It's good to see a poll from an old member who hasn't been around for awhile. I picked "other" because I think my reviews are good for information, especially unbiased information but I think they're bad for the scores. A 75 would be average for most reviewers but my average is 85. This is how I write my reviews:
Facts: Content count, update frequency, highest video resolution and an in-general date for how long they have had that option, if they have pictures and if they're downloadable, my tested download speed, number of models, race/shape of models. Type of content like solo, hardcore, etc.
Sort of facts: Potential recycling, if things are offensive (subjective word but if it's offensive to me it's a sort of fact). The site's ethics in billing.
Not facts: My opinions about a site's webmaster being stubborn and my score.
I always have tried to give a person a list of facts for them to focus on those and say, "I don't care what he scores it, I would love this content!" Works the opposite way too.
I think Rocketpay is okay. I don't like that they want you to use the "remember me" feature, which recognizes you if you join a different site that uses Rocketpay and tries to pull-up your past payment info. I'm sure they're trying to be helpful, but the last time it pulled one of mine up, it was a card that expired in 2012.
I don't know exactly how credit card processors work these days, but I do know that they charge a fee for their full-services. The sites lower their costs by having the sign-up and cancel pages on their sites, instead of having separate CCBill sign-up and cancel pages. It also allows sites to include things like surveys when you go to cancel. Mano Job does that. It's five basic questions like, "What would you like to see on our site?" and "How can we make our site better?"
The cancellation link is on the main page of the site at the top. You'll see "support". When you click it, the drop-down menu comes up and has "cancel" as an option. From there you cancel just like you would on CCBill or Epoch and they do send a cancellation confirmation email too. They seem like pretty decent people. I posted a comment about one of their sites being broken and they had it fixed almost immediately.
Oh and Rocketpay has been around for awhile. They used to be the primary for all of the Kink sites. And I know I touched on it in my review, but there's no DL Limit unless I missed a point. On my last night of the membership, I downloaded 142 GB and didn't hit a limit.
Music is a huge part of my life and it's mainly because of the emotions it pulls out of me. I'll probably break the character limit:
Song that always makes me smile:
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime. My dad and uncle were very stoic and strict men, but they would put the leisure suits on, platform shoes, drink in their hand and would dance to this song.
The artist that hits my emotions the hardest is Tori Amos. Tori's song, "The Winter" has brought tears to my eyes and I'm not an emotional person. All of her music works on my emotions, but that one is the most powerful for me.
On a similar note, my favorite band is Tool. They also run my emotions, but not like Tori. I first heard Tool in LA, when I was 16-17, before they were even signed and they were the first rock/metal band I liked that well.
Iron Maiden pushes me, kind of inspiring, especially their Rock in Rio album where hundreds of thousands of non-English speaking Brazilians sing every word in the background.
Then it moves over to rap/hip-hop. Gangster rap was huge when I was in high school in LA. Everyone listened to NWA and everyone loved Ice Cube. Not me, I preferred Ice-T, also a LA rapper and now actor. His song, "LGBNAF" was the first really dirty rap song I ever heard and thought it was the greatest song ever.
Wu-Tang Clan. I was the weird West Coast kid who loved the East Coast group. Still do and their side project song, "Mystery of Shadowboxing (feat Method Man)" is #1 and #10 on my workout playlist.
On that note, I like playing Mary J. Blige's song, "You're All I Need" for people who only hear radio versions, since it is severely censored and is hugely popular still today. The uncensored/dirty version features Method Man of Wu-Tang and it's good for laughs to see people look at the speakers expecting the radio version.
Then there's Johnny Cash. I smile anytime I hear his songs from the Tennessee Three era, has the thump-te-de-thump sound in all songs. My grandmother adored Johnny Cash and always played his music. On the other hand, I really like his cover of "Hurt", but can't watch the video. That's the closest anyone has gotten to truly making art out of music, but once you realize what's going on, it's hard to watch. If it's not known, Johnny and June had moved out of their house which became the Johnny Cash Museum. About halfway through the video the setting changes. They're back in the house and the already sick and dying Cash pours emotions out as he's "singing". The song was originally about heroin addiction, but Johnny changed almost no lyrics and made it about a regretful, dying man looking back at all the time and energy he wasted.
