But like, it's still a bullet to your head from one meter away. Even if it's small I don't understand how you live that. I have to assume that Benny was so focused on giving his cool speech that he wasn't paying attention, and just grazed the side of the players head with the bullet
You ever just walk around in New Vegas? Imagine being a fucking mailman having to deal with cazadores all day long. After a while it's safe to say the Courier is just built different.
The courier has to pretty much relearn a bunch of stuff despite being assumed to be a good wasteland survivalist before getting his brainpan scrambled by Benny.
It happens. There are lots of edge cases. The bullet goes under the skin but can't penetrate your skull so it skids around the top of the skull and goes flying off the other side. The bullet penetrates but doesn't hit anything important in the brain. Things like that. You can survive a startling amount of head trauma with no obvious negative results, it's just very rare.
Your skull is very very hard, people survive gunshots to the head with varying levels of injury all the time. And the forehead is the hardest part of the skull.
But like, it's still a bullet to your head from one meter away. Even if it's small I don't understand how you live that. I have to assume that Benny was so focused on giving his cool speech that he wasn't paying attention, and just grazed the side of the players head with the bullet
doctor 'take it slow now it aint a race' is a skilled surgeon
You ever just walk around in New Vegas? Imagine being a fucking mailman having to deal with cazadores all day long. After a while it's safe to say the Courier is just built different.
eh, phineas gage took a rod of rebar to the dome and was just an asshole afterwards
maybe the bullet caused brain damage but the damage only impacts your ability to walk diagonally or something
The courier has to pretty much relearn a bunch of stuff despite being assumed to be a good wasteland survivalist before getting his brainpan scrambled by Benny.
Dude carried the spike around with him apparently.
Also from the Wikipedia page it seems like his personality change was likely exaggerated and/or temporary.
It happens. There are lots of edge cases. The bullet goes under the skin but can't penetrate your skull so it skids around the top of the skull and goes flying off the other side. The bullet penetrates but doesn't hit anything important in the brain. Things like that. You can survive a startling amount of head trauma with no obvious negative results, it's just very rare.
Your skull is very very hard, people survive gunshots to the head with varying levels of injury all the time. And the forehead is the hardest part of the skull.