Film Theory: Ready Player One's True THREAT! (SPOILER FREE) 

Simple, paint them blue so the wind will think that it's the sky and they'll ignore it.

Person: **sneezes* Building: alrighty, I’m just gonna fall down now

Wade who plays in a old truck outside of the stacks: "I don't have such weakness."

In the book , it actually explains how they don’t use new rv’s for the stacks , they use old rv’s from th surrounding junk piles , which they would lift to the top of an existing stack with cranes situated around the area of the stacks

I stopped reading the book 3 months ago & just this morning picked it up again. A few hours later this is recommended. They are definitely watching.

“We won’t be running out of sand” 2019: WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF SAND

The book actually discusses this. If I remember correctly, there was a law or something saying that they couldn't be more than 4 or 5 trailers high but eventually they began to over populate and so the rule became less important. Columbus is the fast growing city at this point because it was where the oasis was created. Wade grew up there in the movie, and he moved there in the book. He talks about the stacks in both stories though almost the same. He talked about how the weather felt and how he also lived with at least 6 other people besides himself, aunt Alice, and her boyfriend Rick. The place was one 2 rooms, a fact the movie didn't show, but the stacks are solely for low income individuals, so it's hard to say that safety was a continuing concern as it was more of having a home for these individuals.

if you read the book, then he explains that the stacks fall all the time

So, the problem is basically just a giant game of deadly Jenga?

So... The odds are Stacked against him?... i’m sorry

Film theory: SPOILER FREE Me: Sees a trillion spoilers

Soooooo, we're actually expecting a shortage of sand for building materials fairly soon in the future. You can't just use any sand for concrete production and at the current pace of globabl development (especially in China), we're expected to have 2/3 of the world's sand used up in concrete by 2050. Doesn't really dispute your main points or anything, but yeah... I guess that's all I have to say...

The thing with matpat is he never condescendingly explains things that people wouldn't usually know, he kindly explains them. His demeanor is amazing and I love his content. I hope he keeps making videos for us because many people appreciate his hard work. Thank you, matpat :)

I just realized MatPat explains structural systems better than some of my architecture teachers...

Video title: Ready Player One’s true THREAT! The actual video: The stacks, and why they make no sense.

In the book, stacks fall/explode all the time. So often, in fact, that when the stack that Wade's aunt lived in fell people just assumed it was an amateur method lab explosion.

In the movie, the priority is costs, but in the book it specifies that it need the space, they ran out of space on the ground to put houses, so they put houses on houses

But in the movie he states that people stopped trying to fix problems and just tried to out live them

Ernest Cline is one of the nicest people I have met! I had the pleasure of seeing him speak in Denver years ago (I think the movie rights had been purchased at that point). His story is a nerds dream! He stayed behind afterwards for this long line of people (including myself) that wanted an autograph. And he gave us all smiles and small talk! It didn't cost a thing either. Just a free meet and greet at a book shop. One of my favorite memories ever ❤

I used to think the gun the villain had at the end was the most lethal thing in the movie. Now that I've watched this video, I know. It's still the gun but now I know the second place.

Although this theory makes sense, I would like to point out that the book says that the environment and ozone are busted. The odds of rain/snow/strong wind are pretty low. Also, Wade almost never lives in his Aunt's trailer; he usually stays in his car hideout. The book also says that he only stays in the stacks some days in the winter to avoid freezing to death; so if his Aunt's trailer fell, he may survive.

Doesn't the main character in the movie play in a secret hideout away from his house?

the thing I've learnt from these videos have made actual school project easier. on top of your videos just being really fun and engaging your content has been a real good source of entertainment. Thanks for making lock down just a little bit more bearable Matpat.

**When you're a Malaysian and you heard the word "Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur"** Me: I'm so proud of our country we actually have some recognition for once-

This should've been it's own standalone movie without the title, since like 80% of the things in the movie don't match the actual book.

Actually, when Wade is living in the stacks, he is living on the edge of Oklahoma City. The average wind speed there is 17.8 mph.

0:19 Don’t worry. Both “Ready Player One” and “The Greatest MatPat” kinda flopped.

13:25 well, the Stacks' trailers aren't exactely… new. And most are stacked criss-cross, not straight onto each other.

hey matpat, first: as a structural engineer I love your theories about building-stuff. keep it up! second: you mentioned that we will not run out of sand. which is not compleatly true. yes, we have a lot of sand on the planet but most of it is desert sand which is not useable for concrete. the sand grains are all rounded and therefore don't form a good framework or in laymans terms: they just roll off each other (ever tried to build a sand castle from desert sand? it's not possible). the amount of sand from shores or beaches is more limited but not a problem today but is gonna be one if we keep on building with concrete in the intensity as we do today. even today some beaches in south asia get excavated (sometimes illegally) for buildings around that area. sand for concrete is gonna be a problem in the future is all I want to say.

