Something else to note. He's not just selling houses, he builds them for you. He's taking a complete loss on labor in the earlier games (newest one you do some building too of course)
This is quite the twist for the FNAF timeline, I've always suspected that Tom Nook was William Afton all along but never got around to put the pieces together so I went back to count animatronic toes like a fool, great job solving the deepest lore MatPat!
@@personexisting123 guy mentioned FNAF in his comment dude. don't pretend the last five videos he put out were about Animal Crossing. Just because this video isn't about an indie game doesn't invalidate what I said.
There is a very strong and fairly unsurprising trend of Japanese games matching in game currency almost perfectly to the yen, and yet it's one that Matt remains oblivious to
My theory is that, Tom being a Tanuki, instead of a raccoon, might have thought about the dangers of the island and, being a tanuki himself, is simply using his supernatural abilities to keep the island completely safe. This is why, even if you fast-forward the clock 10,000 years in the future, everything is still completely fine regardless of what else might happen in the world,
Pretty sure Gajin Goomba already did a video on Tom Nook being a Tanuki. Even the animal crossing Wiki states his a Tanuki. Can't really; be a theory if it's already proven.
You are also forgetting that everything is bought THROUGH NOOK WITH NOOK'S CURRENCY. This means that you can only sell to him, can only buy through him, and the money is worthless outside of his island. He is running a closed network where he is basically ripping you off on countless levels.
It’s also worth considering that as a tanuki, all the furniture Tom Nook sells you in the entire series is nothing more than plain, ordinary leaves disguised to look like actual items. You all think you’re buying super expensive stuff, but it’s nothing more than yard trimmings with a little yokai magic mixed in. You can see the leaves when you pick up or place down a furniture item, it’s even his store logo!
This exactly! Nothing in your Animal Crossing town is real. That includes the houses. In truth, you're wandering around a deserted island with nothing on it hallucinating buildings, townsfolk, and everything else. But hey, that's just a theory. A GAME Theory!
I really wished you dived into Nook's backstory you get in Wild World after building a relationship with the Able Sisters. Particularly with Sable who’s sowing in the back. She and Nook are actually childhood friends and revealed that he was once conned when he moved to a big city to chase his dream.
As well as the fact that Nook raised Timmy and Tommy, two orphans. The twins are so grateful to him that they decide to work for him. If you were a selfish greedy businessman, you would not go out of your way to save some random children you find on your doorstep
I got on board the Animal Crossing train waaaaayyyy late and had always heard the tales of what a crook Tom was. I was surprised then when I actually started playing and found him not to be terrible at all and imo very fair with his upgrades and offers. Kept waiting for him to turn into an evil overlord, but has yet to happen.
Listen man. If tom nook can expand your house without you knowing, build an entire museum, build a clothes shop, a general market which has a seemingly infinite supply of wooden tools and DIY recipes, bridges, or an entire neighborhood in 24 GOD DAMN HOURS, I think he deserves the money, for both the house, and the insane labor.
@@Hamantha Ppl always forgetting this is a theory is so baffling to me, theories are not supposed to be FACT for a reason, which means it’s fine to omit things to prove a silly theory you have, I don’t get why ppl hate on him so much for this
It amazes me how long it took for Mat to realize bells were equivalent to Yen... the currency of the country the game was made in, and obviously close to the same scale. I wonder when he'll figure out what pokemon money is equivalent to...
I miss when the dialogue was more unhinged. While I love how popular New Horizons was, the earlier games and the chaos you can cause was more realistic
I actually remember hearing somewhere before that Bells were equivalent to Japanese yen, so I'd already known the prices were actually way lower than they seemed, but this was a great explanation of it!
This man uploads two FNAF videos back to back and holds off on the third one, absolutely genius. The carrot dangling over the pig’s face to keep interest. That being said, when will the next one be out Matt?
They said something about not wanting to split it into four parts, so part 3 would be a massive episode. That means a lot of editing and such, so just be patient 😂
Alternative title, Mattpat spends almost 15 minutes not considering that housing prices scale WAAAAAAY differently in Japan than they do in the US due to far more permissive zoning laws than in the US.
@@adsasfasfasfsddddddd it's not racism to want your country to look after itself first and foremost. It never was. That's actually how great civilisations get built that improve the whole world.
