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

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

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- man specifically,

miles

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should probably clarify that now that there are two

spider

-men in town, well, only one really, since peter parker took a well-deserved vacation, but mj still headed overseas for the bugle and me requested as his photographer. Sort of a working 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 new responsibilities. and as the 2.0 update the original spider-man got some extra features on top of his standard spider abilities issue

miles

has cloaking ability and bioelectricity now don't even get me started on this maybe let me start on this for a bit because what first the camouflage cool you got special dna powers from a spider bite that make you invisible cool totally ok with that 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 your DNA magic shouldn't be able to cover up your literal cloak complaint number two your bioelectricity is called poison attacks yeah that's not to be confused with another character in this franchise. oh digression on thanks for letting me get that off my chest anyway thanks to the powers of mile's electro-charged poison miles succeeds in a battle against the rhino where peter fails is enough for pete to realize he's quickly becoming stale bioelectricity wow i have to be honest a bit jealous now of course these electrical abilities are useful during combat but to me there is something much more interesting to him throughout the game.

Miles is forced to use h is a body like a capacitor aka board that stores electrical energy, sometimes it draws power from security systems to shut it down or through electrified barriers, sometimes it powers things up like a battery in two legs with excellent taste in music but without a doubt the most impressive feat we see miles accomplish comes at the very end so uh spoiler warning because it's kind of impossible to really talk about the game's big climactic scene without saying everything that happens during that scene, so the final mission of the game is the battle for Harlem. features the climactic showdown between our two opposing forces in this corner is roxon a mega corporation that promises to deliver high-efficiency power to all of harlem with its innovative new fuel source called new shape what you're next to is a new non-form reactor points for guessing that the new way is really dangerous someone is going to worry about some sick people in town or a long dead engineer exposure to it can result in health defects like bone marrow deterioration and in our other corner There's 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 guy factions here, well, their way of sending a message about the Roxanne's dangers are not reporting or contacting the news or anything like that, but setting off a reactant. or that it will actually cause an explosion that will destroy all of Harlem. not only are you going to destroy roxanne plaza you are going to vaporize all of harlem after a battle against tinker underground leader miles finally reaches the reactor and the same way we have seen it drain power from electrical devices throughout the city draw power from the reactor, but of course that's a lot of power and miles, as a human capacitor has to do something with everything, push them away, I can't sustain this. n much longer, luckily, the head of the underground changes his mind at the last minute and decides to help thousands of people by grabbing him and flying high over the city so that when he releases the massive explosive discharge of energy, nothing and no one is close enough. close to reach Injured, in the end, Miles survives so he can return for the sequel.

Harlem is saved and the handyman has a heroic final sacrifice, but since we never see her body, she can always go back to the sequel if she feels like it, that final scene is frankly. an impressive display of power, bravery and selflessness it's also completely useless oh sure it may look heroic but miles

morales

utterly fails to protect the city right now miles completely ruins the rescue of new

york

city and kills to millions, but to understand why we first need to look a little closer at the reactor at the beginning of the game, we see a great presentation by roxanne's head of r d simon krieger when we find out that this reactor runs on a fictional fuel, so urce 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, the new form is actually making people sick, which means it's a threat For everyone in Harlem, to which I say why would I? not building a power plant somewhere else like I don't know in the middle of the desert, that's literally what you do with tons of other real world power plants. harlem doesn't actually have to be in harlem in fact tons of people in new

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city have their homes powered by electricity generated by niagara falls which is like 400 miles away you can even keep them using the help robotics we know exist in the marvel universe or heck just use some of the holograms we see throughout the game roxanne's plan to build her disease causing power plant in the middle of a population center is not only evil, but let's get serious, it's a bad deal, seriously, have you looked at real estate prices for new york city? a moderate sized commercial building will cost you nearly a trillion b dollars maybe it's time i quit youtube and become the accountant for an evil corporation it will probably save them a lot of money does amazon have a chance since a single new shaped vessel 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 by 500. Fortunately we have a handy tool to calculate this exact number thanks to vj moddy, professor of mechanical engineering at columbia university, this map shows the consumption new york city's yearly energy estimate on a granular basis, block by block, adding up all of harlem, gives us a total of let's see, uh, take the one 91,860 megawatt hours per year, that means if a single container of new shape has enough energy to power Harlem for 500 years it's packing a total of 45.93 million megawatt hours or to put that in units if which will make our later calculations easier 165.3 million gigajoules why doesn't it impress you ? oh I know because those numbers don't make sense.

