How Much Is A Rupee Worth In Tears Of The Kingdom?

[@Jopes]

Corrections: 7:29 I say North-West, I meant to say North East (it was correct in the script, idk what happened) 8:27 I say $1,500, actual price is $15,000 Neither of these have any affect on the final outcome, but I thought I'd point them out anyways.

[@tobysuren]

doesn't taking the mean of an individual item as well as a previously calculated mean put a higher weight on the individual item? ie the value of the rupee should be closer to the $3.70 unless you specifically think the land value is 3 times as accurate as the other calculations if you recalculate the mean by taking the 4 items separately it gives a value of around $4.24 (or $4.25 if you want to round to the nearest multiple of .25 like you did with the previous one) per rupee.

[@samuelthecamel]

Fun fact: The prices of most things have decreased since BotW, meaning that the economy is actually experiencing deflation.

[@ParasocialCatgirl]

Except trousers.

[@elpaka7654]

Prices propably skyrocketed after the calamity because there suddenly were very limited goods. I'm assuming Hyrule also has no bank that is producing more new rupees, so now with Hyrule recovering and businesses growing, there are more goods and services to spend money and the limited rupee count is spread amongst more people. Plus, Link is single handedly taking money out of the economy by giving it to great fairies or the Korok forest. The mystic armor is propably also not helping for the future.

[@johnnymccarthy3618]

⁠@@elpaka7654But link is also putting money back into the economy by shooting blupees or selling things to koroks

[@davidwave4]

I’d imagine that the rebuilding process itself created some deflationary pressure. More goods, more jobs and wages, but also lots of deficit spending going into productive uses.

[@fiddlestickjones]

​@@elpaka7654rupees are i believe produced by blupees, and not standard gems, so no bank would be able to control the input of rupees unless they were destroying them, also link probably bought way to much shit and messed it all up

[@mt2r-music]

The cheese and milk are probably even more expensive due to them being handmade and not being made in mass production. That way they would be even more close to the sum of the second calculation.

[@segadoeswhatnintendont]

However they were locally made so the cost transport does not apply

[@deebee5378]

In the US the government has programs to influence the price, and Hyrule probably doesn’t have a lot of surplus, refrigeration, or pasteurization that we use. Hyrule also doesn’t have exports or commodities trading, a small population, different circumstances for inflation/deflation, and the culture could value labor completely differently. There’s a lot of factors that make it hard to compare them

[@bruhbruh4203]

Only the OGs remember the kid voice

[@retroflame3104]

Also land would likely be a lot cheaper because hyrule has a much lower population and the current land prices are in a massive bubble so pretty fucked.

[@buildermonkey2229]

Oh yeah, and also the cheese being a BRAND NEW thing in the world of totk.

[@TheBreadPirate]

Using Maine to find the price of land in Akkala was a big brain move. I NEVER would have considered that.

[@nabaid7426]

Breadpirate?

[@MinnowTF]

Jopes is just using video games to justify his math addiction, hopes and prayers for their family

[@benbookworm]

It would probably be difficult to find English-language resources, but I think finding the costs in Japan for the real-world equivalents may be worth looking into.

[@richardmahn7589]

Make sushi. Find sushi price in game. Find sushi price in real life. DONE!

[@sssamson1768]

someone from Wisconsin here, the Hateno cheese actually more closely represents the Ardalena type of cheese, as it comes from buffalos, and has holes. please correct this error

[@philardo69]

midwest cheese is no joke, great vid but this needa be changed to be a gouda video

[@user-lt8dp2oj4n]

From the Netherlands here, when going to Hateno village in Tears of the kingdom. You won't find buffalo's but cows. Making it weird to be buffalo cheese. But looking at the cheese it is definitely no traditional cheese from the Netherlands (like gouda cheese), because cheese tends to be more yellow. The Hateno cheese is way to white to be fat cowmilk cheese. The crust of the cheese however seems to be from a older cheese. Like thick and stuff. I don't think you can tell if ot is old white cheese like the shit put on pasta or young frenchisch cheese. (Calling this cheese put for cheddar is a war chrime.)

