@@rational_skeptic98 I'm referring to the part where she tells the Courier to just stop taking drugs. Addiction doesn't work like that. It isn't as simple as just stopping.
@@tastycookiechip Buy ammo for what? Almost every gun you would have by this point, you would be able to find a decent amount of on enemies or in containers.
I murdered her on my first playthrough and then just never bothered to see what her character was on later playthroughs. I just figured she was the generic doctor of the town
@@princeofsomnia7664 I'm not saying she's a chem dealer. I'm saying she's a doctor who you can pay to have your addictions cured, so she'd more than likely want you to go out and get addicted to chems, then come to her with money leftover for addiction treatment. And if you don't have the money for treatment she just tells you to piss off, basically
If I wasn't trippin my balls off into the next dimension, I wouldn't have been able to slaughter an entire patrol of legionnaires single-handedly with a tire iron.
@@Kryptnyt No, you're very wrong. Do you even know how deep this topic goes? Have you ever stopped to wonder if maybe you don't have the answers for something as complex as this? That you're just ignorant and hateful towards those suffering from a disease? A disease so powerful, all it takes is the consumption of a chemical, a chemical that completely alters your state of mind and body, depending on the one you take, and drags you down a rabbit hole so deep you can't recognize yourself anymore when you look in the mirror. A disease that has been proven to require that people set aside their entire life for a month or longer and live in an isolated environment, requiring medical care and a complete rewrite of how they think and react to impulse? Do you really think you know enough about something that powerful and complex, something that kills thousands every year, and ruins the lives of millions and more, enough to say "yeah just quit fucking junkie." Maybe early on, when you've only used like two or three times, yeah, you've got time to "just stop." Real addiction though, the slippery slope that catches you before you even know it, so badly that there's a miniscule chance of someone predisposed to addiction ever saving themselves from it... That's the beginning of an unstoppable cycle that only rehab, medical care, and support can halt. I'm a recovered addict, and in rehab we had the privilege of a visit from Dr. Stephen L. Dewey, Ph.D. neuroscientist and research professor from the New York University School of Medicine. He gave a great lecture on the exact chemistry of the brain when it is under the control of addiction in any form, from caffeine, to video games, to heroin. He explained exactly why the addict brain is driven almost by instinct to continue using and get the ridiculous levels of dopamine it has adapted to in order for the addict to just make it through the day without getting incredibly ill or enduring seizures even. And before you say "then just don't start", it's not that simple. People with mental illness and trauma are the most susceptible to addiction, and peer pressure is a proven force that can push someone, especially if they were already mentally unhealthy or unbalanced in some way, towards anything that will ease the pain or quiet the noise in their head. That combined with poverty, poor communities and the prevelance/normalization of drugs within them, teens experimenting with seemingly harmless light drugs such as weed, and many more factors all play into the cycle of addiction. It is a hellish, painful, and lonely life. The mass population of countries such as the USA, where addiction is seen as a person being inherently evil or scummy and having "brought it on themselves" desperately need better education on the topic so we can help these people get well and become functioning members of society. I urge you to educate yourself and not spread ignorance and hate towards those you know nothing about.
@@JRL_ there’s a rooster teeth podcast episode where Gavin was talking about how he just tries not to get sick and Bernie says "imagine Gavin being a doctor and a patient comes in telling him he’s sick and says oh your sick just don’t" if you want more context watch the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventurers.
If you have a high enough speech skill, at least one of the Freeside junkies in the "High Times" quest can be cured this way, although I think we're supposed to interpret it as convincing him to head to Fort Mormon now instead of after taking a bunch of your Fixer (so that he'll use theirs instead).
