Game Theory: KFC Just WON The Console Wars

and with the kf console's patented chicken chamber you can keep your chicken hot and ready to eat between rounds of gaming wait who in their right mind is going to want to eat fried chicken in between rounds of call of duty well now who wouldn't want to eat my delicious fried chicken is their gamer fuel of choice uh anyone who doesn't want to have a wad of napkins next to their desk i could not think of a greasier food than fried chicken oh well come on now think of it as performance enhance and finger lubrication there's no way that works my matchmaking rank doesn't lie [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hello internet welcome to food theory is what i want to be saying but nope welcome to game theory and episode three in our three-way kfc crossover full of finger licking good content in case you've missed them so far food theory is covering the colonel's secret recipe film theory is covering the kfc romance movie starring colonel sanders and today on game theory well we'll get to that all three theories released for you today all three theories ready to binge all three theories completely not sponsored but you know what it's early 2021 without new movies coming out and limited few games you gotta find content where you can get it but how does gaming and kfc mix well the two cross over a lot more than you'd think for instance back in 2015 they released colonel quest a very real and very playable tribute to old school gaming where you play as colonel sanders in a variety of mini-games like baby business where your objective is to quote catch as many babies as you can so the colonel won't get sued for malpractice there was also courtroom brawl where you play as a lawyer in a game where you experience the real trials and tribulations of the legal profession by ko'ing the client in under 30 seconds to earn a gold drumstick this is a real game someone in kfc's marketing department thought this was the best way to spend their money to get people to buy more fried chicken and frankly i couldn't be happier they made the right call they even made limited edition drumstick shaped controllers to go with it if old-school beat-em-ups aren't your jam no worries kfc still has you covered head over to steam for the low low price of free and you can download i love you colonel sanders a finger licking good dating simulator as for how to play these games well might i suggest the kfc branded controller for your xbox series x and if you're a pc gamer well kfc's got you covered there too with their fried chicken keyboard mouse and usb stick for all you mobile gamers out there kfc hasn't forgotten you either the gamers box 2.0 is a takeout box that doubles as a bluetooth controller and dock for your phone and of course of course how could we forget kfc's foray into the world of virtual reality that's right gamers invest in a vr setup and you too can experience the hard way a kfc themed escape room training demo either way it's definitely a thing that is kfc branded that you can do in your vr headset just don't throw the chicken on the floor or else colonel sanders's laser beam eyes are gonna intervene and no that is not a joke that actually happens in the game heck kfc could just rebrand itself as kind of funny content at this point now admittedly all of these are things that kfc has done for the memes and for the marketing exposure but all of them are also very real items that the company has actually made so when kfc announced late last year that they were entering the console wars and challenging sony and microsoft with a console of their own the kf console i wasn't surprised and i wasn't about to brush it off as a joke even if it was very clearly intended to be one because you will presumably be able to buy and own this console honestly i'm just hoping that kfc picks up the hint we could definitely use a new editing computer and more fried chicken just saying alright so let's get down to the nitty gritty shall we technically this thing isn't really a console if you dig into the specs it's really more of a kfc branded gaming pc that's being built in partnership with a pc part company cooler master but it does have one killer feature that sets it apart from your typical gaming pc the patented chicken chamber a chamber in your pc to keep your chicken warm and you know what i'm here today to tell you that this thing this unholy creation of self-aware marketing made in a modern capitalist dystopia all to get you to buy more freaking fried chicken this kf console with the chicken chamber it's actually not as dumb as you might think in fact it's kind of brilliant it might just have won the council wars step aside ps5 the kf console they just have gotten you beat i'm not even joking i'm not i wish i wish i was stay tuned you'll see what i'm talking about according to cooler master the chicken chamber keeps your food warm by utilizing the system's natural heat and airflow pc and game console components especially the cpu and graphics card tend to generate a lot of heat and a big part of any modern design is heat management this is usually done with fans to vent hot air out of the system to keep the components from overheating the hot air is usually expelled through vents in the back or if you own an xbox series x the vents on the top of the system but the kf console instead expels the hot air into the chicken chamber so that your pc can double as a mini toaster oven now that idea of using the excess heat usually referred to as heat waste to warm your food might seem like it's a novel idea but the crazy thing is that kfc isn't the first company to do this in fact the concept has been around in a consumer product since 1963 with more than 16 million homes making use of it ladies and gentlemen may i remind you of the easy bake oven remember these pieces of junk the kid-friendly ovens that had a tray large enough to quote-unquote cook four cookies at a time each the size of a quarter and come in with a pre-mixed dough packet that tasted like cardboard well the entire idea behind the easy bake oven was using heat waste to cook the reason it was kid-friendly was because it had no built-in heating element instead it had slots for incandescent light bulbs incandescent light bulbs like the components in your pc generate quite a bit of heat shouldn't be all that surprising considering the entire way those light bulbs work is by heating a tungsten filament inside of them until it becomes hot enough to glow and instead of just letting that heat float off into the universe pushing us that much closer to our own inevitable heat death the oven instead used it to you know cook kind of if you