I nodded, unable to respond with the shish kebob still in my mouth. My stomach was rumbling. I sucked up a bit of escaping drool and was hit by the flavors of barbecued rabbit. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting, and made my stomach do an odd lurch, but it was good!
“Littlepip…” Velvet raised her hoof to her chest in exaggerated offense. “That’s meat!”
“uhf-huf,” I mouthed through my breakfast, hoping in vain that having established this fact, I would be allowed to eat in peace…
Fallout Equestria: Chapter Twelve - Must Go On.
Actually, that Perk is originally from the Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3, which came out May 5 2009, whereas New Vegas came out October 19 2010.
Though Rad Absorption is functionally identical in both games, so your point still stands.
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That’s why RadAways were made.
That and the “Rad Absorption” perk in Fallout:NV.