Those measurements of the house being 900 sq ft make sense. I kept being frustrated that I could fit more in my IRL apartment (900 something sq ft) than I could in the huge house in the game. I always attributed it to the grid system & not being able to utilize the vertical space & bookcases as much as we should.
Note to self: if a game comes out of Japan with some fantasy currency and doesn't also include yen, that fantasy currency invariably equals 1 yen per unit.
Matpat: *Using the metrical system to measure the inhouse grid* Me: "Oh, Matpat uses the metres now? Now that certainly is a step forward!" Matpat: *Goes back to imperial* Me: *Slight pain*
I’m a guy who actually like Nook. While yes, the dude bill’s you an absurd amount of money, at LEAST he doesn’t ask you to pay him that. He’ll just let you pay him when you think your ready. Much like Mr. Nogami said at 2:41
God I'm cracking up at the thought of this guy who doesn't even know Matt well enough to spell his name properly not only getting into contact with him and getting him to rate his music, but getting him to say "fire" casually as part of that rating.
I love that he’s willing to take brunt of all the rumours just so he can teach everyone about responsibility. He’s letting his reputation be tarnished just so he can make sure everyone gets the best. I love him so so much - he’s one of the most misunderstood mischaracterised characters ever, I think. “Why, I’ve personally donated over 90% of my earned bells to an orphanage three towns over. I’ve heard folks believe I’m a ruthless and heartless businessman. This is not true, and not just because I am a raccoon and not a man, yes, yes. Hm, perhaps I can see the value of having a boogeyman everyone can unite against. Or in my case, a boogeycritter. But paying one’s debts is important! If I must be villainised in my pursuit of teaching, then so be it!” Sweetest guy ever
5:44 Ah, yes. Tropical island where you have 4 seasons, snows every December-February, and have the biodiversity of Japan. Can't get more tropical than that.
Dang I got really excited to see a breakdown of the cost of labor, and materials we put into the island. Maybe even an estimation of the island's worth at the prestige increases to see exactly how much value we bring to the island, but I get that would a lot to look into
10:45 Matt: "Maybe this a lesson for us to stop overthinking." Probably every other human watching this: Matt, that's literally what this channel is about.
I really wish more theories were played straight. It takes a lot out of things when I come to the first wrap up of a video and without looking at the timestamp, still know the video isn't over because Matpat always makes his videos contain a reversal.
Yeah especially when the twist is just wrong. At least for me, if he donates 90% of his profit, it's not really a bad thing if he ends up making a lot of money. I mean, the player chooses to go to the island and get a house, and it's never said (that I know of) that the prices of later houses are upcharged, it's just assumed for the twist. Someone else also said that he's magical and can protect the island from danger, and that if you go 1000 years into the future it's still fine in-game, but I didn't play the game so I'm not sure. If it is true though, then it completely debunks his twist too.
I love these theories, I also do love in depth lore series but the videos of some weird questions like just finding out the property value of animal crossing houses really does remind me of the classic game theory days
But is the 5,6 million yen house cheap in Japan? That's the question a true theorist would ask. And you know what else a true theorist would ask? For a Rusty Lake episode.
Honestly, yeah, that is cheap. Japan is known for having "disposable homes," with the average home being demolished within 38 years of it being built, yet the price for housing is still fairly high. Doing a little research, beachfront property in a popular beach destination in Japan (Miyakojima) gives the average buying price of $2185/m2 for a house in its suburbs and $3062/m2 square for an apartment in the city center so given a 91 sqm house, it would cost $198,835 (approximately ¥19,883,500) for a house in the suburbs up to $278,642 (¥27,864,200) for an apartment in the city. I had also looked at the price for rental in the same city and averaging the cost per square meter the cost for renting a 91 sqm place for one year equates to roughly ¥1,173,900. Renting for 5 years will put you past the ¥5.6 million for an outright purchase.
there is one other thing I want to bring up... and that is.. the nook store. More importantly, the online nook store in game. Tom has probably got a sweet deal when it comes to you, the player, buying stuff over the Nook Shop App in game. Honestly, with how things are run, Tom Nook makes way more money than he loses from the property costs. I mean NOOK is a brand name in universe....
Mat: Proves that Tom Nook is giving us an amazing deal Me: Omg finally they dont think hes a villian anymo- Mat: But maybe this is just part of a bigger scam
DANG IT MP; WHY MUST YOU KEEP FUELING THE BLATENT SLANDER AGAINST TOM NOOK?!!! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GIVE TOM NOOK THE APPRECIATION & RESPECT HE DESERVES; AND YOU KEEP FUELING HIS HATEDOM!!
