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Twitch Plays pokemon
If anyone is still yet to hear of this phenominon, here it is. 50,000 people, all playing one game of pokemon.
Here's how it works: There's a twitch stream of pokemon red, with a bot rigged to input any classical gameboy command put into the chat, into the game (right, a, b, start, etc). It's pretty hilarious and frustrating to watch, if you guys want to get in on this here's link: http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon They actually already got a Gym badge and 5 pokemon, do you think they can beat the game? And by they I mean the equivalent of south Sudan crowded around a single game boy. Have fun. |
I saw bits and pieces of this, and I don't think i'm one for it. Last I remember they were at Celadon City and had one active Pokémon that was paralyzed and about to faint. And since RBY isn't generous at all with money, that's not something I really want to try my hand in. D:
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Yeah, it's actually pretty surprising though. They just got their second gym badge. It's like the infinite monkeys effect with a little bit more coordination.
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Yess, it's hilarious. I was on a few hours ago, with a bunch of people trying to grab that Eevee in the Celadon Condominiums, while the other half were like "NO SCREW YOU EEVEE SUCKS" and constantly trying to go back down the stairs.
They got that Eevee like 20 minutes later, but god knows how long they've been struggling before I started watching the stream. Up to four badges and 10 Pokemon in the Pokedex when I stopped watching, pretty amazing actually, considering this is basically what's happening: http://thatnpc.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/make-it-stop.gif?w=788 |
I'm gonna be honest, I'm loving this. It's surprising how fast they're actually progressing through the game. You'd imagine that over 50,000 people playing the same game would mean they'd stuill be in Pewter City, but now they have 4 badges. It's still chaotic though since they took 4 days to do that...... They were at Route 9 for forever. That Ledge is the devil.
' Also ALL HAIL THE HELIX FOSSIL! Spoiler:
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Fun fact. The rom being played on this stream is none other than Pokemon Red 151!
Jesus, that eevee is going to be the root of all divisiveness for a long ways in the future. |
I loaded it and watched for all of one minute before my brain started to seriously hurt. xD
Pretty hilarious though. |
They apparently just released ABBBBBBK ( (The Charmeleon if you didn't know.) Excuse me as I go cry forever. :(
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I refuse to believe that they will get the gold teeth and surf in 500 steps
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There's always that ******* who works to release all the pokemon any time they're in a pokemon center XD
I love all the memes that spawned for it, Flareon is a false prophet! http://s28.postimg.org/o9co7qdrx/DANCE.png |
Hello fellow Helixians. Even though the Helix has been stored he will guide us to the best of his ability.
Annnnnnnnnnd they just Teleport'd |
I don't even need to watch and I can tell how chaotic this play-through must be. I was actually talking about it with someone in a private chat room last night, and the way he described was "the fact that they're making any progress at all is amazing."
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I have a bad feeling they're going to get stuck in the Safari Zone. Either it's going to take them a LONG time to get through it or it's going to be the end of it all.
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Nah, I'm pretty sure the guy who put this up said he'd edit the ROM to somehow sort out the safari zone if it was deemed to be literally impossible.
Regardless, I've been watching since around the 16000 people mark nearly on day 2 (now at 61000), and it's pretty entertaining. 'CONSULT THE HELIX FOSSIL' is probably going to be stuck in my head for a while. Not to mention the SS Ticket. And that ledge before Rock Tunnel... dear god. |
THESE WARP PANELS IN ROCKET HIDEOUT URRRRGHHH!!!
I should sticky this thread til popularity of it dies down. I mean, it IS a hot topic in Pokemon right now. Hmm. |
If I'm not mistaken, this might be the furthest a TPP run has gone. They really believe in that Helix Fossil lol. Pidgeot has been carrying the team so far.
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TheJWittz mentioned this in a video today. It's literally the best thing I've ever heard of. I just regret the fact that my internet is waaaaaay too slow to watch it :'(
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Internet will close when the game ends.
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My main annoyance rn is that nothing ever happens while I'm watching lmao. I fell asleep while they were trying to hit up the daycare and woke up to crimes against humanity (aka two releases, a terrible evolution, the storing of Lord Helix and the wasting of pokédolls) and now I've been watching the Rocket Hideout nonsense for a few hours. bleah
oh, some people are recording the progress in a google doc btw- here it is! |
I watched for about half an hour earlier and it was just back and forth in the Rocket hideout.
