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So, the main character, aka you, gets shot in the head, buried, and then somehow survives this ordeal in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with no hospitals, no sanitary medical equipment (or no medical equipment at all), but apparently some ghoul leakin' his ghoul juices and flakin' his ghoul skin in your wound, which you shouldn't have survived in the first place in a rinky dink shack manages to fix you up? Am I the only one not buying it?

Don't give me that "Science!" bullshit either, I'm sick of that excuse.

I'm going out on a limb here: this ghoul is a mechanic, you've been shot in the head... I wouldn't be surprised if you find out through the main quest that you are a robot or something. That's all.
 
People survive being shot in the head all the time.

Depends on the trajectory, bullet type, distance, angle of the head and whole bunch of other variables that I'm too tired and drunk to think about.

However, Secret Robot Protagonist sounds fun.
 
People have survived rifle shots to the head, so I can buy surviving a bullet to the head. Hell, a man survived getting a metal bar stuck on his head. So it's unlikely, but certainly possible. Of course the probability of surviving goes down when there aren't modern medical facilities, but still, it's possible.
He was very lucky, that's all.
 
I read a thing in psychology where a guy building railroads in America in the late 1800's had a steel pole blown clean through his head and brain. He survived, but the injury drastically changed his personality and made him angry, short tempered and lazy
 
verevoof said:
So, the main character, aka you, gets shot in the head, buried, and then somehow survives this ordeal in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with no hospitals, no sanitary medical equipment (or no medical equipment at all), but apparently some ghoul leakin' his ghoul juices and flakin' his ghoul skin in your wound, which you shouldn't have survived in the first place in a rinky dink shack manages to fix you up? Am I the only one not buying it?
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Uh, are you a blonde?

You are shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave. The robot digs you out and brings you to a Vault doctor Mitchell, who puts you back together.
 
verevoof said:
So, the main character, aka you, gets shot in the head, buried, and then somehow survives this ordeal in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with no hospitals, no sanitary medical equipment (or no medical equipment at all), but apparently some ghoul leakin' his ghoul juices and flakin' his ghoul skin in your wound, which you shouldn't have survived in the first place in a rinky dink shack manages to fix you up? Am I the only one not buying it?

Don't give me that "Science!" bullshit either, I'm sick of that excuse.

I'm going out on a limb here: this ghoul is a mechanic, you've been shot in the head... I wouldn't be surprised if you find out through the main quest that you are a robot or something. That's all.
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There are countless exampels where soldiers in various conflicts including WW1, WW2, Vietnam etc. survived more or less serious head shoots and wounds. Of course the possibility to survive it today have a bit increased.

Theres I think a story in Band of Brothers where a solder gets hit in the head from a 45. and they get a German specialist for brain surgery to help him and he survived. From what I know its based somewhat on a true story.

First we do not know how severe the wound is. Depending on how it hit the head there is a good possibility to survive it as it might have cracked the skull but left the brain more or less undamanged. And that explained with the fact how medications are working in Fallout, remember we are talking about a setting that has cryo technology, mutations and such things it is not unimaginable to survive it eventualy.

Aphyosis said:
I read a thing in psychology where a guy building railroads in America in the late 1800's had a steel pole blown clean through his head and brain. He survived, but the injury drastically changed his personality and made him angry, short tempered and lazy
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I think I have read something similar but I seriously doubt that it pierced the skull AND brain completely. Now we are going in urban myths or something ;) ?
 
verevoof said:
So, the main character, aka you, gets shot in the head, buried, and then somehow survives this ordeal in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with no hospitals, no sanitary medical equipment (or no medical equipment at all), but apparently some ghoul leakin' his ghoul juices and flakin' his ghoul skin in your wound, which you shouldn't have survived in the first place in a rinky dink shack manages to fix you up? Am I the only one not buying it?

Don't give me that "Science!" bullshit either, I'm sick of that excuse.

I'm going out on a limb here: this ghoul is a mechanic, you've been shot in the head... I wouldn't be surprised if you find out through the main quest that you are a robot or something. That's all.
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You are mixing Doc Mitchell with Raul the mechanic.