13:34 matpat: “i guess we can always try to make it all up on the resale?” to quote hbomberguy’s climate change video, “who are you going to sell it to? aquaman???”
Is no-one going to mention the fact that Mat didn't mention the LOOOOOOORRREEEEE behind Tom Nook? Seriously, the fact that Matthew didn't mention his (Tom's) backstory genuinely annoys me (a bit) but if he does make another theory about Tom Nook I hope he mentions said backstory.
And just think... if it's in Japanese yen, and you look at Japanese average home prices now? It's still like 1/6th the price! Love this theory man, nice angle!
Matpat left out a couple things: 1. How easy making money is. Even if just dig up the four fossils on your island each day you're making bank. 2. New Horizons allows you to unlock magical terraforming powers. Come at me, rising ocean! (And that's assuming this is even an issue in the AC world. )
All of this fun video aside, I really hope Matt and Stephanie have been able to buy a house. They deserve to own a house. They've worked hard, taught us cool stuff, and genuinely tried to make this world a better place.
And yet he also gives us the power of growing and digging land mass, ultimately giving us the ability to put our own houses, along with other homes and buildings we want, on cliffsides or surrounded by inland sea water if we so please. Tom gave us the ability late in the game, but he did so thinking we could make the island more appealing to other visitors... Somehow. Simply put everyone's houses highest on the island, and we avoid this sea level problem altogether
Not to be *that* guy or anything... but is part 3 coming out like soon? I'm invested. I know you have to split em up to the algorithm doesn't mess with your channel's views, but... next week? Week after?
This is strikingly similar to the way we bought our first house... super cheap, nice yard, decent starter home... cut to nearly 3 years later and we are dealing with a basement full of water and 2 windows and a garage door having been shot... I don't blame our realtor, and I am thankful we have a home, but I cannot WAIT to move eventually...
I've been periodically leaving comments asking Mat to find out the real-world value of Bells for around 6 years now...thank you for finally giving it the solution it needed
MatPat, you have healped me through many dark times in my life, I cannot recommend you enough to all of my friends. Even if you are cringy once in a while, your video quality and quantity can not be matched.
Something else to note. He's not just selling houses, he builds them for you. He's taking a complete loss on labor in the earlier games (newest one you do some building too of course)
Yeah! And he does it all in one night as well!
And who do you think is building all the items you add to the island.
@@peacefulinvasion684 i assumed it was Timmy and tommy?
Where’s part 3
@@Puppet_Endo sure..Timmy and Tommy..yeah 😅
This is quite the twist for the FNAF timeline, I've always suspected that Tom Nook was William Afton all along but never got around to put the pieces together so I went back to count animatronic toes like a fool, great job solving the deepest lore MatPat!
The real question is how many bells tom is making frome the Freddy fazbears pizza franchise
Nah seriously, I'm tired of these theories of indie games I will *absolutely* never play
@@MrBeanzies animal crossing isn’t an indie game...
At the vary beginning of the video the picture on the file is from fnaf the musical by random encounters.
@@personexisting123 guy mentioned FNAF in his comment dude. don't pretend the last five videos he put out were about Animal Crossing. Just because this video isn't about an indie game doesn't invalidate what I said.
Thanks for the lil' shout-out! Made me smile! :)
Only one like and that's me lol 😆
@@DJRGYT wdym I liked too
Predict?
Matpat learning that bells are equivalent to the Japanese yen is strangely amusing to me.
There is a very strong and fairly unsurprising trend of Japanese games matching in game currency almost perfectly to the yen, and yet it's one that Matt remains oblivious to
My theory is that, Tom being a Tanuki, instead of a raccoon, might have thought about the dangers of the island and, being a tanuki himself, is simply using his supernatural abilities to keep the island completely safe. This is why, even if you fast-forward the clock 10,000 years in the future, everything is still completely fine regardless of what else might happen in the world,
That would explain a lot! Also, the fact that in those thousands of years the worse you get is bed head, and seemingly no one has aged.
i love this 😂
Pretty sure Gajin Goomba already did a video on Tom Nook being a Tanuki. Even the animal crossing Wiki states his a Tanuki. Can't really; be a theory if it's already proven.
Are Nook's testicles THAT huge?
