^^ I don't really have an interest in getting involved in all of this, and I can see where you're coming from thinking it is all lists all the time, but KillBillVol69 has gone through and looked that it really isn't the case.
But the reality is, whether it is all lists or not in the grand scheme of things what is the difference? Just scroll past them. Mason clearly still uses the forum as a sounding board for who people are interested in seeing, you can tell by the girls who make appearances in scenes. So people are going to continue to request whether it is for Facialized or otherwise.
pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07
Posted - Sep 11 2021 : 10:28PM
I think requests are great but I prefer it when they include a photo of the performer so we can discover people we may otherwise not know. Plus it is good eye candy.
Course we're also not supposed to post too many pics at a time so best to keep it to 3-5 requests at most.
^ Agreed. I love when people include pictures because if it is someone I don't know, it saves me from having to google myself lol. But I also agree it can be an easy way to load up the thread even more if people don't limit it to 3-5. Some people, myself included on occasion, can get carried away with the number of girls requested.
Absolutely! So many of my favourites have been discovered through people posting pics of girls I'd never heard of before. If people stuck to this would also stop those 30 name wish lists which are the biggest irritant!
What Have You Done To My Little Cable Boy? 2966 Posts 5/10
Posted - Sep 29 2021 : 2:53AM
Am not so enthusiastic about this idea. An anal scene with Manuel is more impressive to me than a DAP scene with John Strong and Stefano. If you like DAP, you should take a look at Europe. It looks spectacular there.
What Have You Done To My Little Cable Boy? 2966 Posts 5/10
Posted - Sep 30 2021 : 3:03AM
^ That one was with Dupree, which is basically the same thing.
I've seen two US DAPs so far that I've really liked, because the guys had a certain bigness too. That was AW with Mick + Erik and Jada's scene from 2014 also with Mick + Erik. Many, many US DAP scenes are shot with the common DP guys, who then I don't find particularly exciting outside of the DAP part.
I must also confess that I find it very difficult to take a step back when I have reached a certain standard. I'm a big Kristy Black fan and have seen her DAP scenes with Charlie Mac and Chris Diamond...who together are probably 6 times the size of US guys. I would then probably find it very difficult to enjoy these enormous differences.
For those who have no experience with LP/AV, this is certainly less of a problem, if any.
^ Are you seriously going to claim that doing double anal, triple anal, doesn't alter their bodies? That would be incredibly disingenuous. It can and it does - how do you think anal prolapses begin? How do you think women who have to clench their anuses before sneezing or coughing, so their assholes don't fall out, happen? It's through the sort of rough treatment that you, and other folks, try to pressure these women into doing.
Very few are super into it, do it in their personal lives, or did it before porn. Maybe Casey is one of them. Good for her. Lena doesn't appear to want to do it, and PLENTY of fans prefer tight, shapely looking assholes, not gaping and prolapsing - I think she's doing just fine in terms of her career and her fandom. And that's coming from someone who can't stand her lesbian performances. What I can't stand more though? The obsession with the physical altering, and infliction of medical conditions, on females being categorized and pushed as a turn-on, a-ok, all right, perfectly fine.
It's not fine and there's more and more fans who are utterly fed up with it and the companies that push that sort of stuff, or the companies like LP that wreck young ladies bodies, irrevocably, and more and more fans are actually asking for other companies to no longer book and use models who've performed in such ways, not being turned on by it's physical aftermath.
So no, please Mason, ignore all these cries for the DAP, TAP treatments, DVP, etc - please, instead, focus on showing off these women's bodies, their real pleasure, and please, leave their insides inside.
"I'd like Allie Addison, Ellie Eilish, Liz Jordan in that list please. Maybe even some more experienced girls like Haley Reed, and Riley Reid."
Said this a while back relative to gangbangs / blowbangs.
I'm still really hoping for a 2-girl blowbang with like 20 dudes, and a lot of cum-swapping with the girls after this bottled in f'in pandemic. Please, some sort of celebratory orgy / gangbang / blowbang extravaganza please! Mason would be the best director for this imo, for US. analvids in Europe.
At least evil angel and blacked have new blowbangs Savannah Bond, Emily Willis. God Emily's just amazing.
Happy to see Mason shoot Lily Larimar for LesbianX. I hope she is brought back for HardX scenes as well.
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Eliza Ibarra is my current fave! 17 Posts 10/21
Posted - Oct 5 2021 : 6:33PM
Hi, new member here!
