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MatPat (The Game Theorists)

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Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

The scaling in the school makes no sense.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

School doors can vary in size, but the widest standardized door is 6 foot 8 inches tall and 4 foot wide.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

But if the doors in this game aren't meant to be that same height, they would be 5 foot 3 inches wide.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

And if you kept their width more standard, it would make the doors only 5 foot 1 inches tall.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

which is too short for most adults to walk through.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

But then we have air vents that are usually two feet by one and a half feet, but here they're nearly the size of Miss Applegate's massive, uh, brain.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Heck, if you compare our protagonist to a roll of toilet paper, which at most is going to be about five inches tall, he's only like two rolls of toilet paper tall.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Of course, this shouldn't be too surprising.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

This is a pixel-based game after all.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

It's more about aesthetics than it is accuracy.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

But

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

That does mean that for one of the first times ever, pixel measurements had failed me.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

Let's get some Fs in the chat, boys.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

We lost a good one today.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

And so, since scaling in our game isn't going to do us any good for our little experiment, I had only one choice left.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

I had to face reality.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

And by that I mean, use the dimensions of a normal kindergartner and shove that into the maws of our angry reptile.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

The CDC tells us that the average height of your typical tyke is around 43 inches, or just over one meter.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

They also give us the average weight, which is about 44 pounds or 20 kilograms.

Game Theory
The Detail Everyone Missed from Kindergarten 3

But those are just the tip of the mathematical nugget iceberg.