Religion in Twitch Plays Pokemon: A Ten Year Anniversary Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- TEN YEARS AGO, Twitch Plays Pokemon concluded its chaotic and legendary run of Pokemon: Red. Today, Dr. Dom Tartaglia and special contributing guest Dr. William Chavez discuss how and why this game is one of the best examples of how to create a religion in real time. Start9.
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Written by William Chavez, Jeremy Hanes, Dom Tartaglia and Jared Schmidt
Presented and Edited by Dom Tartaglia
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I absolutely refuse to believe this was 10 years ago. No shot.
This is awesome. I love it when you trick me into listening to you read a dissertation by making it about cool shit that rules and putting it on RUclips. Keep doing that
Teacher: "The essay needs no less then 1000 words"
Me:
Everyone should check out the huge amount of music made by church of the helix choir. Top notch stuff.
holy hell ppl still remember about tpp. btw its still alive and we are about to play Diamond/Pearl on physical hardware very soon
I though it had gone through all non 3d games already.
@@KimFareseednothing stops us from playing games once again
tho its first time we are playing DP itself, we have done only Platinum and Brilliant Diamond before
Loved the content here, but the way it was delivered threw me a little. Single take content can be difficult when not rehearsed, and the essay seemed to speed up and slow down based on what kind of vocabulary was used. It was good content and I loved the clearly defined connections to religion and the explanations of them and the fan art that came with the experiment, however, I would definitely suggest multiple takes if necessary to help it flow a bit better!
sadly the first 35 hours are lost media
I want to show this to a theology professor
Very cool. Love all the citations
This was quite entertaining! Having a big recap like this is very fun, though I will say that you treat it a little bit too much like a "real" essay. There's a lot of unnecessarily big words that I'd argue detract more than they add. It makes sentences flow a lot less naturally (especially since it all seems to be one take and make you stumble), and makes it less likely that people will actually keep up with you entirely. Also the very explicit way you mark the "sections" reduces the flow of the video too. Otherwise I had a very good time watching this.
I understand the point you are making about how the complexity of the language being used can potentially repel (poke-pun) a more typical RUclips viewer…
However, I personally ate it all up & found it very enjoyable as it helped me to neatly package this knowledge into existing categories in my mind.
I wonder why we tend to try and interpret what happened in Twich plays Pokémon (or a lot of modern media tbh) as "religious" and not religion as some form of role-play? Besides some form of magical believe, born of obsercation and bias, I would argue that a lot of people "starting" a religion are aware of the phantastical factor. They are using vernacular and codes to exclude people from their experience, world view or just certain parts of live, creating both power and agency. It's the same way fandoms or occupations or sub-cultures in general use a diffrent speech or even language alltogether from the dominating culture. To exclude, to other - and thus to strengthen their internal bonds. Religion has - in my opinion - no other function than this. What makes it diffrent is that at some point in time, mostly after the generation who initiated it all dies, people start to use the words and phrases without connection to what the people REALLY meant and thus creating the otherworldy and godly aspect.
Or, as someone once said: If all people in the future will have from todays civilization is Lord of the Rings, they are bound to believe that Elves, Dwarfes and Hobbits existed and we all worshiped and feared magic and dragons. Because all they have are disconnected bits of our reality. There is no Pokemon-based religion YET, because we all still know the origins and meanings of the vernacular used. There might be a Pokemon-based religion some generations in the future, when the original meaning got lost.
Also, Twitch plays Pokemon's lore doesn't work well together with the official lore on religion in the Pokémon-World, so this could be an interesting topic to observe.
And the currency in the Pokémon-World doesn't have an official name. It's commonly called PokéDollar, but in the original games it's just Yen and there has been no statement from GameFreak on that topic.
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Good content but i dont like the delivery :( i need music and a voice that
I love this