Film Theory: Ready Player One's True THREAT! (SPOILER FREE)
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Ready Player One's The Oasis is virtual reality at it's most advanced state. Yet the real danger lies outside The Oasis - IN REALITY! Right in your very own home. Literally. The Stacks are the deadliest part of the Ready Player One world and I'm about to tell YOU why!
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Person: **sneezes*
Building: alrighty, I’m just gonna fall down now
Yeah man
I would spit on one and make it fall
*Saiki K in a nutshell*
*UNO REVERSE CARD*
Farts sonic boom
I stopped reading the book 3 months ago & just this morning picked it up again. A few hours later this is recommended.
They are definitely watching.
ummmm what thats creepy dude
@Aanya Tungala same
Lol
Stuff like this happens all the time to me
@Roland Deschain I made a bet with this dude that if I won I got rabans and then that's what all my advertisements were
The thing with matpat is he never condescendingly explains things that people wouldn't usually know, he kindly explains them. His demeanor is amazing and I love his content. I hope he keeps making videos for us because many people appreciate his hard work. Thank you, matpat :)
Looking back on this in the future
😢
Wade who plays in a old truck outside of the stacks:
"I don't have such weakness."
He does due to the compression forces of ya know the cars stacked on top
@@pratyushyadav1988 "Outside"
This implies that the old truck, was not infact, in the stacks.
@@IdaeChop the truck is underneath tons of cars so he's still in danger
In the movie, the priority is costs, but in the book it specifies that it need the space, they ran out of space on the ground to put houses, so they put houses on houses
It still fails them in the sense that they would save more money using normal methodology of construction then the one showcased in the movie
Kwesi Harper yeah, money. but the stacks were a concept in the books, and they were made because of a need to save space on the ground, its not about the money. its rampant overpopulation leading to not enough space for homes, so they used the vertical space, so the stacks make sense according to the book, and the idea was just kept for the movie.
@@frelted6744 ok
Just use the hunger games
@@bryangonzalez4216 fun fact: killing 23 people a year is not a good solution to overpopulation. like at all.
Simple, paint them blue so the wind will think that it's the sky and they'll ignore it.
Who are you?
Who are so wise in the ways of science?
Stonks
Mirror mirror on the wall who’s the biggest brain of them all
How does one manage to obtain such a big girthy brain?
If it's a convincing enough shade of blue that the wind doesn't see it how would humans find them?
In the book , it actually explains how they don’t use new rv’s for the stacks , they use old rv’s from th surrounding junk piles , which they would lift to the top of an existing stack with cranes situated around the area of the stacks
The book actually discusses this. If I remember correctly, there was a law or something saying that they couldn't be more than 4 or 5 trailers high but eventually they began to over populate and so the rule became less important. Columbus is the fast growing city at this point because it was where the oasis was created. Wade grew up there in the movie, and he moved there in the book. He talks about the stacks in both stories though almost the same. He talked about how the weather felt and how he also lived with at least 6 other people besides himself, aunt Alice, and her boyfriend Rick. The place was one 2 rooms, a fact the movie didn't show, but the stacks are solely for low income individuals, so it's hard to say that safety was a continuing concern as it was more of having a home for these individuals.
“We won’t be running out of sand”
2019: WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF SAND
Sahara? SAAAAANNDD WE GOT LOTS OF SAAAAND
@@Kraken_TL i was making a Hermitcraft season 6 reference
Craytherlaygaming
I get it bro
I get it too
@@craytherlaygaming2852 (in an iskall voice) SAAAND!!
So, the problem is basically just a giant game of deadly Jenga?
Kate Concepcion yep
so the problem is the writer decided the metaphor was worth suspending the engineering reality, and assumed we would figure that out. Oops.
Actually, if you really think about it, you could argue a labor shortage lead to the Stacks being made.
Yes, yes it is
Kate Concepcion yup is peasy
I just realized MatPat explains structural systems better than some of my architecture teachers...
Kyle as an engineering student, I secretly love this comment but SHHHHH.
yessssssssssssssssssss goood
I'm just ending 1st year of my civil engineering high school, and matpat just recapped 1 year in 15 minutes
Film theory: SPOILER FREE
Me: Sees a trillion spoilers
2:40 in an over the top movie about an incredibly over the top videogame you chose to explain how the houses can't work.
You really did my day, Matpat.
You really did
Nice...
This should've been it's own standalone movie without the title, since like 80% of the things in the movie don't match the actual book.
Andrew Thomas agreed
I KNOW RIGHT!?!
*when you dident know there was a book till you watched a video after watching the movie twice*
@TheSharpShardEX I hardly ever read, but I was so hooked on this book I read it four times. It's crazy lol
@@Blank-ft1nj & that's the sad truth about this movie lol It's a great stand-alone movie, it just shouldn't have the Ready Player One name
Doesn't the main character in the movie play in a secret hideout away from his house?
He does
Yes. But he still lives in his house otherwise.
Viki Ai actually it's his aunt's house
Viki Ai ACTUALLY, he sleeps in his hideout 90% of the time, plus, he moves to an ACTUAL apartment
Dyath He only reverted to living out of his Hiding Place after They blew up his aunt’s stack. They made that clear in the book.
if you read the book, then he explains that the stacks fall all the time
Yeah I was just about to comment that. He specifically mentions it in the book.
Shame the book is awful. That's just an opinion. The movie fixed it. Well most of it
@@mollycate5519 He mentions in this video, that Wade says the stacks fall over.
