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Link to the livestream: http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

This is Pokemon Red played in an emulator, where the livestream chat inputs directions for the emulator to follow (so if someone in the livestream chat tells the emulator to go left, the emulator moves Red to the left). Doesn't it sound really simple?

TwitchPlaysPokemon has been going on for four days now, and they aren't even halfway through the game yet. This is due to the massive amount of people in the livestream chat (upwards of 40,000 as of this post). As you can imagine, when 40,000 people individually tell someone what to do, things get chaotic. Add in a 10 second input lag for each command entered, and you have a royal mess of a playthrough. I'd suggest watching it if you need a good laugh. This may be the only time you'll see someone take hours to use Cut!

Is anyone else watching the stream? I've been watching it for a few hours now, and it's been really funny so far with Red wandering around in circles and falling off ledges.
 
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My first reaction: SO MANY PEOPLE SAYING A

My second reaction: JLVWNNOOOO will never beat Cubone.

God this is hilarious already, and I'm 10 seconds in.

EDIT: Still fighting Cubone...
 
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I WANT TO TRY-I WANT TO TRY-I WANT TO TRY!!

Damn, this sounds awesome!!
 
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Good lordy. I'm going to have a massive headache after just a few minutes of this...
 
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TwitchPlaysPokemon is a social experiment
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TwitchPlaysPokemon​

Abstract: people are idiots.

Premise: people are idiots.

Method of experiment: give people a way to control remotely one of the finest games ever made.

Results: people will dick around doing stupid button presses for 4 straight days instead of actually playing the damn game.

Conclusion: people are idiots.
Secondary conclusion: Grant money buys a lot of CENSORED (thank you, PG-13, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. PS: I'm being sarcastic. go to hell, and I hope you get heavily CENSORED).


An IRC bot translates buttons said in chat into keypresses
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38,527 watching now
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I guess we found out who is going to lead the robots during their inevitable uprising.

First step: gain sentience.
Second step: realizing what has been happening.
Third step:
Terminator.jpg
 
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It's so funny to see everyone saying:
a
a
down
left
a
right
a
a
a
left
 
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Hahahhaha...

38,527 watching now
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Mix of people with idiot curiosity, curious to idiot-shity and addictive to both.
 
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I think about 8 000 of those people watching the stream, may be subscribers to Daniel Hardcastle (youtuber). He tweeted the link to his 100 000 fanbase...
 
Twitch Plays Pokemon

If you're unaware of what Twitch Plays Pokemon is, click here for info! (or check out /r/twitchplayspokemon) Here is a link to the livestream on twitch.tv.

I've been watching religiously since we entered the first gym (Brock), I don't know why it's so addicting to watch... it's completely aggravating but exciting to watch at the same time.

Also, some spoilers (I guess?)
I'm really sad Abby and Jay Leno got released. I blame the Eevee fans. TEAM LAPRAS ALL THE WAY.
 
RE: TwitchPlaysPokemon plays Pokemon Red

Merged the two threads about TwitchPlaysPokemon.
You're free to laugh at the expense of the dumbasses trying to "play", but don't overdo it, and try to add something constructive, like why is it so popular, or how long it's gonna take, or if the idea has potential etc.
Just a heads-up, but if things get out of hand, I'll be forced to lock the thread.
 
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Chaos Jackal said:
Merged the two threads about TwitchPlaysPokemon.
You're free to laugh at the expense of the dumbasses trying to "play", but don't overdo it, and try to add something constructive, like why is it so popular, or how long it's gonna take, or if the idea has potential etc.
Just a heads-up, but if things get out of hand, I'll be forced to lock the thread.
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Thanks for merging the threads, just realized there was another one right after I posted mine haha.

RIP Abby and Jay Leno. :(

I've been watching since the first gym, I'm surprised that we've gotten so far in 4 days.

Right now I think we're trying to box a Pokemon to make room for Lapras, we need a surfing Pokemon soon. We also still have the Fire Stone and we're attempting to evolve Eevee. Keyword: attempting.

There's also an IRC chat for twitchplayspokemon if anyone is interested:
IRC on Freenode (#TwitchPlaysPokemon)
 
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This is probably the best thing I've ever seen related to Twitch and/or Pokemon ever and I'm not even joking.

It provides hours of entertainment for someone like me and I just find it absolutely hilarious but also captivating and interesting at the same time.

That being said, the people that wanted Eevee may have just blown this run from potentially getting done in a month or less (if you don't think they can do it, just take a look at what they've managed to do in regards to about a Gym Badge every day and navigating multiple Cut trees and a super tough ledge section) with those two releases but we'll see if they can recoup their losses. The more people that are watching the harder it will get and I saw it was at 70,000 earlier which is just insane it's kept on growing like that.

dmaster out.
 
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This is so stupid, yet I'm surprised that this is farther than Game Grumps in Fire Red.
 
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I'm starting to see a point in all this. It is an excellent case study of chaotic systems... it could even be a useful tool to intuitively understand probability.
 
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professorlight said:
I'm starting to see a point in all this. It is an excellent case study of chaotic systems... it could even be a useful tool to intuitively understand probability.
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Leave it to the internet to make everything fun completely educational.
 
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AlexanderTheAwesome said:
professorlight said:
I'm starting to see a point in all this. It is an excellent case study of chaotic systems... it could even be a useful tool to intuitively understand probability.
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Leave it to the internet to make everything fun completely educational.
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Leave that to me.

As demonstrated by this, leave it to the internet to take something fun and ruin it completely.
 
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I've been in there since day one, and let me tell you that it has been one chaotic experience. Getting past Cerulean City and Rock Tunnel were feats by themselves, but we've still got a long way to go.
 
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Wow, this thing got 5 million views over night, and about 10-30 thousand more people watching regularly.
Anyone know where they are right now (Mansion?)
 
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I checked a few hours ago, and they were still in Rock Hideout in Celedon Game Corner. They've been there for around 16 hours.
 
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