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@user-lt8dp2oj4n I mean, cows aren't the only ones that make milk, but it is indeed cow's milk that is used, as evidenced by the sidequest chain used to gain access to it.

[@Werepenguin]

I think it would be interesting to use this information to find weird outliers in price, or to determine the real world value of the more fictional items and then find a rough equivalent in real life

[@minecraftkid8220]

An egg in kakariko costs $57

[@FireBlockerPro]

What about the popular Mario coin?

[@BriarBeeBenson]

@@minecraftkid8220so… Kakariko is SoCal now?

[@RGC_animation]

I feel like land prices in Hyrule no matter where would be a LOT cheaper than in real life, due to the fact that the population is much smaller and that the housing prices aren't artificially inflated.

[@RedCoach28]

Awesome job man I’ve enjoyed seeing your breakdowns of the Nintendo games such as Mario kart and Zelda over the years as your quality in video production has improved and I hope you a very successful future with KZbin as it seems that you do an amazing job. Keep up the good work!!!

[@ruin256]

Damn dude, your voice surprised me compared to last time I watched you. Tbh watching you get better and better at this whole KZbin thing is inspiring, keep doing what you do man.

[@rsnbransbro9960]

This was pretty impressive. Good on you for figuring this out.

[@splatman7300]

man, I'm so glad to see that you're keeping at it. I first found your channel from the "best path in Yoshi canyon" video. hope to see you keep growing

[@francemiaou]

Really cool video, I like all those precisions and technicals details about your metholodogy. As a French (so obviously, I am a cheese expert), I have doubt about the fact that this cheese is an equivalent of cheddar

[@pobito_]

your voice is so different compared to your old vids i feel like i watched you grow up😭😭 love the vids man btw

[@vinniestudios5268]

that transition at the beginning was impressive

[@Jopes]

thanks!

[@KirboYT]

I could never pay attention for a second in math class, but yet I am very interested in measuring items to find out their price in the real world to establish a rupee to dollar conversion rate

[@kaianderson9920]

Who knew I was a millionaire in TOTK?

[@nj8833]

my brother in christ why do you have 200,000 rupees and when is the last time you felt sunlight on your skin

[@YASUuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

俺:ゲームを売って1分で2000円を獲得

[@Zinkolo]

The fuse menu is great honestly. I don't think they could've made it any better if they tried without over complicating things

[@Dewelwield1010]

Opening every time you want to fuse an arrow does get annoying

[@cowboyclip]

1:44 “Yeah, that looks like about a gallon on the ground to me, easy estimate” 1:52 “oh damn ok”

[@nj8833]

I'm sorry to comment on something completely irrelevant to the great work you did on this video, but the change in your voice is so striking! I'd always assumed you were an adult because of the extremely high quality of your videos. Or, maybe you have been an adult all along, and you've started HRT. Either way, congratulations, seriously. You're clearly growing and evolving and I hope your channel sees some well-deserved growth too!!

[@redshell9205]

Good but the problem is that you didn’t take in supply and demand for the milk cheese and salmon. You never know, milk could be very rare in the Zelda universe do can it be for cheese and salmon. And people could really NEED cheese or something.

[@astonot]

If I had to guess, Hateno Cheese is probably closer to Emmental or Jarlsberg based on the picture and the description mentioning it being rich and melty.

[@rifasclub]

The most impressive thing is that this post apocalyptic world has a way more stable economy than ours.

[@GyroCannon]

I want to say that prices in the Zelda universe arent high, because yes we can buy stuff for cheaper in real life but we've had centuries of industrial revolution, making our economics productive, whereas Hylians have been putting in R&D efforts towards making fancy Switch-shaped iPads instead of tractors and machinery. And there are only a few Purah Pads in existence (Link's, and maybe Purah and Robbie have one each), so its defintely not money well spent

[@conkerfrog2005]

Botw and totk stopped link from just robbing poor hylians in broad daylight lol

[@MinerFun]

As someone who’s from Maine, it feels crazy whenever someone mentions it in a video and I always have to double check my hearing is in tact. As for pricing- 45k sounds about right but it totally depends where you live. On the water, especially in Southern Maine (further from Canada), one acre could be worth from around 50k to a few hundred grand. More North (towards Canada) in the state, acres can be ridiculously cheap. My guess is around 1-10k an acre (although i could be wrong, but ik it’s certainly not very expensive), however some areas are definitely still more expensive. That was very much a surprise tho

[@dontworry4945]

fun fact most cheese is named after where it is made. cheddar in the British Isles, camembert France, Swiss, etc. so it's really just hateno cheese.

