So from time to time I cyber-stalk my boyfriend. Ok, not really, but I’m interested in the stuff he does, so I keep an eye on the game he’s working on. It’s finally had a release date mentioned (and starting Monday, he’s off til mid-January, lucky bastard) so… I guess I can mention it here? Why not…
Anyhoo, so as previously mentioned, Nick works for EA Blackbox. He’s currently wrapping up work on Skate 2. Amusingly, when he was a kid, he was into video games and skateboarding. His parents always told him he’d never get anywhere in life if he didn’t shape up and start doing something more productive… well, now he makes video games about skateboarding. Guess he showed them!
So today, in my random clicking, I came across the Hall of Meat online game. Lucky me, I’ve had a chance to fool around on the in-production version of the game, but knowing approximately bupkis about skateboarding… well, flinging myself off of large cliffs and seeing how badly I could hurt myself was the highlight for me. And now that we have this, heck, I don’t even need to play the actual game!
My score at the moment: 9654 . Two broken wrists, broken pelvis, broken right fibula & left tibula. Meh, I watched that go down. We’re talking full spinal immobilization, the tib/fib’s are likely open fractures, and I’d be concerned about some serious ligament damage…
I suppose it’s a good thing that my initial reaction to just about any injury (fake or not) is “Hmm, how would I treat that?”
Unconscious, bleeding from the nose, aspiration of vomit, no open fractures, but plenty of upper body fractures that you can’t see. Go!
Hmm, first reaction? “Holy shit, somebody call 911″ :D
Also… need the mechanism of injury. (Although I suppose in your case, I can guess.) :D
Well, rapid transport, so we do life-saving interventions only, pack & go. Spinal immobilization, suction the airway, then see if we can get an OPA in to keep it clear. Unconscious means we probably won’t know about the upper body fractures that you can’t see (although feeling around in the rapid body survey might let me feel some — any that are found and can be strapped up should be), but with a full spinal immobilization, that’ll keep you fairly well packed in to begin with.
Keep a close eye on the airway — bleeding & vomit aspirations are a bit nervewracking — but other than that… strap it up and ship that puppy out. :D