Mob Mentality
So this is going on right now: http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon It's an interesting concept. Set up Pokemon so that people in the chat window can input commands to control the character one step at a time. Based off the FAQ, TwitchPlaysPokemon is: "TwitchPlaysPokemon is a social experiment, it is a stream of the Gameboy version of Pokemon Red (151 romhack) running on an emulator. An IRC [internet relay chat] bot translates buttons said in chat into keypresses (simulated in software, no fancy typist robots)." For example, if someone wanted the character to move down, they would type "down" and the character would go down one step. Now it seems simple, but when you get thousands upon thousands of people inputting commands at once, it can get hectic. Which you can see in the livestream right now (if it's still up by the time of this posting.) So why does this interest me so much? Well, it's an experiment that involves a video game I loved so m...