@@MattIce1234 yea but matpat made it sound like the book said it didn’t happen a lot when in fact wade said it happened literally all the time
@@TheDramacist haha I actually think it’s the opposite lol
So... The odds are Stacked against him?...
i’m sorry
Mason M. Too soon man. Too soon.
You don't have to be sorry I LOVE PUNS
Oh dear... I wish you luck in the future. You will need it
A pun worthy of matpat
At least you apologized
hey matpat,
first: as a structural engineer I love your theories about building-stuff. keep it up!
second: you mentioned that we will not run out of sand. which is not compleatly true. yes, we have a lot of sand on the planet but most of it is desert sand which is not useable for concrete. the sand grains are all rounded and therefore don't form a good framework or in laymans terms: they just roll off each other (ever tried to build a sand castle from desert sand? it's not possible). the amount of sand from shores or beaches is more limited but not a problem today but is gonna be one if we keep on building with concrete in the intensity as we do today. even today some beaches in south asia get excavated (sometimes illegally) for buildings around that area. sand for concrete is gonna be a problem in the future is all I want to say.
You know, you got a good point which I didn't even bring up in my comment. I don't know where he comes up with concrete being cheap. I quoted some people just to put concrete down for our driveway, and they wanted 10k for that, and that was back in 97. I can only imagine how bad the price is, now. So, no.....that's not cheap. The price of a 'used' mobile home is a fraction of the cost, and as I said to Matt none of those mobile homes look brand new to me. :P
clarity2199 concrete is relativly cheap. Concrete buildings are cheaper than steel buildings but more expansive than masonry buildings. Given that they all are about the same size. As masonry is limited in it's bearing capacity concrete is often easier to calculate/construct and therefire chosen. It's nothing I am pretty fond about. But that's the way it is for now...
TheLaughingMax as a structural engineer u can’t spell “cancrete” properly..I’m sorry I had to point that out
I hear you there! I'm a programmer, so just as you love his episodes on building stuff, I love his episodes on tech stuff. Virtual reality, artificial intelligence, hackers, I eat that stuff up faster than MatPat can drink a Diet Coke. :D
watch his black panther theory it relates to what your saying
Although this theory makes sense, I would like to point out that the book says that the environment and ozone are busted. The odds of rain/snow/strong wind are pretty low. Also, Wade almost never lives in his Aunt's trailer; he usually stays in his car hideout. The book also says that he only stays in the stacks some days in the winter to avoid freezing to death; so if his Aunt's trailer fell, he may survive.
Hes in the most danger in the winter
So they don’t get different weather yet the air still gets cold?
Also this is after resource war so trailers would cost a lot less
but it fell
The environment is "busted" yet it still gets cold? Also, weather on Earth is a direct result of the sun's energy, not ozone. The jet stream, cold and hot fronts, hurricanes, etc. are all the results of solar energy hitting the Earth and causing differential warming.
Ernest Cline is one of the nicest people I have met! I had the pleasure of seeing him speak in Denver years ago (I think the movie rights had been purchased at that point). His story is a nerds dream! He stayed behind afterwards for this long line of people (including myself) that wanted an autograph. And he gave us all smiles and small talk! It didn't cost a thing either. Just a free meet and greet at a book shop. One of my favorite memories ever ❤
The thing I love about Matpat is that he can take a movie with robots and ID's based solely on your retina along with a company that essentially controls the entire world and the theory he goes with is how architecturally unstable a building is. Please never quit UA-cam.
Your ID is based on your retina.
Accurate
And he manages to make it highly entertaining. It's pure genius.
I don’t know what you’re on, but IMO that is the least apppealing part of him. Like, are you that desperate to ride the trend wave that you literally did a “theory” on the BUILDING INTEGRITY? Are you that out of ideas? Rest of Matt is still good though.. mostly.
TheCakeCraft If he was running out of ideas he would have made a theory about the game itself. It's the lowhanging fruit
I studied civil engineering. Little fact:
Foundation piles need to reach a sand layer in the ground in order to reduce sinking of the building, these sand layers are usually many meters underground. If you want to build without foundation piles, a layer of sand (or rock) has to be the upper layer.
These trailers don't weigh anything compared to concrete buildings. So a normal house foundation can easily lift many trailers. I would be more concerned about the internal supports, how can 1 trailer lift 20 trailers stacked on top of each other.
b1rd As seen in the movie they aren't EXACTLY Stacked on top of each other
b1rd they dont build on top of each other they add a metal floor then put the trailer there
But in the movie he states that people stopped trying to fix problems and just tried to out live them
That's a terrible idea. "Yeah yeah your home is sinking fifty feet into the ground and collapsing. Remember, the motto is 'don't solve problems, tough is out.'
Come back when you've got a real complaint."
Welp.... their only living to the next wind storm
Bro it's like how we lived. We just ran after things untill they got tired and died and now we have advanced.
As You Say "In The Movie"
As The Title Says,FUCKING SPOILER FREE DUMBASS
@@randomanonymousidentity3148 try the next gust of mild wind lmao
Video title: Ready Player One’s true THREAT!
The actual video: The stacks, and why they make no sense.
Actually, when Wade is living in the stacks, he is living on the edge of Oklahoma City. The average wind speed there is 17.8 mph.
In the book it's Oklahoma, the movie moves him to Ohio for some reason.