remember these things well you might be one of the last generations to have grown up with them because they're now discontinued on account of modern light bulbs being too efficient it's true while classic incandescent light bulbs would generate a ton of heat waste modern fluorescent and led bulbs are just way more efficient it's great for the environment but bad for hasbro's line of easy bake ovens anyway with that little history lesson over the takeaway here is that kfc's chicken chamber is already a proven concept if 200 watt incandescent bulbs are enough to serve as a heating component for your easy bake then a gaming pc with a 650 watt power supply definitely can now that 650 watt power supply isn't 100 confirmed but it's the best estimate we have for what a pc like this would need we can also confirm this by looking at other master cooler pre-built systems with the same specs of course this leaves open a question out of all of the power that the pc consumes how much heat waste is actually getting generated just like we saw with the easy bake oven if the system gets too efficient well our hot chicken is going to be more like a cold turkey so place your bets friends if the pc is consuming like we estimated 650 watts how much of that is actually going to get converted to heat go ahead take a guess 20 50 the answer is drum roll please almost all of it one thing you might remember from science class is the first law of thermodynamics which states that energy is never lost it only changes form and basically that means every bit of energy that gets fed into your computer's components will eventually get converted to heat energy that's why it shouldn't be any surprise that the cpu and gpu of your computer which are the parts that use the most power are also the parts that generate the most heat the only energy that doesn't get converted into heat is the energy that takes other forms like the kinetic energy of the moving parts of the fan or the radiant energy from any fancy lighting system that you might have in there in fact the kf console is actually way more efficient than the easy bake oven because that was powered by bulbs that were converting a lot of their power into light instead of heat now compare that to the kf console where over 99 of the power that it consumes eventually gets converted to heat in short this pc is capable of effectively functioning like a 650 watt oven for comparison a toaster oven typically uses about 1200 watts so the kf console is doing half that sure this caf console might take a bit longer to heat up your frozen pizza rolls but it will get the job done plus they market this as something to keep your food hot which is something that it is more than adequate at i mean the heating lamps that they use in fast food restaurants to keep your food warm are usually only 250 watts so if there was any doubt in your mind that the kf console could as advertised keep your chicken hot and ready to eat worry no more friends it is more than up to the task but that's only half the equation here because the entire point of the kf console's chicken chamber is that it serves as a heating system for the food while also serving as a cooling system for the pc itself after all the reason you want the pc to draw heat away from the cpu and gpu is to keep it from overheating that means that in an ideal world our food should be absorbing as much of the heat as possible the more heat the food absorbs the less heat is left to leak out of the chicken chamber and back into the system our chicken chamber essentially has to work as a heat sink if it doesn't the computer is gonna fry itself so how good of a heat sink is fried chicken what we're looking for is something with high isobaric volumetric heat capacity which is just a measure of how much heat a substance is capable of absorbing luckily this is the kind of thing that's been printed in the tables of hundreds of material science textbooks you of course saved the book from that metallurgy class that you took to fill freshman science requirements didn't you no just me well luckily i got you covered ranking substances by isobaric volumetric heat capacity at the top of the list is water good ol h2o yeah shouldn't come as much of a surprise water is one of the most common coolants used in power plants around the world maybe even your computer has itself a water-cooled system after water come metals like steel iron beryllium and copper all of which are pretty commonly used metals in computer heatsinks following these metals is liquid ammonia which um isn't very practical for our purposes considering that ammonia is a gas at room temperature but right after that is animal tissue the wikipedia version of this table notes animal tissue parentheses including human which well very true is also a very strange thing to point out anyway all of this is great news for the kf console because animal tissue in the context of a kitchen is better known as meat as it turns out meat has an incredibly high specific heat capacity thereby making it great at absorbing heat waste not quite as good as water but pretty dang close being 88 as effective so if you're the ultimate try-hard gamer who wants to min max the optimal chicken chamber heatsink the answer is to put in some water and if you're willing to make some concessions for the sake of flavor maybe add a flavor packet in there to make some broth or soup or something but you're almost just as good using the kf console's patented chicken chamber exactly as they've advertised it for keeping your chicken hot and ready and your computer cool and performance optimized who knew that a console idea that seemed like it was just for the memes could actually produce a cooling solution that is literally and figuratively pretty dang cool kfc can i have a console now please but hey that's just a theory a game theory food theory either way bon appetit and now that you're done with this episode continue the crazy watch loop my friends over on film theory and food theory film theory is checking out the secret ingredient hidden in the colonel's romance movie just released and food theory has then taken that secret ingredient and putting it to the test to finally unearth the mystery of the colonel's secret fried chicken recipe both of those episodes are on screen and available for you to click on them right now all you gotta do is click i'm matpat and next week we'll cover actual gaming stuff it's been a while since we talked about fnaf i suppose

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Id: WEdbAsl2cPs

Length: 13min 2sec (782 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021

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