Another that makes me smile, but only if it's the video. Xzibit's "Concentrate". That woman in the middle in the black kimono tops all porn stars for me!
Last, obscure rap group/song, Psycho Realm, "In this Lifetime" makes me smile a lot if it's the video. I'm in the video and I grew up with those guys.
I picked "don't care who knows".
Having said that, I don't exactly offer up "I watch porn" in conversation either. I do offer my username here at PU for friends to read my reviews so if they're interested in a site they'll join through PU's links.
Funny thing is and I would wonder if it applies to other members here, no one who knows me casually, would ever expect my interest in porn. There's a younger woman who works with my mom that I've become a bit of a mentor to in psychology. More than anything, she's most impressed by me rarely "cussing". I think that's how I look at porn too. There's a time for it, just like there's a time for cussing, but it wouldn't bother me to tell anyone about my interest in porn and most people would be surprised how many people find my interest in porn to be very interesting and even intriguing.
I checked using the search filters and there's good and bad news.
The scenes from Amateur Allure can be downloaded, but there's only 20 of them. Seems they're using it as a promotional tool.
I would say don't do any of those four things! I haven't had too many experiences of being wronged by a site, but I don't even like it when webmasters start offering discounts and especially "swag". Have had a couple do that on here. I am not walking around with a t-shirt on that says a porn site's name on it. After I've thought about it, maybe the "extend membership" is one that would be acceptable. Seems like Twisty's and maybe 21 Sextury had problems about 5-6 years ago and they extended all their members memberships by a month. Most of the wronging I've experienced probably couldn't be fixed. Like the false advertising of content before I joined, only to join and see that they don't have the content they advertised. That's an older one, but it used to be very common during the European boom in the 2005-09 range. I remember one showed Eve Angel as a featured model. I joined it. Got inside, went to Eve's page and it said "coming soon!" How can she be a featured model without content? That was frustrating.
I'll give it a try lol.
It's like you're watching porn that's not being filmed or planned. There's scenes where the actors/actresses dictate what they want next. It's like there's a strange honesty in it. One model, despite saying the male was very good, said she rarely orgasms and didn't, but she starts masturbating after the sex and has an orgasm. The feeling around the scenes are more genuine. They come off as people getting paid to perform, but also who love sex. It's refreshing to me since I already had been experiencing boredom with most hardcore sites unless there was a distracting story. I also wonder how much of the Italian market they have. The scenes are very professionally-shot, high quality, nice settings, in a way it reminds me of Sex Art except without the heartcore content. I found the tips and hints scenes to be some of the best I've seen on any site just because of the way the models interacted. That could be it too. You know how you watch a mainstream movie with a bunch of amateur actors and then watch one with top-tier mainstream actors and actresses? That difference is what these scenes bring. I'll end by saying don't let that take away from the site it's not "professional" in the American professional porn way of glamour and glitz, it's just like you're watching professional women who are professionals at sex. The men, by my guess, are not professionals, but I could be wrong.
I don't know if I've ever posted about VR, but I remember when PU had the VR set they were offering. Don't know if I posted it there or not, but I can't use VR. Crazy and a nice reminder to my youth, I was stabbed above my eye as a teenager, right around the eyebrow. It still causes some vision problems in that eye, but it also makes it impossible for me to use VR since it will only mess more with how my eye processes what it sees. I haven't even tried the PS4, sticking with the Xbox One, because Sony pushes the VR so much and I know I can't use it. Just thought I would post that if it seems like I've not shown interest towards or against VR.
I agree with you on the user usually being at fault, but I must have been in a hurry in my previous reply and left out that Probiller/Probilling has gotten me twice with cross-sales that were not on the purchase page. These seem to be a different type of cross-sale, one that they "give" the new member for 1 day with no charge, but if not canceled it turns into a $39.95 charge. I didn't know it until I received an email welcoming me to the site I didn't join.
I think things are also becoming more dicey about who owns the billers. One that's plainly-obvious, any of the Fame sites (100+ sites), bill through Fame Cash, so they're doing their own billing. It's a little harder to tell with Probilling, but they are the only biller used by Mind Geeks, the owners of Reality Kings, GFLeaks, Brazzers and over 100 more sites. One of the best examples I can give is Twistys. Once renowned for its content and its customer service. It was bought by Mind Geeks and Probilling became its biller it has since fell into obscurity with hundreds of complaints about cross-sales, difficult cancellation, and just general billing problems.
