If you get milk, a Nord should randomly appear, say 'Milk drinker!' then dissappear. Your weapon damage is reduced by 10% for being such a [censored], you snowbacked milkdrinker!

Actually, that's another phrase I didn't understand, 'snowbacked'. My mind went somewhere sixual, but that's probably neither here nor there.

Actually, there is a pretty easy way. You look at the game world and notice that they really don't drink much water. That should tell you a lot about it.

You could just sit there and claim it's an omission on the part of the devs, or you could take it at face value and realize that there's probably a good reason they don't drink much water.

Absolutely, as I think I said if you were way out in the wilderness at a cold stream high up then yeah you'd get away with it. In general though the people who would benefit from that would be those who lived on the fringes of society. In any culture where people gather in groups and live, any water would be pretty much [censored] fairly sharpish because we are at heart fairly grubby individuals.
It's not that i even disagree with you actually it's just I can't fully agree with you.
If that makes sense?

But that reasoning could be used to prove anything. That people in Skyrim have no bladders etc. etc.
Just because something isn't added into the game does not prove something doesn't exist on Nirn. I'm sure there are books describing people drinking water and stuff.

No, that's argument ad absurdam - they drink ale and mead. It's NOT that they don't drink, it's just that they drink very specific and actually historically accurate things.

But they never actually do the toilet.. Which would suggest people in Nirn do not have bladders by that reasoning. And that children were immortal (which they aren't actually, they die in books and such). And that some people in Skyrim could go for years without eating, drinking or moving (AI bugs usually).

Actually, the fact that there are bathrooms everywhere (if you know what you're looking at) says that they do have bladders.

No it says the have bathrooms, the fact they don't use them suggests they don't. You stated that because people drank ale etc. in the game and water was not sold it meant people did not drink water due to bacteria within it (or something along those lines) which is a preposterous statement. To say people don't use bathrooms on Nirn simply because they don't in the game (for obvious reasons) is also preposterous. Children obviously must drink milk and water on Nirn, they might not in the game, but they still do if you understand me.

I can't trust a milk-drinker.

Water always needs to be purified before drinking. No matter the climate or speed of the current it's traveling, parasites and bacteria are always present.

Even unfiltered milk isn't is safe as most people assume.

1. The evidence of bathroom facilities implies they use bathrooms. Unless - (like birds) - everyone on Nirn has one single orifice for passing waste it's reasonable to assume that they have - like us - an anus for solids, and a urethra for liquids.
2. It's very likely that people would not drink water because it would make them sick. They would drink mead and ale because it did not make them sick. This is implied in the game world with a reasonable degree of clarity.
3. One of your statements appears to contradict another of your statements re bathrooms.
4. Whilst undoubtedly children up to a certain age were svckled at the teat, they is no evidence to suggest that they would have been given water. - (in fact it is a fact that IRL children were also given beer to drink rather than water).

What you have to realise is that social mores regarding beer were not the same in earlier and indeed are not the same in many cultures in the present time.

No it's not implied in the game world. Other than the fact people don't drink water. But like I said people don't physically use the bathroom in Skyrim either, does that mean they don't have bladders

They have bathrooms so that means they use them ? They have water so that means they drink it ?

You're contradicting yourself as well.

Find me an in-game book that states people drink mead and ale because water is diseased, I'm certain I've read books where people have drank water.

Why must people post falsities as "obvious" facts? In the middle ages even children would have had beer or mead to drink.

Let us not forget that most beer was highly diluted for general consumption. No town or settlement would have lasted for very long had everyone been hammered all the time.

Higher proof alcohol wasn't consumed all that often, except during celebrations and for those winding down after full day of work. Children, of course, never got the higher alcohol content.

Ah, ok, I concede lol.

ty for that link, interesting stuff.

[tired sigh]... But this isn't the Middle Ages. This isn't even Earth.


It's the Fourth Era in Tamriel, on the planet of Nirn.

You are employing an absurd argument to attempt to prove a point that you cannot prove.
There is ale and mead for sale in the gameworld and not water. There are toilets, go figure.

Absolutely, I completely agree with you.
Our concept of "beer" and their concept of "beer" are very different things.

So...what about other drinks besides water? Jazybay juice anyone?

Adding some non-alcholic drinks should be an easy thing to do so I don't see why they shouldn't do it. Strange is wasn't included in the first place really.

Your argument is just as absurd.. People do not use the bathroom in the game. You're stating that because there are toilets they use them.
I'm stating that because there is water people drink it. It's the EXACT same logic.

Aside from magic, trolls, elves and other magical elements, Skyrim is basically medieval Earth.
It's actually quite different logic. The toilets are safe to poop in, but the water is not safe to drink. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's useable; there are dragons in the game, why can't we ride them?

Apple juice, tomato juice etc. etc. Lots of different types of non-alcoholic drinks would be a nice addition.

Also, why not just make it so that drinking water from the wild has a chance of making us sick? Fallout has a similar mechanic based on radiation sickness. This could just give you a chance of getting sick. I think that woild solve everyone's issues with this matter on both sides

Yes because medieval Earth was populated by 10 different races. With a completely different ecosystem. I mean it's very slightly similar to medieval Earth, based on it, but it's important to remember it's not.