The social media experiment allowing you to play the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red Version inside someone's Twitter avatar appears to have suffered a major blow. Prior to this, it had been relatively smooth sailing. Earlier this month the Soul Badge was acquired and more recently the Volcano Badge was earned.
In a new update from just hours ago, it seems Twitter has now lost five (of six) of its main Pokémon. While a number of trainers slept, a group of troublemakers, referring to in the tweet as "Team Rocket", decided to release the majority of the party back into the wild. As highlighted by Twitter user @FrankeDavi, a Level 41 Kadabra was saved:
"some a******s released most of our team while we were asleep, we did manage to save kadabra at the last second"
This could easily set progress back weeks, if not even longer as Twitter must now train up additional Pokémon in order to continue the journey. It seems this whole thing might not be so easy after all. Did you see something this coming? Are you at all surprised? Leave a comment down below.
[source twitter.com]
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The scary thing is that the people who do these sorts of things probably have jobs, responsibilities and families.
Bring back hanging!!
@nessisonett Or equally they could be bored schoolchildren looking for some shred of stimulation after being cooped up at home for months on end. It’s a thoroughly twuntish move, but if mucking up a video game in someone’s avatar is the extent of the threat they pose, then the perpetrators rank fairly low on my ‘scary organisations’ list.
Still a thoroughly nasty thing to do though. Like decapitating a child’s snowman. The material value of what is lost may be trivial, but the emotional impact of doing something so unnecessarily spiteful still stings.
Oh no. That’s honestly sad.
I don’t understand how they play the game on Twitter.
Man, that right there is just dirty.
Yep just had to wait for the right son of a B***H to come in and ruin the fun.
And they didn't expect it? I'm not surprised at all I mean yeah it still sucks but still
@Maxz I doubt anybody under the age of 20 cares about Pokemon Red at this point. It’s more that if you have it in you to just be that nasty for absolutely no reason, it’ll surely extend to other aspects of your life. Like people who shout abuse at football matches.
In the grand scheme of things, the implications of this are small, but...Really? Why ruin others' fun?
@nessisonett it’s the little things. Causing misery is oh so enjoyable
@nessisonett Most internet trolls I've known IRL don't think what they do online is "real." The internet is a playground for them where ordinary norms and rules of conduct don't apply.
You're probably right about them being 30-somethings, though. Not because the kids don't care about old games or anything like that, but because I feel like a number of older millennials, who grew up with the internet in its wild west phase, are struggling to adapt to the changing perspectives of the role of the internet in human life.
@Tyranexx for entertainment! Whoever this guy or gal is they’re the little sibling causing mayhem. My younger brother used to take my game boy and release my Pokémon all the time. I’d smack him around for it, he’d cry, and then do it again and again lol
@Tyranexx desperation to feel in control and empowered can do some wicked things to people’s minds. Given how miserable the world is Im surprised we’re not seeing more instances of this.
OK, so it's not going to be that easy. Its not the end of the world lol.
I remember when Twitch Plays Pokemon were doing their first run, I watched as the chat figured out a way to restart the game, start a new game, and was about to overwrite the save file before the admin stepped in at the last second to shut the game down.
Weeks of progress were nearly lost 😬
This reminds me of the Shard of Harry Vigil
@luigitornado Being a huge douche 'forthelulz' is still being a huge douche. Doesn't mean I think this is a huge deal, but still. That's some grade A ass-hattery.
@maxz Very eloquent contextualization, and condemnation. Nicely said.
@GrandScribe or boredom
@LUIGITORNADO Reminds me of the time some jerk kid took my copy of Pokemon Gold out of my GBC on the bus while I was playing it. The save was corrupted, and I lost everything. I had an awesome high level team too. Horrible, horrible feeling.
So yeah, for entertainment. But that doesn't excuse how much of a [expletive] move this is.
@GrandScribe While I can sympathize with wanting to feel in control, there are much, MUCH better ways to handle those feelings....
@AlphaElite Now Twitch Plays Pokemon, and for quite awhile, had been using savestate backups.
If someone sets back the game, the admins will rollback to a savestate and give a timeout/ban to the person/people who caused it. (such as when playing FireRed Moemon hack. Some people figured out how to crash the game, the used Democracy to vote to start a new game. Streamer looked at the chat log to find the voting for the particular input that selected New Game and banned every person voting for the resulting input. Some apologized and got reduced to a 24hour timeout.)
I want there to be lore behind this like twitch plays pokemon
its okay , atleast makes the journey more memorable , we all know how stupidly easy to solo everything with just your starter
@Tyranexx completely agree it’s not acceptable to torment others to feel in control. I suppose the worst part of this toxic coping mechanism is how addictive it can be and how it can compel someone to escalate their behavior. There won’t be but there should be a meaningful consequence to this behavior for the victims but also to help the tormentors.
This somehow summarizes everything you need to know about the sort of people you'll find on twitter.
@nessisonett My daughter is 9, and only recently completed Pokemon Red, she's onto Crystal now.
She wants to beat all the original games, and has already beaten Lets Go, and SWSH
Wow. That's a ***** move
Part of me finds this funny while another part finds it sad.
Come on folks. They're just griefers in a game. Wasn't that a big part of these experiments to begin with? To find out if a bunch of random people could work together or not? These guys are just playing the villain part. They're following all the rules, not doing anything wrong. I mean yes, they are acting like a-holes, but that just makes things more interesting. I for one applaud the chaos.
