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Hello internet welcome to game theory where each episode is like unlocking a treasure chest of knowledge
Hey, listen. We have a big anniversary coming up april, eighteenth officially commemorates our first year of theories
So why do we celebrate this momentous occasion by honoring you guys the fans?
Honestly this show would be nothing without you you the commenters on YouTube debating the
Pronunciation of Aerith's name you the bonus point players prompting me to dig deeper into my knowledge of Pop culture
You the bloggers who spur open and honest [conversation] about the show?
But especially you the fans who write in week after week with your own brilliant suggestions for future episodes so today
We're starting a countdown of my top five favorite
Viewer-submitted
Episodes because let's face it what self-respecting gamer doesn't love a good countdown
So enough gushing let's start with number five coming from Ronnie host of his own shows
Digressing in side-questing and random internet encounters who suggested looking at the real-life
Equivalents of Zelda items I've always thought that links satchel is a lot like mary poppins is carpetbag
Magically producing things like fishing poles highly and hoverboards and my personal favorite a giant oversized ball and chain
Seriously our little elf boy. Can't even carry this thing, but when it's in his pack poof weightless a
Video game logic, you're the reason this show exists anyway
There's a lot of things will cover eventually the lens of truth fire arrows and of course the hook shot
But today, we're focusing on potions and power bracelets is there such a thing as a real-life blue health potion
How about a green drink that instantly boosts your stamina and can wearing a bracelet actually make you stronger today?
I'm telling you everything you need [to] equip yourself to be the healthiest hero on the block
But be warned this alternative medicine of the Zelda universe may come with some unexpected
side effects in the original legend of Zelda old hags living in caves sell
Mysterious red and Blue Liquids calling it medicine. Yeah like that's not sketchy
Oh, but wait
It's service with a smile well, then in that case this business
is
Totally legit link always a sucker for homeless cave women
Decides to purchase some blue Brewski holding on to it until he's gummed to death by a [roguelike]
Like before shotgunning it and recovering all his heart's so we're looking for [a] blue potion that'll cure whatever ails
Ya from a rock to the face to a bad case of dark nuts
So what's our green-clad hero chugging?
Probably colloidal silver a colloid is the substance evenly dispersed throughout another substance in this case
Silver Particles are dispersed in water and yes
You heard right that means you're literally?
Drinking metal colloidal silver is often sold as a blue liquid and is promoted as a cure-all
Able to fix everything from sore throats to eye infections to zits
It's in fact while researching this episode at the local green grocer the man behind me at the cash register
Insisted his friend swears by the stuff saying that it cured a problem in his foot
But before you go off running to the nearest whole foods to spend your well-earned rupees be warned Silver [has] no
Biological function in the body and none of the miracle cure claims have been proven by science
You know what has been proven by science though that drinking colloidal silver will turn you blue
Literally take a look at Stan Jones and Paul [Karis] on here
No, these images aren't doctored these two men have a condition called Argyria
Which is permanently tattooed their skin eyes?
Tongues and lips blue now all they need is some drums in a shaved head and they could have their own Las Vegas show
Argyria comes from an
Improper long-term exposure to silver so it should come as no surprise that both men have been drinking our little blue potion for years
so if you
Really suck at Zelda and chug a couple hundred of these potions link Sprite will actually turn blue
Try it. I dare you let me know how it turns out for you blue skin now
That's what you get for trusting someone who sells medicine in a cave
jumping from Link's first game to his most recent
How about a green potion for Stamina in Skyward Sword the Green potion which for many years replenished Magic now increases your stamina?
Allowing you to run for longer distances without getting tired
There's even a side quest dedicated to it you're effeminate friend fledge who for some reason always sounds on the verge of orgasm
demands that you give him some because
Lord knows no one actually does anything for themselves in the zelda universe in the course of a day this miracle drink helps him go
from doing 60 pushups to
4,000 yeah sign me up for some of that so what's green safe to drink and will supposedly help improve your stamina grass
No, joke drinking silver and chasing it down with a glass of grass
How did I not realize that this would cure all of my medical problems?
But not just any grass wheat grass the organic World Superfood
They say that eating one pound of wheatgrass is the nutritional equivalent of eating
23 pounds of other vegetables not only that but they say that it prevents tooth decay it reduces high blood pressure
Improves digestion prevents hair from Grain works against the common cold coughs chronic fatigue
skin conditions Alters and even fights against cancer and aids
That's good grass
Finally in experiments done by some guy looking to sell his books on the benefits of wheatgrass
He claimed it increases stamina as mice that were fed this
Superfood ran in their little cage wheels more than mice that didn't eat the grass in numbers that were quote
outrageously higher now
Call me a skeptic, but I didn't doubt any scientific study that used the word outrageous just described its results
So I've set my own experiment
Probably just as scientific as this guy's one for this test. I grew my own wheat grass
Seriously. Oh, just slap some overalls on you and call me farmer mat a couple with some other common ingredients
I found online and recipes I've developed the perfect
green stamina potion
(blending)
Now all that's left is to test it
[Hmm]
Tastes like I'm eating my lawn three thousand nine hundred ninety eight three thousand nine hundred ninety nine
four thousand so here's the thing this part of the video was supposed to be me chugging wheatgrass while doing push-ups and running on a treadmill
But I got sick after drinking the wheatgrass and you want to know why?
