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« Reply #1825 on: February 18, 2014, 05:59:04 pm »
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They're ripping through everything on democracy mode now. The soul of the thing is dead, gone, trampled, eaten, spit out, pointless.

They seem firmly set in Anarchy for now.  The Google doc says that the current goal is to get to Giovanni in Rocket HQ and they are currently wandering the streets.  What did they rip through in Democracy mode?

I think the main problem now is that too many people are busy typing democracy/anarchy instead of spamming button inputs.  But it's hard to tell...

The maze/lift key situation all happened under Democracy. They beat the maze (after lots of mode switching) this afternoon in like 15 minutes under Democracy.
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« Reply #1826 on: February 18, 2014, 06:03:22 pm »
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I was hoping that this (twitch plays pokemon) would be what people were talking about in this thread. I just heard about this yesterday and it's most majestic thing I've ever seen.
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« Reply #1827 on: February 18, 2014, 06:05:10 pm »
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Quote from: eHalcyon on February 18, 2014, 05:44:01 pm
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They're ripping through everything on democracy mode now. The soul of the thing is dead, gone, trampled, eaten, spit out, pointless.

They seem firmly set in Anarchy for now.  The Google doc says that the current goal is to get to Giovanni in Rocket HQ and they are currently wandering the streets.  What did they rip through in Democracy mode?

I think the main problem now is that too many people are busy typing democracy/anarchy instead of spamming button inputs.  But it's hard to tell...

They made it through the maze, then my internet connection died slightly after they beat someone at the top of the elevator.  I'm thinking they accidentally used dig (they had gone back to anarchy mode).
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« Reply #1828 on: February 18, 2014, 06:06:53 pm »
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Better summary of the problem:

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5d20h4m: The maze is complete on democracy mode.
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #1829 on: February 18, 2014, 06:17:12 pm »
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Who wants to bet that this is someone's Ph.D. thesis in social psychology?
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« Reply #1830 on: February 18, 2014, 06:25:25 pm »
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Quote from: dondon151 on February 18, 2014, 06:17:12 pm
Who wants to bet that this is someone's Ph.D. thesis in social psychology?

Seems more like a Master's thesis to me.
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« Reply #1831 on: February 18, 2014, 06:27:20 pm »
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Quote from: A Drowned Kernel on February 18, 2014, 06:03:22 pm
I was hoping that this (twitch plays pokemon) would be what people were talking about in this thread. I just heard about this yesterday and it's most majestic thing I've ever seen.
Too bad you didn't see the part when it was even more awesome.

What are they even trying to do now?
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« Reply #1832 on: February 18, 2014, 06:30:48 pm »
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I tried watching it, and I found it very boring. Cool idea in theory, but in practice... meh. Maybe it's because I don't follow what's going on really. I played the yellow version back then but I apparently don't remember much about the game.
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #1833 on: February 18, 2014, 06:32:25 pm »
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« Reply #1834 on: February 18, 2014, 07:04:59 pm »
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« Reply #1835 on: February 18, 2014, 07:30:07 pm »
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Fifteen minutes to get the elevator to work in anarchy, so they Democracy to the right floor and walk out of the elevator to the next battle. LAME
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« Reply #1836 on: February 18, 2014, 07:42:29 pm »
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How does the voting work?  I just checked the stream and they are in Anarchy, with the meter right in the middle (Anarchy is in effect for up to 3/4 of the meter).  Does the meter move for every command, or does it actually track each individual voter so that one person can't bump the meter so far on his own?  It just seems to hover in the middle almost always so I don't see how they would switch to Democracy and then switch back so quickly if it doesn't do any voter tracking.
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« Reply #1837 on: February 18, 2014, 07:53:58 pm »
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They just lost to Giovanni.  It was insanely close.  Pidgeot took out Onix and Rhydon.  Against Kangaskhan, they switched out to Drowzee and let Giovanni get a free Guard Spec use.  Drowzee fainted after only one weak Pound, then Pidgeot came back in.  Kangaskhan had already gotten a couple attack boosts from Rage.  Pidgeot survived three more Rages (including a crit) and would have won with 1HP remaining if they hadn't selected Whirlwind twice.
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« Reply #1838 on: February 18, 2014, 07:55:24 pm »
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Not super-sure of the specifics, but if one reaches a critical mass the system switches. Anarchy is almost always used in battle because it's more "fun" and you still win. Democracy is used, at this point, anytime anything slightly tricky needs to happen.
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« Reply #1839 on: February 18, 2014, 07:58:18 pm »
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So if it hits the 3/4 mark, it switches to Democracy and then you need 3/4 to switch back to Anarchy?  OK.

