I can't watch more than 2min but its amusing

Whats the point?

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What is this?

TwitchPlaysPokemon is a social experiment, it is a stream of the Gameboy version of Pokemon Red (151 romhack) running on an emulator. An IRC bot translates buttons said in chat into keypresses (simulated in software, no fancy typist robots).

Yeah I read that, but there's 30,000 people watching the stream.... pressing keys. Plus the Twitch lag, so what will come out of this? Guess it's just a 'we can do this, so why not'!

I'm sure they know it can't be done (complete the game).
OR they want to find out how far they can go.
Maybe they gather many figures, stats etc, what was the progress when X viewers/messages were sent. Things like that.
It's almost 4 days I don't know when they will pull the plug, I'm interested to see how far it can go. I also wondered if they modified that ROM because I'm so surprised that after 3 days and 12 hours the trolls (the ones who kept saying "Start" haha) didn't manage to quit the game :D.

I don't know much about Pokemon, I don't like the game and anything about it honestly, but a friend told me that yesterday morning they did a decent progress, if it's true then I wanna see their experiment results when it's over.

they are actually about 1/4 in or something. cant remember exactly, but quite a bit for this mess.

xD haha, I can't believe it, also 42k viewers D: !

i think they managed to reset the game with select+start+a+b yesterday but was saved my the guy who started it.

28000+ viewers!?


TwitchPlaysQuake!

QL Duel: interesting players can be counted on one hand
QL CA: Only decent thing is morons flaming each other in chat
QL TDM/CTF: Lacks an overlay/top-down view to be watchable for 2014 people

What exactly do you want to stream for 28k viewers?

He said Quake, he didn't say Quake Live :D, if people do a TwitchPlaysQuake then it would be the single player mode of course, which will also be impossible :D.

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That'd be amusing to watch, tbh.

What's so interesting about Pokemon? It's the way it's implemented that's fun for people.

Pokemon has million of fans worldwide.

Pokemon is one of the most sold game ever, and has been played by millions of peoples.
In addition to that, there's that "social esperiment" that draws a lot o peoples, not necessarily to play.
The surreal situations happened on the stream generated memes and developed cults already.

Please try to understand the point of the question, not literally answering the question.
Pokemon Red, besides "Twitch plays Pokemon" has no value to be streamed whatsoever and would never have pulled this many viewers. People are not watching it because it's Pokemon, they're watching it because it's Pokemon they can spam control commands at.

Or in other words

"It's the way it's implemented that's fun for people. "

http://www.twitch.tv/pokemon/b/443856479

Add a competitive element and apparently people watch it.

Quake has big events as well, larger events will pull in people if marketed well enough.

Intel Extreme Masters, Dreamhack, FaceIT cups. I don't think that Quake Live lacked or lacks high quality events to be honest. That old generation of arena shooters isn't attractive to younger players, and that's it basically.

Quake has big events as well

We've just come round to agreeing to each other ..

I was referring to #3.

Competitive pokemon is more mainstream than quake is.

Remember quake is in a bubble. No one at dreamhack knows quake is there (separate venue altogether, no advertising) and quakecon is entirely irrelevant these in days in the big picture. In reality right now quake is not in any major lan.

It's not on any major lan because even with advertisement it wouldn't have 100k+ viewers and therefore is not really interesting for sponsors.

Ahh, now i understand what you meant, surely, it's the strange contest that make that stream so attractive, i totally agree.

QL Duel: interesting players can be counted on one hand

You sure have an abnormally high amount of fingers.

*cough* DaHang *cough*

He's the palm. Where you rest your head. When falling asleep.

*cough* pavel *cough*
*cough* Agent *cough*
*cough* ash *cough*
*cough* k1llsen *cough*
*cough* p0ni *cough*

Sorry, I must have caught a cold.

Agent can be quite entertaining at times, I agree. Watching K1llsen the railbot gets dull after a while imo. Ash, pavel and p0ni are excellent players but I doubt that a lot of people take a free Sunday evening and buy popcorn only to see them playing.

