Game Theory: The DEADLY Plants Of Genshin Impact

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It would be so cool if he did a theory on Albedo and the descenders.

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Thanks to Genshin Impact for  sponsoring today's episode. All right, class, your assignment was to  demonstrate reactions incorporating the tree   based element of Dentro. Tartaglia, I see you're  using your Hydro powers, very good there. Hu Tao,   Yours is, umm, burning. Not entirely sure  what you expected there, but yeah, it's a   reaction. Yae Miko, how are you getting along? Show them  Sorry Yae, but you'll find that wood isn't a  very effective conductor of electricity. I’m   going to have to lower your score. Emerge  A plus. Hello Internet! Welcome to Game Theory.  The show that loves its waifus but not as   much as it loves its science. And there is  plenty of both to talk about today. Thanks   to our sponsor Genshin Impact, the game has  just released their fourth country update. In it, you'll be exploring the new region of  Sumeru featuring a plethora of biomes ranging   from the lush rainforests around the capital  city to a desert full of underground ruins   and buried lore. The main story quest focuses  on a time loop where several characters start   to realize that they've been reliving the same  day over and over again, which itself has some   fascinating scientific implications. But that's  not what I want to focus on today. You see, each   new party member in Genshin Impact is associated  with one of seven different elements: hydro, pyro,   cryo, electro, geo and anemo. But at the start of  this new storyline, we're introduced to Nahida,   an Archon of a brand new element known as Dentro,  which comes from the Greek déndron, meaning tree. Now plant based powers, always fun to  use in games. But there's more here than   just a vine whipping in razor leaves. Combat in  Genshin Impact is based on creating elemental   reactions by combining different elements. Most  do what you'd expect, combine hydro and cryo, and   you're getting yourself a freeze reaction. Combine  cryo and pyro and you get the melt reaction. Makes   sense. But with these new dentro powers, things  start to get a little bit more unexpected. Sure, combining dentro with pyro causes  burning and combining dentro with hydro   causes the growth of seeds, nothing out of  the ordinary there. But what really captured   my curiosity was when I started mixing plants  with electricity. Now I'm sure we all remember   second grade science class, where we learn that  wood isn't the best conductor of electricity,   but it doesn't seem to be that way in Genshin  Impact when you use Yae Miko’s electro attacks   with Nahida's dentro ones your attacks get  stronger. Which at first might seem obvious,   combining two attacks equals one stronger  attack, but it also produces a quicken effect. And no, I'm not talking about personal finance  software here. This is a base effect which   increases the damage of your next electro or  dendro attack, creating either aggravate or   spread respectively. Now, that alone was  unexpected, but even more interesting was   when you mixed three element:s dentro plus hydro  equals bloom, but mixing in electro as the third   ingredient creates an elemental cocktail known  as hyper bloom, turning the seeds into guided   missiles that seek out the nearest enemy.  I don't care how many gigawatts you got.   You are not getting seeds to leap up into the  air to become guided missiles, right? Right? Well, I was curious about these reactions  and whether or not they were based in some   form of reality. So I did a bit of digging  only to find that there is way more to the   relationship between plants and electricity than  our school science classes would have us believe. So stick with me theorists, because I  got a feeling that today's theory is   really going to grow on you. So outside of  strapping some jumper cables onto my ficus,   where can I see the effects  of electricity on plants? Well, one of the most common occurrences  are during lightning storms. Lightning   occurs when particles inside a cloud collide  with each other, knocking electrons free,   which then attach to other particles. The  particles that lose their electrons now have   a slightly positive charge and are lighter, thus  they go to the top of the cloud. The ones that   gain electrons are now heavier and have a slightly  more negative charge, causing them to go to the   bottom of the cloud. Those slightly negative  particles also now need a way to equalize. So when the positive and negative charges grow  large enough, that's when you get lightning. It's   the discharges as everything equalizes.  The ground is also positively charged,   which is why lightning is sometimes able  to jump downwards towards Earth. But here's   where things start to get interesting.  