Because Ohio is awesome
the future only true real end
Shut up Im trying to be happy for his win
The author of the book is from Ohio
I guess, one the best compliments I can give this channel, is the fact that I often click on an episode and not realize I watched it a month ago. Everything feels fresh to me.........that, or I have pre-senile dementia.
don't worry bro, i have the same thing. Enduring Fressshness of Content i calls it ;)
When I first watched Matt I really couldn't stand him. But after a few episodes he grew on me. I know he has helpers now to produce his videos, but it's obvious he really puts a lot of talent and energy into each episode.
I came here expecting to watch something related to virtual reality technology and you talked about buildings.
Maxiro Citrizus FR THO
Maxiro Citrizus and yet it was still entertaining.
He has some special skills
ThicBôî BigSmoke
It was surprisingly interesting,
I learned a lot lolol
talked about buildings that was already mentioned in the book/
I’m just wondering why he said “it’s not like we will be running out of that soon” when talking about sand...hasn’t there been problems with sand and are trying to restore beaches?
Soooooo, we're actually expecting a shortage of sand for building materials fairly soon in the future. You can't just use any sand for concrete production and at the current pace of globabl development (especially in China), we're expected to have 2/3 of the world's sand used up in concrete by 2050. Doesn't really dispute your main points or anything, but yeah... I guess that's all I have to say...
Dear liberals... If that was true, then what about the sand underwater? Surely, 2/3 of the sand on earth couldn't just be above ground with how massive our oceans are.
@@damptruff8435 The sand in the ocean is not good for construction.
@@damptruff8435 The same with the sand of deserts. It's so "smooth" it doesn't work
@@damptruff8435 I am sorry but what does anything anyone said have to do with liberals at all? And yes the earth has lots of sand. But not all of that sand is good for construction.
Sound is petrified sawdust
Let’s be real here.... the Oasis would be destroyed by hackers and bad memes
*Xx_n00b$layer_xX ~ 300 kills*
Jagshyre 25 true
Jagshyre 25 in the book appears one person nicknamed BigDick
It already looks like it is
if you die in the game you die in real life
Or by 1000 ugandan knuckels
Ha jokes on you matpat. I've never been to the empire state building.
Is it cool.....?
Penguin_Lover 26 hell yeah it’s cool. (insert “I’m Mary Poppins y’all!”)
idk
Penguin_Lover 26 dragonball
Enapay Estep amen.
Enapay Estep Hey don’t be mean, I mean being mean in a UA-cam comment section is pretty stupid
But most of the movie technically takes place while he sits in an abandoned car...
And N disproves the first theory that the player would die right off the bat with one sentence
Not to say that these shitty building techniques aren't a problem. But he does spend most of his OASIS time in a nearby discarded van that he tricked out to get away from his family.
But he still spends time in his house. And that house would't excist his car hideout wouldn't excist because he couldn't have made it because nobody that lives in the stacks could actually live there. This is of course if Matts theory is true (it sounds plausibel). You only think in the context of the film (what we are shown) but he has to live a life for the moments in the movie and books to happen and before the movie even begins he would have died or his family would never have gotten him in the first place (because they would not excist. (they dead)).
14:25 "the most unbelievable and unbelievably deadly part of this fictional reality is literally the house it takes place in."
I'm not saying the house isn't deadly, I'm saying most of the movie does not take place in it.
Aspie Near did you even read my whole comment? Because it sounds like you didn't. But I will refer you to the last part of it.
In the book, stacks fall/explode all the time. So often, in fact, that when the stack that Wade's aunt lived in fell people just assumed it was an amateur method lab explosion.
"we wont run out of sand in the next 25 years" actually we r, Sand that is used to make concrete is actually hard to get, so hard to get that people in India dig out rivers to sell it, Illegally.
Came here just to say this. You beat me to it. :)
Well who cares about concrete?
Why can’t ppl just make sand artificially
@@dinh6327 actually you can. But not the kind for contrete
Maxim WannaBePros go to the Sahara desert
I remember something about the larger stacks being connected to each other for stability.
That still doesn't sound *inexpensive* to make...
@@ChaosRayZero i dont quite get what you mean by this comment? Nja it wouldnt be expensive and in the book they actually have it. But he's arguaing the instability based on what he sees from the movie.
@@karlwallah2601 He said the biggest problem is that they'd be more expensive to make than concrete apartments around 12:12.
I didn't calculate the cost of attaching multiple trailers together at the ground level, but it sounds to me like that would be even more expensive than the straight vertical design he describes in the video.
@@ChaosRayZero i think it's explained that the whole stack is built from scraped cars. Sounds cheap in a dystopian future setting.
Plus in the book is said that those things fall all the time but nobody seems to care.
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In 2045, matpat will........
Still be doing theories.yay.
maybe his son/daughter will or daughter
Naw, by 2045 there will be dozens of channels doing Theories on MatPat's Theories!!! :D
President Matpat Theories.
Ready Theorist One
or be in a retirement home, as he's around 20 now....
Player One's true threat: Younger Brother screwing up as Player Two in co-op mode
Jclubsandwich haha nice
So true
sibling: *mom* *says* *its* *my* *turn*
protagonist: just one more minute
SIBLING: *screeching* *intensifies*
My sister gave me a unconnected controller when I was younger
The book does mention that the stacks collapse all the time.
Brandon Moore, he said the books mentions them collapsing alot
He mention in last part too that it's not cheap but yeah, that's a waste of 10 minutes anyway.
Matpat: mention Petronas towers
Malaysian: This put a smile on my face
Yes me to I'm Malaysian to
Same here
Doesn't the book mention that there is often accidents with the housing in the stacks?
Indeed it does.