@@cletusawreetus-awrightus2799 do you mean to say "that's just an excuse you junkie", because that's pretty ignorant and insensitive. I'm a recovered addict, and in rehab we had the privilege of a visit from Dr. Stephen L. Dewey, Ph.D. neuroscientist and research professor from the New York University School of Medicine. He gave a great lecture on the exact chemistry of the brain when it is under the control of addiction in any form, from caffeine, to video games, to heroin. He explained exactly why the addict brain is driven almost by instinct to continue using and get the ridiculous levels of dopamine it has adapted to in order for the addict to just make it through the day without getting incredibly ill or enduring seizures even. And before you say "then just don't start", it's not that simple. People with mental illness and trauma are the most susceptible to addiction, and peer pressure is a proven force that can push someone, especially if they were already mentally unhealthy or unbalanced in some way, towards anything that will ease the pain or quiet the noise in their head. That combined with poverty, poor communities and the prevelance/normalization of drugs within them, teens experimenting with seemingly harmless light drugs such as weed, and many more factors all play into the cycle of addiction. It is a hellish, painful, and lonely life. The mass population of countries such as the USA, where addiction is seen as a person being inherently evil or scummy and having "brought it on themselves" desperately need better education on the topic so we can help these people get well and become functioning members of society. I urge you to educate yourself and not spread ignorance and hate towards those you know nothing about.
Wow, Obsidian made a line of dialogue that only appears if you meet this doctor, you are addicted, and you don't even have 50 caps. These guys and girls has so much passion to create such an amazing game in just 18 months. Astonishing! Also, I'm about to start my 3rd playthrough, about 6 years from the last time I played ;)
@@nottelling6598 This isn't the starter town, though. It's in Novac, which is like the third town you visit (assuming you're following the typical main quest route)
Novac was actually the first town they developed though, which is why some of the lines contradict each other. The main example is Chris Haversam claims to have left vault 34 before everyone turned into a ghoul because he believed he was a ghoul, while the boomers story make it sound like they have been in Nellis for generations. So unless Chris actually is a ghoul with the best skin in the world, the timeline doesn’t match up.
I don't think there is a general consensus on drugs, really. It ranges from the Khans who literally make drugs, to the Followers who are working hard to get people off drugs. And you you can buy most of them anywhere, and I think you can even find some in NCR barracks, and at Nellis, two factions I figured were straight edge as fuck. So... not illegal, but maybe a bit frowned upon, depending on where you're at, I guess?
10 years, and dozens of playthroughs and I'm *STILL* learning new things about this game. I swear, if M$ has Bethesda make the next Fallout game instead of Obsidian I will lose my goddamn mind.
And then just like that due to her secret being outed by the courier all addiction in the wasteland was soon dispelled. Thousands were saved. Many hypothesized that had the courier had not been such a Karen requesting free treatments would the wasteland have been saved. - Ending slide
Imagine how many more addicts there would be IRL if a doctor could un-addict you at any time. It would actually make things worse, just as it does in the game. Thanks doc, I can go back to doing more chems now
I got this conversation from a glitch. I had tons of caps but for some reason the game only showed the dialogue saying I didn't have 50 caps, so I was kinda forced to trigger this. Every other medical service was working fine, but I couldn't ask for a deintoxication. I had to fast travel all the way back to goodsprings to get rid of addictions
Saw this years ago when i was reading her wiki page for some reason. It is practically impossible to find out about it, who doesn't have 50 caps in this game? Anyway, the fact that the dialogue exists is pretty cool.
The best part is that in the game files, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even have the doctor NPC class. It’s something really weird like “townsperson” or something.
Fun fact in new Vegas baring the noted outliers of tobacco and ultra jet addiction all other addictions will heal themselves after 30 real time hours not using. New Vegas has a time scale of 1-20 meaning 1 minute real time 20 game time meaning 600 in game hours or 25 full 24 hour wait cycles taking roughly 30 seconds each means you can clear an addiction in less than 15 minutes real time using the wait function repeatedly Or here’s a better solution STOP BEING BROKE!
Novac asked for someone with a degree in theoretical medicine, she said she had a theoretical degree in medicine.
This is an underrated comment.
She must be a fantastic doctor, then.
:D
@@robertdougherty349 badum-tss
@TJ Evers II what?
They said welcome aboard
I don't think she studied from a credited institution
But for real, though. Addiction doesn't work like that.
@@b3nl555 ????
@@rational_skeptic98 I'm referring to the part where she tells the Courier to just stop taking drugs. Addiction doesn't work like that. It isn't as simple as just stopping.
She hasn't paid me yet, should I be worried?
And yet her treatment is sound
The fact that they wrote something for having less than 50 caps (something is near impossible) at that point is great
It's not impossible at all. What if you just bought a bunch of stims and ammo and used all your remaining caps
@@tastycookiechip that's just poor money management
@@tywatts700 Sums up how most of my playthroughs go... I always end of as a traveling murder hobo.