@@cosmicsilhouette3858 his theory wasn't that he was a tanuki, re read the comment again
“Maybe this is a lesson to stop overthinking things”
Says Matpat analyzing the exchange rate of a bell.
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Classic matpat
Matpats job was to literally overthink things
Of course he's not a villain, he gives you a house and tells you "eh, just pay me back when you feel like it, I'll even upgrade it"
Also BOTS!
You are also forgetting that everything is bought THROUGH NOOK WITH NOOK'S CURRENCY. This means that you can only sell to him, can only buy through him, and the money is worthless outside of his island. He is running a closed network where he is basically ripping you off on countless levels.
@@oblitusunum6979 THIS!!
@@oblitusunum6979 actually other places let's you trade it in so maybe it is a legal currency
@@Tman-zp3mt maybe but extremely unlikely. It would likely be considered like arcade tokens rather than actual cash.
It’s also worth considering that as a tanuki, all the furniture Tom Nook sells you in the entire series is nothing more than plain, ordinary leaves disguised to look like actual items. You all think you’re buying super expensive stuff, but it’s nothing more than yard trimmings with a little yokai magic mixed in. You can see the leaves when you pick up or place down a furniture item, it’s even his store logo!
This exactly! Nothing in your Animal Crossing town is real. That includes the houses. In truth, you're wandering around a deserted island with nothing on it hallucinating buildings, townsfolk, and everything else. But hey, that's just a theory. A GAME Theory!
@@TheSkyRender that souds depressing af
@@TheSkyRenderI mean hey it's a living
😐 This ACTUALLY blew my mind. 😲
The true craftmanship from a tanuki is unmatched. Plus it is completely renewable since leaves continue to grow off trees.
I really wished you dived into Nook's backstory you get in Wild World after building a relationship with the Able Sisters. Particularly with Sable who’s sowing in the back. She and Nook are actually childhood friends and revealed that he was once conned when he moved to a big city to chase his dream.
Specifically by a fox........ REDD!
@@Teon5072 ro maybe his father
Gaijin Goombah did that, whom I discovered through matpat, so close enough in my book.
As well as the fact that Nook raised Timmy and Tommy, two orphans. The twins are so grateful to him that they decide to work for him. If you were a selfish greedy businessman, you would not go out of your way to save some random children you find on your doorstep
Nook is actually william afton
I got on board the Animal Crossing train waaaaayyyy late and had always heard the tales of what a crook Tom was. I was surprised then when I actually started playing and found him not to be terrible at all and imo very fair with his upgrades and offers. Kept waiting for him to turn into an evil overlord, but has yet to happen.
captions at 10:54
He's fair handed and equal in his dealings, unlike Sidorovich...
literally!! he’s my buddy and i love him so much!! he’s such a nice and helpful guy!!
@@enchantedshears5357 I don't care what his motivation is; if we had debt lenders like him IRL, it's be pretty sweet~
The only thing I found troublesome was that if you abandon a construction project, he will throw away all the bells that went into its development.
Listen man. If tom nook can expand your house without you knowing, build an entire museum, build a clothes shop, a general market which has a seemingly infinite supply of wooden tools and DIY recipes, bridges, or an entire neighborhood in 24 GOD DAMN HOURS, I think he deserves the money, for both the house, and the insane labor.
I like to imagine he's only doing this for the orphanage. He's willing to become a crook if that's what it takes to help them
Matpat amazes me with how much info he gathers for a silly game topic. Great job!
Since when is 'housing prices' a silly game topic?
@@douglasmarshall6949"In a GAME"
Yeah he often lies and leaves out crucial information that disproves him tho. You really have to take these with the biggest grain of salt
@@Hamantha last I checked this Channel doesn’t call itself Game Facts for that exact reason
@@Hamantha Ppl always forgetting this is a theory is so baffling to me, theories are not supposed to be FACT for a reason, which means it’s fine to omit things to prove a silly theory you have, I don’t get why ppl hate on him so much for this
It amazes me how long it took for Mat to realize bells were equivalent to Yen... the currency of the country the game was made in, and obviously close to the same scale.
I wonder when he'll figure out what pokemon money is equivalent to...
@Dragonlord DarkSpyro "Pén"?
@Dragonlord DarkSpyro i just call it P (like, pee/pea) because they never say what it is in the games and thats just how ive always read it
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@Dragonlord DarkSpyro you don’t them poke dollars?