@Kobeskillz Someone wrote a script to continually change their avatar with new screenshots of an ongoing Pokemon game. Others play the game by commenting with a vote on button inputs.
Lol good job people.
These guys are more successful than the ingame team rocket and adds to the fun. People will now need to take shifts to stop it happening again which can only add to the drama and difficulty.
@Ralizah This is quite true. I've encountered people who did outright abhorrent things including sending photos and personal information of some member on a forum so they could laugh at her. I found out and I quickly contacted the member, and guess what the troll said to me?
"She went psycho on me after finding out dude! Someone ratted on me! Why's she so pissed? It's just the Internet!"
This is how trolls think.
This is just a terrible move. Let people play pokemon. The rest of the community trying to do this will now probably have to monitor this to stop it happening again.
Wow, there are some killjoys out there. I detest anyone that gets a kick out of ruining someone else's fun. It's just belligerent.
Sums up Twitter really. Nothing nice can survive there.
Welcome to the internet. What did you expect from twitter of all places?
@GrandScribe Agreed. Unfortunately in a situation like this, any consequences for the offenders will only amount to verbal chastisement, which very rarely works.
@GrailUK Who says they're ruining anybody's fun? They're just making things more interesting. People are talking about it more now aren't they? I think it's more fun, not less, when there are some bad guys to root against.
Of course, if they kept doing this all the time, it would get old fast. So hopefully they restrain themselves.
@wollywoo Erm, I must have mis read that tweet lol.
@Kobeskillz Not that hard. Take the inputs from Twitter. Update the user's twitter PFP like every ten seconds.
Ive been around since the bronze age of this run, only Amaybe and Chad were on the team back then, and we had just come out of the stone age(defeating Brock)
At route 3 a pidgey(Jumbo) was caught while trying to catch a jigglypuff(Pop). But we already had a flyjng type...
At cerulean the time came to make room for a new mon Alakazam(abra). We had Jumbo and Chad both face pokemon of a far higher level as a test. Jumbo failed where Chad succeeded. So Jumbo was deposited... (It is this very event that would intice the war of the birds.)
Curse(oddish) was caught at random north of cerulean, which is the reason she was named Curse, because she blocked us from reaching our goal of catching a Abra(a attempt was made to name her Cursed, but failed due to too many people interfering)
One night a japanese player "Verunu" managed to catch Abra and named him Alakazam ironically causing mass confusion throughout the run.th
Just after beating Misty many attempts were made to kill our team, and throw away our items.
This lasted untill after vermilion.
Things were smooth sailing for a while after this, many joined our cause and only minor incidents happened. an
One such semi minor thing is having someone use dig just before reaching the light of day at the end of Rock tunnel, costing us a day to recover from.
Chad easily swep Erika's gym even while poisoned. Pokemon tower at Lavender was overcome without trouble. We easily caught TPP the Snorlax.
The next real problem was lag, at route 12 through 15 we suffered heavily from it. Each one almost taking a entire day to get through. route 13 and 14 are notorious for extreme lag taking upwards of 30 inputs to move a single step.
The safari zone was a nice change of pace, quick response time...
Amaybe evolved into a Blastoise around this time and we decided to face Koga's annoying/psychic type gym.
we easily swep him with Alakazam, but a crash forced us to challenge him again.
We lost Alakazam early due to a critical hit, but Abbpri swept him, even though a massive self destruct took him out too.
Chad flew us back home, and we took on the pokemon mansion and Blane's gym.
But halfway through a voice called to us, to fly back to Veridian city to talk to a drunk guy and return to the twilight shores of Cinnabar island.
Once we did a mysterious entity only known as "'M" bestowed upon us more candy than a child can dream of in thanks for setting it free.
Amaybe swept Blaine, even though he only ate three pieces of candy.
Then we traveled to Saffron, the city of death
Kicking team rocket out of Silph Co took days, but in the end we defeated them and were granted the masterball for it.
Then late at night we went on to Sabrinas gym...
This was when Jumbo the evil Pidgey summoned his minions to execute the midnight massacre at saffron.
Chad, Amaybe, Abblri, TTP, Dhy, and potentially Amn the Rhyhorn were lost.
only Alakazam managed to wake in time to fend off and survive the great scourge, bit Jumbo managed to get back on the team.
Almost the entirety of this day would be spent in vain. We were grounded for hours from out attempts to fly away by a simple press of the B button. Once finally free we gained the power of Hope the Lapras... but even Hope was lost in the crash of Hope resetting the entire day to just after our team was released.
...But so was the great scourge whiped from our team aswell.
The night was spent rebuilding our team with mons like Curse and Amn, Luke, and eventually Hope yet again.
The day after was followed by "dragon Sickness"
A desperate obsession to catch a dragon as answer for all the evil inflicted upon us.
Folley they said, it would never work, they will release it again.
all fell to deaf ears as yours truly went on to catch his personal Moby Dick.
Against all odds we have convinced Ryukahr to join our cause.
It's essentially a single save file accessible by crowds of unrelated and largely anonymous people. What could possibly go wrong?
Australians?
@LUIGITORNADO Yeah, that is some sad ***** who did this, and Im betting you are just as sad as these guys. Im sorry you are too stupid to have fun without being a dick
The whole concept is stupid. Why would people care to play a game one move at a time by tweeting? I mean it's a novelty but really what kind of fun is this
That's hilarious lmao I love a bit of spicy drama added to the mix, keeps it interesting
That's really a d***k move to troll them like that, even I am upset about this 😠 (and I'm not even a part of it)
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