@@qp7975 ah yes the "murder hobo" I have heard of that character build many times
@@tastycookiechip Buy ammo for what? Almost every gun you would have by this point, you would be able to find a decent amount of on enemies or in containers.
STAHP DOIN CHEMS
Stahp getting fucked.
Stahp getting addicted to death claw bdsm
@@the_grand_secgend2134 Get fucked.
@@5kapis152 no i Stahped
@@ichangedmyname2231 this comment didnt age quite so well. (im referring to fallout:the frontier)
Bro I never seen this before in 10 years of playing...
Probably because most of us only help boone and the ghouls in repconn test site.
because who doesn't have 50 caps on them
@@untakencareofdeath_4117 you can help the doctor ??
@@untakencareofdeath_4117 you gotta help out the ncr guy too, since he gives you a coveted combat move.
@@Gogobrodo Before you murder him in his sleep, because Ave.
I'm surprised how many people don't know about her. She kinda just wanders around with her 2 mercs so I see why
I've never seen her wander. She's always been stationed around Novac in every playthrough for me.
I murdered her on my first playthrough and then just never bothered to see what her character was on later playthroughs. I just figured she was the generic doctor of the town
I bump into her occasionally. It's nice to converse while getting stims despite me knowing all her dialogue
@@yaburu she wanders around novac i mean. Or at least around novac. I've seen her walked between the abandoned houses and what not
@@Ooffoop If you play on PS3 with all the patches, she never moves away from the tent and her guards are removed to help with performance.
She went from implying that she's a chem dealer to "Stop doing chems!" real fast
I was kinda expecting her to force one of the chems you're addicted to in you.
She's a doctor in a wasteland. She wants people addicted to chems, but only if they also have the money to buy treatment from her
pretty most docs in the game will just sell you medx anyway
@@Shellackle no. she's not really chem dealer. she's just smart mouth and jokes about it making fun of drug dealers and addicts.
@@princeofsomnia7664 I'm not saying she's a chem dealer. I'm saying she's a doctor who you can pay to have your addictions cured, so she'd more than likely want you to go out and get addicted to chems, then come to her with money leftover for addiction treatment. And if you don't have the money for treatment she just tells you to piss off, basically
Maam, if i didnt take that turbo the cazadores would have killed me.
If I wasn't trippin my balls off into the next dimension, I wouldn't have been able to slaughter an entire patrol of legionnaires single-handedly with a tire iron.
@@D.H.1082 In white undies
m e n t a t s
If I wasin't doing all this Steady, how then could I have gotten this sweet set of Enclave power armor?
For Cazadores a riot shotgun with dragons breathe is your best friend
Ada: "Oh? Asthma? Alright. Just got the perfect cure."
"JUST BREATHE!"
“ADHD? JUST PAY ATTENTION”
@@f.f5771 6
*shove vacuum cleaner down their throats*
Considering most inhalers have brahmen shit yeah the cure is just fucking die
why didn't they tell this to george floyd :( im literally shakin n cryin rn
Well if you can’t afford the cure, you probably can’t afford more chems. Seems like a problem that solves itself
Problem is that the cure will always be more expensive than the chems, so when you earn enough it's pretty clear where that money's going to go.
Have you seen how much drugs cost in New Vegas?
@@giovi9741 talk about new reno 👀
That's dumber than Dr. Fantasic 😂😂😂🤣🤣 even though it's so true but still.
But yea, chems are cheaper than cures so their easier to fall to
"STOP DOING CHEMS!" We did it boys, Drug addiction is no more
She's not wrong
@@Kryptnyt No, you're very wrong. Do you even know how deep this topic goes? Have you ever stopped to wonder if maybe you don't have the answers for something as complex as this? That you're just ignorant and hateful towards those suffering from a disease?
A disease so powerful, all it takes is the consumption of a chemical, a chemical that completely alters your state of mind and body, depending on the one you take, and drags you down a rabbit hole so deep you can't recognize yourself anymore when you look in the mirror. A disease that has been proven to require that people set aside their entire life for a month or longer and live in an isolated environment, requiring medical care and a complete rewrite of how they think and react to impulse?
