MatPat: Today we're going to touch on a subject that's long overdue.
So overdue, in fact, that I've "Been Drowning" In requests.
Eh, Eh? See what I did there?
Been Drowning in requests?
Ben Drowned?
Ugh, I'm talking about the Ben Drowned Creepypasta, OK?
*All Echo-y*, The story goes that on
September 7th, 2010, a 4-Chan user by the name of
Jadusable, Posted about a strange "Majora's Mask"
Cartridge an old man had given him
*Starting to get distorted* : Over the coming days, he began documenting it
Like all the strange things the cartridge was doing,
Including: Graphical Glitches Altered- *Illegible words*
*Creepy Laugh*
???: You've met with a Terrible fate, Haven't you?
MatPat: What's that? What's going on?
???: You shouldn't have made a Ben Drowned Theory...
MatPat: Wait, A second, I know that voice... You're The "GrapeJellyPlayer!"
PBG: Um.. PeanutButterGamer... Actually.
MatPat: Yeah, That's Pretty much what I said. What are you doing here? Again.
PBG: Well, I've been messing around with Skyward Sword Hacks,
PBG: And I found a code that lets me hack into ANY video
PBG: That mentions "Zelda"
MatPat: Really? Is that like a part of YouTube Red?
PBG: Uh... No? What are you even talking about? We're doing a Collab Video, Remember?
MatPat: *chuckles* Oh yeah, that's right! Sorry, I ran out of Diet Coke and my brain's been a bit Fuzzy Lately.
PBG: Oh... That explains it!
MatPat: Explains What?
PBG: "Ben Drowned"? I mean, you're really scrapin' the bottom of the barrel here, man.
PBG: Clearly, You're not on form. I mean, I talked about "Ben Drowned", like, 3 years ago, and even then, it was
PBG: It was kinda old news.
MatPat: Well, do you have any better ideas, Mr."Butter Gamer"?
PBG" Actually, I do!
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MatPat: Hello, Internet! Welcome to GameTheory!
Proudly Riding the Search Trends Of PeanutButterGamer's "Zelda Month"
Since 2013
And this year over on his channel,
For the Top 8 Useless Zelda Items
I make no small issue about the absurdity of
wallets in Zelda games.
I mean, Link can shove a slingshot, a hoverboard, multiple bombs,
2 grappling hooks and a giant ball-and-chain into his pants!
But he has a limit on the number of rupees he can cram in there too?
Huh. I don't think so.
PBG: But on the subject of rupees, one question the world wants to know is...
How much are they worth in real life?
I mean who wouldn't want their very own rupee?
They're so...
So SHINY!
The value of a Zelda rupee is something I've wanted to tackle for a really long time.
So long, In fact, that other YouTubers seem to have beaten me to the punch.
But My Conclusions
are going to be very different
so let's hop right in our first challenge here is figuring out what
exactly a rupee is made out of the first hint as to what their real-world
equivalent is comes from the first game "The Legend Of Zelda". Here, the games intro
screen refers to them as rupees miss spelled with an i
however the manual calls them rubies as in the red gemstone. PBG: but clearly that's a
localization error right?
rubies are exclusively red and in Zelda rupees come in all sorts of different
colors green purple blue black so even though the names are similar they can't
really be the same thing. MatPat: Woah-ho take off your bunny hood and slow down there
Nutella- Sportsman
then the word ruby is actually just a fancy name for an impure form of the
mineral "corundum", the second hardest mineral on earth after diamond. Pure
corundum is colorless
but if an element like chromium is present when it's forming this otherwise
colorless mineral adopt a nice red color
this is what we know as a ruby but if red jewelry is out of season no worries
corundum is also available in orange blue yellow purple green black pretty
much any color of the rainbow or Zelda rupee
but Rubies are red I hear you saying and you're absolutely right they are these
non-red corundum gems are actually called sapphires
wait what it's crazy isn't it we normally think of sapphires as being
blue gemstones right but they can also be yellow purple orange green pretty
much any color depending on the other elements that are present when the stone
is forming and get this a sapphire and Ruby are no more different from each
other than a blue diamond is from a red diamond at the end of the day the red
and blue diamonds are still diamonds made of the same material:Carbon! just
like how red rubies and blue sapphires are still made of corundum we just call
them fancy names based on their color
ok mr. game hypothesizer see, I can play the call the special guest a weird name
game too - what makes you so sure that they're not made of any other mineral
well the shape, minerals can fall into one of seven crystal families depending
on the way their atoms tend to arrange themselves (their shape) things like pyrite and
diamonds tend to form cubes so they fall into the cubic family
the other families are triclinic monoclinic orthorhombic tetragonal
and hexagonal depending on the game Zelda the rupee's are either shaped like a
hexagonal bipyramids or hexagonal bifrustum
either way you slice it Zelda rupees clearly fall into the hexagonal family
and guess which family corundum just so happens to belong to
that's right Hexagonal! that's another score for corundum. PBG:OK so we're limited
to only members of the hexagonal family that narrows it down but what about
emeralds aquamarines and morganite
they're all fancier names for the mineral barrel and they come in almost
the same colors as corundum oh I had no idea you cared so much about minerals
that rocks pun definitely intended
oh I don't i was just reading of a Wikipedia article i pulled up and I got
bored listening to you
oh well sure barrel is a fine candidate but we haven't brought up the last piece
of evidence
Pleochroism PBG:Liopleurodon? unicorn A:it's a leopleurodon, charlie unicorn B:magical leopleurodo
Pleochroism
it's an optical illusion that only certain gems are able to create, where
changing the angle you're viewing the gemstone from will subtly shift the
color of the stone crystallographers not only used to determine the price of a
gemstone but also use it to determine what sort of gemstone they're looking at
simply turning a gem in your hand can be a really easy way to find out whether
you're looking at say a green emerald or a green sapphire now if you look at any
hi-res rupee found in ocarina of time you can see that as they rotate their
colors darken and lighten that's textbook pleochroism minerals like
diamond and garnet don't do this but gem quality corundum does in fact corundum
is one of the only minerals that not only comes in multiple colors but also
exhibits moderate to strong pleochroism no matter what color it is
barrel also exhibits pleochroism but not at the level corundum is able to
achieve and certainly not to the level that we see it exist in the
game in short from the name to the color variety to the crystal structure to the
refraction all sources . towards the fact that rupees are indeed rubies and
sapphires corundum-based gemstones
alright alright rupees are rubies discovery of the century oh how we
marvel at how smart and insightful you are but cut the chase how much are these
guys worth
well to calculate that we're gonna have to find their height volume and density
in the majora's moon episode i calculated young link's height of just
over four foot two inches PBG:wait wasn't he 10 feet tall?
