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| 05-20-09 05:24pm - 5694 days | #56 | ||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As Wittyguy pointed out earlier:
But I gotta say, I think the FAQ or a permanent sticky would be easier found by newbies. "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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| 05-20-09 09:23am - 5695 days | #6 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Adobe Bridge I don't believe is ever shipped separately but instead always tied in with one of the Adobe product suites. It first came out as a way for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady to better interact with each other and of course as a method to sort your media. This is before Adobe wisely integrated ImageReady into Photoshop. I've never really used Bridge too much as all the early versions crashed on me rather frequently. "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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| 05-19-09 09:47pm - 5695 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I gotta say I'm not too saddened as I was hoping it would be canceled midway through Season 1. As pretty as Lena Headey is, she's no Linda Hamilton. The role requires a force of will that she isn't able to communicate to the viewer. That is part of the reason she was the weakest performance in "300" as well. The only reason I muscled through much of it was for Garret Dillahunt's performances as Cromartie. Though they pretended to kill off his character and at that point I stopped watching. A friend later told me that he wasn't dead, but I decided that it was silly to keep watching it for a side character. His recurring character on "Life" was much better anyway. Of course they actually did kill him off on that show, which saddens me. There have been a number of upsetting renewals this year too. "Dollhouse" has been given another season - as much as I like seeing Alan Tudyk's performances - I've found this show lacking the humor and wit that made Joss Whedon's other shows the legends they are. "Chuck" has been renewed as well - unfortunate since they've completely destroyed the character dynamic of the main trio with their latest development. Still, I'm happy to see "Better Off Ted" is getting another season, as is "Leverage" (or A-Team Revisited, as I like to call it). "Burn Notice" and "Dexter" will be back soon too. And of course, the best TV Show on earth, "Top Gear" will be starting up in late June. Movies I'm looking forward to... not too many actually. I'll check out most on DVD. "Moon" looks interesting, mainly because I'm a huge fan of Sam Rockwell. That'll be out on limited release on June 12th. I doubt Michael Bay will disappoint with "Transformers 2", it is a perfect movie franchise for him as long as he remembers it needs to be funny. That's why I'd probably go running to the theaters if they ever announced a Bad Boys III. (Not something to be proud of, I know.) I might check out Transformers in the theaters on June 24th. It'll be a DVD rental, but I really want to see "The Boat That Rocked" - it looks like epic good fun :-) That's hitting the big screen on August 28th. While I accidentally missed seeing "Crank 2", I loved "Crank" and so I'm somewhat interested in "Gamer" since it is made by the same dynamic duo. Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall just sweeten the deal. September 4th. It has almost become the Duke Nukem Forever of movie titles, but it is finally here: "Where the Wild Things Are" I'm hoping this reviews well and may check it out in the theaters on October 16th. Oh, and in regards to Terminator Salvation. Probably going to pass on that. They really should have stopped at T2. "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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| 05-19-09 02:54pm - 5696 days | #50 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Glee! ^_^ "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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| 05-12-09 12:47pm - 5703 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Most porn DVDs have more than a few trailers on them hoping you'll buy more products from the studio, but I don't know of any DVDs with nothing but trailers on them. Why would you want to pay money for that? They are designed to give a taste and hold back all the so-called good stuff. You may be able to view the trailers online, depending on the studio. If you are just looking for clips, there are compilation DVDs made of heavily edited content to feature only specific parts of a scene. Though usually it is specific to only blow jobs or cumshots. "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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| 05-09-09 10:45pm - 5705 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Btw, as an aside since I have accidentally veered this thread onto a Shatner tangent, I just wanted to point out that the song that is from the album "Has Been" which was produced and scored by Ben Folds. I wouldn't recommend Shatner's earlier spoken word efforts, but this one is actually quite excellent. I think that Ben Folds is much of the reason, but many other people also contributed, notably the previously mentioned Henry Rollins. "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 09, 2009, 10:53pm (Toadsith: Typo.) | |
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| 05-08-09 02:27pm - 5707 days | #2 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I think William Shatner said it best in "Common People": You'll never live like common people You'll never do whatever common people do. You'll never fail like common people. You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw because there's nothing else to do. "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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| 05-08-09 02:24pm - 5707 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As you said, that's only if you insist on sticking with the latest gen hardware, which personally I wouldn't recommend because you'll be paying a huge premium for hardware that will be selling for have its current price in 6 months. The problem for economically minded builders is always when the industry goes through architecture changes like switching to a totally new technology. Recently there have been some serious changes, but it should be settled down for a few years now. AMD is still lagging, so users should stay with Intel and be sure to get a Socket LGA 1366 motherboard. You should be able to get a reasonably fast Processor with good range for overclocking within the $150 - 250 range. Unfortunately 1366 mobos are expensive right now, but since everything else is orphaned, you have to go for it. Research is key, so see what the reviews say. For Windows users, one must remember that Windows 7 is nearing. It would be wise to get a motherboard with a considerable amount of expandability memory wise - say up to 8 gigs. Until then you'll probably be running XP, unless you hate yourself and want punishment from Vista. No matter what OS you run, I'd recommend strongly against high RPM drives (10,000 RPM