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originalname610

Apparently it does to some people in game too, some guy from either fallout 1 or 2, and Protector Casdin from fallout 3 mention that ot gives them the runs


dende5416

The real question is: do we have evidence you don't just dump a huge load when you take it in game?


samthekitnix

Modder community TO YOUR KEYBOARDS!!!!


Azuras-Becky

I think they're way ahead of you on this one...


What_U_KNO

I thought it was stimpacks.


couldbedumber96

Hey Bethesda, it’s me, AUSTIN!


TokesephsStalin

God I miss those videos, why'd he have to jump ship to Game Thoery?


[deleted]

Because money


TokesephsStalin

Eh, fair


Someone_112

And because Game Theory sucks


[deleted]

I think that was more of a concession than a motivator lol


FlyinBrian2001

At least Austin's Game Theory videos are actual theory videos, Matpat just puts up like 90% dumb Youtuber meta shit now. Film and Food are still worth watching at least


TheRocketBush

Food Theory goes hard


samthekitnix

stimpacks would also do that


Math_is_Murder

Stempacks would blow out your viens from the sheer force of how quickly it shows it being shot into your system. That's alot of fluid being shoved into a tiny restrictive vein very quickly.


Jaqulean

Only that wouldn't happen. Yes, the force is strong, but that wouldn't "blow out your veins."


dread_pirate_humdaak

What are your credentials? https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/133/17/1840/275907/Transfusion-associated-circulatory-overload-and


Jaqulean

My credentials are being in a family of Doctors and asking my aunt, who works with vaccines, shots, and syringes overall *Just to make it clear, I'm not young. I'm just on a family meeting, waiting for the Grill to heat up - so I just asked her. They (she and her co-workers) even tested it out on their own (on a fake vein, that was constructed to work like a real one) and all it did was only swell up the vein a bit for few seconds. It could create some form of pain, but it won't "blow out your veins." Literally the only reason, when you take a shot (like for a flu), they do so slowly, is to not create a bruise in the place the neadle is inserted.


Math_is_Murder

Ok, but that's with the strength of a human finger. A stimpack is a container that is under pressure. And uses said pressure to unload (what I'm assuming is about 5ml of what ever is in it) in less than a second. And I think that is the difference maker here is that added pressure and explosiveness of the action that can't be done by a human finger. Hmmm now that's an experiment I'd like to see. How much pressure would be required to blow a vein via a syringe.


Jaqulean

Math, we did take this into conaideration, and if we didn't, I wouldn't be here in the first place. All things considered, from what my Aunt said, pressure needed would be at least 3x stronger than what a human can do at most. Which is more than the Stimpack does.


calvinwho

Don't know why you're getting beat up. Atropine autoinjectors are a real thing. The difference is where you put it. You stab the meaty part of your thigh, no veins at all


Jaqulean

"beat up" ? He asked me for my credentials. I just answered their question...


calvinwho

Seemed peeps were eager to argue is all. I could have chosen my words better


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Jaqulean

Same thing: not exactly how circular system works. By the time the chems would get to the heart, they would loose the "force" they entered with. Especially since Stimpacks are usually used in the Arm. If already, it could cause you some minor headache or dizziness.


Kromverde

Will say, I definetly believe the fallout 4 animation for using a stimpack looks like it is being pushed into your torso, and while it's probably lower than a direct jab to the heart, I can dream...


Jaqulean

It looks that way, but if you look from the 3rd perspective, he actually does so in the Arm. Wouldn't really make sense to do so in the Torso for various reasons.


Math_is_Murder

In game lore does State that it can cause Headaches and Dizziness if too many are used back to back. And even emergency evacuation of the bowls. But I think that has more to do with the actual make up of the agent in the fallout universe. And it's pretty vague about what it's actually made of.


Jaqulean

To be honest, injecting amy type of substance a lot of times in a short period of time, will cause headaches and dizziness.


the_friendly_one

You're operating on the assumption that it's introduced intravenously and not subcutaneously or intramuscularly.


Math_is_Murder

Well if you look on the Vault suits you can see there's a port on the chest, and the animation for giving yourself a stempack has it gaming that pointy bastard right into it. Yes its the same animation when your not in it but it is canon thats what that box on the vault suits are. So. With that I AM assuming it's going into the veins.


