The SCIENCE! Behind STIMPAKS in Fallout

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  • @shadowfyst997
    @shadowfyst997 Před 5 lety +2170

    Ah yes, the era of Austin being able to swear freely. Good times ^.^

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 Před 4 lety +51

      It kinda sounds forced.

    • @yeagerj7747
      @yeagerj7747 Před 4 lety +11

      @@Seth9809 agreed

    • @ranger8155
      @ranger8155 Před 3 lety +17

      did he move to game theory a few years ago?

    • @shadowfyst997
      @shadowfyst997 Před 3 lety +26

      @@ranger8155 Yup! Can't swear as freely over there.

    • @Oscar-mb2oe
      @Oscar-mb2oe Před 3 lety +9

      It’s kinda annoying

  • @normanbanders1340
    @normanbanders1340 Před 7 lety +2607

    it gets worse. you go through the entire game with only 1 pair of underwear, which you never remove.

  • @innoplaying
    @innoplaying Před 5 lety +2041

    Why nobody talk about the best medicine in Fallout 4?
    Beds

    • @carolynrafferty1711
      @carolynrafferty1711 Před 5 lety +83

      With everything crippled and hp at 1 just sleep for 3 hours and it would be like nothing happened

    • @sadmanpranto9026
      @sadmanpranto9026 Před 4 lety +63

      @@carolynrafferty1711 kinda' real thing... Especially after semester finals in quantum mechanics, that 3 hour sleep can cure a lot of things...

    • @LZ2SM
      @LZ2SM Před 4 lety +23

      Also water is life

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz Před 4 lety +34

      Do any of you noobs play on survival? It gets a bit harder than that (which is precisely the point).
      Antibiotics is the most important shit you can have (for some reason, everything is bacterial, with no immunities to antibiotics).

    • @water9585
      @water9585 Před 4 lety +7

      “I like numbers there smooth and easy” than there is my numbers wanna make me do one gun+ 6 bullets= sucide

  • @Master_Of_The_Universe
    @Master_Of_The_Universe Před 4 lety +531

    Alternative version: Stimpacks contain a tiny wizard which uses a healing spell to heal you.

    • @briannorman1750
      @briannorman1750 Před 3 lety +34

      Indeed, but a Cleric would have a much easier time casting divine healing than an arcane caster like a wizard.

    • @Master_Of_The_Universe
      @Master_Of_The_Universe Před 3 lety +6

      @@briannorman1750 What about Leroy?

    • @Darthwing
      @Darthwing Před 3 lety +6

      @@briannorman1750 came here to say this. Clerics best class.

    • @moxifica1924
      @moxifica1924 Před 2 lety

      Ok but does the magic follow regular physics?

    • @Amayagma
      @Amayagma Před 2 lety

      @@Darthwing personally adore Rogues and Paladins but.... will admit... Clerics are great

  • @PhongTran-km1mx
    @PhongTran-km1mx Před 7 lety +1506

    "Dear Bethesda"
    *TRIGGERED*

    • @JepperlyKlepperson
      @JepperlyKlepperson Před 7 lety

      Hegeshdhs

    • @JepperlyKlepperson
      @JepperlyKlepperson Před 7 lety +1

      THROBING

    • @benjaminplayst.7834
      @benjaminplayst.7834 Před 7 lety +1

      I really do like this keep doing btw I'm sick not going to school so watching your stuff

    • @SylvesterAshcroft88
      @SylvesterAshcroft88 Před 7 lety +9

      *takes out gun* TRIGGERED dam the safety's on....-.

    • @bingo784
      @bingo784 Před 7 lety +11

      You know what gets me triggered?
      All you whiny lily-livered pansies getting triggered by mundane harmless weaksauce pansy-ass shit! Grow some goddamn leather hides you scrawny pale-skinned basement-dwellers!

  • @anphor1a
    @anphor1a Před 7 lety +1269

    You taught the healing stage of a cut better than my biology and health teacher did.

  • @kevinlestrange3599
    @kevinlestrange3599 Před 5 lety +556

    So in fallout 3 if you help the outcasts and ask for radaway as a reward the guy straight up says it makes him get the shits “stuff goes through me like a rampaging Brahmin”

    • @JamMonsterFrfo
      @JamMonsterFrfo Před 3 lety +19

      wow never knew that thanks kind stranger! but also Austin says at the end that since you only play your character for at least a few in-game years your character might be getting pancreas cancer but I can confirm with my character that's been out of the vault for 27 in-game years that no there's no cancer debuff

    • @benjaminmenken5693
      @benjaminmenken5693 Před 2 lety +17

      It basically flushes all the radiation by having it be absorbed from the body by iodine I think, and well, all that absorbed radiation waste has to go somewhere, so you poop it all out.

    • @OldSkullSoldier
      @OldSkullSoldier Před rokem +1

      @@benjaminmenken5693 Well, iodine only works in one particular bodypart. It saturates iodine levels in your body to harmful levels (yes - this can break the thyroid off balance). So it only protects from one single element. In fallout there are lots of other radiating elements that you are not protected and that doesn't have any stable version (same atomic number, different qty of neutrons).

  • @warrenkemp4004
    @warrenkemp4004 Před 4 lety +260

    No joke, radaway in the lore actually gives you "the runs" so you actually get diheria from using it.

    • @Matt-td8xw
      @Matt-td8xw Před 2 lety +17

      That must be why you get hungry when you use them in survival mode.

    • @user-xb1wh5mt4l
      @user-xb1wh5mt4l Před 2 lety +7

      I remember drinking several mugs of "cheap shop"-type milk oolong, which is, essentially, a horrible mixture of oolong and unknown flavor chemicals (the real milk oolong has its characteristic taste by itself). It was a horrible case of diarrhoea.

    • @romanpackham8471
      @romanpackham8471 Před rokem +2

      @@markshaw270 that's the british version of saying it

    • @markshaw270
      @markshaw270 Před rokem

      @@romanpackham8471 there is an invention called Google, use it, and you will see there is only one way to spell it. Also remember British way as you put it is the real way to say anything that is English, where do you think the language got it's name? From Antarctica? No from *England*

    • @romanpackham8471
      @romanpackham8471 Před rokem +4

      @@markshaw270 that's how it's spelt in the UK, matpat said it himself in the taco bell video and i can prove it if you need me to

  • @TheRepty818
    @TheRepty818 Před 7 lety +1597

    Just confirmed. Bethesda is going to send an update to Fallout 4, now whenever you use Radaway or a stimpack there will be audible fart sounds.

    • @NoName-ii1fi
      @NoName-ii1fi Před 7 lety +3

      TheRepty818 k

    • @Aurik-Kal-Durin
      @Aurik-Kal-Durin Před 7 lety +87

      Also the need to wear brown pants over every outfit in the game, seeing as every time you inject a stimpak, take a dose of RadAway, or pop some Rad-X you are going to SHIT YOUR PANTS.

    • @beatowalker1549
      @beatowalker1549 Před 7 lety +29

      and it's also come with Diaper Ready and Go DLC just incase after using the stimpack to prevent shaming the wanderer

    • @forestwizard3663
      @forestwizard3663 Před 6 lety +6

      Csongor Borbély It probably already is. There's a mod for basically anything.

    • @PolskiHetman
      @PolskiHetman Před 6 lety

      1r1shOperator how did you believe that

  • @mattig89ch
    @mattig89ch Před 7 lety +430

    To think, some guy in Nevada is able to make these things in a bathtub.

    • @GrandTonka
      @GrandTonka Před 7 lety +45

      If you think that in depth it sounds fucking disturbing..

    • @griffinp8509
      @griffinp8509 Před 7 lety

      mattig89ch wait what lol?

    • @AaronSaysSKOL
      @AaronSaysSKOL Před 7 lety +8

      mattig89ch Is that a New Vegas reference? xD

    • @itsjawzz
      @itsjawzz Před 7 lety +5

      mattig89ch stimpaks ain't chems :)

    • @patricks.8688
      @patricks.8688 Před 7 lety +4

      so meth

  • @ethanblevins1116
    @ethanblevins1116 Před 4 lety +670

    I love how Stimpaks just have exposed needles when you find them.
    Still think you don’t need that nap?

  • @themightypen1530
    @themightypen1530 Před 3 lety +81

    The weird thing is that the actual "Stimpack" wasn't a healing item at all, it had a bunch of amphetamines and shit to get the soldier's all amped up going before the battle.

    • @xshullaw
      @xshullaw Před rokem +5

      I caught that too. They're _stim_ packs. I thought that you take adrenaline or something similar to keep you going after you get injured.