I enjoyed reading about what's happened so far on knowyourmeme. Hopefully it'll calm down in a few days and I can get on when most Americans should be asleep, it'd be cool to be part of a coordinated effort. |
I've had it open on the side of my screen for the last three days or so and I input commands sometimes so I feel like I help a little. :P I mean, the majority of people are still trying to move forward with what we have and the goal is shared by most of them so something will happen eventually. It's more a matter of luck now that we have to do Rocket HQ though. :|
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Wow that doc is pretty cool. At least someone is keeping track. Thanks for the link It seems that more people are trying to wreck the game than to contribute. However, I am amazed that they are somehow still alive. |
Mhm! There's also a TvTropes page now. And somebody informed the Guinness World Record people about this and they're taking a look at it. idk what record it would qualify for or it they're just gonna make something up but hey, that's cool.
In other news, Lord Helix has been retrieved from the PC and after much wandering we're back in Rocket HQ. I feel like once we get back to having a common goal things will go more smoothly- everyone's arguing about PokéDoll vs Scope strategy or something. And Rocket HQ is a nightmare anyway. |
I'm so happy they got the Helix Fossil back but omg STILL in Rocket Hideout. I must have been gone when they got Helix back but ugh every time I watch, there's nothing good happening. :(
Also yeah I'm gonna sticky this for the time being while it's popular. |
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Lord Helix has spoken! Seriously tho I'm optimistic that we'll get somewhere but it's not going to be anytime soon- most things tend to happen when the Americans go to sleep and the participant count drops. I'm never going to see anything cool ;___; |
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Ugh I'm so out of touch with what's happening since I haven't been on my computer all day.I'm always off my computer when the good things are happening. :( From what I'm hearing though, they're in Rocket's Hideout trying to get past the warp squares and Helix has been restored. :D
Also I tried the askthebhelix thing if I'd past my Oral Communciations test and omg http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i334/AWsquared/consulthelix_zpsf5be9457.png Helix has spoken. Looks like I'll fail. |
baw sorry about your impending doom :(
It's okay that you haven't been round though because the most major thing that's happened is the rescue of Lord Helix from the PC. The rest of the time has been spent doing the first part of the spinny-tiles over. And over. And over... |
Round and round and round and round it goes.
I expect we'll be stuck in this place for a week or so unless the Helix Lord tells us the way out. |
I'M STILL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BEING ELSEWHERE IN LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS (aka after i wake up tomorrow bc things happen when i sleep apparently). Seriously, we'll find a way. We're slowly getting further into the maze. It'll be okay soon. It'll be fine...
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We just need to get out of this corner and take the one-tile-wide path left, so it's going to take a while...
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We're on B3 this is totally possible. We got this. Although we've managed to get all the way down the right side more times than we've passed the gap we need to get in. Also the party just opened and apparently Dux is our leader rn. :|
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I've been lucky enough to witness the tree guarding the Celadon gym being cut (they spent hours on that), the retrieval of the Helix Fossil from the PC, and the unfortunate case of the rooftop Eevee, And no, nothing good came out of that Eevee :(
It's really interesting to see how much popularity this has gained though. There were about 15k people watching the stream when I first saw it, and now it's locked in the 70k+, well on its way to 8 million views, and has gained a massive fan-following as well as a hilarious sub-reddit page. Definitely a piece of art ;) |
That's pretty similar to what major events I've seen- I watched them teach Cut and utilize it in Vermilion, successfully deposit Dig Rat, get ahold of that frickin Eevee + the attempt to buy evolutionary stones, and the retrieval of Lord Helix. I really want to see a gym battle augh >:(
I was reading a few interviews with the creator and everyone was amazed at 20k around 2 days in and just... look how big this is. All of this. This amazing. Everyone's playing a game and then there's everything that's become associated with just this playthrough like Olli said and it's just. Wow. Look what we do. |
I missed the retrieval of Lord Helix, sadly. That must have been when I was ACTUALLY doing my schoolwork for once, or with my boyfriend. I think Anna is right in that the good will happen when the Americans go to sleep. Pretty sure that's where most of the trolling is coming from. :P
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For those people actually playing: the amount of time between inputs has been increased to 45 seconds (as opposed to 20-ish when I last was paying attention). Meaning that you can only send a message of any type once every 45 seconds. Fair, certainly, but frustrating since it feels even less like I'm contributing anything.
