the Bottomline and the balancing of your personal opinion versus a more generalized analysis of the site.

By keeping a bland and beige terminology throughout the review, you also are less likely to cause too much of an emotional response from the reader and therefore keep them absorbing information rather than thinking "Gee - 'Bitch' is pretty harsh, this guy must hate women." If I do seek out an emotional response it is always humor as that too keeps the reader focused on the review. It is that wonderful look-at-me tool that causes comedians to enter their profession.

Still, there is an agenda to the professional stylization in my reviews and it is this: I wish for porn to keep becoming more and more respectable. TBP and Porn Users are wonderful sites in my eyes because the site owners are treating porn with respect - change the titles of the various categories and the look of these sites would not be odd for a car review site (excluding the shortage of photos). While I can enjoy the fantasy of these sites that claim "She's a whore that likes being treated like dirt" - I think it is crucially important for the industry to not only realize but make publicly apparent that these models are skilled professional entertainers that should be respected for the hard work they put into their performances. Not everybody will do what these people do, just like how one Canadian comedian went on stage wearing nothing but one sock for his stand-up routine, yet now Jim Carry is a much respected performer. I feel that porn performers, male and female, should have the opportunity for similar respect.


Conclusion
There you have it - the philosophy and psychotic obsession behind the typical Toadsith review. The above is the largely the reason why I have only posted 19 reviews. The fact-of-the-matter is I have a full time job and simply cannot dedicate my life to writing reviews for porn sites. Sure - it would be a pretty sweet job, but sadly I have bills to pay and nobody has offered me a paying position, lol

Anyway, I have high hopes for the influence of this site, it is still reasonably young and I think will become more and more respected as time goes on. I hope that the reviews will become regular reading material for webmasters around the world and be catalysts of change for the better. Despite a few bouts of despair and pessimism circulating around the forums about new porn, I honestly do believe porn hasn't been better - sure it has changed since the 70's but it will keep evolving and changing. I'm excited about what the future holds and what the past has taught us. As the internet matures so will internet porn and I'm quite happy I will be able to witness that. The realm of porn has expanded so much that, in the monkeys and the typewriters fashion, we are bound to keep getting good content. Hopefully PornUsers.com's reviews will always be on the forefront, sorting out the good from the bad.

Cheers!
Toadsith

P.S. I apologize if there are any crazy typos or grammar errors - it is almost 3 in the morning and I worked 13 hours today, so I am going to bed. Maybe I will edit it later. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-25-08  10:09pm - 6084 days #2
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Ah, the Forum is less than a month old you're already improving upon it - you folks are the best! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-25-08  08:08pm - 6084 days #6
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Originally Posted by littlejoe:


if u want site facts go here: https://www.thebestporn.com/home.html

if u want peoples opinions of site read them here


The problem with looking toward TBP for site facts is sometimes their reviews are years old. While they do sometimes update site facts independently of the reviews, I think it is in the best interest of the community to include as many relevant site facts as possible in one's review to make it as useful to the reader as possible. An veritable One-Stop-Shop, if you will.

That, at least, is my philosophy on the site facts for reviews. I understand that some users don't have the time and / or patience to collect all the facts and frankly I'd rather them jot down their opinion than not review at all. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-25-08  08:05pm - 6084 days #5
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Originally Posted by Wittyguy:


I posted this thread with the "King of Prose" (Toadsith) partially in mind. At any rate, I thought it was a topic that deserved some discussion here. I look forward to your dissertation ;)


Haha - The King of Prose - I really like that title! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-25-08  05:27pm - 6084 days #2
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Oh dear, this thread is going to really bring my OCD tendencies into the spot light. ::sigh:: I'll upload my Porn Users Cheat Sheet when I get home. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-25-08  02:45pm - 6084 days #8
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Pornography has the unfortunate stigma of being treated like a traditional narcotics vice - alcohol, drugs or whatever. In reality it is just an offshoot of normal entertainment - be it books, magazines, movies and so on. Asking if a heroin addict can stockpile "enough" heroin is an easy "Yes". Fill a couple vats with it and you've got an easy lifetime's supply. Asking a book or movie lover if they can stockpile enough content is of course a "No". The problem is that tastes change and new content is always coming out. There will always be new stories, spectacles and events that people want to experience (watch, listen, read, et cetera). The same is for porn - people read it, look at it, watch it, some even listen to it. Just like a traditional media collection - you trim it down from time to time due to space restrictions but you'd keep it all if you could. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-25-08  02:39pm - 6084 days #11
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Originally Posted by JBDICK:


I have to say Toadsith,

and apologies for doing a bit of backslapping...

Your avatar is one of my favorites, very cool... good tagline aswell..."I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

Okay...compliments over...


Thanks! I'm glad other people appreciate it - it took me far too much time to really justify, lol Especially since I drew up one, decided I didn't like it and started from scratch again. Patrick McGoohan is the man - and "The Prisoner" is as relevant today as it was back in the 70's - particularly for porn as there is always some special interest group trying to ban it. Of course there is always some group trying to limit our civil liberties in one way or another.

I'm basically a Pessimistic Libertarian - I'd love to get rid of all big government laws... I just don't trust my fellow citizens enough, lol. If automatic weapons were available at every local drug store - there would be some goof ball out there trying to trim his tree with it and I might be the unlucky bastard whose living room gets torn apart when the bullets finally come back down. However, if the law is some sort of moralistic silliness or a regulation dictating how green a lawn must be; well all those sort of laws must go. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-24-08  08:29pm - 6085 days #14
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I like the idea of a 3D porn movie, but I don't think I want to see a guys penis coming at me through the screen. I'd rather see a computer animated porn movie, but not just any kind of porn movie. How about a porn movie using the full body scans of known hollywood actresses, and with their actual voiceover. I'm talking animation similar to the one used in Beowulf. Now that would be hot.


