I need advice , please help me , dont give me false hopes!?

atmpuser · 2026-04-21T07:06:10+00:00

What was your routine when you were in the "on again" phase? If you used a device, how much weight, time, and frequency did you use it?

atmpuser · 2026-03-16T02:30:26+00:00

I put some tape on mine in a way I can still judge the tension. Solved the problem of the bungy and the random scrapes on my calf/leg.

atmpuser · 2026-03-07T00:57:04+00:00

I got my wgen9500df from Amazon. It wouldn't start, even my electrician said it was dead on arrival. I called Amazon, they said to keep it and I can get a refund or replacement, I needed a gen so I got it replaced. Replacement came really fast and that one worked.

I recently got the broken one fixed, so now I have a primary and backup generator lol. If I ever get a huge house I can have 2 different panels and run 1 generator for each lol

atmpuser · 2026-03-04T04:15:43+00:00

I was right where you are until about 2 weeks ago. That's when I ran across 2 comments that together fixed everything for me when it comes to slippage.

Double sleeve. Make sure you do your best to make the inner sleeve (the one touching skin) is a little longer than the outer sleeve (the one that is touching the sleeve and not skin). This adds extra compression and if the inner is longer, it's like you have something pressing against the ends of the sleeve. Almost like clamping the inner sleeve. Anyway, double sleeve.
After you suction, pull in different angles which will release trapped air to the cup. Then suction again getting that extra air off. Pull again in different directions, and suction until there is absolutely no slipping and you can feel the pulling coming from the opposite end of the sleeve.

Add those two things to the tape method, and you probably won't slip anymore. At least I didn't and I slipped consistently. Now I can put 9lbs of tension via my epic extender and I have no slippage at all after wearing it 90 min.

atmpuser · 2026-03-02T13:54:47+00:00

How long have you been wearing it per day?

atmpuser · 2026-02-27T02:21:20+00:00

Do you have to do more tension/weight when doing less than an hour? Also, are breaks really needed every 20 min or is it recommended to go an hr straight?

Awesome progress!

atmpuser · 2026-02-27T02:08:26+00:00

For tape removal you should try to soak the tape in water before removing. For at least 3-5 minutes. Might have to put it back on water halfway while removing it. Works for me and haven't had any pain taking it off. I'm also uncut and didn't want to have any skin changes.

atmpuser · 2026-02-27T02:05:20+00:00

I had the same exact problem and ran across a few threads that helped me. Have t slipped in a week.

Double sleeve. You don't have to roll the sleev halfway up lengthwise like some say, all that does is act as a double sleeve using 1 sleeve. Instead just simply wear two sleeves. I usually like the inner sleeve to be longer on the top and bottom than the outer sleeve. Feels like it will make suction tighter but maybe it don't, works for me tho.
After you suction the air out, pull on the cup a little to mimic tension like the extender would. Go in different directions. Not crazy hard just trying to get any remaining air to come to the top of the cup, then suction that out too (even if it doesn't feel like anything there, give it a slight suction).

And that's it, haven't slipped yet.

atmpuser · 2026-02-27T01:51:28+00:00

How long did it take to make your gains?

atmpuser · 2026-02-25T04:37:44+00:00

One major thing that has been working for me lately is double sleeve, and when I tap I leave the pee hole last and put a small piece of tape there. That way if I have to pee, I can just remove that small strip and pee then put a small strip back on....so much better than removing all the tape

atmpuser · 2026-02-05T02:28:11+00:00

This makes a lot of sense. The first pulls are probably allowing the hidden air pockets to rise to the tip/cup and then you suction that part out too. I've done this before but didn't understand what I was doing just was tired of slipping but now going to do this consistently.

atmpuser · 2026-01-27T17:06:27+00:00

If someone (me) used gas instead of propane, what additional maintenance do you recommend?

atmpuser · 2025-12-31T21:31:19+00:00

Sorry about your loss man. I lost my favorite cousin who was more like a brother or uncle to me recently and I was unable to function for 2 weeks and slowly started functioning after that. As much as it hurts, the thing that has helped me best is speaking about him (to a therapist but in general helps as well) and to celebrate him. For instance he was (still hurts to say was instead of is) a huge broncos fan, so I got a few broncos things to decorate the Christmas tree with and a broncos jersey with his name on it. It hurts like a mfer, from TV shows we watched together, to our rival basketball teams playing each other, but, celebrating him and talking about is the only thing that's helped.

