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Twitch Plays Pokemon: Dig, Dig for Victory!
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TheLegendOfCap
Member
Wait. I thought Anarchy people were Start9-ing in protest. If trolls are doing it as well it's not good for anybody.
edit: I had an idea, that was not like the demo system, that when it got tough, TWO consecutive inputs would count for one input. Increase it to three and four if it needed it. I think it would really work, what do you guys think?
DryEyeRelief
Member
People in here yesterday were suggesting than if the crowds died down then it would be easier to get through game corner. Basically, less trashy and troll inputs and more organized action. So how is that any different than the democracy mechanic?
Not at all. Democracy is just like a regular playthrough. The majority knows what to do, and it's done. With the original system, anything goes. And every input counts. There are blunders, fuck-ups, missteps all along the way but it's that much more exciting when something good does happen because somehow the people co-ordinated. Because it's tens of thousands of voices all commanding Red simultaneously. Democracy is just making the same slow decisions one regular person would make in a regular play-through. I've seen that. I've played that game before. I haven't played this one, though.
Saltybet is alive and well!
we're planning moves now. The point of this all is mass progress and coordination.
There's RNGs if you want to see random chaos.
No it won't, it will work when the stream requires it. A few people tried to start9 during the maze but they were in the minority as most people wanted to progress through to the end of the maze.
The reason start9 won here is because there was no reason to switch to democracy since there wasn't a major obstacle blocking anarchy from progressing that would unite all the players.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
What are those people doing? Fuck Democracy!
Its a little of both, but most anarchists will switch to voting anarchy instead of playing the game, outnumbering the democracy players who are trying and the trolls start9ing.
Welp it was fun folks, time to wrap it up
So we're never going back to total anarchy? Well, it was fun while it lasted, I guess.
It's sad that he doesn't even like the memes his stream has been giving birth to.
Salty trolls who are upset that they can't 'stick it to the man', or whatever it is they think they're doing when they press down while everyone else is pressing up.
gutterboy44
Member
It would be cool if you set your political choice and it stayed as long as you were in chat. So I could be marked with anarchy and as long as I was in chat, it counted as a vote in that direction. So each viewer can only influence it 1 point at any given time. As soon as I want to go democracy, I type that in chat and I switch alliances.
#TeamPermAnarchy
That Jay Leno gets me every time lol
I dunno if this has been posted. Thread moves really fast.
That Jay Leno gets me every time lol
Hitting start 9 times. If you append a number to the end of a button it does it that many times.
Trolling was part of the process.
There is barely any pleading and whatever remonstration there is filled with language of us vs. them. There is no us. There is no them. Each individual is making choice to go one way or another for his/her respective reasons. I only see stereotyping of people who are voting for democracy as that they want no fun. You don't get to decide what fun is for someone else, let alone a whole collection of people who voted the same way.
again, what makes you think that's real?
LightofRohan
Member
Ugh. Twitch is so dumb.
Every channel I ever view is just spamming horrible inside jokes I never get. It was an interesting idea while it lasted...
Every channel I ever view is just spamming horrible inside jokes I never get. It was an interesting idea while it lasted...
It's a vicious cycle. The solution is to take the typewriter away from the monkeys.
Pureauthor
Member
I thought you didn't want an Eevee.
Paper Sparrow
Member
Man, this whole thing is like a microcosm of society. Now everyone is so focused on getting "their way" it is impeding forward progress. I think this new voting system is interesting. It's like a new ledge.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Welp it was fun folks, time to wrap it up
Shit's fake yo.
Message user name has no capitals. Stream user name has capitalized every word.
twitchplayspokemon vs TwitchPlaysPokemon
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
Right now the system just isn't working. As soon as democracy wins, all the democrats stop typing 'democracy' and start trying to play, so it inevitably swings back to anarchy. Vice versa for when anarchy wins. People who want a different system have such different objectives to those with the system they want, that all that happens is chat oscillates between anarchy and democracy rapidly, with no actual progress being achieved. The only way to escape this is to subvert the system.
#start9
You just need to go deeper.
Seriously if you don't make the effort to understand the inner workings of a group, why are you even joining them?
killer rin
Member
My god, Anarchy people are some of the whiniest people I have ever heard. Democracy is amazing for when were stuck at a spot for over 20 hours like yesterday. It really is only active during that small period of time with the rest being Anarchy. So just deal with it.
Ryan242004
Member
Lol this is amazing!
Garcia
Member
Realistically? None.
DryEyeRelief
Member
Excuse my ignorance but what English speaking country in the world is past 6 pm on February 18th? The UK is in its 18:00th hour right now. Australia?
Therefore a new meta is made. If you're not voting for the overarching system, your individual button presses have more power as there are less people pressing buttons too. Less noise.
Government, in this case, is most powerful right before it falls.
These are the beautiful things that can happen with anarchy. Hope it's still that way once I can finally watch it tonight.
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
'straya, the best of all Australian-countries.
CrunchyFrog
Member
anyone corroborate this? quash this shit before it gets any bigger
Also, look at the time the message was sent.
It's the act of voting for either side that ruins it. It would be better if the streamer just manually switched democracy on and off.
It does kill all attempts to play the game and the trolls win. The trolls spam buttons, leaving legit players to vote on governance. Anarchy = start, democracy = start9
Wut. The inside jokes were born from the experience of watching the game being played.
gutterboy44
Member
The 24 hours of maze had me forgetting how hilarious normal anarchy "progress" is. I think the PC demands a sacrifice, the stream should head there.
Interceptor
Banned
Its not about random chaos. It´s about statistics. It was about how a gaussian distribution of the knowledge of 80k people maybe, or maybe not would be able to make progress in the game. If the order within the chaos was able to beat the game. Voting gives power to spammers wo would have been neglectable in a statistical evaluation. If not for the spammers you now just follow a walkthrough but just with an ancredible slow pace because you have to vote for every step. Thats a completly different meaning than the original setup. Original was statstics, it was fun. Now its just a boring walkthrough. All the new viewscome from media outlets who are running the story. If we keep the democracy it will die down soon. But like others said before - the original meaning is already compromised. Which is a shame.
DryEyeRelief
Member
I doubt it. If that system wasn't in place, the votes would revert back into start inputs vs b inputs.