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atrapat's Poll
I agree that maybe it would be a bad idea giving a wider exposure to particular PU users' reviews or comments but why not, for instance, tweet about poll results? I believe some of the PU poll results ended regularly in some adult industry magazine, at least when I first heard about PU a couple years ago (AVN? XBiz?). Also, the what's hot section at TBP is daily tweet material by its character count alone. Just some ideas.
Regarding the privacy issues, I don't see how we should be afraid of sending 140 characters at a time of our opinion when some of us have to trim our PU contributions to fit in the character limit here. For the same reason we don't sign up at PU with our real names, there's no need to sign up at social networks with your real one.
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05-02-11 02:37pm
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All Reality Pass
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malikstarks's Reply
Thanks for having confirmed they are no long on a set update rate.
It's true that pictures are much more worth it than videos. Funny thing is that videos are tiny in size (often around 150 Mbytes) and you may download 10 per day at most but there's absolutely no limit on how many pictures you may download.
On a side note, since pictures here are usually named with consecutive numbers, it's pretty easy to grab whole sets by using batch descriptors on Firefox's DownThemAll.
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05-01-11 04:01am
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Live Jasmin
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04-30-11 09:42am
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All Reality Pass
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malikstarks's Comment
Sorry to hear that. Are they updating, though? I had a membership to a clone of this site but I believe they stopped updating earlier this year. I imagine video quality sucks here too.
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04-30-11 04:30am
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Puba
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04-26-11 07:00am
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jberryl69's Reply
That scene is available at Whale Tail'n (part of Porn.com subscription). It's from March 29, 2011. The scene may not be found by a site search. Porn.com indexing is very messed up.
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04-15-11 12:00pm
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Streamate.com
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nadiencendia's Reply
Thanks for the tip. It's not as slow as actually entering the room and you get the benefit of not being banned by a trigger-happy model but I find it has a extremely slow response time compared to other cam sites' similar functionality.
It's also worth stressing that this feature only seems to be available at Streamate.com and not at its various clones. Since most models actively promote their cammodels subdomain, this feature is likely lost by many users.
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03-24-11 12:43pm
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108
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Streamate.com
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02-27-11 10:42am
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109
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Streamate.com
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85.0
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Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Lots of exclusive US hosts. Popular among US porn stars.
- 100s of the usual non-US hosts that may be found at other sites.
- Site is geared at facilitating chats: little more than chats is offered.
- You may mute other chat users and send your requests only to host.
- Most hosts I tried offer sound even in free chat.
- Pay chats may be private (group) or exclusive (1 on 1, full privacy).
- SMS alerts at no additional cost. Also, favorites RSS feeds.
- Negative reviews of performers are not censored.
- Not charged for peeking into a private show for a few seconds.
- Excellent log of money spent: in-site and by email.
- Billed by epoch. No regional pricing.
- No silly contests among members or among hosts.
- Additional membership to access weekly show plus its archive.
- Additional fan clubs (“Goldclubs”) for HQ videos and photos of a host. |
| Cons: |
- Prices higher than at other sites (both US and non-exclusive).
- Non-exclusive hosts have higher cam quality at other sites.
- No info on how much time you’ve been in current private.
- No alert when you are nearing daily limit while in private.
- Sorting options are easily lost while browsing.
- Almost no means to share experiences with fellow members.
- Hosts rarely honor the schedule on their profile.
- Sample photos of hosts are at very low quality.
- On a host’s profile, suggested similar hosts are never online.
- Occasionally, you find recorded shows passing as live ones.
- No clear taxonomy of online states: must enter host profile and guess a little to see how much “online” she is (see separate comment on the subject).
- Too many clone sites. What’s the difference with Cammodels? |
| Bottom Line: |
While some cam sites resemble a police state obsessed with milking every bit of interaction between you and the hosts and others are an anarchy full of amateur designs, emoticons and explicit sex in free chat, Streamate.com makes some sort of compromise.
You won’t see anything below the waist in free chat and contacting a host outside the site isn’t encouraged but they don’t charge you for simple things like sending an in-site message to a host and many hosts have twitter accounts. Hosts who have a site of their own often plug it while in free chat or even in their profile page.