Do you really think you know enough about something that powerful and complex, something that kills thousands every year, and ruins the lives of millions and more, enough to say "yeah just quit fucking junkie."
Maybe early on, when you've only used like two or three times, yeah, you've got time to "just stop." Real addiction though, the slippery slope that catches you before you even know it, so badly that there's a miniscule chance of someone predisposed to addiction ever saving themselves from it... That's the beginning of an unstoppable cycle that only rehab, medical care, and support can halt.
I'm a recovered addict, and in rehab we had the privilege of a visit from Dr. Stephen L. Dewey, Ph.D. neuroscientist and research professor from the New York University School of Medicine.
He gave a great lecture on the exact chemistry of the brain when it is under the control of addiction in any form, from caffeine, to video games, to heroin.
He explained exactly why the addict brain is driven almost by instinct to continue using and get the ridiculous levels of dopamine it has adapted to in order for the addict to just make it through the day without getting incredibly ill or enduring seizures even.
And before you say "then just don't start", it's not that simple. People with mental illness and trauma are the most susceptible to addiction, and peer pressure is a proven force that can push someone, especially if they were already mentally unhealthy or unbalanced in some way, towards anything that will ease the pain or quiet the noise in their head.
That combined with poverty, poor communities and the prevelance/normalization of drugs within them, teens experimenting with seemingly harmless light drugs such as weed, and many more factors all play into the cycle of addiction.
It is a hellish, painful, and lonely life.
The mass population of countries such as the USA, where addiction is seen as a person being inherently evil or scummy and having "brought it on themselves" desperately need better education on the topic so we can help these people get well and become functioning members of society.
I urge you to educate yourself and not spread ignorance and hate towards those you know nothing about.
@@treefingers1183 my man really replied to a three-word comment with a whole ass novel
@@treefingers1183 bruh
@@treefingers1183 I tip my hat to you, one monologuist to another.
“Oh you’re addicted to Chems? Just don’t.”
- Gavin Free, in the wasteland.
Have you seen a English man named Gavin?
Rooster Teeth reference I liked that
@@Rouge_GamingYT is that the reference the guy used?
@@JRL_ there’s a rooster teeth podcast episode where Gavin was talking about how he just tries not to get sick and Bernie says "imagine Gavin being a doctor and a patient comes in telling him he’s sick and says oh your sick just don’t" if you want more context watch the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventurers.
@@JRL_ I’ll try and find the RTAA episode for you
Imagine if that genuinely cured your addiction to Jet, Buffout, Turbo, and Steady.
Are you the male version of Julie Farkas?
If you have a high enough speech skill, at least one of the Freeside junkies in the "High Times" quest can be cured this way, although I think we're supposed to interpret it as convincing him to head to Fort Mormon now instead of after taking a bunch of your Fixer (so that he'll use theirs instead).
LOL! “Stop doing chems!”
Brilliant!
“If you’re homeless, just buy a house.”
You can just buy one? And here I am disarming atomic bombs like a sucker!
drug addict cope
4House LOOOOOOOOL
@@cletusawreetus-awrightus2799 do you mean to say "that's just an excuse you junkie", because that's pretty ignorant and insensitive.
I'm a recovered addict, and in rehab we had the privilege of a visit from Dr. Stephen L. Dewey, Ph.D. neuroscientist and research professor from the New York University School of Medicine.
He gave a great lecture on the exact chemistry of the brain when it is under the control of addiction in any form, from caffeine, to video games, to heroin.
He explained exactly why the addict brain is driven almost by instinct to continue using and get the ridiculous levels of dopamine it has adapted to in order for the addict to just make it through the day without getting incredibly ill or enduring seizures even.
And before you say "then just don't start", it's not that simple. People with mental illness and trauma are the most susceptible to addiction, and peer pressure is a proven force that can push someone, especially if they were already mentally unhealthy or unbalanced in some way, towards anything that will ease the pain or quiet the noise in their head.
That combined with poverty, poor communities and the prevelance/normalization of drugs within them, teens experimenting with seemingly harmless light drugs such as weed, and many more factors all play into the cycle of addiction.
It is a hellish, painful, and lonely life.
