Best posts made by frostycab

@pupkinvasya I can see your thinking, but I don't think so. I know the angle in the pic is bad, but I don't think he's got the tattoo, and the eyebrows don't look right. Also, (again it's a bad angle) it looks like he's missing the chin dimple.

@Thesock Did you happen to check how long was left on the freeleech before you started it? Could the freeleech possibly have expired shortly after you started the download? That would be the most logical explanation.

@lololulu19 said in I wonder if other gay people think like I do...:

@frostycab actually, I don't like being treated like garbage. I don't like being put in the same category as pedophiles or people who literally shit on each other. I don't like videos in which people are supposedly being tortured and even killed.

That's not an answer! Repeating the same paranoid crap over and over and over again until everyone's ears bleed doesn't change anything! Who are these people? How do you know them? Why would you listen to them? You don't like to be treated like garbage, but you're happy to treat trans people like lesser people.

Are you saying that because you're gay all these people assume that you're a paedophile? That you're into scat? That you're into snuff films? Just because you're gay? You're a man too (I'm guessing) but where are all the people saying that because of that you're a misogynist, wife-beater and a rapist? Are you not being lumped in with those groups too? Where's the outrage at that?

You come onto this forum and whine and complain about trans people intruding on you? How? Where? Are you suffering from a glut of transgender home invasions where you live? You don't want to share a bathroom with women? I assume you're referring to FTM? Heads up, trans people exist and need to pee. What's more disturbing in a real life scenario: someone who is FTM using a cubicle in a mens room or someone who outwardly presents as male walking in to a ladies room? What's your response when a straight guy says he doesn't want gays using the same toilets because he thinks they're intruding on him?

You can take all that other crap about the age of consent bullshit because you're grasping at straws trying to form a cogent argument and failing miserably. What you actually like or don't like has no bearing on your original post in the slightest. Nobody here has said anything suggesting that you're into children. This is about you accusing other people of treating you differently. Not one response has done anything validate your original post. God, even your original post isn't original because it's just a rehash of older posts where you've dodged and ignored every shred of disagreement.

For fucks sake, you even said that having gays and lesbians forming a group pisses you off, but you won't commit to saying why, other than you don't feel you have anything in common. Apart from who you want to fuck I'd argue that you have as much in common with them as you do with anyone living on your street. How pissed off would you be if the lesbians back then went off and got better rights such as the ability to get married, but the gays didn't because they didn't have the foresight to see that we're stronger together?

Posts like this are like listening to a parrot repeat the same 5 things all day long, except it feel like there's a lot more shit left on the bottom of the cage at then end of it. If you want to make an argument then make it! Stay on-topic (for once!) and make a case, but if you won't then whatever you do don't complain when I (or anyone else) challenge what you say.

Once again, to the mods, I'm sorry. I know I'm pushing the rules replying this way. This attitude just makes me fucking angry.

@lawyer72us Big fan of comics, but there are so few that I bother to download, mainly because I don't like the art style. Growing up with Marvel comic in the 80s has jaded me to the way that a lot of modern comics are presented. I think if terms of purely pornographic comics my favourite would be Bang Hard Ben. The whole bara genre and stuff like it just holds no interest for me.

@john32123666 Thanks for the response, but I think you might have misunderstood my question.

I'm curious about how much people get paid for gay porn, and if there's an overall difference between tops and bottoms.

For example, I'd like to know what a relatively new performer might earn for a scene against a studio's star performers. I'm thinking of people like Kyle Ross (RIP) who was a Helix exclusive model and became synonymous with the brand.

Then you have guys like Daniel Hausser, Austin Avery, Dakota Lovell.... They spread themselves around various studios and are obviously in demand, but is this down to low pay and the need to shoot as many scenes as they can?

Also, is there a difference in pay-scales between top, bottom and vers guys? Do performers earn more for fucking or being fucked, or is it entirely down to there looks and fanbase? I would imagine that they would be able to expect more for doing certain things like fisting. Would you expect to be paid the same for a 1 on 1 scene as you would for letting 10 tops take turns on you? And if so, what sort of numbers are we talking about?

@gabisev Yup! Found it, though on a different torrent site.

"Jacuzzi Duo Turns Into A Raw, Spunk-Sapping Threeway Topped Off With A Tsunami Of Piss! (Alan Benfelen, Ivo Thomas, Sam Williams)"

Many thanks for slapping my memory in the right direction.

@yababylol makes a good point. To get a sense of whether or not there's an issue here at all we'd need to know a bit more about your stats. As an example, for me 300GB of upload would result in a ratio increase of 0.002, though this would obviously decrease if there was any download traffic at all.

@lololulu19 So "no" then.

@timothyc65 From the site rules:

Discussions and requests how to hack or rip a web site; crack or remove copy protections and Digital Restriction Management (DRM) systems; remove invisible watermarks in media files; and requests or offers to share passwords, logins or invitations are prohibited. Do not request or offer to share files obtained by these activities.