Now see, I find the animations in Beowulf incredibly creepy, like their eyes are dead. Not convincing at all to me - same problem with that "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within" movie a few years back. Amazing skin textures and what not, but those are so very not humans. Definitely in the realm of the Uncanny Valley for me.

Now if they want to go all super stylized but still awesomely 3D rendered - like some of the newest Final Fantasy movies - I'd be all for porn in that form as it would be a abstraction of humans, the same reason that I love Anime and Hentai. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-24-08  08:26pm - 6085 days #13
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Originally Posted by jd1961:


I have been to Rachacha a number of times, but never made it to Eastman, although I always wanted to see a full blown silent movie production there.


I actually saw a silent movie short film feature with live music provided by Tin Hat Trio at the Eastman, it was pretty sweet. I really need to get on their mailing list again... hmmm - I think I'll go do that.

btw - my favorite nickname for Rochester is "Crotchester" - relating to the frequently cloudy weather / pollution, insanly bad driving (I'm not even surprised any more when I see a card driving down the wrong lane at me) and the generally bland food. The New York Times called it a "culinary wasteland", lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-24-08  01:12pm - 6085 days #6
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Originally Posted by Denner:


Toadsith, I actually like the way you smooth out things here. But I still do not think webmasters think of the customers in that way - in general. Pay-sites in the porn-industry is about making money. Their primary concern is getting new members all the time. The few members staying on for more than one period do not do it for them.

I'd like to think there are some/few entusiasts with a primary concern of giving the pornsite-users a fine experience - foremost.
But who?


haha - I guess I'm just not easily excitable on the usual hot topics. The main thing I see, and this isn't just on this site but in life in general, is that people attach various intentions to other people's actions based on how it affects their own life. Most people don't think of themselves as the bad guys. They don't mean to slight other people. They genuinely and honestly believe they are doing the right thing at that time. There are always exceptions to the rule, but in my experience the vast majority of the time it applies.

I'll admit that providing the best website possible for their members may not be the absolute #1 priority for most webmasters - few have that luxury. However, it is going to be pretty far up there, otherwise they would have a different job. Granted, very few people go into porn without any interest in the money, but people do. Frankly, just take a look around at all of the prolific writers on this website. Other than the occasional lucky win in the raffle, none of us are making any money for writing up these essay length posts, but we still do it.

I think a number of the "personalities" that are running websites are using the porn industry as a means to fulfill their own fantasies. John Thompson is a perfect example, so is Max Hardcore - these are two men with extreme tastes in sex and frankly it wouldn't be unlikely that charges would be pressed against them if they tried some of that stuff with a girl they met at the bar. If they pay a model to do it, on-the-other-hand, everything is gravy. So they video tape it and sell it to feed their obsession.

I also believe other sites genuinely take pride in their product. Of course they have to focus on capturing new members because of the nature of the product, but they also work hard to retain their long-term members. I've seen this behavior from DDF Productions, Abby Winters and Kink.com. Hell, Kink is practically on a crusade to drag S&M out of the dirt and into the spot light and show it to the world as the respectable community it is.

So are they there for the money? Of course, everybody has mouths to feed - but a lot of the sites have other agendas as well. And even if they are, most sites don't believe they are delivering a shit product. That's why it is best to not absolutely SLAM a site, because if the webmaster is reading it, they will totally ignore harsh, vulgar criticism. But if it is quiet, accurate and honest - just maybe they'll see the errors for what they are and make efforts to correct them. I always give people the benefit of the doubt as long as I do not have anything invested in them personally or professionally. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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Edited on Apr 24, 2008, 01:16pm (Toadsith: Typo.)

04-24-08  08:52am - 6086 days #4
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Yes, but it was all innocent enough. More often they chat with me after me contacting them. Honestly, most webmasters do seem to want to produce a good product and aim for happy long term customers. Often times they know what needs to be improved, but for various reasons haven't been able to do it yet. There are definitely some sites that are looking for a quick buck - but I don't join those sites so I haven't had any interaction with that crowd. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-23-08  08:54pm - 6086 days #9
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Originally Posted by jd1961:


I notice you live in Rochester---did you see this at Eastman?


Ha ha - hmmm, somebody knows Rochester well. Indeed I did, I don't go there often as I should, but every once in a while I make it to a show and the 3D ones are just such a treat!

Rochester has its pluses and minuses, but you certainly cannot knock it for its movie selections. I mean, hell - I might not have ever run across Takashi Miike if it were not for the Dryden Theater (at the George Eastman House for those who don't know). "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-22-08  07:35pm - 6087 days #8
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Originally Posted by WeeWillyWinky:


jd1961: If anyone needs help resizing a photo to use as an avatar, let me know, I'd be glad to help.


I've tried to resize several pics to use as an avatar, and no matter how small I make them - sometimes as small as 4kb - I get an error message saying basically that the measurements exceed the limit. Some info:

- I'm only using jpegs
- I've only tried it with Opera and Firefox. I don't use IE much anymore.
- I'm only using pics from my pc, not from the net somewhere or any avatar site.


Post a link to the original picture you want to use and how you want it modified and I'll pop it into Photoshop, do the necessary changes and upload it to my server for you to download (and the re-upload to Porn Users server). "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-22-08  07:33pm - 6087 days #4
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Well, about a year ago, a mist the Blu-Ray / HD DVD debate there were a few news agencies making reports laughing at the idea that porn would never switch to the new HD disc formats because it would show up too many imperfections in the performers and so on. Little did these reporters know that numerous online sites were already moving in that direction and today you can purchase Blu-Ray true HD porn if you so wish. So that "Next Big Thing" is here.

