Summaries of EVERY EPISODE of MatPat and Team Theorist's main shows!
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After four years and over 1400 videos, I've finished watching every single Game Theory episode hosted by MatPat.
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MatPat talks about his time on set for the FNaF film. He was intimidated, impressed by the massive scale, was asked by cast & crew about lore cuz they wanted to do the franchise justice, he met Scott for the first time, & he was overall happy to fulfill a lifelong dream of his.
MatPat announces that he will be hosting his last Theory video on March 9 and then will hand off hosting to Tom, Lee, Santi, & Amy. He's stepping down because it's a lot of work & wants to spend time with family. But he'll still be a part of the company & work on other projects.
Also, Scott Cawthon went out of his way to make sure MatPat's character was named "Ness". This was a reference to the exact thing you think it's referencing, and it's exactly what I would've done if I was in Scott's position. So, well done, Scott. I appreciated that little jab.
Oppenheimer is also about Christopher Nolan and what he'll do next. Oppenheimer and Nolan are both visionaries with big egos, the bomb represents the Batman films, & the US govt represents Warner Bros. Based on the film's ending, Nolan will direct a Star Wars & a James Bond film.
To compete with TikTok, YouTube's algorithm in the last 3 years has favored high-polished "excess videos" (wealth porn) formatted into minute-long chunks meant to microdose the viewer with as much dopamine as possible; making the site more stagnant & viewers more discouraged.
Game theory, the science of strategic choice, can be used to win every interaction. Specifically, the four pillars of the trust game: be cooperative, don't be a pushover, be forgiving, and be honest. YouTube & the show are testaments to these four points. This vid has 6 endings.
The Amazing Digital Circus is literally Hell, based on the many biblical references in the show (Last Supper, eyes, angels, etc.) It's especially like Sartre's No Exit, "other people" version of Hell. Pomni parallels Jesus, so she'll save everyone but doom herself in the process.
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Apparently, the staff was told he was the guy that knew a lot about the franchise, so they wanted advice to see what they should do to stay true to it.
MatPat announces Theorist Media has been sold to Lunar X; who will provide resources so the team can take breaks, focus less on the business side, spotlight upcoming creators, & work on other projects like the next Theorist channel. YouTube channel acquisitions will be a trend.
Women's pockets shifted to being smaller & less useful than men's in the 1700s cuz of fashion changes after the French Revolution, the growing handbag industry, & politicians afraid of women rebelling. Consumers must vote with their dollar if they want better women's pockets.
School uniforms can be just as costly as normal clothes, there's no hard proof they boost performance, & they don't stop bullying or create student unity, & even seem to lower self-esteem sometimes. They give the impression of equality to help schools, but equality isn't equity.
Matt tells viewers to please stop harassing people, says this was unexpected, apologizes to the locals affected by this, says this happened cuz people weren't aware of proper ARG etiquette, & puts forward a draft set of five guidelines for solving ARGs safely & responsibly. (1/2)
Every living thing on the Paw Patrol planet is an alien. The dogs talk, Ryder's technology is compatible with the aliens' tech, the humans don't have five fingers, and the planet they live on doesn't look like Earth. The vid ends with MatPat getting sent to a mental institution.
Nurse Joy is a Pokémon. All her kids & female relatives look identical because Pokémon always inherit the species of their mother. Joys with noticable differences like tan skin are Shiny or regional variants. Joys were Chanseys who evolved to keep helping both humans & Pokémon.
Sans is Ness from the Halloween Hack. He knows of the sun, & can teleport & bleed, so he's human. They stand the same. The items in his lab are from EB, including the Phase Distorter (meaning he's stuck in another timeline). The games' worlds look alike. Papyrus is an ex-Starman.
After trying many face apps & DALL-E, MatPat looked at genetic traits to see if a child between him & Shane Dawson would look like Dream. He can't be the dad cuz Dream has attached earlobes. With Shane, it'd more likely be Ryland Adams, RJ Mitte, Ninja, or most likely Bo Burnham.
Theories made by FNaF theorists like MatPat are criticized cuz newer fans are sensors on the MBTI, but most theorists are intuitors; they interpret info differently. Also, crazy theories can be right later, the Internet ignores evidence, FNaF is messy, & we're all on one team.
To be GOTY, a game must be a single-player, 3rd-person, ~30-hour action-adventure from an existing IP with a compelling, character-driven, mature story; a fatherly protagonist; realistic visuals, & a spring release; because the voters are mostly older men with responsibilities.
In Deltarune, the player is the Angel in the prophecy, allowing choice and changing the journey for the worse, as shown by Noelle & Spamton becoming aware of our voice in the Snowgrave Route, making us the villain. We will fight Kris and be banished by the end of the game.
