A brilliant social experiment: Twitch Plays Pokémon

[viccie211]

If you haven't already heard about it, it's brilliant. 50000 people playing Pokémon Red via button inputs in the twitch chat. What this boils down to is 50000 people pressing buttons into an emulator running for almost 4 days now.

You can find it here and you can play along too just type a,b,left,right,up,down,select or start in the chat the button will be "pressed" by an IRC bot scanning the chat.

Actually this kind of proves the "Monkeys on typewriters" theorem where a thousand monkeys on typewriters, given enough time will eventually write the work of Shakespeare.

At this moment the players are stuck at Celadon city trying to get back inside the fourth gym. Spread the word!

[Joshington]

I first started watching it during the end of day 3 and was just in time to watch Red drop TM30. That was when I knew I was going to watch it to its entirety.

Also, RIP Abby and Jay Leno, may the Helix Fossil have mercy on us for our mistakes.