"In recent years, many of the stacks hod grown to a hight of twenty units or more. This made people nervous. Stacks collapsing weren't uncommon, and if the scaffolding supports buckled at the wrong angle, the domino effect could bring down four or five of the neighboring stacks too." on page 22 chapter 1 (pocket edition)
Smokfox so the author knew this would be an issue yet messed up timelines. Lol I'm more like this guy than I thought.
and hey...no one sad the stack are new they may be old used scrap trailers
True people desperate for money and food will sell stuff dirt cheep if they have too
And as many outher say in hte comments, sand WILL be a chortedge and the book mentions that there literaly a resorce crisis, economical crisis, job crisis and more.
2:05 "Let's face it, by 2044, technology will be so advanced that there's really no way to predict the state of video games..."
The fact that this tech was created years before aside, it really made me think. The same time before us as that is ahead was 1992. That wasn't that long ago, but modern gaming was very new, and *_VERY_* different from its current state. We have NO clue where it'll be that far in the future, but perfect simulations can't be that far off!
Micah Philson Back to the Future part II
Micah Philson that's what people said about flying cars
Exactly!What if the framing is on the outside by using the polls like shelves.But it's not just any framing its also the foundation as well. By going deeper into the ground. And suggesting we build housing with better materials in 2045.The wind will go threw the poles taking some of the force that the wind causes. Mat Pat doesn't know what the housing is mad of and he cant suggest the cost before he knows how the rations work with money in the future. 20dollars now could be 50 in the future. Or maybe metal is worth more than gold.
Allyiah, yeah... that's exactly what I was talking about...
Though yes, even the tech of architecture will be advanced, yet considering the rate of advancement over the course of human history (a comparison we can easily make for this particular case) it's pretty safe to say that it won't advance nearly that much to do all that and yet be cheap only 26 years from now.
Micah Philson k
The construction costs you talked about would be for building new trailers. What I think is happening in the Ready Player One world is that they are using old trailers from junk yards, old vans or anything else people could find to live in and then throwing that into the stacks. Or maybe they are simply moving existing trailer parks into a vertical arrangement helping to save space. Either way they certainly aren't building new trailers when a stack is constructed so the costs would probably be very different than described in the video. Love your channel though!
Brooke Holland older trailers are more brittle than new ones, considering with time metal can rust. MatPat even said uniform construction in the best possible scenario, all of those trailer are of the same size, weight, and shape. So, by getting old trailers in junk yards. Sure they get the same size, but the weight might be different, the shape might be a little off.
So if what you said is true... it'll be more dangerous to the people living in those place....
william sevilla i've reader the book and they are junk yard trailers so it that bad
also as for the tipping when i read the discription i pictured the stacks to be at least rudimentarily connected to eachother so the worry of them tipping from center of gravity shifts in the wind is not as high as mat pat states
I agree with Brooke. the construction cost would be vastly different considering a used mobile home can run as low as $1500 for a fully liveable home. as for the construction of the stacks mobile home and camper trailers which were both used arent built like normal houses or apartments they are constructed on metal frames like a truck for example which with proper rigging could be easily lifted and set in place while adding rigidity to the stack structure if properly incorporated. While this wouldn't help if they were stacked single file in the event of wind what if the stacks were constructed like that they used cable tethering like on cellphone towers
william sevilla yes but again as matpat said they were more worried about cost than anything
I used to think the gun the villain had at the end was the most lethal thing in the movie. Now that I've watched this video, I know. It's still the gun but now I know the second place.
underrated comment
Thanos would be cheaper
What
But hey thats just a theory a comment theory thanks for watching
Haha lol
#massgenocideisalwaysbetter
Sorry bad joke
just putting "thanos" into anything doesn't make it funny
I learn more things from this than *SCHOOL*
True
Same fam
Yes sometimes i learn quantum physics, and how the stuff they teach us is ever possible useful
Me two
How much subs can I get without posting a video ? Me three
The stacks would have been made to be unsafe to deal with overpopulation
Sy3d Khalid Thanos*
Not a bad theory and not a bad idea except that the working class is the one that keeps the actual labor part of the world going. Therefore it would be the worst group to target for that kind of thing. Of course that assumes that the people who are okay with endangering thousands for money would be smart enough to figure out what they lose by killing the work force.
Henry Blandford dis one right here
Dont have to worry about the rebuilding cost if everyone is dead 😂
the people in the stacks are either unemployed or working in the oasis. actual produktion nearly stopped. you don't have to care for employees living near their workplace if the work is done in the internet. if one (or even a few hundred) die, there are enough waiting in line to fill the spots, even from the other side of the world.
5 yrs Lataaa'!!! Ready Player One was and still is a great movie! I love it and the characters like Chucky, the Back to the Future Delorian, the level with the Shining in it, all the awesome Pop Culture characters it had in it!!! ❤❤❤
Actually MatPat the world is running out of construction sand (Aggregate). In Vietnam it's estimated that their country will run out of this sand by 2020.
Sand is being consumed faster than it is naturally made.
#Savethesand
Dylan Teno i though about the same thing
We should start a protest. Instead of saving trees or stopping global warming what we have really needed to do all along is #Savethesand
I dont like sand... Its coarse, and rough, and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Just like a girlfriend/boyfriend. Wait, what?
#SaveSpongebobAndSandy
* hurries to untangle headphones*
*I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY*
Mat your point of the stacks falling in on them selves is actually proven correct in the novel and this in my opinion strengthens your theory
Yeah, i remember in the novel the main character talking about stacks falling all the time and how it's just a thing that happens.