To combat hackers, Mojang added a new mob to Minecraft called the Breeze. It's named after an old cheat client for the game, so now people Googling "Minecraft Breeze" will only get results for the new mob instead of the client, & no one checks past the first page of results.
Matt says a YouTuber should be the host cuz of their authenticity, youth, fast production time, attention to detail, & cuz they're the new faces of knowledge. He nominates various edu-tubers plus himself & asks viewers to sign a petition & tweet at the show to make him the host.
The karts have no seat belts or sides & can go 200+ mph, the drivers have no protective gear, & the walls are too close to the track & don't crumple; which, when combined, would result in death. And the drivers don't wear seat belts in the GLA, making Mario Kart 8 illegal.
Theory channels impact search results. Alice Angel & the FNaF4 box were influenced by their fandoms. Hello Neighbor & Security Breach might've been made worse cuz of GT, based on timing, gameplay changes, & cut content. Devs shouldn't sacrifice their visions to disprove theories.
When in the shower, letting the soap from the top of your body run down to your legs is virtually as effective at cleaning your legs as washing them directly; as long as you have a direct, overhead flow of water instead of a diagonal flow and you're constantly rotating your body.
The unnecessarily long and complicated hypothetical Bee Movie meme video shown below (with some number estimations & interpretations of the exact parameters) would have a total runtime of about 8.67 octillion years, which is longer than the expected lifespan of the universe.
The Minecraft mob vote for the Sniffer in 2022 was rigged. Mojang put the obvious choice, a genuinely interesting mob, with two much lamer mobs so they could flesh out the Ancient World more.
MrBeast's vid of him asking a student to get him a baguette from Paris is illegal cuz there's a shot of the Eiffel Tower with its night lights on outside the student's hotel room, & professional photographing of public architecture in the EU (the lights) is a copyright violation.
Big companies like Disney & Netflix are using AI & secretly distributing pro-AI propaganda in their productions. Notable examples include The Marvels, The Creator, and The Fall of the House of Usher. It's important to stay aware of propaganda tactics & form your own opinions.
Dachsbun "smells" like estrogen. Its Pokédex entry in Pokémon Scarlet says it emits a pleasant aroma that makes wheat grow faster. In ancient Egypt, women would piss on wheat seeds to see if they were pregnant, cuz the higher estrogen levels would make the wheat grow faster.
Hypothetically, Tails' tails are long enough to lift himself off the ground. But Tails wouldn't be able to fly cuz if he's supposed to function like a helicopter, he doesn't have any form of secondary rotor to counteract the opposite spin flow, meaning he'd spin out of control.
MatPat says Defy Media stole $1.7M from him & 49 others. He calls MCNs Ponzi schemes built on nothing, calls on Ally Bank to pay them back; and says to creators: ensure you get 100% pass-through, a separate trust account, an "out" clause, & penalties for the MCN missing payments.
The fight between the cameramen and toilet heads in Skibidi Toilet is a metaphor for the fight between YouTube and old media. The two sides represent YTPs & the big media industries. The real good guy is DaFuqBoom, who will unite the two mediums, making them stronger as a result.
The Amazing Digital Circus is set in the late '90s, based on its tech & character design. Pomni is a C&A employee who helped make the simulation, based on her recognizing her desk. The characters aren't humans; they're digital copies of the brains of humans who wore the headsets.
The butterfly effect started by FNaF has reshaped entertainment as we know it, created jobs, inspired creatives, made & influenced whole genres, & incalculably affected hundreds of millions of lives. Never give up; your decisions, big or small, have the chance to shape history.
MatPat gives a warning at the start of the most recent Game Theory, and I'll repeat the same sentiment here:
Be respectful to the creator, don't send the video or this thread to them, & follow standard ARG etiquette. (1/2)
After making pizzas using water from North Carolina, Virginia, and New Jersey; they conclude that New York–style pizza's signature thinner and crispy crust is a result of the local water having less chlorine, killing off less yeast, and more fluoride, making the crust more rigid.
Based on their snouts, caudal fins, & sizes relative to Pinkfong's snorkel, Baby Shark is a longfin mako shark & the parents are bull sharks. Sharks don't raise their kids so this "family" is a survival group. Baby will in time grow larger than his parents & become a threat.
A horse could feed you for 135 days. Horse meat is edible, it can be healthy, taste good, & is eaten in many countries, including the U.S. once; but it became taboo due to post-war cowboy media, & banned cuz U.S. horses go thru chemical treatments that make their meat toxic.