You see air isn't a very good conductor,   and lightning wants to take the path of least  resistance. That's why it'll strike a lightning   rod or a tall building. they’re the fastest  path to a positive charge and are often made of   conductive materials like metal. And while trees  aren't exactly the most conductive, they are tall. So they immediately become a much more attractive  option than just traveling through plain old   air. And the relationship between trees and  lightning doesn't just stop there. Trees are   made up of roughly 50% water, with a lot of  that moisture contained just below the bark. Meanwhile, a single bolt of lightning can generate  temperatures of about 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit,   nearly 30,000 degrees Celsius. Believe it or  not, that's about six times hotter than the   surface of the sun. And so what happens when you  heat water really quickly in an enclosed space? Well, it turns into a gas and expands. It  needs a place to go in a hurry. In an instant,   the pressure inside the tree builds  until finally the gas pushes so hard   that the bark can't handle it anymore,  causing the tree to literally explode. Wood and splinters are sent flying everywhere as  if we didn't need more reasons to stay indoors   playing video games. Now, these splinters aren't  exactly homing missiles, but it does show that   tree plus water plus electricity does result  in flying plant projectiles that can do some   serious damage on impact. ON GENSHIN IMPACT! But what about when a tree isn't  filled with water? In the game if   you combine dentro and electro, one of  the effects that you get is aggravate,   which boosts the power of your next electro  attack. And that seems kind of weird, right? Why would running electricity through a  dry plant make your next electrical attack   stronger? It shouldn't have any impact,  right? Or maybe even a negative impact?   Wrong. This actually lines up with real  world science. In a 2004 Ukrainian study,   scientists tested the electrical resistance of  a leaf as it slowly dried up. Now, you would   think that as the leaf dries up and slowly dies,  that its electrical resistance would increase.   Less water left in the leaf would mean less  ability for electricity to flow, right? But no,   the drier the leaf became, the easier electricity  was able to flow through the parts of the leaf   that were still living. The researchers weren't  exactly sure why, but they assumed that it might   have to do with a stronger concentration of water  and salts in the tissue that was left remaining,   allowing for greater electrical conductivity.  But regardless of the reason, it yet again proves   Gentian right in its scientific principles,  the first shot of electricity through a plant   is basically paving the way for subsequent  shocks to be stronger and more effective. So currently the scoreboard is two for two,  which means it's time to look at the final   elemental reactions spread to see if Genshin  can run the perfect game. In combat, spread   is the opposite of aggravate. Basically it uses  electro mixed with dentro to make your next dentro   attack more powerful. The game even gives us an  in-universe explanation for this relationship. We meet a child called Sudabeh who tells  us that quote, “Electro is good. It makes   plants stronger and bear more fruit.” But  that can't be true in real life, right? If   electricity truly made plants stronger and more  fruitful, why haven't we heard of it before? How am I able to go apple picking?  Wouldn't every farmer ever just   electrocute their orchard to try  and max out their harvests? Well,   when you start to look into it, there's  actually a lot more here than meets the eye. Loyal theorists, allow me to introduce you to the  new world of an old science: electro horticulture.   This is an old study. But way back in 1746, a  researcher named Dr. Von Miambray from Edinburgh,   Scotland took two myrtle trees and ran an  electrical current through one of them to   see if it would cause it to grow any differently.  Now, there aren't many details available about his   exact experiment, but from what I could gather, he  used an electrostatic generator to pass a current   directly through the tree and back down to the  ground. And because static electricity runs at a   much lower amperage than a lightning bolt, there  was no risk of accidental splinter missiles. Instead, after an entire month of being zapped,  the tree appeared to have grown taller and had   more leaf growth than its non-electrical twin.  This was a huge discovery and could be a great   justification for Genshin's claims that adding  electro to dentro gives you more powerful dendro. But again, if this was true, why aren't  gardeners the world over putting power   grids through their fields? To be honest, his  conclusions were kind of hard to replicate.   Naturally, other scientists saw these crazy  findings and conducted similar experiments,   but they wound up with mixed results at best. Some claim that they got the exact  same results. Others saw no difference,   and even more said that their trees outright died  due to the electric flow. But if you think a few   failed ferns were going to stop science, then  clearly you haven't been watching my videos,   in which case you should probably just hit  the subscribe button so you can be on top   of all the coolest scientific revelations as  they relate to modern gen open world video   games. It is a very specific niche, but we are  good at it. Anyway, at the very start of 2022,   scientists decided to take this very  old study in a very new direction. