Twitch Plays PokemonFollow

I've been following this very closely on Tumblr. I just can't bring myself to watch the feed for more than a few minutes at a time. Most of the time Red is just walking in and out of a house or something or ramming the helix fossil up his nose. It is maddening. It just boggles my mind how they've managed to make so much progress like this.

Yup, I witnessed the releasing of Cabbage and Dux yesterday morning. I was speechless.

Also, came back this morning to see that they have revived the Helix Fossil and are using Omanyte.

This whole experience has me thinking about why this is such a huge thing on the internet-- and why I find myself cheering when something that would otherwise be boring or mundane happens. Walking through an area with a ledge is a huge accomplishment here.

Meanwhile I am playing through Pokemon X for the first time, mowing through trainer after trainer, bored out of my mind. Then I think about Flappy Bird, and how that became such a huge thing as well, and I begin to realize how important challenge is, and how lost it is to this generation-- with the exception of games like Dark Souls. People are so starved for a difficult game, that even something thrown together in a couple of minutes like Flappy Bird becomes a huge success.

Edited, Feb 26th 2014 10:10pm by Kuwoobie

Meh. It's not quite the same when you make the rules yourself. Also, Nuzlocke doesn't help much for challenge when my pokemon never faint and I don't capture any wild pokemon for reasons outside of filling my pokedex. X/Y practically hands you a full set of some of the best/strongest pokemon in the game. Without using any pokeballs, I have been given Lucario (who can transform into Mega-Lucario), two starters, Lapras, and a choice between two fairly formidable fossils very early on. They even made it incredibly easy to get Snorlax from nearly the start of the game. Snorlax and Pidgeot are the only two I use that I actually had to catch.

I've already been stopping myself from switching out in the middle of battle or using items. I suppose it will boil down the same way an MMO would-- with the real challenge coming at the end with PvP. By that time I'll be moving all my previous game teams and raising a veritable army of pokemon with choice IVs and movesets to use against other players.

Stalker has been staring at me with depressing Russian eyes from my library ever since I bought them all and never played them last year. Putin will teach us how to love?

Challenge is trying to find time to play the game during my lunch break while people ask me how did they ****** up their computers so bad.

I can't wait until someone figures out how to send the force reset command: A+B+Select+Start.

Whatever, pansy. Go play with your magic swords and the blasted Ukrainian landscape will be waiting to blow your little elf's head off with a .45 ACP round.

Everyone knows magic beats guns. Why? Magic.



I played the boxer challenge some. Was fun, but DS 2 March 11th! Just killing time in PoE until then.

and they have made it to the Elite 4....

Ok. I missed it. How does a level 36 Venomoth kill anything with that moveset?

One explanation I heard for AATTVV's victory over Dragonite was a glitch in the AI; it will always use a Super Effective move type over anything else... even if the move type isn't an attack. Hence it just spammed defensive measures and was slowly poisoned to death!

Game ended early this morning; I woke up right at the end :D 16 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes, and 30 seconds!



Edited, Mar 1st 2014 4:26am by LockeColeMA