do you have windows? use the inbuilt thing if your drive is recognised
my computer- disk properties - tools - error checking
and see if it does anything
That may not work if the drive unmounts itself. Forgot to ask the all important question- IS it a Sandisk drive? Those have been crapping out left and right due to inferior chips and contact with cases.
I bought a 4TB Sandisk SSD when they were a steal on Amazon and in less than a month- it started unmounting, reading data intermittently, reporting unrecoverable errors, just disappearing from File Explorer with no notification... Luckily, I bought a better 4TB SSD and was able to save all of my Benny Hill stuff.
It's never been about coins. I've never cared one bit if my reactions put coins in your pocket. If I react to you, it's been if you said something funny, something I liked, agreed with, loved to see. But everything always comes back to coins with you, huh? Maybe we see things vastly different.
Lovin' the new pfp.
Maybe you see chesnut differently - I go basically one step before "black roux" territory because black roux takes forever to do it right, and can go bad really quickly once you're about there. I make enough so that my gumbo coats a spoon - it isn't soupy like you usually see in restaurants.
My flavors are deep, and both the jambalaya and the gumbo are always better the second day.
Yeah, I was knackered I typed a lot of that this morning(?) There's a weird time dilation when you back-read and try to be in the "present".
I knew what you meant, WHEN I would actually cook (properly cook) mine was a darker one- I just used a bit more for thickening and it was about the same consistency.
Hello other SD my googlefu has led me to believe it's from an anime called Black Bullet.
Ah, thank you OG SD. I believe someone else that was the name, but weren't quite sure.
Thanks for the confirmation.

Add it to my ever growing "to-do list".
The duckbill is new?
Not more surprised than our grandfathers seeing it for first time XD The real fact is that any average Japanese who wants to see it uncensored can see it as easily as we saw it, but most of them, judging some street interviews, prefer not. And I understand them. I'm myself more in the censured than the openly uncensored version.
For me the difference between slightly censored and completely uncensored is mostly conceptual. Slightly censored means you don't see dicks, neither pussies without a blur or some small mosaic, enough to block it, but not disturb the general image, while heavily censured means a hell of huge mosaic or some heavy blur. Mostly is about the hair pussy, is it censored or it isn't? What makes the frontier for me to censured or heavy censured.
What's the appealing of censored over uncensored? I'm just talking of my personal point of view. For me it adds some frontier between the actress and the person. You can see her, but at the same time you can't completely see her. And that creates some sort of excitement, desiring a fruit that you know it will never be available for you. It leave still something private do discover of that person if you meet her in RL, something that keeps away from the public and that imaginary situation that you meet her and you are able to see what "not other people" have seen, that makes it more hot that just raw images. It gives her also some sort of stupid moral protection, ok, she has been in the adult entertainment but, she did it censored. I'm not saying that it's immoral to be an AV actress, just that it sort of gives also that vives. There is also the excitement to see if in the next frame a tiny bit more of skin will be revealed for first time, maybe a bit more of hair or a better image of the major labia, whatever. The desire of the prohibited. If it's completely exposed loses it.
Hmmm, I find that odd. Is it a cultural thing I wonder?
I get both of your points- even from a Western perspective the "art of the tease" is somewhat lost these days.
My only question is about immersion (or "insertion"

) isn't it harder to put yourself "in" the (let's just say) MC, like in a visual novel?
You, I would imagine, watch porn for the exact same reasons that any of us watch porn (aside from being sad and lonely).

HOW can you "enjoy" what you cannot see once you get TO the action? I understand the censored/mosaic thing leading up to any type of "action"- it's the excitement, build-up, anticipation, and tension, BUT once it starts you still can't see anything. I'm having a difficult time understanding how you can still feel involved/immersed...
Were you there IRL- you'd get to see everything (unless maybe you have some sort of special blurry sex glasses you wear)?
Does it really spare the JAV actresses embarassment or protect their modesty? Porn is porn and I'm not condemning them either, but it is "clear" (or rather not) WHAT you were doing and WHAT is happening. I'm not sure it offers any kind of protection.
Granted I've seen some that were some mosaic'd so badly (it was like trying to watch the porn channel back in the day with rabbit ears on the TV/early cable) that it was just a giant blotchy mess and so spread out that the skin tones extended well past the part of the body they were censoring...
Well, to be fair, when MCU begun it was already Disney's. The first movies were pretty fun, but nowadays most of them are very bland. Maybe it's the nostalgia, I don't know, but they seem to be declining in quality overall.
Well, let's not forget "Star Wars" is Disney's too- which explains a whole Hell of a lot. As someone said earlier- it's not for the love of the movies anymore....it's for the love of money. Which is why so many of them are just awful and formulaic. Truly sad.
Doctor Who is probably next...
I think I understand your point, but for that "seeing, but no everything" I prefer some lingeries, and other provocative clothes. One of the things I like watching the most are blowjobs, and the censor, regardless of what censor is, ruin it for me.

I don't care if it's 2D or 3D, drawing or real life, cartoon or realistic, I always prefer it completely uncensored.
But one funny thing I know is that some mangakas that always had to draw censored genitalia, when drawing it uncesored, they do a really bad work. Hahaha
I agree with this, and like I said, the "art of tease" isn't a bad thing. Lingerie, garters, stockings, flimsy see-through, skimpy outfits are exciting and create that anticipation and excitement, BUT (like you said) once you get down to the "nitty-gritty" you kinda wanna see what's happening...
The one that I fail to understand is how everything is drawn uncensored, but then they put those tiny, thin, unevenly spaced black bars over everything making it look like a barcode. WHAT is the point of that exactly?

Although, let's all be honest, the censoring, mosaic-ing, blotching, and bar coding hasn't ever stopped us from "getting the job done".
