Twitch Plays Pokemon: Suck it, anarchists

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The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

I'm pretty sure this is the only acceptable soundtrack for the stream. Just add a crowd of Moonbase Alpha voices calling out every direction and yelling at each other for being trolls.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2014 22:13

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 00:12

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

horriblePencilist posted:

You know, if I can manage to figure out how to connect to Twitch Chat via IRC client (I tried several times without success), I probably could write a script to read out input Moonbase Alpha style.

You are officially the hero Twitch needs (even if not the one it deserves.)

# ¿ Feb 15, 2014 22:45

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

In It For The Tank posted:

Did Generation 1 even have a distinction between physical and special attacks?

Only through types. So all fire moves are special (which thankfully key off of Flareon's 110 Special, which isn't TOO bad. Really making its Special Defense 110 instead of its Special Attack is what killed it in later gens.)

# ¿ Feb 17, 2014 04:27

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Actually? It's true.

edit: crap, beaten.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2014 04:45

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Someone should romhack a sequel in Gold where, on Mt. Silver, you fight a deranged RNG-based Red using level 100 Pidgeot and Omastar.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2014 00:25

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Nauta posted:

I want to punch every motherfucker who thinks 'pressing' start is still funny.

If anything the people pressing A are the real enemies here. Start at least lets us catch our breath and smooth out our stray arrow commands, but all A does is menu dive.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2014 07:06

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

RELEASE THE SAND!

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 05:12

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Yardbomb posted:

I haven't watched since like day 3 or something I think and I must say, the new system sucks massive dick.

Literally nothing happening whatsoever because it's all politics fighting, might as well go watch an american debate or something.

Its usually fine. People just invoke Start9 when Democracy is started outside of puzzles. The vote system slows the game down way more than simply filibustering it away does.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 05:46

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Best solution is probably just enabling Democracy in times of hard puzzles after the default stream settings prove unworkable. I mean, we got through Cut. We got through The Ledge. We even beat Gio. We don't need some vote system holding our hands for maximum efficiency every time a minor setback happens.

Now, if we fail a million times in a row? Then the option should appear. But only then.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 05:59

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Jay O posted:

It's not about efficiency, it's about observing the psychology of internet hivemind. They could have shoved for anarchy and gotten it back just as fast if not faster, but the start9 spam is a childish behavior borne only out of the desire to have it their way and only their way even if it deliberately hinders all progress.

"It's your turn to play with the truck for five minutes? WELL I'LL FIND A WAY TO RUIN THOSE FIVE MINUTES FOR YOU INSTEAD OF WAITING EVEN FIVE loving MINUTES."

See again: US Government Shutdown.

Not trying to ruin anyone's fun with all the serious words, but if this is really a social experiment, that's one of the most interesting parts about it.

I actually think you're making a pretty interesting point! I think its more that people feel the issue was forced onto the stream, though, and they basically rebel in order to say they aren't happy with it. Start9's just the most flashy and attention-grabbing way when compared to, say, thudding into a wall or pressing A at thing air.

Less a desire to not share and more just denying an option they hate. Still kinda childish and it brings the stream to a halt, but so does the incredibly slow vote speed. At this point its usually just best to let the "arguments" simmer away and wait for the stream to re-unify.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 06:06

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.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 06:10

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Dutchfool posted:

Just make the stats higher of the already restricted legendaries. They are the most unique ones anayway and could really be buffed in power. Make them as strong as the RYB Mewtwo, a true legendary.

Those legendaries are pretty much already Mewtwo's equal in strength. He really only became an unstoppable force against in the current two generations, where he gained Psystrike for tearing down physical walls and a pair of Mega Evolutions. Until then he was on par with other restricted legendaries like Kyogre and Darkrai.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2014 19:34

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Saagonsa posted:

lmao

who?

Most of their Safari fodder, Dux, XCabbage, and tragically enough BigDig.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2014 18:43

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

nerdbot posted:

I liked how Black and White did it best--you had one smug nerd rival who thought himself better than you and a friendlier rival in Bianca who you were always one step ahead of. I wish they'd go as far as to have an outright douchebag rival again, but Black and White worked perfectly fine. In my dream Pokemon game, you'd have two rivals like that, and the smug one beats you to being Pokemon champion like Gary did...but then you beat him, and the friendly rival who's always been behind you strolls up, and has to fight YOU.

