Game Theory: Spiderman DESTROYED New York! (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)

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doing science until you drop classifying the heroes using maps angry commentators and they are on a raft watch out here comes game theory hello internet welcome to game theory the show that looks good in tights today our focus is on

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-man specifically,

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morals should probably clarify that now that there are two

spider

-men in town, well, actually only one since peter parker took a well-deserved vacation, but still mj headed abroad in search of the bugle and He asked me as his photographer as a kind of job. vacation for us, so let's not let Peter distract us here, we have much more interesting things to talk about today because with a new Spider-Man comes new powers and with new powers comes a new responsibility.

You see, Spider-Man Miles Morales just came out. and as update 2.0, the original spider-man got some extra features besides his standard spider abilities.

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has camouflage capabilities and bioelectricity now don't even get me started on this maybe get me started on this a little because first off camouflage is cool you got special DNA powers from a spider bite that makes you invisible. That's all well and good, but why can your clothes change too? These are DNA based powers. I'm not asking for a streak or a man running around town. I'm just saying that your DNA magic shouldn't be able to cover up your literal complaint number two.

Your bioelectricity is called poison attacks. Yes, that will not be confused with another character in this franchise. Oh, digression over, thanks for letting me get that out of my mind. chest anyway thanks to the electrocharged venom powers of miles miles succeeds in a battle against the rhino where peter fails is enough to make pete realize that he is quickly becoming obsolete bioelectricity wow i have to be honest, a little jealous now, of course these electrical abilities are useful during combat, but to me there is something much more interesting about him throughout the game: Miles is forced to use his body as a capacitor, also known as a council, which stores electrical energy, sometimes it is absorbing energy from security systems to shut it down or break through electrified barriers, sometimes it is powering things like a two-legged battery with excellent musical taste, but without a doubt the most impressive feat we see thousands achieve comes at the end, so spoiler warning because it's kind of impossible to talk about the game's big climactic scene without knowing how to say everything that happens.

During that scene, the game's final mission, the Battle for Harlem, features the climactic showdown between our two opposing forces. In this corner is Roxon, a megacorporation that promises to deliver high-efficiency energy to all of Harlem with its innovative new fuel source called new. what you are standing next to is a new form reactor there is no point in guessing the new form is really dangerous someone will worry about a few sick people in the city or a dead engineer prolonged exposure to it can result in health defects like bone marrow decay and in our other corner is the high-tech terrorist group known as the underground vigilantes who are trying to expose Roxanne's evil business practices.

If you're wondering why the Underground is one of the bad guys here and their way of sending a message about The Perils of Roxanne isn't, you know, whistleblowing or contacting the news or anything like that, but rather doing blow up a reactor which will actually cause an explosion that will destroy all of Harlem. You won't just destroy Roxanne Plaza. vaporize all of Harlem after a battle against the leader of the underground, the Tinker Miles, finally reaches the reactor and in the same way we have seen him drain the power of electrical devices throughout the city, Miles extracts the energy from the reactor, but Of course, that's a lot of energy and miles, since a human condenser has to do something with all that, keep them away.

I can't take this much longer. Fortunately, the subway boss changes his mind at the last minute and decides to help Miles by grabbing him and flying high over the city so that when he releases the huge explosive discharge of energy nothing and no one will be close enough to be hurt in the end. Miles survives. so she can return for the sequel, Harlem is saved and the fixer has a final heroic sacrifice, but since we never see the body, she can always return to the sequel if they so choose. That final scene is, frankly, an impressive display of power, bravery, and self-sacrifice.

It's also completely useless, oh sure it may seem. All heroic, but Miles Morales fails to protect the city at this time. Miles completely ruins the rescue of New York City and kills millions, but to understand why we must first look a little closer at the reactor at the beginning of the game, we see a great presentation from the head of Roxanne's Research and Development, Simon Krieger, when we discovered that this reactor is powered by a fictional fuel source known as Nuform. Just one canister of this revolutionary fuel source is enough to supply Harlem with clean, safe energy for the next 500 years, of course, new way.

It's actually making people sick, which means it's a threat to everyone in Harlem, to which I say, why wouldn't you build a power plant somewhere else like, I don't know, in the middle of the desert? That's literally what's done with tons of other real-world power plants. Guess what the existence of electrical grids does so that the power plant that supplies power to all of Harlem doesn't have to be in Harlem? In fact, tons of people in New York City have their homes powered by electricity generated by Niagara Falls. which is like 400 miles away, you can even keep him using the robotic help that we know exists in the Marvel universe or just use some of the holograms that we see throughout the game.

Roxanne's plan to build her power plant causes illness in the environment. of a population center is not only bad, but let's face it, it's just bad business, seriously, have you looked at New York City real estate prices? A moderate sized commercial building will cost you almost a billion ab dollars, maybe it's time to quit. youtube and becoming an accountant for an evil corporation will probably save them a ton of money. Does Amazon have a chance since a single newly shaped container has enough energy to power Harlem for 500 years? All we need to know is how much energy Harlem consumes in a year and then multiply it by 500.