[@dontworry4945]

@@Jopes it took me while you figure it out too 😁

[@SirPenta256]

I love this video! It was a great experiment to try to find the value of the rupee! But i feel like you did cut some corners with your calculations, i feel like some things with the cheese and ground weren't that accurate, and i wonder if there weren't any better alternatives. But still, you have my subscription!

[@OrangieZ1]

bro gave a whole physics lesson to explain a loz concept. keep up the good work bro

[@nodrance]

This is a pretty great video. It fills the niche for me that early game theory did, back when he was unashamedly a nerd doing science and pixel measurements, and didn't just cover the latest analog horror series popular with 12 year olds. However, by being a nerd, you've opened yourself to a traditional "um actually". In this video, made the mistake of ignoring how each item is produced in hyrule vs earth. Milk in this world is factory farmed by cows with ridiculous output, meanwhile in hyrule milk has to be manually gathered on a small scale from cows that probably aren't being pumped full of horomones. This will affect the price of cheese as well. As for salmon, I don't know too much about how it's caught on earth, but I imagine it's very different from totk.

[@mayanightstar]

I did not expect this video to put in this much effort, cracking out the pixel measurements and all that

[@Endermania6526]

Congratulations. You have proven me wrong that highschool math was a useful subject to learn

[@HenrikMyrhaug]

It's really fun to notice Jopes' voice changing over time!

[@Dudeman23rd]

Excellent work! I'd sort of estimated based on how things are priced that a rupee was somewhere around 10 dollars, but that still felt a bit high and I didn't like moving away from a round 10. But 5 works perfectly!

[@mushmello526]

And then you have a giant ass diamond for 500 rupees

[@xefficient1948]

This video is high quality af mate. Incredible job

[@Ddddddddddd381]

Cool video! Reminds me of og game theory where they'd actually do calculations

[@modernkennnern]

Man, your voice is a lot deeper. I haven't seen your videos lately, but when you uploaded the Mario Kart videos (for example, the one about the best Dolphin Shoals line), I genuinely thought you were a girl.

[@idek4990]

the salmon looks more like pink salmon ngl

[@pinkparodius]

I've been watching your stuff for a while and I'm always amazed at how much time and effort you put in to each video. Also how easy you make it to follow. Keep up the awesome work and I know you're channel will become huge someday. Also, thanks for using £'s in this video. Adds extra context for me.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

great video lol

[@tuxrug]

Considering Link can eat a whole wedge of cheese in one sitting without any problems, his true power is digestion.

[@hellofend4734]

i wasnt... expecting advanced m i l k m a t h today but im glad i saw it i guess

[@wyattpreble9458]

I always get so happy when I see you posted a new video and you never disappoint

[@StormsparkPegasus]

That is one gigantic bottle of milk, wow.

[@SmogHouseTradingCo]

You need to evaluate these pre-industrial revolution. Based on a similar time period, looking at medievel france and the Roman republic, that milk would be around $240 US dollars, $200 if its sheep milk and not cows milk.

[@BuilderBasti]

Fun fact: The message for getting a hundred rupees in The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is (at least in German): "Du hast 100 Rubine erhalten! Du fühlst dich reich und schön!" ; which translates to: "You got 100 rupees! You feel rich and beautiful!" :D

[@clangauss4155]

4:45 Hateno cheese looks like a soft cheese like brie or argental. The rind would make me say the latter. On a quick Google check for top results in my area, cheddar is five-sevenths the cost of brie and is one-third the cost of brebirousse d'argental. Those so inclined may adjust accordingly. EDIT: This is what I get for not watching the full video before commenting. Jumped the gun. There are huge holes in the cheese in the shot at 5:20, and the milk right next to it has a picture of a cow on it. This indicates the cheese is not as creamy as I thought and suggests the cheese is probably made from cow's milk. Could be a muenster at only nine-tenths the price of cheddar.

