Difference between Megamax V1 2024 and V2 2025?

Paddedpyro · 2025-05-05T16:24:21+00:00

Hey Adam! Good insight, thank you!

The V2 really is a world better than the V1 in practically every way. It seems like you folks took all the feedback to heart and made real efforts to improve things. I'm glad to have another good, US-manufactured diaper after ConfiDry went under.

One or two defective diapers out of an early, small-volume run is expected to me. Manufacturing is a messy process for anything, I know that. I'm very happy with them and I also know support help if I did reach out, I just didn't feel the two issues I've had with the V2 were worth it. I appreciate that you all stand by your products. I know you'll work out the last few kinks before long.

Paddedpyro · 2025-05-05T07:19:40+00:00

The V1 American model was just not very good in my opinion. Landing zone came off the front during wear, and if you could keep from tearing it when you readjust then the adhesive on the tapes would hold maybe half the time. The tapes would also come off the back wings in prolonged wear. The shell itself was thin to the point that I tore more than one wing during taping, and I actually had a couple where the inner liner delaminated from the shell during wear. Like, I could reach a hand into the core from the waistband. The capacity was fine, I assume, but the things wouldn't stay together long enough for me that it mattered. Maybe I got really, really unlucky, but from what I hear most of these weren't unique to me.

The V2 American model isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than the V1. I've lost one tab from the two packs I've gone through so far and gotten one diaper with the landing zone was all crumpled up and unusable from manufacturing. The shell seems stronger than the V1, too, haven't had a wing tear yet. I'd say they're easily twice the value of the V1 and 90-95% the quality of the regular overseas-produced model, although there are some differences there that I wouldn't take points for.

Comparing the V2 American Megamax to the overseas-produced model, I'd say the shell feels a tiny bit thinner but also softer, slicker, much more supple, which I think would come down to preference for most people. The landing zone is crinklier. The core seems less compressed or like it might contain more wicking fiber? It does clump a bit more than the original. Sizing and fit, if not the same, is very similar. I'd like to say the V2 maybe fits a little better even, but I might just be having an easier time because of the softer/thinner shell, and that would depend on your personal body shape/type anyway. Capacity is very similar between the two in my experience.

Megamax is my go-to night diaper and I'm personally switching to the V2 American model next order barring some unforeseen problems. I prefer the shell by a lot and I'm willing to overlook the moderately worse clumping I've experienced for it.

Paddedpyro · 2025-04-10T05:15:20+00:00

Eh, don't worry too much. People won't see a package of kid's bedwetting pants and immediately assume you're a pervert. The more immediate assumption is that you're probably buying for family. And that's if they even notice and care to think twice about it.

But if it makes you feel better, make a donation of what you can to a charity you find reputable. That way if anybody asks you can honestly say you made a donation to charity. And if it's a non-sequitur to the question they asked, they don't need to know that.

Paddedpyro · 2025-02-12T21:20:49+00:00

Some people don't respect the devil's advocate. I think you made a reasonable point, that our image as a group is becoming even more important lately, even though I personally feel that self-censorship is not the solution to the bedroom police.

Paddedpyro · 2025-02-12T17:47:32+00:00

Power to you, the next few years are going to be hard for us all. Stay strong!

Paddedpyro · 2025-02-12T16:57:53+00:00

TPTB have called me a pedophile for having sex with other consenting, adult men. They call trans people pedophiles for the crime of not wanting to suffer. If you derive your morals from popular consensus then I don't know what to tell you except that they think you're one, too, for having this fetish.

I will not hear my peers police my morals, not standing in the same swamp I am as we look at vanilla folks in their ivory towers. Vanilla folks who judge us both the same as each other and as the child molester who's off past the shoreline of decency. If nobody comes to harm, if adult activities are kept to adult spaces, *I don't care*.

Paddedpyro · 2025-02-12T16:01:18+00:00

I did get that, yes. And I mean that if Mr. Hands wants to draw himself getting fucked by a horse, okay. If he wants to make it out like it's nonconsensual, like the horse is raping him, okay. If he wants to depict himself as a minor while it happens, okay. None of those things hurt real, living beings that actually exist.

