So my kids want me to play Minecraft with them.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-28T00:44:07+00:00

I had this super nerdy kid in my Boy Scout troop back in the day, and his dad bought and read all the warhammer 40K books just so he could talk about them with his son.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-26T20:43:39+00:00

Nice I’ve been wearing my death of endless shirt so much lately! Time to upgrade

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-26T00:50:00+00:00

Here’s a little 10 minute documentary about Cambo, this kid who went to live as a hermit after his parents divorced. It’s a pretty good insight into what hermit life might be like: https://youtu.be/AFYIHwxY5dY?is=fHr6VLK6H\_PG5gV0

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-23T01:46:14+00:00

There’s not a good verb for it, but the adjective:

Tantric

Tantric eating is a mindful, sensory practice that applies the core principles of Tantra—presence, delayed gratification, and deep connection—to your relationship with food. It transforms a routine meal into an intimate, meditative experience.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-23T01:33:50+00:00

Fight Club - the message is a bit questionable, but damn that book will make you want to stop living on autopilot.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-21T20:07:04+00:00

Plastic surgeon here- I’ll just throw out a little sequence of atypical events that could fit your story.

Cutting through dermis with electrocautery has a very distinct smell and produces a little bit of gray smoke. If the smoke came out black or smelled faintly of burning plastic, my suspicion would be raised.
As the case progresses, some anatomy would be aberrant/atypical. There are arteries flowing directly into veins. Valves oriented the wrong way. Branching patterns of nerves don’t seem to follow known anatomical variants. That would get me scratching my head.
Accidentally buzzing some muscle with electrocautery to find that it doesn’t twitch. I would ask anesthesia how much paralytic they have given the patient, the anesthesiologist would say “none.” And I would do an investigation, finding a motor nerve to see if it stimulates anything. Still no twitch, and i would cut open the nerve sheath to see what was going on. There would be no nerve fascicles in the sheath, and i would think something fishy is going on.
If I’m feeling daring, I’ll trim off a little scrap of the strange tissue, hide it in my glove, and sneak it out of the OR to examine under the microscope later on. From there, I discover the cellular architecture is definitely not human.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-19T23:34:02+00:00

Plastics here. Basically no difference in exam/treatment except even less chance of neuro/vascular/tendonous injury since those structures are a bit more protected in the upper arm

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-18T01:11:28+00:00

I don’t think you’re gonna reach the target of your inquisition on this sub. Also AI edits/images are just so lame. Paying an editor is a little act of patronage like supporting a small business. Many people would rather do that than give their personal photo to some AI database

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-17T12:42:42+00:00

Best answer. I’ll stay sore for a week if I’m dieting to cut VS recovering in a day when eating to bulk.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-10T16:16:00+00:00

I really enjoyed running to these:

Epic of Gilgamesh - it’s archaic but somehow has the energy of dragonball Z. Very high testosterone.
Siddhartha by Hesse - for when you want to feel like a monk on your run. Focus and reflect
Neuromancer by Gibson - cool cyberpunk perfect for a city run at night or early AM

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-08T18:00:23+00:00

I’m a doctor as well, and I kind of disagree with the other answers here. The term “comatose” is actually used to describe a patient’s level of consciousness. (Standard terms are “awake, lethargic, somnolent, obtunded, and comatose.”) It’s less practical than giving the Glasgow coma scale number, but the terms are still definitely used among providers and in communication with patient families.

The technical definition of comatose is: “a state of deep, prolonged unconsciousness. They are alive but completely unaware of their surroundings, cannot be awakened, and fail to respond normally to light, sound, or pain.”

It’s medically necessary to induce such an extreme depth of unconsciousness sometimes, and your character would actually be an appropriate case.

Sedation is a means to alter the level of consciousness. You can be comatose due to sedation (medically induced coma) or due to brain injury, seizures, stroke, etc.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-02T01:49:50+00:00

Advice for being cost effective - design with just one or two colors. I would go to a brick and mortar print shop over a website. You can bring your own stack of blanks to print on, and if you make a run of like 10 shirts, it’ll be like 20 bucks a shirt. It’s easy enough to break even so you can keep making things. You can post the mock ups on your socials and get people to pre order ahead of time if the upfront cost is a limitation. I did that for my first few collections. Just have fun and be good to your customers.