Raptors) and Terabyte drives. Hard drives are the only mechanical things in your computer with the exception of the cooling system, so it is best to go for reliability over performance. Both the terabyte drives and the Raptors have unreasonably high fail rates. If you are fabulously rich, SSD is of course the way to go, but then we were talking about an economic build, so 500GB drives are quite cheap right now. Hell, you could buy 6 and set them up in a RAID 5 to get multi-terabyte space with redundancy just in case one or two fail. Graphic cards are easy, don't buy two and read the reviews, almost always 3 months after the latest fastest card comes out a "budget" card is released that is nearly as fast and a third the price. Again, check the reviews. Don't worry about DirectX 10, it runs slower than DirectX9 and doesn't provide much of a graphics boost. Maybe in a few years once the developers have had more time to play with it. The good news is most newish cards run both and have all that HD coding to run blu-ray, but I'd still recommend running AnyDVD since it protects against damaging DRM and accounts for hardware that is missing the HD stuff, like say your monitor. Cooling systems: Basically you want zero pressure, that means what goes in your case, comes out at the same speed. So calculate the airflow of your fans. Unless you are obsessed with overclocking, water cooling isn't worth its high price, stick with air cooling. It can be nearly as quiet (since even water cooling needs a few case fans for motherboard capacitors and other passively cooled parts) and can even handle some reasonable overclocking. So if you focus your money on the motherboard with a mid range processor, a budget previous gen graphics card, 2 gigs of memory, a few terabytes of hdd ($200), a good power supply (that'll be about $100), a cheap but well ventilated case ($50 to $100), some good fans ($15 each), a thrifty buyer can roll out with a respectable gaming machine in the range of $800. It'll run anything you throw at it for a year or two and can be upgraded for a couple hundred bucks each year to make it run the latest games with ease. The reason builders end up spending so much money is they try to build the fastest computer they can at that moment, rather than building for the most value. You can't compete with the low-end market against the likes of dell, they just get better prices, but you can build a faster computer for cheaper on the mid to upper end computers - or you can simply build a faster computer (but for more) on the highest end stuff. Phase Change cooling, for example, allows for overclocking to the limit of the processor's architecture. You can build a computer that'll be faster than anything on the market for years to come, but you better be ready to own a computer that costs as much as a cheap car. Combine phase change with total immersion cooling and you'll have effectively built yourself a Cray Supercomputer - but with less processors. Their rigs pretty much start at 16 processors. "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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| 05-05-09 11:39pm - 5709 days | #14 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Yes they keep messing with suit technology to reduce drag, but I'm figuring that'll get banned again - especially in the Olympics - since poorer competitors can't afford it and are at a disadvantage strictly because of their fiscal status. Several variants have already been banned in Cycling over the years. Then again, the UCI are a bunch of tossers that like to stand in the way of progress. Anyway, we can always hope for a female swimmer that prefers swimming topless in the same way that there was that runner that preferred running barefoot. So much of athletics is psychological that sometimes less efficient methods provide better results because the performer simply believes they do. "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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| 05-05-09 08:44pm - 5709 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'm rather meticulous about organizing the various files separately, but a naming system is smart. A lot of sites use server generated names, which frankly is irritating because it is usually a meaningless string of numbers. Preferred would be something like this: doris_a_001_001.jpg (or .wmv, or whatever) I believe it wise to give the models a last name initial even if they don't use one, that way you can have multiple models with the same name and not worry about it. The first "001" indicates the specific set and then the second "001" dictates the file's order within that set. This way you can have up to 999 sets containing 999 files each. I find that is plenty for most sites. You could even attach your site's name at the beginning if you wanted to be really anal, lol (or at least an abbreviation of the name, say "blp_") "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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| 05-05-09 08:38pm - 5709 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Welcome :-) It is always nice to have another webmaster active in the discussions - there are so many consumers that it is good to have commentary from the production side of porn now and again. I checked out your site which looks nice - despite Wittyguy's protests, I find the blog aspect easy enough to navigate and seems to display the content well. I agree with him that listing the video sizes would be nice and perhaps a few full size preview photos and a few 30 second, full size preview videos would be wise. I also wanted to point out that your site lists the desktop images as free and then requests the user to join to download them. Again, welcome to the community and please dive right in, we've got lots of active discussions going on right now :-) "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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| 05-05-09 08:22pm - 5709 days | #10 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I certainly think that a lot of women will choose to wear sports bras in most athletic events, but if they are more comfortable topless (and there are some that really don't need to hold much in place) and men are allowed to perform the event topless (like swimming) then women should be given the same right. Perhaps they'll be able to maneuver better in the water using erect nipples as dive planes, lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 05-05-09 08:17pm - 5709 days | #9 | |||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Last I checked men's chests are still considered a sexual fascination as well. For that matter so are human legs, posteriors, arms (oh the hubbub over Michelle Obama's arms), faces, finger nails and every other damned bit. Humans are generally rather obsessed with the way each other look. This is a simple matter of equality. If topless dress is considered too sexually provocative and is impacting workplace productivity then fine - businesses can ban it for both sexes. I do not feel the government should be dictating laws based on gender. Nor do I feel it important for the government to be dictating dress code at all.