I find with X and Y, players with Calem as a rival tended to hate the Friend Squad way more than players with Serena. I gather that Calem is a total chump. They really, really dropped the ball with those guys, though. Shauna and Trevor were irksome and while I liked the idea of a kid who wants to make a Pokemon dance team, Tierno's nicknames for everyone made him the most obnoxious dude.

Serena's just robotic and bland. Despite having the exact same lines, Calem just comes off as a smug prick. He's always a step behind, but still acts like he's the Best Around. Its like Blue, but without anything that shows Blue to be a success and with way less charisma.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 04:44

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Anime Sandwich posted:

Pretty late on this but 4th gen while the world felt kinda boring I defitenly had the best champion battle. Cynthia actually felt challenging and took me a while to beat while 5th gen the Elite 4 and the stuff after it didnt feel very hard. Best world though was probably Gen 3 for me.

Gen 3 had tons of interesting locations but spent way too much of the second half of the game in Surf mode. Brendan and May were pretty awful as rivals though. Other than those gripes easily my favorite of the series.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 15:49

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Hammerite posted:

I will buy a forums account upgrade of your choice for the account of your choice if you are the first person to quote this post and correctly predict the number of times Twitch blacks out to the Elite Four or Champion before beating the game

22!

# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 19:09

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

IncendiaC posted:

Someone fill me in, did they just finish Victory Road?!

Demolished it with little problems, and have now almost swept the entire Four.

Of course, this latest battle just isn't going their way . . .

# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 22:14

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

I wonder if anybody has the balls of steel necessary to guess ATV dealing poison damage for the closer.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 02:05

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Hammerite posted:

It seems that Twitch blacked out 21 times, which means that the winner is Inadequately and the runners-up are Slate Action and The Bee.

Please post in this thread to indicate what forums account upgrade you want bought for you. Slate Action and The Bee, yours may cost at most $5.

Think I'll go for a $5 gift card for avatar buying purposes (since buying your own is 5 but for someone else is 10, if I remember right.) Is that 4-sprite pic of Abby, Digrat, and a few others still open?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 15:55

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Hammerite posted:

I have bought and paid for these upgrades, but I didn't realise beforehand that I'd need a way to give you your gift certificate codes (because I haven't bought forums gift certs before). Please send me an email using philip_eve at hotmail dot com so that I can send you your codes.

Slate Action, I sent you a PM with your No-Ads cert code.

E-mail sent! Look for scioly2013 at hotmail dot com

# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 21:48

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Zore posted:

You say that in a world where Finneon exists.

yay another generic fish

A generic fish with forgettable stats and, despite being a butterfly fish, isn't Water/Bug.

You messed up with Surskit once, Gamefreak. Then you messed up with Lumineon. Please, just this once give us a quality Bug/Water.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2014 07:38

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

GG Punk with that Go 2 Sleep combo. Bah gawd this is a slobberknocker.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 22:56

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Honestly, the circumstances that set TPP up seem like they're once-in-a-lifetime and I doubt we'll ever have as good of a game again. If we didn't release AbbyK and she learned some good moves like Slash and Flamethrower, we'd have almost no reason to use anything else. If Bird Jesus didn't have such an awful moveset, he could have easily soloed the game. If terrible AI didn't give Fonz, Lord Helix, and ATV time to shine, they would've just been more members of the backup crew with Air. Hell, if Zapdos didn't come at level 50, who knows what other underlevelled Pokemon would have been slotted in. Keeper, maybe?

The fact that we clawed our way through the worst possible circumstances was very impressive, but with how easy it is to pick a starter and mash A until victory it just doesn't strike me as happening again. And what is TPP without the glorious struggle?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2014 06:02

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Kainser posted:

Anyway, in my opinion so is TPP is just one of those things that is fun once but not very exciting after that, no reason to overanalyze it more than that. I mean, Pokemon Red hadn't done anything more exciting than struggling with using cut and battling the ledge at this point so it's not like it was significantly more thrilling or anything.

True, but at least the battles were usually tense. Probably because Kanto was full of rocks and status conditions that gave Bird Jesus trouble, or maybe because we kept blowing half of our moves using Whirlwind, but at least there was an element of "will we lose here" with each fight. Here Surf's in slot 1 and its just been Press X To Gator, and that's a lot less thrilling.