    • @bea2488
      @bea2488 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Was that not pyscho?

  • @noname-dp3gn
    @noname-dp3gn Před 6 lety +1195

    What fascinates me is the fact that I was made in 9 moths but it take 2 whole years for my body to fix a stupid papercut.

    • @hadenayers1268
      @hadenayers1268 Před 6 lety +75

      Moth-man? is that you?

    • @ThePrimith
      @ThePrimith Před 6 lety +326

      If you want to get technical, the beta version of you took only 9 months, but the finished product isn't released until you're 25.

    • @yt.kaiserkiwi
      @yt.kaiserkiwi Před 6 lety +204

      Beta? You can’t even speak or walk when you are born. In best case you are a tech demo or technical alpha.

    • @EddSjo
      @EddSjo Před 6 lety +101

      kiwiKaiser
      Just a proof of concept.

    • @theadventuresofmorninglily9113
      @theadventuresofmorninglily9113 Před 6 lety +54

      The reply’s to this comment are probably the best things I’ve seen in months. Nice work, fellow nerds.

  • @haleyrussom4997
    @haleyrussom4997 Před 6 lety +1000

    No wonder all the toilets are broken

  • @gabem.397
    @gabem.397 Před 5 lety +271

    In fallout 2 Radaway is said to give you the runs.

    • @brainslimedb686
      @brainslimedb686 Před 4 lety +47

      Makes sense to why in survival you get hungry when you use them

    • @thenorthbear2445
      @thenorthbear2445 Před 3 lety +9

      @@brainslimedb686 i never put that together lmao makes sense tho

    • @pixeltiger4204
      @pixeltiger4204 Před 3 lety +4

      goes to show the attention to detail that interplay and black isle actually put into their games compared to bethesda.

    • @Matt-td8xw
      @Matt-td8xw Před 2 lety +4

      Julie Farkas also says that it burns as fuck.

    • @benjaminmenken5693
      @benjaminmenken5693 Před 2 lety

      @@pixeltiger4204 ok "true fan"

  • @LilyEmbargo
    @LilyEmbargo Před 5 lety +595

    I just assume Stimpaks are stem cells that repair damaged tissue.
    As for Rad-X I assumed they were iodine tablets.

    • @randomguy3861
      @randomguy3861 Před 4 lety +43

      PunkxRockxJesus Iodine tablets only work for the thyroid, which consumes a crap ton of Iodine. Radiation can contaminate surrounding iodine pretty easily so taking the pills flush only the irradiated iodine out of your system, it won't do anything to prevent any other sort of radiation

    • @LilyEmbargo
      @LilyEmbargo Před 4 lety +23

      Random Guy
      Yes it does protect the thyroid gland which absorbs radiation. It protects against gamma and beta radiation. Gamma being the harmful rays from nuclear bombs. Its sort of like a immune system booster.

    • @saturniidspectre
      @saturniidspectre Před 4 lety +8

      I thought Stimpaks contained type O blood with lots of platelets and different stuff.

    • @xxportalxx.
      @xxportalxx. Před 4 lety +10

      @@saturniidspectre well in new vegas you craft them with an empty syringe and some plants, soooo no blood? Lol

    • @saturniidspectre
      @saturniidspectre Před 4 lety +3

      @@xxportalxx. I haven't played New Vegas, so I didn't know that. Cool fact, though!

  • @jefthereaper
    @jefthereaper Před 7 lety +190

    Simple, stimpacks are filled with healing potions from the elder scrolls universe, brought over by a secret government alternate universe portal project that allowed them to mass produce the formula, because magic.

    • @thetrashmammal7389
      @thetrashmammal7389 Před 6 lety +10

      jefthereaper there are theories that say that based on several factors in fallout four and the elder scrolls including the multiple moons in Nirn's sky, and the evidence of magic and enchantments in fallout, that Nirn (the name of the planet that Tamriel is on) is a planet in the fallout universe, and the people in fallout have called upon forces from the elder scrolls franchise such as magic and even a daedra. I can explain more if you want.

    • @NormalWhiteGuy
      @NormalWhiteGuy Před 6 lety +2

      jefthereaper ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED

    • @harleylequin3987
      @harleylequin3987 Před 6 lety +1

      Well, you're half right. There's evidence that shows that The Elder Scrolls series takes place in the same world, likely after the Fallout series.

    • @luciousbridgewater5960
      @luciousbridgewater5960 Před 6 lety

      I know right magical jizz Skyrim had magical jizz in a bottle now the government put it into a syringe like heroine

    • @greencrack7671
      @greencrack7671 Před 29 dny

      ​@@thetrashmammal7389Damn, Im 6 years late.

  • @iHateHandlesGetRidOfThis
    @iHateHandlesGetRidOfThis Před 7 lety +448

    who else "lost their shit" at the end?

    • @shirocat290
      @shirocat290 Před 7 lety

      i love this XD it so funny

    • @zionjones5447
      @zionjones5447 Před 7 lety

      eeup

    • @BobGeanis
      @BobGeanis Před 7 lety +1

      i could believe i shit my pants in fallout..

    • @quinnmarine5731
      @quinnmarine5731 Před 7 lety

      DarkBloxxorsGaming I have stabbed 847 in FO3, 643 in FONV, 113 in FO4. Well... I shat 1603 times. Yeap...

    • @ryanturner6920
      @ryanturner6920 Před 7 lety +9

      I laughed myself to a hernia. Healed it. Shit my pants. Laughed again.

  • @vintagedoctor7128
    @vintagedoctor7128 Před 5 lety +269

    Did you know that if u take a stimpack on survival, it will dehydrate you

  • @Amiga-gq4xx
    @Amiga-gq4xx Před 3 lety +51

    Body: Fully develops into a baby in 9 months
    Also body: can take 2 years to heal a cut...
    Wtf

    • @the_undead
      @the_undead Před 6 měsíci +2

      The issue is if your body does the healing process too quickly. You can get all kinds of nasty back bacteria in that wound which could be very problematic, so basically the entire process is focused on not allowing bacteria to replicate in the wound, which is usually a pretty ideal place for bacteria to replicate

    • @fingerboxes
      @fingerboxes Před 4 měsíci

      To be fair, humans are all born premature. That's why we can't walk 10 minutes after birth like everything else can. It's part of an evolutionary trade-off: our brains are too big for our birth canals so to be smart later, we have to be premature and useless early.

  • @TheRetroReplay
    @TheRetroReplay Před 6 lety +718

    So that's what the doctor in Fallout 4 means by "flushing your system" when you ask him to heal you from rad damage

    • @rickymartin4295
      @rickymartin4295 Před 6 lety +1

      XD

    • @chhite7590
      @chhite7590 Před 6 lety +11

      Huh, I thought it meant replacing your blood

    • @cropathfinder
      @cropathfinder Před 6 lety +14

      yup, thats the most efficient way we have to deal with radiation poisoning mind you just making yourself constantly piss is also somewhat efficient especially if you are drinking stuff that has materials that bind particals easier like some types of beer

    • @pappy1527
      @pappy1527 Před 5 lety +2

      I Think theyd just pack you full of saline when they mean flushigg your system

    • @brianmcgloughlin7799
      @brianmcgloughlin7799 Před 5 lety +3

      It also explains why toilets are always radioactive.

  • @poiuytrewq11422
    @poiuytrewq11422 Před 7 lety +114

    Fallout 5 is going to have a new innovative shitting system now.

    • @spEAMerNation
      @spEAMerNation Před 7 lety +9

      The more meds you take the higher you can jump for a limited time.

    • @spicybeantofu
      @spicybeantofu Před 6 lety

      Vat aim into the toilet

  • @PlayBoX-qq9kr
    @PlayBoX-qq9kr Před 4 lety +46

    So my guy shat 29 times during that fight with supermutants in his only underwear

  • @SupremeCreame
    @SupremeCreame Před 4 lety +37

    "You're absolutely, POSITIVELY, Gonna Shit your pants."
    Lol best. delivery. ever.

  • @Truescreen
    @Truescreen Před 7 lety +223

    The "Shit your pants" part was the best.

    • @Sonicboomcolt
      @Sonicboomcolt Před 7 lety +3

      I lost it on that part XD

    • @LeaderofStupid
      @LeaderofStupid Před 7 lety +12

      When bethesda finally talks about this, Fallout players will 'SHIT THEIR PANTS!!!'