Sure there is, we can ban topless beach going entirely. Do people so quickly forget the long underwear style suits popularized in Victorian era? I don't recommend returning to the modest times of yore, I personally like seeing skin. If women had the right and exercised it regularly, it would rather quickly become blasé. One doesn't exactly hear of European beaches erupting in a riot every time a beautiful woman takes off her top. Then there are the cultures that have existed for ages with the women always running around topless. Humans are very adaptable.
And so why should they have to wear a 2 piece suit to nullify your affront to their appearance? I do believe the phrase is: What's good for the goose is good for the gander. "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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| 05-05-09 01:52pm - 5710 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As a New York resident, I can happily report that on a State level, it has been legal for years. The sad part is that many counties and townships have outlawed it on their own and few people have tried to combat it. Legal fees are just so prohibitive these days. That said, women can feel free wandering through our many (and huge) state forests topless - though I can't say I would guarantee they won't get harassed. People tend to be so bloody willing to tell other people what to do. If I have to look at fat topless men at any beach, I'd like to be able to look at topless women too, whatever their body type. "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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| 05-05-09 01:43pm - 5710 days | #44 | ||
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
True, that is the other half of it is that there are those who pirate would never buy the movie, even if pirating didn't exist. That combined with what I was saying in regards to free advertising, means the theoretical dollar amounts of theft quoted by the movie industry is absolutely bogus. The real theft is a much, much smaller number - probably just a few percentage points of that massive number - since only a very small number of the consumers of pirated movies would be actually buying DVDs if they couldn't get it free. The over arching point of it all is that while some policing of pirated media is acceptable, jailing kids or putting extremely aggressive copy-protection software on the discs (like done by SONY) is bad business at best. Of course the prosecuting kids thing is more of an issue I have with District Attorneys drumming up votes and whatnot. I suppose I really shouldn't dive into that whole ball of wax right now, but suffice it say, I'm very strongly against prosecuting children as adults - be it for music piracy or murder. Anyway, movie piracy be damned, with Netflix Watch Instant and Hulu around it won't be long before it has little attraction left. Back to the topic of current and upcoming movies: As for the Star Trek thing, yeah us Trekkie purists will probably hate it. Sad but true. For a little while I had hopes what with Simon Pegg as Scottie and Karl Urban as Bones. Then I started seeing more of the actually footage and realized they were taking it in a route that seemed a mix between the new, serious and rather dull James Bond and oddly, the super colorful action of Fantastic Four. At least if my expectations are dismally low I probably won't be too disappointed when I actually see it. As for Wolverine, well - I liked X-Men 1, and especially 2 (3 was horrible) and so I had high hopes when I heard they were going to make a movie focused exclusively on Wolverine since he was always the strongest hero character of the series (with the brief exception of Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler). Then it started getting tons of bad reviews and my hopes dropped. Ebert (whom I generally trust from his written reviews) really panned it though I'm a bit reticent to put my full trust in his review because he said this:
This lends me to believe that he hasn't read much of the source material at all, since Wolverine is in my book by far the most interesting of the X-Men. Drawing the short straw would really be getting cast as Cyclops - though I'd say James Marsden did a respectable job. Granted I wouldn't say Wolverine is the absolute most interesting character ever created by Marvel, but he's probably in the top 10. "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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| 05-05-09 11:26am - 5710 days | #41 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
And so begins the era of topless news broadcasting... Excellent - I'll no longer need to subscribe to Naked News; I wait in breathless anticipation :-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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| 05-04-09 07:19pm - 5710 days | #32 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The issue really isn't the quality of the public's taste in movies or if they care about high definition or not. The issue is time versus money and how much the hobby is a part of the public's lives. As long as movie (or music) piracy remains illegal and somewhat policed, it will continue to be difficult to use. The most popular sites will be shut-down now and again and the viewers will have to find new sources for their content. This takes a certain amount of time and dedication. The thrifty population that does it will become used to seeing movies. It will become a habit that they return to again and again. When that population starts making more money, they tend to be burdened by more responsibilities and their free time becomes more valuable to them. While they used to troll around the internet for hours and didn't care when they accidentally downloaded a mislabeled movie file, now they are looking at those hours as worth $25 each, or more. Then that $15 legal copy of the movie they can download from Amazon.com looks much, much nicer. It is what they want, when they want it and at a price they are willing to pay for the convenience of it all. "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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| 05-04-09 05:24am - 5711 days | #28 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The only thing movie piracy does to the movie industry is create an interest in movies. Pirated movies, since they are cheaper than