Imagine playing a video game where you’re commanded by a handful of your friends all clawing at the controller and pushing the buttons. Difficult stuff.  Now, imagine 100,000 people all trying to do this at the same time. It’d be impossible to play, right? Well, it’s not as impossible as it may seem.

‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ (or TPP) is a social experiment run by an anonymous video game streamer. In layman’s terms, a robot is playing the game, entirely bound to completing the inputs of whatever directional instruction an