Yeah, I was about to post that. Glad you caught it sooner. I agree it does strengthen his theory.
I was about to say tbis. It is even a plot point
Crybaby panic!at the twenty-one fallout boy The problem is wade isnt even *in* a stack for more than 3 pages max in the book.
Icy Flames okay but when wade is climbing out of the stacks he saw a colasped stack and Mentions it was someone he knew
matpat starring in a blockbuster film makes the intro to this kinda true
*_Thank you for making this "Spoiler Free"_*
is it ? I mean. I read the book already.. wahts there to spoil :D
Nimr Al Nimri snape kills Dumbledore... lol
Well, thr movie hasn't come out yet so stating what happens in the book wouldn't technically be spoiling either
He spoiled the stacks exploding which was a tense thing i the book.
Nimr Al Nimri im pretty sure thats one of you Millon Dreams and its making you Come Alive! Lol those are two songs from the greatest showman
it's funny because now all of the movie reviews and stuff are coming out. I'm doing my usual and trying to avoid spoilers. Then, I realized that I've read the book.
Kylo Ren? The movie might be different than the book
When u r so used to avoiding spoilers u forget u already know the ending.
ok me too
your not alone XD
Kylo Ren? Omg i just relised im doing the same😂😂
"It's cold in there cornfields!"
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-Québecois.
Shouldn't that be. Bienvenue dans le province de Québec. Comment est-ce que je peux vous aider?
they have 3 seasons: last winter, this winter, and next winter.
@@littlepunktheone little correction : la province, not le
Province is a female noun so its the feminin la
I haven't read the books but I always assumed they were old RVs stacked up cause there's no land to park them or something. Basically people getting their own RVs and parking then there and maybe even selling or renting it if they move out.
I’m reading the book right now and that’s actually what they say!
I finally finished my structural engineering report and I go to relax with some youtube vids... Matpat...
The book does say that tipping over and explosions are common
Exactly, life is cheap in the dystopian future described in Ready Player One. They weren't trying to make safe, well engineered housing - the poor were trying to get by.
He does explain that in the video, along with how it's not actually cheap. That was kind of the point.
This^
Explosions common, yes, but especially when you are being assassinated, by bombing...
Clean your doorknobs yep. It totally does. And in the books everyone knows they’re stupid dangerous but they’re poor so no one gives a shit. And I don’t think they get 20 trailers high in the book. Didn’t he live on the 8th and theirs was the top level?
A spoiler free theory? Is it my birthday?
Isaiah Hunter my birthday is tomorrow
Bella 1203 he was joking he doesn’t mean it’s not actually his birthday...
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Isaiah Hunter Christmas came early this year
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As someone who studies Civil Engineering, this is accurate. He discussed things just how my teacher did. Also, even if he says it's just a theory, we really do consider those things especially when we have to calculate stuff.
*I can confirm that there are plenty of tornados and lake-effect snowstorms in Ohio. Trust me, I was born in Cleveland and have moved to Centerville- we had a snow day on the first official day of spring.*
*Edit: I was watching GTlive two days ago and I got an "extreme tornado alert" and flash flood alert on my phone. We had had thunderstorms all day and the lights would (earlier) randomly flicker at school and the auditorium ceiling started leak. I woke up that morning to a brilliant flash of white across my closed eyes, and a ground shaking thunderclap seconds later. Hail the size of tennis balls were reported in some areas, and the alarm was going on for at least a half hour. The next day it was very windy and snowing- gotta love Ohioan weather.*
Clevelanders UNITE!
YEAH!
Dude, for real. I'm from Ohio, too, and we had the same snow day. I thought it was stupid, but what can you do?
Alpha Hawkimon Same here in Iowa
Mat, Wade lives in Oklahoma (little mistake) and I live there...
help
Actually matpat, sand that can be used for construction is running out really fast, like in the next 5 years! and we can’t use desert sand, because it’s to fine.
i said this a couple theories back. quartzite sand is actually an extremely finite resource and... nobody seems to be talking about it-- funny for a buncha NEEEEERRRRDDDSSS no seriously it's for some reason on a need-to-know basis in construction and not a well known looming crisis.
Yup, was about to post that not all sand is usable in construction-grade concrete.
I think Mat should have mention something along the line of composite material that being made and testing everywhere around the world. Sand will eventually run out for construction but there already people working on recycling construction material to be reuse. That is more plausible to help keep the cost down and it will actually happen.
This really bugged me too
Also it seems like they are using it for fibre optic cable within the oasis which everyone uses so it is running out even quicker for them
MatPat seems to have a great deal of knowledge in where to go when the zombie apocalypse arrives, plant life and now architecture.
He’s getting ready for something
He did like 6 vids about zombies and how to survive them...
He has a bit *TO* much knowledge... Well...Shit, I'll die and *MATPAT* will live, shit
look on the bright side, the world will be repopulated by not-complete-retards
Adam Baker until repopulation
Gotta love it when fiction gets the things you don't think about wrong like affordable housing! Just because something sounds like it'll work on paper doesn't mean it will when put into practice!
MATPAT THE BUILDER, CAN HE THEORIZE IT, MATPAT THE BUILDER, YES HE CAN
I live in Lebanon Ohio and u know what he said about the foundation cracking well u should see my drive way
Huh, I didn't know Ohio was in the middle east
The country Lebanon is where im from, way better than your shitty city
isn't lebanon a developing country, i would know, i go to a school populated by lebanese
@@skeletonskelly5075 oof
Shoot, if MatPat did any one of the things he mentioned in the first 30 seconds of this video. *All his subscribers would fully support him all the way* I mean unless you subscribed accidentally... just letting MatPat know that we wouldn’t mind if he did any of those things... (clears throat)!
