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Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

Pigbuster posted:

There is no way in hell we were ever getting through the maze unless the stream died down to like double-digit viewers. Unlike the ledge, you couldn't just spam one direction, so the lag makes it ungodly difficult. We'd still be at the maze right now, and like for days and days, if it wasn't for democracy.

so?

its not like theres a timelimit to the game

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Jay O
Oct 9, 2012

being a zombie's not so bad
once you get used to it

Livingtrope posted:

its uh spelled anime but thank you

Lightanchor
Nov 2, 2012
c/f dismissing 1960's leftists as hippies and children. That was the tragedy and this is the farce

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
Why can't we dump digrat.

It would be so easy

D1Sergo
May 5, 2006

Be sure to take a 15-minute break every hour.
Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle :smug:

TheSwami
Sep 25, 2004
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-theswami-14.jpg"><br><i>hello old friend</i>
i guess i don't understand why the anarchy folks really still think that after 6 days of this it's still super funny and hilarious to watch the character spin around, select random menu items and read signs over and over again

that does have to get old at some point right? maybe not, what do i know

The Bee
Nov 25, 2012

Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Tengames posted:

Man gently caress all democracy mode haters. seeing 80k+ people learn to overcome a delay and work together to actually achive is fuckin' awesome. haters just poo poo on it because thier short attention spans can't handle the delay between moves so they throw a hissy fit and spam start until anarchy returns.

Eh, seeing thousands of people doing that is awesome when we're talking precision puzzles. When we're talking the overworld it just seems . . . slow. Especially because without the need for precision anarchy gets the same result, but with more moving parts on the screen and potential for fun.

The Monkey Man
Jun 10, 2012

HERD U WERE TALKIN SHIT

AHungryRobot posted:

Giovanni's gym has spinners too, so don't think we haven't seen the last of them.

What the gently caress is it with that dude and spinners :wtc:

I assume that Team Rocket's front is a spinner factory.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

Jay O posted:


You're posting in a stream for a Pokemon game.

Xythar
Dec 22, 2004

echoes of a contemporary nation

TheSwami posted:

i guess i don't understand why the anarchy folks really still think that after 6 days of this it's still super funny and hilarious to watch the character spin around, select random menu items and read signs over and over again

that does have to get old at some point right? maybe not, what do i know

If you want to see Pokemon played through normally just play the game yourself. The crazy stuff is the whole point.

Lightanchor
Nov 2, 2012

Pyroi
Aug 17, 2013

gay elf noises
Wait, you guys have had the music ON this whole time? No wonder you're all going insane. Take 50 cc's of sleep and rock music and call me in the morning.

Kild
Apr 24, 2010

The Shortest Path posted:

Half of that was the entirety of the gym, as well as getting Eevee, shopping for the stone, loving it up and getting a Flareon instead of a Vaporeon, etc.

The ledge was 10 hours in the same small patch of area running in a circle.

Entered Rocket Hideout
4d 14h 16m
Got the Lift Key
5d 15h 15m

vs

Defeated Lt. Surge 02d 11h 29m 23s
DUX cuts the next bush 02d 13h 15m 34s
The Soft Reset 02d 14h 24m 30s
Day 4
Made it past "The Ledge" 03d 01h 23m 54s
"Bird Jesus" goes down fighting 03d 01h 54m 03s
Permanently Clearing "The Ledge" 03d 07h 12m 31s

Kild fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Feb 19, 2014

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


I love how vitriolic this thread has become over a loving anarchy/democracy slider.

fits
Jan 1, 2008

Love Always,
The Captain

Kild posted:

Entered Rocket Hideout
4d 14h 16m
Got the Lift Key
5d 15h 15m



I can't wait for the "got silph scope" addition :allears:

Arist
Feb 13, 2012

who, me?


Okay seriously, what the gently caress is that beeping

Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

SCIENCE



So instead of going back and getting the item, the kid is whirling about on the streets trying to make sense of centuries of political ideologies

Syenite
Jun 21, 2011
Grimey Drawer

Andrast posted:

I love how vitriolic this thread has become over a loving anarchy/democracy slider.

It's all fun and games until people decide to spite everybody else because they're mad.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

MrAristocrates posted:

Okay seriously, what the gently caress is that beeping

For the sake of your sanity, please mute the stream.

Jay O
Oct 9, 2012

being a zombie's not so bad
once you get used to it

Shukaro posted:

It's all fun and games until people decide to spite everybody else because they're mad.

Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe

TheSwami posted:

i guess i don't understand why the anarchy folks really still think that after 6 days of this it's still super funny and hilarious to watch the character spin around, select random menu items and read signs over and over again

that does have to get old at some point right? maybe not, what do i know

The best moment of the stream bar none just happened because of that so uh

AND! It wouldn't have happened without democracy mode being a thing to get us past the maze. It's almost like the way the stream currently works is the best and most entertaining way possible!

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Yay, they're in the pokemon center again!

waffle
May 12, 2001
HEH

Shukaro posted:

Democracy is boring but watching the start menu open and close for an hour is infinitely more boring. Yeah nobody likes democracy but if you're literally going to throw a temper tantrum and ruing it for everybody just because people vote it in then get hosed.
I don't honestly care if Red makes it to the next area, but I do like seeing hilarious crazy poo poo happen, and I find stymieing the best efforts of people trying to get it in democracy pretty funny myself. So I guess it's not so much a temper tantrum about not having anarchy as it is trolling the people who want advancement enough to put it in democracy mode

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Andrast posted:

I love how vitriolic this thread has become over a loving anarchy/democracy slider.

