#but.......this is not $40 worth of content

[mattscoquette]

my take on the tour as someone who went to both tours + met them !!!

honestly, i’m somewhat disappointed this announcement was a tour. i thought it would be something like then announcing they would be streaming more consistently, a revamp of their podcast (not to mention something they teased for YEARS that we only had less than a year of), something they have mentioned before and promised us.

i went to both tours. i met them on both tours. did i have a good time? yes. was it because i met them? yes. when i went to the let’s trip tour, the triplets were on stage for maybe 20 minutes of a 60+ minute show. i don’t remember exactly what i paid, but it was somewhere around $100+ for the meet n greet package. the versus tour was more than that, i think around $200, and that was also for the meet n greet. granted, the triplets were on stage the whole time, but the show was maybe 30-40 minutes. but for prices like that, they should be giving us at LEAST an hours worth of show.

it’s just frustrating to see this because it is obviously a cash grab :( the triplets know people will buy tickets bc their fans want to meet them. if they wanted to meet their fans, they should do strictly meet n greets. a little pop up shop to get merch and then meet them. because no one is going to want to spend an insane amount of money for a one minute meet n greet and a 30 minute show where the audience is screaming over them half of the time.

the video they posted today proved they can film high quality content if they wanted to. if they wanted to. between the loss of wednesday videos, lack of streams, and inconsistent quality of friday videos, i feel a tour seems unnecessary right now. especially since the tour is basically gonna be like a video or podcast irl, when they won’t even continue their own podcast. it kinda just goes to show that they seem to be doing it for the money, especially when this is their third tour and they have only been doing youtube for about 4 years. i personally feel like if they wanted to do it to meet fans, they would be doing a more meet n greet centered tour and trying to go international.

with all of that said, it’s okay to be frustrated or unhappy with this announcement or to be excited. if i can afford it, i would love to go and meet them again. however i can’t justify spending hundreds of dollars just to talk to them for a minute and then watch them on stage surrounded by twelve year olds who scream at every little thing they do.

[rahiwatching]

I guess this is where I come in, right?

I had a lot of fun with this and might well turn it into a Knowledge Tower video, if that's alright with you @bionicle-baby?

The pedantic person in me wants to say that it would be zero bars of gold, as the robot is made of Protodermis and not normal matter, but that's no fun is it? So I ignored that part of me.

Also, I hate to say it @ghost-mantis, but if my calculations are correct, you were... well... just a bit off...

Lets start with the mass of the GSR - using its canonical size of 40 million feet tall (12,192 km). Luckily I already worked this out as part of my size of the GSR video - check that out if you want to know more, I'll not rehash the details of that here. The key point is that it worked out as being:

1.086379592 x10^22 kg

For context, just less than the mass of the dwarf planet Pluto.

I figure that to work this out, we need to do two calculations:

one for the amount of gold in the robotics part of the GSR - the circuitry of its electronic brain and the like, and

one for the amount of gold hidden as ore within the rocks that make up the Matoran Universe inside the robot

I'll go with the amount that could be mined from the MU first. In my video, I used Fermi estimations to determine the total volume of the gSR, around 10% would be the rocks that make up the islands, sea floors, dome walls/ceilings etc of the MU. Estimating the rocks to (on average) have the same density as granite, that means that we have 1.22440747 x10^21 kg of rock to deal with.

Assuming that gold is found in the MU in the same concentrations as it is found in the Earth's crust, that means that of that massive amount of rock, about 0.0000004% would be gold.

Running the numbers, that gives us 4.89762988 x10^14 kg of gold, or nearly 500 trillion kilograms of the stuff!

But we aren't done yet, we still need to work out the amount in the robotics side of the GSR. For that, we need to make a few more liberal estimates.