Because the energy and stamina that come from drinking wheatgrass
Actually come [from] little micro organisms that grow on the plant itself
And as far as 23 pounds of other vegetables equaling 1 pound of wheatgrass
Complete lie considering that bolt broccoli and spinach
Match at point for point
Memorial sloan-kettering is a world leader in medical research and a place where my fiancee stephanie worked at [for] a while
They found that all the claims about wheatgrass were either founded in
Incomplete tests were tested at all or best of all
defied the laws of
medicine, huh, go figure
Wow, it looks like I did more push-ups today than I did yesterday it must be the wheatgrass. I'm Gonna
Go write a book about it and make millions
after I roll this way
Finally we jump back to the original legend of Zelda to look at the power
Bracelet which gives link increased strength allowing him to push big rocks, but only four certain rocks
Hey, it's a very selective bracelet okay, so is there such a thing as a bracelet that can make you stronger
Yes, and not just stronger
but also more flexible and with greater an unbalanced check out power balance a rubber band with a
holographic sticker
But not just any holograph like on those Pokemon
Cards that are so popular with the kids these days a sticker that has been specially
Treated to resonate with and respond to the natural energy fields of the body don't believe me
We'll call me Levar burton because you don't have to take my word for it. Just look at celebrities like Robert
De Niro P diddy and Bill Clinton
Or athletes like Shaquille o'neal and Lamar odom to see what holographic vibrational body
Technology can do for you the preceding message would have been brought to you by Power balance if they hadn't gone bankrupt
Look, I know you guys are smart because hey you're watching my show, so I don't need to explain to you how
ridiculous these claims are let's just say this when
repeated tests kept showing that these bands produce none of their promised benefits a
Representative of the company stated quote we admit that there is no credible scientific evidence and supports to our claims
Therefore we engaged in
misleading conduct end quote don't you hate it when science gets in the way of your scheme to rip off hundreds of gullible consumers and
Yet people still claim these power and wellness bracelets actually work
Just like they believe that drinking silver with a wheatgrass chaser is keeping them healthy, so what's it all mean?
And what does any of this have to do with the legend of Zelda well?
Let's take one last look at what links got stuffed into that satchel of his a green potion for Stamina
That's no better for you than a glass of V8 a blue potion that literally turns you into Santa Smurf and a rubber band with
A shiny sticker or research today has shown [that] these things just don't work the way that
They're advertised and yet people still swear by them claiming miraculous results
Drinking silver to stay healthy even after they've already been stained blue or lining up in Whole foods to pay for ten
Twenty Dollars for liquefied lawn
Clippings link would probably be right there with them appearing next to lamar odom to sing the praises of Tryon z
fans and at least in the games
They certainly seem to help our hero link is able to run longer fight harder and push heavy rocks after obtaining these items
So what gives is my theory just wrong do I for the first time have to say that there are no real life?
equivalents for these items heck no in both real life and Zelda land it all boils down to the
Placebo [effect] the phenomenon of a useless substance like a sugar pill
Resulting in an improvement in a patient's medical condition in short
It's all about expectations if a patient perceives something as a powerful
Medication it can heal them if he views it as harmful. It can have negative effects in this way the human mind has unbelievable
Healing powers for instance in one test subjects who had gotten a tooth pulled were given a saline injection medically
Useless for relieving pain and yet when they were told it was a powerful painkiller
it worked just as well as
Morphine and in general the worse the pain the stronger [the] effect so say link is about to die
Takes a swig of his magic cave wench medicine believing [it'll] heal him and somehow he finds the strength to keep going
It's not what he's been drinking that gives him the strength to keep fighting. It's his
Expectations that this potion will heal him stop the pain and put an end to that, obnoxious
beeping sound and unlike claims about colloidal silver or wheatgrass
this has been proven by science the Placebo effect has also been shown to work against fatigue and
can give increased
Strength in other words Link had the power within him the whole time
And he was just being held back by what he mentally thought were his limitations
These items are doing nothing more than helping him realize his potential and isn't that what this series is about
Anyway a young boy who is destined for greatness slowly?
Realizing that he has had this power locked away within him the whole time it isn't about
Potions or power bands to survive to the next dungeon it's about pushing yourself
Unlocking the courage to get back up and keep fighting wait
Locking courage, huh, coincidence. I think not
Anyway, it's all just a theory a game theory bottoms up
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