Posts made by eobox91103

@gizmo4005 Welcome! I work in California part time.

There are various tips and tricks (!) to be found in the forum. I'd suggest a couple of things if you're new to torrenting:

• Keeping a good ratio is important. If you're new, avoid downloading huge collections. Even a 5 GB DVD can kill a ratio if you don't have a lot of uploads.
• You'll get seed points (which can be converted to upload traffic) if you have torrents seeding on here, even if nobody is actually taking your data...so keep things available to seed for a while even if you're tempted to junk the material.
• Search the site frequently, and if you see a new "freeleech" torrent, download it if you have room. You won't get charged for the download volume, and if it's fresh enough, you'll get "free" upload volume.
• If you see a fairly recent torrent that has multiple files, download just a few of them (10% or so), and when you complete those, you will become a source for other users who are downloading the whole thing. I recently downloaded half a gig of a 45 GB torrent, and my seed ratio for that torrent alone is now over 100.

I hope this helps. Happy torrenting.

@Rotron said in Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site:

I for one was never regulated on anything when I was a child. I grew up freely and I think laws like these only messes up what comes naturally for a man

Ah, OK, so I'm not going blind...I think this addresses your edit.

What you say above applies in many areas. My parents took a characteristically European view of alcohol with their children: It was not forbidden, and we were welcome to taste--or even have--the same beverage they often drank with dinner. Like most children, I found the taste dreadful and stayed away from it--not because it was forbidden, but because I didn't like it. I had some mates in school who drank simply because it was forbidden to them, and the outcomes were not good.

Once I got to university, things were different. I still remember my first serious overconsumption...it was with American bourbon whisky mixed with 7-up. That was several years ago, and I still can't come anywhere near that stuff. (A good single malt Scotch? That's a different story, but I digress...)

@Rotron said in Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site:

Nothing's gonna stop a male adolescent get what he's looking for.

Ah, but people will try. I worked for a while at a small firm that wanted to keep tight control over what websites staff could visit. They didn't want to invest in a commercial net-nanny service, so they had a "blacklist" of websites and character strings. One forbidden combination was s-e-x, which made it very clumsy for me to work with a colleague in the UK at the University of Essex.

@Rotron Thank you for posting this. I note two things here:

• I can understand the need for porn providers to take "reasonable care" to not distribute their material to minors, much like a shop clerk can ask for ID for purchases of alcohol or tobacco. The clerk, though, keeps no record of the purchaser. This state system presumably accumulates a database with unknown privacy protection. I think it will be amusing to see how many prominent persons, including elected government officials, become listed in (and leaked from) the database.
• Most family values/anti-porn/anti-governnent-intrusion-into-our-lives groups usually argue that the parents of a minor should make decisions on what their child experiences, not a government bureaucracy. There are porn filters/net-nannies/etc. that parents can use with some success. The Louisiana law overrides parental prerogative in favor of letting The Big Deep State make these decisions. This would seem inconsistent with their overall philosophy.

@ianfontinell I still have to log in to see that...but I do remember meeting a 19 year old guy from Long Island, and a good time was had by all. That's a nice enough memory to tide me over.

I don't know what sin(s) "tkhuma" is thought to have committed, but he's only banned from logging in and posting. He can still read the forums

@Mrker1234 said in Will the 'Golden Era' of Gay Sex Movies with proper storyline ever make a comeback?:

Most are now designed for the web and to allow people to get off quickly.

And the irony, for me, is that I find all the "pre-sex" stuff to be more arousing: The search, the look, the returned glance, the first brush of hands together, the first kiss, etc. Those are the things that are unique with each person. Once we get into the territory of a medical textbook, it's all pretty much the same on screen. (In real life, sex is more exciting and individualised because people talk to each other, even if only to say "what do you like?" or "please lick my elbow." One doesn't have that in porn because even with good story lines there's a director dictating the action.)

It's not that different than young people now seeing something like a letter or email with full paragraphs and actual punctuation as hopelessly boring and prefer/use a text with everything abbreviated and a couple of emojis

That's a very interesting and perceptive connection! I think the similarity here is noting many peoples' failure to distinguish between something functional to be done quickly and something to be savored over time. An encounter with a passing jogger who just wants a quick suck/cum/zip back up will soon be as forgotten as a text message saying "running late see you in 10." For that matter, forget the jogger--whip out the porn and soak a tissue in less than a minute.

While I don't consider myself "old" or even "middle-aged," I appreciate the care involved with writing cards/letters and thus I send them as well. I know that many years from now I will thumb through them fondly remembering the people who wrote and handled them. One doesn't get that feeling pulling an old email from an archived hard drive.

@tkhuma Posting an image will get you better luck than Twitter links--many people don't like to sail on Elon Musk's sinking ship.

I think this thread has run its course. I think we've all concluded that:

• Some person or people rather indiscriminately puts/put one-star ratings on some torrents.
• Those ratings do not seem to bear any correlation to the quality of said torrent.
• Those ratings could be seen as insulting to the uploader, but regardless of the rater's intention, the efforts of uploaders are to be appreciated.
• The overall star rating system is of questionable value.

@MrMazda I appreciate how complicated--and brittle--internal search engines can be. The sysadmins are to be commended for their work on what is an inherently difficult problem.

Some years back the Dell computer company implemented fuzzy logic/soft comparison processes with its online "help" chat. I remember getting so fed up with it once that I thought I'd ask it if it could sell me Viagra. After a pause, it came back with, "are you having trouble with your VGA adapter?" to which I responded "yes, it won't go in the hole." Things went downhill from there. Unfortunately the screen went blank before I could copy the entire chat.

The search engine has problems from time to time, and mods fix it when they can.

