Brett Nuckles, Author at Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/author/brett-nuckles/ Stories about Culture Tue, 19 May 2020 20:39:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Brett Nuckles, Author at Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/author/brett-nuckles/ 32 32 Five Life Lessons from Twitch Plays Pokémon https://unwinnable.com/2014/04/15/life-lessons/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:04:06 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=49821 Playing Twitch Plays Pokémon isn’t exactly fun. It’s exasperating. It’s boring. It’s spectacularly repetitive. Participating for a few days – or even a few minutes – is enough to make you want to punch a Caterpie. That’s because in Twitch Plays Pokémon, simple tasks become grueling challenges. You know exactly what to do, but still you go backwards. You walk in circles. You get stuck – sometimes for days. Thousands of people worked in unison to play Twitch Plays Pokémon, which let viewers participate in a game of Pokémon Red – the original role-playing classic for Nintendo’s Game Boy –

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