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this is just idiocy, hahahahah. Cant coordinate an attack, almost, fiddling in inventory FOR EVER!, lol

edit: they havn't gotten flash, and are doing rock cave without :/

the time to get flash and then having to go into the menu to choose the right pokemon and actually using it every time they enter the cave wouldnt really be worth it.

you're right, i came to that conclusion myself after a while.. ppl still try though, "HM01 is god" they write :)

pff.... helix fossil the one true god!

I find this hilarious

and tragic ; _ ;

They released the starter pokemon XD
;-(

At least pidgeot is still there, but for how long?
Surprising they went so far.
I've read some parts of the game will be modified or they will never be doable that way, such as puzzles. It's a shame, it steals genuinity to the experiment.

things went to hell once people decided to go for eevee to try and buy a water stone to evolve it to a vaporeon so it could learn surf instead of just saving that spot for a lapras that is given to you in silph co. :(

I used to play pokemon red/blue version on gameboy with my cousin, was good time!

And also pokemon stadium on nintendo 64 :D

Thay tried to cut a tree for so long and it didn't happened :c

xD

Copyright claim by TwitchPlaysPokemon? lol they can do that, they didn't really develop the game?
Can the Wolfcam developer take down quake vids made with Wolfcam?

That's fucked up ;o

That started "small" and now there are over 75,000 viewers. I wonder what the peak will be.

More views than Zoot channel already :'(

Been increasing by about 20k per day so far.

80k+ right now, mother of god!

Anarchy and Democracy

TwitchPlaysPokemon now has two modes, anarchy and democracy.

Anarchy mode is the "old" mode, where everyone's inputs are applied immediately.

Democracy mode is vote-based and has a more sophisticated input system.

In order to switch from one mode to the other, the mode that isn't active needs 75% of votes as indicated by the dotted line, the current percentage of votes is indicated by the black line.

In democracy mode you can compile a sequence of inputs. left2 will move left twice, left2down2 will move left twice and down twice.

It's getting real.

start9

the entertainment value of this stream completely eludes me :\

Something is not amused by Ko0ma's lack of 'Ko0ma is not amused'

edit now plz -.-

shut ur noise hole, peasant.

Better.

Imagine 80k people playing on a single gameboy. Oh man! It'd be so greasy. No cheetos pls

They're also playing Tetris without even realizing it:
http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_

They're doing the same in UA right now! astonishing!

Wow, just wow.

http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/co...11/cfmigld

Yes, actually wow.

How fucking dumb are people becoming?
This is a social experiment. If you want to play the game go fucking play it alone. Majority gets the vote, end of story.

Sounds like some butthurt redditard think this stream is actually meaningful?

Started his dumb shitty paragraph with "This was a big deal. If he had taken control while we were in a Pokemon Center instead Bird Jesus would be gone by now, he had that much time controlling the stream singlehandedly."

Releasing a pokemon is a big deal? FUCKING REALLY?

"my argument that he could be very dangerous if he tries again today with more viewers. He nearly wrecked us with his late night viewership, what's going to happen when he tries it Sunday afternoon?"


Are you fucking kidding me?
This is why I fucking hate reddit, redditors, le memers and gentlemen fedoras.

edit: guy said the same thing http://www.twitch.tv/destiny/c/3773109

lmao ya. i love destiny

and ya lmao at that video. he said the pokemon stream is like woodstock or something

ya. "oh no its the end of the world omg!!!!!' is pretty typical of most of that website. of course someones gonna troll the stream for publicity, it's got fucking over 50k viewers every day. I bet destiny got a buttload of page views on his twitch stream and his website for this and he's just laughing straight to the bank with it while these people who are actually taking it seriously are all q_q! omg!

Oh so this is all to get some viewers? Interesting approach.

Why don't you guys do the same for Quake by the way?

Edit: After watching the video Teen Queen linked, it's apparently not allowed :D, nvm.

no its not really allowed.. but destiny has been pulling stunts like this since he first got "popular" and etc. he's a very intelligent businessman and knows how to use his online influence and persona to get things to happen that as a "byproduct" indirectly boost his popularity. how many people in this twitchplayspokemon community had heard of him before this? and after? my money is on less and then a lot more. he's switched games, he's pulled stunts, he's done just about everything he can to meet his end goal of pulling in more views and making more money.