I have a love-hate relationship with the site’s interface. On every chat window, there’s a button that mutes all other users and has your words only seen by hosts. Good both for blocking the peanut gallery and for privacy although the icon isn’t exactly easy to understand. Also, you don’t need to leave free chat to check host’s prices. On the other hand I found many issues in listings. I never manage to keep hosts sorted the way I’d like and I feel the fact that a host appears as “online” regardless of “how much online” she really is deserved a comment of its own here.
This site, and mainly its clone site Cammodels, are currently very popular among US porn stars. One of the reasons could be that Streamate offers a chat widget that may be embedded at the members area of a site and host member chats accessible at the same time via Streamate. It’s not unusual to find 10-15 fairly well known stars online at a given time, even at Europe-friendly hours.
Regarding private chats, they have a great log of all your past activities in the last 3 months: minutes and seconds spent with each host and on which day. Unfortunately, you don’t get much info while in private. Not knowing how much time you’ve been in your current private session is not unusual at other sites but they should at least tell you that you are about to hit your daily limit so you may properly end the session.
I find confusing the overabundance of clone sites that work the exact same way. US porn stars and hosts always post links to Cammodels, not Streamate.com. I would suggest anyone interested to join through Streamate.com and not a clone because Streamate.com offers registered users a preview of a host’s free chat when you place your mouse over her picture on a listing. None of the clone sites seems to offer it. |
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02-27-11 10:36am
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graymane's Poll
There should be a clear distinction between a girl gobbling the whole shaft at her own will during a blowjob and the guy forcing her to do it while holding down her head from the back.
Deep Throat Love used to be a great example of the former but, checking recent updates in the free tour, I see more of the latter: a couple previews show girls with demeaning words painted on their foreheads. There also seems to be lots of re-released content.
In any case, anyone who's interested in deep throats should check it out, if only for the old scenes.
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02-27-11 07:08am
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Pure Ashley
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80.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Official site of US adult model Ashley Jane aka Pure Ashley.
- All natural, no tattoos, couple piercings, hair dyed blond.
- Most content seems original and exclusive.
- 38 videos: 22 solo, 15 boy-girl, 1 girl-girl. 15 minutes on average.
- Video resolution: 720x480. WMV (1500kbps) or MP4 (900kbps).
- Videos available in streaming and download format.
- Videos are very diverse. Nice use of lingerie in many of them.
- Videos have no music. No one but the model utters a sound.
- 10+ solo galleries. 1,200 pictures. 1200x800. 90% portrait.
- Ashley Jane has done very little boy-girl outside this site.
- Much more fingering than toys in solo content.
- Blog updated a couple times a month with short entries.
- Cam shows allegedly taking place twice a week at 10pm EST. |
| Cons: |
- All videos are letterboxed and somewhat dark.
- Currently migrating to a new site interface. New and old available.
- Videos may be found only at old, only at new or at both sites.
- MP4 videos at the new site are at a lower bitrate: worse quality.
- New site features like scene rating or search don’t work at all.
- Can’t confirm chat schedule due to time zone differences.
- Cam shows are not archived.
- No updates in the last month.
- No zip files for photos.
- Non-descriptive file names in most videos. |
| Bottom Line: |
Pure Ashley is the official site of American adult model Ashley Jane. A 23 years old all natural girl with no tattoos but dyed hair and a couple piercings: clit and navel. Nice personality. She has also worked for other companies since 2009 doing solo, girl-girl and BDSM scenes and very little boy-girl content.
I enjoyed the videos a lot. Likely filmed by her boyfriend, who often joins in the action in POV. There’s no fixed structure in the videos but Ashley Jane almost always starts explaining what’s going on, like what sexual craving she has at that moment, and she usually keeps talking to the camera through the video. The cameraman has the good sense of not uttering a word ever in reply which makes the videos even more enjoyable. He doesn’t even moan when cumming. She does moan a lot but not so much as to feel unnatural. Lots more fingering than toys in solo scenes. Lots of blowjobs but also intercourse, handjobs and even a couple footjobs. I specially liked some boy-girl videos filmed in a sneaky manner: at a sex shop booth, in a dressing room at the mall after trying on some sexy panties or at a private pool’s toilet. She’s not shy of doing anal or swallowing occasionally.
The downside of the videos is that they are all dark and letterboxed to fit 4:3 format, which means lots of black bars when viewed in a widescreen monitor. The lighting issues go well with the flair of those scenes filmed in hiding but it doesn’t make any sense in those filmed at home.
