'I ported Doom to grandma's ICU monitor' post with health tied to pulse gets 9,000 likes
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A post claiming someone used Claude Opus 5.5 to put Doom on his grandmother's ICU bedside monitor drew 9,400 likes on X.
User Mehmet Akif Yanbak wrote on Oct 18 that while visiting his grandmother in intensive care he ported Doom to the bedside monitor, syncing the game's health percentage with the patient's pulse so that 'if the health drops to 0, the pulse drops to zero too.' The post, with a photo of Doom running beside ECG and SpO2 readings, passed 410,000 views.
Whether any medical device was actually touched is unverified, and most replies treated it as a joke. 'Those who say I should never port Doom to my grandma's monitor in the ICU are meeting up at the like button' got 1,200 likes. The author replied, 'That's exactly the comment I was expecting.'
Porting Doom to unlikely screens, from calculators to pregnancy tests to fridges, is a long-running developer pastime.
“Today, I went to visit my grandmother in intensive care. While I was there, I ported Doom to the bedside monitor using Claude Opus 5.5.”