legal movies (otherwise what would be the point), are either lower quality or harder to get - usually both. The market for pirated movies are people that wouldn't be buying movies in the first place. Especially cam videos - if the customer is ok with a horrible, shaky, color-drained video with the audience's heads bouncing during it, then they aren't going to pay for blu-ray. The high quality DVD rips are usually done by college students and others with zero money and excessive amounts of free time. I used to partake in the sport of movie piracy, and it fostered such an interest in it that as I began to earn an income, my movie collection began to grow. It now exceeds 100 movies. The basic point is if you have the money to buy movies, you probably don't have the time to spend acquiring good pirated movies - and if you enjoy the crappy ones, you wouldn't bother buying the real ones anyway. The music industry yelled about losing business with the release of tapes and then again with the release of CDs. In both cases, their total sales increased substantially due to the increase of interest in music that the two mediums generated. The same will be shown for movies down the road. The figures that the movie industry is saying they are losing is a theoretical based on if every copy in the world had been purchased but it is fantasy to think that so many copies would have been distributed if piracy didn't exist. Movie piracy is essentially building them new markets at a price far cheaper than any traditional advertising campaign of similar magnitude. "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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| 05-01-09 07:33am - 5714 days | #40 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'd recommend Google Chrome to all since it is much faster than IE and Firefox, but I gotta say it is nice to have DownThemAll! with Firefox for those damned sites that don't have zip files. Sadly Chrome doesn't use DownThemAll! yet. Someday... I don't ever use IE anymore, what with Firefox now working with Netflix Watch Instant. Netflix needs to get on the Chrome train too. Chrome already works wonders with Hulu. "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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| 05-01-09 07:30am - 5714 days | #21 | ||
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As a fan to a fan, I'd highly recommend investing in the French version of the DVD for Transporter 2 if you haven't already. It has reworked special effects to make the explosions and such look better and it is uncensored - the silly American edition has the model's nipples digitally erased. What a waste of good nipples.
I'll post that list one of these days. As usual I've been putting off completing that movie list still. Considering it has already blown past the 10,000 character mark it is probably going to be several posts... "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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| 04-30-09 02:04pm - 5715 days | #16 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'll grant you there are plenty of crap Hollywood movies out there, but I'd argue picking Transporter 2 as an example is a bad choice in a few ways. Firstly it can't really be pinned on Hollywood because it is French (Europa Corp produced it and Luc Besson helped write it.), but that is largely besides the point since it is filmed in Miami and in English. The real issue is that Transporter 2 is an action comedy - it is both a love letter to action movies and a cheeky admonishment of them as well. Transporter 1 and Transporter 3 sadly try to take themselves seriously - but Transporter 2 does not. Everything is pumped up into a satire of itself. Colors are super saturated. Explosions are made using CGI so they can be even bigger and sillier. The car escapes from police by jumping to another building but their isn't any obvious exit from that building, so they just cut and let it drive across other builds, spanning an alley with its wheels on opposite buildings. Hell, they even make fun of the attractive evil female cliché by actually having her chase the good guy around Miami while wearing only lingerie. This is almost as much of a spoof as The Big Hit was - and that too got panned because people didn't realize it was a complete comedy. Also, don't write off Jason Statham, he is an excellent actor and brings a lot to any movie, even if that movie is a goofy action flick. Slate recently ran an excellent article about him: "How Jason Statham Became the World's Biggest B-Movie Star" If you want to tear apart Hollywood films, I'd complain about Mission: Impossible III (even Philip Seymour Hoffman couldn't save it; not to mention the horror of having to watch Tom Cruise star in something again), Next (I curse Memento for making it again popular for films to rely on a single gimmick to keep the audience in their seat), or Hancock (damn Hollywod for destroying the great idea at the core of that movie, it could have been a classic). These movies had massive budgets and yet they utterly failed in creating a memorable or enjoyable experience. For the amount of money laid on the line, it would be nice if somebody would happily remember the project 20 years from now. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Apr 30, 2009, 02:09pm | |
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| 04-23-09 09:44pm - 5721 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
As you said, this one looks way to action-y for me. I'll watch it because I've yet to miss a Star Trek movie in the theater since First Contact (sadly the last good one as well), but I'm not expecting much. Motorcycles and space walk fight scenes aren't what made star trek fun. It was the social satire, the tongue-in-cheek dialogue and the overall camp of it all. It was cool, but it was goofy all at the same time. You always know the writers were laughing too. "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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| 04-20-09 02:18pm - 5725 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Modems measure their speed in Megabits, your browser measures speed in Kilobytes. A byte is 8 bits, so your maximum download speed is at most 768 Kilobytes per second. Most ISPs don't provide their rated maximum speed at all times, especially peak time. You are reporting 88.5% of your rated speed, so that isn't too bad. I'd recommend switching to higher speed plan if you want better speeds. Most cable companies have a high speed plane that will get you into the range of 20 Megabits per second, aka 2.5 Megabytes per second (2560 kilobytes) - but it usually costs about $80 a month. "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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| 04-18-09 01:11am - 5727 days | #37 | ||||
