NeoGAF user water_wendi started a couple of playthroughs in Fallout: New Vegas before deciding to try a complete pacifist run. Fifty-one hours later, he finished the game, with no humans nor animals harmed in the making of his story.

He thinks it's possible to go 70 hours in this game without killing anyone, too, calculating about 2 to 3 hours on a sidequest where kills aren't necessary, and another 10 if you explore and loot everything. All told, he's logged about 100 hours in the game, and is putting it away for now.

It's impressive, but left unsaid is how many times, if any, he found a gun in a locker and just said the hell with it, blew someone's head off, and reloaded his previous gamesave. Or maybe he really was as pure as his messiah rating proclaims.

[NeoGAF via Joystiq]

So, we've seen tributes to Star Wars, Blade Runner (actually, a carry-over of a Fallout and Fallout 2 reference to that movie) and we know there's one for Indiana Jones in Fallout: New Vegas. That's three. There must be more.

Reader Paige B. just sent that in; the "Rodent of Unusual Size" is a nod to "The Princess Bride." Spot on!

Just for the record, here's the fedora-in-a-fridge, well early in the game, supplied by reader TheTingler. Many of you have seen and mentioned this. It makes fun of the infamous and implausible scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Han Solo Jack Ryan President James Marshall Calista Flockhart's husband survives a nukeular blast by hiding in the Norge.

As we're about a week into release, we should be seeing many, if not most, of these kinds of homages in New Vegas. Post them here, screenshots if you can dig 'em up, or just gab about any other ironic or darkly humorous detail that tweaks your funnybone in the latest Fallout installment.

We've seen an homage to Owen and Beru Lars, now reader Zack F. has found Deckard's gun in Blade Runner - called "That Gun" in-game - in Fallout: New Vegas. The sidearm has a street value of 900 caps.

Zack says he picked it up in Novac. Here's an alternate view; Zack dropped it so we could see its name and cap value.

Edit: I've been advised by reader Marcus that it's called "That Gun" because that was the name of the Lone Wanderer's weapon in Fallout and in Fallout 2. Which was an homage to Deckard's weapon. Either way, still cool.

When Obsidian slip a little Star Wars into Fallout: New Vegas.

Reader Jon was on the ol' dusty trail outside of Nipton when he ran into these two corpses, named after Luke Skywalker's very dead uncle and aunt from Star Wars: Episode IV.

Now all we need is for somebody to find Tosche Station somewhere in the game and we're good to go!

[thanks Jon!]

You can call the devices the U.S. Army is testing out at Fort Dix in New Jersey wrist mounted phosphorescent OLED Displays is you want. We're calling them PIPBoys.

What the gentleman in the photo here is looking at is one of eight wrist mounted phosphorescent OLED Displays delivered to the U.S. Army for testing by Universal Display. The organic light emitting diode display is mounted on thin, flexible metal foil, which in turn is mounted on a wrist-wrapping housing to create a fully functional display and communication device.

Aren't they beautiful?

LG Display created the 4.3" QVGA full-color, full-motion AMOLED displays using amorphous-Silicon TFT backplanes crafted on flexible foil. Then Universal Display used its full-color PHOLED technology to create the front plane. The entire unit was designed and implemented by L-3 Display Systems.

The devices were presented to the military for evaluation and testing, and were showcased at the U.S. Army's C4ISR On-the-Move testing environment last month at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where they received positive feedback by senior leaders who make critical research, development and acquisition investment decisions.

I would wear one of these 24 hours a day. My wrist would become a pale, sweaty mass of matted hair.

That's probably not a good thing.

It's just another fine example of PIPBoy technology in real life. All we need now is a devastating nuclear war, and in a couple of centuries we'll be playing Fallout for real!

UDC Delivers Wrist-Mounted Flexible PH-OLED Display Prototypes to U.S. Army [OLED-Display via DVICE]

Would a nuclear war really lead to the sort of desolate, post-apocalyptic wasteland found in the Fallout series? GameTrailers tapped renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to find out.

My personal favorite misconception about life after a nuclear war is the idea that the world will be overrun with radioactive mutants. As Dr. Kaku points out, it doesn't really work this way. Radioactivity has a much better chance of killing you dead than turning you into a young man with the proportionate strength of a spider.

Mutants are entertaining though, which is why they show up in games like Fallout or comics like Spider-Man. Peter Parker wouldn't be any fun at all if he were bitten by a radioactive spider, lost all of his hair, and then died.

Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) are set in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world, where mankind lies despondent after a devastating atomic holocaust. Fantasy it may be, but it's based on real science; question is, just how real is it?

Futirist and TV personality Dr. Michio Kaku explains in this short clip for Spike which, whackjob political predictions aside, gives us all a pretty good primer on just why everyone in the Fallout universe is so damn miserable.