As for 3D, I doubt the standard polarization technique or shutter method will ever take off because people simply feel like idiots wearing the glasses. Plus the technology to deliver 3D content can be quite costly. For the shutter method you are looking at about $100 to $300 and for the polarized method, $600 and up. Granted, in the realm of home theater prices that isn't bad - but 3D has one MONSTROUS thing holding it back: Lack of content. True 3D filming techniques have been around since the 50's - for example, the musical "Kiss Me Kate", released in 1953, was distributed as true 3D using polarized lenses on twin projectors - I've seen it in its original form and the effect was stunning - and it is the same technology IMAX is employing today. The only difference is they don't usually use cardboard glasses.

At CeBit 2006 I had the pleasure of trying out one of the new glasses-free 3D LCD monitors - it used a complex prism layer over the screen and software to deliver the image properly. You had sit a specific distance from the monitor, but it worked impressively well. If that technology gets improved upon - then you might see 3D becoming more popular. Pretty much any technology the provides 3D displays at reasonable prices and without glasses and then teams up with a few content producers, well - they'll do very well.

So the next big thing? I dunno, maybe robotic Real Dolls with customizable AI that let you download various porn star performances into. That would be pretty nifty. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-22-08  06:52pm - 6087 days #24
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Originally Posted by badandy400:


To hell with that Toadsith!!! 67 cents per GB is an extreme anal raping! Seriously though...it is easy to find them at 25 cents per GB...most actual stores are around 33 cents still...and I have been paing 18 cents per GB on the last 4 drives i bought.


Ha ha - true, it is a bit pricey now, but honestly, drive prices have just been plummeting in the last year. The ol' 67 cent rule lasted for about 6 years straight. The drive sizes slowly increased each year, but the price per gig usually stayed the same and that quirky price mark was broken only on sales. Now a days it is easy to break it, but I still use it as a benchmark - I guess I get a bit stuck in my routines, lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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Originally Posted by malikstarks:


The only other answer I can come up with is that they are emulating the girls us guys watch in pornos, or go to see at the strip club. Don't get me wrong I am not saying that every girl that gets implants is trying to be like Jenna Jameson/Pamela Anderson. However women like Jenna, Pam, and the adult industry as a whole is the greatest reason for this phenomenon.


Now it would be mostly conjecture on my part, but my experience is that the average American woman doesn't really watch much porn nor visit strip clubs. Yes, I will admit that breast implants are quite in vogue for the porn industry and perhaps there is some pressure from men that watch porn and wish for their lovers to get the operation, but I honestly don't believe that accounts for the vast majority of the surgeries.

Frankly there is even a measurable number of parents buying breast jobs for their daughter's sixteenth - as sick as that is. There have been a few articles reporting this twisted birthday present - I doubt it happens often, but a cousin of mine did get a pair that her daddy paid for. I'm quite sure the parents don't want their baby girl to emulate Jenna Jameson or even Pam Anderson. It is just that big breasts have always been a symbol of fertility, sexuality, beauty and so on - large breasts throughout history have almost always been popular.

As for Hollywood Celebrities with boob jobs, there are quite a few:

Christina Aguilera
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham
Linda Blair (now removed)
Shannon Elizabeth (probably)
Vivica Fox
Paris Hilton (brand new this March)
Iman
Janet Jackson
Nicole Kidman
Heidi Klum
Lil' Kim
Heather Locklear
Andie MacDowell
Madonna (probably)
Alyssa Milano
Demi Moore
Brittany Murphy
Dolly Parton
Tara Reid
Nicole Richie
Julia Roberts
Britney Spears
Tori Spelling
Gwen Stefani
Raquel Welch

Hollywood has been favorable toward breast implants for a very long time. Part of the reason that it isn't always wildly apparent is that the more respected stars go for smaller implants to keep a natural look - sometimes going up as little as one cup size or less. Also, cosmetic surgery has become quite a popular topic - who has had what done and who hasn't. Reality shows and topical fictional shows ("Nip Tuck") have popped up based on plastic surgery. Just like tanning or any of a million other beauty secrets - people are always looking for the Fountain of Youth (and beauty), no matter how crazy or painful the path to it is.

Plus, as pointed out earlier, porn isn't wildly popular other than for a quick joke or filling a time-slot now and again. The only stars the average person can name would be Ron Jeremy, John Holmes (because of the shootings) and Jenna Jameson. Sure, others have been featured - but people forget quickly. I don't really count Playmates as porn stars since they tend not to do real porn and stick to the celebrity gossip scene whenever possible.

I say Hollywood and a breast-focused society drives breast implants and it drives that impulse more-so within the adult entertainment community. To paraphrase Dr. Frank-N-Furter: Porn isn't the cause, it is the symptom. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-21-08  05:56pm - 6088 days #22
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Originally Posted by nygiants03:


So you say Western digital would be best? or would seagate, LaCie, maxtor, Toshiba, simpletech, cms, iomega be better?


In all honesty, there are only a few hard drive manufacturers to stay away from (those cursed IBM drives from a few years ago, for example), but as for recommended hard drives, that is much harder. Everybody has a personal favorite for various reasons. I like Samsung and Maxtor. Samsung because they are reasonably priced and super quiet and Maxtor because they are very quiet until they actually read or write (and then they are super loud, which is kinda cute and lets you know when stuff is accessing your drive). I've only had one hard drive die on me, a Western Digital, and I tend to find that brand to be a bit loud because there is often a constant whine unless the platters spin down. Other people will have had Maxtors die, or Seagates or so on. Make sure your drive has at least a 3 year warranty - some have 5 year or even 7 year ones.

