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Thousands of People Play Pokemon. At once.

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JustForYou
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http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

This is a pretty cool experiment. You input commands to the game through chat(e.g up, down, start) and the game responds. Thousands of people doing this at once makes it awesome.

We just cleared the 4th gym leader an hour ago.
Feb 16 2014 10:50PM
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TallTeeNation
Posts: 903 - Karma: 340
watched for 15 minutes the character walked back and forth in a pokemart.

inb4 worst experiment ever
Feb 16 2014 11:01PM
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jibbpeter
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Feb 16 2014 11:41PM
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bappelabb
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This is hilarious!

Basically, this shows you how direct democracy works! Imagine if that was the case for most industrialized countries
Feb 17 2014 4:56AM
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special-J
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hahahaha someone accidentally commanded "leave game" or something and as a mass the consensus was:

"NOO"

"WHAT NOW?!??!"

"PANIC!"

"PICNIC?"

*lots of confusion*

"WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE ****** PICNIC MEANS"


Feb 17 2014 5:41AM
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Olimar
Posts: 3535 - Karma: 4,076
This is silly. How do they even get anything done.
Feb 17 2014 8:43AM
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JustForYou
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Bad news . Charmeleon was released.
Feb 17 2014 1:53PM
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Goku
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Feb 17 2014 6:41PM
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Phil-X-
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Ive been following for 2 days now every few hours, Its honestly fucking hilarious. The community behind this project is amazing

Praise Helix! Bird Jesus will guide us!

RIP Abby and Jay

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Feb 18 2014 7:41AM
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lIllI
Posts: 1255 - Karma: 1,986
Gamers are weird, and not in a good way.
Feb 18 2014 2:11PM
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Olimar
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explain this. Its hard to read the text.
Feb 18 2014 3:40PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
the memes coming from this are hilarious. so fucking funnny

the subreddit is r/twitchplayspokemon
Feb 18 2014 3:50PM
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Wallisch_pl
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hahahahaha i dont understand the anarchy/democracy thing doe
Feb 18 2014 3:55PM
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Phil-X-
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http://i.imgur.com/4KnTQ8y.jpg
Feb 18 2014 4:20PM
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Olimar
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Just read it. Still confused.
Feb 18 2014 4:47PM
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Ski_Alot
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wow this is an enormous clusterfuck, all they have done is walk in and out of a house like 3 or 4 times and scroll through a menu
Feb 18 2014 5:08PM
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erikK
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What is the democracy/anarchy thing about?
Feb 18 2014 5:23PM
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Holte
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hahaha I don't know the first thing about Pokemon, but that's pretty damn funny. There cannot be a worse possible way to play a video game effectively.
Feb 18 2014 5:28PM
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erikK
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After a couple minutes of scientific investigation, I have determined that the anarchists want everyone to do whatever they want individually with Red and the democrats want to try and work together...

They've been in this poke centre for like 8 minutes
Feb 18 2014 5:32PM
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Peter.
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what's surprising is that actual progress has been made. they have like 4 gym badges or something
Feb 18 2014 5:52PM
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Parrish
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It's such a shitshow, with all the bots spamming start, and the fact that twitch streams have like a 30 second delay.

But according to the stats, 314,667 unique people saying an actual command. With 11,379,403 views and 80,000 people watching the stream right now. It's been going on for 6 Days.

http://sanqui.rustedlogic.net/etc/tpp/
Feb 18 2014 5:59PM
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Goku
Posts: 8119 - Karma: 4,223
FUCK FUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK FUCK
WHY THEY FUCL DID THEY DIG
Feb 18 2014 9:44PM
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Rossberger
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newschoolers should do this with shredsauce
Feb 18 2014 10:14PM
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Olimar
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http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

clicky because im tired of copying and pasting that link.
Feb 18 2014 11:07PM
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Bonzalo
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hahaha I've been laughing my ass off this past two days with this, some pictures for your reading pleasure:

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ALL HAIL THE HELIX ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Feb 18 2014 11:13PM
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Goku
Posts: 8119 - Karma: 4,223
Imgur is so awesome right now
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ RIOT ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

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Feb 19 2014 9:22AM
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milk_man
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This is a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be
Feb 19 2014 12:18PM
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Chunter
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Oh man they are in that dark cave. This will be interesting hahaha.
Feb 19 2014 12:53PM
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Chunter
Posts: 2050 - Karma: 1,894
Nevermind, this sucks. Nothing is getting done besides getting killed by Geodudes and Zubats.
Feb 19 2014 1:01PM
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broto
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they are getting nowhere
Feb 19 2014 1:04PM
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Olimar
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are they even supposed to be in this cave right now?
Feb 19 2014 1:24PM
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TNORTS
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we got out. by some miracle...
Feb 19 2014 1:51PM
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Olimar
Posts: 3535 - Karma: 4,076
http://www.reddit.com/live/sw7bubeycai6hey4ciytwamw3a

Live update^

Surprisingly they do have actual plans, and even more surprisingly, they are actually executing them.
Feb 19 2014 4:01PM
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theBearJew
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right now all it is:


democracy
anarchy
democracy
democracy
anarchy
left
anarchy
anarchy
democracy
anarchy
b
anarchy
democracy
democracy
start
democracy
anarchy
Feb 19 2014 4:05PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
love when ever they get close to a PC. shit always hits the fan
Feb 19 2014 4:31PM
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MilaKunis
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They released x into the wild. Fuck the pc
Feb 19 2014 7:10PM
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Peter.
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still in the PC, they just withdrew the holy helix fossil
Feb 19 2014 7:14PM
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MilaKunis
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Let helix fossil guide us away from the dome and his minions.
Feb 19 2014 7:15PM
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Peter.
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and the silph scope finally
Feb 19 2014 7:16PM
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Peter.
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large battle going on currently, people want to teach TM29, psychic, to one of the pokes

Feb 19 2014 7:18PM
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MilaKunis
Posts: 1480 - Karma: 3,646
Things are looking up.
Feb 19 2014 7:22PM
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MilaKunis
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Rick Ghastly!
Feb 19 2014 9:56PM
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erikK
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Bird Jesus is down.
Feb 19 2014 9:59PM
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MilaKunis
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Why did we never heal in lavender town...
Feb 19 2014 10:09PM
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Peter.
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so close to nurse joy and we never healed
Feb 19 2014 10:11PM
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MilaKunis
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I'm scared to enter though. Once we enter the pc I that much closer and domes presence is that much stronger.
Feb 19 2014 10:15PM
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Peter.
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i'm loving the constant saving that has been going on currently
Feb 19 2014 10:20PM
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MilaKunis
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I love checking on bulbasaur after anything good happens.
Feb 19 2014 10:23PM
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Olimar
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I just wanna access the pc for the chaos that ensues. When ever we do Im always on the edge of my seat.
Feb 19 2014 10:50PM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,975
I seriously love this so much. I don't know why but its so entertaining
Feb 19 2014 10:53PM
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erikK
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we're never going to get past this gastly with normal type moves
Feb 19 2014 11:25PM
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