The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[Eriequiet]

Idk man… I decided to start watching it, then crowdstrike happened

I’m dumb but sometimes I can take a hint

[Hamspiced]

I actually finally finished it two months ago. Took a large hiatus when they jumped the shark

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There’s a little forum oddity/easter-egg I’ve noticed, and I wonder if it affects anyone else

Every once in a while when I’m scrolling back through threads, I come a cross a video that doesn’t use the correct thumbnail, instead loading a familiar gif:

Here’s a link to some examples:

The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵

Is it just my system somehow? Do those videos load properly for anyone?

[Safear]

@Safear

I’ve already got a Titan and I love that thing. Recently, a good friend of mine got really interested in getting one as his first implant, so now I’m looking for one. He doesn’t care if it’s new or second hand and he’s certainly willing to pay more than the original price. If someone wants to offer theirs, please DM me.

I’m looking for a Titan and I thought I might just leave this here so maybe more people will see it

[Koschei]

I got the VivoKey Apex Flex installed at an experienced piercer. It works just fine and I can even read it through my thick phone case (yet to find a good reader for desktop tho).
I’m very happy with the chip itself, but the needle that came with it wasn’t all that sharp, which obviously caused a lot of pain during the installation process. Been over a week now and it is healing fine, so that’s a relief.

[packetauditor]

I like ACR1252u for desktop.

[invalid_signal]

Haha nice!
The penguins have started their cyber warfare!

[enginerd]

Penguins are naturally good at cyber warfare…

[amal]

@Koschei

but the needle that came with it wasn’t all that sharp

I hear this from time to time. I assure you the needles are sharp. Generally, when there are comments about the needle not being sharp, it’s because the professional did not apply the lubrication supplied in the sachet with the product. Without any lubrication, skin that has been properly prepped with alcohol based antiseptic will be extremely tacky and grip the needle as they try to insert it.

Can you confirm they used lubrication on the needle or did they just shove it in without lube?

[Eriequiet]

I know my piercer used lube,… Idk if I’d say it wasn’t sharp… but it took a lot more effort to get it thru skin… vid is floating around somewhere

[Hamspiced]

@Eriequiet

I know my piercer used lube,… Idk if I’d say it wasn’t sharp… but it took a lot more effort to get it thru skin… vid is floating around somewhere

After doing 2 self installs and assisting my wife with my 3rd (self)install. It takes a lot more force then you mentally think to push these large guage needles through. definatey more than i thought it would, or i have some pretty strong skin.

[Az_F]

I have the same experience. In fact you put so much force that when the skin finally brakes I’m always scared I’ll stab myself all the way through
Turns out there’s enough resistance that that doesn’t happen but that little release always feels weird.

[Eriequiet]

Mine was resistant slightly under the skin… guessing the fascia layer or something

Flex format rfid payment implant, flex needle install

[amal]

My bet is they got hung up on the back side of the bevel. That’s because skin was collecting in the hollow as the needle was going in… this is the whole bevel up versus bevel down thing in action. If there’s plenty of lube and the point slides in easily, but you get hung up right at the backside then it’s definitely an issue of skin getting caught because the bevel is up… though going beveled down takes a lot more skill and practice to get it right without piercing back out through the skin from underneath.

Generally, the best approach is to insert the needle up until that point, then make small twisting motions to rotate the needle just a few degrees in either direction while applying pressure. This is usually enough to work the skin out of the needle hollow enough to finally let the entire bevel slip under the skin.

[amal]

Just doing a bit of a twist can really help get the bevel under the skin… especially with these large gauge needles

https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/review-of-dangerous-things/11652/92?u=amal

[XEMON]

How many installs (back to back) can a needle holdup?

[Eriequiet]

Everytime it blunts the edge worse and worse on a microscopic level… so I don’t think it’s recommended more than once…

You could makes get away with 2 or so if your doing them at the same time… anything else and why bother trying to reuse and dulled and dirty needle when they are cheap

There’s a cool infographic about hospital hypdoermic needles dulling, I’ll see if I can find it

[ODaily]

What poor S.O.B. got that 6th jab?
Ouch.

[Eriequiet]

Gel or cadaver maybe

[Koschei]

Yeah, he did use the lube, could not say if bevel-down or up tho, can’t quite remember, could also be that I didn’t look at all. He said something about it being sharpened only on one side or smth, but I’m not a needle expert, so I got lost in the jargon he used.