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Twitch Plays Pokemon is really a ton of fun for a ton of people, including me. But noooo, Destiny, desrow, and others (I don't recognize all the voices) are just trying to spam democracy to throw away Bird Jesus.
Ya, I know you guys are enjoying this, but c'mon- you do realize that you're taking the fun away from most everyone else, right? Not only are you just trying to throw away the pokemon, which will just get people annoyed, but now everyone has to spam "anarchy" to stop you guys from winning, and nobody is able to insert actual commands. Even the ardent democracy fighters don't have any interest in you guys just taking over the whole game.
To be honest, I'm not surprised Destiny is in on this, but desRow? I thought you were a community guy...
edit:
Oh shut up, don't act like you're not encouraging Destiny on to mess it up for the rest of us.
  
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After seeing people complain because people democracy'd a ledge so they couldnt watch 48 hours of jumping off a ledge, walking into a wall and spamming start i really began to lose faith in humanity. I do not understand this craze at all.
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On February 23 2014 15:59 Omnishroud wrote:
After seeing people complain because people democracy'd a ledge so they couldnt watch 48 hours of jumping off a ledge, walking into a wall and spamming start i really began to lose faith in humanity. I do not understand this craze at all.
You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play".
Also, see your sig 
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On February 23 2014 16:42 slowbacontron wrote:Show nested quote +On February 23 2014 15:59 Omnishroud wrote:
After seeing people complain because people democracy'd a ledge so they couldnt watch 48 hours of jumping off a ledge, walking into a wall and spamming start i really began to lose faith in humanity. I do not understand this craze at all. You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". Also, see your sig
But Twitch Plays Pokemon IS a really slow let's play.
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If you think one small group of Starcraft players is enough to sway the vote towards democracy, then I think you need to take a look at the numbers. You do realise how many people (and bots) are spamming votes, right?
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On February 23 2014 20:28 FuRong wrote:
If you think one small group of Starcraft players is enough to sway the vote towards democracy, then I think you need to take a look at the numbers. You do realise how many people (and bots) are spamming votes, right?
During the ledge, and just afterwards, there were 45,000-50,000 people on TPP, and 5000 on Destiny's stream. The large majority of the regulars of TPP were during input commands, while basically all 5k of Destiny's watchers were hitting democracy. Ya, I'd say that's enough to swing the votes.
And you were able to actually watch it happen...
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So what happens when you vote democracy vs anarchy?
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Typical destiny stuff
1°) Realises he's losing viewers
2°) Finds something popular
- Option A : Causes a huge drama about it
- Option B : Creates a huge mess by screwing with it and asking its viewers to do the same
Repeat for the past 2 years
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Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad?
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On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad?
You basically make 1 action every 20s
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Incoming 8 paragraph post of Destiny defending himself on reddit in some wierd fashion
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On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad?
My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play".
And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise.
SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater.
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The real jerks are twitch. "Yeah we're totally accepting that NO OTHER STREAM has a stable chat for 2-3 weeks, because we want this channel, that can't even use more than one input per second, to be spammed to oblivion; for publicity of course." It's so sad these jerks have a monopoly on streaming.
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Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus.
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On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater.
Why do you get to decide what is boring?
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On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring?
I don't! If you find democracy exciting, you are allowed to vote for it. Most people vote for anarchy, but it's all personal opinion.
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On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus.
Bad day?
On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring?
At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that
1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority
2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?"
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But voting for democracy and anarchy are part of the game.
Just let the game develop its way, it's a social experiment afterall.
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On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? Show nested quote +On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?"
I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that.
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On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that.
Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive!
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I dont know how any1 could enjoy watching people spam start for an hour...
i just dont understand whose life is so empty/boring that they spend hours a day literally typing "start" just to try to troll other strangers on the internet?
I watched for 10 mins which the first 5 was "wow this is a cool social experiment" and ended with "there are too many scumbags in the world" which is just epitomized when you watch the stream.