Fortunately, we have a useful tool to calculate this exact number thanks to VJ Moddy, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University. This map shows New York City's estimated annual energy consumption on a granular block-by-block basis. The total base of all of Harlem gives us a total of, let's see, we carry about 91,860 megawatt hours per year, which means that if a single reshaped container has enough energy to power Harlem for 500 years, it contains a total of 45 .93 million. megawatt hours or put it in units if, which will make our later calculations easier 165.3 million gigajoules why aren't you impressed?

Oh, I know because those numbers don't make sense. I've been doing this for a decade and I still can't do it automatically. look at megawatt hours or gigajoules and know if it's a really impressive number or not, to put those numbers in perspective, the amount of energy thousands is absorbing from the reactor is about 95, the amount of energy from the sun that reaches the earth in a second. or five times more than what all the nuclear power plants on Earth generate each day, it is 2,625 times more energy than that unleashed by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II and that is only the energy of a single canister of things at the end of the game we are told that Miles has to stop the reactor because if it explodes, the resulting explosion would destroy all of Harlem.

Not only will you destroy Roxanne Plaza, you will vaporize everything. Harlem, but wow, this would go way beyond just destroying Harlem. The most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was the Tsar bomb, which was created by the USSR during the Cold War. It had an explosive output of around 243 million gigajoules and well, let's take a look at the mushroom. Get cloudy, that photo was taken at a distance of 100 miles or 161 kilometers away and you can still see the cloud which in turn is 40 miles or 65 kilometers high. Now what is notable is that this bomb was actually detonated at a height of 2.5 miles or 4. kilometers above the ground and still left a huge crater underneath, not only that, but structures over 500 miles away. from ground zero were still affected by the after effects of the explosion to put that into perspective if you detonated the same explosive on the people of Harlem.

Even North Carolina would feel it, hell people in Canada would feel it, zarbamba actually created a seismic wave in the earth's crust that circled the world three times before finally dissipating, now it discharges for miles, that sounds gross, its electrical explosion is. It's as powerful as the zarbamba, its yield only 68 percent as powerful as the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested on Earth, but it raises an important point here, which is that the handyman's simple plan to fly miles, eh, miles above the city block of Harlem to insulate the city from the effects of the explosion isn't the magical panacea you'd expect, so how bad is the damage we're talking about here?

Well, in that final scene we see the handyman running. down the side of a building just to stay miles slightly above the cloud line, the tallest building in Harlem is Harlem River Park Towers 1 2, which is about 428 feet or 130 meters tall, not very tall , so that's our initial launch point and go from there. Technically there are three layers of clouds, low, medium and high clouds. The lowest layer culminates at six thousand five hundred feet or two thousand meters and considering that its launch point is significantly lower than that, we are going to say that this is absolutely the highest height that the handyman can use this website nuclearsecrecy.com .

We can actually see what happens when you detonate a 34,000 kiloton bomb 6,500 feet above New York City. Miles managed to save Harlem. Let's find out in three, two, one, detonate, no, big no. Basically, all of Harlem vaporizes as it falls into what is called the fireball zone. The rest of downtown New York City is in the major explosion damage zone, where heavy concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished and fatalities approach one hundred percent. Goodbye Central Park, goodbye Times Square. Goodbye Broadway, well nothing happened there this year anyway and I have Hamilton on Disney Plus so that really wasn't a big loss, the rest of the city as well as all the surrounding districts fall pretty solid . the moderate damage zone where most residential buildings collapse and deaths are widespread.

My conservative estimate looking at this data is that four million people die in the resulting explosion, so it was a good idea, but it didn't really make much difference, but fortunately, our friendly neighbor Spider-Man survives in the apocalyptic aftermath and the The fact that he was able to absorb all this energy into his body is a serious testament to his capabilities as a superhero. I mean, it's not like the MCU's Thor allows all of a star's energy to pass through his body, but he's doing it pretty well to give some context. one lightning bolt has the power of about 10 gigawatts, so what miles you are experiencing is the equivalent of being struck by 1,180,000 lightning bolts simultaneously, so you know what.

I think I take back what I said, maybe Miles is actually a better choice for Thor, the God of Thunder, than I thought, and yet apparently New York is still full of street criminals who think they can go toe to toe. with thousands using nothing but their fists perhaps that's the most incredible part of this game, definitely not the fact that the explosion didn't destroy all of New York. It's hard to be a friendly neighborhood spider-man when you accidentally attacked the neighborhood, but hey, it's episodes like today that make me really grateful for our sponsor nordvpn, why use a VPN?

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I'll see you all next week, but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory, thanks for watching.