    • @Sonicboomcolt
      @Sonicboomcolt Před 7 lety +2

      ThatGamingSoup Ooooh ya they will.

    • @ShadowHuntress4
      @ShadowHuntress4 Před 7 lety +7

      Thank God Bethesda took the time to add toilets in game for the Fallout series!

  • @wondermuffe3245
    @wondermuffe3245 Před 7 lety +92

    You're gonna shit your pants
    -Austin 2016

  • @samuelr331
    @samuelr331 Před 5 lety +70

    I need to bring up the fact that you can use stimpacks on Dogmeat. So stimpacks also works on animals.

    • @ravencollins5638
      @ravencollins5638 Před 4 lety +12

      And a Synth and super mutants

    • @mackipacki2528
      @mackipacki2528 Před 4 lety +9

      My guy you can use them shits on robots wtf

    • @copscrops
      @copscrops Před 4 lety +8

      @@mackipacki2528 yeah, I thought robots would use some kind of other thing. Like a robot repair kit

    • @aeureus
      @aeureus Před 3 lety

      Biological matter and living tissue is affected by stimpacks and other chemicals/agents/whatever. It's kinda obvious :/

    • @aeureus
      @aeureus Před 3 lety +6

      @@ravencollins5638 synths are technically human, and super mutants are still living biological matter. Animals/mutants and WHATEVER still have healing capabilities.

  • @Storyteller2093
    @Storyteller2093 Před 5 lety +96

    Austin: Attractive group of gymnists...while has girlfriend
    Bad Karma gain
    Laughter as well

  • @kozhedub
    @kozhedub Před 7 lety +246

    Still makes more sense than healing with an apple pie

    • @kingkumorto791
      @kingkumorto791 Před 7 lety

      lol

    • @PaigeBook
      @PaigeBook Před 6 lety +1

      cyle moore eating any food you cook or find in the game heals you.

    • @PaigeBook
      @PaigeBook Před 6 lety +2

      cyle moore hey man, no reason to be rude. maybe he's getting his Bethesda games mixed up.

    • @PaigeBook
      @PaigeBook Před 6 lety +3

      cyle moore nah there's not. There are Dandy Boy Apples, perfectly preserved pie from those port-a-diner things, sweet rolls and 1 birthday cake in that seperated family bunker I believe. But no apple pie. :)

  • @flakes1972
    @flakes1972 Před 7 lety +67

    I'd always thought of Stimpacks as a big ole' shot of pain-killers and adrenalin. xD

    • @hardwirecars
      @hardwirecars Před 7 lety +3

      adrenalin yes pain killers no med x is the pain killer its really morphine but australian made them call it something else

    • @teensierkitty4214
      @teensierkitty4214 Před 7 lety +2

      med x and psycho

    • @hardwirecars
      @hardwirecars Před 7 lety

      TeensierKitty42 i thought psycho was liquid meth.

    • @teensierkitty4214
      @teensierkitty4214 Před 7 lety +2

      hardwire well psycho is more of an inhalant but Adrenalin could be liquid meth

    • @shaynecosby5625
      @shaynecosby5625 Před 7 lety +2

      +TeensierKitty42 you inject pyscho,jet is an inhalant

  • @titanoffire0474
    @titanoffire0474 Před 4 lety +32

    "Mystery Jizz"

  • @ryderstockholm2365
    @ryderstockholm2365 Před 5 lety +26

    “O-negative ask you mom why”

  • @danielhall1226
    @danielhall1226 Před 7 lety +868

    All science should be taught with cussing in it. lol

    • @Neo2266.
      @Neo2266. Před 7 lety +59

      *YOU'RE GONNA SHIT YOUR PANTS*

    • @gavinlaster5909
      @gavinlaster5909 Před 7 lety +1

      Daniel hall YES

    • @gavart4509
      @gavart4509 Před 7 lety +14

      Daniel hall
      And screaming

    • @hi-en4kj
      @hi-en4kj Před 7 lety +19

      Daniel hall Who wouldn't love to see their biology teachers pacing the room going YOUR BODY MAKES YOU HEAL BY MAKING YOU SHIT YOUR PANTS!

    • @maroonstarsface
      @maroonstarsface Před 7 lety +1

      mat pat put an end to all the swearing :(

  • @astockphotoofspaghetti9433
    @astockphotoofspaghetti9433 Před 6 lety +72

    I'm imagining Todd Howard watching the beginning of this video and looking on in horror as a CZcamsr fantasizes about caressing his face.
    The internets a weird place.

    • @timesthree5757
      @timesthree5757 Před 5 lety

      or tod hoard is doing the same about shoddycast's face.

  • @Tubajubaduba
    @Tubajubaduba Před 2 lety +18

    These videos were the bomb 4 years ago, loved them so much. The consistent intro, the email format, the classical Music (love the Bizet) it all coalesces into a fantastic series.

  • @Toaster_The_Tall
    @Toaster_The_Tall Před 4 lety +10

    Years later, I still rewatch these. Your videos make me happy. Thank you, Austin.

  • @skartalon
    @skartalon Před 6 lety +361

    "Without stimpacks and rad-away your games would be really, really short because we'd... be dead." Jon from Many a True Nerd begs to differ....

    • @stefanlucian7042
      @stefanlucian7042 Před 6 lety +8

      Ceveric YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!

    • @bobafett1877
      @bobafett1877 Před 6 lety +4

      Stefan Lucian NO DEATHS

    • @MyHentaiGirlNeko
      @MyHentaiGirlNeko Před 6 lety +2

      Ceveric waiting for Fallout 4 YOLO

    • @megabo3ed
      @megabo3ed Před 6 lety +1

      Ceveric jon's characters tend to resemble crippled ptsd riddled messes by the end though. (if hp=general physical condo futon)

    • @rasmuskvthomsen4133
      @rasmuskvthomsen4133 Před 6 lety +1

      Ceveric ayyyy matn

  • @nicolasjamo
    @nicolasjamo Před 7 lety +1338

    With all the monsters and irradiated creatures in the Fallout series, which ones could potentially exists and which ones are improbable - like in a biological sense?

    • @papashmup3529
      @papashmup3529 Před 7 lety +23

      I would like to see that

    • @KaitoGillscale
      @KaitoGillscale Před 7 lety +90

      Very few because sadly radiation DOESNT work like that. The IDEA is that mutation from radiation causes advanced degridation of the safeguards between a body's DNA and changes...but in reality most of the mutations from this change are for the worse and rarely cause enlargement. Three legs are possible but growing 2x as large is...rare. It's also nearly impossible for radiation to CONTINUE making a creature grow once it starts. The more radiation you pump into yourself, the more chances one of these shitty changes happens instead to the next of kin. Also, you'll probably die before reproduction.

    • @JohnPeacekeeper
      @JohnPeacekeeper Před 7 lety +9

      Radroaches.

    • @Quakepiano077
      @Quakepiano077 Před 7 lety +34

      Apparently birds the haven't changed a bit for some reason

    • @nicolasjamo
      @nicolasjamo Před 7 lety +36

      Jacob Applehoof Insects and roaches reproduce fairly quickly, much much less so than human. Radroaches and other giant insects could have arose out of many generations of irradiated insects, where the maladapted traits killed off the majority of the roach population and those that survived (some of which carry the mutated genes to allow more growth than is usual for the species) could repopulate. This could continue in a cycle until the newest species of roaches that finds stability in its structure and thrive like the radroaches that we see.