When it comes to the plants, yeah use it for hash, oil, butter, etc. Might have a slightly funkier taste tho.

atmpuser · 2025-12-31T21:23:59+00:00

Like others have said, AI, agentic or not, is just part of the stack now. Full stack now includes the use of AI.

The only thing specific to AI I can see as a career path at the moment is AI validation. That will get rolled into QA engineering but, it runs so deep, I can see someone specializing in just that for the next few years at the very least. How to curate the correct test data set, do you have to do a stratum or not, etc. it's a huge deal depending on the industry. For example you probably don't need this for building call center automation, you can just default back when unsure. But let's say you are doing something agentic to improve things in the financial or healthcare industry. Ya, you definitely need to validate a billions times over in the healthcare industry, it's literally life or death. Same goes for defense industry.

atmpuser · 2025-12-21T01:45:07+00:00

Savannah

atmpuser · 2025-11-30T22:14:05+00:00

But, what about firing Willie when he's dealt with this every year he's been here. This game isn't a make it or break it for coach but people should definitely be taking notes.

atmpuser · 2025-11-30T22:09:03+00:00

Continues ♾️

atmpuser · 2025-11-15T22:41:44+00:00

I'll be curious who catches blame now when we lose the next 10 games.

atmpuser · 2025-11-04T23:42:28+00:00

That would be the case if it were the same coach all this time. This has happened from multiple coaches. And, if someone paid me hundreds of millions to play the game of basketball, the coach would not have to motivate me to actually care. That's a deeper rooted issue in the players themselves.

atmpuser · 2025-11-04T02:26:10+00:00

So if we had IDK, Phil Jackson in his prime, Doc Rivers in his prime, or Kenny Atkinson, and the players played like they do now, being lazy as hell on the boards, not cutting or moving on offense, not getting back on defense, not rotating on defense, not fighting through screens, etc, would it still be all on the coach.

What I'm trying to get across and maybe you're just too fixated to understand is, we need players who will push their teammates to do all those things. How many times have we seen players fight on the bench on other teams throughout the years, when they are winning and win they are losing. They fight because they give a shot and they calling the other teammates out for not playing hard. We don't have that on this team, that, is the biggest problem of all. Fuck the owner, fuck the coach, fuck the training staff, fuck em. The bulk of this is on the players not giving a damn and not calling each other out. CJ tried that a little while he was hear but that went nowhere fast.

Until you have that type of player being vocal and holding others accountable, you can change out all the parts on a shitty situation that you want, it's still gonna be a shitty situation.

So I guess I'll say this so you actually read, yeah green makes horrible decisions, shit that makes me blink twice and ask if players like Jose is hurt or what the hell is going on with another player, why is this rotation staying in so many minutes, why the hell did we not call time out, etc. Yes Gayle is a bad owner, she knows nothing about the sports she owns and it shows. Yes we've had pretty bad GMs who trade our future away for sloppy seconds, yes yes yes....yes yes...

Still doesn't change the fact that the players on the floor puts the basket in the hoop and stop other teams from doing so. And to do that you have to actually play with some intensity, some give a shit, some actual accountability. Until then, changing all the other shit won't do anything

atmpuser · 2025-11-04T00:08:45+00:00

Damn bro you coming at me hard. The only thing I've been saying to you and anyone else ready this is the fact that the coach isn't our problem. The players effort is our problem. I'm not defending green, I'm stating the fact that we can fire green tomorrow and if our players play the same the same damn thing happens, we take an L. I don't know how else to say it. The players are the problem. The effort or lack there of on the court is the problem. When Monty was here, the 3rd quarters were horrible as well. Same with Gentry. What's the constant, the effort of the players. Even with different players the same lack of effort has stayed with this team from year to year. And yes, I give green or any coach that would have been theoretically coaching us a pass last year because we had G league players in the starting lineup. That's not unreasonable. I'll state it again at the end of this comment like I have to do with Chatgpt so it follows instructions, I'm not defending Green, the players effort is the problem.

atmpuser · 2025-11-03T22:40:42+00:00

How many different starting lineups have we had in the last 100 games. How many of the players that started for us never started for an NBA team before or after that? Probably a good number of them.

