TwitchPlaysPokemon

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been watching it since day one. Surprised you guys haven’t made a thread.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon
in case you guys don’t know it’s just an IRC channel controlled PKMN RED game where you chat your commands. The last couple of days have been interesting where people have been fighting over democracy (type your message to vote for the command that will be pressed) or anarchy (input command is output command)

it’s been pretty funny watching demofags get pissed off when it goes to Anarchy and we use Dig in a dungeon they’ve been working on for days.

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hahaha that was funny

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how did they manage to get a lv45 pidgeot anyway XD

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ROFL, that image above is beyond hilarious…

I’ve obviously been watching it off and on too.

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It’s been distracting me at work every day.

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I played around with it when there was only a little over one hundred views. We got to Cerulean City, lost to Misty, and then the viewer count sky rocketed to 1k and it was just all trolling from there on.

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This forum just gained 100 nerd points.

Im probably gonna check this out.

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I haven’t seen it up for a while. There’s a bunch of clones now.

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The lag is insane… 30 seconds until your input gets in… I’m surprised they’re getting anywhere.

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and that’s when your input is listened to… It seems my input isn’t even listened to wtf.

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Been following this from the start, like what already has been stated, it’s a seriously surprising they make any progress at all. <3 @ that pic. Also wtf? did it just roll back over the last 12 hours?

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I just hope the trolls will leave… it’s spoiling the game so bad.

Some trolls can be fun but now nothing’s happening… and people still bother O_o

Still more progress than random pokemon though XD

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The lag is insane… 30 seconds until your input gets in… I’m surprised they’re getting anywhere.

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and that’s when your input is listened to… It seems my input isn’t even listened to wtf.
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All Twitch channels have a 20 second delay.

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They’ll never get through that tower without catching pokemons that actually can kill ghosts.

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[QUOTE=2ndwolf;107637]They’ll never get through that tower without catching pokemons that actually can kill ghosts.[/QUOTE]

they can if they manage to use Digrat efficiently. Hail Helix Fossil.

also the trolls are the main reason the stream is fun. If the game was going to go perfectly without a hitch, it would just be a slow/retarded Let’s Play. Not fun to watch at all.

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THE KEEPER IS A FALSE GOD. A REAL GOD WOULD NOT HAVE FORGOTTEN PSYCHIC.

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whos big idea was this? this is absurd and you should be ashamed

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They managed to wake up snolax despite the ongoing clusterfuck

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yeah, i witnessed it.

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I was there while they were battling it and ran.

By the way guys, the lag really is a bummer… I notice the chat bar on the right doesn’t lag as much… I was thinking, would there be any way for it to be possible to bypass reading the IRC input altogether and simply read what’s on the chat bar on the right? I mean, for the game script to read and transfer it to keypresses.

There would be so much less lag that way… and probably some fame too.

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I was thinking maybe keep the chat open and have some script take multiple screenshots a second of it and translate it into input through pattern recognition of the taken screenshots, discard image if same as previous screenshot and enter latest input if different to previous screenshot… that has its limitations… lag, mainly; there has to be a better way.

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there’s lag because the video is 20 seconds behind. there’s nothing that can be done about that.

and it is about 100,000 viewers and a lot of people putting input in. What do you expect?

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in the realm of speculation…
Would it be possible to have a js emulator run some game (I have Zelda 1 in mind) and have users input their commands…
That would be lagless, right?

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That would still need a user cap but I think it should work?

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found this:
http://imgur.com/gallery/i4bHOP4

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if the input chat was being run through something like mIRC instead of through Twitch maybe it would be less laggy.