All photos are solo strip tease from sexy clothes ending in fingering. While searching for more content from Ashley Jane, I found out some of the sets are also available at ATK Premium sites : ATK Petites, at least. The girl-girl video also seems to come from a shoot for ATK.
Site currently has both an old and a new version. After logging in, you go to the old site and have a small link to the new one on top. The new version has a nicer interface, good previews and content is divided in categories but still has issues. MP4 videos at the new site look worse due to lower bitrate. I kept the WMV versions from the old site. New updates only appear at new site.
Regarding interaction, it’s hard for me to tell. Webcam section announces weekly chats but they are scheduled in the middle of the night in my timezone and are not archived so I don’t know if they are taking place. Some blog entries suggest they took place in the past but also that there were issues. Free tour lists a twitter and a facebook account but both have been shut down recently.
I canceled because they didn’t update while I was a member. Not even a blog post showing site is still active. It doesn’t look good either that Ashley Jane has disappeared from the social network scene. I’d have stayed if they had released a new video weekly but I’d appreciate if they could solve the technical problems in them: no letterboxing, more light and higher bitrate. |
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02-20-11 07:58am
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112
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iFriends
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68.0
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Decent image quality in private chat.
- Fan Clubs for additional content and interaction with hosts.
- Fan Club fee is free if you spend enough time with host per month.
- Fan Club members get discounts in privates.
- It’s OK to contact hosts online outside site.
- Buying credits in advance (wallet) gives you discount price.
- Various levels of membership with additional advantages.
- Account termination option if you want to leave.
- Didn’t notice the unusual billing practices others reported.
- No regional pricing. |
| Cons: |
- Own billing provider: site knows your credit card number.
- You have to pay for every Fan Club you join.
- Fan Club content is at low resolution and not categorized.
- A host having a Fan Club doesn’t mean she uses it at all.
- Site is extremely complicated and slow to navigate.
- They use its own made up jargon for every option.
- No exit button while in private: must close browser to leave.
- While in private chat, no indication of time spent so far.
- Site doesn’t give any info on recently attended chats.
- No transactional emails when buying credits or chat time.
- May be alerted of favorites online by email only.
- Emails of any kind from the site get always flagged as spam.
- Important info in forms is often shown in the tiniest font.
- Cancellation forms do not always work. No email alternative.
- iFriends and host name appear in credit card statement. |
| Bottom Line: |
You will probably enjoy iFriends a lot and overlook its multiple shortcomings if you find hosts you like with an active Fan Club. But if you are looking for a regular cam site, that’s a completely different story.
The killer app at iFriends are the Fan Clubs. They were the first and other cam sites are starting to offer similar features. You may get photos and videos of the host plus interaction options and personal info. But downloading content or watching it at full resolution isn’t easy and there’s no guarantee that the host will use all Fan Club options. Simple things like a schedule or a bio rarely get filled.
Most cam sites don’t allow communication between clients and hosts outside the site. As a Fan Club member, not only you get host’s email address but also a pay-per-minute phone option. It may come handy while in private chat and it may also be used to phone the host at any time when not online. Hosts may opt out of these features.
iFriends site was slow and unnecessarily complicated for me. Chat streams played smoothly but loading any page took 10-15 seconds. When you click on and online host, the site tries to funnel you into private chat. Price per minute is written in a tiny font and away from the “enter private” button. An option to go to free chat instead is even better hidden. Free chat places a semi-translucent layer on top of the host: she may talk with you but you only see her ridiculously half hidden. And on and on.
Plus, they use their own naming for everything. An in-site message to a host is called an “iFriends Gram”. If you want to add a host to your favorites you have to send her an “iFriends Gram” but leave the message body empty and tick the checkbox that adds her to your favorites plus another one that will send email alerts when she comes online. They call credits “money in your wallet” and have a wallet icon floating on some of the pages.
They offer no info on how you are spending your money. There’s no transactional email when you purchase something and there’s no recent privates section on the site. I had, in fact, to keep my own record with pen and paper and then check it against my credit card statement. Speaking of that, I’m not sure listing site’s and hosts’ names in card statements is a great idea.
Not all cam sites offer a total account cancellation option. iFriends does offer it but you must go through a form that didn’t work at first for me. I didn’t find a tech support email but another non-working form. Everything worked fine when I tried again some days later and was able to cancel. |
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02-12-11 10:09am
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Third Movies
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Reply of
RustyJ's Comment
I'm not currently a member but was some time ago of this and the other two bonus sites: Black Ice Pass and Zero Tolerance on Demand. My impression then and now, after checking the free tour, is that they release full DVDs at most a month after they hit the streets and all but compilations end up being available.