The trick is you want a large cache (8 MB at least) and you want the least amount of platters for the amount of space you are looking for. For example the early Terabyte drives used 5 platters, however Samsung's 3 platter drive is much more reliable. Less moving parts and all that. My general rule of thumb is if you you are paying less than 67 Cents per Gig, then you are getting a reasonable deal. These days you can usually get a much better price than that. If you watch SlickDeals.net you can always get good prices on hard drives.

If you have a newer motherboard, I'd definitely go for SATA as it is just so easy to setup. Plug it in, boot windows and go into Disk Management under the Administrative Tools (in Control Panel) and select the drive and then mount it. (This is assuming you are using XP.) It literally takes less than 5 minutes of real work to setup the drive. The computer has to of course format it, but you can go read a book or whatever during that time.

Oh - and Maxtor One Touch is a cute looking case and reasonably fast, but if you are using the automatic back-up software, in my experience, don't. It sucks. Just use it like an external drive and don't bother with the software. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-21-08  04:23pm - 6088 days #20
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Originally Posted by badandy400:


Another option is to back everything up to DVD. This take a bit of time. But not as much time to download everything. This is cheaper than buying a hard drive by about 4 times, but it is messier and you are oinly going to write to the disk one time...so updating with new material is a pain in the ass.


Another problem with the DVD storage method route is the quality of the DVDs you buy. Both CDs and DVDs degrade with age. The cheaper the disc, generally the faster it will degrade. Keeping them in a cool (not cold, say 50°F to 70°F), dark and dry location is best. However, time will do it as well, the layers that the media is composed of will separate and then you are screwed. Taiyo Yuden out of Japan is generally considered the best manufacturer, but they can be difficult to acquire. Even they have multiple levels of disc quality - the top I believe is called Archival Gold and is designed to last 100 years. I think the CDs were about $10 a pop, so I'd imagine the DVDs are even more ridiculous. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-21-08  03:38pm - 6088 days #18
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Originally Posted by nygiants03:


thanks for the info. What about internal harddrives, are they any better? I want something with the least chance of never losing my saved data. I plan on leaving lots of my porn in there for some time, and I would be pissed if one of these hard drives screwed everything up.


Internal and External Hard Drives use the same technology for storing the data - magnetically manipulable film laid upon spinning drive platters with an actuated read/write arm. The only difference is how they are communicating with the computer, be it SATA, eSATA, Firewire (IEEE1394), USB, SCSI or (gasp!) EIDE. And all that those change is the transfer rates for the data.

You can format the drive multiple ways, though if you are using Windows that's going to be NTFS or the older (and inferior) FAT32. Linux has a boat load of formats you can use, and I think Mac has multiple choices as well.

The only "new" hard drive technology that you could choose is SSD. Solid State Disk, the same technology compact flash cards, thumb drives and other small non-volatile memory cards use. The problem is that a 120 GB hard drive costs about 3 Grand. It is muy fast and is much less likely to lose your data, but at that price you might be able to higher someone to carve 0's and 1's into stone tablets for you. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-21-08  03:29pm - 6088 days #41
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Originally Posted by malikstarks:


Now we have reached the point where many are complaining that the porn is to "boring". Think about it, I would doubt if too many guys from the 1970's, 80's, or even the 1990's would have entertained that sentiment.


Originally Posted by jd1961:


I'm one of those guys, and I most definitely entertain that sentiment. I've reached the point that I can't even watch the XXX stuff.


Now I can't exactly read minds, but I'm guessing malistarks meant that if you asked porn viewers in the 70's, 80's or 90's - they wouldn't complain about porn being boring at that time. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-21-08  03:07pm - 6088 days #40
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Originally Posted by malikstarks:


Almost all of us know at least one girl who has had some kind of cosmetic surgery, usually breast implants. This is imo a direct response to the porn's impact on society at large.


Just to nit-pick, but Cosmetic Surgery has been popular since at least the 60's. It is just that the technology for breast implants matured more recently and hence has become more popular. Corsets are a very old technology for breast enlargement - if the women attending the royal balls in the 1400's could have shoved giant silicone balloons in their tits, I'm quite sure they would have. Oh, and for reference, the cosmetic surgery of choice for girls in the 60's was rhinoplasty (das Nose Job). "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-21-08  09:08am - 6089 days #9
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Originally Posted by jd1961:


But no one knew about her Ivory Soap commercial until after she did porn, am I correct?


It was a national ad campaign, so while the general public probably didn't know her name, many would recognize her face. She certainly was catapulted into the spot light more so after the porn film came out, but she would have had a good money making career for a while at least even if she just stayed as a commercial model. She was also trying to be an actress as well and had a small role in the romantic comedy "The Owl and the Pussycat" before her famous role in "Behind the Green Door". "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-20-08  08:49pm - 6089 days #9
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Originally Posted by Wittyguy:


if a site is a total dog (no offense to Drooler's avatar)


As opposed to a Howlin' Mad Monkey? lol Sorry - couldn't help myself. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-20-08  08:45pm - 6089 days #11
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Any review is better than no review. It is easy to disregard a useless review, so I personally have no qualms about sifting through a few shit reviews for the various "one-hit-wonder" reviews that are useful to the community. As mentioned above, many people aren't willing to budget as much money for porn as many of the more hardcore users are. I certainly spend more than what I honestly consider reasonable - but then again, if I was hitting up bars or strip clubs, I'd be dropping a lot more loot than that, so I can rationalize it in some twisted way. Still, if somebody feels like chiming in about a site, I see no problem with that and I don't feel like they should be censored unless there is good reason. After all, this site is "porn reviews by the people." "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-20-08  08:30pm - 6089 days #7
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I'd define women that were made for porn being those who either made it their entire life-style and are proud of it (Nina Hartley) or those that entered porn when they were already on another big-money career track and then went to porn anyway. Marilyn Chambers was famously the young mother in the Ivory Soap campaign and was working the Hollywood scene to be an actress before her porn break out. Teri Weigel was a Playboy Playmate and did a good bit of Hollywood work and decided she wanted to do hardcore (much to the chagrin of Playboy). Shy Love says she has a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees and I've also read that she had a six figure job related to some sort of money management company and was forced to quite (maybe fired) because she got her breast implants. I would say all these women could have other careers if they so wished, but porn was were they felt at home, so they were made for porn and the made it their own. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-20-08  08:09pm - 6089 days #4
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Well, obviously in reviews I stick to strictly technical terms, but as for the ridiculous favorites well...