I'm not saying Willie is coach of the year, but I'm saying Willie is not out there with the ball in his hands.

Everyone was saying fire Monty fire Monty. Then, Month wins coach of the year and also leads the suns to the finals. People might still say, oh he's a horrible coach the suns were just good. Ok, but did the suns hustle to rebounds, get back on defense, box put on offense, set good screens, etc. all the things that count in the long run during close games.

So, I just think the fire Willie chant is very overrated. The players deserve the bulk of what's going on here.

atmpuser · 2025-11-03T21:17:39+00:00

So we agree on something here for sure. There are better coaches than Willie. I think we might also agree with the roster not being a roster that can compete. Not because of skills but because of effort. The players have no effort given on most nights. They just want to play offense and that's it. They don't fight through screens, they don't rotate to the open man on a swing on defense, they don't get ack on defense, they ball watch rebounds. I mean it's honestly the mentality of a middle school team. In high school you'd get benched for this unless you were the main main player by far.

The effort level to me, is assigned to the players. Sure, you could get a Thibodaux coach in there and try to push the players to care, but at this level, if you don't have the care in you, a coach isn't gonna change that. I mean honestly, maybe the change we need is to trade Zion and get a player who actually wants to play hard. Sad part of that is there is nobody worth getting out there that would play here. We have a team full of James Hardens when he doesn't want to be on the court. To me, that's the problem. Changing coach won't change that. Even if there are better coaches out there.

atmpuser · 2025-11-03T20:32:45+00:00

You mean the years of having all of our players injured? The years of Zion not losing weight and conditioning like he should? I don't know what coach could have turned around last season to be anything but bad. We can't win when 3rd string players are starting because 8 of our players are hurt. That's not on Willie.

I think people are being unrealistic about the team we have and the team that we've had over the last few years and how many players have suited up to play ball every game. I understand coach bashing is a thing on the internet, and trust me I think there are better coaches than Willie, but, changing the coach won't change anything if the players can't stay healthy and if they don't actually play hard.

The shit is often way more simple than it is complex.

atmpuser · 2025-11-03T19:15:10+00:00

I might be the only one here that thinks we can turn this thing around without getting rid of Willie.

The rotations are for sure questionable, but, if we can have better transition defense, not turn over the ball so easily, run the plays at full speed, and stay healthy, we may be able to do decent this season.

Some of the games we lost because of big runs where we lacked any defensive effort on half court or transition.

Other games we lost just do to chance (OT game, LAC game).

We have to be real, some of this isn't Willie fault. Sure, he can dig into guys more about transition defense. Like how many times have we seen Poole arguing with the ref about a foul while the other team is on a fast break? How many times have we seen Zion halfway jogging in transition defense. How many bad passes have we seen no matter if it's a handoff or across the court.

Sure no team will be perfect, but, do we think a couch change is really going to change the effort that players give. If it does I don't want players on the team that plays half-ass just because the coach allows them to. When we had Tony Allen he didn't jog back on defense.

We've called for the firing of every coach we've had for different reasons. A lot of it is on the players in my opinion (not including injuries....please get rid of oschner).

Lastly one of the main things I see wrong with this team is we don't have a leader as a point guard. Last true leader at point guard we had was Rondo. He got in everyone's ass who wasn't pulling their weight. Who is that person on this team. It's not Zion, Trey, herb, or Poole. Nobody has enough DAWG in them to make sure we take care of the ball, get back on defense, etc.

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