Today's problem seems to be searching with multiple terms. For example, searching on John Smith might turn up nothing, but searching on John will turn up lots of content that is also John Smith.

I suggest either waiting for a fix (usually happens in a day or so) or searching for just one of the two words, and ignoring the hits that don't have the other word.

@cazzoguy There is even some vestige of story line in many 1980's-era films, although not all.

I think a lot of it has to do with how people use porn: Is it a fantasy, where we see ourselves entering into the scene, perhaps as one of the characters? I find that to be very rewarding.

Or, is it just showing body parts interacting with each other, often belonging to models that barely sport a double-digit IQ. I don't find that stuff interesting even if it's recorded in 16K super-duper-HD that shows every pimple left over from razor burn.

Will we see story lines come back? I don't know. That takes work, and thus money...and these days, a teenager with an iPhone can make something for free and still get money for it.

Time will tell.

@sexxo-0 That file is no longer on the server. They may have taken it down for copyright reasons, or if a mod thought the model was under-age.

I suggest you keep watching that site and see if it gets re-posted, as often happens with public tube sites. If it does, take a screen shot and post that image here rather than a link.

BUT: Only do this if there's no reasonable doubt that the model is 18+.

Happy hunting.

@Rotron Thank you for your insights. I don't know how much "sport diplomacy" continues today: I went in the summer of 2012, less than one year after Kim Jong Il came to power...perhaps there was a desire to show more open-ness to the West. That has, of course, changed.

And yes, we were warned that we would be be watched all the time. Two of my team-mates were gay (and a couple), and they knew to not show any affection for each other, even in the "privacy" of their twin-bed hotel room.

One of my favourite photos from the trip was from the hotel room: There was a small table between the two beds with a lamp, a single-line telephone that would go only to the reception desk, and a clock radio. I was curious to pull the table away from the wall and see what I found:

The phone, lamp, and clock didn't need that many wires. We assumed that there were microphones built into the table, but we didn't want to test that theory by saying anything illegal.

@Rotron Thank you very much for your very informative discussion. I much prefer those to very short answers like, "ask the help desk."

I appreciate the information on the ROK. I have not been there, so my knowledge is based on what I see in the media, as well hearing lies from the DPRK, and then "inverting" them. It is ironic that I have more experience with the North than with the South.

That said, my experience in the North was very carefully controlled. I was part of a sports delegation, although we had a couple of half-days of touring around Pyongyang. It was clear that our minders were showing us what they considered to be the "best" of places--stores filled with food items, broad avenues with good paving (but absent of cars), temples to the Great Leader and Dear Leader. In the mausoleum holding the remains of Kim-Il Sung and Kim-Jong Il, the two glass boxes holding their bodies are kept at a very low temperature. I referred to the the two guys as the "Kim-sicles" (after the frozen candy "Popsicle"), but I made sure that nobody official heard me say that.

I did not know about the pornography ban in ROK. That seems odd for a first-world country, although it is good that there is freedom to produce gay-themed drama. In the DPRK, producing pornography would probably be met by immediate execution.

Nevertheless, there are lots of gay guys (and lesbians too, I'm sure) in the DPRK. Sometimes we shared changing rooms with DPRK players, and we all know a watchful eye when we see one. But a couple of times I carelessly sent back a return glance, and I saw shame and fear on the face of the Korean guy. I felt so sad. As much as I would have enjoyed a good fuck with him, I think a long, caring hug would have been more helpful.

@Rotron Thank you for the many recommendations. May I assume that if these series are on Netflix or Amazon Prime that they have English subtitles available? My Korean language skills are virtually non-existent.

I did spend a week in Korea some ten years ago (DPRK, not ROK), and was able to learn the following:

• Hello.
• Thank you very much.
• Where is the toilet?
• My spleen rejoices at the thought of the Great Leader.
• Please do not shoot me even if I am a Western Capitalist Pig.

There are some good ideas in the video at https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=791ea8f1a4fa187a3f627acd8bc2072fc83a82863a1ef6de . One big lesson here is to take some time to enjoy. It's not a race to cum as quickly as possible.

And to borrow a line from Yogi Berra, "90% of this game is half mental." Entering into a porn scene as if being one of the characters--not just a voyeur--can be thrilling. If you're fortunate to have good memories of previous live encounters, they can be very useful. I have many times fondly recalled hooking up with a college water polo player I met a few years ago.

@bilobilo1406 The best way to get this material would be to:

• Search for all of these titles at https://www.gaytor.rent/search.php?search=bare+loaded&incldead=1&inname=1&infn=1&orderby=added&sort=desc
• Download all of these torrent files
• Click "Request reseed" on each of the torrent pages

It's quite possible that people will reseed some of these, and that you'll get some of the material. If a given torrent doesn't have any new seeders within a week or so, it's not likely that any will show up and you can delete that torrent off your system.

If you're limited in how many torrents per day you can download, pick a few off the list that have a high "snatched" count--that will make your request to out to the most people. (I see that one of them on that list has zero snatches, meaning nobody downloaded it, so it's a lost cause.)

Note that your ratio won't be affected unless and until you start downloading this stuff.

Note that requests for new torrent uploads aren't permitted in the thrum, but that's not what you're doing--you're asking members to re-seed something that's already in the system. Nevertheless, someone might not get this distinction and seek to scold you. Do not take it personally.

@MrMazda said in Which City/Country are you guys from?:

Syberia in Russia is actually the coldest place on earth.

That distinction belongs to Antarctica, not Siberia...although Antarctica does not have a permanent population.

Antarctica is also technically a desert, but I digress...

(I will add that I have been to both places...and the men in Russia were able to keep me quite warm.)

@pupkinvasya You nailed it (as you so often do). Thank you very much! May the Big Jolly Queen grant you many naughty wishes in the cumming year.