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« Reply #1840 on: February 18, 2014, 07:58:23 pm »
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The reddit livestream agrees:

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5d:23h:30m With TPP back outside, the black bar now slowly creeps towards Democracy. It appears that anarchy is only favored for battles.

I picked the wrong time to start loving/caring about this. Literally 12 hours or so before its soul died. I'm stepping away from the computer so I can try to rejoin humanity.
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« Reply #1841 on: February 18, 2014, 07:58:35 pm »
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Quote from: eHalcyon on February 18, 2014, 07:58:18 pm
So if it hits the 3/4 mark, it switches to Democracy and then you need 3/4 to switch back to Anarchy?  OK.

Correct.
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #1842 on: February 18, 2014, 08:14:15 pm »
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At first when I saw Democracy I thought, that's really cool and will make things way more interesting.

Then I saw 30 seconds of gameplay under Democracy, and said my first two things during the stream: "anarchy" and "start9".
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...spin-offs are still better for all of the previously cited reasons.
But not strictly better, because the spinoff can have a different cost than the expansion.

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« Reply #1843 on: February 18, 2014, 09:36:19 pm »
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Democracy mode kicked in, but barely managed to take 5 steps until start9 took over.  Still, as the system re-approached Anarchy, the pro-Democracy players spammed left to get Red back into the maze just as Anarchy resumed.  Anarchy managed to escape the maze, then returned to the game corner for a while.  Eventually they managed to get down to Giovanni.  And then Dig was used, so now they are back outside. :P
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Re: Random Stuff
« Reply #1844 on: February 18, 2014, 09:41:21 pm »
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I don't think much progress is going to be made until Democracy is completely removed. But in an ironic way, that's kind of just as inefficient as the system once was.
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...spin-offs are still better for all of the previously cited reasons.
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« Reply #1845 on: February 18, 2014, 10:08:49 pm »
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So I wonder if they'll use the master ball on a crappy pokemon, or if they'll toss it out.
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« Reply #1846 on: February 18, 2014, 10:12:58 pm »
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At first, one would be tempted to dismiss Captain Supermarket as just an error in translation, but when you see that Ash is standing atop a mountain of Campbell soup cans in some Inception/John Malkovich sort of magical meta, you start to wonder if this poster may be the most genius thing in existence.






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« Reply #1847 on: February 18, 2014, 10:44:04 pm »
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Quote from: theory on February 18, 2014, 05:23:51 pm
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Quote from: theory on February 18, 2014, 03:30:28 pm
rrenaud hosted "RobCon" this past weekend.  It was a huge success and if any of you in your gaming group is a natural event planner, you should look into it.  Rent a house in a nice location for a weekend, have people bring games, play games nonstop for a few days, divide up the costs.  It's a ton of fun.

How many people did you end up with?

20 or so

We also hired a chef.  Makes each meal cost ~$20pp but it meant amazing food and ability to satisfy everyone's food desires/restrictions, as opposed to pizza for every meal which is maybe $5pp.  Plus this chef happened to play Magic and participated in cube draft.

Quote from: shraeye on February 18, 2014, 04:00:27 pm
whoa.  That sounds awesome.

It was super awesome.  Played a whole bunch of long games you otherwise don't really get a chance to play.  Logistics suck a little bit but not enough to dissuade us from doing it again.

This sounds completely super sweet.
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« Reply #1848 on: February 19, 2014, 03:00:15 am »
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Twitch plays Pokemon plays Tetris.  http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_

Wow.
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« Reply #1849 on: February 19, 2014, 08:19:44 am »
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