For the Breasts: The Jubblies, the Sweater Cows, and theFun Bags.
For the Vagina: The Vertical Smile, the Pink Taco, the Fur Burger and the simple Twat.
For the Labia: The Second Lips
For the Clitoris: The Small Man in the Boat (already mentioned) and the She-Penis
For the Anus: The Brown Starfish and the Brown Eye. (Pink instead of Brown for professional porn starlets.)

For Sexual Intercourse: Snogging, Bumping Hips, and Riding the Pig.

For Fellatio: Knob Gobbling and Slurping the Man-Root.

For Cunnilingus: Dining at the Y and Munching the Shrub.

Alrighty, that's all I can think of right now. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-20-08  07:55pm - 6089 days #35
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Originally Posted by pat362:


I dare anyone to identify a movie, and the studio who released it, by looking at a random scene from that movie. I'll be honest, and say that I can't.


I'll admit that today I might have some trouble as I have been more focused on Internet produced porn rather than the DVD community, but rewind 2 years and sadly I probably could. Largely because I knew what male stars were tied with what studio or sometimes just the tenor of the shoot. None-the-less, "gonzo" style porn has certainly become the style of choice and follows much of your said formula, which is too bad, I'd like more studios to go for feature style, but these days people think they need a multi-million dollar budget to try a feature porn film. I'm glad that a few websites are getting back into plots (Brazzer's Network is a good example) but they usually only do scenes rather than full length movies. Eh, I'm sure it will come back - history do repeat itself. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-19-08  12:27am - 6091 days #5
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The network that Devils Film and White Ghetto are associated with is in fact the "another site elsewhere" that Peter North has, I think it is called quite simply Peter North DVD. They also have a site dedicated to his legendary pop-shots. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-18-08  02:27pm - 6091 days #2
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Granted the Brazzer's Network is quite good, but it really lacks what I think is essential to a true network: Diversity. You get three styles of girls: Porn Starlets with the teen look, Porn Starlets with the big tits look and Porn Starlets with the mature look. It is rather well done, has easy navigation and searching but you better love Porn Starlets and one-on-one, boy-girl vaginal sex - because 9 times outta 10, that's what you'll be getting from them. I like the network, but it is worth the $10 per month, don't know if I'd be as psyched paying the $30 rate.

21 Sextury's network - Porn Pass For All is one of the many entry sites for this network - is pretty good, it is quite diverse and is absolutely massive. The problem is two-fold - firstly being that you only get access to about 70% of the network when you first join and then they slowly increase your access at the rate of 2 sites per month until you've got everything. This makes for a tedious process of deciding what site of theirs to join so that you get immediate access to the sites your are most interested in as each site has a different selection of 33 sites you get access to. The second problem is that they don't have a standard network hub site that lets you search the entire network - you are always bunny-hopping from site to site and have to keep track of everything yourself for the most part. Each site does have a model index at least, and you can also use the Porn Pass For All's free model index (assuming you didn't join that site specifically) but it is a bit tedious, slow-loading and crashes rather regularly.

Still one of my favorite networks has to be Brain Pass (or the Pornstar Network, as I know it). It certainly isn't perfect - it could use some improvements in the search engine and video quality is absolutely all over the place - some DVD quality, some not-so-much. But it is an absolutely huge network and has a combination of 100% exclusive small sites and big DVD collections. The last time I was a member they needed to do some upgrading of their video content, but the diversity of their content is pretty impressive, you don't get extreme fetishes as you do with some of the sites on Porn Pass For All - but you can't sum the network up with three photos like you can with Brazzer's Network either. A number of their Montreal productions are quite interesting, Sweet Amy Lee, Christina Young and the like - plus they have your regular dose of Lex Steele and Peter North with lots of porn starlets and then there is a lot of the European crowd as well - I've even found some of Rocco Siffredi's work on there. If they overhauled all of their old videos and beefed up their search engine a bit I would easily put them as the best network I've tried.

Devils Film and White Ghetto and a few other DVD production groups have a network setup as well, but they are just DVD rips and the search engine is a bit difficult. Not bad content diversity, but absolutely no photos to speak of. Actually only 21 Sextury's network did well in that department.

I haven't checked out Reality Kings or Bangbros Network yet. The comment about Reality Kings having good photos intrigues me though, so that might be the next network I try. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-18-08  01:47pm - 6091 days #2
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In theory, I suppose you could back-up your registry using a software tool designed for that purpose (there are boat-loads of these floating around) and then copy over your program files and documents and settings folders to your external, reformat and then pop that back on. You could do that but I would not recommend it.

As everyone knows, doing a full reformat and reinstall is a tedious, time-consuming process, but it really is worth it and ideally should be done about every 6 months to maintain a chipper and perky computer. The issue of saving the registry and all the programs is that you end up with a clean OS running an old registry (and despite the claims of the registry cleaners, there is only so much they can do) and all of the program files will be old as well. Defragmenting is all well and good, but it only goes so far - same for check disk and so on. If you are having crashes or program slow-downs you really need to just bite the bullet, dedicate a Saturday to being around the house and reformat that sucker and build it back up from the ground up.