He did a video on the income of a pokemon trainer, and I'm 90% sure he compared poke dollars to yen in that video.
I miss when the dialogue was more unhinged. While I love how popular New Horizons was, the earlier games and the chaos you can cause was more realistic
For real though, I want Rosie to yell at me and tell me my clothes are ugly
We've had a lot of lore videos lately, so it's nice to have an old school number-crunching theory again, great job!
I love the fact that Matt depicted nook as a boss villain
God bless you and whoever reads this, Jesus loves you and if you proclaim that Jesus is Lord you will be saved .
Less a boss villian and more old school mobster
I hate it, I can't stand the voice. Awful
That's alot of bots
I think nook has a big heart and cares a lot for the players and villagers especially Timmy and Tommy. He just loves money a little to much 😂
kinda like mr crabs
He's kinda like the Grunkle Stan of Animal crossing-!
@@Geekwithapencil2048 totally but he doesn't have an underground lab and a sibling that has been overtaken by a demonic entity
@@Lucki_MORELIKEUNLUCKI That we know of/j. But yeah that pretty much sums it up!
I actually remember hearing somewhere before that Bells were equivalent to Japanese yen, so I'd already known the prices were actually way lower than they seemed, but this was a great explanation of it!
I mean, you know what they say: Write what you know.
@Grace Ryane BeGONE, *_BOT!_*
The part where it says Tom nook's donating to orphanage, and then the visual just shows Tom nook giving batman bells is so funny 😂😂
10:40 I love how when Tom Nook is giving money to the orphans he's just giving money to batman.
Took me a few seconds to get the joke
My brain went instantly to Harry Potter lol
man I’ve been waiting on part 3 all week those videos got me hooked matpat please drop it soon🙏🏽
This is part 3 nook is william afton
Everyone’s here
Microsoft rewards
John wick
Rust
The gangs all here
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Part 3 of what?
@@RespawnJupiter a fnaf timeline
This man uploads two FNAF videos back to back and holds off on the third one, absolutely genius. The carrot dangling over the pig’s face to keep interest. That being said, when will the next one be out Matt?
… next year :)
FNAF sucks.
@@jiblitin1520 quit trying to start fights over the internet and touch some grass kid.
This is the 3rd part tom nooks is william afton
@@thomasthecrunkengine3512 You should try playing FNAF instead of just watching videos of it on UA-cam.
Bro puts more though into his video game theories than most governments put into working together and fixing societal issues. 💀👍
Uh that's just not true, check his Metroid theories and hollowknight theories
@@vertebrae2438 never heard of those games and don't really care that much but oK
@@Animated_guy_OG games where he ignores the lore to create a theory that the game states very clearly isn't true
Okay but, could we argue that Tom Nook robbed us of another timeline video?
They said something about not wanting to split it into four parts, so part 3 would be a massive episode. That means a lot of editing and such, so just be patient 😂
Why are there so many bots on this one comment?
@@Funky_Formalities
Because they're everywhere, under every comment.
@@finaldusk1821 I know, just why this one comment
I’m better than Game theory
Alternative title, Mattpat spends almost 15 minutes not considering that housing prices scale WAAAAAAY differently in Japan than they do in the US due to far more permissive zoning laws than in the US.
actually the reason they scale differently in Japan is because they're not being flooded with immigrants taking all the houses (and jobs)
@@adsasfasfasfsddddddd it's not racism to want your country to look after itself first and foremost. It never was. That's actually how great civilisations get built that improve the whole world.
@@dextersynesterformerlysorb5334 i love a bit of xenophobia in the morning. really spices up the day
I think the dude forgot that the US was made literally by all foreigners and immigrants
@@dextersynesterformerlysorb5334 or maybe corporate companies intentionally increasing housing and land value for profit?
Part 3 gonna come sooner or later Mat can’t avoid it forever.
True
Hope everything's okay with Team Theorists. Because it's odd for you guys to miss posting a video on Saturday.
I missed classic game theories like this, using the side of in game objects to do real world calculations to expose a in universe conspiracy.
Truly the hallmark of a Classic game theory
well hes only doing this cause hes stalling for part 3
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Oh my gosh I have wanted a Tom Nook theory for so long. He’s my favorite Animal Crossing character 😂
God bless you and whoever reads this, Jesus loves you and if you proclaim that Jesus is Lord you will be saved .
