Posts made by JohnAllenson

To answer the question about maintaining a large ratio.

I'm careful about downloading/uploading.

If I see a file that looks good and is brand new with more leechers than seeders I'll click on it.  Otherwise, I'll look for freeleech files I like.  If something looks good but is larger than I usually download I'll put it on my wishlist until I can afford to make it Freeleech.  Since I like Vintage I might wait quite some time until they have only one or two seeders; then I'll make it Freeleech before downloading it.

I also keep seeding even when I'm not downloading.

That being said, I don't download all that many files:  maybe one or two a week.

My honest reaction.

These are ENORMOUS files.  There's little incentive for someone to throw off their ratio so much by downloading all of them unless they want each and every movie.

So, if you'd like to download forty movies from one post that has only two seeders you'll be better off downloading one movie at a time. Put the other 39 movies on pause and let all the bandwidth go to that first movie.  Once that one has been downloaded go to the next.  You'll have a watchable movie instead of 3% of forty movies.

Face into cake.

Store-bought or home-made

I like HOPA games (like Mystery Case Files) and role playing games.

I think that the story play for HOPA games could work really well with gay characters.

I'll give the beginning of this - where I just pretend that the two detectives are boyfriends.  It would be easy to write this sort of game where a gay relationship is explicit.

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Wipe it up.

can or bottle drink

Welcome.  Have fun.

Patagonia

Still southern South America, the plains or the mountains.

It's me again!

Every year or so there is a science fiction movie that mainstream critics love and scifi fans don't.  Ad Astra is that movie in 2019.

From the point of view of a science fiction fan:  I want good world building.  If it's trying to be realistic about space travel the physics have to make sense.  The friend I saw it with is more of a fan of social science fiction and she remarked on the main character being a functioning sociopath.

Reading the mainstream reviewers - it has an 80% approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes with most mainstream reviewers giving it a 4 or 5 star rating out of 5 - they like the thoughtful nature of it's contemplation of the role of man in the universe.  What would it mean to an individual if we are alone in the universe.

So, your reaction to this movie will vary a lot depending on what types of story telling you like.  It's an art movie rather than a Blockbuster.  For myself, I still feel starved for intelligent explorations of the effects of technology or social change on our lives and world.

Forest.

Does the adventure involve Faerie or aliens?

The Conclusion of It.

Heavy Spoilers of course

The movie starts with a gay-bashing murder told from the POV of the gay couple.  One of the main characters is revealed to be gay.  That's it for content.

I enjoyed the first part more.  The kids felt better written and better developed than the adults.  Which is strange since I love some of the adult actors in other roles.

Bill played by Jamie MacAvoy - he's the main character but even though the actor pulled out all the stops his character fell flar.
Beverly played by Jessica Chastain - she anchored the best scene in the movie.  Her character was hampered by being far too much of the cliche called "Smurfette".  While the male characters achieved success in their respective fields she got married.  Her plot in the movie consisted of which guy she would have a relationship with.
Ben played by Jay Ryan - he was the adult character I liked the best.  I guess because he was two-dimensional rather than one-dimensional.  He was the fat kid who grew into a hunky successful architect.  He managed to hold on to his feelings for the past while the majority of the other characters had lost themselves.  His part of the BIG ROMANCE worked since he was more than just the romantic interest.
Andy Bean as Stanley - his character took himself out of the story at the beginning.  Which created a plot hole that was never plugged.
James Ransome as Eddie - the actor was given contradictory character tics that didn't add up to a personality.  He didn't manage to sell the character.
Bill Hader as Richie - a comedian who is funny played a comedian who wasn't funny.  Seriously, couldn't someone have punched at least a couple of his lines?  He plays a gay man deeply in denial.  I can handwave that but the story should have, could have, but didn't explain why a forty year old successful comedian would still be unaware of his own sexuality.  His character development was the strongest written that didn't take the last few details needed for it to have worked.
And finally Isaiah Mustapha as Mike - he was the exposition guy who never left town.  (First plot hole is that he was the Town Librarian which requires a Master degree and the town is too small to have a university.)  He had a good resolution.

