Starting last week my PC started shutting down by itself, and that usually can mean one thing: the CPU is overheating. The first few times it only happened in the morning after waking up from sleep mode, but would be fine the rest of the day, but since about Thursday afternoon, it's been shutting down after barely 10 minutes of being powered on after being off for an extended period of time to cool off. As a result, I pretty much stopped trying to turn the PC on for a couple days. Bought myself a Corsair H60 water CPU cooler at Newegg for $80, so I should be getting that sometime this week.

 Today I turned on the PC for the first time and is surprisingly running well (so far), but that won't stop me from installing the new heatsink, since I'm sure it's going to shut off again later on in the week, even if it never does for the rest of today that I'm typing this out. MAYBE if the PC can hold out today I can get the next Start to Finish encoded and uploaded without interruption!

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Twitch Completes Pokemon Crystal!

 In 13 days, 2 hours and 3 minutes Twitch has fully completed Pokemon Crystal in record time, 3 days faster than they completed Pokemon Red a few weeks back. Next week begins the playthrough of Pokemon Emerald! Twitch is starting to learn how to work together to complete Pokemon, so will they manage to beat Emerald even faster?

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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Twitch Plays Pokemon Red: COMPLETE!


How was it possible? Who would've thought tens of thousands of Twitch users could complete one game? You can watch the major victories unfold here!

 It was a grueling 13 days, but roughly 60,000+ Twitch users have managed to capture all 8 gym badges and are now heading into the home stretch to face the Elite Four (+Blue)...but let's not get too excited here and look at the situation we're now in.

 In order to complete the game at this point one must defeat all 5 trainers in 1 run. If all Pokemon die, you are sent back to the beginning and have to do it all over again. With the mayhem that Twitch users ensue, this final stretch could take longer than it did arriving! Now granted, all experience gained through Pokemon battles does carry over, so the leveling up will not be hindered. However, without any way to quit the game and load the save after each trainer, it will be nothing but battles and training for the next week, two weeks...maybe longer. To ensure the game is completed in some degree, the team will need to all (or most) be at max level. This does not save us from the random flock of trolls that may swoop in and decide to release the Pokemon we all worked so hard to level up and raise, and if that becomes the case...you might as well consider this game unfinished. I do have faith that some miracle will happen and that will not be the case and we can finally see the end to this game!