Best posts made by frostycab

@ianfontinell-0 LMAO!!! The big difference is that it's 3D, and very 3D at that. I did download a load of it when I first got my VR kit, but I don't watch it and never wank with it on. It's a novelty, really.

As for the technical aspect of it, it's always from a fixed camera (because I reckon if you tried moving the camera at all you'd vomit all over your lovely VR headset thank to motion sickness!) and usually shot with a 180 degree viewing angle, so turning your head to look out to the sides just shows black beyond the limits. Since a lot of it is POV it's geared towards just looking ahead as the performers do their thing.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes a video can be nice to watch. I think my fave was one with Johannes Lars doing a solo by the pool. He climbs out of the water in front of you, kneels on a towel, wanks (I seem to remember him playing with a dildo too) until he cums, and there are points where you feel like you could actually touch his cock with your tongue.

Of course it might all be a bit more interesting if you didn't have to wear a sodding big VR unit on your head, but if I manage to replace my Valve Index with a Bigscreen Beyond 2, which is more like a pair of swimming goggles than a helmet, I might revisit VR porn.

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

@twinkerzzz 1.050

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.

The thing with sites like AAB is I believe that most of the models never pursue what could be considered a career in porn. It feels like they may have answered a classified ad because they wanted a quick injection of cash, and either satisfied their immediate financial concerns or simply didn't enjoy the experience of being on film.

@joaolifesim Transfer the downloaded film to your PC, placing it in whichever folder your completed downloads go into. Then open the torrent file on your PC. The client should check to see if the file(s) already exist and check if they are complete. If they are then you will simply start to seed the file(s). If they are incomplete then the client will continue the download until they are. If it doesn't recognise the file(s) as part of the torrent then it will start to download from scratch.

Could I suggest, in the nicest possible way without sounding like I'm having a go at all, that you have a read through the site and forum rules again?

From the rules:

"Requests for uploads are strictly prohibited. This includes the torrent descriptions, comments, forum and shoudbox."

@medicc Sadly the loss of their defining identity is not limited to EV. Southern Strokes used to be very similar to BareTwinks with a very American feel to it, but now it's obviously all shot in Eastern Europe and exhibiting the same sets and feel as BoyFun. BareTwinks itself has done the same. Young Bastards has gone almost exclusively South American now.

I don't know if it's a pandemic-related shift in the industry, a financial decision, demand driven or just coincidence, but many of the major studios have made a very noticeable change to what they're producing, with much of it becoming formulaic copy/paste scenes. As you say, they're all just churning out new things every few days with little thought to staying "on-brand."

@jokuihmemies Looks a bit like fagboi. Think he was in a few PBR films

@mebgmebg No, because requests for uploads have been banned anywhere on the site for absolutely ages. Sorry.

@lololulu19 That sounds like a "you" problem. hehe

PupDavey?

@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.

@frostycab Basically, the more you spend in one go, the better the return. Trading in 100 points is only worth 1GB, making each point worth only 10MB. I'm not sure I understand what's confusing you.

@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?

@jokuihmemies Damn. Looked up a couple of his vids and I think PupDavey and Fagboi are one and the same anyway.

@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.

I'm not sure if I've totally understood your issue, but I'l give you my take.

In all honesty, speed-testing your connection will only ever give a meaningful result if you don't have anything else using that connection. You have a finite amount of bandwidth, both up and down. If you have any software running that uses some of that bandwidth then you're more than likely going to see your results drop.

To give you an example, for the last 4 years I have suffered under the yoke of an old copper-wire ADSL connection. It started out at about 12Mb/s and has "improved" recently to around 17 or 18. If I have torrents downloading then I can forget using the internet for ANYTHING else. Netflix? Nope. YouTube? Nope. Checking emails? Nope. If I want to stream a film or anything then I have to pause or exit my client until I'm finished. Same thing if I even just want to check the forums or refresh a page.

As for why you're seeing different up/down speeds in your client, I'm not sure. I use BiglyBT, and it seems as though the speed counters are displaying an average speed over the last 30 seconds to a minute rather that the actual speed at that precise moment in time. To get a better idea of where my bandwidth is being used I tend to open Resource Monitor and look at my connections in there, as I can sort them all by current speed.

On the plus side, after fighting to get fibre here for years, they're coming first thing in the morning to connect me. I'll be interested to see what I actually get on my new 500Mb/s line.