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The fossil seems pretty positive that we'll get though this eventually. Really though, like everyone else is saying its a miracle that they even got this far, it'll be amazing if they can actual beat it. |
haha this sounds interesting! gonna check it out
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We were in the maze of B3... and we used dig... I can't even...
on the plus side i can safely ignore the stream for another three hours. Though I could have ignored it for the previous ten as well tbh. |
From what I gather in the various posts around the internet, this is funnier to watch from a distance than actually trying to play it :p
but funny indeed, and that's all I require. |
There is hope! We can skip the maze using the poke doll trick!
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People seem to not want to do that. xD; We had three PokéDolls at one point but they were squandered...
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Will Red ever make it out of Celadon City? Stay tuned until next week to find out! And maybe the next.
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Ahahah, oh my goodness, I just logged into tumblr and spent no more than 5 seconds scrolling through when I saw so many posts related to this...
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I STILL HAVE HOPE FOR WAKING UP AND BEING OUT OF ROCKET HQ
We've been in B3 for over 5 hours. Help. |
From what I read on KnowYourMeme, they've been in the entire HQ for over 14 hours cause of those damn warp/spinney squares. Holy Crap. I think we'll be playing this game for at least 2 weeks to a month lol.
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Bahah It's hilarious. But srsly, that one person who keeps pressing start :(
I don't exactly get the Helix Fossil joke though.... :/ |
We used dig again. We are outside the Celadon Pokémon Centre again. I'm def going to miss any progress that'll be made tonight but holy crap. This is def the longest we've been stuck. I just.... augh. I don't want us to be stuck here anymore ;____; I've been listening to Rocket HQ/Celadon music for over fifteen hours. I can't.
And now they keep trying to get into the PC to deposit Dig Rat and that's so risky and so stressful guys stop. D: @^ the Helix Fossil is accidentally randomly used all the time. So people said we were consulting the Helix Fossil for advice. And then it became so that the Helix Fossil began to be worshipped as the god of this run. idk man this is how religions start apparently |
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To explain the Helix Fossil joke; because there's over 40,000- 70,000 people playing the game at once, there's obviously thousands of commands being imputed at once. Cause of this, Key Items are commonly selected in battle even if you can't use them in battle. Since the Helix Fossil was the second item in the bag, it's selected so often, that a lot of people view this as the player looking to it for guidance. (Hence where the askhelixfossil came from) A lot of Twitch users started referring to the Helix Fossil as a deity and I guess the joke (like all good inside jokes) stuck. Spoiler:
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So of course when it was deposited with Pidgeot, people were devastated. But of course, when it was brought back it was like Spoiler:
I love all the Magic Conch references involved in this. XD http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/700/271/72a.png Spoiler:
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Looks like the stream has actually ended for a while.At least for tonight. Maybe the dude who's created this is modding it some more. Though people are going nuts and calling it heretic and such. |
FRICK FRICK FRICK WE JUST STORED TWO NUGGETS, THE SS TICKET AND. LORD. HELIX. AGAIN. WHILE TRYING TO DEPOSIT DIG RAT
aaaaaand the stream just went on break. What a time. :| im so stressed out |
Helix Fossil's wrath from being deposited broke the stream :(
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Helix Fossil said that i won't have a good grade on my test. So, I will stop wasting my time studying.
Thank you, Helix. |
OH MY GOD GUYS LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED WHEN THE STREAM WENT ON BREAK. I CAN'T.
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They made a voting system, but apparently that didn't work out, so break again hahaha.
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So it looks like what the creator tried to do over the break was implement a majority-vote system. Meaning, over a certain span of time, the command given most would be the command input for that timeframe. But it didn't look like it was working well- the timespan was far too long and nothing at all was happening and it was not interesting. I guess they're fixing that now- hopefully they'll sort out timing if they continue with this system. I don't know if it will be better or worse for making progress though. Hopefully better. There just has to be the right timeframe compromise.
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Yeah the voting system didn't seem to be going no where fast. Hopefully they figure out how to speed it up or a new system that makes things faster. They should still expect the game to not get complete anytime soon though.
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This is getting more hillarious, now you can chain inputs together.
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It's now going majority vote over every five seconds but that's still getting us nowhere- all we've done since it came back is open the PC twice and try to withdraw 'mon that aren't there. Five seconds is a significant amount of time- I wonder how many are getting frustrated? I would have recommended one or two seconds because dang you can input commands really fast. Like think, just playing will get you about five steps per second? Ten? That's a minimum of 5 commands per second. Waiting five seconds to give one command is a long time.