Let’s be real here.... the Oasis would be destroyed by hackers and bad memes *Xx_n00b$layer_xX ~ 300 kills*

As someone from Ohio, I can say that the winds here are the true masters. Right on MatPat.

Matpat: mention Petronas towers Malaysian: This put a smile on my face

2:40 in an over the top movie about an incredibly over the top videogame you chose to explain how the houses can't work. You really did my day, Matpat. You really did

Ha jokes on you matpat. I've never been to the empire state building. Is it cool.....?

One of the coolest MechE facts I learned is that a cantilever's moment is proportional to the width cubed. So if you half the width, you increase the bending angle by 8x given the same applied force. That has lots of cool real world effects, like how MEMS oscillators work to create clocks in circuits.

As someone who studies Civil Engineering, this is accurate. He discussed things just how my teacher did. Also, even if he says it's just a theory, we really do consider those things especially when we have to calculate stuff.

I came here expecting to watch something related to virtual reality technology and you talked about buildings.

The thing I love about Matpat is that he can take a movie with robots and ID's based solely on your retina along with a company that essentially controls the entire world and the theory he goes with is how architecturally unstable a building is. Please never quit RU-vid.

5 yrs Lataaa'!!! Ready Player One was and still is a great movie! I love it and the characters like Chucky, the Back to the Future Delorian, the level with the Shining in it, all the awesome Pop Culture characters it had in it!!! ❤❤❤

Person: Sneezes Building: And i've decided that, I want to die

"we wont run out of sand in the next 25 years" actually we r, Sand that is used to make concrete is actually hard to get, so hard to get that people in India dig out rivers to sell it, Illegally.

I studied civil engineering. Little fact: Foundation piles need to reach a sand layer in the ground in order to reduce sinking of the building, these sand layers are usually many meters underground. If you want to build without foundation piles, a layer of sand (or rock) has to be the upper layer. These trailers don't weigh anything compared to concrete buildings. So a normal house foundation can easily lift many trailers. I would be more concerned about the internal supports, how can 1 trailer lift 20 trailers stacked on top of each other.

2:52 that's cool I already hate it the heights the cold the thin air pressure (The elevator speed)

Problem, forests are insanely good at keeping wind speeds down mainly because of how each tree distributes and redirects airflow, for instance the red wood Forrest can grow trees way higher than should be possible for their individual geometry(this is also because of how their roots intertwine underground). I imagine the design cru for the stacks had this in mind while making the scaffolding and made sure to add equally on each stack recreating the “redwood effect” as I am currently calling it, the wind in that case would no longer be an issue. Also if they attached each stack to the surrounding stacks with steel rods, built wide, and added levels from the middle stack to the outer stacks, they would recreate the essential physics at play in the pyramids making the stacks exponentially safer

Actually MatPat the world is running out of construction sand (Aggregate). In Vietnam it's estimated that their country will run out of this sand by 2020. Sand is being consumed faster than it is naturally made. #Savethesand

Player One's true threat: Younger Brother screwing up as Player Two in co-op mode

I don't know what you edit with but who ever edits these videos are incredibly talented and can make long videos with a ton of edits on them and makes such good edits

Tell me why I never learned of the bent pyramid, the Red pyramid and the medium pyramid in school? They're literally historic test runs and failures of the eventual Pyramids of Giza, man

But most of the movie technically takes place while he sits in an abandoned car...

2:05 "Let's face it, by 2044, technology will be so advanced that there's really no way to predict the state of video games..." The fact that this tech was created years before aside, it really made me think. The same time before us as that is ahead was 1992. That wasn't that long ago, but modern gaming was very new, and *_VERY_* different from its current state. We have NO clue where it'll be that far in the future, but perfect simulations can't be that far off!

Gotta love it when fiction gets the things you don't think about wrong like affordable housing! Just because something sounds like it'll work on paper doesn't mean it will when put into practice!

"Spoiler free" Yeah right, You spoiled how Wade would literally die before the movie starts

Thanos would be cheaper

Doesn't the book mention that there is often accidents with the housing in the stacks?

The Stacks would have made more sense out of Storage containers converted into apartments with stairs or ladders placed outside them and stacking them huge blocks, adding doors and avoiding windows but at the front and back.

When Matt Pat talks about a work of media he immediately gravitates to the logistics in the background and tears them apart

The book does mention that the stacks collapse all the time.

Film theory idea: who is how to basic?