I've been doing this for a decade now and I still can't automatically look at megawatt hours or gigajoules and know if that's a really impressive number or not, so to put those numbers in perspective, the amount of power miles absorb from the reactor is about 95 la The amount of energy from the sun that strikes the earth in one second or five times more than all the nuclear power plants on earth generate each day is 2,625 times more energy than was unleashed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the world war 2 and that's just the energy in one pot of things at the end of the game we're told that Miles has to stop the reactor because if it explodes the resulting explosion would destroy all of Harlem you're not just going to destroy troy roxanne plaza you are going to vaporize all of harlem but this would go far beyond just destroying harlem the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was the czar bomb which was created by the ussr during the fr war ia had an explosive yield of around 243 million gigajoules and look at the mushroom cloud for yourself, that photo was taken at a distance of 100 miles or 161 kilometers away and you can still see the cloud, which itself has 40 miles or 65 kilometers high, now the remarkable thing is that this bomb was actually detonated at a height of 2.5 miles or 4 kilometers above the ground and it still left a huge crater below it, not only that, but the structures more than 500 miles from ground zero were still pummeled by the after effects of the blast to put that into perspective if you detonated that same explosive output over harlem people as far as north carolina would feel it heck people in canada would would feel, zarbamba actually created a seismic wave in the ear The crust that went around the world three separate times before it finally dissipated, now discharged for miles, that sounds gross.

His electrical blast is not as powerful as Zarbamba's. Its performance is only 68 percent as powerful as you know. tested on the ground, but it raises an important point here, which is that the handyman's simple plan to fly miles uh miles above the harlem city block to isolate the city from the effects of the explosion is not the magic panacea that you would. I hope how bad the damage we're talking about here is, well in that final scene we see the handyman running up the side of a building just to keep miles slightly above the cloud line.

The tallest building in Harlem is on the Harlem River. The park 1 2 towers are about 428 feet or 130 meters tall not very tall so that's our initial launch point and from there there are technically three cloud layers low, medium and high cloud the highest layer baja covers o ff at six thousand five hundred feet or two thousand meters and considering that his launch point is significantly lower than that, we are going to say that this is absolutely the highest height that the tinker can get using this nuclearsecrecy website .com that we can see What happens when you detonate a 34,000 kiloton bomb 6,500 feet above New York City?

So did miles manage to save Harlem? Let's find out in three, two, one detonate, no, big no, basically all of Harlem is vaporized as it falls into what's called the fireball zone. The rest of downtown New York City is in the high blast damage zone where heavy concrete buildings are badly damaged or demolished and fatalities approach one hundred percent. having hamilton on disney plus so really that wasn't a big loss the rest of the city as well as all the surrounding boroughs are beautiful so llly in 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 are killed in the resulting explosion, so that was a good idea, but you really didn't do that much. difference, but luckily, our friendly neighbor Spider-Man survives in the apocalyptic aftermath and the fact that he was able to absorb all of this energy into his body is a serious testament to his superhero capabilities. energy from a star to pass through your body but you're doing pretty well to give some context lightning has a power of about 10 gigawatts so what you're experiencing miles is the equivalent of being hit by 1 million 180,000 lightning strikes simultaneously so you know what I'm thinking I take back what I said maybe miles is actually a better match for Thor the god of thunder than I thought and yet New York is self evident I'm still full of street criminals who think they can go head to head for miles using nothing but their fists, maybe that's the most amazing part of this game, no definitely the fact that the explosion didn't destroy all of New York it's hard to be a friendly neighborhood

spiderman

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