What struck me the most while watching the movie was the absence of other people.  There are several scenes where the main characters are walking down the main street of the town in the middle of day without a single background extra.  There's zero follow up with the other survivors.  Even Eddie's wife who intrusively calls him while he's driving doesn't try to call him once.

So, this was a B-list horror movie that had the budgeting and marketing of an A-list movie.  It's not as if they didn't change (and improve) upon the book in matters of plot - the three killing set pieces were excellent - but that they left the characters as horror movie cliches.  I've seen some really good horror this year, It Part 2 was good as a horror fan movie but it missed the opportunity of being a great movie that just a bit more character development could have given the movie.

I can actually give this movie a rating.
This movie is rated 3 P.
That's how many times I had to get up to pee.

Good boy!

Welcome.

Nibble ears.

Noisy or quiet sex.

Placebo's haunting cover of Running up that Hill. (fan version)

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Welcome, it's been a hectic week.

I'm pretty sure I don't want to guess about "most gay men".  I'll talk about myself.

I definitely download both.  This site is porn specific so I download more porn from here than tv shows and movies.  There's also a lot more porn available than there are movies or tv shows.

I'm also picky about the things I like in both porn and non-porn entertainment.  I love shows like Schitt's Creek, Teen Wolf, Donald Strachey mysteries, and Sense8.  Call Me by Your Name was like watching beautiful paint dry.

So, I don't care more about downloading porn than I do downloading gay theme.  There's just a lot more porn available.

I never understood this! What the fuck do people get out of doing this? Misleading people unnecessarily?

A lot of it is done by the companies.  Non-English titles get renamed in some very strange ways.  ie <<mein schweigertochter="" ist="" ein="" mann="">> which translates as "My Daughter-in-law is a Man" was renamed "All You Need is Love."  Les Minets Sauvage by Cadinot was sold in English as Tough and Tender rather than "The Wild Twinks".

One English title got changed because of a pedophile panic:  "Brian's Boys" became "Brian's Men".

The last time I tried uploading a movie I checked for the title and the actors through the site.  I got dinged since it had been uploaded under another name with none of the actors listed.  That will be the last time I try uploading a movie.</mein>

Or take one of your older videos where you are the only seeder and make that Freeleech.

Of course, we're assuming that you like things that there is an audience for.

I have the opposite problem.  "nobody seeds what I want".

So, some answers.  I've had two paid published stories in SFF and am working on getting novels published.

1/  If your first novel is interesting but riddled with spelling/grammar/syntax errors publishers won't buy it since readers won't read it.
2/  The cost of editing has shifted from the publisher to the author since when Stephen King started out.  I know several professional editors working in SFF.  You should also consider using non-professional editors (AKA Betas).  The reality is that it does not matter how good a writer you are or how much experience you have; the book inside your head is richer and more fleshed out than the book someone else is reading.
3/ I live in Canada and have some knowledge about the publishers here.  When you sell a book you are also selling specific rights.  It's rare that you can sell a book to more than one publisher - even if they are in separate countries or separate languages.  The exceptions I've seen:  getting permission to sell in a tiny minority language (Aboriginal authors who have a major publisher for English but do a run in their own language) or the case when a publisher reverts the rights to the author after a period of time.

Since you say the original novel isn't in English, I recommend you check with a writer's association in that language for more relevant information on publishing standards.

How about giving points to your favourite videos?

Considering that Uploader Identities are anonymous, how would you know the # of files the Uploaded has uploaded? Hmmm?

While the files themselves are anonymous the comment sections are not.  Since the same comment showed up in over seven files it's logical to assume that since the same person was asking for seed points on those files that was the person who had uploaded the files.

Plus
One of the moderators, who does have access to this information, identified six files coming from the same person.