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orclover
Joined in Jun 2012
1404 post(s)

Q&A super candy scratch

Everything about iStripper
March 22, 2020, 88 answers
In theory you could have such bad luck that you never win.
@orclover - it is a gamble, and we all know that it is a gamble. By its very nature you can never be sure that gambling any amount of money will result in a getting what you are gambling for, be it a thousand, ten thousand, one million or even a billion credits,

It is not at all suspect (by which I assume you mean to imply that there is some sort of deception involved), though we may find it distasteful and some may have strong moral objections, but neither make it "suspect".

Lol, if we all knew what a gamble is...nobody would do it. Games of chance are set by the house to benefit the house in the long run, and always screw the player in the long run. Games of chance also release dopamine and create an addictive cycle while the house screws you over just enough that they win but you don't quit. The math is very clear, and has been worked out by some of the smartest minds on the planet earth. This gets us into some very philosophical territory. Should a person be allowed to be an *****, to experience the initial pleasure of addiction, and then face the terrible consequences without assistance? Or should we rid our society of ***** and addictive interactions to protect vulnerable people? I error on the side of giving choice but I also believe that we should have judgement while allowing choice. I judge that totem is wrong in doing this, that they have made a conscious decision to take advantage of vulnerable adults in order to improve profits, but I also benefit from their extra income and therefore am a party to the wrong. If you can't live with that reality and have to justify it another way then so be it.
orclover
Joined in Jun 2012
1404 post(s)

Q&A super candy scratch

Everything about iStripper
March 22, 2020, 88 answers
The legality of using games of chance to take money from people while there is chance you do not offer a service is still in question.I too don't like exclusive cards nor gamble games at all, but also have to say that such one is, a time more, not a right argument. Gamble on Istripper is not a money gamble, it's a mere credit gamble - and credits don't have any monetary value.
We don't purchase gamble plays - neither cards - with money here. Only thing we purchase with money on Istripper are credits, which have no real value, are not money and are not convertible back into money. Everything we then do with our credits is, economically speaking, totally fictional.

Moreover, we can dislike gambling games, we can ***** about existance here or frequence of gambling events (and I do), but it has to be pointed, also, that we totally know in advance what gambling is: a game of chance; so we will not be EVER be sure to win, even spending tons of credits. We know it: if one likes, he plays anyway - if he doesn't, then he should simply not play.
I find it's not right instead to gamble, and then ***** after not having won anything and because of that - which was precisely the nature of gambling. We knew it in advance.

Casinos can use "credits" as well. You can load "credits" on a card and then use the card to play different electronic slots and other games...these are some of the most nefarious games because the games can be manipulated real-time using algorithims. Totem obviously changes its games mid-week, often for the better but they still update them. The point is the games promise a service, but because of the randomness, do not always provide the promised service. ***** dealers, doctors, con-artists get in trouble for taking advantage of a sub-set of society who are vulnerable to making poor decisions. There is a ton of science behind the addiction associate with gambling and there is a fine line between obsessive collecting and collecting for fun. I have often had derision for people who ***** about losing at gambling, I do not gamble, but totem is not right in this...there is a whole lot of wrong. The company is wrong for putting its customers in this position, and the vulnerable customers are wrong for continually overpaying to merely fill a collection or a set. Why the heck can't totem just provide amazing girls...have a scratch game or two where new customers can win discounts to build up their accounts. Why do we need "not special event cards" that put full collectors in a vulnerable position, and why do we need games that are setup for people to only lose?
orclover
Joined in Jun 2012
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Q&A super candy scratch

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March 21, 2020, 88 answers
@orclover

The definitions of scam in all the dictionaries that I have checked make it abundantly clear that what Totem are doing is not a scam. It may be regarded as resembling a scam or as unfairly taking advantage, but that is a different matter. Unlike Humpty Dumpty we are not free to say “When I use a word,it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Nothing that Totem have done in offering the SECs is either fraudulent or deceptive. The cards have not been called Special Cards by Totem.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scam

an illegal plan for making money, especially one that involves tricking people:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scam

Definition of scam

(Entry 1 of 2)
: a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation

Definition of scam (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb
1 : to deceive and defraud (someone)

The legality of using games of chance to take money from people while there is chance you do not offer a service is still in question. The EU is currently discussing whether lootboxes and other gambling services should be allowed in different forms of software. There are times when a participant pays credits and does not receive any service.