That might be why the fanart dropped off too. When he was using leer every turn, it was endearingly ineffective and came with a badass animation. Gator Drowns All The Things just doesn't lend itself to hilarious art as much.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2014 06:15

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Singh Long posted:

Does that mean AAAAAtttta is actually John Cena? That would probably explain why he's hated so much.

Well, he's got the divisive, unbeatable, and poorly-booked fights despite actually being pretty cool parts down. Might as well post "RAPADOOOOOOOOOO" into the chat every time he's let out for battle to make it official.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 01:46

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

I honestly think ledge citadel is going to fall on first democracy. People aren't even attempting hard parts without it and I think that's what's killing the run along with the gator. Using it for everything that slightly resembles a "challenge" on the overworld map isn't interesting at all. Safari Zone had potential to be pretty hilarious but people gave up right away. Victory road took only a couple hours because "guys seriously we need to get through this with democracy."

Not saying Anarchy is the only way guys!! but it's a lot less interesting when it's not Red or AJ bumbling around somehow reaching the goal of each area. Back in the Rocket Hideout I recall us finishing the spinner maze, and right after the battle someone hit up and everyone lost it because it was hilarious. If anything similar happens now it's loving REDDIT RUINING THINGS AGAIN I BLAME 4CHAN

That and this thread is hilariously negative to anything that springs up. If someone says Bird Jesus unironically it seems they get shouted down or complained at for ruining this pure and important thread with those dirty foul memes.

To be fair, Safari Zone and Victory Road both cost a bunch of in-game resources. Namely money and HP, which are lost each time we mess up. Rocket Hideout was a consequence-free slip-and-slide maze, so the lack of loss made bashing our heads against it a bunch feel less risky.

Still, though, a pretty good point.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 04:33

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Cernunnos posted:

I know. All my randomized ROMs have Shedinja with Wonder Guard. Just whip one up and search the log for Shedinja. Always 1 HP always Wonder Guard.

This on the other hand is both news to me and also pretty cool.

It's hell to set up, though. You need to Worry Seed away Wonder Guard, then Skill Swap the resulting Insomnia with Sturdy. Pretty much impossible in Singles, and still takes a good two turns in Doubles. Good luck keeping Shedinja alive for those two turns.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2014 22:01

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

The Monkey Man posted:

I think they should try to get a Milotic.

Let's be honest. If there's any stream where a Feebass will be randomly encountered and promptly OHKO'd, its this one.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 04:59

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Does our rival ever get a Pokemon that learns Dig? If so he might be less Mr. T, more Booker T.

CAN YOU DIG IT, SUCKAAAAA?

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 02:40

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Slate Action posted:

Trapinch has 100 base Attack and comes with Sand Attack aka The Best Move Ever, so we should get some use out of it if we can obtain one.

Doubt it. Dark type is Special for some unearthly reason, and the only type poor Trapinch can attack with until level 25.

When it learns Sand Tomb of all things. Then Dig somewhere in he 40s.

Don't you love it when stat spreads and movesets clash terribly?

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 05:16

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Does that entire upper area even have a point besides driving Twitch insane.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 03:46

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Dragonwagon posted:

Dome turned out to be ariados, amber is a charizard. I think some pc shenanigans are about to happen.

Abby finally came back to us!

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 19:14

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

Green has Kingdra for some reason. Or rather had.

Probably the "Elite 4 = Type Specialists" and "Rival Keeps Starter" streams got crossed. Without taking the easy way out and giving us a Water or Dragon champ.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2014 05:03

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

I've got one question for you all.

CAN YOU DIGLETT, SUCKA!?

# ¿ Feb 17, 2015 00:37

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

isndl posted:

Anyone know why they're trying to get into the daycare?

We have to save Rick Gastly.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2015 19:32

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 00:12

The Bee: Nov 25, 2012; Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Chamale posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1WLaTnaHA&t=3795s

This should start at the correct time. I'm impressed that a Gameboy is apparently able to render that.

Overall, I felt this anniversary run was weak and unsatisfying. The sped-up Parasect is a Pokemon that's able to defeat almost anything because of Spore, and once they figured that out it was just a matter of plowing through everything in a straight line.

Man, to think this could've actually been pretty interesting if we didn't happen to catch the one Pokemon the dev souped up into a killing machine.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2015 04:50

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