IIRC in the original novel these stacks are built using scrap cars (and of course also vans), and the formation would probably be like a giant blob of 22 floor high strips bundled together, forming a 3D labrynth or maybe a spider net. The chain reaction of things collapsing is probably less like domino but more like snow collapse, as adjacent buildings aren't knocked down by the falling one but rather pulled down, since every building is probably welded or bolted together with adjacent ones at various height.

matpat, can i just say that its AMAZING how you have time to watch all these shows and films, do the editing of the videos, voice record the videos, write the scripts, make the theorys, do the math, do weekly uploads on all three of your channels and still have a social life (kinda)

*I can confirm that there are plenty of tornados and lake-effect snowstorms in Ohio. Trust me, I was born in Cleveland and have moved to Centerville- we had a snow day on the first official day of spring.* *Edit: I was watching GTlive two days ago and I got an "extreme tornado alert" and flash flood alert on my phone. We had had thunderstorms all day and the lights would (earlier) randomly flicker at school and the auditorium ceiling started leak. I woke up that morning to a brilliant flash of white across my closed eyes, and a ground shaking thunderclap seconds later. Hail the size of tennis balls were reported in some areas, and the alarm was going on for at least a half hour. The next day it was very windy and snowing- gotta love Ohioan weather.*

Shoot, if MatPat did any one of the things he mentioned in the first 30 seconds of this video. *All his subscribers would fully support him all the way* I mean unless you subscribed accidentally... just letting MatPat know that we wouldn’t mind if he did any of those things... (clears throat)!

4:29 Matpat: the petronas tower in Kuala Lumpur has the longest foundation. Everyone in Malaysia: he notices us? Srsly though. I was real happy when matpat mentioned Kuala Lumpur. I frickin live there. I have a family of 8.

I haven't read the books but I always assumed they were old RVs stacked up cause there's no land to park them or something. Basically people getting their own RVs and parking then there and maybe even selling or renting it if they move out.

In 2045, matpat will........ Still be doing theories.yay.

Actually matpat, sand that can be used for construction is running out really fast, like in the next 5 years! and we can’t use desert sand, because it’s to fine.

8:30 - I worked in that building in 2002. It’s right on the south side of Central Park.

Thank you for doing one of my favorite movies!

it's funny because now all of the movie reviews and stuff are coming out. I'm doing my usual and trying to avoid spoilers. Then, I realized that I've read the book.

I live in Lebanon Ohio and u know what he said about the foundation cracking well u should see my drive way

The hypothesis surrounding the bent period that you stated was recently disproven. I wish I had a link to the docu I watched, but the evidence was pretty clear that the design of the bent was always to be bent.

The stacks: exist Oversimplified: only one problem: THE WIND

I remember something about the larger stacks being connected to each other for stability.

The trailers werent brought, they were left by their owners, who run out of gas, so the trailers were left there and rge governament just picked them and stack it, they were all in trailer parks unused

The cornfield joke made me laugh because it's true. My grandpa used to ask my sister and I what was growing in the fields (he lived on a farm) and it was a good idea to just say beans if it's not corn because most of the time it's corn.

Matt I love your vids but please check the book as it rebuts most of your points made in this episode such as why they are so unsafe and not cheap

"It's cold in there cornfields!" -MatPat "Welcome to the Province of Québec, Canada. How may we help you? :)" -Québecois.

* hurries to untangle headphones* *I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY*

13:28 woah, the ambience and atmosphere at this one. Effective

The amount of stacks in the area would lessen the problem of foundations a bit, the dirt has nowhere to go and can't move and the winds would be negated really quickly by the stacks at the edges, which could be reunforced. Also, the trailers are probably personal so the cost for the goverment would be pretty much only the scaffolding and lifting stuff, which the hightec probably makes cheaper. Just sayin, love your vids anyway!

Actually matpat, he lives in Oklahoma, but the Oasis servers are based out of Columbus so he goes there

The stacks would have been made to be unsafe to deal with overpopulation

It seems like Ready Player One could have lots of theories associated with it. More videos please!