All of the replies are bots
What you talking about?? This is the 7th Tom Nook theory in the last 2 years
One of mine too
I’m better than Game theory
Those measurements of the house being 900 sq ft make sense. I kept being frustrated that I could fit more in my IRL apartment (900 something sq ft) than I could in the huge house in the game. I always attributed it to the grid system & not being able to utilize the vertical space & bookcases as much as we should.
Okay... now I want MatPat to do a definitive calculation of currency in D&D for at least 5e. I know it's not a video game, but it's still a game.
The DND movie means it can be on film theory
Note to self: if a game comes out of Japan with some fantasy currency and doesn't also include yen, that fantasy currency invariably equals 1 yen per unit.
cool content!
i love every part of this, especially the part where MatPat continuously avoids the part 3 :>>
What part three?
3:39 Tanuki Magic. After all, furniture is stored as leafs.
The bells = Yan theory makes sense when you ponder it. Animal Crossing was made in Japan, so it kind of seems fitting.
Tom Nook lore is not something we needed, but something we ALL wanted
The timeline will never stop from being produced mat, we need the 3rd part.
its literally been two weeks yall need to be patient
@@pumpkin_pants3828 thats double what he said it would take tho
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@@CalledBatou do know the reason he didnt drop it yet is because he doesnt want the algorithm to think he's just a FNAF channel?
@@hellohumans9041 In which case, he should explain that. Not everyone knows how algorithms work, after all.
That 20% off sign when matpat said "for 1/5 the [total] price" made me raise an eyebrow
Why?
@@Moxiephobia "1/5 the total price" means 80% off, since the final price is only 20% the original price. 20% off means that it's 4/5 the total price.
@@Moxiephobia it's the difference between -20% and -80%. They are two completely separate equations.
Me too 💀
@MonochromeDevdle I still don't get it.
Me: Oh so Tom Nook ISN'T actually bad!
MatPat: *Now hold on, I'm not finished yet.*
Matpat: *Using the metrical system to measure the inhouse grid*
Me: "Oh, Matpat uses the metres now? Now that certainly is a step forward!"
Matpat: *Goes back to imperial*
Me: *Slight pain*
My favourite think about Tom nook is how the community unanimously agreed to give him the cronk voice.
Wow your reply section is full of bots
0:29 it would’ve been so clever if you made it the bell notification icon.
What a missed opportunity.
I've never thought he was a crook or a con-man, and I was so surprised when others did! He doesn't make us pay interest, for goodness sake!
I’m a guy who actually like Nook. While yes, the dude bill’s you an absurd amount of money, at LEAST he doesn’t ask you to pay him that. He’ll just let you pay him when you think your ready. Much like Mr. Nogami said at 2:41
God I'm cracking up at the thought of this guy who doesn't even know Matt well enough to spell his name properly not only getting into contact with him and getting him to rate his music, but getting him to say "fire" casually as part of that rating.
Matpat has not released the rest of his FNAF timeline, lets motivate him with a controlled shock.
Agreed
4:10 gave me a slight laugh attack
I love that he’s willing to take brunt of all the rumours just so he can teach everyone about responsibility. He’s letting his reputation be tarnished just so he can make sure everyone gets the best. I love him so so much - he’s one of the most misunderstood mischaracterised characters ever, I think.
“Why, I’ve personally donated over 90% of my earned bells to an orphanage three towns over.
I’ve heard folks believe I’m a ruthless and heartless businessman.
This is not true, and not just because I am a raccoon and not a man, yes, yes.
Hm, perhaps I can see the value of having a boogeyman everyone can unite against.
Or in my case, a boogeycritter.
But paying one’s debts is important! If I must be villainised in my pursuit of teaching, then so be it!”
Sweetest guy ever
Mat been making us wait for 2 weeks for the part 2 😭
You mean part 3?
@@generalcjg No i mean the part 2 of the 2nd video.
Matt Pat alternates between making innocent heroes seem like criminals, and villains like heroes.
5:44 Ah, yes. Tropical island where you have 4 seasons, snows every December-February, and have the biodiversity of Japan. Can't get more tropical than that.
Place, Japan 🤯🤯
THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT MATPAT AND THE GAME THEORISTS ARE PUTTING INTO THESE VIDEOS IS INSANE!!!!!!!!!