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
One of these days... lol
Yeah, the closest I've gotten to a mountain bike was a Schwinn (I know, I know... at least it wasn't a Huffy) Crosstrainer - it was ok (built back when they were trying to capture the mid-level market) and allowed for some relatively aggressive off road riding, but since nobody else was really into it I never got into it myself. Though the my glee for destruction and mayhem certainly means I'll probably venture in that direction again sometime in the future. Oddly, 4k nearly maxes out the recumbent market unless you delve into the odd stuff like tandems, trikes or custom ones looking to break the land speed records. Colnago just doesn't make a recumbent yet, lol I blame the UCI and their stupid practice of banning any advances in technology. If Lance Armstrong used a recumbent in the time trials, everybody would have one. Plus the time trials would be at Formula 1 speeds, so that would be sweet too. Damn, I would have loved to have seen Miguel Indurain using a fully faired recumbent in his prime - he'd probably have broken the sound barrier.
It is quite sad how rare they are because for most riders, they are the better choice. The main problems with them is low visibility traffic wise, lack of sprinting (again, a problem for traffic - but hill climbing as well) and the fact that you can't fully jump them (as a safety maneuver, not for kicks) though you can hop the front wheel if you are ballsy. The comfort level is unparalleled and they are basically as fast as tandems - faster if you get a fairing. They are pretty much the ultimate touring bikes. I wouldn't recommend them for hardcore city commuting, but towns, suburbs, office parks - any place where taxis and buses aren't going to be hunting you - then they are fine. There is a bit of a steep learning curve, most people fall over a bunch of times before getting good at taking off, but a few days practice will do the trick. Just expect a few bruises if you are practicing on the lawn, lol If you can find yourself a nice cheap used one - I'd highly recommend it. Novice riders should start out on Long Wheel Base (LWB) models as they are much, much easier to ride. The SWB (short) models are more maneuverable, but much twitchier so are that much more likely to tumble off it. Once I get fitter, I'd love to buy one of the fully faired recumbents - they say a descent rider can easily cruise along at 45 mph in those things. Though crosswinds can be a bit of an issue. I'd have to get one of the ones with an open floor for sure - it is kind of silly to require a push start from a friend if you are using it as a commuter.
A good, solid bike will last you forever really (unless you crash it, lol). My brother recently bought a nice used hardtail so he could go riding with a friend of his. He has been mountain biking off and on using loaned bikes for years and found in his experience the full suspension mountain bikes (and his rich friends had the ridiculous ones) really aren't worth it unless you want to take on downhill racing. The cost jump of going to a full suspension can be so prohibitive... Anyway - glad to know there are other cyclists on the forum :-) Porn & Cycling, I think somebody actually did a softcore site aimed at that a while ago, sadly I can't find the link. "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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| 04-17-09 05:15am - 5728 days | #34 | |
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San Andreas is awesome! I bought a copy from Amazon when the "Hot Coffee" patch made all the news - gotta love Amazon, everybody else had pulled the game from their shelves, but Amazon was still selling it :-) Only problem with Hot Coffee is that it makes the game about 1000 times more difficult - the Hot Coffee scene in San Andreas' version of Las Vegas requires you to whip the girl in an S&M setting but your timing has to be perfect or she kicks you out. Wouldn't be a problem except it is part of an integral mission that won't let you complete the game otherwise. I've been told GTA IV is a bit more serious and less cartoony than Vice City and San Andreas, but still has that dark sense of humor, not to mention a whopping 20 hours of in game TV, lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 04-16-09 01:53pm - 5729 days | #31 | |
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Thanks! Glad to have been part of this interesting new series, I'm looking forward to see next one :-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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| 04-14-09 01:30pm - 5731 days | #27 | |
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Totally understandable - I don't give out my Toadsith name to professional contacts so it would be quite difficult for them to find it with just my real name to go on, but it isn't necessarily enough. So I can understand playing it safe :-) I'd second a Drooler nomination though! "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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| 04-14-09 01:30pm - 5731 days | #26 | |
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I hope I've answered the questions already posted satisfactorily for all but anyone should feel free to ask follow up questions or completely new ones! I hope it has been interesting so far :-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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| 04-14-09 01:15pm - 5731 days | #24 | |
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Originally it was the useful, up-to-date reviews posted by users from all over, but these days, without a doubt - it is the forum. I think we've got an incredible, interesting, respectful group of people from all walks of life coming together to discuss not just porn but whatever happens to be on folks minds. I love that there isn't any of that petty bickering and that people aren't afraid to argue topics for extended periods of time - as the result is usually quite enlightening. Who'd have guessed that porn would result in the most engaging, polite and entertaining forum I've run across? "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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| 04-14-09 01:12pm - 5731 days | #23 | |