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Well it looks like Red is barely moving and has been at the PC for a while. They should probably just go back to the old system at this point. It looks like they're trying to make the playthrough more streamline, which is a bit less interesting. I seriously hope this isn't over yet though. :(
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Yeah the timeframe needs a serious reconsideration. This way is just boring- at least one command per second would have Red moving at an acceptable pace. Leaves room for screwing up, sure, but without that then where's the charm?
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Hahahaha they made a break again, maybe they'll lower the delay now. I mean, it was a little progress, it looked like they really wanted to get out, but still missed the doors. The delay in twitch is too big for this to work.
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You're right about the delay urgh. I forgot about that. But I mean they're lowering the vote time as I type- still don't know how effective this experiment is going to be. But hey, if we make it through Rocket HQ, it'll be a good thing in my eyes.
Still feel like it's lost a bit of charm though. |
They got outside, progress is slowly making. Majority of people are cooperating. Voting delay is now 2 seconds I think, but still Twitch delay is around 30 seconds, so...
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I just realized how command stacking works-
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They're rioting again just to make the old system return. Good people of the world, always cooperative when it comes to make a riot.
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The old system was way more chaotic which is what makes the game so much fun. But it looks like with even the new system people are making it fun cause now everyones pressing the start menu over and over. OMG.
Though it could make the mods slow down the commend input again......... Ugggh I need to go to bed, but I want to see what happens next. D: |
I'm seriously gonna cry at the start spam. Why do people have to ruin this? The programmer is working to make this enjoyable and, you know, make it WORK. What people want isn't always best for them. Do they really want to spend another whole day in Rocket B3?
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Apparently 'Start9' is a GB command now |
This is 40000+ real people we talk about Anna. There is always a % of trolls in there. It's like dealing with a small town now.
Aaaaaaaaand another break again. |
Aaand it's down again. Maybe they'll change back to its original system.
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But this isn't just trolls. This is everyone "rebelling" against what they think is a horrible idea. You know what's a horrible idea? SPENDING 20+ HOURS ON THE SAME SIX SPINNY TILES. This is a good idea. But people aren't looking at it correctly.
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WE'RE BACK TO OLD SYSTEM HAHAHA! |
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http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i334/AWsquared/TRUE_zps5a8354d1.png The new system doesn't seem bad if people cooperate. But I guess everyone like the chaos. It was a lot of fun tbh. But the rioting is still not making it better. People need to get that. I'm really now worried about the fate of this stream. Edit: The old system is back....nevermind then....I kind of hate people sometimes. |
I don't know why they changed it in the first place. They didn't expect the game to be finished, did they? Or at least finished anytime soon.
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@Sajmon idk I still think that would have a higher change of working than what we've been doing. At least it would be a different approach. Now I'm just going to wake up to spinny tiles again. Whatever man I need to sleep it's 5am and I've had the stream open for... fourteen hours...
@AW^2 People always get like that when something's not going well though. They'll go back to being positive once we accomplish something. @Wobbu Well they got 4 badges in 4 days and then spent almost a full day just on one floor of Rocket HQ so I think they were trying to give us a better shot at it. |
Well yeah they should of guessed by now we won't finish the game soon either way. This way is more fun too and the majority of the people watching/playing like it so I guess let them have what they want. I like fun way more anyways. Since it's 5am here too, I guess I should get sleep as well. At least I don't have school in the morning. I'll see if we're back at spinny tiles again.......
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No one's taking this seriously haha. I don't think that post was serious. XD It's just thousands of people playing Pokemon at once, it shouldn't be serious.
I guess people just like this way of getting nothing accomplished then the voting system and the start9 spam's way of getting nothing accomplished. |
It looks like they still haven't completed the hideout, Red is just wandering around Celadon aimlessly again now.
I really wonder how the progress made in the first three days was managed. |
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But even just simple navigation is a problem, it doesn't matter how easy it should be for the regular player.
There's now a vote on whether anarchy or democracy should be put into place. |
OKAY DAMN LIKE I SAID EVERYTHING HAPPENS WHILE I'M ASLEEP
Now we have democracy-anarchy system, we have the LIFT KEY, and THE FALSE PROPHET HAS BEEN RELEASED. PRAISE BE TO LORD HELIX. Democracy-Anarchy info: https://24.media.tumblr.com/489d5dcc6c12c2bc0c9ae086ab10fced/tumblr_n1744gcSlL1rogy34o1_400.png |
I HEARD THEY RELEASED FLAREON. I like Flareon though but ugh lol...what even IS the team now...I haven't been able to watch today.
