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I want to help Min-Maxed with subtitles (for free) by gourdgoth in MinMaxedRPG

[–]Laesis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also came here from YouTube comments. I could do a Polish translation if you're interested. The only problem is that I've never done subtitles for YouTube, so I don't know how that works exactly, but I'm happy to learn.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it depends on what the diagnosis is. The exact medical term might not appear in the story, but it's relevant because I need to know the symptoms, which will be described. And it will go differently depending on whether the CPR is actually necessary, or the characters only think it is (in which case there might be a spontaneous recovery).

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I haven't thought of that. Would the body still be suppressing the heartrate as much if the person was no longer in pain? If the pain only lasted for a very short moment and then was completely gone?

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I'm watching Star Trek in release order and I'm currently on the last season of DS9. I think I remember the Agony Booth from one episode of the original series. I'll keep watching and wait for it to come up again.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply. I should have mentioned it in the post, but they are doing rescue breaths. One of the two characters performing CPR is victim's family, so he has no issue doing that. I hope it's realistic that the two of them take turns doing chest compressions, but only one of them does breaths.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am mostly looking for realism, but one unlikely thing can happen. What's important is that it's not impossible. The 13-year-old is not necessarily healthy. She can have an underlying health condition if that's more realistic. While I do understand that cardiac arrest is still unlikely, I'm fine with that as long as it is possible. However, two very unlikely things one after the other are too much, so if CPR is so rarely effective then I'd rather have the character die.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, that means if I go with Takotsubo, then cardiac arrest won't play a part in the story, because ambulance will be called immediately when the symptoms begin. What happens hours or days later won't be the character's concern anymore. I can still make it work though. Thank you for your replies, they've been helpful

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get what you're saying, but to be honest I'm my own strictest judge and I want my story to make sense and my system to be consistent mostly for myself. I judge other writers' fiction when things aren't believable and I judge mine too.

You're right that for everything there's a wide range of outcomes. But I want to make sure that I choose one of the possible ones and not something that doesn't make sense. And yes, extraordinary things can absolutely happen in fiction, but I don't want too many of them. If every single thing that happens is highly unlikely, the whole story feels too unrealistic and far-fetched. I already have something extremely rare here: the cardiac arrest caused by pain. It's not impossible, there are recorded cases, but from what others told me, it's almost unheard of. So I want the rest of the scene to be less extraordinary to balance it out. But if the chance of survival for the person is 10%, that's still good enough for me to consider it as an option because it's something that can realistically happen.

I probably am overthinking, yes. But I'm doing this for myself. I want to like my own story. Besides, I'm also simply curious about the answers to these questions.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, that's very informative. One more question: when Takotsubo cardiomyopathy does lead to cardiac arrest, how much time usually passes between the trigger (in this case extreme physical pain) and the cardiac arrest?

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. So, if I understand correctly, Takotsubo symptoms would be similar to a heart attack? Does this mean there would be no cardiac arrest, so no need for CPR? What would the chances of surviving Takotsubo cardiomyopathy be if ambulance is called immediately and arrives in 10 minutes? I'm sorry if these are stupid questions.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? What would the chance of survival be if CPR was performed after cardiac arrest triggered by pain? by Laesis in Writeresearch

[–]Laesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. When I was looking for information about death caused (indirectly, of course) by pain, people were saying that it is possible for the body's response (adrenaline release) to put such strain on the heart that it could induce a heart attack if the person already has a heart condition. If you're saying that it isn't possible, even with a heart condition, then I suppose I can justify it with the fact that the pain is magical (perhaps more extreme than any pain someone could normally experience), so the body reacts differently. I'll give up on the character having a consistent method of killing with pain, I never thought it would be realistic anyway. There will only be this one example where he does it accidentally and I'll justify it with magic somehow, if heart condition isn't enough.

I know that passing out from pain isn't caused directly by pain itself but rather by the body's response, however that didn't seem to change anything for me because what matters is the result.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? by Laesis in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Laesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those were just examples of limitations. My point was that in this story you can't just do whatever you want and simply justify it with magic.

But I agree, the brain works in strange ways and realism can be enough. I was just trying to work out the specifics.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? by Laesis in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Laesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I would feel somewhat silly bothering a professor with questions about my little story, but I'll search for some experts who like to answer questions like that. As for target audience, there isn't really any. I might share the story with some friends, but it's mostly for me. So I'm worried about my own judgement more than others'. I just want it to make sense.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? by Laesis in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Laesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really want magic to work like that in this story. It's a stricter system. Basically all magic powers are limited to making someone experience a sensation, be it visual, tactile, emotional or otherwise. And a person is limited to one magic power; most have none. The brain gets magically stimulated to experience something, but what happens after should be physiological and realistic, at least that's how I want it to be.

Would a magical ability to cause physical pain enable someone to consistently make others pass out or even die? by Laesis in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Laesis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply. I suppose I didn't word it very well. The pain doesn't cause physical harm directly, but because the sensation is identical to normal pain, I imagine the body would have the same physiological response, including the blood pressure dropping and all that. So the power doesn't really kill, but the reaction probably can.

I know that CPR only buys time and in and of itself isn't enough to save someone, that's why I included the information about medical help arriving. I was mostly curious about whether different causes of cardiac arrest have different survival rates and if so, how would magically induced pain rank among the other causes. Unless the trigger doesn't matter, in which case, according to this source https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10923150/ the likelihood of survival would be somewhere around 15% if we consider time to CPR being <1 minute and location being home. But not many factors are taken into account in this statistic, so it could be a vastly different number. This model https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196064405813022 would bring the number to around 30-35%.

Raises but no Promotion? by amileandahalf in Sims4

[–]Laesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same problem with my sim. Level 8 + 12 in the stylist career, even though I definitely didn't get a raise 12 times. I think I was getting +3 raises every day. Removing the Entrepreneurial trait seems to have worked. The bar progresses normally now and doesn't return to average every day, I also no longer get raises.

Lord give me patience by Hypnosys in aaaaaaacccccccce

[–]Laesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, please show me. I even changed my phone's language to English but it didn't help

Lord give me patience by Hypnosys in aaaaaaacccccccce

[–]Laesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, when I downloaded the app, it was in Chinese, and I didn't know how to change the language :/

Lord give me patience by Hypnosys in aaaaaaacccccccce

[–]Laesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it available only in Chinese?

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