[@Pinkblobperson]

One single diamond is $2375 so a full stack would be $2,372,625 but that’s for us selling. but buying a diamond would be $4750 and if you for some reason bought enough for one stack that would be $4,745,250 usd. **cough**

[@DFsteaksalmon]

I've learned more math from this video than from an actual math class

[@avefenix8422]

This is my apportation for the algorithm, You had done an amazing researching work, but we May not use the same 'ruler' that we have in real world because of the offter and demanding of Hyrule, the things that we can gel easyly on earth, May not be so common on Hyrule kingdon. Nice work, anyway

[@minzhan8533]

My man went thru pixel counting the quantity of the milk bottles instead of using apples. Also with his method an apple in totk is worth 14,75 dollars :)

[@FoxDog1080]

12L bottle of milk with a 2 inch glass wall

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome Video Bro!

[@saulitix]

What I expected: economy What I got: How to measure milk in Zelda

[@REAL-Darshada]

Hopes while I can say this is useless information in almost all scenarios, I can say I admire your work and that it is interesting to this, this could be used as canon and it amazes me that you go through the time and effort of doing something that is purely for fun. Keep up the fun work.

[@REAL-Darshada]

“Jopes” not “hopes” auto corrected me

[@enviousscarab2762]

But what if milk producers are lessor more in the world, so like milk could be like Doritos here or like an emerald ( supply and demand)

[@ethancollier5793]

Holy crap your voice man! You are a MAN! Also yeah ~$15,000 for a Hylian Shield seems accurate.

[@Subreon]

Man's committing an Einstein x Oppenheimer fanfic to figure out how much milk is in the bottle and cheese in a wedge when he could've just used a singular solid item like a pumpkin, and a hearty salmon XP

[@davemarx7856]

This is the kind of math project that could get kids interested in maffs

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

Lol it's hilarious how much your voice has changed since the Yoshi Valley video.

[@SjaAnat]

His voice doesn’t sound like a girl anymore 😔

[@eriklagergren7124]

the fact that they were so close makes me almost believe they started with one rupie = x yen and worked from there

[@iamphoenixfire]

Those tomatoes are absolutely ripe!!! They’re just heirlooms!!!

[@sagacious03]

Very interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@captainfunk972]

Great video! Would love to see more totk content soon :)

[@bvoyelr]

Should have begun with, "Hello, internet! Welcome to Jopes' theory!" And, of course, finished with "But that's just a theory...a JOPES' theory!" Or if you're not against gratuitous adult references and cursing, Shoddycast's "THE SCIENCE!" is a better fit, though there's the obvious limitation that he has no pithy lines to reference. Except, y'know, yelling "THE SCIENCE!" Awesome video, by the way, though beware walking down this path. For down it, you're courting pedantic commentary the likes of which you are not yet equipped to handle. "Well, actually, you can't compare land values in Maine to property values in Hyrule! They're completely different cultures and governments!" And "It's completely insane to map the present value of milk and cheese onto historical, agricultural societies. That stuff was WAY more expensive back then!" Then you'll get the Super Saiyan pedants who out-pedant the pedants by insisting that such bedrock things as food don't really increase or decrease in value -- they *are* value -- ultimately, they're what's used to measure how valuable everything else is.

[@CassiusStelar]

"back then" Those people would have no point, Hyrule has Space-Opera level technology and near constant access to fae magic with the Great Fairies and Goddess Power with the Triforce and Royal Family's Bloodline, for all we know, they could secretly have factory-farm levels of mass production going on behind the scenes

[@0ptx]

not the milk space

[@0ptx]

your also a nerd

[@thesunkenlocker]

Elcome to team Fortress 2

[@holdenarledge9672]

Your voice is getting deeper!