Man I have watched so many of these that as soon as mat started singing Tom's praise I knew something was off lol
Dang
I got really excited to see a breakdown of the cost of labor, and materials we put into the island. Maybe even an estimation of the island's worth at the prestige increases to see exactly how much value we bring to the island, but I get that would a lot to look into
10:45 Matt: "Maybe this a lesson for us to stop overthinking."
Probably every other human watching this: Matt, that's literally what this channel is about.
And yet he overthought right after.
Mr. Hippo's wisdom fades in like the face of the One William Should Not Have Killed.
He said 200m is a 1/4 mile but it’s actually almost exactly 1/8 mile.
Only with MatPat you can learn how things are measured with Animal Crossing.
6:42 Heheheheeh…
I need friends.
I laughed too lol
wait how is that funny?
@@sanjeevmaster😏😏
@@sanjeevmasterI feel like as an object shoe fan you should know for some reason
I really wish more theories were played straight. It takes a lot out of things when I come to the first wrap up of a video and without looking at the timestamp, still know the video isn't over because Matpat always makes his videos contain a reversal.
REALLL when theories didn’t always have to have a twist
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But it's funny
Yeah especially when the twist is just wrong. At least for me, if he donates 90% of his profit, it's not really a bad thing if he ends up making a lot of money. I mean, the player chooses to go to the island and get a house, and it's never said (that I know of) that the prices of later houses are upcharged, it's just assumed for the twist.
Someone else also said that he's magical and can protect the island from danger, and that if you go 1000 years into the future it's still fine in-game, but I didn't play the game so I'm not sure. If it is true though, then it completely debunks his twist too.
The endcard is there for a reason
3:40 Thank you for including a reference from my favorite show in a video from my favorite channel about my favorite video game
I love these theories, I also do love in depth lore series but the videos of some weird questions like just finding out the property value of animal crossing houses really does remind me of the classic game theory days
Great to see an old fashioned Game Theory styled video again
But is the 5,6 million yen house cheap in Japan? That's the question a true theorist would ask.
And you know what else a true theorist would ask? For a Rusty Lake episode.
Honestly, yeah, that is cheap. Japan is known for having "disposable homes," with the average home being demolished within 38 years of it being built, yet the price for housing is still fairly high.
Doing a little research, beachfront property in a popular beach destination in Japan (Miyakojima) gives the average buying price of $2185/m2 for a house in its suburbs and $3062/m2 square for an apartment in the city center so given a 91 sqm house, it would cost $198,835 (approximately ¥19,883,500) for a house in the suburbs up to $278,642 (¥27,864,200) for an apartment in the city.
I had also looked at the price for rental in the same city and averaging the cost per square meter the cost for renting a 91 sqm place for one year equates to roughly ¥1,173,900. Renting for 5 years will put you past the ¥5.6 million for an outright purchase.
Yeeeess, I've been fan of rusty lake, that def worth to mention
@@erischaos oh no, my natural enemy mathematics
in that case this house would be around 35,000 dollars which is so much cheaper
I love that he can make any innocent game into a game where you may die
I laughed Matt shows Tom Nook donating money to Batman, while he talks about donating money to an orphanage. Just perfect!
10:34 NAHHH ARE WE NOT GONNA TALK HOW MATPAT ROASTED BATMAN!?
At 8:52 the price would be 80% off as you’re only paying 1/5 of the total, so you’re paying 20%. Meaning the house would be 80% off.
PLEEEAAASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEAAASE DO MORE ANIMAL CROSSING THEORIES!!! I NEED MORE!!
You can’t avoid part 3, we are always watching
"Always watching!" -Ros
Just like Afton
As a Californian, these home prices make me weep tears of “I’ll never have that”
Mat, you know we want part three, we hunger for it, give us our theory sustenance
I’d like to say, like stated by someone else he builds the house for you, and this makes might also include the other things on the island.
there is one other thing I want to bring up... and that is.. the nook store. More importantly, the online nook store in game. Tom has probably got a sweet deal when it comes to you, the player, buying stuff over the Nook Shop App in game. Honestly, with how things are run, Tom Nook makes way more money than he loses from the property costs. I mean NOOK is a brand name in universe....
Mat: Proves that Tom Nook is giving us an amazing deal
Me: Omg finally they dont think hes a villian anymo-
Mat: But maybe this is just part of a bigger scam
Nook can never win, can he.
DANG IT MP; WHY MUST YOU KEEP FUELING THE BLATENT SLANDER AGAINST TOM NOOK?!!!
