#askseriousrainbow

Bringing out an old favorite for this year's St. Patrick's Day post. :)

I had a pleasant surprise recently, so thanks to Serious Rainbow for this pony take on the Heretic title screen art! You might have heard, but a few months back, Nightdive released a remaster of Raven Software's Doom spinoffs, Heretic and Hexen, as, well, Heretic x Hexen on Steam and other game platforms. It was a free upgrade if you already owned the older versions, and I briefly messed around with it, but I didn't delve too deep at the time.

And then I noticed this.

Long ago, back when the wHeretic source port was released, I came up with names for the secret episode and levels contained within the Shadows of the Serpent Riders retail release. These became the fanon titles for the next 25 years, and have ascended to canon, as they are now what you see when you choose to warp to them in the official product.

I can now properly say something I did is in the actual idtech games, even if it's something as small as a few strings of text, but, damn! That was one hell of a lovely thing to see, and vindication as well, since I'd passed these to and gotten the approval of Michael Raymond-Judy for them as well. I'd interviewed him once during my GameSpy days, and still have the HTML for that lying around, and confirmed that the first map of the secret levels was indeed based on Raven's offices at the time.

On Life and Death (The Video Game)

I didn't like it lol

I would say that it's pretty accurate for the most part. However, I'd hazard a guess that both games would be accurate for the timeframe of 1988-1990 when the games were released. But even then, there'd probably be a lot more than just X-rays for imaging ie MRIs, CT scans, etc.

Atropine is a drug that is used in order to treat bradycardia, or extremely low heart rate. I found out that the "A" in the OR part of this game stands for Atropine because I accidentally killed a virtual patient thinking it was the antibiotics. As mentioned above, these things would be labelled a lot better in real life in order to prevent patient harm from occurring. Also, there's always someone keeping track of what's in the room and what has been used. Mistakes happen, unfortunately, but there are safeguards to prevent truly catastrophic mistakes. This game is from the 1980s, though, so I can forgive some of the labelling problems since there probably wasn't a lot of memory space to spell everything out.

As for the mention of McBurney's Point, it is the spot in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen where the most amount of pain tends to be centralized during acute appendicitis. It is located between Anterior Superior Iliac Spine (ASIS; the most frontal part of the hip bone. If you place your hands on your hips, that's the ASIS) and the belly button. It's a very important landmark in the physical exam for being indicated in appendicitis. However, just because a patient has pain in the area of McBurney's Point, that doesn't mean that the inflamed appendix is where it's supposed to be. For most people, the appendix is a closer to the front but in some people, it can be a bit further back so some tests that would confirm appendicitis might not work. Hence why there are multiple appendicitis physical exam tests. And ultrasound, of course! Nowadays, you'd get funny looks for not doing an ultrasound on a patient with suspected appendicitis.

Anyway, I got a bit carried away with the explanation of some stuff. I just love talking about this stuff! Also, I couldn't help but make a Dr. Glaucomflecken reference at the end.

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22. Favorite color?

She likes the color of the marigold flower and purples.

35. Least favorite color?

My Lupin the 3rd cosplay's at the cleaners, otherwise I might've dressed up.