The mass population of countries such as the USA, where addiction is seen as a person being inherently evil or scummy and having "brought it on themselves" desperately need better education on the topic so we can help these people get well and become functioning members of society.
I urge you to educate yourself and not spread ignorance and hate towards those you know nothing about.
@@treefingers1183 cope
Now I'm a chem addict and my feelings hurt :(
Well hey I have something for hurt feelings. Take these chems...
It’s ok king, ignore her
Profligate.
Here's a couriers secret, "don't yell at a guy holding a loaded gun"
especially a courier who is likely on drugs
@@DeactivatedAccount32871 especially a courier who can kill a deathclaw with a golf club
Especially a Courier who gets turned on when yelled at
Especially a courier with a big iron on his hip, big iron on his hip..
Especially a courier that killed Rawr the Alpha Deathclaw with boxing tape
Wow, Obsidian made a line of dialogue that only appears if you meet this doctor, you are addicted, and you don't even have 50 caps. These guys and girls has so much passion to create such an amazing game in just 18 months. Astonishing! Also, I'm about to start my 3rd playthrough, about 6 years from the last time I played ;)
If it was ever likely to happen, it'd be in the starter town.
@@nottelling6598 This isn't the starter town, though. It's in Novac, which is like the third town you visit (assuming you're following the typical main quest route)
Have fun playing again!
Novac was actually the first town they developed though, which is why some of the lines contradict each other. The main example is Chris Haversam claims to have left vault 34 before everyone turned into a ghoul because he believed he was a ghoul, while the boomers story make it sound like they have been in Nellis for generations. So unless Chris actually is a ghoul with the best skin in the world, the timeline doesn’t match up.
Well something had to be there
She hasn't paid me anything yet, should I be worried?
Maam, if I didn't take that whole crate of Mentats, I wouldn't be able to understand what the hell House was saying to me
That weapon equip noise at the end was perfect.
Is this cut content? Also it's the same voice actress of Violet the dog crazed fiend.
It's not cut content.
My guy waited a whole year to reply
@@paradoxism4232 It really do be like that sometimes
@@paradoxism4232, Better now than never
@@paradoxism4232 Hi
This gal is my favorite doctor in NV. Really one of my favorite characters in NV period. Lol
"She hasn't paid me anything yet... Should I be worried???"
“Stop doing chems!”
“Wow! I’m cured! Thanks doc!”
The "you can't talk about that out in the open!" Line tells me she's also a drug dealer.
Don't want to lose a potential customer after all
Speaking of, what is the general opinion towards drugs in NV, we know the Legion hates them
I don't think there is a general consensus on drugs, really. It ranges from the Khans who literally make drugs, to the Followers who are working hard to get people off drugs. And you you can buy most of them anywhere, and I think you can even find some in NCR barracks, and at Nellis, two factions I figured were straight edge as fuck. So... not illegal, but maybe a bit frowned upon, depending on where you're at, I guess?
Someone put all their points in to perception
Now that's some very specific dialogue for a very specific character in a very specific situation...
I love you even more Fallout New Vegas.
the way people say goodbye in this game always makes me laugh, it's always an abrupt tone shift
In another universe, she'd be a supportive Tsundere sidekick for an unlikely goof-up hero.
been looking for this one LMAO
Lol after she said that I "quicksaved"
The algorithm has blessed your video after 2 years
@Mediocrity good
Even after 600 hours spent in this game i never knew this dialogue existed.
“I don’t believe that (wo)man has ever been to medical school.” - Buzz Lightyear
Almost seems like she would've been a companion
Dlc material?
10 years, and dozens of playthroughs and I'm *STILL* learning new things about this game.
I swear, if M$ has Bethesda make the next Fallout game instead of Obsidian I will lose my goddamn mind.
I had no idea this was in there, I thought I had talked through all of Ada's dialogue, but I guess not!
It sounded like her neck cracked perfectly at the end of saying “later…”
Doc was really poppin off about those rads
She’s like if Veronica actually told funny jokes
Like if Veronica wasn't based off of nerdy basic girls that put effort into being "quirky."
"Stop it. Get some help"
She hasn’t paid me yet. Should I be worried?
God I miss this game but i've played it to hell and back. The best fallout imo.
Omg I'm dying how have I missed this all these years
"Dude, Mardoc rules."
"Eat more pills, pill head."