And poorly-dressed.

Fallout: New Vegas will include a gambling minigame called "Caravan," which is a form of head-to-head blackjack. Bethesda's released the rules of the game, which you can play with a standard deck. And for caps, if you like.

IGN has the full set of rules. Summarized, Caravan requires two standard decks of 52 to play, and the objective is to build sets of cards with combined values between 21 and 26.

A special deck depicting the factions of Fallout: New Vegas will be a part of the game's collector's edition when it releases Oct. 22. For purposes of playing cards, it's the same as any other deck, so you don't have to wait for that to arrive. Hit the link to get a head start on your Caravan strategy. It may come in handy.

Fallout: New Vegas - Betting on a Caravan [IGN]

The achievement set for Fallout: New Vegas got out on Friday, courtesy of the fine folks at Xbox360Achievements.org. You can get a look at some of the quest names and diversions featured in the game.

There are 50 achievements for 1,000 Gamerscore in all. The trophy list has yet to be posted at PS3 Trophies.org, so I don't know what the trophy color equivalence is.

Fallout: New Vegas Achievements [Xbox360Achievements.org]

• New Kid (10)
Reach 10th level.

•Up and Comer (20)
Reach 20th level.

•The Boss (30)
Reach 30th level.

•Ol' Buddy Ol' Pal (10)
Recruit any companion.

•The Whole Gang's Here (25)
Recruit all companions.

•Crafty (15)
Craft 20 items.

•Mod Machine (15)
Install 20 weapon mods.

•Walker of the Mojave (10)
Discover 50 locations.

•Master of the Mojave (25)
Discover 125 locations.

•Globe Trotter (25)
Discover all snow globes.

•You Run Barter Town (15)
Sell 10,000 caps worth of goods.

•Blast Mastery (15)
Cause 10,000 damage with Energy Weapons.

•Love the Bomb (15)
Cause 10,000 damage with Explosives.

•Lead Dealer (15)
Cause 10,000 damage with Guns.

•No Tumbler Fumbler (15)
Pick 25 locks.

•Stim-ply Amazing (15)
Heal 10,000 points of damage with Stimpaks.

•New Vegas Samurai (15)
Cause 10,000 damage with Melee Weapons.

•Jury Rigger (15)
Repair 30 items.

•Hack the Mojave (15)
Hack 25 terminals.

•Artful Pocketer (15)
Pick 50 pockets.

•Outstanding Orator (15)
Make 50 Speech challenges.

•Desert Survivalist (15)
Heal 10,000 points of damage with food.

•Old-Tyme Brawler (15)
Cause 10,000 damage with Unarmed weapons.

•Know When to Fold Them (10)
Win 3 games of Caravan.

•One Armed Bandit (10)
Play 10 spins of Slots.

•Little Wheel (10)
Play 10 spins of Roulette.

•Double Down (10)
Play 10 hands of Blackjack.

•Caravan Master (30)
Win 30 games of Caravan.

•The Courier Who Broke the Bank (30)
Get banned from all the Strip's casinos.

•Hardcore (100)
Play the game from start to finish in Hardcore Mode.

•Ain't That a Kick in the Head (10)
Complete Ain't That a Kick in the Head.

•They Went That-a-Way (25)
Complete They Went That-a-Way.

•Ring-a-Ding-Ding (25)
Complete Ring-a-Ding-Ding.

•The House Always Wins (30)
Complete The House Always Wins.

•For the Republic (30)
Complete For the Republic.

•Render Unto Caesar (30)
Complete Render Unto Caesar.

•Wild Card (30)
Complete Wild Card.

•All or Nothing (15)
Complete All or Nothing.

•Veni, Vidi, Vici (15)
Complete Veni, Vidi, Vici.

•Eureka! (15)
Complete Eureka!

•No Gods, No Masters (15)
Complete No Gods, No Masters.

•Come Fly With Me (20)
Complete Come Fly With Me.

•Talent Pool (20)
Complete Talent Pool.

•Return to Sender (20)
Complete Return to Sender.

•Arizona Killer (20)
Complete Arizona Killer.

•You'll Know It When It Happens (20)
Complete You'll Know It When It Happens.

•G.I. Blues (20)
Complete G.I. Blues.

•That Lucky Old Sun (20)
Complete That Lucky Old Sun.

•Volare! (20)
Complete Volare!

•The Legend of the Star (20)
Complete The Legend of the Star.

Fallout casemods for the Xbox 360 are great, but you can do so much more with a PC.

Reader Ryan passed this along when he saw the Xbox 360 mod we posted the other day, saying he thought we'd be interested in it. Well yes, Ryan, we are interested in it.