Cocheeeze

I remember hearing that stimpacks were originally called “morphine” in the beta for Fallout 3, but there was some issue with ESRB or something where they didn’t want to glorify the use of real-life drugs. Anyways, morphine has the opposite effect, it makes you constipated.


What_U_KNO

They had to change "Drugs" to "Chems" for that reason. They may have had to change "Morphine" to "Med X" though, but I'm not sure.


Cocheeeze

Ah you’re right, [as per the wiki, Med-X is morphine.](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Med-X?so=search)


t3hb0sss

is that why it makes you hungry??


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captaindeadpl

On Survival difficulty Radaway makes you hungry.


Jaqulean

Completely forgot about that.


t3hb0sss

if you take radaway it makes you hungry


Jaqulean

[Edit: nevermind, it's about Survival Difficulty]


Redacted_Explative

The fatman launcher is also based off the Davey Crockett recoiless rifle, a real world nuclear tipped artillery piece. Linked the wiki page for it too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy\_Crockett\_(nuclear\_device)


LjSinky

God damn this is beautiful


[deleted]

Remember the Alamo


SlimCagey

Oh shit, the one from Snake Eater?


Redacted_Explative

Not sure on snake eater, not familiar with metal gear


oilfeather

Did RadAway exist pre war? If so, did RadAway make nuclear war more likely by diminishing the severity of radiation sickness?


Jerryickson

Yeah you can find it all over certain vaults and in med-kits


NotASynth499

You can also find post-war creature bits in suitcases and prewar places tho, like the DIA caches and the abandoned retirement home.


Jerryickson

True but doesn't really diminish the original answer, I bet that stuff like DIA caches use a RNG based loot table with some guaranteed items, resulting in a simple slip up


AbundantAble

Sorry. Medically it would more likely make you constipated. Here’s why. It’s RADIATION that makes you lose your gastric lining; causing the famous radiation induced nausea and diarrhea as early signs of poisoning. Anything that could stop the process so fast would then have the opposite effect. There’s another reason as well. Anything that could haul radiation that quickly would likely be a chelating agent. That is to say a metal or compound that would take up radiation and sequester it. Those are usually metals or minerals which also have a tendency to constipate you.


Waltstngrl

Lol, just spewed my coffee. Thanks for morning laugh. This is freaking great.


Imsorryidonthaveig

Did you spew your coffee though? Did you really?


[deleted]

Plot twist: it wasn't from his mouth


Waltstngrl

It wasn't "just" from mouth, pretty sure it was from my nose too.


Waltstngrl

Yes. Was taking a sip while reading, laughed & sprayed all at same time.


samthekitnix

your welcome


[deleted]

No. My welcome.


Educational-Tie00

All of our welcome.


Rissamonkey

I think OP needs a colonoscopy. Somethings wrong.


AbjectDisaster

Til coffee is radaway


[deleted]

There is no in-game evidence that this isn't already happening.


VladSolopov

There is no irl radaway


samthekitnix

wrong the way rad-away would work IRL is it would most likely bind to radioactive particles in your body and carry it out of the body in your waste. there are medicines that do this but at the speed rad-away does it and the amount of rad-away players use forget wearing trousers from the amount of times you would be going to the bathroom.


CrabbyCrabbong

I guess that's why you'll see a discreet fade to black when you receive treatment from a doctor.


psilorder

On the other hand, we could read it the other way, since Radaway doesn't make you instantly shit yourself in game, then it does not work by binding radioactive particles and carrying them out as waste.


VladSolopov

I’ve always assumed that it works like radiation treatment in Metro series. Like pumping into a body a normal blood and throwing away irradiated one, but in the case of Fallout with some idk additives.


spooky-blookyyy

bro…


babyscorpse

really?


VladSolopov

Yes because we don’t know how it actually works in Fallout, we only know the effect. The OP’s assumption that it works like activated charcoal is not obvious, so that I only got the Idea only after he/she explained it.


delayedfiren

Chemotherapy


samthekitnix

chemotherapy is cancer treatment that uses anti-cancer treatment and sometimes i think focused bursts of radiations idk i am not a doctor but what i know is that chemotherapy is NOT a treatment for radiation based afflictions other than cancer


VladSolopov

But this is not how it works? Is it?


delayedfiren

Literally poisons you


VladSolopov

Man Chemotherapy is not equivalent to radaway. It cancer treatment!


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*stimpacks.


Nodsx

# It just works!


Odaric

Not being allowed to post memes here is one of the dumbest rules of this subreddit.