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Oh it is so Wittyguy's turn next! :-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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| 04-14-09 01:11pm - 5731 days | #22 | |
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Think of my reviews here like Consumer Reports, I'm looking to report on quality not style. It is in the idea that everybody has their own fetish, but they can all agree on the quality of the content, even if the content doesn't always tickle them the same way. I reserve most of my opinions for these forums :-) "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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| 04-14-09 01:06pm - 5731 days | #21 | |
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I'd always hoped to get seven figures earning for me in the stock market so I wouldn't have to pursue work that earned money and I could still buy an interesting car every few years. 'Course, the way the stock market is going these days that has been more of a dream than ever. I'm not the most wildly ambitious person, I'm just want for a quiet, happy life that allows me to work on whatever new hobby I've acquired that day. "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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| 04-14-09 01:02pm - 5731 days | #20 | |
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Sleep is way up there. I'm a big fan. I also read books and magazines as well as research whatever has caught my eye that day. I'm not opposed to the occasional hike especially if it in is in a park devoid of other people. Biking of course - though I've been avoiding exercise more than I should. I'm also a big fan of food (in more ways than one, hence I shouldn't be avoiding exercise.) Driving is perhaps one of my more unusual habits - at least in the states. I like to drive to drive the car, not drive to see the world. It is more about the relaxing, meditative but excited state that navigating a car around difficult corners can induce. It is quite addictive. The only Americans that I know that also do this are motorcyclists. I use a car instead because I don't want to donate my organs to other people. I'm greedy like 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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| 04-14-09 12:43pm - 5731 days | #19 | |
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My favorite games are Adventure Games - like the old Sierra games Space Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Police Quest, et cetera. Sadly not many companies make them anymore, so I also like Real Time Strategy games like the classic Total Annihilation or the Command & Conquer series. I also am a big fan of Bethesda's Elder Scroll series, I specifically loved Daggerfall and Oblivion. Once Grand Theft Auto 3 came out (the first two were rather difficult to control) I really fell in love with those as well - I'll probably buy GTA 4 soon now that some patches have come out. I'll also check out various first-person shooters if they come highly recommended, I enjoyed F.E.A.R. immensely - though that creepy little girl scared the bajeezus outta me a few times. The Max Payne games were fun as well. Oh, and I liked Assassin's Creed, though I can't say it didn't get a bit repetitive. I really just liked bounding around on roof tops and occasionally dropping down to terrify the peasants. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Apr 14, 2009, 12:49pm (Toadsith: Added some links.) | |
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| 04-14-09 12:39pm - 5731 days | #18 | |
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I will post that list, honest! lol (it's over 10,000 characters right now - might have to be more than one post) Maybe the other users are working respectable jobs, rather than us web based folks :-P Still, I'll try to answer any questions anybody posts! "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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| 04-14-09 12:32pm - 5731 days | #16 | |
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Haha, oh no - not the movie question again - Wittyguy was mocking me about my tardiness with posting my favorite movies list in that other thread, I have been working on it here and there and it is well over 50 movies and still going. It sort of like asking me my favorite color - can I answer all of them? I'll just go with my latest favorite movie: OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions As for TV show, that one, oddly, is actually quite easy: Top Gear (current format) "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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| 04-14-09 12:27pm - 5731 days | #15 | |
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Well I got into biking because my parents and brother were into it. My parents actually biked from NYC to Maine for their honeymoon. They took their wedding money and bought two brand new, fully race-ready Bottecchia bicycles - even today those are still two very fine machines - in fact my brother is having them restored this Summer. My brother got into road racing at about age 14 and that sort of dragged the family back into cycling. He eventually got up to racing on a Pro-Am team before a nasty accident (concrete wall at 40+ mph) took him out of it for about a year. He still rides and plans on racing again in a few years, but it has been about 8 years since he's raced seriously. Anyway, when my brother got into racing, my parents got back into riding and they got a tandem so I could ride too. My dad rode as the captain and I as the stoker, that led to me completing my first century (100 miles in one day) at the age of 9. To answer the obvious question, yes riding a tandem is easier than riding a single on everything but going up hills, but the stoker still has to work freaking hard, I wasn't sitting back there with my feet off the pedals... usually. Well, fast forward a number of years and we'd been talking about recumbent bicycles for