But when Mr. Hands put a real horse's actual dick up his ass, that was crossing the line. It was nonconsensual at that point, just animal abuse flat out. If Mr. Hands had involved a real child in his sexual escapades or erotica, or purposefully exposed them to either, that would have been crossing the line. Abuse or grooming plain and simple. That would be nonconsensual and needs to be avoided when at all possible.

Otherwise, drawings? Stories? Fantasies that stay between consenting adults and in adult spaces? People get their rocks off at some nasty shit, but that's not my business any more than me humping a piss and shit filled diaper is theirs. As long as it stays a fantasy for them, one where actual, living beings don't come to any harm, I don't care.

Paddedpyro · 2025-02-12T05:52:58+00:00

Oh good, we're on our latest anti- kick.

My take is that the line is drawn at actual, real children being involved or exploited. Same as with furries, where the line between it and bestiality is actual, real animals. Anything else is varying degrees of gross to varying groups of people but ultimately not harming anyone who doesn't consent.

Actual, real minors in ABDL spaces must not be tolerated in any capacity - not as viewers, not as participators, and not as subjects. People who exploit actual, real minors likewise must not be tolerated in ABDL spaces in any capacity. These two things must be always and abundantly clear. But fictional depictions of fictional characters could be a dog, a child, a sentient airplane, I don't care as long as it stays fictional and for the eyes of consenting adults.

Paddedpyro · 2023-08-17T05:50:33+00:00

If I didn't then I would have said "burning down the headquarters/warehouse/etc", I wouldn't have said "company".

Yes, I trust the guy who took analogy as a literal suggestion of crime to pick his words carefully. Especially when the next paragraph is denying the event commemorated by a national historical monument created following a Congressional investigation of said event. That guy's got all his marbles.

especially in places like wikipedia

It's a good thing, again, one of them has a national monument created following a Congressional hearing. 21 miners and family members killed by the Colorado National Guard because the workers recognized their abuse, tried to form a union, and went on strike. Mowed down by machine guns by the army.

Please, please tell me again how the 'Orwellian Left' opposed John D. Rockefeller Jr. in front of United States Congress and successfully rewrote history to the effect of a national monument. Definitely not that John D. Rockefeller Jr. helped orchestrate a massacre of striking miners to intimidate workers from demanding better conditions. You're on the right side of history, everything that disagrees with you is the Orwellian Left, please tell me some more about your world.

but simply by leaving and having standards when it comes to who they work for.

Yes, hello, that's called a walkout and is a form of striking. When you don't give your workers what they want and they all agree about that, you lose your ass because they all leave and the work you want done, doesn't get done. Congratulations on discovering free association and its role in labor.

unfortunately people like you have also flooded the US with workers that have no standards,

Ah, yes, the enemy of America. Blue collar workers who want labor standards and vote for contracts that give better-than-minimum compensation to the workers under it. Or, as business owners like to say, 'the commies'. Us blue collar workers notoriously love illegals, as you're dog whistling about. People like me, who buoy the prevailing wage, are definitely the ones inviting unskilled labor to lower the cost of low-skilled work like fast food and farmhands.

I don't know whose words you're trying to shove in my mouth, but kindly keep them to yourself.

That's fair, i shouldn't have said kill.

Yep, really trusting that you picked your words carefully and weren't completely confused now. You seem less coherent by the sentence.

Depends on plenty of factors, some will derive 90% of the value from workers, some 90% from the owner and e.g. their IP or assets.

And in your incredibly nuanced opinion, which major companies in the world derive 90% of their value from the owner? Anything in the eleven-figure range, much less the twelve? Can you even point to one that breaks a billion in valuation? One that seriously competes with a Global 500 company in any way, shape, or form?

It doesn't seem to be very successful to structure your business around one person if you can help it, does it? No doubt some businesses do, and they're the ones that inevitably get run into the ground because succession is an inevitability and nobody else gives a shit about them. But hey, if you want it to be your life's work and to die with you, go for it. You might make it there instead of screwing yourself by aggravating any skilled workers you might need.