If you make a list of the programs you actually need rather than what is on there, my guess is you'll find a lot of old stuff that really doesn't need to be re-installed. Then all you need to backup on the external is your documents and your porn. Also, after reformatting don't forget to put on anti-virus protection before plugging into your ISP. I think it was Drooler who recommended Pizza and Beer as essential reformatting tools; not a bad idea at all. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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It looks like a lot of hype as to Putin actually dropping his wife for her, however he has brought a bunch of seriously beautiful women into political office. Putin might be a bit scary, but has some nifty hiring practices.

Also, you might have been having trouble finding articles about her because of the "hyphen", her name is "Alina Kabayeva", no hyphen. She is also listed as a "one-time" nude model, and as far as I can tell that was technically nude, but not showing of the good bits. Apparently she's gotten many requests from Playboy and the like but turned them down. Now some of her recently hired coworkers haven't been as prudish, luckily :-) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-17-08  09:10am - 6093 days #27
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Originally Posted by asmith12:


SickoGames tried to do similar thing once (they even were originally named FearFactorFuck), but it was WAY too disgusting IMHO.


Yeah - that reminds me of those Nickelodeon game shows, except with no budget and more filth. I think an American Gladiators rip-off would be more fun; and less disgusting as you said. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-16-08  10:02am - 6094 days #9
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Originally Posted by Colm4:


Can some of you experts tell what the difference is between 1280x720 HD MP4 and 1280x720 HD DivX?


MP4, a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 14 is a based on Apple's Quicktime format but is considered more universally compatible. Indeed a number of media players like cellphones and mp3 players support the format out-of-the-box. Ironically, I too have found MP4 to be difficult for Quicktime to handle and instead use Nero Showtime that came with my Nero Burning Suite. DVD Playing software may also support it without much issue.

I personally prefer DivX as it has matured quite a bit in the last few years and when the compression is too much, the video degrades much more gracefully than with MP4. MP4 tends to either look perfect or get really blocky - it is much more gradual with the current iteration of DivX. DivX also is capable of more compression with similar quality video. A dual or triple pass encoding with DivX can fit a 90 minute movie down to 700MB with almost perfect video accuracy (only a few years ago you had to stick with 1400MB to get acceptable video). Lastly, of course, is that Windows Media Player plays DivX with great ease, and of course the free DivX Player isn't so bad itself. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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"High Definition" is largely a just a popular selling phrase right now. If a website is going to be upfront about it, they'll use the actually industry terms, and in that case, what you are looking for is 720p or preferably 1080p (1080i also exists, but I've never seen a website advertise that).

720p is a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. 1080p is a resolution of 1920 x 1080. Now this is just the amount of pixels the video accounts for at a 1:1 size ratio - it also dictates a widescreen aspect ratio. This does not account for the bit rate of the video. Now with standard (almost) loss-less video formats as seen on DVD or Blu-Ray (at least they are as the manufacturer sets them up - there are methods for heavy compression in those formats as well) - the bit rate isn't a factor because they are going to be presented as crisp as they can within that resolution. Of course websites can use whatever format the like, so compression becomes a factor. Generally you are looking for something in the range of 2000kbps - that usually gives pretty crisp video.

The main problem with websites offering high definition 1080p video is that they can't afford the costs of industry grade digital movie cameras - the stuff Hollywood uses. So while the cameras are very nice and cost many thousands and are rated for 1080p - they simply don't look as crisp as the picture made by the cameras that filmed "Once Upon A Time In Mexico", for example. All Internal and all its sister sites are perfect examples - they really are filming in 1080p, but the cameras just aren't as good - so the picture looks soft and smooth. You aren't getting ripped off, they just have economic limitations that mean they can't spend 50 grand or whatever on their cameras. Maybe in a few years the better cameras will come down in price. My guess is if you buy Blu-Ray discs from the really big companies, like Playboy - you won't have this problem as they'll have the bankroll that is necessary to do it right. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-13-08  10:28am - 6097 days #32
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


In the 80's I knew a woman who worked at porn theatre and she made the point that there are far fewer men in porn than there are women, so that's how the industry is biased in favor of pleasing men. And so it's been that way.

It seems that way in Europe, too. Or is it that women who like porn prefer other women? I'm really in the dark on this one.


Of what I've read and from personal observation I think there are two main factors contributing to the lack of male talent compared to the vast quantity of female talent. The first factor would be that I still feel the industry is oriented toward men heavily, so the variable that the customers care heavily about are the female models. As long as the male models do their job properly - nobody complains.

The second factor is that the female models often will only work with certain male models. This is a factor that is widely discussed in the industry as it can be a serious pain-in-the-ass for the directors. Very often, the contract girls will have a specific, often very short, list of male stars they will work with. In fact, it was the main reason behind the rise of Evan Stone (pun semi-intended) - a new contract star, Sydnee Steele, would only work with him and very few other male stars, so the directors basically had to use him.

That is a specific example, but I've found you see the pattern repeated throughout the industry. It is a large reason that many of the male porn stars have broken into the industry through gay porn. Gay porn, like main-stream porn requires new men constantly. If you get a reputation of being a reliable performer and let it be known that you'll also to boy/girl porn, eventually you might get a call from the main-stream industry. If the first movie goes well, then your in. But it really is an exclusive club right now. The other ways in are via luck of sorts, like Evan Stone, he went straight from doing Chippendales style stripping to working in main-stream porn. Or you can start your own website and higher and perform with girls yourself. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-13-08  10:11am - 6097 days #3
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"The Boredom Factor" as you call, is indeed very real. However I made a bit of an executive decision to notify the public of it, but not let it change my review score. The site that this was an issue with was All Internal.