I decided to compare the gold to mass ratio of a humanoid robot built in the real world and apply that to the GSR. NASA's Valkyrie robot weighs in at 129 kg and its on-board computers run on 3 Intel Core i7 Express CPUs. CPUs contain the most gold of any computer part, and if you look at older CPUs with higher gold content, then each one could contain up to 0.5 grams of it. So with 3 CPUs this robot has roughly 1.5 grams of gold within its total 129kg mass, making it 0.00162790698% gold by mass.

I previously calculated in my video that the mass of the robotics section of the GSR was 9.199782906 x10^21 kg - so applying the same percentage as the Valkyrie robot to to the GSR gives us an even larger amount of gold - an additional 1.0697742198 x10^19 kg on top of what we already calculated.

Adding those two together, we get a total of 1.069791174 x10^19 kg of gold - that's about one third the mass of the rings of Saturn!

A standard bar of gold has a mass of 12.4kg, so to answer the original question, if you extracted all the gold from Mata Nui, you would get around 860 quadrillion bars (8.62734818 x10^17 bars to be exact).

At time of writing, a kilogram of gold is worth 94,104.59 USD, meaning a GSRs worth of gold would top out at a price of a little over 1 septillion dollars (1.006722598 x10^22 dollars).

Given the total global GDP in 2020 was "only" 85.52 trillion USD, that means that your new pile of GSR mined gold would be worth 10 billion times more than the entire global economy.

Although, if you actually had that much gold, it would become so common that it would lose pretty much all its value. Hell, that much gold would be more mass than there is soil on the planet.

So it would wind up being worth less than actual dirt.

What could you buy with it? By one measure, quite literally everything. By another? Absolutely nothing.

Statistically speaking, if you melted Mata Nui down, how many gold bars would you manage to get out of him?

Also, what would you buy with them? 😈😈😈

[gerbits]

where is my 'don't buy these packs' post

[royalarchivist]

Mythical Sausage: If you find that Brazilian boyfriend though, you let me know! Ok? I wanna say hello, 'cuz that must be a beautiful, beautiful man. 😉❤️

[Shortly after they say goodbye]

Fit: Pac, where you at, Pac? Where you at, Pac? I can't hold him off much longer!

[oozeandgoo-art]

i did the meme. i think i did it wrong LOL

bigger version of the corner panel + cornerless vers under the cut:

[meganechan05]

The Kings Of Chikyuu

A tribute to the saviors of the distant planet <"Highlight" by KIRA ft. Hatsune Miku>

⚠️MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD⚠️

[sticktopia]

HERE IS IT!!! MY MASTERPIECE!!!

[jellypawss]

what's yalls opinions on the new expansion pack?

[sonknuxadow]

i really hope we dont end up in a situation where sonic x shadow generations sucks ass and isnt worth buying over the original if you dont care about the shadow stuff but you cant make that choice because they removed all official ways of buying the original in an attempt to force you to spend 60 dollars on it . that would be really annoying

[13eyond13]

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[zzxya]

saw the haikyuu!! movie. waited until i got to my car to cry. i'm fixed, i'm saved, blessed beyond belief, the world is worth living in

[lesbiancarat]

also rolling stone is doing a 56 page special edition zine for seventeen, i don't usually post promo/updates for merch or magazine stuff but since it's kind of a unique/new situation i thought I'd at least mention it. here's rolling stones twt thread about it with more details for anyone interested!

[kickabytes]

okay after 2 days of playing MC Legends. I can confirm, game is fun  but what is in it currently does not really justify the 40$ price tag. I would recommend getting it via the Gamepass or waiting until it goes on sale.

[littlegalerion]

*sees Sotha Sil is trending*

*sees he is confirmed to make an appearance in the next Chapter*

Yeah, still not buying until like 3 months after, if even then. Still haven't bought the previous DLC.

"We're listening to the community 🩷"

THEN WHERE ARE DARIEN AND ABNUR, ZENIMAX?!

[swagging-back-to]

oh lordy lue please let sims 4 go on sale

[journeytojaburo]

I think it's past bullying at this point