  • @coffeemannypd
    @coffeemannypd Před 5 lety +125

    Dear Austin,
    I really enjoy your work and all the thorough thoughts you put into the BS-Science of the fallout franchise. While I was already quite impressed by your insides into the biology of viruses and your understanding of genetics and gene-splicing through CRISPR-CAS, it is apperant that you do not have any medical-scientific background. Which is Ok, not everyone can be a Doctor after all. Now, the explanation of how your body heals wounds is correct, and I am impressed how easily and precise you can describe the steps and processes involved, explaining a rather complex matter to a wide audiance, focussing on the relevant aspects and not deviating from the underlying science too much (you should really teach ppl, none of my biochemistry or physiology books were as clear in their explanation...plus all were a lot less entertaining), I do believe that your premise on what stimpaks would or wouldn not do in order to keep the fallout 4s player character alive is wrong. And therefor the conclusion is wrong. And there are several smaller things I could also claim to be wrong or at least not correctly contextualized (the growthfactor wouldnt work in the way you would want it to for example) but they are unimportant in the larger scheme.
    So, you claim that in order to keep the player healthy, the stimpak would need to immediatly or at least very fast heal the most recent received wound. I do understand the interpretation of the HP-Bar, however I do not think, from a medical point of view, that thats a viable way of keeping the player alive. You see, when you receive a wound, you do not die of bleeding out necessarily, in fact, even with a major artery burst, it takes some time to really bleed out (exception would be the Aorta, which could easily make you die of bloodloss in a few minutes or a direct rupture of the heartmuscle). In most instances, you die or pass out to a major wound, because of shock.Now a shock has 3 potential causes: 1) Lack of blood/fluid in your bloodvessels (hypovolamic shock); 2) heartfailure; the heart can not build up the required bloodpressure to pump blood into your brain (kardiogenic shock) and 3) a systemic vasodilation, leading to a rapid and severe drop of bloodpressure (distributive shock). It is possible for 2 or all 3 of these causes to happen at once.
    While a light shock-symptomatic might only cause dizziness, nausea, desorientation and loss of concentration and focus, in most cases a shock leads to a rapid loss of consciousness. Thats what I would think is symbolized by the HP-Bar: How much more can you take, before your body goes into shock and you loose consciousness or die? This theory is reinforced by the fact that if you drop too low in health, you will start to experience symptoms of a light shock: you will hear an elevated heartbeat, your vision gets blurry, your breathing gets faster. All these symptoms are physiological reactions of your body to prevent you from going into a shock: 1) elevated heartbeat: if the bloodpressure is not high enough or there is not enough fluid in your system left, your heart can not simply produce more pressure with each heartbeat, in fact your heart measures between two beats how much blood is filling up the heartcaverns by measuring the dilatation of your heartcaverns by specialised nervcells. If your heart is dilatating a lot (because a lot of blood is going/bloodflow is increased) it will pump stronger (Frank-Sterling-Mechanism); so if its not dilatating enough, the heart will build up less pressure and beat weaker. However, to compensate for the lack of pressure, and because its relaxation is much faster achieved after a weak heartbeat, the heart will pump faster to ensure that a steady volume of blood is pumped over the same time. Its ineffictient, but ensures that all organs are receiving enough oxygen. Also: trauma and pain are alerting your body, they are activating the sympathic-nervous-system, which elevates heartrate on its own (to keep you in a fighting or fleeing state), it would also try to increase your bloodpressure by increasing the heartmuscles contraction (strenght of each beat, positive inotropic effect). All countermeasures to shock.
    Ill spare the details on breathing and blurry vision (the latter is probably only supposed to reflect dizziness and desorientation)....
    So....if we establish, that the HP bar is showing you not how healthy you are or if you have wounds or not, but how far away from a state of shock your body actually is, a stimpak in its name would make much more sense than a conglomerate of wound-healing factors. A mix of adrenalin, noradrenalin, dopamin, sugar, insulin, some clottingfactors (only FX would be really needed in the acute situation) and maybe a protein with a high colloid osmotic pressure in a physiological Na+ K+ solution would ensure your body to keep going and not fall into shock. The adrenalin would tell your heart to beat faster and stronger, thus rising your bloodpressure, the noradrenalin would constrict your arterys which would 1) lower the bloodflow to any bleeding wound, 2) further rise your bloodpressure, the dopamin would constrict arterys in your splanchnicus-area (around your intestines and stomach), thus fewer blood flows through these large areas and instead delivers oxygen to your muscles and brain (pretty much shifting volume from an unneeded compartment of your body in an acute stress-situation), and the colloid-osmotic pressure would force fluid out of your millions of red bloodcells into the bloodvessel, while the cells are being compressed and getting smaller, the volume in the bloodvessel itself actually rises signifacantly, a high enoug colloid-osmotic pressure would also force water in your extracellular matrix, surrounding the bloodvessel, to migrate into the bloodvessel, thus further increasing the available bloodvolume and countering the effects of bloodloss. The loss of cells is not that immediatly dangerous actually, we have a very huge tolerance for loss of red bloodcells before our oxygen-deliverysystem collapses, the loss of volume in your bloodvessels is what is killing your bloodflow and sending you into shock, thats why a high colloid-osmotic solution would make perfect sense for this scenario. The clottingfactor FX is activitating Factor II to Factor IIa, factor IIa, factor IIa is activating Factor I, which is called FIBRIN. Thats what closes your wound initially, its the most important thing in haemostasis! I will spare you the details why I would give Factor X (Stuart-Prowling Factor) instead of Factor II. Lets just say its complicated and Im getting tired of typing about this stuff in a foreign language, but Factor X makes a lot more sense than FII in this reagard!
    Now that method wouldnt be without risk, as it could raise your bloodpressure to unsafe hights, burst aneurysms, cut off bloodflow to some areas (like the splanchnicus area, thats why dont use dopamin anymore in intensive care) and cause organfailure (but only to the digestive tract...who needs to digest and shit anyways???), cause a stroke and send you in a hyperdynamic shock, crush your redbloodcells by a too high colloid-osmotic pressure and so on...buuuuuuut....its Fallout, Sci-Fi, right? So lets just assume, you do not inject yourself with pure adrenalin, noradrenalin and so on. But instead, an analogue substance that activates alpha- and betareceptors but has a different, for acute response maybe more suited receptorkinetic. Its not that far fetched, we are replacing monoamines like dopamin already with artificially created substances that activate the same receptors but with a different kinetic towards them or only a affinity to specific subfamilies of said receptors (we have more than one type of each receptor, specific to their originating tissue and with a variety of functions), thats how modern parkinson-medication works (and why its causing delirium a lot more often than regular dopamin) for example. So lets suppose, that in the future of fallout, medicine is advanced enough to have created substances, that interact with receptors for adrenalin, noradrenalin and so on, but in a much safer way than the original substance, maintaining a physiological balance of heartrate, bloodpressure and bloodvesselconstriction/dilatation instead of just increasing the effect further and further the more receptors are activated. Thats also not that far fetched, with aripiprazol we have a neuroleptic agent, that blocks the D2-Dopaminreceptor just like other neuroleptics. But also activates it. Just a lot less than dopamin would. This way, we get the neuroleptic, antipsychotic effect of blocking the dopamin D2-receptor, while not causing the sideeffects and keeping a low dopaminerg activationlevel in your brain present. The science is all existant today already. Till 2077, we should have figuered it all out (its not that hard actually, its biochemistry to the most well known and most researched receptorfamilies in all our bodies...we can paint them aminoacid by aminoacid in their quartary structure).
    So yeah.... closing a wound immediatly and healing the skin above it however....is not necesseraly helping you to stay in a fight, if your loss of blood was already too significant it wont get you anywhere. And the application of half a liter of blood would require you to inject the needle into a vein. Something you are clearly not doing. Everything I described can be injected into the muscle or below the skin and will find its way into your bloodflow safely via the capillaries below your or between your fatcells. And everything that I described would fit into the syringe.
    Sincerly,
    an ordinary psychiatrist from germany.

  • @zubbworks
    @zubbworks Před 3 lety +13

    I always though stimpacks used to be morphine, but they were like naw that's too druggy so they made up somthing new.

    • @vexile1239
      @vexile1239 Před rokem +2

      Med-X was originally named morphine but Australia did the baby crying bs and forced bethesda to change its name to med-x

    • @IndorilTheGreat
      @IndorilTheGreat Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@vexile1239I kinda like that morphine got renamed to Med-X. Fits in with the theme that everything in the pre-war Fallout universe was owned by corporate organizations - some pharmaceutical company probably made a new type of morphine and patented the thing.
      We're seeing something similar these days with the EpiPen.

  • @darabyrne2515
    @darabyrne2515 Před 7 lety +179

    20 minutes? God damn this is gonna be good

  • @uristboatmurdered6051
    @uristboatmurdered6051 Před 7 lety +210

    What's inside a stimpack?
    *Nanomachines, son!*

  • @calebgay158
    @calebgay158 Před rokem +5

    On a real note… did Austin think about Rad-X just transferring a man made mineral or compound into the body to eliminate the output of the radioactive fallout occurring inside the body, basically balance out the radioactive particles with a pill that only targets the atoms which are producing the radiation?

  • @nathanielturner2577
    @nathanielturner2577 Před rokem +3

    I think a brotherhood of steel outcast in Fallout 3 mentions how Radaway gave him the runs.

  • @noel9817
    @noel9817 Před 5 lety +583

    Lots of swearing here, reminds me of old youtube before they put that damn rule because of kids

    • @ariko5254
      @ariko5254 Před 5 lety +30

      Swearing a thing of the past unfortunately be careful and not offend someone feelings then you’re like a nazi

    • @Pnort
      @Pnort Před 5 lety +22

      Well fuck...
      Edit: Oh shit I swore.
      Edit: Oops I swore again.

