Ok... So Aen so graciously traded me a Shiva, and I love it. I, funny enough, love it at a "normal" setting as a "normal" heavy fuzz. Very thick and saturated to hell, shit, even rolling back the texture knob doesn't do too much, still saturated heavy ass fuzz fun.
THEN as if that wasn't enough... you got a switch that makes it go into...
OCTAVE-DESTRUCTO MODE! Which is just an added bonus to the already cool heavy fuzz. Now, I didnt' get to play with the starve function all that much, but, I did find one super useful purpose for it... volume control!

When I needed to drop my volume a lil bit in cleaner parts, I just hit that starve button an
WHAPBAP! nice little volume drop. Tonight I will actually get to futz around more with the knobs, because I was too busy playing music last night to really get to fiddle. I wanna try out the ugly switch and get to know the starve function's purpose a bit more... I have a feeling great noise will come from this pedal... Yes!
But, the Shiva is a keeper... no dobut.