How did he survive infections and the like? Harsh enviroment, survival of the fittest. People in the middle ages sometimes survived even worse wounds or diseases. At least in the Fallout world real medicinals and medical knowledge exist.

Edit. http://www.cracked.com/article_18429_6-soldiers-who-survived-shit-that-would-kill-terminator.html
 
Alright, alright, I'm confusing people.

I don't care if he's a Vault doctor or not. The chances of survival is slim, but it's just fiction. Meh, whatever.

About that whole railroad guy with the brain piercing: depending on what part of the brain is damaged, it is possible to live. Ever hear of lobotomies?
 
verevoof said:
Alright, alright, I'm confusing people.

I don't care if he's a Vault doctor or not. The chances of survival is slim, but it's just fiction. Meh, whatever.

About that whole railroad guy with the brain piercing: depending on what part of the brain is damaged, it is possible to live. Ever hear of lobotomies?
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while both are a damage to the head ~ lobotomisation is forbiden in Germany you really cant compare a precise surgical intervention with someone shooting a bolt piercing his skull and brain ... if it just would graze the brain eventualy or stop before it hits some very vital part yeah thats something I could believe. But completely piercing it ? Wich area of the brain is not important anyway. I heard about people that survived cancer where a substantial mass of the brain got removed and could more or less have a normal live without mental restrictions altough they had almost always to deal with movement dissorders of some form. But again this worked only cause of very precise medical treatment. A rather small apoplexia is already causing a lot of havoc in the brain and thats just a damaged capillary. I dont want to imagine what kind of damage a bolt with enough force to pierce the whole skull and brain would do. Dunno. I am sure it is also possible to survive a straight shoot from a 7,96mm or 50cal piercing the skull and brain ...

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Hmm ... well I guess I have to reconsider some of my speculations
Though I thought it would have hit him from the front not from the bottom.
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I can't remember a single Fallout where I didn't survive at least five dozen headshots through the game.

Hell, I can't remember the last time I played that you'd die from a single headshot.

And there is so much we don't know in this case.

Severity of the wound, medical skill of the doctor, small arms skill of the shooter...

Does the robot has the grave digger perk?
 
big brother said:
I can't remember a single Fallout where I didn't survive at least five dozen headshots through the game.

Hell, I can't remember the last time I played that you'd die from a single headshot.

And there is so much we don't know in this case.

Severity of the wound, medical skill of the doctor, small arms skill of the shooter...

Does the robot has the grave digger perk?
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Most that`s certainly important issue.

It is possible to survive head shot but not very common.
 
big brother said:
I can't remember a single Fallout where I didn't survive at least five dozen headshots through the game.

Hell, I can't remember the last time I played that you'd die from a single headshot.

And there is so much we don't know in this case.

Severity of the wound, medical skill of the doctor, small arms skill of the shooter...

Does the robot has the grave digger perk?
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Well its not like those old games have been very specific about that though. YOu could always imagine that it was a graze wound or something similar.

At least with sniper and other weapons I had many times head shoot killing my targets and with the railgun from F2 not even enemies in Powerarmor are save if you aim for the eyes. I always thought that a critical wound here would be a clear head shoot.

The only times I seen them survive many headshots was ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEqcRtVVpk[/youtube]

( awesome even after so much time it was still easy to find that video by just searching for Fallout 3 Fps )
 
He is just very, very lucky when it comes down to it.

No one is saying he could just brush it off. But it's certainly not impossible.

I'll start calling bullshit only when there's footage of Victor collecting chunks of head.
 
A friend of mine shot hisself in the head a few years ago. Even a piece of the brain was destroyed etc. But after a few months in hospital he was still the same guy like before.

So it really depends on your luck, the size of the bullet, the "pressure" etc if one can survive such an injury.
 
What if the character only got shot away his nostril, what if your brain is just dumped in an android shell, or inside some K-9 ?
Heck, a dude even survived the bloody mess perk :
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