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GIVE TOM NOOK THE APPRECIATION & RESPECT HE DESERVES; AND YOU KEEP FUELING HIS HATEDOM!!
This exactly how I felt man Nook never catching a break I believe JWitzz did a video and went after the REDD instead.
13:53 the orphanage 3 towns over disagrees
MATPAT THERE IS A NEW MERGE MANSION AD AND IT GOES PRETTY DEEP
That TARDIS acronym is brilliant. Tanooki Adds Rooms Despite Inexistent Space. Perfection!
13:34 matpat: “i guess we can always try to make it all up on the resale?”
to quote hbomberguy’s climate change video, “who are you going to sell it to? aquaman???”
Lol
4:23
It sounds like you're teaching some person you found on the internet about the way inches are measured in monitors
Bro really said he wasn't gonna do this with the FNAF timeline theory, just to do it
i love how mat manages to make _everything_ dark
Is no-one going to mention the fact that Mat didn't mention the LOOOOOOORRREEEEE behind Tom Nook?
Seriously, the fact that Matthew didn't mention his (Tom's) backstory genuinely annoys me (a bit) but if he does make another theory about Tom Nook I hope he mentions said backstory.
i also notsed that
And just think... if it's in Japanese yen, and you look at Japanese average home prices now? It's still like 1/6th the price! Love this theory man, nice angle!
Yeah, I am going to marathon old theories so I can cope with Mat retirement
I am happy for him, but I will miss him
Matpat left out a couple things:
1. How easy making money is. Even if just dig up the four fossils on your island each day you're making bank.
2. New Horizons allows you to unlock magical terraforming powers. Come at me, rising ocean! (And that's assuming this is even an issue in the AC world. )
All of this fun video aside, I really hope Matt and Stephanie have been able to buy a house. They deserve to own a house. They've worked hard, taught us cool stuff, and genuinely tried to make this world a better place.
I love how matpat says Tom Nook isn't a crook and then proceeded to make the intro make him seem evil
My Subscribe button lit up when that Subscribe threat went though- 😂
It goes to show how amazing our Dear Leader Tom Nook truly is
Our glorious leader
Dear Leader? There is only one dear leader, and I don't see Jim Pickens here :')
Tom Nook is infinetly better than Isabelle
@@KaishaLouisehave you seen Jim and Tom in the same room at once?
3:40 in and I’m telling you, Tom Nook would wait literally an eternity for bells from you. Gotta tell ya, sounds like money is no object for this man.
And yet he also gives us the power of growing and digging land mass, ultimately giving us the ability to put our own houses, along with other homes and buildings we want, on cliffsides or surrounded by inland sea water if we so please. Tom gave us the ability late in the game, but he did so thinking we could make the island more appealing to other visitors... Somehow. Simply put everyone's houses highest on the island, and we avoid this sea level problem altogether
Not to be *that* guy or anything... but is part 3 coming out like soon? I'm invested. I know you have to split em up to the algorithm doesn't mess with your channel's views, but... next week? Week after?
I would like to formally redact this earlier comment.
The opening sketch using what I’m 80% sure is a shot from the Random Encounters FNAF musical is my favorite call back ever ❤0:22
It is from fnaf the musical
it has to be. i loved that video
I read the title as “Tom Nook is NOT a cook” and now I want a food theory about it
Tom Nook is gonna break bad.
HE MADE A GRUBHUB REFERENCE!!! (11:08)
No he didn’t
10:14 Hey, maaaaa I finally found out what idiot means. Wait why were you calling me a raccoon 🤨
This is strikingly similar to the way we bought our first house... super cheap, nice yard, decent starter home... cut to nearly 3 years later and we are dealing with a basement full of water and 2 windows and a garage door having been shot... I don't blame our realtor, and I am thankful we have a home, but I cannot WAIT to move eventually...
I've been periodically leaving comments asking Mat to find out the real-world value of Bells for around 6 years now...thank you for finally giving it the solution it needed
MatPat, you have healped me through many dark times in my life, I cannot recommend you enough to all of my friends. Even if you are cringy once in a while, your video quality and quantity can not be matched.
Well hello there bot magnet
@@RulerOfArniskad ikr? XD
Everyone Report the bots
Mf your comments beeping like a microwave
@Chad 007 A bot copied your reply 💀
The problem with Nook is that you don’t have an option if you want to play the game right