Their product is first class, the girls are usually at least cute (in a very porn starlet way) and the action is easy to see - as in well lit, good camera angles, et cetera. The website is exceptional. They have indexes, browsing capability, user ratings and reviews, streaming and downloads, tons of viewing sizes, photos - the works really.

The problem came in that basically, the content was extraordinarily similar from scene to scene. They found a formula a few years back and they won't change it for hell or high water. To top it off, these models are never native English speakers, so if they spoke it was in broken English most of the time (they had a few that were better, but not many) so you couldn't even hope for the model's personality to come through and really change up the scene a lot. I like the site, but I would definitely recommend having at least one other membership at the same time because you will start banging your head on the wall if you have to look at another iteration of the same scene. Give yourself a bit of a break and the site will begin to look interesting again.

Being that porn is usually intended to be seen at the rate of one scene at a time, I find it is unfair to rate a site as boring if the scenes by themselves aren't if spaced out properly. So I simply mention it, but I rate it as if I was viewing each scene bright eyed and bushy tailed. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-13-08  10:00am - 6097 days #8
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Originally Posted by JBDICK:


You are the Johnny Mneumonic of Porn...


Hahaha - now that would be an awesome T-Shirt!

Ah, this post just hit on two of my favorite topics, movies and porn! Amusingly, while I've watched a ton of porn, I've probably watched more movies. IMDB is my haven - I visit that site probably more often than I visit this site, amazingly. Though, the one exception is that I do not post on the forums there. It seems, if you post on IMDB's forums, your IQ drops immediately to the double digits... maybe even single digits. I've seen fruit salads with better commentary on movies. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  07:22pm - 6097 days #13
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


I've yet to master the "Vulcan Disk Probe" -- applying a finger grip to the device and divining its technological state of health.


I've tried a taste-test as well, but sadly all hard drives taste the same to me. I think we need to train a fleet of dogs to be able to smell bad sectors and identify drives with them by barking. Then you could simply have a TechK9 team stop by your place and let you know if you need to reformat, need a whole new drive or are good to go. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  07:18pm - 6097 days #12
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Originally Posted by Khan:


If a thread of replies ensue, and then the original remarks are changed/removed, it leads to confusion about what is being replied to.


That is a very good point, and as replies can sometimes be as important as the reviews it is certainly not one that should be overlooked. I can think of two solutions for this:

One would be to add Follow Up windows for both the Pros and Cons. When the review is shown on the Websites page, only the follow-up Pros & Cons would be shown, but if you want to see the replies, the whole lot's shown.

The second option would be simply allowing a user to post an entirely new review at any time - their old review would still be listed, but the score would be taken out of consideration. Once the old review hits the 1 year date, it disappears altogether. I think the old reviews should be slightly grayed out as well, and maybe state that their score is inactive due to a newer review. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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I'm bad at remembering all the titles - there were tons of them, and I'm sure other users will be able to point out quite a few.

As for great script adaptations: "Beat the Devil" directed by Robby D. and based off of Tony Scott's "Beat the Devil" that he directed for the "The Hire", the BMW Short Film series. Evan Stone put in a very funny performance for Robby D's production - and it really made the movie. I'm sure that it received more hype because it was Jesse Jane's first on camera boy/girl movie, but Mr. Stone really stole the show in my opinion. The man has a gift for comedy.

And any of the "Sex Trek" series involving Randy Spears as Captain Quirk (if I recall correctly) - hilarious movies - not something I'd usually watch for the porn value, but they are quite entertaining none-the-less.

Now if I were to recommend a studio to make a film, I would insist it be 4 hours or longer as you don't want to cut the sex any, and you don't want to cut the dialogue either. Now, you have to take into consideration porn level budgets - so action movies are basically out. If you had a reasonable budget, you could do it in studio and have rather nice sets built.

If they were feeling particularly adventurous, attempting a pornographic remake of "Delicatessen" (1999, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro) would be quite interesting.

Actually, "District B13" (Banlieue 13, 2004, dir. Pierre Morel) would be pretty easy to do as a porno, and pretty cheap as an action movie. All you need is to cut down on some of the gun play and car stunts and then you need a troupe of people good at Parkour and then of course the porn cast, you definitely need your main male stars to look like some of your Parkour stunt people. District B13's female lead was in fact a hardcore French starlet known as Ally Mac in porn - she goes by the name Dany Verissimo now.

The advantage about that movie is you would just need permission to film a bunch of people running on top of buildings and then some minimal props and some flashy cars. You'd have to modify the script a bit to fit in more sex, but this is case with a lot of these porn conversions. You could even just tie in the sex scenes in the same way that "Tampopo" (1985, dir. Juzo Itami) would tie together scenes - simply by location. For example, you could have a Parkour chase scene run through an apartment where a some people are just starting to have sex, and then have the camera stay in the apartment and the chase leave it. Then after the sex scene, the camera changes perspective to be one of the Parkour runners and runs through the apartment again to bring us back into the chase and then the movie continuous on. You would need two strong leads that preferably could act, do porn, and do some stunt work (at least some stunt fighting). I think if enough time was spent, you could end up with a pretty watchable film that happens to be a pretty good porno as well. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  05:26pm - 6097 days #19
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Originally Posted by messmer:


Twistys and Allover30 are two examples of how NOT to do it because about 95 percent of their output is in Portrait. I like a picture that takes up the full width of my monitor.


I think what you might be running into is the age of the photographers and their style because of it. If you look back at the 60's and 70's pin-up photography, much of it had models lying down - prostrating themselves to the camera and relaxing on a love seat, or in a large bed with too many pillows. So today's photographers don't want to imitate that, so they have the models standing, walking around, leaning against door frames or mirrors. All of these poses would end up in a very small amount of model in the photo if you took the shot using the landscape layout.

