Food Theory: Can You Kill Someone With A POTATO? (Dream SMP)

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I know what you are thinking, did I accidentally click on a Game Theory video? Nope! We are talking about deadly potatoes and I've decided that all potatoes, even Minecraft potatoes, are Food Theory territory. If you keep up with the @dream SMP, you know where this is going. Recently, Dream seemingly killed @TommyInnit with a potato to the head. I want to know if that is a thing that could REALLY happen. Get your diamond helmets ready, this may get dangerous!


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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper
Editors: Jerika (NekoOnigiri) and Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (Caiterpillart)
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[eucalyptus]

I was thinking he was going to compare actual potatoes, and see if an actual potato could hit someone that many times before the potato turned mashed.

[feristired]

I think we forget the durability of potatoes. After a a few hits at that speed I would imagine it would eventually start to break and get weaker. Unless I missed that in the video, we should take that into consideration

[JohnFiala]

Now I’m just imagining a gravestone that reads “death by blunt force potato”

[squidking]

I mean, you'd also have to take into account how the potato probably wouldn't survive that many hits and the fact that Dream undoubtedly hit Tommy in other less fragile areas, too, not just his head.

[theultimatecookie]

I find it hilarious that you make a theory based on the weird logistics of Dream beating Tommy to death with a potato.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It's all fun and games until Dream takes out a Warden using a potato

[scarlettaguele]

I’m 100% convinced that this man’s search history must be so weird

[TheAdvertisement]

Matpat's dramaticism of Tommy's death is funny considering he's been revived for like... nearly a year now.

[Lucky]

Just a sidenote: The actual probability of death would be even higher than MatPat predicted because he computed the probability of death from repeated blows assuming that each blow is equally likely to be lethal. However, it's reasonable to assume that later blows are more likely to be lethal since earlier blows will already have done significant bodily harm. To compute an exact number would require knowing how much the probability changes, but we can say the overall probability will certainly be higher than if the blows were all independent.

[mastronep]

I love how the comment section is actually computing logical arguments to dispute this theory

[madinsomniac]

Only matpat could find a way to feature dream smp on food theory…
Edit: wtf is this
Im not supposed to be funny

[Sunnybst]

5:53 remember MatPat, this is a game where anyone can punch down a tree with their bare hands.

[elementsilver]

very disappointed this didnt account for how the potato would hold up with those levels of hitting. on repeat hits you have less and less of a potato.

[getbonked]

There are more fun things to take into account when calculating the lethality of a potato. How's the structural integrity of the potat? Is it frozen or not? Is the collision between potat and head elastic? And the mass of the arm throwing the potato punch will contribute with kinetic energy. And also you have to half the results in the energy calculations.

[kitdoesstufflmao]

I always knew having one potato on hand wasn't just an Irish stereotype lol

[qwertyo]

"A spud is only as powerful as the idiot behind it deciding to use it as a blunt force weapon."
-MatPat, 2022

[cantaloupegodling]

This should have been a kitchen episode where Matpat and an unnamed intern find out just how many swings is optimal.

[LT_Gamng]

Matpat: a frying pan? What are you a Disney princess.
Demo-pan: *exists*

[LegendaryFenrir]

The real question is if this happened irl, would this still be possible compared to the durability of a raw potato?
Wouldn't it be reduced to mush before the chances of death could occur?

[temari]

As many people said you should also take the potato's state into a count. Besides that there's also the surface area you're striking with. You will deal more damage if you land a punch with a sharper and smaller side of a potato, rather than a flat wide one. And also, in this scenario each hit will not have an equal probability of killing a person, since your overall health state will worsen after getting a strike, thus increasing your chance of dying with the next one.