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Andy Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:51pm
Ghouls still need to eat, right?
No spoilers, but there's at least one ghoul character in the game who has been in an isolated spot for 200 years. I'm sure there are others like this too.

I don't know what the lore says about ghoul physiology. I know they won't die of old age, but what about eating?
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My Name Is Not Quaid Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:57pm 
He probably just subsided on hair and fingernails.
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Von Faustien Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:59pm 
glowing ones live of radiation so maybe the normal ones can too?
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Syntax Error Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:59pm 
He knew he was going there and there's food in his room. Presumably he stocked up.
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leadmecca Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:00pm 
It's sort of light zombification. Most bodily functions cease except for speech, thinking, sight somehow and mobility. I see ferals seemingly feeding off brahmin and corpses constantly but that might just be the need to feed instinct left in them, what they eat just goes through the body somehow.
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Gracey Face Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:01pm 
There are hints that ghouls dont need to eat. For instance the classy ghoul from the Sierra Madre DLC who's name I forget even flat out mentions that he doesnt actually know if he needs to eat or not, which is kind of silly, you know that you need to eat.

Ghouls do not experience life in the same way that people do.
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Andy Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:02pm 
Originally posted by Useless!:
There are hints that ghouls dont need to eat. For instance the classy ghoul from the Sierra Madre DLC who's name I forget even flat out mentions that he doesnt actually know if he needs to eat or not, which is kind of silly, you know that you need to eat.

Ghouls do not experience life in the same way that people do.

Oh yeah Dean Domino. He was living off that awful paste stuff he made. But I remember him saying that he wasn't sure if it was necessary.
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lpnlizard27 Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:04pm 
they can eat if they want to but to sustain "life" functions they do not.
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mrmike_49 Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:05pm 
yeah, actually pretty stupid to live 200 yrs in a fridge
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Von Faustien Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:06pm 
Originally posted by mrmike_49:
yeah, actually pretty stupid to live 200 yrs in a fridge
even if you dont need food youd be a little insane wouldnt you? kid didnt even have a magazine
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Rafael Freeman Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:09pm 
They get their energy from radioactivity. Plants use photosynthesis to transform light into chemical energy. Ghouls have a similar process for radioactivity.

Their bodies regenerate using this energy. In their pre-ghoul state they have the genetic mutation that allows their bodies to convert radiation in chemical energy and they need the genetic mutation for regeneration. People without these two related genetic mutations will just die from prolonged exposure to radiation.

The necessary genes are inactive until they are mutated by exposure to radiation at which time part of the body of the pre-ghoul will have been corrupted. In some ghouls the corruption is limited to the exterior, in other ghouls vital organs are effected and either the brain will be directly damaged or the brain will be deprived of oxygen before they have become complete ghouls.
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My Name Is Not Quaid Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:11pm 
Originally posted by jrr101:
Originally posted by mrmike_49:
yeah, actually pretty stupid to live 200 yrs in a fridge
even if you dont need food youd be a little insane wouldnt you? kid didnt even have a magazine

Quite frankly I'm amazed that his family didn't find him considering he's literally only a stones throw from his house. 200 years and nobody (besides family) got close enough for him to call out?
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Elizabello Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:12pm 
Its pointless to try to explain Betshesdas bs away. They clearly made it with no lore in mind.
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My Name Is Not Quaid Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:12pm 
Originally posted by Elizabello:
Its pointless to try to explain Betshesdas bs away. They clearly made it with no lore in mind.

Yep just another 'filler' sidequest.
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Von Faustien Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:13pm 
well i had to find a locket for ghost in fallout 2 thats more out of place than fridge kid
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Rafael Freeman Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:14pm 
Originally posted by jrr101:
Originally posted by mrmike_49:
yeah, actually pretty stupid to live 200 yrs in a fridge
even if you dont need food youd be a little insane wouldnt you? kid didnt even have a magazine

The changed metabolism of ghouls allows for hibernation with only a tiny part of the brain active for processing signals from the environment.

This is why feral ghouls often become active when somebody approaches after they have been immobile for days or longer.

So the kid probably experienced the whole thing as a slumber with short moments of awareness.


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