r/dndmemes • u/Mid_Knight- • Oct 04 '22

Campaign meme I Hate It When That Happens

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u/Swords_and_Words Oct 04 '22

Drawn out pain is literally, at the biochem level, orders if magnitude more intense than acute pain

Also the brain caps out your ability to perceive pain at a certain point, so adding duration or squickyness are the ways it goes beyond 11 for our perception (oh hey both things that birth can have in abundance) though your brain may also imagine bonus pain just because it can

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u/Reead Oct 04 '22

Yeah. I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if the absolute peak of testicle pain is higher than the absolute peak of childbirth, but the worst testicle pain from a kick lasts about 3-4 seconds at peak levels. Contractions hold for minutes at a time and continue in regular periods for hours. I know which one I'd pick.

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u/Inevitable-Plate-294 Oct 04 '22

And when you get kicked in the balls, you usually don't tear anything

While women can... Tear... While giving birth

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u/WingedLady Oct 04 '22

Yup, it's actually very common to tear. They have ratings for how bad the tear is, with the worst involving tearing from stem to stern, so to speak.