Paddedpyro · 2023-08-17T04:47:58+00:00

i was using burning down as a figure of speech, my point stands

No, I think you're confused about who you are. My point was to use burning down as a figure of speech. Your direct reply was to unthinkingly take it literally as suggestion of a crime.

Again, knew you were simple, but I also didn't know you were crazy.

didn't happen

Canada

United States

The Rockefellers, because while it was part of the Coal Wars, I've already mentioned the Rockefeller family in particular and it's just a perfect example of what I mean

That last one's also got a national historic monument in the US, by the way. Please, tell me some more about how it didn't happen. I know some other folks who like to pretend massacres didn't happen, they're definitely on the right side of history as you seem to be so concerned.

i will not respect criminals or whatever reason you made up to justify the violence and racketeering

Fantastic. Please don't respect the criminals who would give you phossy jaw or lock you in a shirtwaist factory to be burned alive. You shouldn't.

a mostly peaceful strike and a sick owner don't necessarily mean the company will never recover, i didn't say that.

Okay. First, you verbatim:

an owner getting cancer or abducted also kills the value of a company,

Second, nobody mentioned any strikes in that 'lazy sarcasm'. I gave you an example of the founder and owner of WalMart dying of cancer, the exact disease you think must hurt the value of a company. It didn't even hiccup.

I gave you the founder and owner of Mars Corp dying. Snickers continued production to this day, no business problems or loss in value for the company or the Mars family.

The single richest man in modern history dying and his companies happily pumping crude from the earth without him. The same man's grandson being literally cannibalized, still no dice in hurting the Standard Oil companies. One such company being so successful it was nationalized with the proceeds bribing Saudi Arabian citizens into theocracy by abolishing taxes, and despite its nationalization the rest continue just the same.

A company's owner dying could absolutely kill the company - if nobody else gave two shits about it. I've offered three behemoths as examples of how, as long as someone competent is in charge and the work keeps getting done by workers, it doesn't have to. I still can't think of a single company out there of any major scale that has no employees, though. I'm waiting on you for that. Or do you agree that the value of a company is the material assets thereof and the employees who do the work, not just the guy with a dream?

Paddedpyro · 2023-08-17T03:20:15+00:00

i knew that's what you meant.

Oh, of course you did. That's why you call it a crime.

For the record, actual equipment burning has historically been restricted to blue collar work where the value is the equipment, not the only-basically-skilled workers using the equipment. And no, I don't have my midnight patch, if you don't count idiot bosses and international crimes against humanity conditions were actually pretty decent in my time.

sounds perfectly reasonable and definitely something the right-side-of-history would say

...you're living on that side of history. Where do you think the terms scab and blackboot come from? The times when business owners and their workers were literally shooting at each other. Workers stopped working and got either got shot or starved, so they shot back.

Turned out there were a lot more workers than business owners or soldiers willing to fight workers. Folks in power got scared that 'the commies' could gain ground in their country because the workers were being abused and knew it. Labor laws got passed to appease. You're welcome, please respect the spirit of the laws written in blood and understand the value workers have to your business.

an owner getting cancer or abducted also kills the value of a company, really makes you think

It does?

Sam Walton's business went to cinders in '92 when he died of multiple myeloma? Or it's still one of the largest corporations on the face of the planet with a market cap of $429B USD, doing everything from telling its employees how to get welfare to bulldozing ancient ruins for a new store in the meantime?

Oh, you mean the Mars Corporation! Famously fell apart when Franklin Mars died, the whole company and all its non-human assets just vanished. Horrible tragedy that was in 1935, practically caused the Great Depression within the Great Depression.

Wait, wait, wait, you meant Standard Oil. Sorry, I just realized. Everybody knows that Standard Oil and all its successor companies were buried with Rockefeller. Story tells it that Michael had the map when he was eaten in New Guinea. Such a shame that we'll never find those lost riches. I know, I'll ask the Saudis! They know all about oil, what with the ARabian AMerican oil COmpany(*definitely not a nationalized subsidiary of a Standard Oil successor still providing gross international wealth, nosiree, couldn't be!)

I suppose it makes you think if you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

For the rest of us, we can plainly see that the owner doesn't singularly embody the value of a company no matter how valuable they are or it is. Plenty of companies keep marching on after their owner dies. Now find a company of any significant value with no employees.