    • @ryanisdyin7498
      @ryanisdyin7498 Před 5 lety +8

      Well shit.

    • @pineappleproductions1696
      @pineappleproductions1696 Před 5 lety +4

      Catnip

    • @johsmith2481
      @johsmith2481 Před 4 lety +32

      Yall are dumb. Swearing was basically "punished" because rich corporations run by the generation BEFORE the millennials decided they didnt want their ads in videos with people swearing. It's all the adults born before the 90's that are a bunch of pussies worried that their "Image" will be ruined by swearing, not millenials XD

  • @ChaosWolf1982
    @ChaosWolf1982 Před 7 lety +54

    Fallout: Pants-shittingly awesome.

  • @luciferdakar3311
    @luciferdakar3311 Před 3 lety +4

    Amusingly enough, Tim Cain and company covered the "after effects" you mentioned. I still remember, in fallout 2, there was a minor side quest to get an NPC some Radaway. When you complete the quest, as the NPC walks off, he says: "I hate how Radaway gives me the runs".

  • @iliadnetfear2586
    @iliadnetfear2586 Před 4 lety +23

    All the Otakus and Weeaboos out there, when he was describing the inflammatory stage of healing, you were thinking about Cells at Work.
    Don't lie to yourself.

    • @shinymetagross1666
      @shinymetagross1666 Před 4 lety +2

      5:23 I can only picture U-1146 as soon as he says neutrophil

    • @zac_foster_0131
      @zac_foster_0131 Před 3 lety

      Lol I was wondering how many people thought about CAW when he was explaining it

  • @definitelynotrandy6560
    @definitelynotrandy6560 Před 6 lety +121

    The white blood cells act like how you would act when you get your first minigun in fallout 4

    • @Gilhelmi
      @Gilhelmi Před 5 lety +7

      I have seen "Cells at Work".
      More like a psychotic melee run. With Pickets combat knife. And a lot more blood.

    • @ryebread1736
      @ryebread1736 Před 5 lety

      @@Gilhelmi same

    • @sadmanpranto9026
      @sadmanpranto9026 Před 5 lety +3

      Or first time getting a Nutella Jar after 2 years...

    • @plague6566
      @plague6566 Před 5 lety +1

      Basically, they're just white guys with guns

    • @axslaps
      @axslaps Před 4 lety

      @Bili Warren Cold, calculated, top teir killers with occasional nutters.

  • @JoeTAC
    @JoeTAC Před 6 lety +545

    I think that in order to discuss what Stimpacks are, we need to first discuss what HP truly is. In my mind, HP is the capacity of the body to suffer damage before collapsing. When it hits 0, the body has suffered too much damage and you presumably die of heart failure\stroke. So having a full HP bar, does not represent being completely healthy, it doesn't mean you're healed, it just means you can take that much more damage before you die.
    So what DOES a stimpack do? Well Stimpack is short for "Stimulant Delivery Package" I don't think it heals your body as much as it pushes death further away. In Fallout 1,2 and New Vegas' Hardcore mode, Stimpacks COULD NOT heal broken bones.Which leads me to believe Stimpacks DO NOT heal you. They simply allow you to keep functioning with the damage you've taken so far and be able to sustain more damage before dying. In Fallout 4, all limb damage auto heals to 1 after battle, but it can be healed with a Stimpack, that isn't to say that a stimpack necessarily heals the damage, as much as it makes you able to use the limb (despite any pain or damage it's suffered).
    All in all we need to keep in mind that many functions are not displayed to us as players and are implicit. For example, I believe any bowel movements happen while you're "resting" or "waiting" (fast travelling, if you don't play on Survival) or also possibly that power armor comes equipped with a built in disposal system for urine that can be emptied, just the same as it is implied that any and all "romantic" interactions with your lovers take place while you rest. So resting does not necessarily represent the act of sleeping, but a period in which the PC is resting.
    Went on more of a tangent than I thought I would. But I hope I was able to bring my point across and I would be more than happy to have a discussion about it.

    • @paulmahoney7619
      @paulmahoney7619 Před 6 lety +46

      Joe The Amazing Camel that could explain why you recover health while resting, as well as taking a nap, you’re bandaging your wounds, taking care of your bodily functions, and cleaning up a little bit maybe.

    • @cortex8239
      @cortex8239 Před 6 lety

      Joe The Amazing Camel too long com to read brht

    • @omgitstomfjbzf6996
      @omgitstomfjbzf6996 Před 6 lety +14

      Wow nice work I saw this and it caught my eye straight away nice

    • @rockytokyo
      @rockytokyo Před 6 lety +13

      So you're basically saying stimpacks = Guts' Berserker Armor's ability to let you keep fighting despite the damage you take.

    • @Needler13
      @Needler13 Před 6 lety +6

      Joe The Amazing Camel
      I don't know. A lot of the cartoon that Bethesda shows is that a dude with a broken arm being repair instantly when injected with. a stim pack. I always viewed it as wolverine juice in a syringe and the cartoons with vault boy kinda hammers that out. Just increases our regeneration to the extreme

  • @lordphantom2123
    @lordphantom2123 Před 5 lety +8

    Notice at the end how he said we haven't seen his face yet but during the vid we did

  • @archeryparker2675
    @archeryparker2675 Před 6 lety +191

    I learn more in these videos than I have from 12 years of school.

    • @lockedon8953
      @lockedon8953 Před 5 lety +3

      Archery Parker that's cause modern education teaches more useless shit

    • @johnsmith-yf8vx
      @johnsmith-yf8vx Před 5 lety +5

      LOL same here . all i got form school was a tone of feminists bullshit .

    • @ariko5254
      @ariko5254 Před 5 lety

      Sharing is caring is what we learned hhhhmmmmmm sounds familiar

    • @ariko5254
      @ariko5254 Před 5 lety

      Where have I heard of this concept

  • @Antlover420
    @Antlover420 Před 7 lety +51

    The gag was not getting hold I was enjoying it a lot actually :( 3:37

  • @salemnightlark8161
    @salemnightlark8161 Před 4 lety +3

    Fun story to go with that healing timeframe I detached a finger on a bad Friday with a power saw. 6 months of therapy was needed before I could even move it safely without possibly destroying it forever and it took 6 YEARS before the nerves grew back which surprised everyone as it was expected to take somewhere between a decade and never for that to happen.

    • @IndorilTheGreat
      @IndorilTheGreat Před 6 měsíci

      Glad your finger is back in one piece! I had something similar with a surgery - my upper jaw needed to be moved, and I couldn't feel a thing in the row of my mouth for about 4 years after that. Nerves regrowing is such a strange feeling.

  • @allseeingeye3182
    @allseeingeye3182 Před 5 lety +12

    (me) "uses a stimpack" hmmmm something does not feel right
    (Stimpack) "blows a hole in my arm"
    (Me) AHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @MindMessed
    @MindMessed Před 6 lety +180

    “Nanobots man.” -Tinker Tom

    • @girf4233
      @girf4233 Před 5 lety +25

      NANO MACHINES SON

    • @TheIdiotPlays
      @TheIdiotPlays Před 5 lety +7

      *Crysis intensifies*

    • @plague6566
      @plague6566 Před 5 lety +7

      Metal Gear intensifies

    • @epicjn
      @epicjn Před 4 lety

      @@girf4233 you beat me by 4 months...

    • @munchkingod
      @munchkingod Před 4 lety +2

      Except that in the Fallout universe they never moved away vaccuum tubes and therefore don't have access to miniaturized technology that advanced.

  • @drago2021
    @drago2021 Před 7 lety +22

    Man, I remember in high school when my principal stopped my friends and I and told us to stop swearing. Because, "You can't have intelligent conversation while swearing." And that's bullshit. You prove that really well. I love your videos man. Good on you.

  • @DokieToy
    @DokieToy Před měsícem +2

    7 years later, still watching Austin‘s videos saved in the playlist and i love them

  • @nilscoyne3137
    @nilscoyne3137 Před 4 lety +6

    Bio-nano bots with raw biomass ingredients to directly fill wound tracks and repair organs.