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VID

Mat you forgot to include that in the book global warming had ravaged the planet.... Ohio’s climate may have changed.

just a little thought i had while watching: The book/film is set in 2045, and by the course of climate change a lot of patterns are going to change. I recently did a 5 week research project on climate change, including the projected for 2050+. According to many sources, any extreme shift will be largely dependent on the human race's action in the next few years. I watched the film recently and wade said something along the lines of that everyone goes into the oasis to ignore the already problematic world. And just by looking at the always grey sky, we can probably guess that humanity has literally nothing to improve the environment. Meaning climate change in this setting is most definitely in full effect. Which we can conclude that from many sources that the earth has most probably warmed up by a few degrees changing weather, seasons among many other affects. This could potentially mean that Ohio isn't receiving any snow as according to climate change predictions, snow would now be in full force on the southern hemisphere instead. So yeah I'm a big geography nerd ;P Still an awesome video Matpat!!!!! edit: oml I totally forgot about the winds with climate change!!! The only research I did on winds was related to storms and how they will get more intense but silly me for some reason just forgot. Climate change encompasses a whole range of issues and I did leave some out but I totally forgot about the wind!!! But you guys are so right xD Also I wasn't trying to address matpat's theory entirely, it just occurred to me while watching the video.

Matpat made some great points but I think he overlooked the fact that it probably is faster to get a trailer on a stack than to make a concrete building from scratch and when dealing with overpopulation that is a great advantage which is probably why they exist

I assume they buy used trailer homes and camper vans for the stacks, not brand new ones. Recycled steel frame on the outside to support the weight, and you can stack pretty high pretty cheap. Since they're light, you can use guy-wire to stabilise them. Mobile homes weigh about 50 pounds per square foot, so 22 600square ones would weigh 660,000 pounds. Let's say a million pounds and 1000 square feet to include scaffolding. That's only a thousand pounds per square foot, if you stop it toppling by using wires and bolting stacks together, you don't need much of a foundation for that.

So I actually work in construction and honestly, matpatt is right this should not be able to work, something he didn't mention thought was about an safety program called OSHA, and they would stop the buildings before the 2 scaffolding

The book says that the world is overpopulated. This could be a dark way to eliminate some of that.

Hi hi I think I got recommended this video with all the news that Facebook is making a metaverse! I’m not sure what one of your channels would be good to theorize about it, but it would be awesome to see your breakdown of how that ready player one kind of future might actually happen!

I once played a game where you built skyscrapers by dropping each floor on top of each other with a tower crane (forgot the name). If ready player one's housing is as wonky as that game, then they're going to fall no question :P

I just wanted to point out that the cost of building the stacks does not cost anything. They are using the scrap from their own vehicles and junkyards. As for getting the trailers up there, we also know that they use cranes. Even further, the trailers were already owned by people before the big economic crisis. People just drove them in, as they had no need for them because of the gasoline shortage, and stacked them up using the cranes. Also, according to the books, Wade is actually living in Oklahoma City, before moving to Columbus, Ohio for incognito access to the Oasis from IOI due to the GSS headquarters being located there after his Aunt's trailer gets blown up by IOI. The previous sentence does not contribute to my point, but I felt the need to point it out anyways.

You can't even say this is "just a theory" that's straight fact😂😂 Also literally every damn thing he said about Ohio is 1000000% true as I live in Columbus Ohio

8:05 a meteor is anything falling to earth from space that’s smaller than 30-ish feet in diameter. So that 400 ton slab could be the size of a baseball? Gee I guess they don’t make em the way then used to. But HEY! That’s JUST a theory! A FILM THEORY THEORY! Gotta day I’m proud of coming up with that

At 13 minutes you mention that where not running out of sand. The crystalline structure of beach sand is too unstable to create concrete, I know this video is 2 years old so maybe there should be a new the deal and have you look into the difference between ocean sand and beach sand it's kind of really interesting.

I guess, one the best compliments I can give this channel, is the fact that I often click on an episode and not realize I watched it a month ago. Everything feels fresh to me.........that, or I have pre-senile dementia.

They both ruin everyone's child hood with youtube videos, oooooh wait, that's just Mat Pat

Hey MatPat, super big fan. I know some things covered in the video are meant to have "spinned" so it fits better with the narrative. I want to say though there is a very apparent hole in the theory about the cost near the end. Building a building needs manpower, effort (planning, management, etc), and upfront cash, whereas those trailer home might be abandoned pieces of crap just laying around for anyone to scavenged (which is what they looked like). It'd be kinda absurd to assume all those slum people buy each of their trailer home anew. While building cost would likely stay the same in the future(building a new building probably means you need everything new not like you can reuse an old beams or scrapped concrete from torn down buildings), the cost of an average trailer home could vary from similar to our current time to potentially nothing. Trailer homes would also more likely to be discarded, say when rich people acquire a new ones, than buildings, which probably retain value pretty well. Another factor to consider is the land cost. Not sure if this is true anywhere else; in where I live, a big part (if not the the biggest part?) of the cost is actually the land. Building a building will most certainly involve acquiring the land they occupy, whereas these slums could very well be squatters.

:D matpat u make me laugh every time i watch u man i’ve watched u when i was a kid thanks for a good childhood :)