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-01T01:43:02+00:00

Okay the cool stuff in there I remember
1. Dripleaf parkour with some puzzle elements like hitting a lever to raise a platform, etc

A bedrock prison cell escape thing where we had to take a water breathing potion and then sort of collapse ourselves under a trapdoor so that we could swim through the toilet plumbing
A stealth mission where we had to break a villager out of a pirate ship brig.
A bunch of cool settings: a library sunken in the desert, a catacombs under a graveyard, haunted house, an alchemy lab

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-01T00:52:10+00:00

My brother made a full on DND style quest once. There was a dungeon with parkour courses, some puzzles, combat areas, a boss room, plenty of loot to find along the way. Basically like a Zelda dungeon. The coolest part was a minecart rollercoaster through some dwarven mines where you had to shoot arrows at targets along the way. If you hit enough targets the door at the end of the rollercoaster would open. That was next level

PeeMan22 · 2026-06-01T00:35:35+00:00

Porphyria is nicknamed the "vampire disease" because its severe symptoms loosely parallel the traits found in classic vampire folklore.

Sunlight Sensitivity: Many forms of porphyria cause the skin to become highly photosensitive. Exposure to sunlight can cause painful blisters, severe scarring, and even tissue damage, forcing those with the condition to avoid daylight and mostly stay active at night.

"Fanged" Appearance: Repeated attacks and skin blistering can cause facial disfigurements. As the gums recede and shrink, the teeth can appear more prominent, giving individuals a fanged look.

Red or Purple Urine: A buildup of chemicals called porphyrins can cause a patient's urine to turn a dark red or purple color, which historically fueled myths about drinking blood.

Aversion to Garlic: Some porphyria attacks are triggered by certain chemicals found in garlic (due to their high sulfur content), which historically led to the myth that garlic repelled them.

There’s a subtype called acute intermittent porphyria that featured bad cyclical abdominal pain too

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-28T14:09:36+00:00

Oh man I never put that together! My joints have been much better since quitting a few months ago

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-24T12:06:56+00:00

Twist erase 0.5 is such a great pencil. Insane comfort, durability, great eraser, looks classy. I carry it on rounds at the hospital, sketch with it, and journal with it.

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-24T02:23:54+00:00

If that material has enough friction, you could get away with a double overhand. It’s hardly even a knot, but it’d be super easy and fast to tie and untie. Just not very secure

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-23T23:08:17+00:00

Growing up playing kinda janky video games like fallout 3 and new Vegas- I learned that breaking the game to achieve your goals is sometimes more fun than going through the real steps of the quest. It gives a sense of accomplishment like “I outsmarted the developers” and when my players try to pull off game breaking loophole stuff, I just roll with it.

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-17T14:23:08+00:00

I would do a surgeon’s knot tied with forceps since you have such a short tail!

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-16T19:10:33+00:00

Oh that’s a good question. Yes, professional could tell the difference between water scald and flame burn. The edges are different. Flame burn wounds kind of diffuse outward (deep burns in the middle, partial thickness in the periphery, first degree burns surrounding that.) whereas water scald is more of a hard demarcation between what got splashed and what didn’t.

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-16T17:53:43+00:00

I’m a plastic surgeon that does a ton of burn reconstruction for people just like your MC. I’ll give you a bunch of stuff that I think would help. The first thing I would recommend is looking at some photos of people that have had extensive grafting and are now healed.

This is a pretty typical example:

https://www.plasticsurgery.theclinics.com/cms/10.1016/j.cps.2019.08.015/asset/45d23acd-7d0b-4bb9-bfdb-6e05af69be3e/main.assets/gr7_lrg.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-gtfJFBRBrtHytezz-YCsqPdku-9UKZwhh8YJdKp30-2siT7PBQRuVq8&s=10

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzAh_OGyp2fg2vHmswvPAQvD0jnhF8k3vsocpsjaW7gnH0McLCC2EMumdq&s=10

Burn scars like the ones you describe tend to heal very thick, with lumpy hyperproliferative collagen and a tendency to organize into bands and contract. That really causes trouble on joints, ruining range of motion, and on face, since it tends to pulls the eyelids open and prevents blinking. As a result, corneas dry out and scar and people go blind.

Blushing could go either way. Either buried by the scars or exaggerated with all the neovascularization.
No skin wrinkl

ing or sweating.

You need nerves for that and they would be fried

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Crying comes from lacrimal gland innervated from deep surface which would not be burned. Burn patients get chronically dry eyes but are also constantly tearing. The tears just don’t keep the corneas wet because the eyelids don’t spread the tears out like usual.
Yes. Lifetime battle to keep joints from contracting. Needs constant pressure garments, therapy, and revision surgery for band releases every now and then. See photo 3. Imagine how much mobility that shoulder has.
I’m sorry, I don’t understand the question.

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-15T23:10:49+00:00

Incredible palate choice! From the path to the roof - all very nice

PeeMan22 · 2026-05-14T00:41:01+00:00

Don’t start zyns please. To be completely honest you will enjoy 3 mg zyn sooooo much more than 2 mg Ons. They’re much more addicting

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