  • @joekurtz6587
    @joekurtz6587 Před 7 lety +116

    Broc flower + xander root + empty clean syringe = stimpack , enjoy

    • @joekurtz6587
      @joekurtz6587 Před 7 lety +24

      Also , most of your shit might go to your ass , but some of it goes out sweat or just fall off , thats the little white stuff you clean your mouse from from time to time , dead cells

    • @ianirizarry30
      @ianirizarry30 Před 7 lety +8

      dont forget the nuka cola..... for the citric acid

    • @Slunkee
      @Slunkee Před 7 lety +2

      i have other "white stuff" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @michealderaemaeker5028
      @michealderaemaeker5028 Před 7 lety

      Does not apply to Commonwealth stims

    • @thychozwart2451
      @thychozwart2451 Před 7 lety +1

      +SlunkSwarm Kappaaaaaaaaaaaaah

  • @pwnsage
    @pwnsage Před 7 lety +67

    I've always thought of stimpacks being less of a "healing item" and more of something that something that kickstarts JUST the coagulation process to prevent you from bleeding out, along with powerful painkillers to make the wound feel like less of a problem.

    • @ovni2295
      @ovni2295 Před 7 lety +1

      Agreed. Throw in healing factor stimulants to get the mobilization of resources going and some antiviral and antibacterial medicines too, for good measure.

    • @MCgreeneye
      @MCgreeneye Před 7 lety

      Like Adrenaline

    • @failandia
      @failandia Před 7 lety +6

      the thing is that ingame, it repair your vision when you get hit in the head, and bones when they are broken and all of that.
      but it's a game anyway so whatever

    • @JimBimBum
      @JimBimBum Před 7 lety +4

      Search "stem cells" and you'll learn how stimpacks work Also fun fact! YOU CAN REGROW BONES BY USING STEM CELLS!!!

    • @toolpot462
      @toolpot462 Před 7 lety +5

      Nanobots...

  • @loganjamesonhatch5050
    @loganjamesonhatch5050 Před 3 lety +1

    Austin: “cause you would be dead”
    Jon in YOLO challenges: “you fool”

  • @Charlie_the_Chair
    @Charlie_the_Chair Před 4 lety +2

    3:40 every indie horror game ever

  • @legateelizabeth
    @legateelizabeth Před 6 lety +169

    I always assumed stimpacks just stopped you feeling pain and made you super alert and awake - i.e. stimulated you - so you could keep going despite your wounds.
    I mean, Med-X doesn't make your skin tougher, it's just morphine, it just means you feel less pain so you can keep going despite greater injuries.

    • @bluethunderbolt9631
      @bluethunderbolt9631 Před 6 lety +14

      Pretentious Elizabeth I doubt stimpacks are painkillers. I one of the terminal entries of Scribe Haylen (FO4),she states that she administered stimpacks to one of team members to "stimulate healing" or something like that. Painkillers don't really do that.

    • @Needler13
      @Needler13 Před 6 lety +12

      Pretentious Elizabeth
      A lot of the docs say it stimulates your healing so it is kinda implied it increases your natural regeneration to wolverine/Deadpool level. They even have cartoons of vault boy getting shot or having a broken limb get injected and magically healing.

    • @koomori
      @koomori Před 5 lety +22

      There is a middle ground, though it still gets cartoonish- Stimpacks basically contain a mixture of stem cells, organic resin, and painkillers. You don't just stick it anywhere, you stick it in your actual wound, and the resin fills in whatever physical trauma you have, while also giving stem cells a headstart on where they go, while the painkillers, well, kill your pain and make sure you don't go into shock so you can jump back into killing raiders and deathclaws while you've got a giant plug of resin in your side.
      This gets cartoonish when you have to heal back to full from a completely crippled body, making you essentially a drug-filled skeleton coated in bioresin. Walking around and popping caps in people.
      But at least you don't shit your pants.

    • @HoleDiggingJanitor
      @HoleDiggingJanitor Před 5 lety

      Korbl K. I think pcp would be more realistic

    • @filmandfirearms
      @filmandfirearms Před 4 lety

      @@koomori That would make sense for most injuries, like a single gunshot where the bullet went straight through, or a slash from a blade that failed to hit major organs or arteries. However, it makes absolutely no sense once you consider the more extreme injuries a single stimpak can cure. Things like a 12 gauge shotgun blast at point blank range or being crushed with a fire hydrant swung by a literal giant or a fucking anti-material round to your head. No amount of stem cells, organic resin, or painkillers, are going to help you recover from a .50 BMG to the head, which will practically vaporize your skull

  • @herohalv4543
    @herohalv4543 Před 7 lety +208

    the vitamin alphabet:
    A B B B B B B B B B B B B B B C D E K

    • @somefella5066
      @somefella5066 Před 7 lety +45

      Herohalv4 You gotta get a lot of that vitamin D if u know what I mean
      u know... get some sunlight

    • @Vilverna
      @Vilverna Před 6 lety +3

      I all but immolate in the sun :c

    • @thestinkratgamer266
      @thestinkratgamer266 Před 6 lety

      A 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ 🅱️ C D E K

    • @lsswappedcessna
      @lsswappedcessna Před 6 lety +5

      Swedish Alphabet: A B B A

    • @AutodidactEngineer
      @AutodidactEngineer Před 6 lety

      _I'know what you mean bruh but that "D" needs a lot of baby oil in order for the "D's" tip to not overheat,If you know what I"mean1_

  • @riirah1010
    @riirah1010 Před 2 lety +2

    17:10 The huge problem that, even if all of this were possible, still remains:

  • @benjaminmenken5693
    @benjaminmenken5693 Před 2 lety +2

    I always thought stimpacks were some kind of blood clotting medicine combined with an opioid, the gauge on the top would show the blood pressure of the patient and the syringe held the clotting and opioid medicine, depending on the blood pressure it would inject a certain amount because a wound would cause blood pressure loss.

  • @Athenas_Realm_System
    @Athenas_Realm_System Před 7 lety +84

    Few things wrong here, while a lot of it is correct, bilary excretion isn't used to dispose of dead cells (red blood cells/eurythrocytes do however get somewhat disposed in this manner as haemoglobin is broken down into the bile pigment bilirubin) dead cells are mainly a collection of proteins, nucleic acid, glycoproteins (peptide chains with carbohydrates attached), and a lot of lipids, for most part these will often be broken down by phagocytes in the are such as monocytes and re-released as free nutrients, any of the toxins produced in such process like possibly ammonia, and sulphuric acid from break down of amino acids (the latter is for sulphur containing amino acids like cysteine and methionine) are all water soluble, while they are capable of crossing into the colon by simple diffusion the majority is excreted by urination, however due to stimpacks most likely increasing certain hormones that are hydrophobic they would also likely be excreted by bilary means, though the majority of the problems would be excessive urination rather than chronic shitting.

    • @ErasmusCrowley
      @ErasmusCrowley Před 7 lety +4

      I had to scroll down a disturbingly long way before finding this posted. Thank you.

    • @Gamelycan
      @Gamelycan Před 7 lety +1

      Either way, this explains why restrooms are hard to come by in Bethesda games.

    • @northernsun6003
      @northernsun6003 Před 7 lety +1

      Loved the great science breakdown ending in "chronic shitting" instead of a more scientific term like defecation. lol

    • @Athenas_Realm_System
      @Athenas_Realm_System Před 7 lety

      Caylon Gorell what would also make you laugh more is I used chronic in layman manner as in really bad, rather than scientific which means long lasting.

    • @witherofwar5676
      @witherofwar5676 Před 7 lety +1

      this is what I heard: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah science stuff blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

  • @RoyalMountedAnkleBiters
    @RoyalMountedAnkleBiters Před 7 lety +386

    lol, and I thought stimpacks were supposed to be stemcell injections

    • @cyberwirehacking5143
      @cyberwirehacking5143 Před 7 lety +18

      DangerMou$e stimpaks*

    • @danieldo8859
      @danieldo8859 Před 7 lety +9

      DangerMou$e I thought so too. just very rapidly growing ones.

    • @Epicmonk117
      @Epicmonk117 Před 7 lety

      DangerMou$e SAEM!

    • @RedVelvet_EdgeMuffin
      @RedVelvet_EdgeMuffin Před 7 lety +14

      I though Stimpacks were spelled Stempacks, and it would, in-turn, help me find my endorsement for high school next year...

    • @nonameguy7170
      @nonameguy7170 Před 7 lety +5

      Crazy Craz3R uh duh STIMpack
      "stimulant"

  • @alexmcd378
    @alexmcd378 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Another problem with stimpacks I recently realized. Heat. The chemical reactions involved in healing spends energy. Over three months, the resulting heat is insignificant, but Condensed into a few seconds and it's going to get spicy. I don't know enough bio-chem-physics to know if the heat would be uncomfortable or set you on fire, but I'm guessing it would be a problem

  • @RaccoonRecluse
    @RaccoonRecluse Před 5 lety +2

    One of the most entertaining and educational videos I have watched in a long time and it's all fallout related.