[@VFXKorbo]

ganon: im gonna destroy hyrule inflation rate: *HOLY SHIT*

[@dweamdoodles1865]

absolute favorite thing about this video is how much of it is dedicated to milk

[@Cosmiichu]

Your voice got so much deeper damn haha

[@davekachel]

Fun video but its migthy flawed in its logic. Milk is solely produced in Hateno vs real world where milk is produced everywhere. This makes milk more worth in Hyrule. Like a lot more worth our milk is dirt cheap. Cheese is a good example of this in real life cause wtf are american prices for cheese. However as cheese is unique to hateno the $ price could be fine again. Both prices are inflated crazy, the question is just who charged it more. And the landplot just becomes silly, as housing prices in the US became beyond reasonable. You can buy literal castles in europe for the same price as houses in the US. The same is true for plots. Result: rupees are probably worth a lot less.

[@777guy5]

I came back after a while and bro, ur voice, It changed so much lmfao

[@CarsonValenta]

This was a great video. Unexpected but welcomed!

[@Shminderz]

I just found this channel and I love his stuff already Jopes is my favourite KZbinr 😁

[@joshuagach6106]

Thank you for including the gallons in your milk calculations.

[@cg1906]

there's no fucking way anyone is selling a 25cm diameter milk jug in Hyrule. They're obviously supposed to be linke a pint or two

[@nuggie2993]

100$ for a stable night makes a lot of sense. a hotel room is often around that price for one night

[@nerdwisdomyo9563]

DID SOMEONE SAY MAINE! i am now legally obligated under KZbin law to tell absolutely everyone I live in maine… anyway good video

[@valeriosorrentino1625]

Sorry to bother but you got the milk bottle diameter slightly off, you calculated the empty part between the two bottles as it was only from the left bottle ( 3:31 ) but you have to consider that empty space as half from the left bottle's hitbox and half from the left bottle hitbox

[@valeriosorrentino1625]

I just now realized that the calculation is correct since the empty space is equally divider between the right and left side of the bottle so just shame on me and GG to you

[@neocrama6696]

Never thought of this, never would have

[@rodzandz]

Your calculation is completely flawed from the get-go. There's absolutely no way that the bottle of milk holds 3.2 gallons. You can tell this just by looking at the size of the bottle. It's physically impossible to hold 3.2 gals in there. 1.3 to 1.5 gallons tops. Also the price of cheese and salmon vary wildly depending on the type, quality, ageing and country where you purchase them.

[@ZypherRAWR]

I hope you get extra credit for your maths classes for all of this too 😂

[@rnieIIe_lr]

I think the tomato is supposed to be heirloom tomatoes which usually are sold in all sorts of colour

[@kimleine6557]

bro payed attention in math

[@jayjaybirdie700]

I’ve never seen something so- wow- dude I didn’t realize anyone else did this

[@andreworders7305]

His voice is different in every episode

[@RealTrackpadGod]

If this is true, this is the amount of dollars I have in totk. Current amount of rupees: 998,206. Hylian Shield: 3,000 Rupees. ($14,250). 998,206 divided by 3000 (amount of hylian shields I could buy) = 332.735333333 Amount of dollars I have in Totk (Totk rupees into dollars): $4,741,478.50 Conclusion: Link is rich as hell.

[@pitioti]

I'm bad at math, so, I'm glad you do the math for me :'D

[@srirachayaya]

ur videos itch the back of brain and I love it

[@dutch_cubing]

They sell diamands for $2035 thqts pretty cheap

[@edwardnedharvey8019]

Such a silly and pointless venture. I love it! 😂

[@angmar0092]

Love this love of videos keep it up

[@OtakuNoShitpost]

Your math checks out, but 3 gallons doesnt seem right in the alightest for that bottle. Id have thought itd be a quart sized bottle

[@antilopezmexicanos]

A rupee worth's around 81.13 Mexican Pesos, the Hylian shield costs around 243,390 Mexican pesos.

[@_zupz]

Hey man this was great

[@FIREPickle2333]

The cheese looks like bri * bri is a cheese *

[@Ballomatic_]

Isn't Maine Northeast, not Northwest? 7:20

[@Jopes]

no way i accidentally said northwest

[@Ballomatic_]

@@Jopes 😂😂

[@henryorlowski5004]

lmao