Next time you watch the stream, every time someone types "start" try to keep track of out of how many commands, how many were "start" every one of those people were just flat out assholes, out to annoy everyone else.
Puts in perspective just how many assholes there are in society..quite interesting, yet horribly sad/disgusting imo.
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On February 25 2014 07:00 slowbacontron wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that. Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive!
I never said anything was repulsive. And I do often "blink an eye" at that, so your assumption is off.
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On February 26 2014 07:47 MichaelDonovan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 07:00 slowbacontron wrote:On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that. Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive! I never said anything was repulsive. And I do often "blink an eye" at that, so your assumption is off.
Well then! All right! haha. It's totally fine if you're not that into TPP or StarCraft. Different people like different things, is all.
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On February 26 2014 08:36 slowbacontron wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 07:47 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 25 2014 07:00 slowbacontron wrote:On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that. Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive! I never said anything was repulsive. And I do often "blink an eye" at that, so your assumption is off. Well then! All right! haha. It's totally fine if you're not that into TPP or StarCraft. Different people like different things, is all.
I just think that if you take a step back and think about the big picture, and think about life as a whole, it should be clear that TPP or Starcraft should not be the kind of things that you should let yourself get upset about to the point where you feel the need to write a paragraph about it. It's so trivial and insignificant that getting upset about it and spending time whining about it seems silly.
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On February 27 2014 02:41 MichaelDonovan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 08:36 slowbacontron wrote:On February 26 2014 07:47 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 25 2014 07:00 slowbacontron wrote:On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that. Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive! I never said anything was repulsive. And I do often "blink an eye" at that, so your assumption is off. Well then! All right! haha. It's totally fine if you're not that into TPP or StarCraft. Different people like different things, is all. I just think that if you take a step back and think about the big picture, and think about life as a whole, it should be clear that TPP or Starcraft should not be the kind of things that you should let yourself get upset about to the point where you feel the need to write a paragraph about it. It's so trivial and insignificant that getting upset about it and spending time whining about it seems silly.
To a large extent, I agree! And we are totally allowed to focus our time and energy on what we believe is important in life. But I am not more qualified than anyone else to say what other people should be doing. You'll notice that we've spent a lot of time discussing this. Is it a waste of time? Maybe, but not completely. A big part of life for most people is the working out of differences and the building up of each other's understanding. So I guess imo just don't worry 
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On February 27 2014 15:06 slowbacontron wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2014 02:41 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 26 2014 08:36 slowbacontron wrote:On February 26 2014 07:47 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 25 2014 07:00 slowbacontron wrote:On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:On February 24 2014 01:43 Incognoto wrote:
Can someone at least explain why voting democracy is bad? My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that. Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive! I never said anything was repulsive. And I do often "blink an eye" at that, so your assumption is off. Well then! All right! haha. It's totally fine if you're not that into TPP or StarCraft. Different people like different things, is all. I just think that if you take a step back and think about the big picture, and think about life as a whole, it should be clear that TPP or Starcraft should not be the kind of things that you should let yourself get upset about to the point where you feel the need to write a paragraph about it. It's so trivial and insignificant that getting upset about it and spending time whining about it seems silly. To a large extent, I agree! And we are totally allowed to focus our time and energy on what we believe is important in life. But I am not more qualified than anyone else to say what other people should be doing. You'll notice that we've spent a lot of time discussing this. Is it a waste of time? Maybe, but not completely. A big part of life for most people is the working out of differences and the building up of each other's understanding. So I guess imo just don't worry
A discussion of what ought to be is always a worthwhile discussion. Those who spend most of their time working out these kinds of questions are the more qualified to say what people should be doing with their lives, since they make it their business and their life's work to employ rational principles in the pursuit of the answers to these questions. While it is possibly true that nobody is in a position to preach, it is my position that philosophers are the best equipped people for giving advice.