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Huh the little bar is actually getting closer to Democracy than I thought. And it's cool they got the lift key! Maybe we have a chance?
maybe ;-; Edit: I'm unable to connect to the chat for some reason ]: |
Just refresh a few times Shhmew :) It does that occasionally.
Bookmark the Progress Doc! Team is Oddish, Dig Rat, Drowzee (which we put into PC last night and rescued I guess), Dux, and Bird Jesus. |
I've refreshed a few times, it won't connect u.u
But oh my goodness they reached democracy! Though it doesn't seem to be doing much good... |
Close page and fully reload? It was doing to me on refresh for a while but it worked again after that.
Yeah democracy isn't getting us places very quickly. But maybe once we get through this maze progress will happen? I JUST WANNA SEE AN IMPORTANT BATTLE DANG |
I hear that the evil Flareon has been released. THE FALSE PROPHET IS NO MORE. ALL PRAISE HELIX.
Oh look new system. I prefer the Anarchy system over the democracy. Democracy made things so boring. And it looks like Anarchy is winning by a margin. We also apparently made it to Giovanni, but lost?? So now we're in TR's hideout again..... forever...... |
Did we make it to Giovanni? I didn't think we had yet. But it wouldn't surprise me if we did.
Everyone seems to prefer anarchy to democracy. And like I was saying on tumblr earlier, now that everyone is united against democracy, there's a concentrated effort to make anarchy work well. Just to prove we don't need democracy. It's exactly what I would expect of a group of mainly teens/young adults. |
Even if they reached Giovanni, I think they would have problems with defeating him. Pidgeot overleveled alone might be not enough for his Pokemon, so I wouldn't be surprised if they lost. It seems that democracy is in lead, but I don't think It'll last for long...
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From what I saw on a Facebook page I liked, we did, but soon was whited out and had to start all over again. Or at least that's what I hear. I haven't follwed the stream all day cause my brother's been on our computer. Urghh I wish I had my own laptop now. If only we had stronger Pokemon. Pidgeot isn't gonna get us through everything.
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When I went to bed they were kinda-sorta attempting to train but gave up pretty quick. We definitely need some more power than just Bird Jesus. Much as I hate to say it, The False Prophet was our best shot at a useful team member after the release of Abby. :( Maybe we could manage to train someone with some legit effort but I think we're too focused on the puzzles to take off and grind for a while.
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Yeah as much of a False Prophet he was, I kind of wish Flareon stayed. And I miss Abby so much. :/ She would be helpful right now, especially if she evolved into Charizard. I don't see tens of thousands of people up to grinding much. The spinny titles are more fun. :3
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I suppose if we end up wandering in low-level grass patches we could accidentally gain a few levels for... Dig Rat I guess since it's the first 'mon lol. Also we can't have hit Giovanni before because we just made it out the elevator and the guard stopped us. We might have lost at him, but we didn't get Giovanni.
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Welp, anarchy got back, so we'll probably just return to maze again.
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I personally think it's a good thing we reached Anarchy again. Domeocracy (intentional spelling; check the sub-reddit ;) ) is a good idea for places like the spinny maze and the Safari Zone, but that's only because after about a day, I think Red might've spun around a bit too much. The chaos allows for some much more enjoyable moments, so I'd rather Domeocracy'd only be used when Anarchy seems impossible. But then again, we did beat the ledge :p
Also wooh over 100k people in the stream! Kinda funny to see how Pokemon Red became the top featured game on Twitch due to one channel alone haha. |
Well, with Lord Helix deposited, if seems that they are now consulting TM07. They also seem to be struggling with getting into the elevator lol. Anarchy gets nothing accomplished quickly, but democracy gets something accomplished slowly (and it's really boring to watch).
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The True Prophet is free to roam Kanto. Prepare for the holy revenge of the True Prophet and the Keeper of the Dome, the all mighty Flareon!
But no seriously, I love all the memes and religious fighting that has spawned from this stream. Whoever came up with this is a genius (and is most likely rolling in money as 100k+ people are watching) |
That lovely team of Digrat and the Keeper beating the Rocket grunt was pretty hella. Like legit if we trained a bit we could end up with a halfway decent team.
I wonder how long the spawn of the run will survive after the hype dies/the game ends? |
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