By multiplying all possible combos, it's calculated that there are 1.8 × 10¹²⁴⁴⁴ hypothetically possible Mario Maker levels. Excluding invalid & unfun ones, there are an estimated 1.8 × 10¹²⁴³¹ playable & fun levels, more than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
1. Never publish private information. 2. Stick to publicly available info. 3. Do not trespass. 4. Do not call private businesses or individuals. Assume a handful of other people are doing the same thing as you. 5. Find one central place online for ARG discussion. (2/2)
The people of New Donk City in Super Mario Odyssey are significantly taller than Mario cuz they're eating magical, oversized, tyrosine-infused bananas from Kong-based restaurants. This is also why DKC1's bosses are so big & why everyone keeps stealing Donkey Kong's banana hoard.
Real boobs move around, have a gradual slope, symmetrical nipples, and the distance from nipple to chin is ~10 in. Fake boobs have a butt-crack shaped cleavage. Therefore, Mai's and Ivy's are real; while Lara's, Tina Armstrong's, Zelda's, Peach's, and Samus's are fake.
Slenderman isn't slender. Based on the original pics and the volume of his model in Slender: The Eight Pages; Slenderman's height is 8 feet, his weight is 386 pounds, and thus his BMI is 29.4; meaning he's actually overweight. TotK Link is more slender with a BMI of 7.3 at most.
Matt worries Nintendo will be left behind in a changing landscape & trying to innovate with consoles clashes with sales, accessibility, & quality. Reggie reassures him their low-price consoles that reshape how people game & offer a safe environment will keep them in business.
Game devs working with their fans, like with the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative or Sonic Mania, is good. Microsoft's vaguely similar "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy that Disney arguably also utilizes with their films, and Nintendo's strict protection of their IPs, is bad.
The design for the Pokemon Jynx was inspired by Yamauba, a yokai from Japanese folklore who has golden white hair, a red kimono, is known for her seductive dancing, and has notably dark tan skin. Jynx's design was not inspired by African American stereotypes as some have claimed.
The main character of FNaF 4 cannot be the Bite of '87 victim because people who've had their frontal lobe severely damaged or removed don't experience fear or anxiety, don't have nightmares, and don't have an attention span; unlike the kid in this game.
In average conditions, it takes around 300-400 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. But with more heat and more saliva, it can be brought down to around 100-200 licks.
Free Fire is the 2nd most downloaded mobile game of 2021 & the 3rd most viewed game on YouTube in 2020. Most of its players are outside of the West. Western gaming has been in a bubble, our perceptions of gamers needs to change, & int'l games will be popular here in the future.
A private citizen would've been able to sue the U.S. federal government in 1947 like we see in The Incredibles. The Federal Tort Claims Act was passed the year prior; and Good Samaritan laws, suicide prevention laws, & qualified immunity for government officials didn't exist yet.
While visiting the Pope with other YouTubers, Matt gave the Pope a copy of Undertale as a symbolic gift to represent the gaming community online cuz of the lack of positive representation offline of peaceful gamers due to out-group homogeneity bias & the availability heuristic.
Traits he liked most: feminine, strong, sharp parts, psychic, purple, round face, big legs, smaller, high sp. atk, low def, 2-step fully evolved from levelling up, field egg group; looks like mammal, bird, human, or bug. Mienshao was the closest, but they designed a new one too.
Based on character designs, dialogue, visual & location details, the books, etc.; Gregory is a rebuilt robot version of the Crying Child made to fill the void left by the original Crying Child's death, & Glamrock Freddy is Michael trying to right his wrongs & protect his brother.
For his mid-life crisis, MatPat decided to "'yes, and' [his] life" & competed in RBC Heritage's PGA Pro-Am golf tournament with little experience & is producing the Broadway show Grey House. He sucked at golf but learned a lot, & the show is previewing now & premieres on May 30.
Naruto running does work if you're a fictional ninja running at near supersonic speeds, as it would significantly decrease your drag force, by nearly half. But it doesn't really work for real life humans, because we can't run fast enough for drag to be an issue.
It's a complex topic with no one way to answer it, plus a lot of random factors & an incalculable amount of data, so the calculations come from kind of arbitrary assumptions. Maybe a game so dependent on chance shouldn't have a speedrun board, 1v1 speedrun racing might be better.
If all the presidents of the United States could play video games, James Garfield would be the best, most well-rounded gamer. He was extremely intelligent, survived the Battle of Shiloh without injury, was an avid late-night chess player, and won the presidency unconventionally.
The PAW Patrol is made up of stray dogs enlisted by Ryder who can be replaced when they die. There's evidence of former members in S1E9a, S1E6b, & the film. Ryder does this cuz they're cheaper & more expendable than humans. He's running a huge business built on suffering puppies.