The second reason I think you see portrait a lot is that it allows the photographer to crop out everything but the model. These days, the set is pretty much ignored, it is simply there to provide good light and be a safe location for a model to walk around nude. Again, jumping back to 60's and 70's photography, the sets were quite involved. Part of the reason for the Playboy mansion being a such a luxurious and enormous place was that it made a wonderful set. Everything was in prime condition and you had dramatic woodwork, large paintings and potted ferns. Sets like that almost didn't need the nude model to be interesting.

These days a fancy set comes in the distressed style set. Nude models leaning on destroyed wall, or wearing sandals so she can stand among the broken glass. That is about as fancy as you see the set for the most part. More often, the model is positioned in front of standard portrait photography background paper - often to the extent that the viewer will actually see the stand holding up the paper. So the easy solution, if the photographer even cares about the background, is just to crop in closer to the model so we see less of it. Combined with today's standing models, portrait allows the closest of cropping. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  05:13pm - 6097 days #18
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Originally Posted by JBDICK:


Top Post Toadsith!


Thanks! :-) I hope some content providers check it out and find it useful as well! With Drooler's addition (I must say I stole his idea for formatting the post - that made the post much more readable, lol) and many of the specific notes - I have to think this thread is a good resource. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  05:07pm - 6097 days #8
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That is a good point, and of course comments are another way of pointing out specific changes and so on. I'm frankly a little poor about using comments - I just generally don't do them. But honestly, that would be a perfect use for the comments - and comments already have that front page space. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  05:05pm - 6097 days #11
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Originally Posted by Drooler:


I did the "full" formatting and I wish I could tell you why.


I usually stick with a full format as well. As stated by Windows:

"Quick format removes files from the disk but does not scan the disk for bad sectors. Use this option only if this disk has been previously formatted and you are sure the disk is not damaged."

Full Formatting is much better at getting your hard drive back to its prime - the computer has the hard drive write cute little zeros over everything and then it tosses its formatting structure on top of it and you are ready to go. Granted, a full format can take a hell of a long time, but just go grab a bite to eat or something, your hard drive will be healthy for it. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-12-08  04:57pm - 6097 days #6
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Perhaps instead of putting the Follow-Up Reviews in the New Reviews category, Follow-Up Reviews could have their own front page list. It could be short and sweet, list only the 5 latest and not show the latest follow-up in full. This would save on space, but still get the follow-ups some attention.

For the most part, I don't think the follow-ups need a huge amount of attention in their current format because people tend to just write a short paragraph. If I recall correctly, you are only allowed 1000 characters and of course no pluses or minuses. For me the pluses and minuses free up a lot of space for opinion and all that on a full review - so that is a potential of 2000 characters lost when you try to tackle the follow-up. That makes the task a bit more daunting.

I'm not entirely clear on the reason why we can't modify the Pros and Cons - if site specifications change in the time period between the review and the follow up, I have to waste a few of my precious characters stating the new specs. Perhaps it is designed to limit the amount of data that the Admins have to approve, I'm not sure. I know the follow-up has to be approved by them, just like a normal review - but it is smaller for sure.

At any rate - in their current format, I think Follow-Ups should probably stay in relative obscurity. If there is any mention on the front page, it should probably be below the Latest Threads section. If the Follow Up format is changed - well that would a different matter, now wouldn't it? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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Ah yes - I remember her, she was quite a phenomenon for a year or so. Hell of an ass, no doubt. There were all these rumors that she'd go professional and do hardcore and whatnot - but it never materialized. I hope she at least made some money off of her productions.

None-the-less, she has quite the ass. Tight. Tight like a tiger. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-10-08  09:53pm - 6099 days #2
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You know, I've been racking my brain for the entire day trying to think of specific models that I'd put in this category, and I guess I just don't really notice it that much. I think it is because it is such a variable but not so entirely uncommon that I just simply go "Oh, that's nice." and move on. I do recall a few girls on Met Art having an impressive set of "lips" but I lost my old archive of that site so I can't look them up. I did check out your two recommended girls and they are impressive indeed. If I run across any model that seems particularly impressive in the near-future I'll certainly drop a note about it on this post, but for now - I'm afraid I've got nothing. Interesting post though - I hope to some other's will have suggestions, it's certainly harder to state examples than "best ass" or "best tits" because everyone notices those from half a block away. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-10-08  12:12pm - 6099 days #29
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Originally Posted by messmer:


BUT HE'S IN EVERY MOVIE THEY SHOW! There only seem to be about six porn actors in Porno Valley.


Haha - yeah, I can imagine that would get annoying. Considering he's done over a thousand movies, they don't even have to be playing the same movies over and over (like a lot of late night networks) and still achieve an ever present state of the R. Spears. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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My oh my, I hadn't run across that site before. Generally I'm not into single model sites - but this girl looks pretty good. Those nipples are epic! Plus, they use CCBill as well, so probably won't get screwed by them.

Actually, just looked up the parent company - not too surprised to see they are the same folks that run Masha's World. The unfortunate thing is that you have to stay a member of the site for 2 months before you get access to the rest of the network.

The problem I found in the past with this network was that the video quality was pretty poor - rather blurry, muted colors and poor lighting. Unfortunately the sample on Natasha's site continued in that fashion. The screen shots on the front of her site have been pretty throughly color-corrected. I'll make a bookmark of the site, but I gotta agree with TBP, not a super high priority site to review. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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04-09-08  04:08pm - 6100 days #25
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Ah Randy Spears - I still think he did one of the best comical impersonations of James T. Kirk ever. He is one of the few semi-current porn stars that can portray multiple characters.

That is one of the reason's Cap'n Mongo's Porno Playhouse is so great. It had Randy Spears, Joel Lawrence, Evan Stone, Bridget the Midget and more - a cast that can actually remember lines without checking the script every 4 seconds, lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"

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