>> ^ReverendTed:

Dear Bethesda: Never fix this.

Don't worry, they won't.

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>> ^00Scud00:

Also I know I've been playing too much Fallout 3: New Vegas because the first thing I thought when I saw the bracelet was "Hey it's a Pipboy."



Yes. YES. YEEEESSS

First thing I heard in my mind was Marty Robbins' "Big Iron". Damn Mojave Music Radio.>> ^00Scud00:
Also I know I've been playing too much Fallout 3: New Vegas because the first thing I thought when I saw the bracelet was "Hey it's a Pipboy."

13 gets probed and there will be a grizzled old frontier junkie doctor named House, played by Hugh Laurie of course, I would be so there. Also I know I've been playing too much Fallout 3: New Vegas because the first thing I thought when I saw the bracelet was "Hey it's a Pipboy."

>> ^ForgedReality:

Drink lots of cola. Your pee will be yellow. This means you are dehydrated. Now drink lots of water. Your pee will be much clearer. This is good. You are becoming hydrated, and not killing your kidneys. Good job, chap!


My problem is with people saying that drinking soda/beer/coffee will *always* make you thirstier. This is the logic of a ten year-old. If you haven't had anything to drink for hours, and especially if you've been sweating, any beer pop or coffee is going to have a net hydrating (not a net dehydrating) effect. It's not like you mix all the sugar/salt in the beverage directly into the cells of all your tissue. A lot of that shit gets filtered out or absorbed where it's needed.

Brilliant!!! Playing through New Vegas tonight, and enjoying it as much as Fallout 3 so far.

>> ^Fantomas:

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Actually, while the sodium and caffeine in cola and similar beverages may have a (very, very) slight diurectic effect, you still retain more water from the beverage than the caffeine takes from your system. The same is true even of beer, though it's even more difficult to get people to believe that.

Sodium is not a diuretic, quite the opposite, it makes your body retain water. The added sodium in your bloodstream is counteracted by water flowing into it from your cells, your cells are then water deficient and send messages to your brain: "Drink Water!".


Ok ok, not diuretic. But you still take in more water than the sodium makes you lose. The sodium draws water form your cells, I'll grant you - but you've just had a drink, so as long as you've taken in more water than the sodium leeches from your cells you're fine.

>> ^PalmliX:

Ummmmm, what about the ridiculous amount of sugar in cola? Around 40 grams per can, wouldn't that contribute to making you thirstier in the long run?

Sugar makes you thirsty? No. Sugar rots your teeth and makes you fat. And still, there is more water in cola than there is sugar...

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Ditto, pretty hilarious. New Vegas is da bomb by the way.

>> ^budzos:

Thirstier than not drinking anything? No. That's sea water.


That's because it's a hypertonic/hyperosmotic solution (crazy high concentration of salt[solute] compared to its solution). Any hyperosmotic solution will technically have a dehydration effect because it will bring the fluid out of your intracellular space towards extracellular space to counteract the increased solute concentration.

>> ^furrycloud:

^ I agree completely. After playing every game in the Fallout series so far, FONV feels way closer to an actual Fallout game than FO3 did. FO3 felt more like Oblivion with guns.


That's because Fallout 3 'was' Oblivion with guns!

F:NV is a fantastic game (bugs aside) and I agree it has a serious Fallout 2 vibe going on.

I was gonna say the same thing. For as much bitching as he does, it actually sounds like he had a good time.

Regardless, New Vegas is one of the best games I've played in a while.

>> ^shagen454:

Seems like he actually enjoyed this one...

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

Actually, while the sodium and caffeine in cola and similar beverages may have a (very, very) slight diurectic effect, you still retain more water from the beverage than the caffeine takes from your system. The same is true even of beer, though it's even more difficult to get people to believe that.


Sodium is not a diuretic, quite the opposite, it makes your body retain water. The added sodium in your bloodstream is counteracted by water flowing into it from your cells, your cells are then water deficient and send messages to your brain: "Drink Water!".