Abriana Ballesteros I would probably read a book titled “Five Nights Darker” if he wrote it.
One of the coolest MechE facts I learned is that a cantilever's moment is proportional to the width cubed. So if you half the width, you increase the bending angle by 8x given the same applied force. That has lots of cool real world effects, like how MEMS oscillators work to create clocks in circuits.
Using Bill Nye as an example of Real Science. (Ding)
Wait...
Well, he is...
I'd ilke to see you take 4 years of Applied Mathematics (Advanced multivariate calculus, linear algebra, organic/inorganic chemistry) and.Physics then build planes for 15 Years. Then teach kids on TV for 7 Years. Then fight idiots that don't understand evolution and global warming and vaccinations and flat earth society bullshit
Mat you forgot to include that in the book global warming had ravaged the planet.... Ohio’s climate may have changed.
In the book, the stacks were in Oklahoma.
Point still stands Mat constantly talked about the cold ground and snow storms so if the climate is super different like 30 degrees warmer it would cause different problems for ohio
Also buses have thick armor because it's Mad Max out there.
30 degrees warmer? Yikes, yeah that would be a bit of a ELE problem. But yes it could be warm enough that there is no frost, just had to comment on the overkill on that number.
Even without the cold, living in the Stacks is a death wish XD
Ted Mosby is proud.
They took himym off Netflix before I could watch the last video. Kill me.
It's on hulu tho
NurdzShotFirst_ But money
Sayan Mallick hey hey I see another himym fan
Sayan Mallick I watched himym on Netflix at least 11 times
As someone from Ohio, I can say that the winds here are the true masters. Right on MatPat.
One problem with this theory: While the danger of the stacks might be real, they were actually cheap to make. The book states that during the period of resource deprivation, most people couldn't afford gas for their cars and trailers, so they either left them behind or made them their home in the stacks. Therefore, the people living in the stacks would have already had their trailers, making them a lot more efficient than making concrete buildings, time-wise and cost wise because they are reusing their old trailers as homes.
KibbLe Gaming
Thank you! I was waiting for someone to point this out!
Damien Earls
Actually, Matpat had an entire section of the video talking about how the stacks aren’t cheap as the book and movie say they are, so the comment makes perfect sense. Then again, it’s possible you were just looking for someone to hate on, and you don’t care about the logic. Just thought I would explain anyways.
Christina Nightraven he states it can be cheap or expensive but that doesn't fuckin matter it's still dangerous dumb ass
Damien Earls
No one was saying that the stacks aren’t dangerous. We were just pointing out a hole in the part of his theory where he argues that the stacks are more expensive than the safe housing alternative.
Not to mention that sand suitable for concrete is actually running out, the world isn't grinding enough of it to keep up with demand. And no desert sand won't work, has to be manufactured or taken from rivers/coasts. Manufactured works ofc, but calling it cheap material at that point might be stretching it. ua-cam.com/video/E0jfn61FTGQ/v-deo.html
"I gotta a jar of di-irt, I gotta jar of di-irt, and guess whats inside it!"
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
that made my day, thanks
dirt? (sorry, i didn't watch it.)
Thanks *proceeds to drop jar and frantically searches for a heart not there*
That made my day thx 🤗😃
So I actually work in construction and honestly, matpatt is right this should not be able to work, something he didn't mention thought was about an safety program called OSHA, and they would stop the buildings before the 2 scaffolding
Osha Doesnt exist in rpo
Lol...they talking about OSHA...and 31 idiots liked the comment ...
One other thing MatPat completely ignored is that compression force also has to be sustainable by each individual trailer. If they don't, forget it sinking into the ground if you stack too many ontop of each other they are going to crush the trailers below them!
Yeah I'm with manny022 on this one, in most dystopian-future scenarios overpopulation and deregulation are out of control (I haven't read the book so I can't verify how well this story adheres to that model). In these scenarios:
-The human population is booming and there is minimal open land area left to inhabit (land other than what is desperately needed for agriculture).
-Income inequality is rampant between the lower and upper classes (the middle class is either tiny or extinct).
-Low cost housing solutions are implemented to accomodate the poorer masses (cramped, rundown apartments bordering on slums).
-A corporation, or a combination of corporations, has assumed vast amounts of wealth and resources, to the point that it/they can influence government(s) to deregulate and/or grant them legal permissions denied to the general populous.
-The combination of deteriorating circumstances, corporate influence (previously mentioned), and shrinking taxpayer funding cause deregulation across the board, regulations that would otherwise deem the stacks in RPO unsafe and unsanitary.
If you think about it, we're starting to see a little bit of each criteria irl. Not a good sign.
0:19 Don’t worry. Both “Ready Player One” and “The Greatest MatPat” kinda flopped.
MatPat: Screw you Ernest no one likes an overachiever!
Me: Says the person that always gets straight A's at school...
RhynoGames I mean, study
You say overachieve, but I don't think you quite understand what that word means. A person shooting for straight As is a person aiming for top marks. Overachieving would be adamantly pursuing above 100% via extra credit for the sake of ending with above 100% marks. But I guess someone being good at studying is a hypocrite. Got it.
Not to mention studying really isn't the only way to get straight a's. Some people can do it with almost no effort. Someone like that wouldn't be an overachiever, and could in fact be a slacker.
boom
RhynoGames
Shouldn't this episode be a...
