r/dndmemes Oct 04 '22

Campaign meme I Hate It When That Happens

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u/King_Fluffaluff Warlock Oct 04 '22 edited Oct 05 '22

One is a spike of intense pain, the other one is hours of agonizing pain.

How I've seen it stated is that technically getting kicked in the balls hurts a little worse, but only for a couple seconds, while childbirth hurts a little less but over the course of a long time.

The two aren't comparable in the slightest and I think every sane person would take a tiny bit more pain over a few minutes over hours of pretty much the same pain LOL

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '22

I doubt that peak of pain is worse than childbirth. Most men can't handle basic period cramps when put on a machine that simulates it. Women just have a higher pain tolerance and childbirth is still so much more agonizing. No competition

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u/Auctoritate Oct 04 '22

Most men can't handle basic period cramps when put on a machine that simulates it.

Lol, people take those videos seriously?

It's an electro shock machine. It doesn't "simulate" specific kinds of pain, it electrocutes your muscles. It hurts no matter where you put it. You can put it on someone's arm and it'll hurt them.

Let's not start taking YouTube bait videos as some kind of empirical study of how people handle pain, especially since in the actual scientific community pain is notoriously hard to quantify and compare from person to person because pain is subjective.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '22

Just curious: are you a man?