Okay, I tried to fix the thinking image. I took some of the frames from the 2 videos that I'm aware of this image appearing in, put them together, & filled in the missing top corners.
It isn't the original, & it's not perfect, but it's the fullest public version I'm aware of.
Oogway sucks. In the Kung Fu Panda franchise; he lies about the Dragon Warrior, does nothing to stop evil in his students, looks for the worst in his students, disregards students' strengths, gatekeeps, & his successful students inherit his unsupportiveness; making many villains.
Symmetrical faces aren't inherently more attractive like TikTok & the beauty industry say. The team's study found symmetrically-edited faces were rated less attractive than unedited faces. Higher ranked faces & attractive celebs' faces tend to follow the rules of fifths & thirds.
FNaF may be an allegory for the 1993 Chuck E. Cheese's shooting. Not trying to make light but similarities do exist, like the time period and the similarities between each victim and one of the animatronics. Mike is the killer and the game is his nightmares while on death row.
They re-attempt to make Pokémon Mark would want to fuck; the first one incorporating Hawaiian elements, brighter colors, an air of confident mystery, & Mark's preference for birds; and the second one taking an intuitive approach, assuming that some things can't be quantified.
When a youtuber needs to talk about somebody with even a slightly foreign sounding name, and they go "Uhhh, I'm not even gonna TRY to pronounce that." Like dude, Google exists. Wikipedia has phonetics. Being wilfully uneducated isn't humour, especially in educational videos.
Running a death game is illegal under int'l law, & since the players voluntarily coming back are aware of the risk of death, they'd also be guilty of manslaughter. But you can get away with it if you're powerful enough, like North Korea, which might be where the games take place.
Based on Mario's height & the mansion's Second Empire style; & since it's a fully furnished, stigmatized property; Luigi's mansion is worth ~$987K. But the treasure found in the mansion is worth ~$571M, making Luigi a millionaire by the end of game.
Puss in Boots should've died seven more times. Milk, coffee, & hot sauce can all be fatal in excess; the cape can choke, the hat dulls his senses & overheats; the boots make him louder, dull his senses, & overheat him; & sharing a litter box with other cats would spread diseases.
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The video considers his video about going to every Margaritaville an "excess video" because it was about every instance of a particular topic.
YouTube is in its 5th generation. It's defined by growing up; adulting vids, brand safety, greater accountability, more restrictions, & corporatization; & that's not bad. TikTok is the 1st threat to YT, but YT's advantage of revenue sharing makes making money easier for creators.
Jameson is more ethical than Parker in Spider-Man 2018. Parker causes more harm than good; Jameson rightfully calls him out for this & suggests he get police training. Jameson upholds his journalistic integrity, gives voice to the voiceless, & says what needs to be heard.
Grubhub's ads are in the Jimmy Neutron universe. Kids are wearing Jimmy's shirt & the adults match the show's characters; except for Milkshake Lady, who was killed by a big Grubhub bag created by Jimmy. The red world is a mental place where Sheen can be with Milkshake Lady again.
It's Friday, February 9, 2024, and if you can believe it, it's Sans is Ness Day once again!
Happy 8th Sans is Ness Day to all who celebrate, and may our Lord and Savior MatPat eat your milk and cookies tonight!
Sans is Ness from the Halloween Hack. He knows of the sun, & can teleport & bleed, so he's human. They stand the same. The items in his lab are from EB, including the Phase Distorter (meaning he's stuck in another timeline). The games' worlds look alike. Papyrus is an ex-Starman.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse explains how the MCU Vulture ended up in the end of Morbius. Kingpin's super collider sent various villains to different dimensions, which must be what happened to Vulture.
As someone who gives zero shits about FNaF, watching this video was like being alone with an aunt on a long car ride and she’s complaining about her ex-husband the whole goddamn time.
The Ancients' story in Sonic Frontiers doesn't go against established Sonic canon. The Ancients become Chao by being near the Chaos Emeralds & then go back to being Ancients when the Emeralds' energy is neutralized. Chaos mutated from a Chao by being near the Master Emerald.
One Punch Man's Saitama would be able to break the MCU's vibranium. Vibranium can absorb 426.6 quadrillion joules, but Saitama's punch can exert 202.1 quintillion J. Cap's shield breaks at 2.07 × 10²⁹ J. If Saitama punched vibranium, anything within 9 miles would be decimated.
Ellie doesn't need to be killed because that's not how vaccines work. Not only do anti-fungal vaccines not exist, but regular drugs and treatment work just fine for fungal infections. And even if they did exist, killing a patient for pathogens is not how vaccines are made.