no no that was wario oh my bad
no not yours mine definitely mine so we can use the links light to calculate the
length of all the edges of the in-game rupees and then use those numbers to
calculate the area of hexagonal base and use that number to calculate the volume
of the entire rupee
easy peasy PBGbies PGB:sounds super exciting
I'm just gonna be over here playing tri Force heroes to help me concentrate
so link measures in at four feet two inches and the in-game rupees are almost half
that size at just over two feet or 60 1.51 centimeters tall and measuring apex
apex five inches or 12 point 7 centimeters wide since the base of the
rupee is a hexagon with three sets of parallel edges that makes calculating
its area much easier
it can be divided into two perfectly congruent isosceles trapezoid
so we only need to find the area of one trapezoid and then multiply it by 2
reflexive property for the win
so the area of the trapezoid is base one plus base 2 / 2 x heights base one is
15.5 inches base 2 is 24 . 22 inches and the height is 2.5 inches
plug in the numbers and we get 49.6 five inches squared and since as we said we
have to trapezoids the total area of the base of the rupee is 99.3 square inches
or six hundred forty point six
four square centimeters ho boy time for the volume
how can i read this part of the script please I haven't had enough speaking
line yet
knock yourself out the volume of a by pyramid is to third space area times
height
we already know our base area is 99.3 square inches and our height from base
to apex is 2.5 inches so plugging the numbers in we get 165 . 5 cubic inches
or 2712 point o five cubic centimeters
that was fun I do this more often anytime my friend since rubies are
colored that means that they're impure forms of corundum the density of impure
corundum varies because well it's impure
but the density of sapphire tends to be around 65 . 22 grams per cubic inch or
three point nine eight grams per cubic centimeter
that means get this we have ten thousand seven hundred ninety three point nine
grams or 24 pounds of green sapphire on her hands for a single rupee
jeez forget about Iron Boots just wrap your giants quality your back and you'll
sink faster than a sack of gorons the price for green sapphire is anywhere
between 250 and seven hundred sixty dollars per carat now using what we
learned about crystallography from the Minecraft a diamond armor episode we can
assume that these opaque green rupees are going to skew towards the lower end
of that price range meaning that drum roll please
we're finally able to get the value of a single green Ocarina of Time rupee which
is get this an astonishing
13 million four hundred ninety 2448 dollars and seventy-five cents
no wonder link goes around smashing everyone's pots to find these things and
really puts into perspective how much you're paying for that refill of bombs
that you might competitor you truly are a beautiful gem of a human being
thanks for having me on cartridge guesser and thank you for having me on
your channel to complain about wallets and other stupid items like magic armor
which now knowing the value of a rupee makes even less sense
Oh give me upset just thinking about it you should mention that they can go
watch our other video by clicking the spinning rupee right there
I think you just did my friend I think you just did
but hey that's just a theory
a GAME theory thanks for watching
but seriously click that rupee
you'll be glad you did we're pretty hilarious and while you're at it
subscribe to both our channel since we're cool guys to do cool videos about
cool games or at least that's what MatPat say anyway
personally I'm not so sure about the cool part well cool guys is a relative
term
we did just spend a couple paragraphs analyzing the dimensions volume and
density of fictional video game currency and then nerding out over geometric
formulas so cool by internet standards
I guess maybe and speaking of excessive amounts of money last time on the super
amazing and card tournament
when asked whether you wanted to find your true soul mates or 10 million
dollars in cash
sixty-two percent of you chose true love a soul mates where is everyone else
voted for cash
10 million dollars though it's still not going to get you a single green rupee
from legend of zelda crazy this time no vote just check out the video over on
PPG's channel or if you want more zelda math click over here to see me analyze
one of my favorite Zelda items of all time
the hook shot and find out why it's perhaps the most deadly item in links
arsenal but not to the enemy, to link himself
thanks for having me on, cartridge guesser