years - they are faster, more comfortable and better at everything except climbing and sprinting. They also hold the land speed record for human powered vehicles - which now exceeds 80 mph. So we happened upon one in a shop going for $200, it was an aluminum long wheel base model, banged up but still working well. My dad bought it for me for my birthday and I got into riding it quite a bit - it is hard to learn how to balance on a bike while lying down, but once you do - you can ride these things forever. Sure you get tired, but never sore - they are great. A couple years later someone took note that we stored a lot of bikes in our garage and decided to relieve us of them. We lost everything but the recumbent and the soft ride (the Bottecchias weren't stored there). They made off with the tandem, three racing bikes, a cruiser and a fixed gear. The insurance company quoted my Cannondale at over 2 grand - so I dumped it all (and about $1500 more) into getting the best recumbent I could find for my purposes. I was focused on getting full suspension so didn't have to worry about the odd pot hole. I ended up with the HP Velotechnik Street Machine with a custom paint job (spending that kind of money, why not?). It's fully kitted out with dual disc brakes, top of the line Shimano mountain bike chainset (I don't know why they don't offer the road chainset), dual racks and so on. It is a pretty sweet machine. Final bill was just over $4000. Of course, as these things always go, I really haven't ridden it much - but hopefully that'll change this summer. I gots plans in that department. "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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| 04-14-09 12:03pm - 5731 days | #14 | |
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That it is ridiculously organized? Or perhaps "21 Sextury Productions" as that is the first alphabetically. Upon a little longer inspection my guess is they'd marvel on the breadth of collection - not its sheer size but more the scope of fetishes it covers. I'm interested in nearly all porn, so there's a little bit of everything. "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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| 04-14-09 11:58am - 5731 days | #13 | |
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Having visited Germany, it has some attraction so maybe a small town within easy driving distance to Berlin. Or maybe a town close to Marseille, the Taxi movie series has made me very interested in that city. Then again, the Isle of Man doesn't have speed limits outside of the towns.... Lots of options, so hard to choose... "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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| 04-14-09 11:54am - 5731 days | #12 | |
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I grew up in Moravia, a small town in Central New York on the southern end of Owasco Lake. It's the birth place of Millard Fillmore (the 13th President), childhood home of John D. Rockefeller and was famous for a man having fucked a pig. Being the town drunk (though he resided mostly in Locke, an even smaller and less developed nearby town) he passed on after getting nailed by a car. Again. As for interesting stories, well, it flooded rather severely one year. So much so that I heard a buddy of mine calling for me from front of the house and when I got out there I saw he was in a boat. He'd started building a plywood boat a while back, so with the flooding he finished it and was actually able to navigate it all the way across town. He also had with him an arsenal of crab apples to defend against evil doers. "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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| 04-14-09 11:42am - 5731 days | #11 | |
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My great aunt's finished basement had Cheesecake style, hand-drawn pin-ups put there when they installed the bar and poker table. They were originals, pretty cool stuff. I was very young when I first saw them and was rather uninterested in them at the time. I only took note of them because I was shooed away from them pretty quickly by an elder. "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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| 04-14-09 11:39am - 5731 days | #10 | |
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Without any hesitation, director - while I'm sure there's fun to be had in front of the camera, I'd much rather control everything. It could be good fun working with the cinematographer for the best shots, scouting location, coaching the stars for the right performance, working out the script (gasp!) and so on. I've often thought about directing porn, it could be quite entertaining. "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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| 04-14-09 11:36am - 5731 days | #9 | |
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Hmmmmm.... tough question. Well, if I were to chose a current celebrity, I'd have to go with Bai Ling, just because she's such a freak. For a current porn star, probably Amber Rayne as her enthusiasm is unmatched. Though Amy Lee would be high up there too, she's a bit more aesthetically appealing to me and still has lots of enthusiasm. For celebrities of any era in their prime, (I'll keep it within the last 100 years) I'd have to go with either Kay Kendall or Audrey Hepburn. For porn stars of any time, I'd of course go with the great and sadly recently late Marilyn Chambers. "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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| 04-14-09 11:29am - 5731 days | #8 | |
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Single and not actively looking. Never been married either - probably important to mention with the whole divorce rate these days. "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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| 04-14-09 11:21am - 5731 days | #7 | |
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I'm not a big drinker but that's more a matter of having not acquired the taste rather than having much against it. I do think it is rather pointless to get completely hammered, especially every other week night, but to each's own. Usually, if I do drink it is Crème de Menthe - preferably chilled. "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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| 04-14-09 11:13am - 5731 days | #6 | |