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of  Sciences in Beijing attempted to prove   that electricity aids the growth of plants. But  rather than electrifying the plant itself with   static electricity, they decided to instead  put the plant inside of an electric field. Basically, they placed the seeds on a  metal plate that was connected directly   to a negative electrode. And above where  the seeds were growing was a metal plate   connected to a positive electrode. This  created an electric field between them   as the positive and negative charges  tried desperately to come together. After three days of germination,  seed growth inside the electric   field was 40% higher than the control  group when it came to seedling growth.   The electric field resulted in a  growth increase of 15%. All in all,   the plants inside the electric field gave a crop  yield that was 20% higher than the control group. Seems bizarre, right? Like why would being  in the presence of electricity change plant   growth so dramatically? Unfortunately,  the research paper doesn't provide an   explanation. But you know what? I think I  can. Science has shown that thunderstorms   tend to help with plant growth not  just because of increased rainfall,   but also because their electrical energy helps  separate the nitrogen atoms that are floating   around in the air. These atoms then fall  to the ground where they're absorbed by the   soil and eventually wind up inside a plant's  roots. The University of Melbourne, though,   has a different solution. Maybe electric  fields act kind of like natural pesticides. The electricity doesn't bother the plant, but  it might scare away insects acting kind of like   a low level bug zapper. There's also the fact  that within an electrical field, water tends   to have lower surface tension, resulting in  faster evaporation after rainfall or watering. Lastly, it might just be what electricity does  to the plant itself, effectively boosting the   metabolism of the plant by accelerating the  transportation of nutrients like calcium and   bicarbonates. Regardless of which explanation  is correct, when it comes right down to it,   plant growth involves a lot of chemical  reactions, and electricity appears to have   the ability to affect each and every one  of them for the better. There you have it,   my friends. The electro-dentro effects that  we see in the game are absolutely adhering to   real world science. Electricity appears  to strengthen, grow and spread plants,   even causing them to sometimes spontaneously  explode out like a bunch of low flying missiles.   Sure the results may be a lot more bombastic  in the game than they are in real life,   but when the alternative is literally watching  the grass grow, I think the choice is obvious. But hey! Thanks again to Genshin Impact for  sponsoring today's video. It's been really fun   to put the lore down for once and instead focus  on some of the new cool sciencey aspects of the   game. So special thanks to them for letting us  roll with something a bit out of the ordinary. That said, it doesn't mean that there isn't a  new lore for us to discover. In fact, in their   3.3 update, they just released a brand new five  star character, The Wanderer. Once our enemy,   he's now an ally with a dark and mysterious  back story full of sorrow and betrayal,   which sounds a lot like my kind of character. And  if you're dying to understand these characters a   little bit more, well, you can now take  part in their Wishes From Tayvat event,   where you'll receive postcards  directly from the characters   themselves. Apparently there are plenty of  hidden Easter eggs to find inside of them. And you know what that means. LOOOOOOOOOOORE!  I guess I'm just going to have to keep checking   in to see if Yae Miko has written me back.  But if you just fancy something different,   there's also the brand new game mode  Genius Invocation Trading Card Game. That's right. Genshin now has itself  a trading card game, collect cards,   build your decks and destroy your  enemies. And oh, yes, my friends,   there is lore to be found in there,  too. I'm not going to spoil it for you. You'll just have to play it and find it for  yourself. So if you want to desperately hear back   from your chosen waifu or you’re just interested  in trying out the new dentro powers like we talked   about today, head on down to the description and  click the link below to download the game on the   device of your choice for free in order to start  your adventure. It is a huge, massive, open world   game with a robust story and all of it is for  free. If you're looking for something cool to   do this winter, there it is. It'll keep you busy  for a while. Now, if you'll excuse me. Stephanie's   got a vegetable garden that I think could use  a little bit more juice. Time to break out the   car battery. In the meantime, remember, it's all  just a theory. A GAME THEORY! Thanks for watching.
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