GAME THEORY??!!
Retro Nub Irony, because he talked about films. Ready Player One was a movie about visual reality based on games. So your problem was invalid.
;-;
And he mostly talked about literally the least interesting part of the movie.
Hmm...A Game Film Theory?
*Kill Me Please*
No
Wait...
The trailers werent brought, they were left by their owners, who run out of gas, so the trailers were left there and rge governament just picked them and stack it, they were all in trailer parks unused
Carnage-Red Simbionte not the trailers he was talking about the cars in the alleys at the bottom of the stacks
The trailers were pulled by the cars how else would they get there, and the stacks are in Oklahoma in the book
Governament
Agree. The book says that there is a lot of global warming so it wouldn’t get cold. Also, the book sates that stacks fall all the time.
Lucas L however global warming has since been changed to the term global climate change because sure the worlds overall temperature rises but parts of the world actually get colder and it's not just cold or warm it's just extremes in general like more high winds more rainfall etc. so safe to say it would still be cold and probably colder. And sure even if they aren't paying for the trailers they're probably paying for the amount of damage / life loss because even if they don't care and don't reimburse the people with money for the loss they have to pay money to get a new contraction crew in to clean up and rebuild and if we're going by the science presented in the video as far as wind speeds and other stuff then these would be falling over A LOT. Ultimately costing a ton of money in that sense to go and have them constantly rebuilding.
Person: Sneezes
Building: And i've decided that, I want to die
Y'know, I know it was a joke; but if Mat wrote a book, I'd get my nose stuck in it.
What Mat doesn't think about here is that the government could (and probably would) just use old/abandoned trailer homes that they could find all over the country for instance in junk yards. This would greatly reduce the costs from the $40,000 per trailer stated in the video.
wizadry 2
Wizard. if they would do that they would run out of trailers and build them anyway. theres hundreds of them. also if its in a junkyard its prabably broken or worn out and wpould cost money to rebuild anyway
He also didn't think about the fact that the value of a trailer could drastically fall, because why get a trailer to get around, if you can just go to the OASIS and get a way better experience?
wizadry 2 yeah but who wants to live In a old rusty big infested trailer
just a little thought i had while watching:
The book/film is set in 2045, and by the course of climate change a lot of patterns are going to change. I recently did a 5 week research project on climate change, including the projected for 2050+. According to many sources, any extreme shift will be largely dependent on the human race's action in the next few years. I watched the film recently and wade said something along the lines of that everyone goes into the oasis to ignore the already problematic world. And just by looking at the always grey sky, we can probably guess that humanity has literally nothing to improve the environment. Meaning climate change in this setting is most definitely in full effect. Which we can conclude that from many sources that the earth has most probably warmed up by a few degrees changing weather, seasons among many other affects. This could potentially mean that Ohio isn't receiving any snow as according to climate change predictions, snow would now be in full force on the southern hemisphere instead. So yeah I'm a big geography nerd ;P
Still an awesome video Matpat!!!!!
edit: oml I totally forgot about the winds with climate change!!! The only research I did on winds was related to storms and how they will get more intense but silly me for some reason just forgot. Climate change encompasses a whole range of issues and I did leave some out but I totally forgot about the wind!!! But you guys are so right xD
Also I wasn't trying to address matpat's theory entirely, it just occurred to me while watching the video.
could also mean hurricane force winds are more likely, rip crappy structures
Thanks! I noted that the book mentioned climate change, but I didn’t know how much it could really change.
Yeah, that makes sense too with the architectural issues and climate issues concerned, I think they would be ok
LadyAdalicia 🤓
Literally in the movie (I read the book too) it snows at stacks at the scene where they arrest the corporate IOI owner
matpat, can i just say that its AMAZING how you have time to watch all these shows and films, do the editing of the videos, voice record the videos, write the scripts, make the theorys, do the math, do weekly uploads on all three of your channels and still have a social life (kinda)
Well duh, he pay people to help him do all of that.
So, im here for an engineering lecture? nice
demhanamlasfisa isn't that what you came for
Actually matpat, he lives in Oklahoma, but the Oasis servers are based out of Columbus so he goes there
FluidGaming Thank you! He only lives in Columbus in the movie.
This is so dumb why change that?
Isn't that worse because tornadoes?
James Tang Yeah, probably.
The book says that the world is overpopulated. This could be a dark way to eliminate some of that.
Oof I just realized that.
The Hunger Games!
Nuclear devices.
Sao
The Matrix
When Matt Pat talks about a work of media he immediately gravitates to the logistics in the background and tears them apart
Wade doesn't even stay in his trailer. He spent most of his time in his van.
Mike Voss Which is why he doesnt die..
But he still spends time in his house. And that house would't excist his car hideout wouldn't excist because he couldn't have made it because nobody that lives in the stacks could actually live there. This is of course if Matts theory is true (it sounds plausibel). You only think in the context of the film (what we are shown) but he has to live a life for the moments in the movie and books to happen and before the movie even begins he would have died or his family would never have gotten him in the first place (because they would not excist. (they dead)).
CraftyNico TV I have read the book. But that is besides the point. It seems that you have not read my whole comment. But please look at the last part of it.
MatPat: "Ohio is COLD"
Me: **laughs in northerner**
Laughs as a northerner*
Private Plazma wooooosh
@@privateplazma r/whooosh
Sup I'm Panda laughs in Minnesota.
*laughs in corn*
Tornado happens. ROLL CREDITS!