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Aha, OK, so I'm still driving my first car, a 1996 Toyota Camry V6 LE - it is a pretty nice thing, but as with all Toyotas - a bit homely and a bit dull. Of course, you buy a Toyota because it is indestructible, not as a bit of sexy. It has had many problems like you'd expect from a 13 year old car, but it has also seen 217 thousand miles - so I don't really blame it at all. Also, the V6 is quite entertaining, more so than a Corolla for sure, and since most of the shitty American cars are tuned for highway cruising, I can usually jackrabbit off the line faster than any car I meet. To date, I've only been beaten fair and square 4 times I think. An all-wheel drive japanese beastie, a Porsche, a BMW and a seriously beefy pick-up truck. Pretty impressive that it took things like that to beat a little family saloon. However, it isn't exactly the car I wish I was driving, I've set my sights on a 2006 or newer Lotus Elise. While not as fast as the Exige, it can be a convertible (sort-of) so I thought that'd be nice during pleasant weather and it is still hella fast and handles nicer than pretty much any car available in the US without breaking the $100k barrier. The best bit is that used ones usually have less than 20 thousand miles on them and go for around $20k. That's serious bang for your buck! "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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| 04-14-09 11:03am - 5731 days | #5 | |
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The most noteworthy aspect is probably my decision to be home schooled at the end of 9th grade. I was pissed off by the incompetence of my teachers, especially the fact that my English teacher was actually competing with me in an effort to prove she had the superior grasp of the subject. Hey, it's not my fault she never took the time to read "The Hunting of the Snark". So for the next 3 years my father (who already held the position of home maker for 20 years or so) taught me a mix of subjects and I went to community colleges for the sciences and other courses I was interested in. I actually ended up automatically earning my GED before my "senior" year because I had accumulated so many college credits. After that I went to a 4 year school; picked a program I liked but took 2 and half years to realize it wasn't my favorite program (this was physics) and so I dropped out. Now, about 5 years later, I'm back in the process of returning to school - this time in Art with an intention of getting a job in Print Media Advertising because I like interesting photos matched with an amusing bit of text. Also because I've done a bunch of print ads for my company that were printed in several nationally distributed magazines. Good fun. "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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| 04-14-09 10:55am - 5731 days | #4 | |
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I'm the webmaster for an internet based company that retails computer accessories. A relatively small company, but it remains the largest within its specific niche market, so we are kinda proud of 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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| 04-14-09 10:52am - 5731 days | #3 | |
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I'm honored to have been chosen start off this new feature - I'll be curious to learn a bit more about fellow users :-) Well, starting at the top: The Toadsith nickname dates back a long, long ways to when my family was finally getting rid of AOL. Many of my friends still used the service so I decided to sign up with the new AOL Instant Messenger as a free way to chat with them. Because we had only just switched over from AOL my old name was still listed as in use so I had to create a new one. The creation of the name was out of necessity, I was trying to think of something fast. Earlier that day I had found a particularly large toad in the garden so Toads were on my mind, and being both a kid at the time as well as a bit of a fan, Star Wars was never far from my mind, so I popped the two together, and checked to see if it was taken. It wasn't and hasn't been ever since. With only one exception, I'm the only "Toadsith" you'll find on the internet. Someone used the name fleetingly when a forum decided all of its members needed to update their names - but they complained and so the forum went back to the old names. "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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| 04-10-09 10:31pm - 5734 days | #10 | |
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I really think it depends on how much time is put into the BTS. Usually they are a bit of a waste because it is just somebody following the girls around when they are dressing and sitting for hair & makeup. Every once in awhile you get an interesting glimpse into the actual behind the scenes, like various directorial decisions, hiring, paperwork, location finding and so on. In those cases you get to see what makes the industry tick and how people make a living doing this. If I have time I almost always look at the behind the scenes for traditional movies for this reason as well. It can be quite fascinating. Yes, the girls tend to be stupid, it is a sad truth of porn that most women wouldn't be doing it if they could make similar cash any other way in their current situation and with their current skills and talents. However, the directors and male talent usually aren't complete morons, so if they actually chat with the camera, it can be pretty interesting or at least funny. That really leads to another point: Interesting personalities. Some porn stars have really camera friendly personalities so I'll always watch BTS videos if they are in it. For example, don't ever ever skip a BTS with Evan Stone or Randy Spears - both are absolute riots - Evan Stone will always do a veritable improve stand-up comedy routine when allowed to. The guy loves the camera and will crack as many jokes as possible to keep it on him. So, an absolute waste of time? Can be, yes, but I always take a glance just in case it isn't. "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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