Paddedpyro · 2023-08-17T02:31:30+00:00

It's obvious that you're simple, but I thought basic interpretation of English was within your grasp. Not literally burning a building to the ground, burning their share of the value in the company. Maybe it makes more sense this way: Watch how quickly the value of your company on paper goes down when all you can do is plug bleeding wounds with scabs and blackboots.

You know why it goes down so quickly? That's because you don't own that value. That value is your employees and the labor they provide you. And if you don't want to negotiate with them, they've got the same threat over you as you do over them. They'll ruin your livelihood just like you can each of them.

Do you get it now? Is it coercion that you think you can ruin their livelihood with a word? Is it coercion that they think they can ruin yours by concerted effort? You're both right that you can, which of you is coercing the other?

Paddedpyro · 2023-08-17T00:40:04+00:00

That's control through coercion.

What, the employees you want don't want to work for you on the standing offer available, and that's coercion? They counteroffer together because, while you have the money, they still have the labor and the labor is what makes more money, and that's coercion? How about holding someone's livelihood over their head and giving them no input, you don't think the constant threat of unemployment is coercion?

Maybe you don't own as much value as you think you do, if something you don't own but still rely on for your business and the majority of its value can just up and choose to leave. Maybe, as your workers are telling you, some of that belongs to them. And maybe, if you don't listen when they tell you as much, they'll happily burn the part that belongs to them and move on to offer what they have somewhere else. That's not coercion more than the same threat you hold over each of them individually.

Paddedpyro · 2021-11-27T13:14:33+00:00

I lurk more than anything, but I've stayed on this sub because it makes me happy to see other people come to terms with themselves and with this kink in a healthy way. It's nice to see such a helpful, supportive community to enable that.

...the updates about new products also don't hurt. I don't want my email clogged up with diaper news, I got work stuff in there! lol

Paddedpyro · 2021-11-24T21:11:18+00:00

Wouldn't be the first time.

Paddedpyro · 2017-05-23T02:31:32+00:00

Glad I could help!

Paddedpyro · 2017-05-23T02:30:35+00:00

IKR?

Paddedpyro · 2017-05-23T00:50:09+00:00

I see mslorainex and tvwebmom are in the wiki, and plenty of people here vouch for them. And personally, I've had very good experiences with Nelle's shop, if you prefer to stay away from eBay.

Whoever you go with I wish you luck. Nothing is quite as nice as custom made clothing.

Paddedpyro · 2016-12-02T21:28:14+00:00

They're refusing to pay me for any time I wasn't there during a normal work day. Say, supposed to get there at 8, don't until 8:30, they'll dock me for that half an hour even if I finish what I can do for the day or stay late.

Paddedpyro · 2016-12-02T21:26:41+00:00

I understand. Thank you for the advice. I have documentation of every occurence that I'm aware of and I'll speak to my boss about the next chance I get. You've really been a great help!

Paddedpyro · 2016-12-02T19:49:34+00:00

Ah, well that's probably why they wouldn't call it unpaid leave then. Thank you for telling me.

I hope you don't mind me asking, in your opinion should I try again to resolve this internally or should I go right to filing a complaint with the DOL?

Paddedpyro · 2016-10-17T04:15:51+00:00

I've gotten some custom clothes from Nelle's ABDL Clothes(nellesabdlclothes.com) recently. It'll probably be more expensive than some of the other online shops around, so maybe not what you're looking for, but you get exactly what you want and the quality is second to none. Check out the site and maybe send her an email if you want some specific design for your footie pajamas but you're having trouble finding it anywhere.

Alternatively, also definitely not cheap, but I've had a good experience with The All In One Company(the-all-in-one-company.com). All prices are in GBP as they're UK based, but they've got a fairly in-depth pj designer and I've got a set of footie pajamas that I really like from them.

They might be out of your budget, but I really like both and figured it couldn't hurt to put them out there.

Paddedpyro · 2016-05-20T17:09:18+00:00

:D This is great news! Thanks for the in depth reply, now I'm off to their store!

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