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On February 28 2014 02:24 MichaelDonovan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2014 15:06 slowbacontron wrote:On February 27 2014 02:41 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 26 2014 08:36 slowbacontron wrote:On February 26 2014 07:47 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 25 2014 07:00 slowbacontron wrote:On February 25 2014 03:18 MichaelDonovan wrote:On February 24 2014 09:37 soon.Cloak wrote:On February 24 2014 08:19 MichaelDonovan wrote:
Oh stop whining. Boo hoo video game waaaaah. Jesus. Bad day? On February 24 2014 08:20 SnowFantasy wrote:On February 24 2014 06:21 slowbacontron wrote:[quote] My post from earlier: + Show Spoiler +You can find explanations for the preference of anarchy on the TPP subreddit. Basically, people enjoy it not only because it's more of a challenge, but also because the numerous failures and struggles of anarchy are what let such an involved and compelling storyline develop within TPP gameplay. Democracy is argued to pretty much make TPP a really slow "Let's Play". And, as Sakray also said, it's very slow gameplay-wise, even if it's faster progress-wise. SnowFantasy: Anarchy and Democracy both are really slow "Let's Plays". However, Democracy would, in general, be similar to any other playthrough of Pokemon Red out there, the only difference being that it's way slower. So, pretty boring. Anarchy is not a typical playthrough. Both by accident and through the efforts of trolls, TPP has managed to release several valuable pokemon (including their starter), buy 99 Pokedolls and a fire stone in attempting to buy a water stone, attempt to "use" the S.S. Ticket, Lift Key, the Helix Fossil repeatedly in any and every situation, and fail at many more things constantly. But this is what creates the intricate storyline (summarized well in both of these links) of TPP, and whenever the crowd is somehow successful at accomplishing something, the satisfaction is made all the greater. Why do you get to decide what is boring? At least for myself, the issue isn't "They're doing something, and I want it to be something else, not fair!" It's that 1) They are a minority ruining it for the majority 2) They are enjoying messing up everyone else. It's only fun for them because we enjoy what we're doing, and they can mess with us. It's parallel to...I don't know, a kid breaking a toy of another kid, enjoying it just because the second kid can no longer play with it, and rationalizing it as "Well, we both wanted to have fun with it, so why couldn't I do this?" I could ask the same of you. I can't believe you wrote a whole paragraph about Twitch Plays Pokemon. Take a step back and think about that. Different people care about different things. I assume you wouldn't blink an eye at TL writers writing paragraphs about StarCraft, yet many people would find this passion repulsive! I never said anything was repulsive. And I do often "blink an eye" at that, so your assumption is off. Well then! All right! haha. It's totally fine if you're not that into TPP or StarCraft. Different people like different things, is all. I just think that if you take a step back and think about the big picture, and think about life as a whole, it should be clear that TPP or Starcraft should not be the kind of things that you should let yourself get upset about to the point where you feel the need to write a paragraph about it. It's so trivial and insignificant that getting upset about it and spending time whining about it seems silly. To a large extent, I agree! And we are totally allowed to focus our time and energy on what we believe is important in life. But I am not more qualified than anyone else to say what other people should be doing. You'll notice that we've spent a lot of time discussing this. Is it a waste of time? Maybe, but not completely. A big part of life for most people is the working out of differences and the building up of each other's understanding. So I guess imo just don't worry A discussion of what ought to be is always a worthwhile discussion. Those who spend most of their time working out these kinds of questions are the more qualified to say what people should be doing with their lives, since they make it their business and their life's work to employ rational principles in the pursuit of the answers to these questions. While it is possibly true that nobody is in a position to preach, it is my position that philosophers are the best equipped people for giving advice.
Hmm, makes sense! Guess I can dig it.
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I heard Destiny betrayed Bird Jesus for 30 Pokeballs.
EDIT: IT WORKED. BLOGS CAN BE BUMPED AGAIN.
YEAH MR. WHITE.
YEAH SCIENCE.
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