Even though I'm new here, I've been a huge fan of Mason's work going back to her Elegant Angel days. I saw this forum pop up in a recent Google search, and when I discovered that Mason actually reads and posts in this thread, I figured I should join. HardX is, by far, my favorite of her four XEmpire sites.
Honest question, why Mason's upcoming scenes looks so "sparse"? Don't get me wrong, the scenes are still good but It seems like they take way to long to get released and right now in the upcoming section we have 3 EX scenes vs 2 Mason's directed scenes. How is the frequency of the scenes to get release?
What Have You Done To My Little Cable Boy? 2966 Posts 5/10
Posted - Oct 8 2021 : 6:12AM
^I think in some ways the porn industry continues to be in economy mode.
But with Mason in particular, I have the impression...something is missing. You look at the current and upcoming scenes - they are the same generic b/g scenes with Blue or Stefano. Over and over again. The days of spectacular showcases with Tori Black or Asa Akira are long gone and probably won't come back. And somehow the something special is missing.
Thats what I have been saying all along in recent years, Mason current work compared to her Elegant Angel days isn't the same and Xempire isn't the same since the earlier days.
A hall of fame director no doubt but her recent work has been generic apart from a few hits here and there.
Something special is missing and the aspects of showcases were unique.
In recent times it has felt generic.
Her best work for me was between 2010-2016 we need more stuff like that.
Oh how I miss the days of Remy Lacroix, Jada Stevens, Annika Albrite, Karlee Grey and many others.
What Have You Done To My Little Cable Boy? 2966 Posts 5/10
Posted - Oct 8 2021 : 8:23AM
I miss those times too. But this aspect cannot be blamed on the directors....it is probably the Zeitgeist. What we had back then, the bubble butt girl next era - that's over, unfortunately. I guess the Vixen group has contributed a lot that much has turned in this sterile, super skinny model direction. It will certainly slosh again in another direction one day.
Man those times were wild with such high calibre superstars such as Dani Daniels, Valentina Nappi, Kagney Linn Karter, AJ Applegate, Riley Reyes, Candice Dare, Mia Malkova and Abella Danger.
Male talent we had Erik Everhard, Manuel Ferarra, Rico Strong who always delivered on set.
Xempire gave us hit after hit when it came to those names, Mason brought her A-game to another level in the early 2010s which is pretty much almost unmatched to this day.
Mason does bring out the best in a female performer especially when it comes to sex appeal, I like how she works with the female to what works best.
I would happily relive those times given the chance.
True I agree it cannot be blamed on the directors as the market dictates everything in the world of adult.
Back then the market featured PAWGs heavily alongside busty female performers that has changed now to the slender female talent.
However I do enjoy Alina Lopez, Emily Willis, Chloe Cherry, Kendra Spade and Jill Kassidy.
But like you said the market will change in future to another body type.
I do think showcases need to make a comeback if anyone knows how to do a showcase it's Mason.
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ChrisP47 Deactivated User
Eliza Ibarra is my current fave! 17 Posts 10/21
Posted - Oct 8 2021 : 9:00PM
Along with the slow update rates for HardX, the other thing that's bothered me with it this year is the female casting choices...mostly "veteran" pornstars who've been featured on the site/network multiple times already. The lack of "fresh faces" in Mason-directed scenes this year has been a real bummer for me. In regards to Mason's scenes this year, the only thing that REALLY excited me was the debut of that Alexia Anders; it was especially nice that less than two weeks after her first scene on HardX, they put out a scene with her on DarkX. Beyond that, the only other positive for me was finally seeing Gizelle Blanco in a Mason-directed scene. Other than that, Mason's scenes this year have been a mix of repeat performances from girls I like and the rest featuring pornstars I'm not interested in.
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ChrisP47 Deactivated User
Eliza Ibarra is my current fave! 17 Posts 10/21
Posted - Oct 16 2021 : 7:26PM
No HardX update this week. It's a shame, the XEmpire network - specifically speaking, Mason's four sites - is so fuckin' dead.
Three of the four sites (DarkX, LesbianX and AllBlackX) are on a one-a-month update rate. And while (until this week) HardX has had an update each week, the lack of "freshness" with the female casting picks has been underwhelming, for me, at least. If I didn't know any better, I'd say the network, particularly Mason, is working with a "bare bones" budget now. Seems like she's rarely shooting, and when she does shoot something, they drag out the release of each scene from a four-scene movie over several months, as evidenced by the release of the DP Me Vol. 12 scenes. Not only was the release of those scenes dragged out over five months, but I get the sense that those scenes were shot months before their actual release; wasn't there Twitter confirmation that the Vanessa Sky scene was shot way back in December of last year?