@MrMazda I suppose that makes some sense. Tops are under pressure to "perform" whereas bottoms are always ready.

@john32123666 Sorry, the site won't let me give you more than 6 upvotes a day. Please check back in tomorrow.

@eonflux Each other?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

@thor9023 said in upload ratio help:

@frostycab yeah about that, I might just keep it running till I reach like 10.0 ratio something absurdly high

While I wouldn't say not to do it, there was a discussion somewhere in the forums a long time ago about how much is too much when it comes to ratios.

There were some well though out arguments in there, but I seem to remember the best practice was agreed to be that while "artificial" methods like seedboxes give you a boost, once you've got a healthy download buffer then enjoy that and just seed normally. This shares seeding more effectively with other users who do also need to maintain their own ratios.

For example, I have a ratio of 1.172 right now. That means I have a download buffer of over 53TB. That represents about 40% of all my downloads over the last 17 years. If you look at it another way, if I keep up the same average amount of downloading and never upload so much as a single byte that buffer would last me another 7 years before I drop to my minimum 0.8. As such, there's no real benefit to putting effort into boosting my ratio.

Like I said, there's nothing stopping you going for the record if you like, but in reality there's not much point in chasing ratio just for the sake of it.

Pretty much what I was expecting...

@ikpooo Yes, as long as you've already connected to the swarm you should be able to download. I had a svandylove collection come up as unregistered about 10 minutes after I started it, but there were about 20 people already in the swarm and I managed to download to 100%

Thanks guys. Some interesting reading there.

I always expected there to be a sizeable difference in pay with mainstream studios when compared to something like Raunchy Bastards, who seem to use newbie models and usually have them only do 1 scene. You wouldn't expect top-notch pay for that, but working regularly for an established studio with exclusive models, high production standards and a huge fanbase you'd obviously expect a bit more.

I hadn't heard about the Armond Rizzo thing before, but it's good to see that there are people in the industry who are willing to take a stand.

The pic must be from when when he was much younger, before he became the Monopoly man.

@bigetownky Stash interprets each individual video file as a "scene." The "films" section is intended for organising individual scenes into the full film. For example, you might have all 5 scenes of a DVD as separate files, so what you can do is create a film entry and then add each scene to it. Doing it that way means you can easily search for a particular scene yet still have them grouped together as a single film. You can also add in the DVD covers, description, rating etc for the full DVD while keeping the scene covers and information.

As for getting all the data, it can be a lengthy process. Click on a scene, and then click on EDIT (below the title on the left.) You should then see a blue button with "Scrape with" on it. Click that and select "Stashdb.org" and it will check to see if there's a match in the online database. If there is one you'll get a new popup that shows all the data they have. Check through it all, because sometimes it'll pick up the wrong title or something. If you're happy with everything then just click APPLY. Don't forget to hit SAVE on the left of the screen afterwards. You can do all of this in batches too, but like I said it can be a little bit time consuming at first. It's not too bad as long as you remember to do it ever so often so you're not having to check hundreds of files.

Don't get discouraged if there's no info for the scene you're looking for. Obviously not everything is catalogued yet. There are lots of scrapers you can add, so you can get it to scrape a studio's website rather than the Stash-created one, which is great when you know the source of the video.

I don't pretend to know nearly as much as I'd like to know, but if you join their Discord there are a few really helpful people there. One of the Stash team even spent 3 hours debugging a script that wasn't working for me. (It still doesn't work, or I'm doing something else wrong, but he certainly tried.)

https://discord.gg/JFGrZBev (The link expires after 7 days, so if anyone has trouble let me know and I'll generate a new invite.)

@Arago44 It's called being tight.

I'm not going to pretend to understand all of the details of how torrents actually work or the running of this site. However, there are a couple of things in your post that struck me.

Firstly, your idea sounds virtually the same as renting a seedbox, which can be done for significantly less than $1 per GB. I've been shopping around recently, and have seen deals for around £9 per month for a TB of storage and 10 Gb/s up/down speeds with no traffic limit. Granted, the speeds may vary, but it's still a good way of seeding properly and does wonders for your ratio.

Secondly, if this site was to actually offer (or require) you to rent server space off it then I suspect this might have detrimental effects. In general most torrent sites are only able to operate based on the fact that they don't host any copyrighted material. If they start renting out server space that you need to put your uploads into then even if hosted externally it might be argued that the site itself is, by proxy, hosting such material, which could open it up to enforceable legal action.

Hopefully more knowledgeable people will be able to weigh in on this.

I think @john32123666 is probably right. Some of the new scenes from various studio include limited hard-coded subs, but they don't add much. In all honesty I suspect it would involve much less time and effort to just learn the language than it would to find subs for most of them.