**When you're a Malaysian and you heard the word "Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur"**
Me: I'm so proud of our country we actually have some recognition for once-
Wait, he said that?
Yes and yes
Oh no he was talking about a book. Next thing you know he is gonna make Book theory 😆
FellowCaleb that’s my theory stuff stop it
Umm it's a movie. If we disregarded Film Theories where the show or movie had a book as its precessor, we'd lose a pretty good chunk.
I'm still waiting for that channel to come out. Along with one for Broadway Musicals XD
FellowCaleb I am so here for all the Harry Potter theories
I hope he does
I just wanted to point out that the cost of building the stacks does not cost anything. They are using the scrap from their own vehicles and junkyards. As for getting the trailers up there, we also know that they use cranes. Even further, the trailers were already owned by people before the big economic crisis. People just drove them in, as they had no need for them because of the gasoline shortage, and stacked them up using the cranes. Also, according to the books, Wade is actually living in Oklahoma City, before moving to Columbus, Ohio for incognito access to the Oasis from IOI due to the GSS headquarters being located there after his Aunt's trailer gets blown up by IOI. The previous sentence does not contribute to my point, but I felt the need to point it out anyways.
Finluz right! What if the framing is on the outside by using the polls like shelves.But it's not just any framing its also the foundation as well. By going deeper into the ground. And suggesting we build housing with better materials in 2045.The wind will go threw the poles taking some of the force that the wind causes. Mat Pat doesn't know what the housing is mad of and he cant suggest the cost before he knows how the rations work with money in the future. 20dollars now could be 50 in the future. Or maybe metal is worth more than gold.
Finluz you scared the movie will be a mockery of the book to? I'm really hoping it's done right
They just said "stack them son bitch's"
you’re totally right! i also noticed when matpat said wade lived in ohio.
con566 eyyyyy
PLEASE do another Ready Player One video! This one was great but I see potential for another topic :)
The stacks: exist
Oversimplified: only one problem: THE WIND
I do a little dance to your intro song every time.
Openingband
Same. Sometimes I have to do it in my head tho
Ok...
I lost my virginity to his intro song
Openingband I thought I was the weirdo of the group
Openingband same
And yet, I've heard of you and not of... What's his name again? Ah, Ernest!
CastleKingMe that’s your own fault
I'm sure there are people I've heard of that you haven't, I don't spend all day looking up who every famous person on earth is, because there are too many.
CastleKingMe Eh, who again?
Also, Ready player one is almost a ripoff of Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson except with pop-culture references.
Here's the thing, matpat is internet based, there's for sure more people heard of matpat since you know it's the fcking internet, millions of millenials are using their phones in a daily basis, while on the other hand Ernest Cline is a novelist who literally only made 2 novels in his entire life. Hes sold millions of copies that towers over MatPat's subscriptions. And to add to that, books actually costs money and subscribing costs nothing. There are other authors out there who you probably never heard of, because I assume you don't read books right? Authors like Charles Dickens who published classics like A Christmas Carol which is massively popular, in fact he even invented paperbacks and bookmarks. To conclude, there are different demographics of people out there that has different groups based on what they like. For example, you are more of an internet person than a reader right? A lot of readers prolly never heard of FilmTheory before because they aren't exposed to this demographic, same goes to you, you prolly don't know about famous authors out there just because you don't read books. It's just ignorant and naive of you to say that if you don't know them, that they aren't famous. Mic drop*
Wades trailer is a double wide, and houses 16 people! It is not cheaper to have concrete houses. Also, they are not stacking the trailers perfectly even, they are tilting them so they take up more surface area, therefore it would be tougher to fall over. Also, the stacks have many support beam running between the separate stacks to reinforce the stacks.
* Beams
Constructive criticism!!!
That's what I was thinking throughout this whole vid...
How is it not cheaper if 600SQFT of trailer are 40000 and 600SQFT of housing is 34434 just because there are 16 people in the trailer ? There can also be multiple people in a flat and it would still be safer even considering the tilting and between stack reinforcements .
And in the book Wade mentions that they fall sometimes. It's not unheard of in the Stacks.
It's been a while since I read the book, but if I remember it correctly they used trailers because the people came to the cities in search for work with their trailers and these trailers had to be parked somewhere. So it wasn't a conscious decision pro trailerstacks and against apartments, they just had to get rid of the trailers and had to create homes at the same time.
13:25 well, the Stacks' trailers aren't exactely… new. And most are stacked criss-cross, not straight onto each other.
I was wondering about that too. Every time they show an illustration of the stacks, they're lined up, but the movie footage he keeps showing appears to be *criss-crossed.* Not that I think the criss-cross pattern would be much better, but _I was still expecting him to address it..._
@@ChaosRayZero and the Stacks are most likely made of second-hand trailers. Most of them even look like they have a build date from the 80's, 90's and 00's. So they're probably cheaper than new flatappartements would be in the 2030's and 2040's, in terms of both material and construction costs (for the construction company) and rent (for the residents. Altough i doubt the latter would be true, given the story takes place in a distopian future version of the States led by corrupt, incapable politicians and tyrannical, powerlust-driven businessmen. 😅
@@ChaosRayZero by the way, about that criss-cross thing. Ever played Jenga? If yes, ever tried to make the highest-possible tower by only taking the side pieces and keeping the centrepieces in place? If yes, you would know how unstable that tower gets. If you would stack the same Jenga blocks straight onto each other, that tower will be a lot more stable. Same with the Stacks.
(Gosh those people are in even more trouble than MatPat claimed they were. 😅)