because i'm on location scouting for information
on a episode that
may or may not be about "Assassins Creed"
when i say im gonna give you an assassins creed video
i give you an assassins creed video-
half a year later!
and that's a MatPat guarantee!
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Hello internet, welcome to "Game Theory"
A show thats just as complex as "Bioshocks infinites ending
with a fraction of the production value!
So about the whole assassins creed thing
Back in december i did a minecraft episode before heading out on my honeymoon
where i traveled to Isreal, to Jordon, Rome, and Paris
And knowing that Isreal and Rome were locations
in all the ass. creed games
im like "Clearly im gonna find something to talk about"
and i did i found that "Solomens Temple" from the first game
an ancient city called "Peatra"
that had been carved in the middle of the cliffs
in the "Jordanian Desert"
It was awesome but...that was it
And an episode that short would be more dissapointing than the ending of a "NES game"
so than i thought maybe i could expose the games
scewed perception of middle eastern geography
When suddenly it dawned on me..
That would be the lamest topic for an episode EVER
Than "Vsause 3" did a amazing video on the history of the templars
and it got like a million views
and so that was out,
and than "SadMatPat" was sad
But than you loyal theorists
came to the rescue
and told me on facebook
that you wanted to see the truth on passing memories through genes
and i was all like
"like that could ever happen"
until i did the research!
and than things started to get interesting...
so for those of you who arnt familiar with the "ass. creed" series
The majority of the games dont take place in real time
but actually take place inside memories
that have been passed down between generations
you play as Desmond
a real go getter
who decided at age 16
that he no longer wanted
to continue his super secret assassins creed spy training
That he decided he was destined for something bigger something great
so he moved to New York and became a bartender
anyway
This stereotypical failing actor
Inhearited memories
from his much cooler assassin ancestors
apparently in the assassins creed world
memories can be passed down from
generation to generation
Transmited through the bloodlines DNA
these valuable memories
which results in desmond getting his hoddie wearing
new yorker self kidnapped
and thrown into a machine called "The animus"
which is capable of reading genetic memories
its a cool effect
and a intersting plot device
but lets be honest here
it also kinda ruins the suspence of the game
becuase your ancestors must have lived to pass down the memories
but for us today it raises a interesting point
can memories be passed down
through genetic matieral
is there a way that we can see
into the minds of our ancestors?
the famous phycologist "Carl Jung"
seemed to think so
and the designers of assassins creed
definitly knew this
Jung came up with the theory of the collective uncouncious
basically that humans shared certain memories
from the evolution of the brain
according to Jung this "Collective Unconscious"
contains Archetypes
or universal behavior and traits
one of which he called the "Anima" and "Animus"
The anima is the feminin impulses in a male
and the animus is the masculine impulses in a female
Animus is a latin word that translates to
"memory" in english
so it makes perfect sense that Ubisoft would
so it makes perfect sense why ubisoft would use that
name for their memory reading machine
its also worth noting that assassins creed
isn't the only game to reference this psychological theory
for example at the risk of
exposing a minor spoiler for a 12 year old game
so excuse me there
the summoned "Anima"
in "Final Fantasy X"
was so named because
it represents the spirit of the villians mother
Yeah that big bucket of fugly is a girl!
"Dayum seamore your moma so ugly she makes
the fable prostitutes look good!
Jungs theory attempts to explain why all humans
share a set of basic instincts
like yawning, blushing
and post-micturition convulsion
aka the post pee shiver
i mean if theres one memory weve all learned to share
its the post pee shiver right?
but there's one problem
instincts arnt the result of memory or learning
theyre actually a result of "fapping" in the brain
not the DOA extreme beach volleyball version of fapping ;)
nor do i mean fraps, frapps, taps, snaps, or claps
but FAPS, F-A-P-S
fixed action patterns
basically instincts arnt memories at all
but brain shortcuts
but brain short cuts for responding to certain stimuli
For example, seeing someone else yawn
prompts you to yawn
overtime
this reflex has proven to give us
a evolutionary advantage
and thus got hard wired into our brain
Via evolution
its a compulsion you have no control over
if "A" happens go directly to action "B"
do not pass go do not collect 200 dollars
in the end genes are the one dictating the structure
and chemistry of the brain and thus the formation of memories
it doesn't work in reverse
acquiring new memories doesn't affect our DNA
and thus it cant be passed to future generations
so the possibility of passing memories through DNA seems just like a theory
a scientific theory!
Or it was. Until this year
in the beggining of january 2013
yeah were talking some cutting edge research here
the scientific journal "Nature"
reported on a project
were researchers were basically making flashdrives
made out of DNA
Hows it work?
Well DNA is made out of 4 different and interlocking bases
Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine
what scientists have done
is create a code
using these four bases
to represent a computers binary code
of zeros and ones
DNA bases form the binary code
that a computer can than translate
to documents, images, and sound files
already the team has successfully encoded
all 154 of shakespeare's sonets,
a 26 second audio clip from martin luther kings "i have a dream" speech
and a file explaining how how all this data was converted into DNA
the genetic material inside each and everyone one of our cells
according to the team
41 grams of DNA
will fit 1 million gigabytes of data
and unlike laserdiscs, VHS tapes, and the 8 track
DNA will never become obsolete
I mean researchers have found usable DNA dating back to a 60,000 year old mammoth
so going back to assassins creed
while it may not be possible to retrieve the memories of Altair
due to the technical limitations of his time
Desmond could easily start transferring his memories now
so that little Desmond Jr can relive his ancestors memories
of reliving his ancestors memories
Its Assinception!
the trick right now though is that its expensive
in fact in a bizzare twist
we can find out just how much it would cost to have
Desmonds memories encoded
according to the research team
it costs 12400 dollars
to turn every MB of data into a corresponding strand of DNA
now lets just assume
That the entire Assassins creed disc
represents all of Desmonds genetic memory
The maximum amount of data
one of the xbox 360s dual layered discs
is about 8 GB
but due to limitations
during the DVD burning process
the usual is actually around 6.8 GB
That means Desmonds memories
or one assassins creed disc
would cost 6,800 MB times 12400 dollars
or $84,320,000!
to encode into DNA
but thats not all
the animus project is all about decoding these memories
back into a usable form
for that it costs 220 dollars per MB
that adds another cool 1.5 million dollars
to the overall price
That means that you too can have a entire
xbox 360 game disc
worth of memories encoded into DNA
and read back to you
for the low low bargain price
of 86 million dollars
and here we thought paying 60 bucks for a new release was bad
in fact you could get
you could get over 1,433,000 new games for that price
needless to say genetic memory
may not be the most cost effective methoud
of storage right now
making it the obvious 1st choice of format for the next playstation console
but to wrap things up
with assassins creed
ubisoft in 2007
was succesfully able to predict the next use
of genetic research
6 years before these studies had any kind of public attention
now if only they were better at predicting release dates
for games like rayman legends
But that's just a thoery
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