  • @pandabear9541
    @pandabear9541 Před 7 lety +87

    Im actually very surprised he didnt talk about the fact that all these "increases cellular regeneration" medicines basically translate to "shortens your lifespan" by an equivalent amount. By forcing your cells to regenerate 3 months worth of healing that means 3 months worth of cell division as well as 3 months worth of degradation, continually shortening the characters alleles and quickening his inevitable death.

    • @kipth3cat
      @kipth3cat Před 7 lety +9

      actually I think that cellular regeneration is somewhat different in fallout games, because if cells regenerated realistically, with shortening of chromosome protection and all that then there would be the chance for cancer, which may not even exist. If cancer existed, ghouls would be giant amorphous blobs of tumourous mass and fragmented DNA.

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 Před 7 lety +1

      Yeah what are Ghouls even made out of? Like, that's quite interesting considering radiation heals them and makes them more feral so it affects them but they don't seem to age all that much and they don't really eat or drink too much either like, one ghoul actually says he has no idea if he even has to eat to live at that point and he's really friggin old too, pre-war in fact. So what makes them alive if they were degrading at that rate for that long? What regenarates their cells tirelessly?

    • @pandabear9541
      @pandabear9541 Před 7 lety +2

      Hmmmm perhaps -due to the virtues of massive doses of radiation and perhaps mutagenic elements?- Ghouls and mutants have some sort of.... master copy of their chromosomes from for regeneration? One that rather than splitting and thus getting degraded, it is scanned by other cells who instead carry out the replication

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 Před 7 lety +5

      Matt Mulhall
      Dude, that's exactly the point of this series :)) checking if something from a game can be viable/realized/possible in real life or not...

    • @caixucook3
      @caixucook3 Před 7 lety +1

      +Diego Villatoro en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit

  • @karanvirsingh7829
    @karanvirsingh7829 Před 7 lety +174

    Science behind the power fist or power sledge?

    • @shropshirec
      @shropshirec Před 7 lety +13

      Hydraulic pistons and a micro jet, respectively.

    • @papashmup3529
      @papashmup3529 Před 7 lety +1

      The power sledge just has rockets....

    • @karanvirsingh7829
      @karanvirsingh7829 Před 7 lety +5

      Codysir wouldn't using a piston from your hands cause possible damage to your shoulder?

    • @EnclaveGeneral
      @EnclaveGeneral Před 7 lety +1

      It's a hydraulic assisted device that acts like an exo skeleton for your fist. There really isn't that much to it.

    • @SuperExodian
      @SuperExodian Před 7 lety

      that's probably why they usually equip power armor... so that that takes the punishment

  • @FokkeWulfe
    @FokkeWulfe Před 5 lety +1

    I saw this awhile back, and gave it some thought: what if stimpacks are essentially a mixture of NuSkin, and stimulants? It helps seal the wound quickly, much quicker then your body would seal, say, a gunshot, then dumps adrenaline into your system, giving you the ability to continue fighting? Its false health. You're still shot, but you don't realise it. You can power through. Its a bit weak, but fits, and doesn't require injecting yourself with the force of a cannon.

  • @pieceofschmidtgamer
    @pieceofschmidtgamer Před měsícem +1

    I imagine in the Back When Times stimpaks probably were something used very rarely. The vast majority of the time if you were seriously injured you'd just be treated normally. Stimpaks were probably something of an "Oh shit! We need to heal this guy RIGHT NOW or he is going to DIE!". Basically, if you were in a condition where you wouldn't make it to the hospital for proper treatment, they'd use a stimpak.
    But in the Post-Apocalypse there's no one to tell us not to use them ALL THE TIME. So we use them all the time.

  • @skytheannur6168
    @skytheannur6168 Před 7 lety +165

    Ever gonna do the SCIENCE behind Deathclaws?

    • @ruzzyshuya4832
      @ruzzyshuya4832 Před 7 lety

      I want this to happen

    • @arelpasha9309
      @arelpasha9309 Před 7 lety

      +RuzzyShuya same

    • @anfernycrab8029
      @anfernycrab8029 Před 7 lety

      mutated chameleons

    • @SongbirdsLounge
      @SongbirdsLounge Před 7 lety +1

      Desert Lizards + FEV + Radiation.
      Most likely Chameleons, but this whole thing is covered by the intelligent Deathclaws in Vault 13 in Fallout 2.

    • @skytheannur6168
      @skytheannur6168 Před 7 lety +4

      if I saw one IRL, I'm running, and maybe shoving someone down along te way

  • @roacht5747
    @roacht5747 Před 6 lety +48

    ShoddyCast is the Game Theory we deserve

  • @laserlights9684
    @laserlights9684 Před 4 lety +2

    In fallout 1/2 I forget which one a man has Rad sickness and asks for a Rad-away. When you give it to him he thanks you and comments that Rad-away gives him the Runs.

    • @Mikey-xz4vn
      @Mikey-xz4vn Před 4 lety +1

      Same thing in Fallout 3 - if trading tech to the BoS outcast you have the option of being given RadAway - the Outcast member comments on how it gives them the runs

  • @BoxedFelicia
    @BoxedFelicia Před 5 lety +1

    it's been so long (a year,or two) since I've seen a video with Austin's voice in it and instantly I recognise it

  • @Bentron88
    @Bentron88 Před 6 lety +148

    So wait, every time you heal fast you load your pants?
    Soooo... does that also apply to Wolverine and Deadpool? That would explain the former’s anger issues and the latter’s insanity.
    Edit: over 100 likes!? WOW!

    • @mystut306
      @mystut306 Před 5 lety +6

      Bentron88 thanks for the mental image

    • @Blasted2Oblivion
      @Blasted2Oblivion Před 5 lety +10

      To answer your question in a serious note, it depends on how the healing factor works. Do the cells in those two actually die and get replaced or just repair themselves and only replace the cells that are actually gone? Either way it would still be significantly less than the fallout example because its ONLY the cells and not the left over stuff from the medicines.

    • @jplayzow
      @jplayzow Před 5 lety +1

      @@Blasted2Oblivion It seems like replacing dead cells to each.

  • @TheVirtuoso883
    @TheVirtuoso883 Před 7 lety +605

    Whats in a stimpak??
    Fiction, pure unadulterated fiction.

    • @benbrown1490
      @benbrown1490 Před 7 lety +4

      Hey, scientists are listening and thinking how to get this irl.

    • @degurkin
      @degurkin Před 7 lety +13

      well,if I was a scientist (and I am studying pharmaceutical medicine so I'm actually working towards this) I wouldn't tackle the "combat drug that keeps you going mid combat" as something that accelerates your bodies functions,but rather as something that does your bodies job instead of your body,albeit it shittier,just need to close the wound real quick to stop bleeding and get some structural integrity back in

    • @c6q3a24
      @c6q3a24 Před 7 lety +4

      So, superglue in a spray bottle.

    • @pseudonym50
      @pseudonym50 Před 7 lety +2

      i always thought the stimpak was just a super powerful painkiller/stimulant. basically it stops your wound from hurting and allows you to focus on other things, like the hail of bullets flying towards your direction. it still wouldn't realistically keep you alive due to the ever-growing number of 5.56 millimeter holes in your chest, but it might take your mind off it for a few minutes as you bleed out on the ground.

    • @paladinboyd1228
      @paladinboyd1228 Před 7 lety +11

      I'm gonna go with stem cells.

  • @plaguedoctor2302
    @plaguedoctor2302 Před 4 lety +2

    10 years ago i fell and hit my eyebrow on the corner of a table and i still have a scar ;-;

  • @jackkush3494
    @jackkush3494 Před 4 lety +2

    Laughed my ass off, with shit your pants part. Thank you, needed that laugh. Cheers mate ))))

  • @PassportBrosBusinessClass
    @PassportBrosBusinessClass Před 7 lety +74

    My stimpack is a 20 ounce bottle of Sprite/ Coke and a line of Pure Columbian cocaine.

    • @robertdunhill2077
      @robertdunhill2077 Před 7 lety

      lucky you send some to the UK Columbian cocaine sounds nice.

    • @chriscarfrae6536
      @chriscarfrae6536 Před 7 lety

      +Rob Dunhill I would love the visit the americas for some of that pure. gear here in the UK is shite!