Most underrated NPC in the game
The weapon equip sound at the end is so menacing
Who needs a medical license when you got style
Dum dum’s: “Get politics out of my video games!”
Obsidian: “hold my beer”
@Peter Parlee-Carr Best friend Tabitha!
The funny thing is Tabitha is smarter than most twitter dum dums.
I mean.... Yes?
The gun sound at the end was so perfect.
You cannot stop me from taking copious amounts of jet
The equipping sound at the end makes this
This has the same energy as lawyer Jim Carrey's "QUIT BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE."
And then just like that due to her secret being outed by the courier all addiction in the wasteland was soon dispelled. Thousands were saved. Many hypothesized that had the courier had not been such a Karen requesting free treatments would the wasteland have been saved.
- Ending slide
literally my favorite character from the whole gamr
God I love this games dialogue
I mean that is how you beat addiction, stop doing the thing you are addicted to.
I thought she was gonna pull a big iron out
She hasn't paid me yet, should I be worried?
Imagine how many more addicts there would be IRL if a doctor could un-addict you at any time. It would actually make things worse, just as it does in the game.
Thanks doc, I can go back to doing more chems now
"lol you addict, just stop doing drugs"
I got this conversation from a glitch. I had tons of caps but for some reason the game only showed the dialogue saying I didn't have 50 caps, so I was kinda forced to trigger this. Every other medical service was working fine, but I couldn't ask for a deintoxication. I had to fast travel all the way back to goodsprings to get rid of addictions
Lmao, i was never broke enough to get that dialogue option. Still finding things in New Vegas that are new to me!
well yeah, can't have anyone suspect that she's dealing
"STOP DOING CHEMS!!!"
"Later."
Glad this videos exist. I can never bring myself to make the evil decisions? So I’d never see these scenarios
this voice line was rather seductive
Dr. Strauss has got that blank “Mike Tyson stare”
This is the only doctor I ever go to in a playthrough so convenient and fun to laugh at
This is what doctors in Vegas are actually like.
business is great, but she still hasn't paid her guards yet. I think they should be worried...
Dr. Ada’s the best.
She’s owes me money, should I be worried
Never seen this before.
New Vegas truly is brimming with secrets.
Well, we did it boys. Chems are no more.
Following that instructions, chems addictions in the wasteland dropped by 0%
Well I think she's a great doctor
I don't believe that womans ever been to med school.
sure she has. it's just the med school was bombed out and she just there scavving for chems.
Wow never knew this
Saw this years ago when i was reading her wiki page for some reason. It is practically impossible to find out about it, who doesn't have 50 caps in this game? Anyway, the fact that the dialogue exists is pretty cool.
@@yanliechocki That's how I found this, reading her dialogue script on the wiki.
"Just be happy!"
Man I would love to see the interaction between her and Hancock xD
Reminds me of the MadTV sketch. “Well, stop it!”
I'm sorry Courier, I don't give credit. Come back when you're a little... Mmmm... RICHER.
Ada has so much damn charm to her.
She makes a good argument
Dr. Strauss has such a great sense of humor; I love her
I bet she also has a miracle cure for depression and anxiety...XDD
I’m starting to think the games longer than I thought also I’m thinking she’s not a doctor
The best part is that in the game files, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even have the doctor NPC class. It’s something really weird like “townsperson” or something.
Dr. Straus is a gem and I wish she was a companion
She has ... interesting ... bedside manners.
As someone who’s been playing this game for so long.
I never noticed this secret.
Ooooh that changes everything
"Stop doing chems!" Said the person who just offered to sell me chems
XD i love this
Fun fact in new Vegas baring the noted outliers of tobacco and ultra jet addiction all other addictions will heal themselves after 30 real time hours not using.
New Vegas has a time scale of 1-20 meaning 1 minute real time 20 game time meaning 600 in game hours or 25 full 24 hour wait cycles taking roughly 30 seconds each means you can clear an addiction in less than 15 minutes real time using the wait function repeatedly
Or here’s a better solution
STOP BEING BROKE!
That was like the Nega version of that "Mikkkeeeyy" lady outside of Hectors trap.
Addiction is real and people die without the stuff they are Addicted to if it's bad enough. Hate the drug, not the addict.
"Later."