Well it's either argue or watch the Start menu strobe.


OH poo poo THEY'RE NEAR THE PC

TheSwami
Sep 25, 2004
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-theswami-14.jpg"><br><i>hello old friend</i>

Xythar posted:

If you want to see Pokemon played through normally just play the game yourself. The crazy stuff is the whole point.

but the "crazy" stuff happens once every 17 hours or so while the rest of it is spinning in place reading signs over and over again

maybe the social experiment is "how long does it take for the internet at large to get sick of a dumb repetitive joke and work together to solve something"

after 48 days of spinning in place and reading signs and being stuck in the same town because it's lol hilarious the answer will be "never, i guess"

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

Pigbuster posted:

The best moment of the stream bar none just happened because of that so uh

I think his point is that we only got to that point because we had Democracy first.

Otherwise we'd still be Digging in the maze,

Syenite
Jun 21, 2011
Grimey Drawer

waffle posted:

I don't honestly care if Red makes it to the next area, but I do like seeing hilarious crazy poo poo happen, and I find stymieing the best efforts of people trying to get it in democracy pretty funny myself. So I guess it's not so much a temper tantrum as it is trolling the people who want advancement enough to put it in democracy mode

But sadly opening the start menu and nothing else doesn't really qualify as hilarious crazy poo poo.

teen phone cutie
Jun 18, 2012

last year i rewrote something awful from scratch because i hate myself
The greatest part about this social experiment is how much the unfunny memes are getting shitposted around with no shame, moreso than ever

Especially here, since I assumed everyone hated on unoriginal content/Reddit content

E: which isn't a bad thing. Just ironic

Quandary
Jan 29, 2008

TheSwami posted:

but the "crazy" stuff happens once every 17 hours or so while the rest of it is spinning in place reading signs over and over again

maybe the social experiment is "how long does it take for the internet at large to get sick of a dumb repetitive joke and work together to solve something"

after 48 days of spinning in place and reading signs and being stuck in the same town because it's lol hilarious the answer will be "never, i guess"

Well, you're more than welcome to close the tab and leave then.

bowser
Apr 7, 2007

Back to the PC? This will end in disaster.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Andrast posted:

I love how vitriolic this thread has become over a loving anarchy/democracy slider.

It happens with goons all the time. You've got a sizable faction who are amused and a sizable faction who get way too into it.

Oh man, I need to go to bed but I want to see what happens with the PC...

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

TheSwami posted:

how long does it take for the internet at large to get sick of a dumb repetitive joke
If you've been on the internet for more than ten minutes you know the answer to that is "never".

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
So what's happened in the last four hours? I stopped watching right after the first disastrous battle with Giovanni.

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


The Bee posted:

Eh, seeing thousands of people doing that is awesome when we're talking precision puzzles. When we're talking the overworld it just seems . . . slow. Especially because without the need for precision anarchy gets the same result, but with more moving parts on the screen and potential for fun.

I thought the point of that democracy vote was to deposit digrat with as little risk as possible, though red kinda blindly wandered into town during that vote so it would have taken ages to send him back there. People are gonna start spam the moment the stream gets near the end of anything now to try to dig out and troll everyone from now on.

KamikazePotato
Jun 28, 2010

TheSwami posted:

but the "crazy" stuff happens once every 17 hours or so while the rest of it is spinning in place reading signs over and over again

maybe the social experiment is "how long does it take for the internet at large to get sick of a dumb repetitive joke and work together to solve something"

after 48 days of spinning in place and reading signs and being stuck in the same town because it's lol hilarious the answer will be "never, i guess"

Work together to solve what? It's Pokemon Red, not the Gordian's Knot. There's nothing to solve outside of stupid spinner puzzles.

Jay O
Oct 9, 2012

being a zombie's not so bad
once you get used to it

TheSwami posted:

maybe the social experiment is "how long does it take for the internet at large to get sick of a dumb repetitive joke and work together to solve something"

see how many jackasses show up at conventions dressed up a helix fossil.

~hilarious~!

Office Thug
Jan 17, 2008

Luke Cage just shut you down!

bowser posted:

Back to the PC? This will end in disaster.

Purge it all. We can just catch more pokemon later.

Red Metal
Oct 23, 2012

Let me tell you about Homestuck

Fun Shoe

cheetah7071 posted:

So what's happened in the last four hours? I stopped watching right after the first disastrous battle with Giovanni.

Got to Giovanni again, dug out before we could fight him.
Got to Giovanni a third time, beat him, dug out before we got the Silph Scope.

Syenite
Jun 21, 2011
Grimey Drawer

cheetah7071 posted:

So what's happened in the last four hours? I stopped watching right after the first disastrous battle with Giovanni.

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Pyroi
Aug 17, 2013

gay elf noises

TheSwami posted:

internet at large to get sick of a dumb repetitive joke

Have you even been to the internet? We drag poo poo on WAY past its expiration date.

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