    • @robertdunhill2077
      @robertdunhill2077 Před 7 lety

      Aint it just the worst cut down crap and costs more than it does it the usa. Our country has gone to shit. Lol

    • @chriscarfrae6536
      @chriscarfrae6536 Před 7 lety

      +Rob Dunhill Tell me about it. BRING BACK COKE TO THE UK!!!

    • @AlejandroLopez-ze8gu
      @AlejandroLopez-ze8gu Před 7 lety

      you mean Colombian cocaine

  • @cacacarry
    @cacacarry Před 7 lety +108

    Austin, here's a mathematical problem for you! Take a gander at the grappling hook system in Just Cause! I mean, how does that shit not yank off his arm and destroy his internal organs? Check out the physics in it!

    • @coolio3274
      @coolio3274 Před 7 lety

      Yes that would be a very good video

    • @charlx8979
      @charlx8979 Před 7 lety +3

      same for batman in the arkham games, and this kind of was already covered for the legend of zelda hookshot on game theory, Austin already jokes about copying that channel but covering literally the same topic would be too much

    • @benjoe1993
      @benjoe1993 Před 7 lety

      Ppl of the youniverse...upvote this comment! It needs to happen! Never thought of that before, but yeah, I mean it can pull 2 fucking cars into eachother in seconds and do the same with Rico and the top of a water tower...Is he using some kind of suit to support this action? Never checked tho.

    • @JANFU_Nova
      @JANFU_Nova Před 7 lety +1

      Well only one of those 3 is your mostly-average joe, one trains himself to withstand things like that, and one is an elf (Or Hylian if that triggers you). Not a great comparison.

    • @charlx8979
      @charlx8979 Před 7 lety +2

      Raging Gamer because hylians have adamantium skeletons and muscles made of carbon fiber? i doubt it

  • @monke8667
    @monke8667 Před rokem +2

    17:31 I was not expecting this video to go there

  • @Clawleone
    @Clawleone Před 4 lety +2

    Just when I thought Austin couldn't get any funnier, I found this channel... And this video... I can die happy now...

  • @dusiaenkhbat5588
    @dusiaenkhbat5588 Před 7 lety +32

    "IT'S ME, AUSTIN".......I want that as a ringtone.

  • @thelaughingrouge
    @thelaughingrouge Před 7 lety +242

    How they work, three words: fucking nanomachines son!

    • @austinslaughter319
      @austinslaughter319 Před 7 lety +5

      thelaughingrouge let me explain biology to you; nanotech does NOT work the way it does in movies and you'd still need all of the vital materials, in fact, adding nanotech would make things more difficult.

    • @4f52
      @4f52 Před 7 lety +2

      thelaughingrouge It's just healing powder in an injector

    • @thelaughingrouge
      @thelaughingrouge Před 7 lety +4

      It's a joke.

    • @4f52
      @4f52 Před 7 lety +2

      Cool, my comment isn't.

    • @KatherineClairmont
      @KatherineClairmont Před 7 lety +2

      547265626f72 ur a joke

  • @samdewhurst-phillips
    @samdewhurst-phillips Před 10 měsíci

    Know you're finding it hard to keep making these man, but listening to these classics helps me chill out and chuckle enough to get to sleep. They are truly appreciated

  • @garrettberkowitz5873
    @garrettberkowitz5873 Před 2 lety +1

    *Injects stimpack
    *INSTANTLY DIES OF STARVATION

  • @positiveviber3100
    @positiveviber3100 Před 6 lety +102

    I can imagine the EMS people seeing him fall while they're eating corndogs and funnel cake and saying, "Dude. Really? How did you even- OK we need to take you to the hospital." That would be hilarious to see.

    • @medotaku9360
      @medotaku9360 Před 5 lety +4

      Positive Viber as a Paramedic, I can honestly say that, if this happened in front of us, we'd be asking;
      "Seriously? You want me to take you to the fucking *EMERGENCY* room because you fell over and bumped your widdle noggin"?
      You don't need an Ambulance just because you "passed out", bumped your head, or "feel weak".
      The guy who's standing in triage covered in bandages just drove himself and *so can you* .
      Besides, we're not going to do shit for you en route to the ER anyway before we drop your ass off in the front lobby (triage). So you might as well save yourself a few hundred bucks and drive yourself.
      Tell your friends. And make sure you punch any dumb ass who wants to call 911 for a stubbed toe, nausea, feeling sick, or "knee pain" he/she is experiencing from an accident they had years ago before they can even pick up a phone.
      99% of the time you do _not need an ambulance_ .

    • @Vlad2319
      @Vlad2319 Před 5 lety

      @@medotaku9360 I'm thinking this person is meaning the playable character(s) in fallout.

  • @ghostboy.no1414
    @ghostboy.no1414 Před 7 lety +79

    i fucking love this channel with everything in my being

  • @thesweetone
    @thesweetone Před 2 lety +1

    "How do they work?" Nanomachines son... nanomachines

  • @HenryGreenEngine3
    @HenryGreenEngine3 Před rokem

    I am so happy you're back to this channel.

  • @syd4952
    @syd4952 Před 7 lety +38

    I always assumed stem packs used a mixture of stem cells and nano bots, the nano bots immediately transport and deposit the stem cells in the damaged location where they are converted into the needed tissue.

    • @aidantrent5933
      @aidantrent5933 Před 7 lety +14

      it's not "stem" pack it's "stim" pack

    • @syd4952
      @syd4952 Před 7 lety +1

      sorry, i guess i always miss spelt it, but my point still stands

    • @deimoskaischylos
      @deimoskaischylos Před 7 lety

      "Stim" is short for "stimulant," though. On that, it is likely filled with many stimulants. Also, Stimpacks are made in back-alleys by the untrained. How in the hell would they be able to make nanobots to put into stimpacks?

    • @syd4952
      @syd4952 Před 7 lety +1

      Deimos kai Aischylos idfk, im just making a hypothesise, how would people in back alleys have access to extremely large amounts of sterile nutrients to put in the stimpacks the way explained in this video, and how does everyone in the game not have tennis and many lethal diseases from using them? I guess the only answer is its a video game and FUK LOGIC! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @swiftwolf4566
      @swiftwolf4566 Před 7 lety +1

      Syd R Tetanus? Idk, I think Stimpacks were never meant to be a primary healing solution, I don't think the military would use them, because of the chance that they wont recover and will just get sick, and be more of a drain on supplies. But as I said, Idk.

  • @moonscript4675
    @moonscript4675 Před 7 lety +129

    Dear Austin.
    I work at Bethesda. Please stop sending us emails. We have enough on our plate trying to change everything to suit your needs for the next fallout.
    Thanks.

    • @huricane887
      @huricane887 Před 7 lety +8

      If you really do work for them could you please try talking the team into making an alien related DLC for Fallout 4 like Mother Ship Zeta was for Fallout 3?

    • @qwemlhjsi4386
      @qwemlhjsi4386 Před 7 lety

      Lmao bullshit

    • @thagreatzadenko
      @thagreatzadenko Před 7 lety

      while a semi-valid point i think that if any developer would care about fan criticism it would be bethesda

    • @jackhayter2364
      @jackhayter2364 Před 7 lety

      OY, give us Mods first

    • @ZoanBlade90
      @ZoanBlade90 Před 7 lety +2

      Focus on getting us PS4 mods!

  • @brendanmonshall9834
    @brendanmonshall9834 Před 5 lety +2

    Hilarious and informative. Good shit brother!

  • @JohnCastleSmokeless
    @JohnCastleSmokeless Před 2 lety +1

    Courier: Uses _AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL_ the stimpacks. Then confronts Benny. And shits _AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL_ the shits, right on Benny.

  • @thaksjtube
    @thaksjtube Před 7 lety +34

    This shoddycast is getting shoddier and shoddier with each episode.

    • @DJMavis
      @DJMavis Před 7 lety +2

      They do multiple things. Because waiting for the tech to make the Storyteller in Fallout 4 would have left them redundant for a long time. And because people like me prefer this to the Storyteller. It's a good decision in that case.

    • @lordofcinder4563
      @lordofcinder4563 Před 7 lety

      I miss the elder scrolls lore

    • @killsanti5321
      @killsanti5321 Před 7 lety

      how do you do that with your name

    • @BigAutisticDaddy
      @BigAutisticDaddy Před 7 lety +1

      this narrator seems more humble than the story teller, also would love Bethesda reply to the browned pants effect of healing items.