I find my frustration with the biller to be terrible since I'm usually very patient and even methodical about the signing up process. On a side note: I join Reality Kings several times a year and have never had a problem with Probilling through Reality Kings. I think it could be the programming of the different sites that causes the problems.
If you look at the numbers, it's hard not to believe Mind Geeks own Probilling. Mind Geeks owns 133 sites. Probilling is the primary processor for 146 sites. In comparison: CCBill is the primary processor on over 11,000 sites and Epoch is the primary for over 6,000 sites. The one good thing I can say about them is they accept Visa prepaid cards and most billers don't.
My feelings towards ProBiller are pretty simple. If you look at their FAQs, you'll see things like this:
Customer: I only signed up for a trial but got charged for a full membership.
Probiller: Depending on the package selected, there may have been additional upgrades to your membership.
I mean, really? Someone signed up for a trial to a site and ended up with additional upgrades? Another...
Customer: I cancelled my account; why am I still getting charged?
Probiller: It is possible that additional membership packages may have been selected upon signup that you have not yet cancelled.
I don't know about you, but when I sign up for an account, I would think canceling that account, would stop any other charges. Notice the wording of "may have been selected upon signup", which would imply the customer hasn't even realized it.
I've joined over 300 porn sites in 15 years and have only stopped trusting one biller and it's Probiller.
Up until these you mention, I hadn't had any problems with broken links, but...
The DVD cover doesn't show up for Ripe 4 for me either and when I click it, it just takes me back to the DVD alphabetical list. Same thing on Double Black Penetration 4. I tried altering the url of other DVDs with the titles mentioned and got a "page does not exist" message. I first thought they had just put the wrong urls in the links, but it looks like they haven't even uploaded them or if they have, they've used a different url titling format than all of their other DVDs use.
Admittedly, I've lost some interest in it. I was concerned about the inclusion of dragons and they do hurt the show for me. I have this season's episodes on the DVR, but haven't watched any of them. My favorite character at this point is The Hound, which means he'll get killed soon. I've still not gotten over Ned. It would probably get my attention most if Daenerys is killed. Also think they might have hurt the suspense of the show when THE part with Jon happened. Not that I dislike him, but nothing feels final on the show now.
I enjoyed this site quite a bit, the goofiness, quirkiness aside, it seems like the models enjoy these scenes. I ended up downloading everything from it and doubt I'll delete any of it.
I enjoyed this network quite a bit. Overall, I liked most all of the content. I think I had Exploited College Girls mixed up with So Cal Coeds from the Naughty America network. I've developed an interest in the casting sites. I at least didn't give up on NVG and just started naming the scenes with numbers. I think there's a lot of lazy webmasters/programmers out there.
I never did find any pictures and became frustrated with it so much that I just deleted my download folders for it and gave up. I can honestly say that's the first time I've ever just gave up on a site with such nice content.
Hey Monahan, my apologies for not replying sooner, now that I've been away from this site for a month or so, I've deleted all the content because of the lack of names. I couldn't find scenes I was looking for. It's a shame that something that seems basic is holding this site back like it is.
I can't believe how much I've liked this site. I seemed to be burnt out on Reality Kings, Brazzers, Naughty America, then joined this one without even realizing I had been a member through Aaliyah Love's site. The part you are talking about is what impressed me as well. It feels like they're working constantly and hard to keep up with the model changes. I think there's where I got the old Twistys feeling since it reminds me of how Shap seemed to always be trying to improve it.
It's a hard one to rate. I'm still frustrated with it. So, I felt like maybe I had rated it too high! We'll say ours balance out. When you were a member did they have pictures? That part has bothered me almost as much as the navigation has.
I haven't had that problem with the Tushy videos, but I no longer use VLC. I was a loyal VLC user for years. I had some videos from Brazzers that were coming off as corrupted on VLC. I went back and found the old, "Classic Media Player" with all the codecs and haven't had a single problem out of it with any videos.
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