You may check for yourself. Go to Adult DVD Empire, choose DVD tab at the top and look for Third Degree Films sutdio at the bottom right. Comparing the Release date sorting at Adult DVD Empire and at Third Movies, it looks like the 3 most recent non-Compilation physical DVDs still haven't been released at Third Movies but all others on the first page are already fully available at Third Movies.
Answering your other question, Third Movies' free tour hints they are releasing full DVDs and they were doing so back when I was a member but checking bonus site Zero Tolerance On Demand's free tour, it looks like they are releasing the various scenes in a DVD on different days.
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02-09-11 11:30am
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graymane's Reply
I believe buying used clothes from an adult model should fall into a different category, even if they are in exchange for some item from her wish list. Buying clothes would cater to a clothing fetish but it wouldn't make sense if guys who bought off wish lists were doing so because of the signed DVD, picture or magazine the porn star might send in return.
I can't help but think this wish list phenomenon is a postmodern version of what is shown in movies depicting the beginning of the 20th century where guys happily buy showgirls all sort of things and never get laid in exchange.
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02-04-11 11:35am
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Crissy Moran
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02-03-11 11:49am
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atrapat's Poll
As jberryl69 said, many US porn stars post their wish lists on social networks and ask fans to buy something off it, often in exchange for undisclosed "thank you packages" (signed DVDs most likely).
The phenomenon has been mocked but it's undeniable porn stars are monetizing their social network activity better than anyone as people do buy things from those lists: watch Puba.com's Asa Akira opening gifts at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCMW577_Rx0
99% of the time they are Amazon wish lists filled with relatively inexpensive items (around 50 USD). Porn star's physical address is kept private as long as it's Amazon and not a third party who serves the item.
Here's a link to a Gram Ponante blog post where there's more background story for those interested http://gramponante.com/show-a-porn-star-...with-cash-and-gifts/ As usual, it's a fun read.
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02-03-11 11:29am
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Official Lindsey Strutt
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79.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Official site of gorgeous UK glamour model Lindsey Strutt.
-Great looking all natural model. No tattoos, no piercings.
-Nice choice of clothing, lingerie and accessories.
-Model always ends posing topless. But no full nudity.
-Content looked original and exclusive to me.
-70 image sets. Average 80 images per set. 85% vertical.
-6 sets with Kayleigh Pearson or Staci Noblett. Rest, solo.
-Image sizes: 45% 850x567, 45% 1200x800, 10% 1600x1065.
-30 BTS videos. Specs vary a lot.
-Update schedule shown in a calendar.
-Currently updating photos and videos at these rates:
--1 new photo gallery every 6 days at 1600x1065.
--1 new wmv video every 6 days at 1920x1080 8500 kbps. |
| Cons: |
-No update metadata: no release date, no update name, etc.
-Image galleries are not available to download in zip format.
-Useless image thumbnails: all look either distorted or blurred.
-Inconsistent video formats and file naming.
-Only one format available per video.
-New HD videos are pillarboxed (aka reverse letterboxed).
-No video previews but a single thumbnail in the listing page.
-No interaction at all with the model.
-No webcam chats although announced to start 6 months ago.
-Useless message board: model logged just once to answer.
-Pointless diary option: candid photos with no caption at all.
-No information on who the model is (for those new to her).
-No access to other sites from this company. |
| Bottom Line: |
I came across this site because of the new listings section at The Best Porn. I had never heard of the model and I knew almost nothing about the glamour business in the UK but I liked her looks and decided to take the plunge.
I like the photos. She basically wears either bikinis by the pool or bra and panties indoors. Nice, simple sexy lingerie and none of those pantyhose that seem to be so popular in UK erotica. I cannot say the pictures are technically excellent (I’m not very savvy but I felt there were some lighting issues and too many similar shoots within a set) but, for a change, I enjoyed watching a beautiful woman with a perfect bust posing in sexy lingerie that didn’t make her look too young or too slutty. I don’t mind that she never shows anything below the waist but this could be an issue for some.