I mean, both side are really pathetic, why does he send people doing this? Why does he troll (I didn't even know the guy, so if what I read is right...)? Why would they even mess with others for no reason, is there a valuable reason anyway? The other guys, why did they make reddit threads, and even discussions on social network websites to blow this thing out of proportion? Why did they try to ban this guy out of Twitch network forever?

The social experiment is ruined. If not it showed a sad part of human nature, whoever supports A or B in that sad story needs to open their eyes.

If not it showed a sad part of human nature

The only thing that's sad is people caring so much about it. It's Twitch plays pokemon, it's not Cancer patient donation or something.

The social experiment is ruined

How? The experiment was set there to see what happens if 80.000 people control a single game. Turns out people will join forces and work towards a goal. It's only ruined for people without common goals.

Why would they even mess with others for no reason

It was put there for this very reason. The point is not to finish the game. People not agreeing is what drives this thing, not some nerds playing the game.

whoever supports A or B in that sad story needs to open their eyes.

Exactly. I don't care if some pokemon gets dropped or if it's name is IAAAEEAE or IAEAORRAO, if there's a way to make someone angry simply by typing "down, down, select" in the browser then I think I'm going with it.

I didn't know the consequences of "if they act like they are a group/lobby or whatever" when I wrote this, but I just watched it quickly so it's ok. I still find it sad that this apparently got that far though, sigh!

Yeah I'm amazed both sides are so devoted into proving their cause.

Oh well, never change internet.

> Yeah I'm amazed both sides are so devoted into proving their cause.

I find this funny, coming from an Admin on ESR, of all places.

:D

edit: because I'd imagine admins see a lot more silly arguments that an average user, that is.

Ahahah, wow.

Make sure to report him, then, as harassing other channels is in clear violation of Twitch's TOS.

Ahahah! "He's doing something some of us don't agree with in a channel where you can do whatever you want! It's harassment! BAN!"

These statements made me LOL:
"Then they controlled our stream for the next 3-4 minutes "
" but here's my argument that he was in fact a huge threat to us"
"He nearly wrecked us"
"Also note that even when we were fully aware of the threat"
"If we dillydally and pussyfoot for the next ten hours and are still at the PC when Destiny wakes up, he will wreck our shit."

Actually, Fire, a twitch admin specifically said that if it had been any other channel that Destiny had sent his watchers to raid, it would have broken the rules. But, because the whole point of the TPP stream is the kind of experiment that it is, they allowed it to continue.

/shrug

Yes, that's the whole point of the channel. I thought it was really amusing how these guys on reddit turned that into a "us" and "them" (sorry, listening to The Dark Side of the Moon right now.)... how are the reddit users any more legitimate participants than those coming from Destiny's channel? They don't even realize it and this is fun.

By the way, I got the admin's name wrong. I was thinking of Fire since that's the one everyone was flipping shit about. It was George:

"My general feeling for any other chat is that it would be considering raiding and not be allowed."

And, since I'm quoting people, I should probably source it before some TPP fan starts yelling at me. lol::

http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/1ypsm...to/cfmq4f4

I don't know why I'm even reading this shit. I suppose it's like a driving past a car crash. You feel bad for staring at the unfortunate people and at the same time, you can't look away.

edit: One thing I will say is that I'm actually interested in playing pokemon, now. I was even looking at 3DS XL's on amazon and seeing what all other kinds of games are popular on them, as well. Could be fun during down time or waiting around at my heart surgeon's/cardiologist's offices. Maybe this whole thing is a huge PR stunt by Nintendo! haha

Nah, Nintendo is more the kind of company that would sue the guy behind TwitchPlaysPokemon than the kind that would think about that.

Apparently they were more than 100 000 people on Twitch when they finished "blue/red", so I checked and yeah they really made it rofl: http://i.imgur.com/67EcQUT.png

So I was wrong :D glad to see that even this mess that was giving me a headache was achievable. Nothing is impossibru.

Now they're doing Crystal

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

and I don't even know why.

http://www.twitch.tv/fishplayspokemon

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LMFAO. So close of getting down the stairs!