As a longtime fan of Mason's work, this year's been a real bummer. Shit, as bad as 2020 was, at least we got one of those Facialized movies to start the year.
And now they are closing down the XEmpire forums (It's probably not a XEmpire thing, though... More of a Gamma Network thing). Because of "credit card companies regulations..." (unmoderated forums, where everyone can upload without review... I mean, in a forum with one post per week, of course nobody can review these posts... The workload would be overwhelming.
Some of the videos have erroneous tagging, or the image sets are not there/missing/wrongly linked. In the comment section, these are mentioned - 5-6 years ago... But the comment section there apparently is only occupational therapy for frustrated users, I guess nobody ever reads them.
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ChrisP47 Deactivated User
Eliza Ibarra is my current fave! 17 Posts 10/21
Posted - Oct 18 2021 : 5:01PM
Oh, I haven't had a membership in months, not since Jane Wilde's DP scene was released. I've always been a one-month subscription guy, I've never had any interest in those long-term memberships. I mean, if I had purchased like a year-long membership at the beginning of 2021 (with the expectation that updates would pick up), I'd be pretty damn frustrated right now.
Hey, it's not all bad news...there are three EroticaX updates on the "Coming Soon" page!
Gamma has ruined pornography by making porn generic and not giving true 4K quality, plus it's no good that they bring Evil Angel updates to Xempire same vice versa.
The problem isn't Evil Angel and Xempire but Gamma.
Yes the production manager should pay attention to comments to see what is clicking with fans and what isn't connecting.
I do believe Mason and Xempire are well cut above Gamma, that Mason/Xempire doesn't need Gamma but Gamma needs them.
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Posted - Oct 19 2021 : 1:04PM
^Care to expand on that? I see no difference at all from pre Gamma days to the current regime. How have they made porn generic? Especially since after a long enough period, everything is generic.
Websites were more unique Pre Gamma takeover, which they all stood out from one another bringing something unique to the table.
The reason porn is generic today is because their is no competition, for example Brazzers, Bangbros were in their prime between 2010-2015 that's because they had to bring something special to the table if they wanted porn supremacy and bring in fans, but those days have long gone and studios are no longer producing bangers as they have gone lazy.
Gamma just doesn't bring out out true 4K quality which is a shame as some Gamma owned websites do have great scenes.
Compare the 4K between Gamma owned websites to the 4K of Vixen Media Group-owned websites you can see the quality difference.
The 4K output and bit rate of Gamma is just terrible.
I do think the actual scene quality could massively improve if Mason/Xempire split and depart from Gamma.
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching Kenzie Taylor Interracial Anal scene that was insanely hot, Isiah Maxwell is one lucky dude to get booked with her.
The ending was great and a worthy finish.
The Ashley Lane and Jax Slayher was also excellent, Jax is an incredible performer and quite honestly underrated he can deliver on set.
I do like DarkX but wish we had more updates.
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1041 Posts 8/13
Posted - Oct 19 2021 : 8:51PM
^^I'm not watching porn in 4K so I'll take your word on that but your main point with the porn being more generic under Gamma doesn't hold any water. I've been a member of XEmpire, Evil Angel, & Adult Time and all of them have distinct personalities because there are many directors and shooting styles for the sites & scenes. Granted, there's a lot of crap on Adult Time, mostly from Devils Films but that's been what you can expect from Devils Films for years now. You want a culprit for you lack of bangers, it's probably the Covid epidemic and maybe the rise of OnlyFans. Now I am curious to see what your guy at Cruel Media is going to do. We'll see if he's going to drop some bangers. If not, you won't be able to blame Gamma.
Devils Films has been made redundant for quite some time now, Adult Time is just recycled content from various Gamma websites under one umbrella and hardly any original content of it's own.
It seems most Gamma websites are heading down that route.
I agree the pandemic has put a holt on a mass production of scenes, especially last year.
There is still restrictions so far and lots of risks involved.
Evil Angel has good stuff but not enough of it and too much junk that comes along with it, Xempire is great but not enough updates or directors, William H would be excellent addition to the website.
Regarding my team and new series to come, if your a fan of Chris Streams earlier work for JJV you'll love our brand.
He has directed some of the best scenes to date namely the infamous brother load series, young and glamorous, oil overload, internal damnation and even some orgy masters stuff etc.
I already have an all-star lineup ready for our debut.