Videos, on the other hand, offer little. Leaving aside the fact that there are endless combinations of format (flv, mov, wmv - a couple of them are even offered compressed in RAR format for unknown reasons-), resolution (from as low as 384x288 up to 1920x1080 -but letterboxed from an original in 4:3 format also for unknown reasons-) and bitrate (from FLVs at 200 kbps to MOVs at 30,000 kbps), the ones I managed to play without stuttering on my not-so-old computer were basically 1 minute BTS clips with superimposed music. I believe I’d have gotten a better impression had the site offered no videos at all.
As for the interaction, I came out of the site knowing as little about Lindsey Strutt as before. An “About Me” section explaining who she is would have been welcome for those who are not in the UK. For instance, the diary section had some pictures of her with a bunch of soldiers. Turns out Lindsey Strutt went to Iraq to visit the troops as a spokesperson for UK magazine Nuts but I didn’t learn about it here. There’s no point in offering so many interaction options in the site’s menu (webcam chat, diary, message board) if you then make a half-hearted attempt at it or have an “under construction” sign for a year.
In the end, looking at this and the other site from the same company I checked (Official Staci Noblett, no longer listed here), I’m under the impression the models are more interested in posing for magazines than working for their own site. At least for me, it’s not worth staying a member of a solo site if I don’t feel the girl is a bit involved in it. There are other good looking UK models I’d never heard of who have a site with this company but, given the precedents, I’m afraid I’ll have to pass. |
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01-30-11 10:11am
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Live Jasmin
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Reply of
ace of aces's Comment
I've also checked sometimes a model simultaneously at Live Jasmin and other sites and confess I've never found much of a difference in quality apart from aspect ratios and slightly different video sizes. Maybe the fact that Live Jasmin is a European site and most models that work at both places are European has something to do with your perceived quality.
I'm not 100% sure how models are able to stream simultaneously through different networks, but it's most likely achieved by some software that sends the stream to various sites. For practical reasons, I'd discard them having various cameras.
On the other hand, what Live Jasmin claims to be "HD" is quite lacking compared to some of the "HD"s at Cam Crush (a clone of Streamate.com, btw); but the best qualities I've seen there are usually from US models, who are not available at Live Jasmin.
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11-20-10 01:15am
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Reality Kings
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RustyJ's Comment
I'm pretty sure 900x600 is the best they have so the preview ones should give you a good idea of the quality.
Unfortunately, too often they mix many screen captures into the photos to allow continuity of the scene's events even though there's also a separate screen captures section. You end up with mostly 900x600 photos but also some slightly smaller and darker screen captures in between.
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11-14-10 07:36am
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Naughty America
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GCode's Comment
Another thing you may try to do is increase the number of simultaneous downloads. DownThemAll is able to download up to 10 files at the same time and most servers let you do so.
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10-23-10 12:58am
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3D Sex Games
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Khan's Reply
Thanks PU staff for the info. I haven't been a member for a couple years but, regarding the "sex coins" and for anyone curious, I guess I figured it out in the Bottom Line of my 09-28-08 3D Sex Games review. "Sex coins" are spent buying additional game content.
In the past, you couldn't buy coins but you got them regularly by being a member or by doing certain actions in story mode. Guess now it's also possible to actually purchase "sex coins" with real money but I assume regular members will still get sexcoins without having to spend real money (apart from the monthly membership fee, of course).
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10-16-10 03:42am
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3D Kink
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RustyJ's Comment
I'm pretty sure it's a subset with all 3D Sex Villa's (by 3D Sex Games) BDSM content: locations, outfits, and so on. I doubt you get any content that is not originally in 3D Sex Villa, much like 3D Lesbian or Hentai 3D even though those two are managed by the original maker of the game and this one is backed by Kink.com.
The signup page says it's a downloadable exe file for windows, so no applet but standalone program playable as long as you are a member.
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10-16-10 03:28am
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VSex
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PinkPanther's Reply
Other cam sites also have trouble showing the status of a model. Some only have a generic online status when the model is online but don't tell you whether she's in free chat, a private show, a reduced rate group show or whatever and you have to click on the model and go to the profile page to find out.
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09-10-10 10:54am
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Naughty America
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PinkPanther's Reply
Thanks for the additional info. Makes sense what you say: lately, I got the impression from the schedule in the free section that some stars were coming a couple times a week. Guess they were the ones more available to come as replacement. Since Naughty America headquarters are in San Diego and most adult models are from Los Angeles, coming to NA Live had to be a full day job.
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09-04-10 12:16am
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Naughty America
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09-03-10 02:16pm
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