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Does Twitch Plays Pokemon Give You Hope for Humanity?
- Published_at:2014-03-05
- Category:Education
- Channel:PBS Idea Channel
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- description: You asked, and we delivered: a Pokemon episode!!! Specifically Twitch Plays Pokemon, which it turns out is a metaphor for ... well, lots of stuff. Twitch Plays Pokemon is a version of Pokemon Red controlled via chat on the video streaming site Twitch. And TENS OF THOUSANDS of people are playing this one game simultaneously! How can a group steer the direction of a game? And what can this tell us about anarchy vs democracy? (Maybe that the US government is a bit more like Pokemon than we realized.) Watch the episode to find out more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hobbe's Leviathan on Project Gutenberg - http://bit.ly/NV8Aho TPP Comment Sources: BPICampus.com - http://bit.ly/NV8Ixn CNET News - http://cnet.co/NV8N4r Gamespot Commenter Jerrei - http://l.gamespot.com/NV8OoT ------------------------------------------------------------------ Comments: Dun tay http://bit.ly/1iau9Ee Philosophy Tube http://bit.ly/1iauAyn Thurston Sexton http://bit.ly/1lzs49Q Brien Malone http://bit.ly/1lzrM2x ZeroZivan http://bit.ly/1lzrNDS Jon Bohlinger http://bit.ly/1iauNSj David McNamara http://bit.ly/1lzrRDt Andrew Conlon http://bit.ly/1lzrSaF Ben Ferber http://bit.ly/1lzrSHJ sumtallbumdude http://bit.ly/1iauSWa ------------------------------------------------------------------ Music: "Europe" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) Level 5: Room for the Homeless http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm "Bouncy Castle" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) ":P" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) Binaerpilot "Geeks" http://bit.ly/10N0UBf "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) Chiptune - Kenzalol http://bit.ly/15vKwpN --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tweet of the Week: https://twitter.com/McPhersonPR/status/438701966047211520 Come hang out in the Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/138EHBh Check out the Idea Channel SubReddit! http://bit.ly/GNklUq And the Idea Channel Facebook page! http://on.fb.me/1eVl4vP TRANSLATE THINGS @ http://ideachannel.subtitl.us --------------------------------------------------------------------- Let us know what sorts of crazy ideas you have, about this episode and otherwise: Tweet at us! @pbsideachannel (yes, the longest twitter username ever) Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Idea Channel Facebook! http://Facebook.com/pbsideachannel Hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com) _______________________________ Want some more Idea Channel? Does Fiction Exist? (ft. Harry Potter) http://youtu.be/B3gvubRsykI What is Fiction (ft. War of the Worlds) http://youtu.be/1dsXG8od4Ss What's The Deal With Unboxing Videos? http://youtu.be/xSUuO84BTSA
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| 2014-03-08 | 129,198 | 5,156 | 1,388 |
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