Twitch Plays Pokemon

[Chevre]

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

A playthrough of Pokemon Red. Simple child's play, right?

One twist: the game is controlled through the Twitch chat. you type "a" for the A button, "b" for the B Button, etc.

There are 30,000 people watching this stream.

HILARITY ENSUES. Embrace the deity Helix Fossil and it's patron saint, Eevee.

Apparently for hours they had been trying to get into the Daycare. :/

[vezokpiraka]

Eevee is a minion of the Dome fossil. Do not listen to this heretic.
Only Bird Jesus will bring the salvation we all deserve.

[Your Troubles Will Cease]

R.I.P Jay Leno, 2014-2014
R.I.P Abby, 2014-2014
May the Helix fossil shepherd them unto everlasting glory.

[quadz08]

I heard it took them 4 hours to teach someone cut the other day

[KaleiÐoscøpe]

It took them 6 hours to walk to the rocky cave because of the jumpable fences. Love watching it though. They walked through that rocky cave yesterday only to die at the exit and respawn at the beginning

[Nexus]

Can't believe they released the Charmeleon and Rattata

[Chevre]

Flareon finally happened and is now being trained in favor of the deposited Pidgeot

Do not fear, as I have seen Pidgeot return safely from that awful place once before

[Jahudo]

How do they get anything done? It looks like they're just walking in circles and opening the menu every ten seconds.

[Chevre]

To be honest, it's a very slow day as they've hit some huge challenges (Silph Co., Rocket Game Corner) and the base is divided around these messianic issues that in all truth have very little effect on the chaos of this game. The hour I watched early this morning where they repeatedly tried and failed to get into the daycare and the fighting dojo was far more interesting than anything i've tuned into today.

[Axxle]

Can't believe they released the Charmeleon and Rattata

Abby and Jay Leno, use their names lest they be forgotten.

[xRECKONERx]

This is infuriating to watch

[Axxle]

I cried.

[Kublai Khan]

This is infuriating to watch

It mind as well just be random.

[Axxle]

This is infuriating to watch

It mind as well just be random.

There was a random bot, he ended up releasing everyone but a magikarp with splash so it was abandoned

[Kublai Khan]

This is just silly.

[RedCoyote]

To be honest, it's a very slow day as they've hit some huge challenges (Silph Co., Rocket Game Corner) and the base is divided around these messianic issues that in all truth have very little effect on the chaos of this game. The hour I watched early this morning where they repeatedly tried and failed to get into the daycare and the fighting dojo was far more interesting than anything i've tuned into today.

How could you watch this for an hour? I'm with KK on this one.

[Chevre]

I reiterate my points; this maze is possibly the most difficult thing encountered yet, and the userbase is so large and divided now that it is truly becoming unwieldy. Not only are there the expected trolls, they want to do things in different orders and it's making it even more chaotic.

[JJcoolPants]

The delay is what is really making this a failure.

Also fuck eevee, ruining everything.

This will be completed in a couple of months, maybe.

[BS2000]

Someone, for a very brief moment, on the chat window made a great point that the MC is blending in with the NPCs really well.

[xtopherusD]

Just saw a scummer's username in chat. They pressed 'B'. Today was a good day.

[Untrod Tripod]

this is the perfect counterargument to democracy

[quadz08]

and that's why we're actually a republic!


yayyyyyy

[Chevre]

I feel like the anarchy/democracy vote is a temporary way to decrease the number of actual players and see if they can complete the maze.

They still can't, but part of me wishes the streamer didn't interfere at all, especially if it's being billed as an "experiment". Surely people would slowly give up until the player number was naturally low enough for them to progress.

EDIT: They flipped to democracy, but the vote allows them to switch back to anarchy if the players want. Plus there is the whole "start9" controversy that people thought was going to ruin democracy, but so far it isn't gaining as much traction as the required button push.

[quadz08]

I like the anarchy/democracy switch. This whole thing is becoming a method of discovering effective ways to have masses of faceless nameless people coordinate to accomplish a goal. This isn't a scientific experiment, it's just a "let's do shit and see what happens."

[Kublai Khan]

Needs a Communism vote.

I like how they've slowed the game considerably but still are in the same spot. Though it's a little disconcerting the sheer amount of people determined to fight progress and troll at any cost.