Looking at the picture above we see that there certainly is a pattern where totem gives the impression that a card is "special".
  • 2 christmas cards
  • 2 dominatrex cards
  • Red fox special outfit
  • The first duo in a long time
  • A card with a shopping prop
  • Roller blade card

Level-headed and experienced buyers on istripper might still think that some of these offer unique content other than a bag, or a roller-blade, or a whip. Those of us who have some of the card now know that the cards are nothing special, and are consistent with cards that cost us $1. I could not find any instance of totem explicity making it known that these cards are not special from the other cards. Therefore they are using a gambling system that rides the line of legal, while giving the impression that special event cards are special, when they are not special, except for in their exorbinant cost.

I do not necessarily disagree with their business plan. It only works because collectors are vulnerable and easy to *****. There is responsibility on that side to make a decision that $500 is too much for a single card. But to say that it isn't a scam at all isn't clear to me.

We know that there are buyers who spend many hundreds of dollars for a single card. A investigator or psychologist would have to conclude that these people are likely of similar mind to those who might give money to an email or online scam. It is possible for a person to spend $500 and not receive the special event card that they desire...to me this is similar to any email or online scam.

I want to be clear...I love totem as a business. They produce my favorite entertainment software and have always been respectful and generous with me as I with them. I have ***** that they are going to struggle through the end of this year and I am grateful that they have a source of income that is not related to producing new cards. But...I also can't feel morally positive with how they use the gambling and special event features. But it is also a porn software and so the morality is *****.
orclover
Joined in Jun 2012
1404 post(s)

Q&A super candy scratch

Everything about iStripper
March 21, 2020, 88 answers
You're right @gkar45 - they have lost their lustre. There is nothing special about most of these cards
There is nothing special about any of these cards. They are just artifically expensive.

one word: scam
A scam requires that deception is involved. There is no deception, hence there can be no scam - though the term rip-off could perhaps be justified, as could overly-expensive. I don't like them and disapprove of them, but neither that nor their expense makes them a scam.

I disagree with the statement that special event cards are not scams. Totem is not clear about whether the cards are actually special unless I am missing some disclaimer and therefore people, especially months ago would have spent many dollars thinking they were getting a special card. Totem has been known for "hiding" the contents in a card in order to increase sales, hence the reason we still have such a poor review system and a very poor tagging systems relative to other erotica services. Totem also has been less than honest when certain activities occur in picture sets and not in the show. Totem is not honest about bugs in cards and which cards have faulty quality, and often charge full price for these cards. Totem does give great discounts, totem does not employ the special event cards very often but they certainly take advantage of vulnerable customers through this process. If it keeps them in business and improves the product I guess we can view it as charity.
Stanston
Joined in Aug 2018
3160 post(s)

How to make the girls come out from the left side?

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March 21, 2020, 18 answers
@willyweekly

Some how, they come from both sides on my machine. I don't know why.

Yes of course, then the Model walked in the Studio from left to right and from right to left.

And this is what the Camera was Recording in Realtime 😉

And the iStripper Client Play's these Videoclips for us, it can't do anything else. You need to mirror a Video, when you want to have the effect, where @Tommy7358 asked for.

I Remember on a Thread in this Forum (unfortunately i can't find it anymore) from a user who made a Software, where you could Play the .vghd Files outside of iStripper.

But the Files are Still .vghd Files. So you Need to reencode the Files, Mirror them, an at least reencode back to the .vghd Container.

Good Luck without Lossing no Quality 😜 So Two-Pass-Encoding is maybe your Friend.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

And here is an Example, FFmpeg can't read the Files properly.


xxx@xxx:/media/daten4/VGHD_Files/a1608$ ffmpeg -i a1608_1401.vghd
ffmpeg version 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.18.04.1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librubberband --enable-librsvg --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-omx --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-sdl2 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdrm --enable-libiec61883 --enable-chromaprint --enable-frei0r --enable-libopencv --enable-libx264 --enable-shared
WARNING: library configuration mismatch
avcodec configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.18.04.1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librubberband --enable-librsvg --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-omx --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-sdl2 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdrm --enable-libiec61883 --enable-chromaprint --enable-frei0r --enable-libopencv --enable-libx264 --enable-shared --enable-version3 --disable-doc --disable-programs --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libtesseract --enable-libvo_amrwbenc
libavutil 55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100
libavcodec 57.107.100 / 57.107.100
libavformat 57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100
libavdevice 57. 10.100 / 57. 10.100
libavfilter 6.107.100 / 6.107.100
libavresample 3. 7. 0 / 3. 7. 0
libswscale 4. 8.100 / 4. 8.100
libswresample 2. 9.100 / 2. 9.100
libpostproc 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100
a1608_1401.vghd: Invalid data found when processing input


a1608_1401.vghd: Invalid data found when processing input

So we have at least the Fact that the Videoclips exclusively and only playable through the iStripper Client.

But this is all only from my Understanding and maybe i am thinking to complicated.